CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

DAY 1
Wednesday November 24th
MO R NING SESSION AFTE RNOON SESSION

OPENING CEREMONY IDENTITY & DIFFERENCE

Chair Dame Averil Cameron

Registration | 8:30 – 10:00 Part Α | 15:30 – 17:15

Main SpeΕches
OPENING CEREMONY | 10:00 – 13:00
Martyn Barrett
Welcome Addresses National and Ethnic Identities and Differences Today: A
Anthony Papadimitriou Psychological Perspective
George Babiniotis Alan Shapiro
Chancelier Gabriel de Broglie Athenian Identity and the Eastern Other from Kroisos to Xerxes
Joseph Bryant
Schism as Identity Transformation in Early Christianity: Sociological
Film Projection
Observations on a Most Consequential Intra-Faith Rupture
Dialogue between the Theatre Director Peter Stein
and the Classics Professor Gregory Nagy Walter Pohl
Visions of Community – Reflections on the Role of Ethnicity in
the Post-Roman West, Byzantium and the Early Islamic World
OPENING DIALOGUE Paolo Odorico
Différence, non diversité: les Grecs du Moyen ge face aux autres
"Does the Past have a Future?" Européens
HélEne Glykatzi-Ahrweiler
Simon Critchley
Dusan Sidjanski

JOHANNES SALTZWEDEL Coffee Break: 17:15 – 17:45

SIR PETER STOTHARD
NIKOS XYDAKIS
Part Β | 17:45 – 19:30

Reception Main SPEECHES

Konstantinos Tsoukalas
The Invention of Difference: Identities and Differences in the Age
of Globalization
Metropolitan of Diokleia Kallistos [Ware]
Identity and Difference in the Spiritual Life: Hesychasts, Yogis and
Sufis
Shireen Hunter
Greece, the Ancient and Medieval Worlds and Modern Europe:
an Early Example of the Dialogue of Civilizations
Katerina Stenou
Intercultural Dialogue, the Missing Link between Identity and
Difference: Conceptual and Political Challenges

Respondents
Nikos Bacounakis
Mark Janse
Johannes Saltzwedel
Katerina Zacharia

Discussion: 19:30 – 21:00

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DAY 2
Thursday November 25th
M O R NING SESSION AFTE RNOON SESSION

STORIES & HISTORIES LOGOS & ART

Chair Hans-Joachim Gehrke Chair Gregory Nagy

Co-Chair Johannes Koder Co-Chair Richard Martin

Part Α | 9:00 – 10:45 Part Α | 15:30 – 17:15

Main SpeΕches Main SpeΕches
Richard Hunter Richard Martin
In the Βeginning... Apollo's Cithara and Poseidon's Crash-Test: Ritual and Contest in
Richard Buxton the Evolution of Greek Aesthetics
Lives and Deaths of the Greek Gods, Heroes, and Anton Bierl
Historical Figures Sappho in Athens. Re-Per formance and Per formative
Peter Meineck Contextualizations of the New Cologne Papyrus or Old Age and
"Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth": The neuroscience Rejuvenation by Chorality
of the tragic mask David Konstan
Himanshu Prabha Ray From Pity to Sympathy: Tragic Emotions across the Ages
Sailing to India: Diverse Narratives of Travel in the Western Edith Hall
Indian Ocean  Ancient Greek Theatre and the Theatre of the World:
Vassilis Lambrinoudakis The Case of the Tauric Iphigenia
Rediscovering, Reconstructing, Using the Past: Archaeology of the Platon Mavromoustakos
Classical World Ideological Parameters in Reactions to Performances of Ancient
Greek Drama at the end of the 20th century

Coffee Break: 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break: 17:15 – 17:45

Part Β | 11:15 – 13:00 Part Β | 17:45 – 19:30

Main SPEECHES Main SPEECHES
Damian Sutton Leslie Brubaker
The Platonic Photographer: The role of Political Portraiture and Looking at and Listening to Byzantium
the Task of the Photographer as Author Margaret Mullett
Johannes Koder Representing Byzantine Society
Romaioi and Teukri, Hellenes and Barbaroi, Europe and Asia Marina Lambraki-Plaka
Edhem Eldem Ut pictura poesis: the Social Context of Art and the
“The little Greek boy who became a powerful pasha”. Myth and Theory of Art
reality in the life of brahim Edhem Pasha, ca 1818-1893 FranCois-Bernard MAche
Roderick Beaton Qu'est-ce qu'un artiste?
From Αncient to Μodern: Byron, Shelley, and the Ιdea of Greece Christian Jacob
Le bibliothécaire, le roi et les poètes
Respondents
Takis Kampylis Respondents
Hyun Jin Kim Masa Culumovic
Dimitris Papanikolaou Maria Del Pilar Fernandez Deaugustini
Sir Peter Stothard David Elmer
Nikos Xydakis

Discussion: 13:00 – 14:30 Discussion: 19:30 – 21:00

Lunch BUFFET: 14:30 – 16:00
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DAY 3
Friday November 26th
MO R NING SESSION AFTE RNOON SESSION

DEMOCRACY & POLITEIA SCIENCE & ETHICS

Chair Konstantinos Svolopoulos Chair Athanassios Fokas

Co-Chair Anastasios-Ioannis Metaxas Co-Chair Jacques Jouanna

Part Α | 9:00 – 10:45 Part Α | 15:30 – 17:15

Main SPEECHES Main SPEECHES
Josiah Ober Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
Three Kinds of Dignity The Spirit of Mathematics
John Dunn John D. Barrow
Political Equality: Equality of Power? Equality in Judgment? Equality Simplicity versus Complexity: Plato and Aristotle revisited
of Exposure? Equality of Voice? Distributing a certain equality to Siddharthan Chandran
equals and unequals alike Regenerative Medicine: Hopes and Fears
Sara Monoson Baroness Susan Greenfield
The Making of a Democratic Symbol: The Case of Socrates in The Future of the Brain, The Brain of the Future: Realizing the
North-American Popular Media, 1941-1956 Greek mind in the Modern World
Ryan Balot Erling Norrby
Flourishing in the Democratic City Existo, ergo pars evolutionis sum or What is life?
Jean-Louis Ferrary
Démocratie(s) des Anciens

Coffee Break: 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break: 17:15 – 17:45

Part Β | 11:15 – 13:00 Part Β | 17:45 – 19:30

Main SPEECHES Main SPEECHES
Angelos Chaniotis Jacques Jouanna
Illusions of Democracy in the Hellenistic World Le serment hippocratique: sa signification dans l’enseignement et
Ljubomir Maksimovic l’éthique médicale au passé et au présent
Democracy in an Autocratic System: The Case of Byzantium Theodosios Tassios
Anastasios-Ioannis Metaxas Moral Issues and Technology. Possible lessons from Ancient
La forme classique à l’âge de l’instrumentalisation du beau Greece
Pierre Delvolvé Anne Fagot-Largeault
La démocratie l'épreuve des crises Scientific Integrity
Claudia Rapp Metropolitan of Pergamon John [Zizioulas]
The Idea of Ancient Greek Polis in Medieval Byzantium Knowledge versus Wisdom

Respondents Respondents
Mary Cunningham Said Esteban Belmehdi
Matthias Haake Felix Hasler
Stathis Kalyvas Anna Marmodoro
Matthew Simonton Konstantinos Moutoussis

Discussion: 13:00 – 14:30 Discussion: 19:30 – 21:00

Lunch BUFFET: 14:30 – 16:00
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DAY 4
Saturday November 27th
M O R NING SESSION AFTE RNOON SESSION

QUALITY OF LIFE Synthesis, Assessments &

Perspectives
Chair Robert Harriss ChairS Anthony Papadimitriou
Co-Chair Dimitri Nanopoulos George Babiniotis

Part Α | 9:00 – 10:45 16:00 – 20:00

Main SPEECHES Participants
Keynote Speakers and
Sander Van Der Leeuw
Chairs of Thematic Sessions
The Archaeology of Innovation: Lessons for our Times
Walter Scheidel
Human Development and Quality of Life in the Long Run: Closing Speech
The Case of Greece Anthony Papadimitriou
Branco Milanovic
Ancient inequality CLOSING CEREMONY | 20:00 – 21:00
Stavros Zenios
Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Does Freedom
Lead to Happiness?
Nikos Salingaros
Life and the Geometry of the Environment

Coffee Break: 10:45 – 11:15

Part Β | 11:15 – 13:00

Main SPEECHES
Michael Mehaffy
Quality of Life by Design: The science of a Structuralist Revolution
Sarah Rubidge
How Art Matters
Aristides Patrinos
Synthetic Genomics for the Quality of Life
Dimitri Nanopoulos
The quantum myth of Sisyphus: chance and sustainability

Respondents
Panagiotis Doukellis
Andreas Mershin
Aemilia Papaphilippou
Katia Savrami

Discussion: 13:00 – 14:30

Lunch BUFFET: 14:30 – 16:00