Onassis
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Talks & Thoughts

Are the arts and letters a luxury for a society in financial crisis?

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Monday
Time
17:00
Venue
Upper Stage

Information

Tickets

Free admission

General Information

Entrance to all the events in the “Talks and Thoughts” Cycle is free and on a first come, first served basis.
The distribution of entrance tickets begins one (1) hour before each event.
Simultaneous translation is provided in the case of speakers using a language other than Greek.

The arts and letters provide a fixed point of reference when everything else can look as though it’s collapsing around our ears.

Photo: Ioanna Chatziandreou

Though they may not fill empty stomachs, they do provide food for thought. Whether they set out to make us laugh or cry, analyze issues or synthesize them, offer consolation or explanations, the arts and letters provide a fixed point of reference when everything else can look as though it’s collapsing around our ears.

Program

17:00 - 19:00

Vasilis Karapostolis: Professor of Culture and Communication at the University of Athens; writer
Panagis Panagiotopoulos: Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Athens
Miltos Pechlivanos: Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the Freie Universität of Berlin

Ersi Sotiropoulou: Writer
Eva Stefani: Assistant Professor of Cinema History and Theory at the University of Athens

19:30 - 21:30

Roderick Beaton: Professor (Koraes Chair) of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at the King’s College, London
Giorgis Giatromanolakis: Emeritus Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Athens; writer
Anastasios-Ioannis Metaxas: Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Director of the Political Communication Workshop, University of Athens
Nikos Themelis: Writer

Biography

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