Academic Events
& DifferenceSession 1: Identity and Difference (Wednesday, Nov. 24, Afternoon) [Session Description]
Chair
Professor Dame Averil Cameron Home Page
Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, University of Oxford, President of the Fédération internationale des associations d'études classiques (FIEC) and Fellow of the British Academy, UK
Speakers
Professor Martyn Barrett Home Page
Professor of Psychology, Academic Director, Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM), University of Surrey, UK
Title:
National and Ethnic Identities and Differences Today: A Psychological Perspective
Professor Joseph Bryant Home Page
Professor of Sociology, Department and Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada
Title:
Schism as Identity Transformation in Early Christianity: Sociological Observations on a Most Consequential Intra-Faith Rupture
Professor Shireen Hunter Home Page
Director, Carnegie Project on Reformist Islam & Visiting Fellow at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
Title:
Greece, the Ancient and Medieval Worlds and Modern Europe: an Early Example of the Dialogue of Civilizations
Professor Paolo Odorico Home Page
Director of the Centre d’Etudes Byzantines, Néo-Helléniques et Sud- Est Européennes and Director of Studies, EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), France
Title:
Différence, non diversité: les Grecs du Moyen Âge face aux autres Européens
Professor Walter Pohl Home Page
Professor of Medieval History, University of Vienna, Head of the Research Institute for Medieval History, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Regular Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Title:
Visions of Community – Reflections on the Role of Ethnicity in the Post- Roman West, Byzantium and the Early Islamic World
Professor Alan Shapiro Home Page
W.H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Title:
Athenian Identity and the Persian Other from Kroisos to Xerxes
Mrs Katérina Stenou Home Page
Director, Division of Cultural Policies and Intercultural Dialogue, UNESCO, Paris
Title:
Intercultural Dialogue, the Missing Link between Identity and Difference: Conceptual and Political Challenges
Professor Konstantinos Tsoukalas Home Page
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Athens, Full member of the Hellenic Bioethics Commission, Greece
Title:
The Invention of Difference: Identities and Differences in the Age of Globalization
Professor Konstantinos Tsoukalas Home Page
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Full member of the Hellenic Bioethics Commission, Greece
Title:
The Invention of Difference: Identities and Differences in the Age of Globalization
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Metropolitan Kallistos [Ware] Home Page
Metropolitan of Diokleia, UK
Title:
Identity and Difference in the Spiritual Life: Hesychasts, Yogis and Sufis
Respondents
Professor Nikos Bacounakis Home Page
Associate Professor of Media, Panteion University & Editor-in-chief of the literary supplement "TO VIMA", Greece
Professor Mark Janse Home Page
Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek, Ghent University, Belgium
Dr. Johannes Saltzwedel Home Page
Editor, Der Spiegel Magazine, Germany
& Histories
Session 2: Stories and Histories (Thursday, Nov. 25, Morning) [Session Description]
Chair
Co-Chair / Speaker
Professor Johannes Koder Home Page
Director of the Institute for Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies, University of Vienna, President of the Austrian Society for Byzantine Studies, Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Title:
Romaioi and Teucri, Hellenes and Barbaroi, Europe and Asia
Speakers
Professor Roderick Beaton Home Page
Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, King’s College London, UK
Title:
From Αncient to Μodern: Byron, Shelley, and the Ιdea of Greece
Professor Richard Buxton Home Page
Professor of Greek Language and Literature, University of Bristol, UK
Title:
Lives and Deaths of the Greek Gods, Heroes, and Ordinary Mortals
Professor Edhem Eldem Home Page
Chair of the Department of History, Bogazici University, Turkey
Title:
“The little Greek boy who became a powerful pasha”. Myth and reality in the life of İbrahim Edhem Pasha, ca 1818-1893
Professor Richard Hunter Home Page
Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK
Title:
In the Βeginning …
Professor Vassilis Lambrinoudakis Home Page
Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, University of Athens, Greece
Title:
Rediscovering, Reconstructing, Using the Past: Archeology of the Classical World
Professor Peter Meineck Home Page
Clinical Associate Professor of Classics, Center for Ancient Studies, New York University, USA
Title:
“Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth”: The neuroscience of the tragic mask
Professor Himanshu Prabha Ray Home Page
Professor at the Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Title:
Sailing to India: Diverse Narratives of Travel in the Western Indian Ocean
Dr. Damian Sutton Home Page
Reader in Photography at Middlesex University, UK
Title:
The Platonic Photographer: The role of Political Portraiture and the Task of the Photographer as Author
Respondents
Mr Takis Kampylis Home Page
Journalist, Kathimerini Newspaper and SKAI TV, Greece
Dr Hyun Jin Kim Home Page
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou Home Page
University Lecturer in Modern Greek and Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford, UK
Sir Peter Stothard Home Page
Editor of Times Literary Supplement (TLS), UK
& Art
Session 3: Word and Art (Thursday, Nov. 25, Afternoon) [Session Description]
Chair
Professor Gregory Nagy Home Page
Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, CHS, Harvard, USA
Co-Chair / Speaker
Professor Richard Martin Home Page
Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics, Stanford University, USA
Title:
Apollo’s Cithara and Poseidon’s Crash-Test: Ritual and Contest in the Evolution of Greek Aesthetics
Speakers
Professor Anton Bierl Home Page
Professor of Greek Literature, University of Basel, Switzerland, Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
Title:
Sappho in Athens. Reperformance and Performative Contextualizations of the New Cologne Papyrus, or Old Age and Rejuvenation through Chorality
Professor Leslie Brubaker Home Page
Professor of Byzantine Art, IAA Assistant Director (Research), University of Birmingham, UK
Title:
Looking at and Listening to Byzantium
Professor Edith Hall Home Page
Professor of Classics and Drama, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Title:
Ancient Greek Theatre and the Theatre of the World: The case of the Tauric Iphigenia
Professor Christian Jacob Home Page
Director of Research, CNRS & Director of Studies, EHESS, France
Title:
Comment devient-on bibliothécaire? La poésie entre livre et performance
Professor David Konstan Home Page
Professor of Classics at New York University, and John Rowe Workman Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition at Brown University, USA
Title:
From Pity to Sympathy: Tragic Emotions across the Ages
Professor Marina Lambraki-Plaka Home Page
Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts and Director of the National Gallery – Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Greece
Title:
Ut pictura poesis: the Social Context of Art and the Theory of Art
Professor François-Bernard Mâche Home Page
Musicologist, Composer, Member of the Académie des Beaux Arts, Institut de France, France
Title:
Qu’est-ce qu’un artiste?
Professor Platon Mavromoustakos Home Page
Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Athens, Greece
Title:
Ideological Parameters in Reactions to Performances of Ancient Greek Drama at the end of the 20th century
Professor Margaret Mullett Home Page
Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, USA
Title:
Respondents
Professor Maša Ćulumović Home Page
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Puget Sound, USA
Professor Maria Del Pilar Fernandez Deaugustini Home Page
Professor of Classics, University of La Plata, Argentina
Mr Nikos Xydakis Home Page
Chief editor of Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece
& Politeia
Session 4: Democracy and Governance (Friday, Nov. 26, Morning) [Session Description]
Chair
Professor Konstantinos Svolopoulos Home Page
President of the Academy of Athens, Greece
Co-Chair / Speaker
Professor Anastasios-Ioannis Metaxas Home Page
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Director of the Political Communication Workshop, University of Athens, Greece
Title:
La forme classique à l’âge de l’instrumentalisation du beau
Speakers
Professor Ryan Balot Home Page
Professor of Political Science and Classics, University of Toronto, Canada
Title:
Flourishing in the Democratic City
Professor Angelos Chaniotis Home Page
Professor of Ancient History, School of Historical Studies, IAS USA
Title:
Illusions of Democracy in the Hellenistic World
Professor Pierre Delvolvé Home Page
Member of the Institut de France, Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, France
Title:
La démocratie á l’épreuve des crises
Professor John Dunn Home Page
Professor Emeritus of Political Theory, King’s College, Cambridge, UK
Title:
Political Equality: Equality of Power? Equality in Judgment? Equality of Exposure? Equality of Voice? Distributing a certain equality to equals and unequals alike
Professor Jean-Louis Ferrary Home Page
Member of the Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, France
Title:
Démocratie ou démocraties des Anciens?
Professor Ljubomir Maksimovic Home Page
Professor Emeritus at the University of Belgrade, Director of the Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia, Corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, Greece
Title:
Democracy in an Autocratic System of Governance: The Case of Byzantium
Professor S. Sara Monoson Home Page
Associate Professor of Political Science and Classics, Director of the Classical Tradition Initiative, Northwestern University, USA
Title:
The Making of a Democratic Symbol: The Case of Socrates
Professor Josiah Ober Home Page
Constantine Mitsotakis Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University, USA
Title:
Three Kinds of Dignity
Professor Claudia Rapp Home Page
Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, UCLA, USA
Title:
The Idea of Ancient Greek Polis in Medieval Byzantium
Respondents
Dr Mary Cunningham Home Page
Lecturer in Historical Theology, Faculty of Arts, The University of Nottingham, UK
Dr Matthias Haake Home Page
Assistant Professor in the Seminar für Alte Geschichte, University of Münster, Germany
Professor Stathis Kalyvas Home Page
Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University, USA
& Ethics
Session 5: Science and Ethics (Friday, Nov. 26, Afternoon) [Session Description]
Chair
Professor Athanassios Fokas Home Page
Chair in Nonlinear Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridge, UK, Member of the Academy of Athens, Greece
Co-Chair / Speaker
Professor Jacques Jouanna Home Page
Member of the Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres et Académie internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, France
Title:
Le serment hippocratique : sa signification dans l’enseignement et l’éthique médicale au passé et au présent
Speakers
Professor Sir Michael Francis Atiyah Home Page
Honorary Professor of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Title:
The Spirit of Mathematics
Professor John D. Barrow Home Page
Professor at DAMTP (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics), Cambridge University, UK
Title:
Simplicity versus Complexity: Plato and Aristotle revisited
Professor Anne Fagot-Largeault Home Page
Chair of Philosophy of Biological and Medical Sciences, Collège de France, Member of the Institut de France, Académie des Sciences, France
Title:
Scientific Integrity
Baroness Susan Greenfield Home Page
Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Honorary Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
Title:
The Future of the Brain, The Brain of the Future: Realizing the Greek mind in the Modern World
Professor Erling Norrby Home Page
Professor of Virology, Center for History of Science, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden
Title:
Existo, ergo pars evolutionis sum – or What is life?
Professor Theodosios Tassios Home Page
Professor Emeritus of Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Title:
Moral Issues and Technology. Possible lessons from Ancient Greece
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Metropolitan Ioannis [Zizioulas] Home Page
Metropolitan of Pergamon
Title:
Knowledge versus Wisdom
Respondents
Professor Said Esteban Belmehdi Home Page
Director of IREM (l'Institut de Recherche sur l'Enseignement des Mathématiques), University Lille 1, France
Dr Felix Hasler Home Page
Research Associate in Psychopharmacology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Dr Anna Marmodoro Home Page
College Lecturer and University Lecturer in Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK
Dr Konstantinos Moutoussis Home Page
Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens, Greece
Quality of Life
Session 6: Quality of Life (Saturday, Nov. 27, Morning) [Session Description]
Chair
Co-Chair / Speaker
Professor Dimitri Nanopoulos Home Page
Distinguished Professor of Physics, Texas A&M University, USA, Full member of the Academy of Athens, Greece
Title:
The quantum myth of Sisyphus: chance and sustainability
Speakers
Professor Michael Mehaffy Home Page
Urban Planner and Critical Thinker, Member of INTBAU (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism), Structura Naturalis Inc. & Tectics, USA
Title:
Quality of Life by Design: The science of a Structuralist Revolution
Professor Branco Milanovic Home Page
Lead Economist, World Bank research group and Visiting Professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA
Title:
Ancient inequality
Professor Aristides Patrinos Home Page
President of Synthetic Genomics Inc., USA
Title:
Synthetic Genomics for the Quality of Life
Professor Sarah Rubidge Home Page
Professor in Choreography and New Media, University of Chichester, UK
Title:
How Art Matters
Professor Nikos Salingaros Home Page
Professor of Mathematics, Urbanist & Architectural Theorist, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Title:
Life and the Geometry of the Environment
Professor Walter Scheidel Home Page
Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Department of Classics, Stanford University, USA
Title:
Human Development and Quality of Life in the Long Run: The Case of Greece
Professor Sander Van Der Leeuw Home Page
Director and Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, USA
Title:
The Archaeology of Innovation: Lessons for our Times
Professor Stavros Zenios Home Page
Professor of Finance and Management Science, Rector, University of Cyprus, Senior Fellow, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Title:
Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Does Freedom Lead to Happiness?
Respondents
Professor Panagiotis Doukellis Home Page
Associate Professor of Roman History in the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean (Mytilene), Greece
Dr Andreas Mershin Home Page
Postdoctoral associate at the Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT
Dr Katia Savrami Home Page
Choreologist and Lecturer, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras, Greece
