Events Series

Events Series 2017

Program’s identity and key information

  • Topic: Societies in crisis: economy, politics, culture
  • Organized by: CHS Greece
  • Dates: Monthly events from December 2016 to June 2017

Synopsis

Events Series is one of the longest-running CHS Greece activities, launched in 2008. The Center invites prominent academics and experts from various fields from Greece and abroad, and addresses the local communities of the Argolis region and of Greece, through an annual...

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Events Series 2016

Key information

  • Topic: Globalization and local idioms: cultural and institutional interactions
  • Organized by: CHS Greece
  • Dates: Monthly events from November 2015 to June 2016

Synopsis

The lectures were planned in close cooperation with all 4 municipalities of Argolis, the Harvard Club of Greece, the Society for the Promotion of Education and Learning (SPEL), and the Department of Theater Studies of the University of...

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Events Series 2018

Program’s identity and key information

  • Topic: Leadership and Humanism
  • Organized by: CHS Greece
  • Dates: Monthly events from December 2017 to June 2018

Synopsis

Events Series 2018 is devoted to “Leadership and Humanism.” This year’s series has a special, celebratory character, because it marks the tenth anniversary of the Center’s formal inception in Nafplio. The speakers will explore the role of leadership and leaders in answering the need of people to...

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Events Series 2019

Program’s identity and key information

  • Topic: Culture, Education and Politics
  • Organized by: CHS Greece
  • Dates: Monthly events from December 2018 to June 2019

Synopsis

This year’s Events Series 2019 is concerned with issues of Culture, Education and Politics. Prominent Greek and foreign scholars will engage with matters of geopolitical importance, architectural heritage, as well as with Latin, Byzantine, modern Greek and World Literature. From Rome and...

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2016 May 11

Tourism globalization and social change, Events Series 2016

7:30pm to 9:30pm

Location: 

Events Hall Lyceum of Kranidi Kranidi

Full Title: Tourism globalization and social change: The insular worlds of South East Aegean in the 21st century

Speaker: Despina Nazou (lecturer/research fellow at the University of the Aegean)

Respondent: Andreas Nikolovgenis (Architecture, M.Arch II, Harvard GSD)

 
2016 Apr 20

Monolingualism versus linguistic polymorphy, Events Series 2016

8:00pm to 10:00pm

Location: 

Vouleftiko Hall, Staikopoulou Str. 21100, Nafplio

Full title: Monolingualism versus linguistic polymorphy: the meaning of the mother tongue

Speaker: George Babiniotis (professor of Linguistics, former rector of the University of Athens)

The event was organized in collaboration with the Society for the Promotion of Education and Learning (SPEL) and the Municipality of Nafplio.

 
2016 Apr 06

Tragedy as a universal good in the Greco-Roman world

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

Cultural Center of Ligourio

Speaker: Ioanna Karamanou (assistant professor in Ancient Greek Tragedy, Theatre Studies Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Peloponnese)

Respondent: Maria Mikedaki(assistant professor in Architecture and Scene Painting of Ancient Theatre, Theatre Studies Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Peloponnese)

 
2016 Mar 23

The universality of Great Alexander’s myth in space and time

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

CHS Greece, Philhellene Square & Otto Street, 21 100, Nafplio, Greece

Speaker: Maria Kampouri-Vamvoukou (professor in the School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Respondent: Vangelis Maladakis (PhD in Byzantine Archaeology)

 
2016 Mar 02

The practice of contemporary medical science in local societies, Events Series 2016

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

CHS Greece, Philhellene Square & Otto Street, 21 100, Nafplio, Greece

Full title: The practice of contemporary medical science in local societies: Particularities from the interaction of science and tradition

Speaker: Eleni Papadaki (professor of Haematology & head of Department of Haematology PAGNI (University Hospital), School of Medicine, University of Crete)

Respondent: Leda Karagiannopoulou, Psychologist, MSc (Postgraduate Studies Program in Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Crete / Phd candidate at University of Crete...

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2016 Feb 10

Ecology and economy: the garden as cosmos and a microcosm, Events Series 2016

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

Great Alexander Hall Argos

Speaker: Fay Zika (assistant professor in Philosophy and Theory of Art, Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts)

Respondent: Eleana Yalouri (assistant Professor in Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, School of Political Sciences, Panteion University)

The event was in collaboration with the Municipality of Argos-Mycenae.

 
2016 Jan 20

Economic globalization through a historic perspective, Events Series 2016

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

CHS Greece, Philhellene Square & Otto Street, 21 100, Nafplio, Greece

Speaker: Μichel S. Zouboulakis (professor, Department of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Thessaly)

Respondent: Nikolaos Theocarakis (associate professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, School of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens / scientific director of KEPE)