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Saturday, April 29, 2006
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition "From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Hellenic Art in Adversity, 1453-1830", Through May 6, 2006, Onassis Cultural Center, New York
Chair: Dr. Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler Professor of History President of the University of Europe
Program:
9:15 am
Welcoming Remarks: Ambassador Loucas Tsilas, Executive Director, Onassis Foundation (USA)
Morning Session: TERRITORY, ECONOMY AND ADMINISTRATION
9:30-9:50 am Dr. Nikos Karapidakis (Professor of Medieval History, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece): The Monk, the "Conte" and the National Hero.Theophanis Apsaras, Giorgio-Spiridione Theotokis and Petros Skylitzes: Three Ways to Think and to Live the Domination
9:50-10:10 am Dr. Dimitris Arvanitakis (Head of Historical Research Department, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece): The Institution of Communities: Mechanisms of Forming Memory and Channels of Communication between Conquerors and Conquered
10:10-10:30 am Dr. Elisabetta Molteni (Assistant Professor of History of Architecture, University Ca' Foscari Venice): Venice and the Urban Centres in Venetian-held Greek Lands
11:15-11:35 am Dr. Evangelia Balta (Research Director, Institute of Neohellenic Research/ National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece): Conquerors and Conquered in the Ottoman Empire: The Perception of Religious Otherness
11:35-11:55 am Mr. Sinan Kuneralp (Historian, Publisher, Isis Press, Istanbul, Turkey): The Phanariots: How they were Perceived by their Ottoman Contemporaries and by Modern Turkish Historians
Afternoon Session: PEOPLE, IDEAS AND THE ARTS
2:10-2:30 pm Dr. Maria Constantoudaki-Kitromilides (Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology, University of Athens, Greece: Tradition and Diversity): Early El Greco and Icon Painting in Crete, Venice and the Ionian Islands
2:30-2:50 pm Dr. Maria Vassilaki (Associate Professor of Byzantine and post-Byzantine Art, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece): Religious Art under Foreign Rule: The Case of the Painter
2:50-3:10 pm Dr. Sophia Handaka (Social Anthropologist, Department of Neohellenic Culture and Art Collections, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece): The Objectification of History and the Historicization of Objects: Understanding Neohellenic Secular Art
3:55-4:15 pm Dr. Alfred Vincent (Honorary Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney and Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia): Conflicting visions: The Greek world after Byzantium in literature from Crete and beyond the Danube
4:15-4:35 pm Dr. Peter Mackridge (Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek, University of Oxford, U.K.): From Enlightenment Satire to Romantic Nationalism: Greek Literary Culture in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
4:35-4:55 pm Dr. Paschalis M. Kitromilides (Professor of Political Science, University of Athens; Director, Institute of Neohellenic Research/ National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece): The Enlightenment and the Greek Cultural Tradition
5:25 pm Concluding Remarks: Dr. Paschalis M. Kitromilides