Conferences
2nd International Conference
Corsairs and Pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean, 15th-19th c.
October 17-19, 2014
Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
2nd International Conference
October 17-19, 2014
Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
The 2nd International Scientific Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, entitled "Corsairs and Pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean, 15th-19th c." was held on 17-19 October 2014, at the Museum of Cycladic Art, in Athens.
The aim of the Conference is to highlight the historical dimensions of a phenomenon that has recurred in the Mediterranean history up to the end of the 19th century, and which still affects our own contemporary reality. The speakers' approaches are grouped in six thematic sessions:
You can find 10 select papers from the 2nd International Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation in one of Foundation's publications:
"Corsairs and Pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean, Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries"
President
Sylvia Ioannou
Founder of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation
General Secretary
Artemis Scutari
Director of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation
Dimitris Dimitropoulos
Senior Research Associate, Institute of Historical Research (Section of Neohellenic Research), National Hellenic Research Foundation
Panagiotis N. Doukellis
Professor, Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Social and
Political Sciences
David J. Starkey
Professor, Department of History, University of Hull
Gelina Harlaftis
Professor, Department of History, Ionian University
Nikolaos Chrissidis
Professor, Department of History, Southern Connecticut State University
Welcoming Addresses
Artemis Scutari
Director of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation
Nicholas Chr. Stampolidis
Director of the Museum of Cycladic Art
Presentation of the Select Papers of 2012
George Tolias
Institute of Historical Research / NHRF
Keynote Speech
David J. Starkey
Department of History, University of Hull
Chair: Eva Kalpourtzi
Pirate Spaces: Mapping Piracy in the Early Modern Mediterranean through Captivity Accounts
Eda Özel
Piracy and Privateering in the Eastern Mediterranean, in the Early 19th Century: From the Standpoint of the Ionian Consular Network (1800-1807)
Gerassimos D. Pagratis
A Hub of Piracy in the Middle of the Aegean: Syros during the War of Independence
Apostolos Delis
Pirates during a Revolution – The
Faces of Piracy and the Reaction of Local Societies
Dimitris Dimitropoulos
Discussion
Commentator:
Olga Katsiardi-Hering
Chair: Nikolaos Chrissidis
Privateering and Slave Trade in the Cyclades in the Late 17th Century
George Koutzakiotis
A Holy Razzia? Ottoman Corsairs in Ottoman Historiography
Emrah Safa Gürkan
‘Per omnes partes barbarie orientis’ – Maltese Corsairing in the Levant 16th-17th Centuries
Joan Abela
Discussion
Commentator: Nikos Belavilas
Chair: Nicholas Coureas
‘It is Not Halal to Raid Them’: Piracy and Law in the 17th-Century Ottoman Mediterranean
Joshua M. White
The Pirate’s Gaze: 18th-Century English and French Chart Making of the Mediterranean Sea
Christine Petto
Pirates, Privateers, and Neutrals: Aegean Maritime Violence and International Law, 1770-1830
Will Smiley
Discussion
Commentator: Vassilis Kardasis
Chair: Christine Petto
Rediscovering ‘Mr. Roberts’: An English Mariner’s Aegean Captivity Narrative (1692-1693)
Colin Heywood
(presented by Prof. David J. Starkey)
Privateering between the Company and the Nation: Commerce and Diplomacy in the Mid-18th Century Eastern Mediterranean
Basil C. Gounaris
‘Ill-Treated by Friends’: Ottoman Responses to British Privateering in the Mid-18th Century
Michael Talbot
The Participation of the Island of Hydra in Countering Piracy in the Aegean in the Early 19th Century
Sophia Laiou
Discussion
Commentator: Molly Greene
Chair: Natasha Constantinidou
Images of Piracy in Ottoman Literature, 16th to 18th Centuries
Marinos Sariyannis
The Pirate State: Post-Colonial Τrajectories of an Imperial Concept from the First to the Third Barbary War (1801-2011)
Amedeo Policante
Redbeard, Baba & Co: Piracy and Parody in Asterix
Nikolaos Chrissidis
Discussion
Commentator: Maria Fusaro
Chair: Panagiotis N. Doukellis
Piracy and International Law
Petros Siousiouras
Evi Baxevani
Concluding Remarks
Gelina Harlaftis
Joan Abela
Visiting Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Laws, University of Malta
Evi Baxevani
PhD candidate, Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport, University of the Aegean
Nikos Belavilas
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, National Technical
University of Athens
Nikolaos Chrissidis
Professor, Department of History, Southern Connecticut State University
Natasha Constantinidou
Lecturer, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus
Nicholas Coureas
Senior Researcher, Cyprus Research Centre
Apostolos Delis
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology
Dimitris Dimitropoulos
Senior Research Associate, Institute of Historical Research (Section of Neohellenic Research), National Hellenic Research Foundation
Panagiotis N. Doukellis
Professor, Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Maria Fusaro
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Exeter
Basil C. Gounaris
Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Molly Greene
Professor, Department of History and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
Emrah Safa Gürkan
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul 29 Mayıs University
Gelina Harlaftis
Professor, Department of History, Ionian University
Colin Heywood
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Hull
Eva Kalpourtzi
Associate Professor (ret.), Department of Social Anthropology,
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Vassilis Kardasis
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Crete
Olga Katsiardi-Hering
Professor, Facuty of History and Archaeology, University of Athens
George Koutzakiotis
Associate Researcher, Institute of Historical Research (Section of Neohellenic Research), National Hellenic Research Foundation
Sophia Laiou
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ionian University
Eda Özel
PhD student, Department of History, Harvard University
Gerassimos D. Pagratis
Associate Professor, Italian Language and Literature, University of Athens
Christine Petto
Professor, Department of History, Southern Connecticut State University
Amedeo Policante
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, History and International Relations, University of Nottingham
Marinos Sariyannis
Principal Researcher, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology
Petros Siousiouras
Associate Professor, Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport, University of the Aegean
Will Smiley
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Nicholas Chr. Stampolidis
Professor, Director of the Museum of Cycladic Art
David J. Starkey
Professor, Department of History, University of Hull
Michael Talbot
Postdoctoral Researcher, Mediterranean Reconfigurations project, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Joshua M. White
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia
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