Speakers:

 

 Dr. Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History, Cambridge University, United Kingdom: "Thalassa, Thalassa! The Spartans and the…Sea?"

Dr. Georgia Kokkorou-Alevras, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Athens, Greece: "Kouros(?) Head, Inv. No. 536, in the Archaeological Museum of Sparta"

Dr. Aliki Moustaka, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Thessaloniki, Greece: "Disiecta Membra: Early Terracotta Images from the Athenian Acropolis"

Dr. Josiah Ober, Professor of Classics and Political Science; Constantinos Mitsotakis Chair, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, California: "Democracy and the Growth of Athens"

Dr. Olga Palagia, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Athens, Greece: "Spartan Self-Presenation in the Panhellenic Sanctuaries of the Classical Period"

Dr. Kurt Raaflaub, David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History; Chair, Program in Ancient Studies, Brown University, Rhode Island: "The Rise of the Polis, from Homer to Solon"

Ms. Stella Raftopoulou, Archaeologist, Fifth Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Sparta, Greece: "Funerary Banquets in Archaic Sparta"

Dr. Graham Shipley, Professor of Ancient History, University of Leicester, United Kingdom: "Early Hellenistic Sparta: Changing Modes of Interaction with the Wider World"

Dr. Richard Talbert, Kenan Professor of History and Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: "Plutarch's Sparta: lieux de m?moire, trous de memoire"

Dr. Stavros Vlizos, Archaeologist, Benaki Museum, Athens: "The Amyklaion Revisited: New Observations on a Laconian Sanctuary of Apollo"