DAY 1 | MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021
APOLLON STREAM
11.00 OPENING SESSION Language: Greek*
KEYNOTE REMARKS PH.E. Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President of the Hellenic Republic
KEYNOTE REMARKS PH.E. Kersti Kaljulaid, President of the Republic of Estonia
KEYNOTE REMARKS PH.E. Zuzana Čaputová, President of the Slovak Republic (video message)
OPENING REMARKS PMargaritis Schinas, Vice President, Promoting our European Way of Life, European Commission, Belgium
OPENING REMARKS PHis Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece
OPENING REMARKS PGianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, President, Greece 2021 Committee, Greece
PChair: Symeon G. Tsomokos, Delphi Economic Forum
HOW HISTORY CAN HELP US MEET CHALLENGES Language: English*
PMargaret MacMillan, Professor of History, University of Toronto, Canada
PChair: Nik Gowing, Co-Director, Thinking the Unthinkable, UK
CULTURE & THE PANDEMIC Language: Greek with English subtitles
PRector Hélène Ahrweiler, President, Administration Council, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece PMarianna V. Vardinoyannis, Goodwill Ambassador, UNESCO, United Nations “Nelson Mandela Prize 2020”, Greece
*English/Greek translation provided for online audience. 1 PChair: Antonis Sroiter, Anchorman, Alpha TV, Greece
12.30 1821-2021: AN ACCOUNT OF TWO CENTURIES OF EXISTENCE Under the Auspices of “Greece 2021” Committee Content Partner: Alpha Bank’s Historical Archives Language: Greek*
PKostas Kostis, Prof. of Economic and Social History, University of Athens; Advisor to the Mngmt, Alpha Bank PNikiforos Diamandouros, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Athens, Greece PEfi Gazi, Professor of Modern History, University of the Peloponnese, Greece PTassos Giannitsis, Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs 2001-2004, Prof. Emeritus, University of Athens, Greece PStathis Kalyvas, Gladstone Professor of Government, Department Politics & Int. Relations, Oxford University, UK PMark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, Columbia University, USA PGeorge Pagoulatos, Professor, Athens University of Economics & Business; DG, ELIAMEP, Greece PIoannis Voulgaris, Professor of Political Sociology, Panteion University, Greece
PChair: Niki Lymberaki, Journalist, Open TV, Greece
17.20 LEADERS WHO SHAPED THE NATION Language: Greek*
Ioannis Capodistrias: The Foundation of the Modern Greek State PProkopios Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic (2015-2020); Professor of Law, University of Athens
Charilaos Trikoupis: Between Reform and Parliamentary Rule PKaterina Gardikas, Associate Professor in Modern Greek History, University of Athens, Greece
Eleftherios K. Venizelos: Creating Contemporary Greece PNikolaos Emm. Papadakis, General Director, National Research Foundation “Eleftherios K. Venizelos”, Greece
Constantinos Karamanlis: Entering the Developed World PEvanthis Hatzivassiliou, Professor of Postwar History, University of Athens, Greece
Andreas G. Papandreou: The Turbulent Transition to Modernity PStan Draenos, Historian and Political Analyst, Greece
PChair: Vicky Flessa, Journalist, ERT Public Broadcaster, Philologist of Classics, Greece
18.55 DISCUSSIONS Language: Greek
INITIATIVE 1821-2021 PIoannis Manos, Advisor, National Bank of Greece; Coordinator, Bicentennial Initiative 1821-2021, Greece
1821: THE BIRTH OF A NEW STATE PNikiforos Diamandouros, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Athens, Greece
1821: THE STRUGGLE FOR LANGUAGE OF A NEW NATION PGeorgios Babiniotis, Professor of Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece
GREECE AND EUROPE: 200 YEARS BEFORE AND 200 YEARS AFTER THE GREEK REVOLUTION PPanagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Prof. of Modern Greek Studies and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA
CLASSICAL GREEK, BLEND THE PAST WITH PRESENT PByron Nicolaides, Chairman & CEO, PeopleCert ; President, CEPIS
*English/Greek translation provided for online audience. 2
HELLENIC DREAMS PStelios Ramfos, Philosopher, Greece
CHURCH AND THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE 1821: ASSUMPTIONS, EXAGGERATIONS, MYTHS AND TRUTHS ON ECONOMIC AND MILITANT ISSUES PApostolos Kavaliotis, Director, Interconnection and Int’l Relations Office, Holy Archdiocese of Athens with the EU, Greece
PChair: Vicky Flessa, Journalist, ERT Public Broadcaster, Philologist of Classics, Greece
DAY 2 | TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2021
APOLLON STREAM
09.30 1821-1831: THE TRANSITION FROM PRE-MODERNITY TO THE MODERN STATE OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION With the contribution: Initiative 1821-2021 Language: Greek
PThanos Veremis, Professor Emeritus of Political History, University of Athens, Greece PMaria Efthimiou, Professor of Early Modern Greek History, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece PAnthony Klapsis, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science and Int’l Relations, University of Peloponnese, Greece PIakovos Michailidis, Prof. Modern & Cont. History, Population Movements, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
PChair: Makis Provatas, Journalist, Athens Voice, Greece
11.05 THE IDEA OF EUROPE AND THE IDEA OF GREECE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Language: English
PRoderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor, King’s College London, UK
PChair: Constantinos Angelopoulos, Vice Chairman, Synthesis, Greece
12.25 THE CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN GREEK STATE Language: Greek
PProkopios Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic (2015-2020); Professor of Law, University of Athens
PChair: Ioannis Politis, Journalist, Founder, Politis Online, Greece
GREEK FIRE: THE LASTING IMPACT OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION ON AMERICAN CULTURE AND POLITICS With the support of U.S. Embassy Athens, Greece Language: English
13.10 PIntroduction: Geoffrey Pyatt, U.S. Ambassador to Greece
13.25 THE POWER OF THE CLASSICS: AMERICAN PHILHELLENISM IN HISTORY AND CULTURAL POLITICS Language: English
PKatherine E. Fleming, Provost & Professor of History, New York University, USA PPanagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Prof. of Modern Greek Studies and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA
PChair: Constantinos Velentzas, President of the Philhellenic Museum, Greece
*English/Greek translation provided for online audience. 3 14.10 CROSS-FERTILIZATION: U.S. REFORM MOVEMENTS AND HELLENIC HERITAGE IN AMERICA Language: English
PMaureen Connors Santelli, Associate Professor, Northern Virginia Community College, USA PElpida Vogli, Associate Professor, University of Thrace, Greece
PChair: Harris Mylonas, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, USA
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14.55 THE GREEK FIRE ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: FROM THE MONROE DOCTRINE TO SENATOR MENENDEZ Language: English
PPaul Glastris, Editor in Chief, Washington Monthly, USA PAristotle Tziampiris, Professor of International Relations, University of Piraeus, Greece
PChair: Katerina Sokou, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, USA
15.35 FROM "METAKENOSIS" TO DIALOGUE: MODERN GREECE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WEST IN MACRO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Language: Greek
PNikiforos Diamandouros, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Athens, Greece
16.05 REMEMBERING LORD BYRON Language: English
PVictoria Hislop, Novelist, UK
PChair: Margarita Pournara, Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece
16.35 THE GREEK STATE AS A NEOCLASSIC CONCEPTION Language: English
PGeorge Prevelakis, Professor Emeritus, University of Sorbonne, France PMichel Espagne, Research Director, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France PEvanthis Hatzivassiliou, Professor of Postwar History, University of Athens, Greece PEsther da Costa Meyer, Professor Emerita, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, USA
PChair: Margarita Pournara, Journalist, Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece
18.05 HELLENIC WOMEN’S LEGACY With the contribution: Initiative 1821-2021 Language: Greek
*English/Greek translation provided for online audience. 4 Laskarina Bouboulina PMaria Efthimiou, Professor of Early Modern Greek History, University of Athens, Greece
Maria Kallas PVaso Papantoniou, Soloist, Soprano, Greece
Melina Merkouri PManuela Pavlidou,
Amalia Fleming PHara Spiliopoulou, Dean of the School of Health Sciences, University of Athens
Niki Goulandris PFali Voyatzaki, President, Goulandris Natural History Museum, Greece
PChair: Vicky Flessa, Journalist, ERT Public Broadcaster, Philologist of Classics, Greece
DAY 3 | WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2021
APOLLON STREAM
09.30 INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION: THE ROLE AND CONTRIBUTION OF THE DIASPORA AND THE PHILHELLENES With the contribution: Initiative 1821-2021 Language: English
PRoderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor, King’s College London, UK PMaurizio Isabella, Reader in Modern History, Queen Mary University of London, UK PYannis Kotsonis, Professor of History & Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University, USA
PChair: Alexander Kitroeff, Professor of History, Haverford College, USA
10.50 AGRICULTURE IN GREECE, 200 YEARS OF HISTORY: CHALLENGES AND OUTLOOK Language: Greek
PSpilios Livanos, Μinister of Agricultural Development and Food, Hellenic Republic PGeorge Handjinicolaou, Chairman, Piraeus Bank, Greece PAlexandros Kontos, former Minister of Agriculture, General Manager, SEKE S.A., Greece PNikos Efthymiadis, Chairman, Redestos, Greece PSerkos Haroutounian, Prof., Agricultural University of Athens; President, Hellenic Agricultural Organization- Dimitra
PChair: Nikos Filippidis, Anchorman, MEGA TV, Greece
12.05 THE INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN A HELLENIC CITY STATE-POLITICS AND A MODERN STATE: EITHER THE HELLENIC ADVENTURE OR AN EXTENDED CHALLENGE Language: Greek
PChristos Yannaras, Philosopher, Greece
PChair: Yanos Gramatidis, Honorary President, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, Greece
*English/Greek translation provided for online audience. 5 DAY 4 | THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2021
LETO STREAM
16.00 OTTOMAN VIEWS OF THE GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE Language: English with Greek subtitles
PIoannis N. Grigoriadis, Associate Professor & Jean Monnet Chair, Bilkent University, Turkey PHakan Erdem, Professor of History, Sabanci University, Turkey PSukru Ilicak, Historian & Author, Greece PChristine Philliou, Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley, USA
PChair: Cemal Kafadar, Professor of History & Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Harvard University, USA
DAY 6 | SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2021
DIONYSOS STREAM
12.25 THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE LAND IN 1821 AND ITS CONSEQUENCES UNTIL TODAY Language: Greek
PGeorge Th. Mavrogordatos, University of Athens, ret., Greece PSocrates D. Petmezas, University of Crete and Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH PNikos Potamianos, Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
PChair: Pavlos Tsimas, Journalist, Ta NEA, SKAI TV, Greece
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