Adults, Talks

Rigas and the Vienna circle

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Onassis Library

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Wednesday 21 March
Time
18:30 - 20:30
Venue
Onassis Library (Amalias 56)

A lecture about Rigas Velestinlis’s “circle” [kyklos] in Vienna, and the conditions that fostered his freedom of thought.

Photo: Yiannis Soulis

Rigas' name fronts a number of publications and actions and Vienna provided the conditions most favourable in his era for the emergence of a Greek community aligned in its adherence to a single intellectual belief system.

But who can be considered part of Rigas' circle, and what were the conditions that encouraged freedom of thought and action in Vienna?

Credit

  • Speaker

    Eleni Kourmantzi, Visiting Professor, St. Cyril and St. Methodius University, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria