Academic Events
Rethink the Past
December 1st, 2014 | Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, Rome
8:00-9:00
Registration
9:00-9:30
Welcome address by Prof. Louis Godart, Professor of Mycenaean Literature at the University of Naples “Federico II”, Director for the Conservation of Artistic Heritage of the Italian President
Welcome address by Professor Roberto Nicolai, Dean of the School “Lettere e Filosofia”, Sapienza University
Welcome address by Professor Paola Maria Minucci, Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature, Sapienza University
Welcome address by Dr. Mariarosaria Barbera, Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Rome
Welcome address by Themistoklis Demiris, Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic in Italy
Opening address by Professor Dimitri Nanopoulos on behalf of the Board of Directors of the Onassis Foundation, Academy of Athens and Texas A&M University
Opening address by Professor George Babiniotis, President of the Athens Dialogues Organizing Committee and University of Athens
Chair: Professor Paola Maria Minucci
9:30- 9:45
EUGENIO LO SARDO
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF ITALY, DIRECTOR
The Metamorphosis of the World
9:45-10:00
MASSIMO VITTI
ARCHAEOLOGIST, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, Mercati di Traiano
The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens: Transformations in the Roman Era and Imperial Propaganda
10:00-10:15
THORSTEIN OPPER
BRITISH MUSEUM, CURATOR OF GREEK AND ROMAN SCULPTURE, DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES
Constructing Graeco-Roman Identities from Hadrian to the Antonines: Ancient Evidence and Modern Interpretations
10:15-10:30
FRANCESCO LIZZANI
ESSAYIST AND DOCUMENTARIST
Imago Urbis: Rome and Kyoto between Myth and History
10:30-11:00
Discussion
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
Chair: Dr. Nike Koutrakou
11:30-11.45
THODOROS PAPANGELIS
ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY & ACADEMY OF ATHENS, Professor of Latin Literature, DEPARTMENT OF PHILOLOGY
The Glory that was Greece, without the Grandeur that was Rome: An Identity Tale
11:45-12:00
MANUELA MARI
UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GREEK HISTORY
Delphi as a Site of Memory and «Book of History» in Greece: Pausanias’ Periegesis
12:00 -12:15
IOLI KALAVREZOU
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, DUMBARTON OAKS PROFESSOR OF BYZANTINE ART, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Constantinople: The Living Image of the Past as Present
12:15-12:30
IDA TOTH
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, SENIOR INSTRUCTOR IN BYZANTINE GREEK AND MEDIEVAL LATIN, LECTURER IN BYZANTINE EPIGRAPHY, RESEARCH FELLOW, WOLFSON COLLEGE
Old and New Rome
12:30-13:00
Discussion
13:00-14:00
Lunch
Chair: Professor Louis Godart
14:00-14:15
NIKE KOUTRAKOU
HISTORIAN BYZANTINIST, MINISTER-COUNSELLOR, GREEK EMBASSY IN ROME
Empires Revisited: Rome, Byzantium and Medieval West in Science Fiction and Crime Literature
14:15-14:30
PANAYOTIS TOURNIKIOTIS
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY
Rethink Athens: the Reinvention of the City Centre
14:30-14:45
PAOLO VITTI
ARCHITECT – EUROPA NOSTRA AWARD WINNER 2014
Roman Identity in Greece: a Past that should not Pass into Oblivion
14:45-15:00
NIKOS BIRGALIAS
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY
Economic Crises, Society and Politics in the Greek World of the Archaic Era
15:00-15:30
Discussion
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
Chair: Professor Dimitri Nanopoulos
16:00-16:15
PAOLA MARIA MINUCCI
SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MODERN GREEK LITERATURE
From Cavafy to Seferis: The Past in the Present
16:15-16:30
YIORGOS GOTIS
AUTHOR
A Thread has Linked us: The Past as a Source of Inspiration
16:30-16:45
LAMBROS LIAVAS
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, PROFESSOR OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AT THE FACULTY OF MUSIC STUDIES
“Re-think the Past” as an Ethno-Musicologist
16:45-17:00
TULLIO VISIOLI
MUSICIAN, COMPOSER AND ESSAYIST
Mistica del Suono e Nuovi Ideogrammi
17:15-17:30
GERASIMOS ZORAS
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, PROFESSOR OF ITALIAN LITERATURE
The Antiquities of the Eternal City in Modern Greek Literature
17:30-18:00
Discussion
18:00-19:30
PROJECTION OF THE FILM BY FILIPPOS KOUTSAFTIS, “MOURNING ROCK”
Presentation by Lina Protopapa, translator of the film
