The British Council’s Study UK Alumni Awards 2024 selected Archimandrite Fr Aristarchos Gkrekas, an Assistant Professor at NKUA and clergyman in the Holy Archdiocese of Athens, as a finalist for the Social Action Award. This selection represents a significant international distinction for…
The Laboratory of Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics (https://psychoneurolinglab.phil.uoa.gr/) and the Laboratory of Phonetics and Computational Linguistics (https://linglab.phil.uoa.gr/) together with the Language and Aging Research Group (National Research Foundation, Korea) and the Tsakos Energy Navigation organized a conference on "Aging: Exploring its Effects on…
Assistant Professor at the NKUA’s Department of Philosophy, Dr Ioannis Trisokkas, won the Hegelpd-Prize 2023 Special Mention Award for his article ‘The Stubbornness of Nature in Art: A Reading of §§556, 558 and 560 of Hegel’s Encyclopedia’ (In S. Stein και J. Wretzel [eds.], Hegel’s…
The Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS), with the organizational support of the Department of English Language and Literature of NKUA, organizes the 4th Symposium of Young Scholars "(E-co)nnections: The Humanities in a time of Climate Change" on March 02, 2024, 9:30-17:15…
Τhe recent visit to Athens by Turkish President Erdogan culminated in a Declaration of Friendship between Greece and Turkey, as the two leaders assured their publics that bilateral relations had entered a period of détente. And yet, just a year ago, many…
The new children’s book by the Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology of the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Panos Valavanis, entitled “The Acropolis History, Where Man and the Gods Meet”, was recently published by…
On Wednesday, 6 December 2023, the Department of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens played host to the distinguished Professors of New Testament Cilliers Breytenbach (Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of Humboldt University of Berlin and…
Do we have one brain or two hemispheres, and how do they function during writing? What about the brains of left-handers and right-handers?
A recent, novel study explores the intricate interplay between the linguistic and motor components of written language in the…
As part of a Memorandum of Understanding between the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), faculty members from the NKUA’s Department of History and Archaeology travelled to China from 10 to 20 November 2023, at…
The Wellcome-funded research project “Making and Consuming Drugs in the Italian and Byzantine Worlds (12th-15th c.)” directed by Assoc. Professor Petros Bouras-Vallianatos in collaboration with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, NKUA, organise a talk by Emeritus Professor Ludmilla Jordanova…