Society of Cretan Historical Studies

The Society of Cretan Historical Studies (Greek: Εταιρία Κρητικών Ιστορικών Μελετών (ΕΚΙΜ)) is a research society based in Heraklion, Crete, with the aim of “supporting and promoting Cretan studies in the fields of archaeology, history, ethnography, language and literature from early Christian times onwards”. It was founded on 7 October 1951.[1]

Activities

The Society runs the Historical Museum of Crete in Heraklion, which it founded in 1953.[2] It also administers the Menelaos Parlamas Museum of Rural Life and the Theano Metaxa-Kanakaki Weaving Collection.[1]The Society also established and maintains the Cretan Place Name Archive with over 20,000 toponyms.[1] In addition, it organizes International Cretan Studies Congresses since 1961,[3] publishes the Cretica Chronica journal (since 2011)[4] and a series of other publications,[5] and engages in various educational and scholarly activities.

gollark: Am I better at resisting peer pressure than other people: well, I'd *like* to think so, but so would probably everyone else ever.
gollark: Anyway, I have, I think, reasonably strong "no genocide" ethics. But I don't know if, in a situation where everyone seemed implicitly/explicitly okay with helping with genocides, and where I feared that I would be punished if I either didn't help in some way or didn't appear supportive of helping, I would actually stick to this, since I don't think I've ever been in an environment with those sorts of pressures.
gollark: Maybe I should try arbitrarily increasing the confusion via recursion.
gollark: If people are randomly assigned (after initial mental development and such) to an environment where they're much more likely to do bad things, and one where they aren't, then it seems unreasonable to call people who are otherwise the same worse from being in the likely-to-do-bad-things environment.I suppose you could argue that how "good" you are is more about the change in probability between environments/the probability of a given real world environment being one which causes you to do bad things. But we can't check those with current technology.
gollark: I think you can think about it from a "veil of ignorance" angle too.

References
  1. "SCHS". Historical Museum of Crete. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  2. "Historical Museum of Crete: History". Historical Museum of Crete. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  3. "SCHS: Congresses". Historical Museum of Crete. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  4. "SCHS: Cretica Chronica". Historical Museum of Crete. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  5. "SCHS: Publications". Historical Museum of Crete. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
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