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Interdisciplinary conference on climate change in Athens “Envisioning the Greek Landscape: From Thera to Climate Change” [19-21 October 2023]

Interdisciplinary conference on climate change in Athens “Envisioning the Greek Landscape: From Thera to Climate Change” [19-21 October 2023]

http://hellenicoutreach.org/ 

The Hellenic Studies programs of California State University, Sacramento; the UCLA- University of California, Los Angeles; and Simon Fraser University, Canada, with the support of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) will be hosting a conference in Athens, Greece entitled “Envisioning the Greek Landscape: From Thera to Climate Change October 19–21, 2023. This conference has proven incredibly timely, as we have all witnessed the horrible fires of the summer and, more recently, devastating floods affecting Greece.  

Declaring the conference opening and welcoming participants will be Vice Rector for Academic Affairs International Relations and Extroversion, Professor Sophia Papaioannou.

ENVISIONING THE GREEK LANDSCAPE

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together academics and policymakers from ten countries around the world to discuss the perception and exploitation of the Greek environment, from antiquity to the present. Specifically, the conference seeks to explore how the various peoples and institutions who have overseen the Greek landscape have understood its natural wealth and how they have overcome natural climatic challenges.

Using the lessons of the past will help shape the policies of today and the future. As climate change and environmental challenges dominate the headlines worldwide, looking to the past for sources of inspiration will generate ideas for business leaders and policymakers. “Envisioning the Greek Landscape” hopes to begin this conversation. 

The detailed schedule follows:

Short conference spot-video:

Organizer:

Katerina Lagos, Professor of History

President of the Modern Greek Studies Association 

Director of the Angelo K. Tsakopoulos Hellenic Studies Program
California State University, Sacramento
Department of History, Tahoe 3089
Sacamento, CA 95819

NKUA organizing committee:

Irene Kamberidou, Professor of Sociology

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

Department of Sociology, School of Economics and Political Science

Member of the Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Committee of the NKUA

https://genderequalitycommittee.uoa.gr/epitropi/meli/

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