Academic Events
The adventure of human curiosity: Travelling from antiquity to modern recreation
Onassis Cultural Center – Friday 20th September 2013, 10:30- 19:00
PROGRAMME
10:00-10:30 Registration
10:30-12:00 FIRST SESSION
ANCIENT ITINERARIES AND TOPOGRAPHIES
10:30-11:00
Petros Themelis
Professor of Classical Archeology, University of Crete
The route of Pausanias in Messenia
11:00-11:30
Richard Stoneman
Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Exeter
How many miles to Babylon? Maps, guides, roads and rivers in the expeditions of Xenophon and Alexander the Great
11:30-12:00
Antigoni Zournatzi
Senior Researcher, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Travels in the East with Herodotus and the Persians
12:00 -12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 -14:00 SECOND SESSION
SACRED GEOGRAPHY
12:30-13:00
Gary Vikan
Former Director of the Walters Art Museum, Principal of Vikan Consulting, LLC
Pilgrimage to holy sites in early Byzantium
13:00-13:30
Veronica Della Dora
Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London
Mapping Journeys of the Soul: Spiritual Landscapes and the Apophatic Self in Patristic Literature
13:30-14:00
Alexandre Farnoux
Director of the French Archaeological School in Athens
From pilgrimage to autopsy: The journey of the members of the French Archaeological School in Athens
14:00 -15:30 Lunch
15:30-17:00 THIRD SESSION
ENLIGHTENMENT, ROMANTIC TRAVEL AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF TRAVEL
15:30-16:00
Maria Kostaridou
Historian, Independent Scholar
A traveller’s library: Some notes on the book collection of J.F. Usko (1760-1841), traveller, orientalist and Lutheran Chaplain at Smyrna
16:00-16:30
Konstantinos Sp. Staikos
Architect, Book historian
Travelogues: An initiative of Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation
16:30-17:00
Ioli Vingopoulou
Researcher, Institute of Historical Research/ National Hellenic Research Foundation
Image as companion to travel writers, from the end of the 15th to the beginnings of the 20th century
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-19:00 FOURTH SESSION
TRAVELING TODAY
17:30-18:00
John Walton
Research Professor, Ikerbasque Foundation, University of Bilbao
Tourism as factor of cultural exchange: International beach tourism in the Mediterranean region after World War Two
18:00-18:30
Magia Tsoklis
Travel Journalist
The description of travelling
18:30-19:00
Ismini Morou
Licensed tourist guide, Head of the Tourism in DEM.AR., Committee Member of Tourist Education in the Ministry of Tourism
A journey with our cultural heritage as a guide
