The 12th International Conference on Greek Research, hosted by Flinders University’s LOGOS Australian Centre for Hellenic Language and Culture,will be held on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 June.

The conference is one of the most successful focused on Greek studies abroad, attracting more than 2,500 participants over the last 22 years and has resulted in more than 600 refereed papers being published and which are available online internationally.

Its high calibre of keynote speakers attracts local, interstate and international researchers.

This year’s program will cover the following areas of research:

• Ancient Greek Philosophy and Classical Studies
• Education, Society and Culture
• Literature and Language
• Cyprus: History and Culture
• Greek History, Society and Migration/History and Migration
• Online Learning

The conference’s keynote speakers are:

Professor Nikos C. Alivizatos
Professor of Law at the University of Athens, Nikos Alivizatos has practiced law since 1978 and is pleading regularly before the Greek Council of State, the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. He has been teaching constitutional and public law since 1980, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford (1988-89), Princeton (1997) and Oxford Universities (2005).

Professor Vrasidas Karalis
Professor Vrasidas Karalis holds the Sir Nicholas Laurantos’ Chair in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney, and has published extensively on the topics of Byzantine historiography, Greek political life, Greek cinema, European cinema, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein and contemporary political philosophy.

Professor Han Baltussen

Professor Han Baltussen is the Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.
His research interests cover topics in Greek philosophy and intellectual history with a focus on the transmission of philosophical ideas and the lasting influence on western culture.