Anna Apostolidou
Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology
Ionian University, Department of History

Anna Apostolidou is a graduate of the Experimental Music High School of Pallini and a
graduate of the Department of Social Policy and Social Anthropology of Panteion University.
She completed her postgraduate studies with an IKY scholarship at University College
London, where she obtained an MA in Anthropology of Art and Visual Culture and a PhD in
Social Anthropology (2010) on the anthropological examination of male homoerotic desire in
relation to the normative discourse on nationhood. In 2019 she completed her second PhD
thesis at the Hellenic Open University on the topic of digital education of adult refugees.
Anna has published papers in international journals, conference proceedings and edited
volumes and has taught anthropology and digital education courses in undergraduate and
postgraduate programmes at Panteion University, the National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens and the Hellenic Open University. Her research interests focus on the
anthropology of gender and sexuality, refugee education and online learning, surrogacy
practices and experimental forms of digital writing. She has participated in numerous
research groups as a postdoctoral researcher and has coordinated research projects with
the support of various institutions (ELIDEK, AHRB, PENER, PYTHAGORAS, ERASMUS+,
etc.). She is currently coordinating a research project on artificial intelligence, entitled
“(A(I)nthropology during the Anthropocene: Hybrid research and creative pedagogy at the
limits of the human” (2025-2028), funded by the Hellenic Foundation of Research and
Innovation.

Fotios Baroutsos
Assistant Professor, History
Ionian University, Department of History

Fotios Baroutsos studied Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens and received his PhD in History from the Department of History at the Ionian
University, followed by a postdoctoral title from the same department. He has taught at
universities in Greece, including the University of Patras, Ionian University, the International
University of Greece, and the Hellenic Open University. He has also been a fellow at the
Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice, and a visiting
researcher at Princeton University in the Program in Hellenic Studies.
His research interests and publications focus on the evolution of fiscal institutions, the
formation of the state in Western Europe, Venetian history (15th–17th centuries), as well as
European political and legal thought (13th–17th centuries).

Laris Borić
Associate Professor, History of Art,
University of Zadar, Department of History

As an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Zadar, I conducted research on
early modern visual art of the Eastern Adriatic, particularly from the 15th to the 16th
centuries. My research encompassed the transmission of architectural and artistic formal
and semantic content across the Adriatic rim, as well as aspects of artistic patronage and the
circulation of knowledge, particularly cultural notions related to collective and individual
identities expressed in architectural and artistic commissions. In recent years, my research
interests have expanded to include early modern urban history. I am interested in
understanding the mechanisms behind the comprehensive urban transformations of eastern
Adriatic towns, regardless of scale, such as Zadar (Zara) and Cres (Cherso). I have also
contributed to major international research initiatives, including the Horizon 2020 ERC-
AdriArchCult project (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), which examines the architectural
culture of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic, and the ET TIBI DABO project, which focuses
on artistic commissions and donors from 1300 to 1800. During my tenure as Editor-in-Chief
of Ars Adriatica (2013–2022), the young scientific journal gained recognition and was
admitted to the Scopus and WOS databases. Additionally, I served as Head of the
Department of Art History (2013–2017) and worked to advance scholarly discourse within
my university.

Maria Damilakou
Assistant Professor, History
Ionian University, Department of History

Assistant professor at the Department of History of the Ionian University of Greece, where
she teaches History of the American Continent. She also teaches History of Latin America at
the Open University of Greece. Her research interests concern the social, political and
cultural history of Latin America, global migrations and diasporas, as well as inter-American
relations. She has participated in several research projects on migration, labor and identities
in South American countries.
She has written chapters in collective volumes and several articles about immigration, labor
history and historiography in Latin America. She is author of the books: Greek Immigrants in
Argentina: Formation and Transformations of an Immigrant Community, 1900-1970 (2004)
and History of Latin America from the end of colonialism until today (2014) (in Greek). She
has edited the books: Subjects and Tendencies of Contemporary Latin American
Historiography (2010), 200 years from the Revolutionary Movements for the Independence
of Latin America, 1810-2010 (2011), and Simon Bolivar. The Liberator of Consciences.
Fundamental Texts (2014). She has also co-edited the book: Maria Damilakou and Yannis
G. S. Papadopoulos (eds.), Migration and Development in Southern Europe and South
America, Routledge, 2022 (DOI: 10.4324/9781003250401).

Emir O. Filipović
Associate Professor, Medieval history
University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy

Professor Emir O. Filipović received his PhD in 2014. He joined the University of Sarajevo in
March 2007 where he initially held the position of Teaching and research assistant at the
History Department of the University’s Faculty of Philosophy. In 2015 he was promoted to
Assistant Professor, and in 2020 to Associate Professor. Professor Filipović’s research so
far has been focused on the study of early relations between Bosnia and the Ottomans,
medieval chivalry and courtly culture, heraldry, as well as the political, cultural and religious
history of Europe and Bosnia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He has authored
several monograph studies and a significant number of scholarly papers, reviews and
translations, dealing with various topics from the history of medieval Bosnia and South-East
Europe, which were published either as chapters in books or as articles in edited volumes
and periodical journals.
https://ffsa.academia.edu/EmirOFilipovic

Mathieu Grenet
Senior Lecturer, Early Modern History
University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès

Mathieu Grenet is a senior lecturer (maître de conférences) in early modern history at the
University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, and a researcher at the UMR 5136
Framespa. He holds a PhD (2010) from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy,
and currently serves as the managing editor of the peer-reviewed journal Rives
méditerranéennes (https://journals.openedition.org/rives/?lang=en). He has extensively
published on migrations, intercultural contacts and identity construction in the early modern
Mediterranean, including his monograph La Fabrique communautaire. Les Grecs à Venise,
Livourne et Marseille, 1770-1840 (Rome and Athens: 2016), as well as several (co-)edited
volumes: De l’utilité commerciale des consuls. L’institution consulaire et les marchands dans
le monde méditerranéen, XVII e -XIX e  siècles (Rome and Madrid: 2018), Consoli e consolati
italiani dagli Stati preunitari al fascismo, 1802-1945 (Rome: 2020), Raison administrative et
logiques d’empire, XVIe-XIXe siècle(Rome and Madrid: 2021), Atlas des migrations en
Méditerranée, de l’Antiquité à nos jours (Arles, 2021), and Prier ailleurs : chapelles
consulaires et églises “nationales” à l’époque moderne” (Aix-en-Provence: 2024). For the
past four years, he has been co-coordinating the research program “Governing the islands:
territories, resources and knowledge of island societies in the Mediterranean (16 th –
21 st  century)” and has recently published with Guillaume Calafat the book Méditerranées.
Une histoire des mobilités humaines, 1492-1750 (Points: 2023).

Pauline Guéna
Researcher, Environmental Studies
CNRS, France

Pauline Guéna is a researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique), specialized in the history of the Eastern Mediterranean and the
Venetian maritime territories in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era. She
has authored and co-authored studies in the fields of Imperial studies (frontier
studies) and Environmental studies.

Costantin Irodotou
PhD in Philosophy

Constantin Irodotou teaches biopolitics in the postgraduate program of the Department of
Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a PhD in
Philosophy from the University of Paris VIII. His research basically concerns European and
Modern Greek Enlightenment. He recently co-edited the volume Jews in the Era of Modern
Greek Enlightenment and the 1821 Revolution (in Greek, Kapon, 2022).
https://uoa.academia.edu/constantinirodotou

Nikos Kokkomelis
Assistant Professor, History
Ionian University, Department of History

Nikos Kokkomelis was born in Athens in 1979 and earned his PhD from the Université de la
Sorbonne – Paris IV. His research interests encompass early modern French and English
historiography, the history of literary criticism—particularly the reception of the Aristotelian
tradition—the history of biography, and the cultural history of modern Hellenism (17th–19th
centuries). Since 2015, he has taught early modern European history and historiography at
the University of Patras and the Ionian University. He has been a doctoral and postdoctoral
fellow in the Humanities at the Hellenic Scholarships Foundation
and has participated in research projects examining the trajectories of the classical tradition
in early modern and modern Europe (École française d’Athènes). In November 2021, he was
appointed Assistant Professor of Early Modern European History in the Department of
History at the Ionian University (Corfu).
His monograph, Stories of the Courtyard: Historiography, Institutions, and Society in 17th-
Century France (Ιστορίες της Αυλής: Ιστοριογραφία, Θεσµοί και Κοινωνία στη Γαλλία του
17ου αιώνα), was published in September 2021 by Hestia Publishing House, Athens
(Βασική Ιστορική Βιβλιοθήκη, vol. 10). He recently collaborated with Alexandros Katsigiannis
and Yannis Papatheodorou on a new edition of Adamantios Korais’ Mémoire (Amolgos,
Athens 2022), translated by Vaios Ntafos and accompanied by an extensive study authored
by Kokkomelis.

Sotiris Koutmanis
PhD in History
Sotiris Koutmanis, born in Athens in 1977, specializes in Modern Greek and Diaspora
studies. He graduated in 2000 from the History-Archaeology Department of the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he also completed his postgraduate studies in
Modern Greek History. From 2003 to 2006, he was a research fellow at the Greek Institute of
Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice. His PhD dissertation (2013) focused on the
Greek presence in 17th-century Venice. In 2010, he worked on the classification of the
Historical Archive of Lefkada. Since 2017, he has been a historian at the OTE Group
Telecommunications Museum. He has also held teaching positions at the Hellenic Open
University and the University of Athens, lecturing on the Greek Diaspora, Venetian history,
and the Eastern Mediterranean. His research explores diaspora, migration, and cultural
interactions.

Dušan Mlacović
Associate Professor, History
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Philosophy

Dušan Mlacović is a medievalist and assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana
(Slovenia), Faculty of Arts, Department of History. He has participated in the following
national research projects: “The Positioning of the Urban Elite of Slovenian Towns within
Social and Economic Movements and Processes from the 13th to the 16th Century”
(2008–2011); “Political and Legal History of Women in Slovenia” (2009–2011); and “Man,
Environment and Nature in the Pre-Modern Area Between the Alps, the Adriatic, and the
Pannonian Plain” (2011–2014).
He also took part in the Stari Bar archaeological project, led by Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice, as a historiography consultant (2007), and in the URBES project (Medieval Urban
Settlements, Space and Elites in Croatia), coordinated by the Croatian Institute of History in
Zagreb, where he served as coordinator for the Northern Adriatic (2015–2019).
Currently, he is a member of the projects TOPOS (Topography of Power: Eastern Adriatic
Cities in Medieval Spheres of Power), led by the Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb,
and Angevin Archiregnum in East Central and Southeastern Europe in the 14th Century:
View from the Periphery, led by the University of Zadar.
Since 2021, he has been the director of the ICCHS (International Centre for Comparative
Historical Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana). He is the deputy editor-in-chief
of Zgodovinski časopis – Historical Review (Ljubljana, Slovenia), a member of the editorial
board of Povijesni prilozi – Historical Contributions (Zagreb, Croatia), and serves on the
scientific committees of the online journal Études du domaine ottoman (Samsun,
Turkey), Hiperboreea (Penn State University Press, USA), and Atti (Rovinj/Rovigno,
Croatia).

Luca Molà
Professor, History
Warwick University, Venice Center

Luca Molà is a Professor of History at University of Warwick, Department of History, and
Director of the Warwick Venice Centre. His research expertise is oriented towards the history
of technology, early modern Italy, the silk industry, and patenting innovation.
For a full resumé, see https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/lmola/ .
Mirka Palioura
Assistant Professor, History of Art
Ionian University, Department of History
Mirka Palioura is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the
Department of History of Ionian University. She has studied French Letters and Art History in
Greece and France (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Université de Paris I,
Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Her research interests include Modern Greek and European art of the 19th and early 20th
century, as well as topics related to travel literature. She has edited two books and has
published articles in edited volumes, has presented papers at international conferences in
Greece and abroad, has collaborated in research projects and has curated exhibitions.
She has taught at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the University of Ioannina and the Hellenic
Open University. She has worked in public and private archives and collections, publishing houses, the
Greek Ministry of Culture (Byzantine and Christian Museum) and the Benaki
Museum. She is a Member of the Hellenic Association of Art Historians.

Nikolas Pissis
Assistant Professor, History
Ionian University, Department of History

Nikolas Pissis was born in 1979 in Athens. He studied History and Archaeology at the
University of Athens and History of East and Southeast Europe at Ludwig-Maximilian
University of Munich. In 2017 he received his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin with a
dissertation on Russia in the Political Imagination of the Greek World 1645–1725, that was
published (in German) in 2020 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen. Since 2008 he has
taught courses on Modern Greek History at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2012 until 2022 he
has been research associate at the interdisciplinary collaborative research center of the
same university “Episteme in motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the
Early Modern Period”. Since October 2022 he is assistant professor for the History of East
and Southeast Europe at the Department of History, Ionian University.

Cristina Setti
Research Associate
University of Padua

Cristina Setti is Research Associate at the University of Padua, where she is leading the
three-years EU funded project HINASTA – History, memory and cultural heritage between
Nation- and STAte-building. Archives and Historiography in Pre-Unitarian Greece (19 th -20 th
centuries). In Padua, she is also going to hold the course of ‘History of Political Institutions’
for the undergraduates in History, and a six-month workshop about ‘Archives and Libraries’
for the foreign students enrolled in “Italian and Renaissance Studies”. She has been working
for long time in the field of Mediterranean Studies, especially on Venetian Grecophone
dominions, as well as on Italian Early Modern states and societies. Lately she expanded her
research interests in Venice as a hub for the connections between Central Europe and the
Levant. Her main publication is the monograph: Una repubblica per ogni porto. Venezia e lo
Stato da Mar negli itinerari dei Sindici Inquisitori in Levante (secoli XVI-XVII) (Milano:
Unicopli, 2021).

Mauro Varotto
Professor, Geography
University of Padua, Department of History, Geography and Antiquity

Mauro Varotto (born in 1970) is a Professor of Geography at the University of Padua,
affiliated with the Department of Historical, Geographical, and Antiquity Sciences
(DiSSGeA). Since 2008, he has coordinated the “Terre Alte” (High Lands) group within the
Central Scientific Committee of the Italian Alpine Club. unipd.itibs.it.
His research interests encompass mountain geography, the Anthropocene, cultural
landscapes, and the revitalization of marginal areas. He has authored and co-authored
several publications, including:​ Montagne di mezzo. Una nuova geografia (Einaudi, 2020)​,
Paesaggi terrazzati d’Italia. Eredità storiche e nuove prospettive (Franco Angeli, 2016, with
Luca Bonardi)​, Il giro del mondo nell’Antropocene (Raffaello Cortina, 2022, with Telmo
Pievani)​. Mauro Varotto, a professor of Geography and Cultural Geography at the University of
Padua, played a pivotal role in establishing the first university Museum of Geography in Italy,
which opened to the public in 2019. As the scientific coordinator of the museum, he has
been instrumental in preserving and promoting the university’s geographical heritage,
making it accessible to a broader audience. In addition to his academic work, Varotto co-produced
the documentary Piccola Terra, which won the CinemAmbiente Award in 2012.​

Nikola Vuletić
Professor, Linguistics
University of Zadar, Center for Adriatic Onomastics and Ethnolinguistics

Nikola Vuletić (Zadar, 01/09/1979). Professor at the Centre for Adriatic Onomastics and
Ethnolinguistics of the University of Zadar, Croatia. He has earned his PhD in Romance
Linguistics (Dalmatian Romance) at the University of Zadar in 2007. Postdoc in Romance
Linguistics (Judeo-Spanish) at the University of Barcelona (2010). His work centres on
history of language contacts in the Eastern Adriatic, as well as etymological and geolinguistic
aspects of cultural vocabulary in the area. He has supervised seven completed PhD thesis in
Croatian, Latin, Romance and Contact Linguistics. He is coordinator for the eastern Adriatic
region within Mediterranean Linguistic Atlas. Most recently, he has published with Hrvoje
Bazina and Dunja Brozović Rončević an extensive geolinguistic study of cultural vocabulary
in the multilingual context of Croatian Istria. Currently working with Hrvoje Bazina and
Vladimir Skračić on the elaboration of Linguistic Atlas of Maritime Culture in Dalmatia and
Kvarner.
Publications: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/53