[ΓΦ4500] Specific topics of Geography (5 ECTS credits)

Central District of Athens (pale yellow) | Northern District of Athens (red) | Western District of Athens (magenta) | Southern District of Athens (green) | District of Eastern Attica (light grey)| District of Western Attica (pink) | District of Piraeus (purple) | District of Islands (including the islands of the Argo-Saronic gulf: Salamina, Aegina, Agkistri, Poros, Hydra, Spetses, and parts on Peloponnesian coast in fron of them, and the island of Kythira (historico-geographically one of the Ionian island) as well (aquamarine).

European Middle Class Mass Housing COST Action. "The short documentary presents a small selection of the interviews that have been conducted within the research program. It is a short and selective story of antiparochi that arises on the one hand through the personal and subjective views, narratives and memories of the ‘protagonists’ of the phenomenon and on the other hand through the views of antiparochi’s scholars, focusing on the case of Athens." (Prof. Th. Maloutas, [currently emeritus])

CHALKIAS Christos et al. (2016)

Coordinated by [now emeritus] Prof. Kostis Hadjimichalis, a team of scientists promotes the subject of Radical Geography to Greek academic and to general public, primarily through organizing seminars in Radical Geography and Political Economy with participation of university academics. Seminars are conducted in Greek but also in the (foreign) language of the guest from abroad. The videos of the edition 2021 which was on-line due to covid-19 pandemic restrictions, are availble on the FB account of "Radical Geography Notebooks". Here is the link of the FB account.

Some of the participants from abroad: David Harvey – CUNY New York, USA| Erik Swyngedouw - University of Manchester|

Coordinated by (now emeritus) Prof. Kostis Hadjimichalis, a team of scientists promotes the subject of Radical Geography to Greek academic and to general public, primarily through organizing seminars in Radical Geography and Political Economy with participation of university academics from Greece and abroad. Seminars are conducted in Greek but also in the (foreign) language of the guest from abroad. Here is the link to the specific webpage  http://radicalgeography.gr from where videos of the different editions are available (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018).

Some of the participants from abroad: David Harvey – CUNY New York, USA| Mike Edwards - UCL, UK |Nuria Benach - University of Barcelona, Spain | Camille Schmoll – Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, France | Pelin Tan -  Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey| Richard Walker – University of California, Berkeley, USA|  Bernd Bellina – University of Frankfurt, Germany | Ray Hudson – University of Durham, UK| Eric Clark – Lund University, Sweden| 

INDIGO is an inter- and transdisciplinary project, which puts the discussion about shared land uses, land property and use rights within the interdisciplinary context of ownership regimes and the ‘governance of the Commons’. INDIGO partners jointly examine contemporary concepts of land use, ownership and the Commons and ways to govern them. 

Historein is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal published biannually by the Cultural and Intellectual History Society (Athens). It is both historical and interdisciplinary in its perspective. It is thus situated within a scholarly “free trade" zone that encourages the interaction between history, philosophy, social anthropology, sociology, gender and labour studies, epistemology, literary and cultural studies.... [more on https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historein ]

Leventis, P., 2013. Walls of Crisis: Street Art and Urban Fabric in Central Athens, 2000–2012. Architectural Histories, 1(1), p.Art. 19. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ah.ar

Research centre on contemporary Greece and Cyprus. It engages in a range of activities, including developing and supporting academic and policy-related research; organisation of conferences, seminars and workshops; academic exchange through visiting fellowships and internships; as well as teaching at the graduate level through LSE's European Institute.

Three main areas of research within the geographical contexts of Greece (and Cyprus), Southeast Europe and the European Union: Public policy, policy processes and political economy | International relations and foreign and security policy | Economic geography and regional integration

The Hellenic Observatory is affiliated to two other units at the European Institute LSEE- Research on South-Eastern Europe and Contemporary Turkish Studies, while in 2011 it expanded its coverage to include Cyprus.

Publishes the GreeSE - Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe (see Journals)

Kira Kaurinkoski, « La migration de retour des Grecs d’ex-Union soviétique en Grèce. Réflexions sur les logiques diasporiques d’exclusion et d’appartenance », Revue européenne des migrations internationales [En ligne], vol. 37 - n°3 et 4 | 2021,  225-250. mis en ligne le 01 janvier 2024, consulté le 08 novembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/remi/19410 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/remi.19410 

Kira Kaurinskoski is conducting research since many years on Greek populations establishing in Greece from former soviet republics, see, i.a 2003 "Les Grecs de Mariupol (Ukraine). Réflexions sur une identité en diaspora" https://doi.org/10.4000/remi.379

Pratsinakis, M. Ethnic return migration, exclusion and the role of ethnic options: ‘Soviet Greek’ migrants in their ethnic homeland and the Pontic identity. Nations and Nationalism. 2021; 27: 497– 512. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12706

Oikonomou, maria. “The Greek Urban Block since the establishment of the Greek State in 19th Century – a chronicle about morphology and urban Form”. In Carola Hein (ed.) International Planning History Society Proceedings, 17th IPHS Conference, History-Urbanism-Resilience, TU Delft 17-21 July 2016, V.02 p.413, TU Delft Open, 2016 [online] available in open access from https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/iphs/article/view/1250 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7480/iphs.2016.2.1250 

KOUSIS Maria, CHATZIDAKI Aspasia & KAFETSIOS Konstantinos (eds) (2022), Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crise. The Case of Greece. Springer Cham, IMISCOE Research Series XXIII, 319 p. [e-book] available in open access  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11574-5

Dossier thématique coordonné par MALOUTAS Thomas, POLYZOU Iris & RIVIERE Dominique, dans la revue BCH moderne et contemporain (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique moderne et contemporain) vol. 7 (2022) https://doi.org/10.4000/bchmc.1069 

DARQUES Régis, SIDIROPOULOS George & KALABOKIDIS Kostas (2024), The Geography of Greece Managing Crises and Building Resilience, Springer (book series: World Regional Geography Book Series - WRGBS).

POULOPOULOU Maria (2015), Modern Greek Grammar Notes for Absolute Beginners. A User-friendly Grammar for Levels A1/A2, [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4393 

...a course provided for free by Kypros-Net in collaboration with the CyBC to teach the modern Greek language online

"The complete conjugations of around 1,000 modern Greek verbs for free. Each verb has been fully conjugated in all tenses and is representative of each type and model of every modern Greek verb."