CFP: Reflections on Identity: Greek Philosophy and Weltanschaaung from ‘Byzantine’ Times to Today’s Greece in Crisis

International  Conference

Reflections on Identity: Greek Philosophy and Weltanschaaung from ‘Byzantine’ Times to Today’s Greece in Crisis

Berlin, June 12th 2013

The Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University Athens, the Hellenic Student’s Association of Berlin and the Greek Cultural Foundation (Berlin office) announce the International Conference:

“Reflections on Identity: Greek Philosophy and Weltanschaaung from ‘Byzantine’ Times to Today’s Greece in Crisis”

The Conference will be held on Wednesday, June 12th 2013 at the Greek Cultural Foundation (Berlin Office, Wittenbergplatz 3a, 10789 Berlin, Germany, 2nd floor). The Conference Languages are English, German and Greek.

The question of (Modern) Greek identity is timely. The political events of the previous years have brought up yet again the question: What does it actually mean to be a Greek today? This Conference will endeavor to go into the timely nature of this question and to provide an answer to it by tracing the line from the ‘Byzantine’ Empire of New Rome – Constantinople to Modern Greek culture.

At the Conference will participate as guest speakers, among others, Prof. DDr. Dr.h.c. Christos Yannaras (Panteion University of Athens), Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pelzer (Oxy, Los Angeles), Prof. Dr. Ilias Papagiannopoulos (University of Pireaus), Prof. Dr.  Georgios Steiris (University of Athens), Prof. Dr. Georgios Arampatzis (University of Athens).

Call for Papers

If you are interested in participating, please send us your paper (1.800-2.200 words, presentation duration: 20 minutes).

We welcome papers from the fields of Philosophy, Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature, History of Ideas, Theology, as long as they relate to the Greek-speaking intellectual production from 330 a.D. up to our times and to the central question of the conference, i.e. Modern Greek Identity.

1. Please send us the title and a short abstract of your presentation (200-400 words) in English, German or Greek until Sunday, March 31st 2013 at gsvberlin {at} gmail {dot} com, with the subject “Abstract”.

2. We will inform you until Sunday, April 7th 2013 of the acceptance of your Abstract. In this case we would like to ask you to remit, within a week, the conference fee of 80,00€ to a bank account  that we will inform you of.

3. In addition, please send us until Sunday, May 19th 2013 a first draft of the paper itself in English or German at gsvberlin {at} gmail {dot} com.

The publishing of a collective volume in English and German in Germany and a collective volume in Greek in Greece based on the Conference Presentations is planned.

The conference fee of 80,00€ covers the registration, the coffee breaks throughout the conference, as well as the conference dinner. Accommodation is not included.

Organizing Committee of the Conference:

Georgios Arampatzis (assistant professor of Byzantine Philosophy – University of Athens)

Georgios Steiris (assistant professor of Medieval Philosophy – University of Athens)

Sotiris Mitralexis (PhD Candidate in Philosophy – Free University of Berlin)