BIRTACHAS Stathis

Progetti di ricerca

Research interests

  • Medieval and Modern Italian History and Civilization.
  • Social, Cultural and Military History of the Republic of Venice and its Maritime State [Stato da mar] (13th–18th centuries).
  • Social and Cultural History of the Greek Diaspora in the Italian Peninsula (Middle Ages, Modern Period).
  • Greek-Italian Relations and Exchanges (Political, Ideological, Cultural) during the long Risorgimento (1770 – 1922).
  • Italian volunteers (Philhellenes, Garibaldians) in Greece (19th–early 20th Century).

 

Scholarships – Research programmes

2012-2013

AUTH Research Committee, Action D, Financial support for research in Humanities, Project entitled: Italian Emigration and Philhellenism in the second half of the 19th and early 20th Century: The presence of Italian Garibaldian Volunteers in the Greek Liberation Struggle (Project code: 88026).

01/2000-01/2001

European Commission, Regional Policy, Operational Programme ΙNTERREG II, Measure 4.2, “Greece / Italy”. Cooperating institutions: Ionian University (Corfu) and University of Lecce. Scholarship.

03-05/1999

Vatican State, Conseil Pontifical pour l’Unité, Comité Catholique pour la Collaboration Culturelle. Scholarship for conducting research in the archives, libraries and academic institutions of the Holy See in Vatican City and Rome. Research subject: The Application of the Decisions of the Council of Trent in the Kingdom of Cyprus.

1998-1999, Spring semester

Erasmus scholarship as Ph.D. Candidate of the Ionian University. Host institution: Università degli Studi di Bologna, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia.

11/1998-04/1999

Italian Foreign Ministry, Directorate General for Cultural Promotion and cooperation (Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Direzione Generale per la Promozione e la Cooperazione Culturale). Scholarship for conducting research in Italian archives and libraries. Research subject: Reformation, Roman Inquisition and the Greeks.

10/1997-07/1998

Foundation A. G. Leventis. Scholarship for conducting research in Italian archives and libraries. Research subject: Religious fermentation in both Venice and Rome during the time of Meletius Tipaldus, Archbishop of Philadelphia.

08/1996, 08/1997, 08/1998

National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, Section of Byzantine Research. Participation in research group. Activity: classification and recording of archival sources from the Hellenic General State Archives, Regional Archives of Cephalonia.

 

Gruppi di ricerca

Informazioni in italiano

Collaborazioni di ricerca

Member of Journal’s Scientific Committees

2020-...: Nuova Antologia Militare. This open access journal hosts scientific articles in Italian, English, French or Spanish, based on original research and critical interpretations of international military history, global, diachronic and interdisciplinary. The proposed articles are subjected to double-blind peer review.

2020-...: Mediterranean Chronicle. Mediterranean Chronicle is an international refereed journal, working within the Department of History and the Department of Archival and Library Sciences of the Ionian University (Corfu), with an international Editorial Board comprised of scholars in the field of Humanities (History, Archaeology, Classics, Papyrology). Papers that present contributions in all the fields of Humanities concerning Mediterranean Civilization are published.

2020-...: Istros. Istros is an international refereed journal, specializing in the fields of History and Archaeology, edited by the Museum of Brăila “Carol I” (Romania). All the articles are analyzed according to the procedures of peer review. Referee of articles regarding the Late Medieval and Early Modern European History.

Member of international Research group & Scientific societies

International Research group in Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism (EMoDiR). This scientific organization, based in Verona (Italy) and constituted by a group of scholars from a wide range of universities and research centers located in Europe and the USA, is dedicated to the study of religious differences, conflicts and plurality in Europe during the early modern period.

Società Italiana di Storia Militare (SISM).

Ionian Society for Historical Studies of the Ionian University.