PROGRAM
THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 6, 2020
18.00 – 18.30 Registration
Session I
Moderator: Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis
Director, Volos Academy for Theological Studies
18.30 – 18.45 Opening – Greetings
18.45 – 19.00 Dr. Hans-Peter Grosshans , Dean, Faculty of Evangelical Theology, Münster University, Director of the Seminar of Systematic Theology and Director of the Institute for Ecumenical Theology of his Faculty
Opening Remarks
19.00 – 19.30 Dr. Vasilios N. Makrides , Professor, Erfurt University,
Orthodox Christianity in the Context of Postcolonial Studies
19.30 – 20.00 Dr. Atanas Slavov , Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Sofia University,
Constitutional Tradition and Orthodoxy: Values and Concepts
20.00 – 20.30 Discussion
20.30 Dinner
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Session II
Moderator: Dr. Vassiliki Yiakoumaki
Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly
09.00 – 09.30 Rev. Dr. Filotheos-Fotios Maroudas , Advisory Board Member at Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Priest of the St. Apostles Greek Orthodox Parish, Dortmund (Germany),
Concept and Theological Context of Byzantine “Synallelia” (“Symphonia”)
09.30 – 10.00 Dr. Alfons Brüning , Professor at Protestant Theological University Amsterdam, Chair of “Orthodoxy, Human Rights, Peace Studies,”
The Tsarist System
10.00 – 10.30 Dr. Ina Merdjanova , Visiting Professor at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations & Senior Researcher and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin,
Orthodoxy under Pressure: Ottoman, Communist and Post-Communist Contexts
10.30 – 11.30 Discussion
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee – break
Session III
Moderator: Rev. Dr. Amphilochios Miltos
Research Associate, Volos Academy for Theological Studies
12.00 – 12.30 Dr. Nathaniel Wood , Associate Director, Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University, New York,
Orthodoxy and Democracy in Russian Religious Philosophy
12.30 – 13.00 Dr. Branko Seculić , Lecturer at the University Centre for Protestant Theology Matthias Flacius Illyricus in Zagreb,
Orthodoxy and Democracy in Serbian Theology and Thought
13.00 – 13.30 Dr. Lucian Turcescu , Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Orthodoxy and Democracy in Romanian Theology
13.30 – 14.30 Discussion
14.30 – 16.00 Lunch
Session IV
Moderator: Dr. Anne Käfer
Professor of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Evangelical Theology, Münster University
Director, Seminar for Reformed Theology
16.00 – 16.30 Dr. Dimitrios Moschos , Assoc. Professor, Department of Theology, Athens University,
The History of the Idea of Democracy in Contemporary Greek Orthodox Theology
16.30 – 17.00 Fadi Nasr , Secretary General, Orthodox Youth Movement of the Patriarchate of Antioch (MJO), Beirut, Lebanon,
Orthodoxy and Democracy in Antiochean Theology and Thought
17.00 – 17.30 Rev. Dr. K. M. George , Director of the Sopana Orthodox Academy in Kottayam, Kerala, India,
Orthodoxy and Democracy in Oriental Orthodox Thought
17.30 – 18.30 Discussion
18.30 – 19.00 Coffee – break
Session V
Moderator: Dr. Aikaterini Tsalambouni
Associate Professor of New Testament, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Member of the Board of Directors of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies
19.00 – 19.30 Dr. Svetoslav Riboloff , Professor, Faculty of Theology, “St Clement of Ochrid” Sofia University,
Church and State in the Orthodox World Today and the Challenges of the Global Age
19.30 – 20.00 Rev. Dr. Cyril Hovorun , Assistant Professor, Marymount Loyola University Los Angeles, and Director, Huffington Ecumenical Institute, California,
Pseudomorphosis as Political Theology in Fr Georges Florovsky
20.00 – 20.30 Discussion
20.30 Dinner
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2020
Session VI
Moderator: Dr. Herman J. Silderhuis,
President, European Academy of Religion
Rector, Theological University of Apeldoorn (The Netherlands)
09.30 – 10.00 Georgios Vlantis , MTh, Director, Council of Christian Churches in Bavaria, and Research Associate, Volos Academy for Theological Studies,
Orthodox Theology and Modernity/Postmodernity, Secularization/Post-Secularization
10.00 – 10.30 Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis , Director, Volos Academy for Theological Studies; Lecturer, Hellenic Open University and the University of Thessaly; Research Fellow; KU Leuven; Member of the Executive Committee, European Academy of Religion,
Balkan and Eastern European Ethno-theology: Historical and Theological Approach
10.30 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee – break
Session VII
Moderator: Rev. Dr. Cyril Hovorun
Director, Huffington Ecumenical Institute (California)
11.30 – 12.00 Dr. Haralambos Ventis , Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Orthodoxy and liberalism
12.00 – 12.30 Dr. Effie Fokas , Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for Hellenic and European Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics,
Majority Orthodox states and religious freedom at the European Court of Human Rights
12.30 – 13.00 Dr. Irena Zeltner Pavlovic , Academic Councilor, Erlangen-Nürnberg University, Habilitant,
Civil Society and Orthodoxy
13.00 – 14.00 Discussion
14.00 – 14.15 Brief Press Conference on the European Project Resilience: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Grosshans, Dr. Nikolaos Asproulis, and Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis
14.15 – 15.45 Lunch
Session VIII
Moderator: Dr. Effie Fokas
Senior Research Fellow, (ELIAMEP) and Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
15.45 – 16.15 Dr. Nikolaos Asproulis , Deputy Director, Volos Academy for Theological Studies, and Lecturer, Hellenic Open University,
Primacy, Synodality and Liberal Democracy in Orthodoxy: An Uneasy Relationship? Some Methodological Considerations
16.15 – 16.45 Dr. Kateřina K. Bauer , Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Ecumenical Institute, Protestant Theological Faculty, Charles University, Prague,
Orthodox Spirituality in Pluralistic Democracies
16.45 – 17.15 Discussion
17.15 – 17.45 Coffee – break
Session IX
Moderator: Dr. Hans-Peter Grosshans
Dean, Faculty of Evangelical Theology, Münster University
17.45 – 18.15 Dr. Athanasios N. Papathanasiou , Editor-in-Chief, journal Synaxi, and Lecturer, Higher Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens and Hellenic Open University,
Μission(s) and Politics: An Orthodox Approach
18.15 – 18.45 Dr. Chris Durante , Assistant Professor of Theology, Saint Peter’s University, NJ, and Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics & Human Rights in Rome,
Orthodoxy and Multiculturalism
18.45 – 19.45 Discussion and Plenary
20.00 Dinner
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2020
7.30 – 10.30 Orthros and Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. Constantine and Helene
10.30 – 11.15 Breakfast, and End of the Conference
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