Online lectures of the Institute

Since March 2023, the Institute of Modern Greek Studies of A.U.Th. organizes at regular intervals, series of lectures, online and live, open to the public. The first circle (until June 2023) consists of three lectures, that have been filmed (the first two) and are available in youtube.

These are:

• G. Papanastassiou, Professor of Historical Linguistics at the A.U.Th., Director of the Institute, "Indo-European linguistics: a science almost unknown in Greece" (March 29, 2023, 19.00); WATCH;
• G. Kechagioglou, Professor Emeritus at the A.U.Th., Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute, "How we publish Modern Greek literary texts, older and recent" (May 3, 2023, 19.00); WATCH;
  
• V. Kalfas, Professor Emeritus at the A.U.Th., Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute, "The ancient Greek philosophers and us" (June 7, 2023, 19.00).
  

In the first lecture G. Papanastassiou refers to the discipline of Indo-European linguistics and its findings regarding the relationships between Indo-European languages. He presented the reasons that have led us to the conclusion that these languages are related to each other, as well as examples that document this relationship and the inclusion of Greek in the specific language family.

In the second lecture G. Kechagioglou refers to the history of the editing of late Medieval and Modern Greek literary texts, to the categories and the characteristics of the editions, to the main trends that took shape especially from the post-war period until today, and to the key difference that separates an editor from the simple "critic" or "interpreter" of the texts.

In the trird lecture V. Kalfas answers questions like: Why are we interested in ancient philosophy today? Has a modern reader something to gain when studying or reading the philosophical texts of antiquity? How close and how far from us are the ancient Greek philosophers? Does it make sense to talk about truth and error when reading an ancient philosophical text? What do we keep and what do we leave behind? How are these issues raised for the modern Greek reader? Can we discern any significant differentiation?