Seminar on "ARISTOTLE - Leading teacher and philosopher"

Seminar on “ARISTOTLE – Leading teacher and philosopher”

News / Wednesday, 2 November 2016

The City of Chalkida hosts a scientific seminar on: ARISTOTLE – Leading teacher and philosopher, Saturday, November 5, from 09: 30- until 15: 30 and from 17:00 until 21:00, in PALIRROIA hotel at Chalkida.

SCHEDULE
0930: Commencement
Opening speech by the Mayor of Chalkida Mr. Christos Pagonis

First Session
Chair: Sula Papageorgopoulou, Secondary Education Honorary Consultant

09.40-10.00: Introduction to the life and works of Aristotle.
Georgia Charitidou, Director at the Directorate of Secondary Education, General Secretary at the National Union of Literature Teachers
10.00-10.20: The lost works of Aristotle.
Manolis M. Stergioulis, Secondary Education Consultant

10.20-10.40: Nature, Art and the City in Aristotle.
Vasilis Mastoris, MA, Secondary Education Professor

10.40-11.00: Aristotle’s “Hymn to virtue”.
Anastasios Stephos. Secondary Education Honorary Consultant, President at the National Union of Literature Teachers

11.00-11.20: Discussion
11.20-11.40: Break

Second Session
Chair: Christina Veikou,
Honorary Consultant at the Pedagogical Institute, Lecturer at Democritus University

11.40-12.00: Aristotle’s Poetics on epic.
Christina Argyropoulos, Honorary Consultant at the Pedagogical Institute
12.00-12.20: The art of tragedy in Aristotle’s Poetics.
Chrissa Alexopoulou, Secondary Education Consultant, Assistant Professor at the Hellenic Open University
12.20-12.40: Aristotle’s Poetics and Ancient Comedy.
Giannis Panousis, Assistant Professor at the University of Patras
12.40-13.00: Aristotle’s “About poets” and its perception by Neoplatonic philosophers.
Sophia-Panagiota Vlachaki, Literature Teacher

13.00-13.20: Discussion

Third Session
Chair: Georgia Charitidou, Honorary Consultant at the Pedagogical Institute

17.00-17.20: The views of Aristotle and Pindar on poetic creation.
Antonios Vrakas, Secondary Education Consultant
17.20-17.40: The relation between politics and education according to Aristotle and the critique of John Dewey.
Despina Moraitou, Secondary Education Professor.
17.40-18.00: The scope of education according to Aristotle.
Ioannis Kalogerakos, Professor at theUniversity of Athens
18.00-18.20: Aristotle’s peculiar anthropological taxonomy. Christina Veikou, Honorary Consultant at the Pedagogical Institute, Lecturer at Democritus University

18.20-18.40: Discussion
18.40-19.00: Break

Fourth Session
Chair: Giannis Panousis
Assistant Professor at the University of Patras

19.00-19.20: Aristotle’s Rhetoric and his views on the political discourse. A comparison with today’s experience.
Angela (Julie) Chronopoulou, Secondary Education Consultant
19.20-19.40: The European crisis and the Aristotelian philosophy.
Kyriakos Katsimanis, Assistant Professor at the University of Athens
19.40-20.00: 2016: Year of Aristotle. Stagira or Chalkida?
Amalia Karapaschalidou, Archaeologist
20.00-20.20: Aristotle’s testament
Soula Papageorgopoulou, Secondary Education Honorary Consultant