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ΘΕΩΡΗΤΙΚΕΣ ΑΝΑΖΗΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΜΠΕΙΡΙΚΕΣ ΕΡΕΥΝΕΣ
δρια, ενώ έχει συνεπιμεληθεί και την έκδοση λευκώματος σχετικά με την ιστορία
της Καλαμαριάς. Άρθρα του έχουν επίσης δημοσιευθεί σε συλλογικούς τόμους. Τα
ερευνητικά του ενδιαφέροντα εστιάζονται στην πολιτική, εκκλησιαστική, προφορική
και τοπική ιστοριογραφία. Υπήρξε επιστημονικός συνεργάτης του Ιστορικού
Αρχείου Προσφυγικού Ελληνισμού (Ι.Α.Π.Ε.) του Δήμου Καλαμαριάς. Από το 2008
υπηρετεί ως μόνιμος ιστορικός στο Πολιτιστικό Κέντρο του Δήμου Θερμαϊκού του
Νομού Θεσσαλονίκης.
Antonella Viola
Antonela Viola received her Degree in History at the University of Pisa in 2001. In
2003 she attended the Course –Sustainable development: Sole Alternative for Human
Rights– sponsored by UNICEF at the University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’ and in
2005 she was a Visiting-Researcher attached to the Economics Department at SOAS
(School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK). In 2007-2008
she was Marie Curie Doctoral Fellow at the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens (Greece), School of Philosophy and History. She received her PhD in 2008
from the European University Institute (EUI); her PhD thesis is entitled ‘Italians in
India, 1860-1920. Trades, Traders and Trading Networks’. She is presently a FCT
Fellow at Centro de Història de Além-Mar (CHAM), FCSH, at the New University of
Lisbon. Among her publications: ‘Italian traders in the 19th century South Asia’, in
Colonialism and Imperialism: between Ideologies and Practices, D. Ramada Curto and A.
Rappas (eds), EUI WORKING PAPERS No. 2006/01; ‘I “mangiatori di spaghetti”: il
cibo e l’identità culturale degli gli Italiani in India (1860-1920)’, in Snodi. Pubblici e
privati nella storia contemporanea, (Jan 2012); and ‘L'orientalismo a tavola. Percezione
e rappresentazione dell'alimentazione indiana nei racconti dei viaggiatori e residenti
italiani nell'India Britannica (1860-1930)’ in Orientalismi italiani, a cura di Gabriele
Proglio, Antares, (in press).
Despina Vlami
Despina Vlami is a Researcher in the Research Center for Medieval and Modern
Greek Studies of the Academy of Athens where she is directing the Academy of
Athens program ‘Trade and Diplomacy in Eastern Mediterranean, 17th-19th centuries’.
She has received a B.A. in Political Sciences (Law School, University of Athens)
and a Ph.D. in History and Civilization (European University Institute, Florence).
She is the author of a book on the Greek merchant community in Leghorn,
Tuscany [The Florin, the Grain and Via del Giardino. Greek Merchants in Leghorn
(1750-1868), Themelio Pb., Athens 2000] and an essay on the Levant Company’s
operation in Salonica (British Trade and Diplomacy in Eastern Mediterranean. The Levant
Company in Salonica, 1792-1825, Academy of Athens, Athens 2008). She is currently
working on a main research project concerning the Levant Company’s organization
and operation in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th-19th centuries. She has
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