Greek Philosophy: Ancient, Byzantine, NeoHellenic, Modern - EF2022
TSOUNI GEORGIA, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Crete
EDUCATION
- 2006 – 2010 Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (Newnham College), PhD in Classics PhD Thesis ‘Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics’, Supervisor Prof. David Sedley
- 2004 – 2006 Hauptstudium (Master-level Studies) in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin
- 1998 – 2003 BA Classics (Ptychion, 4-year Degree), Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Grade: 8,23/10)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- 2020 – Currently Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Classics (Latin Literature), Department of Philology, University of Crete
- 2020 – Currently Affiliated Teaching Staff, The Open University of Cyprus, Studies in Greek Civilization
- 2018 – 2019 Research Associate at the Department of Philosophy, University of Basel (Chair of History of Philosophy)
- 2012 – 2018 Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer (Assistentin), Department of Philosophy, University of Bern (Chair of History of Philosophy)
- 2011 – 2012 Post-doctoral research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
- 2018 – 2019 Research Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), Harvard University.
- 2017-18 COMET Career Grant for outstanding female Postdoctoral Researchers, Office for Gender Equality, University of Bern
- 2011 Research Grant, Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’antiquité classique, Geneva
- 2007 Jebb Fund, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
- 2006-2009 Doctoral Award (Fees-only), Arts and Humanities Research Council for PhD Research at the Project ‘Greco-Roman Philosophy in the First Century BCE’, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
- 2006 – 2009 Doctoral Award, Greek State’s Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y)
- 2005 – 2006 Fellow at Studienkolleg zu Berlin, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics, Cambridge Classical Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019, pp. 233.
[Reviews: John Dillon in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (26.09.2019), Gisela Striker ‘The Philosopher Antiochus’, The Classical Review, pp. 1-3, Andrea Falcon in Sehepunkte. Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften 19 Nr. 11, 2019 [15.11.2019], James Warren ‘Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy’ in Phronesis vol. 64 2019]
EDITION/TRANSLATION
‘Didymus’ Outline of Peripatetic Ethics, Household Management and Politics: An Edition with Translation”, in B. Fortenbaugh (ed.), Arius Didymus on Peripatetic Ethics, Household Management, and Politics. Text, Translation, and Discussion. Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities vol. XX, London: Routledge (2017): 1-67
ARTICLES / CHAPTERS (PEER-REVIEWED)
‘Polemo’s Ethics’ in The Philosophy of Plato's Academy, Cambridge Studies in Platonism, ed. C. Cacciatori and G. De Cesaris, Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming)
‘Musonius’ That Women Too Should Study Philosophy’, Brill’s Companion to Musonius Rufus, ed. by Liz Gloyn and John Sellars (Forthcoming)
‘A Post-Hellenistic reading of the Platonic Corpus’ in The Making of the Platonic Corpus, ed. By Olga Alieva, Brussels: Brepols Publishers (Forthcoming)
‘Homeric and Platonic Authority Conjoined in Cicero’s Philosophical Works’ In F. Renaud and C.P. Manolea (eds.), Reassessing Homer in the Platonic Tradition, Brill (Forthcoming)
‘Peripatetic metriopatheia in Cicero’s Tusculanae Disputationes’ for The Proceedings of the XVth Symposium Hellenisticum, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming)
‘Cicero’s Athens: between reverence and subordination’ in Cicero in Greece: Greece in Cicero, ed. By I. Deligiannis, De Gruyter (Forthcoming)
‘Conflict of Duties in Cicero’s De Officiis’ in R. Woolf (ed.), The Cambridge Critical Guide to De Officiis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming)
‘The Sage in Society: the Stoics on Appropriate Actions’, in J. Klein and N. Powers (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Forthcoming)
‘Populism and Aristotelian Democracy’ in C. Riedweg, R. Schmid and A.V. Walser (eds.), Demokratie und Populismus in der griechischen Antike und heute, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (Forthcoming)
‘Phronesis and democratic participation in Aristotle’s political philosophy’ in CHS Research Bulletin (2019)
‘Political wisdom as the virtue of the ruler and the defense of democratic participation in Aristotle’s Politics’ in Philosophie für die Polis. Akten des 5. internationalen Kongresses der Gesellschaft für Antike Philosophie in Zürich (6.–9. September 2016). Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2019): 279-99.
‘Academic and Peripatetic views on Natural and Moderate Passions and a Case of Intertextuality in Plutarch’ Ploutarchos vol. 15 (2018): 109-118
‘Protreptic and Philosophical Dialogue: Cicero’ in O. Alieva, A. Kotzé, S. Van der Meeren (eds.), When wisdom calls: Philosophical Protreptic in Antiquity, Brussels: Brepols Publishers (2018): 211-27
‘The Emergence of Platonic and Aristotelian Authority in the First Century BCE’, in J. Bryan, R. Wardy and J. Warren (eds.), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2018): 263-77
‘The Academy in Rome: Antiochus and his vetus Academia’, in G. M. Müller und F. M. Zini (hrsg.), Philosophie in Rom-Römische Philosophie?: Kultur-, literatur- und philosophiegeschichtliche Perspektiven, Beiträge zur Alterumskunde vol. 358, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2017): 139-49
‘Peripatetic Ethics in Stobaeus’, in A. Falcon (ed.), The Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity, Leiden: Brill (2016): 120-37
‘Antiochus on Contemplation and the Happy Life’, in D. Sedley (ed.), The Philosophy of Antiochus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2012): 131-150
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Co-Founder, together with Dr. Attila Nemeth (Institute of Philosophy, RCH, Budapest), of the ‘Forum of Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy’, https://www.forumhellenisticum.com
Main Organiser and Reviewer, Interdisciplinary Workshop, The Reception of Aristotelian Ethics in Latin, Byzantine, Arabic and Hebrew Traditions. From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, University of Bern, Switzerland (November 2014)
Referee for Journal Articles: The British Journal of History of Philosophy, Elenchos
Referee for Book manuscripts and Volume Chapters: De Gruyter
CHRYSAKOPOULOU VASILIKI - SYLVANA, Assistant Professor, Department of Philology, University of Ioannina
CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr Sylvana Chrysakopoulou
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Sylvana (Vasiliki) Chrysakopoulou |
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BA in Philosophy, M.Phil, PhD in History of Philosophy Post Doctoral Fellowship in Classics |
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Greek |
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16, Kordeliou St., 17121 Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece |
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+30-210.93.74.410 (Athens) |
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FACSIMILE E-MAIL |
+30-210. 93.74.410 (Athens) |
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Modern Ancient French English Latin German Italian Spanish Greek Greek Native Good (BA) |
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EDUCATION |
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2005-2006 1996 – 2003 |
SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE (SNS, Pisa, Italy) Department of Classics Postdoctoral research under the supervision of Glenn Most PARIS IV, SORBONNE (Paris, France) Department of History of Philosophy Doctorat Nouveau Régime (Ph.D.): submitted in December 2003 under the title: Théologie versus Physique dans la Poésie Présocratique: De Xénophane à Empédocle (To be published in 2018 by Peeters, Leuven in the series ‘Studies in Philosophical Theology’) Distinction (Très Honorable avec les Félicitations du Jury) The viva took place in Paris IV (Sorbonne) on the 26th of March 2004 Members of the examining Committee: 1.ΜALCOLM SCHOFIELD (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, SAINT JOHN’S COLLEGE) 2.PHILIPPE HOFFMANN, DIRECTEUR D’ETUDES (ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES) 3.GILBERT ROMEYER-DHERBEY, DIRECTEUR DU SEMINAIRE LEON ROBIN (PARIS IV, SORBONNE) 4.JEAN FRERE (UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG MARC BLOCH) |
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1995-1996 |
PARIS IV, SORBONNE Department of History of Philosophy Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (M.Phil.) Distinction (Très Bien) |
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CAPODISTRIAN ATHENS UNIVERSITY Department of Comparative Studies Ph.D. (interrupted in order to pursue studies in the Sorbonne University different subject matter). (Paris IV) on a Theme: The Platonic myth of Er and its parallels in the Greek tragedy and iconography. |
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CAPODISTRIAN ATHENS UNIVERSITY Department of Philosophy B.A. in Philosophy Distinction (Excellent) |
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EVANGELIKI SECONDARY PROTYPOS SCHOOL Apolyterion First class degree (19,9) |
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SCHOLARSHIPS |
Scholarships granted to support postgraduate studies based on distinctions |
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2005 –2006 2002 – 2003 2001 - 2002 2000 - 2001 1996 – 1999 |
Minsitry of Education (Athens-Rome) Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Clare College,Cambridge Paris IV, Sorbonne Paris IV, Sorbonne Paris IV, Sorbonne |
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AWARD 1988 |
Archbishop Award Athens Award for the highest grade achieved at College on a national level. |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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‘Du Banquet de Xénophane aux Purifications d'Empedocle’, Caliope, 2018, vol.35, online publication ‘Xenophanes in in Plato's Sophist and the first philosophical genealogy’, Trends in Classics 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, pp 324-337. ‘La Théologie de Xénophane’ in Physiologia, Topics in Presocratic Philosophy and its Reception in Antiquity,’ eds Christian Vassallo, Georg Woerle, AKAN Einzelschriften,Wissenschaftliger Verlag, Trier 2017, pp169-197 ‘The Beauty and the Beast: Aphrodite and Teratogenesis in Empedocles' Cosmogony’in Hybrids and Extraordinary Beings: Deviations from ''Normality'' in Ancient Greek Mythology and Modern Medicine, eds. Panayotis N. Soucacos, Ariadne Gartziou Tatti, Minas Paschopoulos, Medical Editions Konstantaras, pp79-87 |
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2018 2017 2016 2015 |
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2014 2012 2010 2006 |
‘Is Parmenides a Pythagorean? Plato on Theoria as a Vision of the Soul’, Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World: Askesis, Religion, Science, eds. Almut- Barbara Renger and Alessandro Stavru, Harrassowitz Verlag, Berlin 2016, pp 77-92. ‘Jour et nuit dans le proème parménidéen’, Diotima 2015, vol.43, pp 7- 14. with BENOÎT CASTELNÉRAC (ed.), Plato’s Parmenides, Origins and Aporias of a Dialogue on the One. Le Parménide de Platon, les origines et les impasses d’un dialogue sur l’un, Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie, Vol. 53, No. 3, September/Septembre 2014, Special Issue. Numéro spécial ‘Wonder and the beginning of Philosophy in Plato’, Practices of Wonder, ed. S.Vassalou, Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Oregon 2012, pp 88-120 Plato’s Parmenides: Text, Translation and Introductory Essay, ed. Glenn Most, Intoduction Douglas Hedley, Arnold Hermann, Parmenides Publishing, 2010 ‘Heraclitus and Xenophanes in Plato's Sophist’, Ariadne 2010, vol. 16, σσ 75-98 ‘La notion xénophanienne de transcendance divine dans le Traité Du Monde aristotélicien’, La transcendence dans la philosophie grecque tardive et dans la pensée chrétienne, Actes du VIe Congrès International, E. Moutsopoulos, G.Lekkas,Vrin, Paris 2006, pp 16-22. ‘La notion xénophanienne de transcendance divine dans le Traité Du Monde aristotélicien’, La transcendence dans la philosophie grecque tardive et dans la pensée chrétienne, Actes du VIe Congrès International, E. Moutsopoulos, G.Lekkas, Diotima 2006, vol.34, pp 20-28 |
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2002 (before PhD submission ) |
‘L’agôn: La guerre pacifique qui a mené à la naissance de la philosophie en Italie du Sud’, La Philosophie et la Paix, Actes du XXVIIIe Congrès International de l’Association des Sociétés de Philosophie de la Langue Française, Vol. I, G. Ferrandi, M. Malaguti, G. Volpe, Vrin, Paris 2002, pp 91-94. |
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1990 (before B.A) |
‘Politics as an Art of Weaving’, Politics and the Statesman, Athens,1990, International Association for Greek Philosophy, ed. K. Boudouris, 1990 (in modern Greek) |
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July 2014-present June 2013- July 2014 September 2012 -June 2013 March -August 2012 |
Ass. Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, University of Ioannina (tenure) Adjunct Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the School of National Defence, Special Advisor for the Minister of National Defence in Educational Matters Special Advisor for the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitrios Avramopoulos (Greek Commissioner in Brussels) Freelance Researcher in the Library of the Hellenic Parliament in Athens ( Archive project on the18th century Travellers in Greece) |
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August 2008- September 2011 September 2006- September 2009 February 2005 – September 2006 |
Part-time Employee in the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Democracy (Athens- Greece) Adjunct Lecturer in Ancient Greek Philosophy, University of Crete, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences (Rethymnon-Crete) Adjunct Lecturer in Ancient Greek Philosophy, University of Patras, Department of Philosophy (Patras-Greece) |
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Supervisor and Translator in “Electra” Publishing House (Athens-Greece) Series ‘Philosophy as a way of Life’ Forthcoming translations into modern Greek: |
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May 2004 – 2006 |
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OTHER INFORMATION |
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Seminars Symposia- Workshops 1998 |
Dr Chrysakopoulou has received an anthropological education at the “Ecole des Hautes Etudes” and in the “Centre Louis Gernet” on Ancient Greek society and religion and was a constant participant of the seminars and conferences in this field during the years 1995- 2001. She bore a particular interest on the seminars of Jonathan Barnes, Gilbert Romeyer Dherbey, François Lissarague, Claude Calame, Jesper Svenbro, Philippe Hoffmann who could report on her work. She was given the opportunity to present some aspects of her doctoral research in the Ecole Normale Superieur (Paris) thanks to professor André Laks and has taken active part in all seminars and colloquiums organised by him in Lille as well as by Professor Sedley in Cambridge. 1. SEMINAIRE DE L’ECOLE NORMALE DE PARIS SUR LA PHILOSOPHIE PRESOCRATIQUE, ANDRE LAKS 4. SEMINAIRE DE LILLE III SUR LA PHILOSOPHIE ANCIENNE ( ANDRE LAKS) 5. SEMINAIRE DE L’ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES SUR LE NEOPLATONISME 6. SEMINAIRE DE PARIS I (SORBONNE) SUR L’ANTHROPOLOGIE DE L’IMAGE ( FRANÇOIS LISSARRAGUE) 8. SEMINAIRE DE PARIS I SUR LA LITTERATURE GRECQUE ( JACQUES JOUANNA) I have participated in more than 40 international conferences and workshops during the past 23 years. The most important are the following: Conference on Neoplatonism, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies-University of Crete, Department of Philosophy (Rethymnon-Crete, July 1998) |
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2000 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 |
XXVIIIe Congrès International de l’Association des Sociétés de Philosophie de la Langue Française, ‘La Philosophie et la Paix’, Bologna-Italy, August 2000 (published, Vrin 2002) Paper: L’agôn: La guerre pacifique qui a mené à la naissance de la philosophie en Italie du Sud Eleatica 2004, Alle Origini dell’Eleatismo, Fondazione Alario per Elea-Velia, organized by Livio Rossetti (Ascea-Italy, 14-16 September 2004) Paper: Elements éléatiques chez Xénophane II Symposium Praesocraticum : La Construzione del discorso filosofico nell’età dei Presocratici, organized by Glenn Most and Maria Michela Sassi in Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) Paper: L’immutabilité du Noûs divin chez Xénophane et Parménide. VI Congrès International de Philosophie grecque, de langue française, Philosophie Grecque Tardive et Pensée Chrétienne, University of Athens (Athens-Greece, 22-26 September 2004) ‘Philosophy in Assos’, organised by Orsan Oymen, (Assos-Turkey, 4-7 July 2005) Paper: Is Heraclitus a unique thinker? Workshop on Hippias Minor organized by Panos Dimas, University of Oslo (Oslo- Norway, 31 Μay- 3 June 2006). Paper: Hippias and the arts and crafts Symposium Heracliteum Secundum, University of Mexico, organized by Enrique Hulz (Mexico city, 26- 29 June 2006). Second Conference on Monotheism in Antiquity, University of Exeter (Exeter-U.K., 17-19 July 2006). Conference on Plato and Hesiod, University of Durham, Department of Classics (Durham, U.K., 26 - 28 July 2006). Workshop organized by and Douglas Hedley (Clare College, Cambridge) and myself in Hyele Institute (Athens 19-21 May 2007) International conference on ‘Light and Darkness in Greek and Roman Mythology and Religion’, University of Patras, Department of Classics (Patras 6-8 July 2007) ‘A sense of Wonder’, International Conference at the Center of Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) (Cambridge-U.K., 4-5 June 2008). ‘Plato’s Sophist and the Theaetetus’, Mediterranean Section of the IPS, University of Bercelona, organized by J.Monserrat (Barcelona-Spain, 27-29 October 2008). Celtic Conference on Classics (CCC), University of Edinburgh, ‘Conference on the Presocratics’ organized by the IAPS (Edinburgh-Scotland, 28-31 July 2010) |
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2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 |
Colloquium on 'Pythagoreanism' organized by Gabrielle Cornelli, University of Brazilia (Brazilia, 22-26 August 2011) I was the organizer of the first International Conference on Plato's Parmenides which was held in Chania (Crete-Greece) in the Centre of Mediterranean Architecture (CMA) from the 26th to the 30th of September 2011. The Proceedings of the Conference are published by the Canadian Review Dialogue in a special volume dedicated to Plato's Parmenides. The selected papers are both in English and in French. Benoit Castelnerac and myself are the editors. Keynote speech in the Conference on 'Passions and emotions in Αncient and Modern Philosophy', 'Philosophy in Assos', (Assos, Turkey, 3-5 July 2012) Forms and Transformations of Pythagorean Knowledge: Askēsis – Religion – Science (Freie Universität, Berlin, 22-24 October 2013) Raison et révélation: L’héritage critique de l’Antiquité. Critique et licence dans la Grèce antique, Université de Liège, 2-4 Mars, Département de Philosophie. 'Presocratics and papyrological tradition', University of Trier, 22-24 September, organized by Dr Christian Vassalo and Professor Georg Woerle, Classics Department Paper: Xenophane’s theology 1st Conference in medical humanities: Hybrids and extraordinary beings. Deviations from normality in ancient greek mythology and morern medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, 26-27 May Journée d' études organisé par Constantin Macris dans le cadre du projet (UMR 8584, CNRS), Institut protestant de théologie, Paris le 16 Octobre. La théologie hénothéiste de Xénophane et sa réception Séminaire ''Présocratique'': ''Les dieux chez les penseurs présocratiques'' UFRJ, Centre Léon Robin (Paris IV- Sorbonne) 24 Avril : La théologie préplatonicienne selon Aristote AFEM: Maison de la vie associative, Paris 16 Juin Sixth Biennial Conference(IAPS 6): European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 25-29 June International Association for Presocratic Studies, organized by Richard McKirahan Paper: From Xenophane's banquet to Plato's Symposium. |
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2019 |
1st Sabbatical leave: February to August. From May to July, I pursued my research in the Centre Leon Robin (Paris IV, Sorbonne), where I was formally invited by Rossella Saetta |
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Cottone who is leading the doctoral seminar on the Presocratics and where I regularly participate. There, I was given the occasion to work on my new book to appear soon on How to praise god: From Xenophanes’ banquet to Plato’s Symposium. Meanwhile, as a full member of the IPS (International Platonic Society), I participated in the IPS Conference on Plato’s Parmenides (which I have translated into English in 2010 as shown in my list of publications) and which took place in Paris from the 15th to the 19th of July. In November 2019, I participated in the colloquium “Ancient Images from Greece in the New World”, which took place in the Brazilian Embassy in Athens and thanks to which I organised two lectures on the reception of classical texts in the cinema at the University of Ioannina given by 1.Professor Martin M. Winkler (George Mason University, USA) who gave a lecture on the subject The arrow and the axes: How to present a difficult passage in the Odyssey (November 27th) 2.Professor Maria Cecilia Miranda Coelho (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) who lectured on the subject of Orpheus in the New World ( December the 3rd) Last but not least, I participated in the Presocratics’ seminar in Paris IV (Sorbonne) lead by Rossella Saetta Cottone on the 10th of Ocober 2020 on the general theme “Les Dieux chez les présocratiques” and gave a lecture under the title: La critique des adresses aux dieux dans les banquets par Xenophane et sa reprise par Platon. |
GEORGIOS ILIOPOULOS, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dr. phil. Georgios Iliopoulos was born in Athens in 1965. He graduated from the Varvakeios Model School, Athens in 1983, he studied Philosophy, Theory of Education and Psychology at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki where he earned his degree with specialization in Philosophy in 1987, he obtained his Postgraduate Diploma in Philosophy from the same University in 1993, he held scholarships of the D.A.A.D. (German Academic Exchange Service) and I.K.Y. (Greek Scholarships Foundation) and he obtained his PhD. from the Freie Universität (Free University) Berlin in February 2002. He conducted research in Germany and taught at the University of Patras and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He worked for several years as a teacher at the Secondary Education Level in Greece and Germany and was for four years headmaster at schools in the Athens area. Since the spring of 2019 he is appointed as a Lecturer and Member of the Staff (Instructional and Lab Personnel) at the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
His PhD-thesis bears the title: Ganzes und Teile des Politischen bei Aristoteles (The Whole and the Parts of the Political in Aristotle) and has been published in Marburg, Germany in 2004. His publications list includes among others:
- «griechische Antike», in: W. F. Haug, (ed.), Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, 5th vol., Hamburg 2001, col. 977-984
- «Μesotes und Erfahrung in der aristotelischen Ethik», in: Philosophia, Yearbook of the Research Centre of Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens, 33rd Year, 2003, pp. 194-204
- «Zur Erziehung in der Αristotelischen Idealverfassung», in: Festschrift für Kostas E. Beys. Dem Rechtsdenker in Attischer Dialektik, Αthens 2003, pp. 571-585
- «Einheit und Vielheit der ethischen Vortrefflichkeit bei Aristoteles», in: Philosophia, Yearbook of the Research Centre of Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens, 34th Year, 2004, pp. 199-209
- «Platonische und Kantische Ideen in Hegels Glauben und Wissen», in: Hegel-Jahrbuch, 2005, pp. 120-125
- «Die Dialektik in Kants und Hegels Auseinandersetzung mit dem Skeptizismus», in: Hegel-Jahrbuch 2016, pp. 302-307
- «Vergangenheitsbewältigung mit Blick auf die Zukunft: die Rezeption der griechischen Antike bei P. Kondylis und K. Psychopedis», in: Jannis Pissis, Dimitris Karydas (eds.), Deutschland und Griechenland im Spiegel der Philosophiegeschichte. Transfers im 20.Jahrhundert, Edition Romiosini / CeMoG, Freie Universität Berlin 2018, pp. 237-251.
- «The Idea of Europe and the Crisis of Globalization», International Dialogue: EAST-WEST, Skopje (forthcoming)
- «Das unglückliche Bewusstsein und die Teleologie des Menschlichen», in Hegel-Jahrbuch (forthcoming)
- «Zum Hegelianismus von Panajotis Kondylis», Online Enzyklopädie of the Centrum Modernes Griechenland at the Freie Universität Berlin (forthcoming)
He has also translated into Modern Greek works of G.W.F. Hegel (Differenzschrift), H.-G. Gadamer (Der Anfang der Philosophie and Der Anfang des Wissens) and M. Heidegger (Phönomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles and Nietzsche. Der Wille zur Macht als Kunst). He is currently working on a critical edition of Plato’s Sophistes including a translation into Modern Greek as well as on a research contribution about the reception of the philosophical thought of Bertolt Brecht in postwar Greece.
NIKOLAOS VLAHAKIS, PhD. in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, “St. Kliment Ohridsky”, University of Sofia
Nikolaos Vlahakis was born in Agios Nikolaos, in the island of Crete-Greece in July 1967.
Studies:
He studied Philosophy at University "St. Kliment Ohridski" in Sofia (1986-1991) - He graduated with a Master of Arts, under his Thesis on the topic “The Concept of Philosophical Representation in Michel Foucault’s work “Les Mots et Les Choses”.
He continued his studies on Public Administration at the National School of Public Administration in Athens (1994-1996), following his career as a public officer in Public Diplomacy & Communication.
He was post-graduated (Master of Arts) in International Relations and Strategy at the Centre Européen de Recherches Internationales et Stratégiques (CERIS), in Brussels (2006).
Professional career:
He served as “Press and Communication Counsellor” at the Greek Embassies in Tirana (1997-2000), Brussels (2000-2003), Sofia (2003-2007), Budapest (2009-2015) and Berlin (2015-2017), as also in the permanent Representations of Greece to the EU and NATO (2000-2003).
He has served as a Head of Unit for “Analysis and Studies of the International Mass Media”, at the Ministry for Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Information/Secretariat General of Communication, of the Greek Government (2017 – 2020).
For the time being he works as a “Policy Coordinator” at the National Rapporteur’s Office on Trafficking in Human Beings, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens.
Other activities in the Academic field:
He is PhD candidate at Sofia's University - writing his Thesis on “John Rawls's theory for the Law of the Peoples and J.Habermas concept for the constitutionalization of the international relations in the globalization era”.
He has published three poetry collections and many of his poems have been translated in Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Albanian, Arabic and German and they have been published in relevant literature magazines.
He has participated in several philosophical conferences and congresses.
Nikolaos Vlahakis is also a member of the administrative board of the NGO “Monitoring for International Organizations and Globalization”, based in Athens.