Thalassa/ Thalassa! was the enthusiastic cry of Cyrus’ Greek mercenaries when they glimpsed the Black Sea in their retreat in Anatolia. In the episode related by Xenophon, the sea featured as a safe way-out or a lifeline.
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My paper will explore the history and historiography of labor migration across the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in the early modern and modern period (1750-1950). Much has been written on the Mediterranean as a connective space linking territories, regions, ideas and cultures, but in fact labor migration in the Mediterranean, and the various kinds of work and recruitment processes it entailed, has received relatively scant attention by historians.
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We are told that the sea is filling up with things we should not see - plastic things particularly, and the debris of old, often ruined, lives that linger, but should not. Out of sight, out of mind perhaps, but these things are not so very invisible, at least not anymore.
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I have encountered waterways in my research for some time: urban creeks and backwaters in New York, Melbourne, and Shanghai; liquid metaphors for capital flows in global supply chains; and the designation of the US-Mexico border in the middle of the Rio Grande.
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Sea-related student research project for the graduate course "Research Methods", Prof. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Spring 2016 AUB.
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Abir Saksouk-Sasso talks to the "Sea & Society" class at American University of Beirut about her work with Dictaphone Beirut and her approach to research and knowledge production. The following lecture was filmed by Jacob Borden, a student at the American University of Beirut.
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Nikolas Kosmatopoulos sat down with Michael Taussig to talk about his much-acclaimed essay, "The Beach (A Fantasy)" and how Dr. Taussig would write the essay today.
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Student work from Sea and Society course at AUB Spring 2018.
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Student work from Sea and Society course at AUB Spring 2018.
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Student work from Sea and Society course at AUB Spring 2018.
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Student work from Sea and Society course at AUB Spring 2018.
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Student work from Sea and Society course at AUB Spring 2018.
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Student work from Sea and Society course at AUB Spring 2018.
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Student work from Sea and Society course at AUB Spring 2018.
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Student work from Sea and Society course at AUB Spring 2018.
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Student work from Sea and Society course at AUB Spring 2018.
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Student work from Sea and Society course at AUB Spring 2018.
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Noor Ali, a student at the American University of Beirut sat down with the captain of the FLOATS ship, Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, to talk about themes of memory, refuge, resistance (among others) in relation to the sea.
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The idea of locating the perfect society built on older notions of humanity’s origins, or, conversely, its ends. Tracing these across a number of periods and places, the seminar explores this history episodically. It looks at imagined or reasoned conceptions of the perfect society across a number of discursive traditions and textual genres. – from mythic and dialectic accounts to futurist science-fiction and revolutionary manifestos.
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Sea-related student research project for the graduate course "Research Methods", Prof. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Spring 2016 AUB.
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