Archipelagos of the Greek Diaspora in the Modern Mediterranean (17th-18th Centuries)
19 October 2026. From 18:30 | Conference | Italian | IEMed
The study of the Greek diaspora has devoted extensive attention to the dispersal of Greeks across the Adriatic, Balkan, and Eastern Mediterranean regions. However, it is only in recent years has been deepened the Greek presence in the Western Mediterranean and its impact in insular regions such as Corsica, Menorca and Sardinia, examining plans for agricultural colonisation and settlement, the introduction of new models of coexistence between different Christian traditions and the formation of significant economic and geopolitical networks.
A lecture by Giampaolo Salice, Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage, University of Cagliari, where he directs the Digital Humanities Centre (DH UNICa) and sits on the steering committee of the Italian Association of Public History (AIPH). He holds a PhD in History from the University of Rome La Sapienza (2009). His research focuses on the relationship between Mediterranean mobility and internal colonization programmes, the construction of “small islands” and digital and public history.
He has held visiting positions at, among others, the Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (CNRS/ENS-PSL)/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2024), the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2024), the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris (2023), the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London (2019) and the Universitat de Barcelona (2016). He currently leads the research programme “Il laboratorio delle piccole isole” (2026–2028).
A session of the Aula Mediterrània lecture series 2026-2027 co-organised with the Master’s Degree in History and Identities in the Western Mediterranean, 15th-19th Centuries, UB/UA/UV/UJI.
Moderated by Ida Mauro, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, UB.
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Ida Mauro
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