International Conference on “Modus – Modis – Modality”
With the Participation of the Director of the Department of Psaltic Art
The international musicological Conference “Modus - Modis - Modality” was successfully completed in Nicosia, Cyprus, from Sept. 5th to Sept 10th, 2017. The Conference was organized by the European University of Cyprus, in collaboration with the IMS Regional Association for the Study of the Music of the Balkans. The Conference had great significance for Byzantine Musicology, as it included special sessions devoted to the Psaltic Art, as well as for traditional music, with many interesting presentations by researchers from Greece, Cyprus and other countries. The Department of Psaltic Art and Musicology of the
on the topic: “Beginning and Evolution of Creation and Human being according to the Hexaemeron of St. Basil”
Greeting of the Director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies
On October 17-18, 2017 and in the framework of the celebrations for the 180 th anniversary of the establishment of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, an interdisciplinary conference took place at the main hall of the University, on the general theme “Beginning and Evolution of Creation and
With the participation of the Director of the Department of the Research of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments
On October 4-7, 2017, an International Academic Symposium in honor of Prof. Emeritus of Byzantine Archeology, Dr. Georgios Velenis (University of Thessaloniki) was successfully held in Thessaloniki at the Ancient Agora amphitheatre. This was a place to which the honored professor was inseparably linked, as he was the head of a research program for the study of the
With the participation of academic associates of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies
On October 11-15, 2017 the 4th conference of the Network of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Pastoral Health Care was successfully held in the island of Rhodes (Greece) on the general theme “Rekindling Hope — Finding hope in the difficulties of life.” The Ecumenical Patriarchate holds a conference every three years (2008, 2011, 2014), organized by the Patriarchal Network. These conferences give the
International Consultation
“Eastern Orthodoxy and Inter-Religious Encounter in a Secular Age”
September 15-17, 2017
Thessalia Conference Center, Volos, Greece
On September 15-17, 2017, the Volos Academy for Theological Studies (Greece) in co-operation with the Department of Theology and Religion of the University of Exeter (United Kingdom) organize an International Consultation on the general theme: “Eastern Orthodoxy and Inter-Religious Encounter in a Secular Age.” The proposed
On September 3-10, a Summer School on “Ibadism. Understanding diversity within Islam” was successfully held in Volos, Greece, by the Department of Inter-religious Studies of Volos Academy for Theological Studies, in cooperation with the School of Theology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” and the College of Islamic Law of Oman The Summer School explored the fundamentals of Islam and Ibadism in its historical, juridical, literary, religious and
On September 21-24, 2017, Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Maria Nanou, theologian and byzantinologist visited Lebanon.
On Tuesday morning, September 21, 2017, Dr. Kalaitzidis had the opportunity to visit Metropolitan of Mount-Lebanon Georges Khodr at the headquarters of his Diocese in the small town of Brumana on the outskirts of Beirut. Dr. Kalaitzidis conveyed to His Eminence the warmest greetings of Metropolitan