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APRIL 2024

Wednesday 3 April 2024, 13:00: Presentation of a book entitled ‘Two Hundred Years of the Greek State - Structures and Institutions’ organized by NKUA. The book was published with the kind sponsorship of Piraeus Bank.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TurI04lekTQ

Sunday 7 April 2024, 10:00: Awards ceremony for schoolchildren by the Hellenic Mathematical Society.

Monday 8 April 2024, 17:00: Speech by Professor at Poznań University of Technology, Mr Roman Słowiński, entitled ‘Artificial Intelligence: Its Rise, Opportunities for Decision Aiding, and Threats for Humanity’ organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the NKUA’s Department of Business Administration and its new MSc in Fintech.

Tuesday 9 April 2024, 09:30: Event entitled ‘Career Day in Space Technologies, Applications, and Services Made in Greece’ organized by NKUA in collaboration with the Undergraduate Programme ‘Aerospace Science and Technology’ and the Interinstitutional Postgraduate Programme ‘Space Technologies, Applications, and Services’.

Wednesday 10 April 2024, 18:00: Opening ceremony of the 13th Panhellenic Philosophy Conference entitled ‘War and Peace: Philosophical Approaches’ organized by the Department of Philosophy of NKUA and the Greek Philosophical Society (GPS).

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/bP25xjtmYzU

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 12:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Honorary Professor upon the Emeritus Professor of the NKUA’s Department of Theology, School of Theology, Mr Vlassios I. Feidas.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/l-WEvf82LdY

Thursday 18 April 2024, 17:00: 3rd annual event of the Greek Patients’ Association to mark the European Patients’ Rights Day organized under the auspices of NKUA.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/AKgnXjsIvyE

Monday 22 April 2024, 19:00: Easter musical performance entitled ‘“Today It Smells Like Springtime”: Easter With Papadiamantis’. Aliki Kayaloglou reads and sings excerpts from Papadiamantis’s writings set to music by Alkis Baltas, with Alexandros Avdeliotis on the piano. The event is organized in collaboration with the Municipality of Athens as part of the educational, cultural, and artistic actions under the general title ‘NKUA in the City’.   

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/b0AQcGsx2is

MARCH 2024

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 18:00: Ceremony offering an honorary volume to Mr Spyridon Flogaitis, Professor Emeritus of the NKUA’s School of Law, organized by the Department of Public Law of the NKUA’s School of Law.

Web Link: https://youtube.com/live/eTpMhB6baWY

Friday 22 March 2024, 12:00: Official celebration to mark the National Anniversary of 25 March 1821. On the same day at 11:30, the old-established laying of wreaths at the marble statues and the inside of the Propylaea will take place.

Web Link:https://youtube.com/live/csR4KVO_bhw

Wednesday 27 March 2024, 09:00: One-day conference entitled ‘HEALTH 5.0: Technological, Social and Economic Impacts of Digital Technology in Health’ organized by the National Evaluation Center of Quality & Technology in Health S.A. (EKAPTY) and NKUA.

FEBRUARY 2024

Monday 5 February 2024, 18:00: Presentation of a volume entitled ‘Collective Volume of the Conference on the Greek War of Independence’ organized by the NKUA’s School of Law.

Web Link: https://youtube.com/live/m0b-tYz0nlg

JANUARY 2024

Friday 12 January 2024, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, School of Science, NKUA, upon Mr Gerhard Weikum, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute of Informatics (Saarbrücken, Germany) and Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University, Germany.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/JEGhgM1OUQ0

Friday 26 January 2024, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon Mr Mariano Sanz, Professor of Periodontology at the University of Complutense of Madrid, Spain.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ZP0oO5jK0

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00: Event in honour of Walter Puchner, Honorary Professor and Emeritus Professor of the NKUA’s Department of Theatre Studies organized by NKUA and the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Athens Alumni Network.

web link: https://youtube.com/live/S2Dk6N_Jpg8

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 11:30: Official celebration of the Feast of the Three Hierarchs and Greek Letters Day organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. On the same day at 10:00, after the Divine Liturgy, the old-established memorial service for Founders, Donors, Benefactors, Professors, Students, and Administrative Staff of the University of Athens will be held at the Church of the Presentation of the Mother of God in the Temple (Kapnikarea).

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMeZBASV2vU

DECEMBER 2023

Friday 1 December 2023, 09:00: Opening ceremony of the 20th international conference entitled Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (PoCA) 20th Meeting organized by the Department of History and Archaeology of NKUA.

Monday 11 December 2023, 19:00: Academic event in memory of the late Antonios Koutselinis, former Vice-Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Professor Emeritus of the NKUA’s School of Medicine.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/wpXBXzcXlCY

Wednesday 13 December 2023, 18:00: Anniversary ceremony of the Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, NKUA, entitled Ten Years of the Department of Psychology and Thirty Years of Psychology at NKUA.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/84vFo8tiFcU

Friday 15 December 2023, 09:00: One-day conference in memory of the late Professor Konstantinos Kerameus organized by the NKUA’s School of Law and the Civil Procedure Law Review.

Monday 18 December 2023, 19:00: Christmas Concert at NKUA with the Department of Music Studies’ Orchestra and Choir performing Haydn, Mozart, Mascagni, Schubert, Skalkottas, carols, and music from around the world.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK2aWxWiljo

NOVEMBER 2023

Wednesday 1 November 2023, 18:30: Opening ceremony of the Conference entitled ‘Policies on Violence and Policies on Life Matters in Ancient Greek Theatre: From the Classical Fifth Century BCE to the Twenty-first Century CE’ organized by the Department of Theatre Studies of the NKUA’s School of Philosophy and the Hellenic Foundation for Culture.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXVUt_tDoo

Thursday 2 November 2023, 09:30: Opening ceremony of the 7th Conference entitled ‘Exercise, Health, Sport, and Physical Education: Research and Perspectives in the Digital Era organized by the NKUA’s School of Physical Education and Sport Science.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNFbfLg6kbU

Thursday 2 November 2023, 17:00: Opening ceremony of the 10th International Conference on Micro-Nanoelectronics, Nanosciences, and Nanotechnologies 2023 organized by NKUA in collaboration with the Micro and Nano Scientific Society.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smoknP3xSvU

Friday 3 November 2023, 08:30: Final Conference of the Erasmus+ two-year project INSIGHT - Establishing Inclusive LGBTI Health Care Provision: Taking a Stand Against Stigma, Discrimination, and Inequalities entitled ‘LGBTI+ Health Care and Wellbeing: Leaving No One Behind’.

Monday 6 November 2023, 17:00: Awards ceremony for the NKUA’s first-year students who excelled in the 2023 nationwide exams for entrance into Greece’s Higher Educational Institutions and welcome event for all the first-year students of the academic year 2023-2024.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL26ERcxePI

Wednesday 8 November 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, NKUA, upon Ms Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV).

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQwJOFqZJCc

Thursday 9 November 2023, 19:00: Opening ceremony of the jointly organized 8th Panhellenic Conference of Counselling Psychology and 3rd Panhellenic Conference of Positive Psychology convened under the joint title ‘Meetings, Narratives, and Challenges’ by the Departments of Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in collaboration with the Divisions of Counselling Psychology and Positive Psychology of the Hellenic Psychological Society. The conferences are in honour of the late Professor Anastassios Stalikas.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/-53phc5Mp8k

OCTOBER 2023

Thursday 5 October 2023, 10:00: Opening ceremony of the conference ‘Athens in Ancient Philosophy’ organized on the occasion of the launch of the new English-taught Postgraduate Programme entitled ‘The Athens MA in Ancient Philosophy’.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/6Se-KmD7-gE

Friday 6 October 2023, 10:30: Welcome ceremony for the students of the English-taught Undergraduate Programme ‘BA Program in the Archaeology, History, and Literature of Ancient Greece’ of the NKUA’s School of Philosophy.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/Bu6qEkhvnbQ

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon Mr Odysseus-Ioannis Zoras, Professor Emeritus of the School of Medicine of the University of Crete and Secretary General for Higher Education at the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, and Sports.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/gBRbebxq5gA

Thursday 19 October 2023, 18:00: Opening session of the international conference Italoellenica, Meetings About Language and Translation 2023, entitled ‘Alternative Dialects and Languages in Greece and Italy’ organized by the NKUA’s Department of Italian Language and Literature in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens and the Centre for Sicilian Philological and Linguistic Studies.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/dlNmH0-nJRk

Friday 20 October 2023, 19:30: Concert organized by the NKUA’s Department of Music Studies as part of the Erasmus-funded ‘Musical Bounce Back’ project.

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00: Official celebration to mark the National Anniversary of the 28th of October 1940. The ceremony will include a welcome address by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Gerasimos Siasos, and a panegyric by Spyridon G. Ploumidis, Associate Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology of the NKUA’s School of Philosophy, entitled ‘The course of events towards the 28th of October 1940’. The programme will close with a short musical performance by the NKUA’s Department of Music Studies.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/7YLd8QXt7FE

On the same day, at 11:30, the long-established laying of wreaths at the marble statues and the inside of the Propylaea will take place.

SEPTEMBER 2023

Tuesday 5 September 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon Ms Betty R Ferrell, Director of Nursing Research and Education and Professor at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California, USA.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/sEBR1YICdw4?feature=share

Thursday 7 September 2023, 13:00: Diploma awards ceremony as part of the Conference of the School of Law of NKUA and the Hellenic Council of State 4/9/2023-7/9/2023.

 

Tuesday 12 September 2023, 09:00: Opening ceremony of the 2nd Conference of the International Academy of the History of Science entitled ‘Science and Human Values’ organized by the School of Education of NKUA and the National Hellenic Research Foundation.

 

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/Yg-6pOUVCcc?feature=share


JULY 2023

Saturday 1 July 2023, 11:40: Annual ASCOLA conference entitled ‘Competition as Institution’ organized by the School of Law of NKUA.

Monday 3 July 2023, 09:30: Opening ceremony of the international conference entitled ‘Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation with Applications NASCA 23’ organized by NKUA and the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/sghuPPOQmV0

Tuesday 4 July 2023, 09:00: International conference entitled ‘Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation with Applications NASCA 23’ organized by NKUA and the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale.

Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09:00: International conference entitled ‘Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation with Applications NASCA 23’ organized by NKUA and the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale.

Thursday 6 July 2023, 09:00: International conference entitled ‘Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation with Applications NASCA 23’ organized by NKUA and the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale.

Thursday 6 July 2023, 17:00:  Event to celebrate the participation and distinctions of School of Law students in international moot court competitions during the academic year 2022-2023.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/bcwxyPg82Nc

 

Monday 10 July 2023, 11:00: Closing ceremony and awarding of certificates of attendance of the Summer Course for Modern Greek Studies 2022-2023.

 

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/4uwHK0Ob69w


JUNE 2023

Thursday 1 June 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, NKUA, upon the President of the Italian Federation of Writers, Professor Natale Antonio Rossi.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbxMteEfDbo

Wednesday 7 June 2023, 19:30: Opening ceremony of the academic conference entitled Fontes sine quibus non: An Interdisciplinary Approach on Critical Editing, Text Encoding, and Text Mining’ organized by the Department of Philology of NKUA and the Laboratory for the Management of Greek and Latin Digital Resources.

Monday 12 June 2023, 10:00: Opening ceremony of the international conference entitled ‘100 Years Since the Treaty of Lausanne: Looking Back and Looking Ahead’ organized by NKUA and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/Ceoym8-UVko

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 20:00: Ceremony for the presentation of the Honorary Volume of the School of Theology, NKUA, on the occasion of the 15th year of glorious primatial ministry of His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/fhhVDonUaG0

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon Mr Thomas P Sculco, Professor at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/c44iHMNJ9_w

Thursday 22 June 2023, 19:00: Ceremony for the presentation of a memorial volume for the Professor of the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Georgios N Michalopoulos.

Friday 23 June 2023, 19:00: Musical event entitled ‘Opera Night’ organized by the Department of Music Studies of NKUA.

Tuesday 27 June 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon Mr Franklin H Sim, Professor of Orthopedics Emeritus at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuQFz0iEBdI

Thursday 29 June 2023, 13:00: Opening of the annual ASCOLA conference entitled ‘Competition as Institution’ organized by the School of Law of NKUA.

Friday 30 June 2023, 16:00: One-day conference entitled ‘The Protection of Cultural Heritage: a Legal Obligation for the Present – a Moral Obligation for the Future’ organized by the Administrative Court of First Instance of Athens.

MAY 2023

Friday 5 May 2023, 19:00: Ceremony offering an honorary volume to Mr Loukas Tsoukalis, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEgoHPYmidA

Thursday 11 May 2023, 09:00: Opening ceremony of the International Conference for the Centenary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe entitled ‘Smyrna as a Symbol: From the 19th Century to September 1922’. The Conference is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Department of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies of the School of Economics and Political Sciences of NKUA.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/lyJ8zF4t9k8

Friday 12 May 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Social Theology and the Study of Religion, School of Theology, NKUA, upon Rev Fr Alkiviadis Calivas, Emeritus Professor and former Dean of the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Boston, USA.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/GWdgPPukop8

Monday 15 May 2023, 19:00: Musical event entitled ‘Concert of Choirs From the University of Memphis and the Department of Music Studies of NKUA’ organized by the Department of Music Studies of NKUA.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/6xm3ytAgz3k

Monday 22 May 2023, 10:00: Opening ceremony of a two-day conference entitled ‘Bioavailability-Bioequivalence. From Classification to Virtualisation & Anything in Between’.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFkcAZxGLeQ

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, NKUA, upon Mr Didier Viviers, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and President of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Fine Arts of Belgium.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/04hSRTSo0Zg

Thursday 25 May 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the School of Law of NKUA upon the President of the Philosophical Society of Turkey, Ms Ioanna Kuçuradi.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPYhhxFVOr4

Friday 26 May 2023, 19:00: Ceremony for the conferment of the title of Honorary Professor upon His Eminence Elder Archbishop Demetrios (Trakatellis), formerly of America.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPt9vlqw7wg

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Social Theology and the Study of Religion, School of Theology, NKUA, upon His Eminence Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos Hieronymos.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/O5znXIpRxAo

APRIL 2023

Tuesday 4 April 2023, 19:00: Event to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1st Department of Propedeutic Surgery (Hippocratio Athens General Hospital) of the School of Medicine of NKUA.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/F0so3EwCOYI

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Music Studies of NKUA upon Mr Ross Daly, performer and composer of music, musical researcher and educator.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/AazQF0XwIQw

MARCH 2023

Monday 6 March 2023, 19:00: Ceremony offering an Honorary Volume entitled ‘Outstanding Above the Rest’ to Ms Eva Simantoni-Bournia, Professor Emeritus of the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, NKUA.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGtEb4dHxfs

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 19:00: Speech by His Holiness, the Primate of the Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, Catholicos Aram I, on the occasion of his official visit to the Armenian Community of Greece.

The event will take place at the audiovisual room of the School of Theology (Zografou University Campus, accessed through the main entrance at Olof Palme street).


Wednesday 15 March 2023, 17:00: Academic event entitled ‘European Law and Greek Justice: A Necessary Dialogue’ organized by NKUA in cooperation with the Association of Scientists of European Studies, the Association of Judges and Prosecutors, the Athens Civil Court of Appeal, the Union of Judicial Officers of the Council of State, the Union of Judicial Officers of the Court of Audit, and the Union of Administrative Judges.

The event will take place on Wednesday, 15 March 2023, at 17:00, in the central Ceremonial Hall of the Athens CIVIL Court of Appeal (14 Kyrillou Loukareos st, 11522 Athens, behind the Areios Pagos Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece) and NOT in the Great Hall of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

 

Monday 20 March 2023, 19:00: Event in honour of Ms Thaleia Dragona, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, NKUA.

Friday 24 March 2023, 12:00: Official celebration to mark the National Anniversary of 25 March 1821. On the same day, at 11:00, the old-established laying of wreaths at the marble statues and the inside of the Propylaea will take place.

The event will take place on Friday, 24 March, 2023, at 12:30, in the Multi-purpose Hall of the Kostis Palamas Cultural Centre of NKUA, 48 Akadimias street, at the corner with Sina street, Athens


Thursday 30 March 2023, 10:00, and Saturday 1 April 2023, 17:00: Conference entitled ‘Culture, Memory, Higher Education: the presence and contribution of refugees of the Asia Minor Catastrophe in Greece of the 20th century’ organized by NKUA.


On Thursday 30 March and Friday 31 March 2023, the conference proceedings will take place at the premises of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (42-44 Aiolou st, 2nd floor, room 4). On Saturday 1 April 2023 they will take place on the ground floor of the Old Chemistry Laboratory (104 Solonos st).

The concert of 1 April 2023 will take place at the Atrium of the Old Chemistry Laboratory.


Thursday 30 March 2023, 17:00: Opening ceremony of the international conference entitled ‘Lifelong Learning and Adult Education in the Age of Uncertainty: Paths to Social Inclusion and Social Cohesion’ organized by NKUA and its Centre of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning.

February 2023

Wednesday 1 February 2023, 19:00: Ceremony to announce the three names that Greece will send to the International Astronomical Union for the NameExoWorlds 2022 competition.

Web link: https://youtu.be/C-NAZYQNYIM

Thursday 9 February 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon Ms Evanthia Galanis, Professor of Oncology, Gene Therapy, and Molecular Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

Web link: https://youtu.be/IzoCXxirk9M

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:30: 13th event on digital education and the proper use of technology by children and young people entitled ‘The Journey of Ariadne Continues…’ and 6th Hackathon school competition organized by the Postgraduate Programme ‘Strategies on Developmental and Adolescent Health’ in collaboration with other entities as part of the events for the Safer Internet Day.

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:30: Preliminary event of the academic conference entitled ‘Bittersweet and Inescapable Crawling Thing. Love in the Diachrony of Greek Literature’ organized by NKUA.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF0zXnS7G0E

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 19:00: Event of memory and honour entitled ‘“The Uprising of the School of Law.” 50 years Later’ organized by NKUA.

Web link: https://youtube.com/live/U5eOuUwCqm4?feature=share

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Music Studies, School of Philosophy, NKUA, upon Ms Liora Bresler, Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Web link: https://youtu.be/u7TvcIq-Cis

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 18:00: Event to mark the 80 years from the passing of the poet Kostis Palamas.

Web Link:https://youtube.com/live/QkzkQQd1V7M?feature=share

JANUARY 2023

Thursday 12 January 2023, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon the Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Mr George Bakris.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 19:00: Event honouring the Greek Pharmaceutical Industry for its long-standing presence in the country and its collaboration with the Department of Pharmacy.

Web link: https://youtu.be/pA69I-FeA8Y

Thursday 26 January 2023, 18:00: Event in honour of Mr Napoleon Maravegias, former Vice-Rector for Administrative Affairs at NKUA and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the School of Economics and Political Sciences.

Web link: https://youtu.be/eVT2lbSjO58

Monday 30 January 2023, 11:30: Official celebration of the Feast of the Three Hierarchs and Greek Letters Day organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. On the same day at 10:00, after the Divine Liturgy, the old-established memorial service for Founders, Donors, Benefactors, Professors, Students, and Administrative Staff of the University of Athens will be held at the Church of the Presentation of the Mother of God in the Temple (Kapnikarea).

Web link: https://youtu.be/e_sWMidw2t0

DECEMBER 2022

Friday 2 December 2022, 19:00: Ceremony for the offering of an honorary volume to Professor Emeritus of the Department of Philology, School of Philosophy, NKUA, Andreas I. Voskos.

Web link: https://youtu.be/P3RYBjLeors

Monday 12 December 2022, 18:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Theatre Studies of NKUA upon the actress and playwright, Ms Xenia Kalogeropoulou, and the actor, director, and writer, Mr Vasilis Papavasileiou.

Web link: https://youtu.be/d3Ir97OdwQI

Tuesday 13 December 2022, 18:00: Honorary event for the 50th anniversary of uninterrupted academic and social activity and contribution of Professor Emeritus of the Department of Chemistry of NKUA, Michael Skoullos, organized by the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry of NKUA.

Web link: https://youtu.be/m9P2G536oD4

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 18:00: Offering of an honorary volume to Professor Emeritus of the School of Law of NKUA and President of the Scientific Council of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr Kostas Mavrias.

Web link: https://youtu.be/Y5OU3eCNvLg

Friday 16 December 2022, 19:00:  Opening ceremony of the conference entitled ‘100 Years From the Birth of Aristovoulos Manessis’.

Web link: https://youtu.be/fHYJNC3VfKo

Monday 19 December 2022, 19:00: Ceremony for the offering of an honorary volume to Professor Emeritus of the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, NKUA, Eleni Mantzourani.

Web link: https://youtu.be/PLdT4metEYA

NOVEMBER 2022

Tuesday 1 November 2022, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Social Theology and the Study of Religion, School of Theology, NKUA, upon His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuTdWjhTGFA

Wednesday 2 November 2022, 18:00: Musical event for the centenary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe entitled ‘Melodious Breeze of Asia Minor’, organized by NKUA and the Music School ‘Germanos the Melodist’ of the Holy Metropolis of Phthiotis.

Web link: https://youtu.be/m7TWcACTP2U

Thursday 3 November 2022, 19:00: Ceremony for the presentation and offering of a dedication volume in memory of the late President of the Council of State, Georgios C. Panagiotopoulos, entitled ‘You are also a judge best in any way’ organized by NKUA.

Web link: https://youtu.be/XnFWqCvHO8Y

Monday 7 November 2022, 19:00: Offering of an honorary volume to the Emeritus Professor of the Department of Pharmacy, Mr Panagiotis Machairas.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiqDzmJWg94

Tuesday 8 November 2022, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Political Sciences, NKUA, upon Mr Panagiotis Pardalos, Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida.

Web link: https://youtu.be/2cXwjEAFe8k

Friday 11 November 2022, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Chemistry, School of Science, NKUA, upon Mr Paul Anastas, Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University (USA).

Web link: https://youtu.be/4mra6Zu-gPM

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 18:00: Opening of the Conference entitled ‘Christian Asia Minor (19th-20th Century)’ organized by the School of Theology of NKUA.

Web link: https://youtu.be/Ls06b965_1c

Thursday 24 November 2022, 08:00: 2nd Conference on the phenomenon of child sexual abuse entitled ‘It remains secret. We must become their voice’ organized by the non-profit organization The Smile of the Child.

Monday 28 November 2022, 08:30: Opening of the international conference of ISPIM (International Society for Professional Innovation Management) organized by the Department of Business Administration of NKUA.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the School of Law, NKUA, upon Alan Vaughan Lowe, KC, Chichele Professor of International Law Emeritus, University of Oxford (United Kingdom).

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5GSv_Fb0Ao

OCTOBER 2022

Tuesday 4 October 2022, 10:00: Informational meeting-discussion on equal access of persons with disabilities and persons with special educational needs organized by NKUA.

Wednesday 5 October 2022, 14:00, Thursday 6 October 2022, 08:00, and Friday 7 October 2022, 08:00: Conference entitled ‘22nd International Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH) Regional Conference’ organized by the Greek Society of Adolescent Medicine.

Monday 10 October 2022, 12:00: Event entitled ‘Creative Collaborations between “Merimna” and NKUA for Children and Adolescents Suffering Losses’ organized by NKUA in collaboration with the Civic Non-Profit Organization ‘Merimna’.

Web link: https://youtu.be/kkjNBemO6Nc

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Theology, School of Theology, NKUA, upon Mr James Hamilton Charlesworth, George L. Collord professor emeritus of New Testament Language and Literature and Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

Web link: https://www.youtu.be/XGuPc55Puvs

 Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:30: Opening ceremony of the conference for the centenary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe entitled ‘The Constantinopolitan and Anatolian Theatre until the year 1922. Continuity and Change in Greece and the Greek Diaspora up to the 21st Century’ organized by the Department of Theatre Studies of NKUA from 12 to 15 October 2022.

Web link: https://youtu.be/Eqozx-uI9AM

Thursday 13 October 2022, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Social Theology and the Study of Religion, School of Theology, NKUA, upon Mr Elias Patsavos, professor emeritus at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Boston.

Web link: https://youtu.be/XThe8HeXBCg

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 17:30: Academic event on the occasion of the publication of a book by the President of the Hellenic Court of Audit, Mr Ioannis Sarmas, entitled ‘The Union of Law - The Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union: A Synthetic Study of its Development’ (foreword written by professor Vassilios Skouris, former President of the Court of Justice of the European Union) co-organized by NKUA and the Association of Scientists of European Studies.

Web link: https://youtu.be/6kpEdBGM6eQ

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 19:00: Ceremony for the offering of an honorary volume to professor emeritus of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, School of Science, and former Vice-Rector of NKUA, Mr Thomas Sfikopoulos.

Web link: https://youtu.be/5S6paM8QttY

Thursday 20 October 2022, 10:00: Informational meeting and discussion entitled ‘Gender Equality and Non-discrimination’ organized by the Gender Equality Committee of NKUA.

Monday 24 October 2022, 19:00: Ceremony for the conferment of the highest academic distinction, the title of honorary professor, on Christos N. Kittas, professor emeritus of the School of Medicine and former Rector of NKUA.

Web link: https://youtu.be/AlodaYpe8Jk

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 19:00: Ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of NKUA.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 12.00: Official celebration to mark the National Anniversary of 28 October 1940. The ceremony includes an address by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, professor Meletios-Athanasios C. Dimopoulos and a panegyric by Ioannis Kalogerakos, professor at the Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, NKUA, entitled ‘The Spirit of 1940 and Greek Philosophy’. The event will close with the Greek National Anthem performed by a String Quartet from the Department of Music Studies, School of Philosophy, NKUA.
Web link: https://youtu.be/-f3EnCcPwh4
On the same day, at 11:45, the old-established coronation of the marble statues of the Propylaea will take place.

SEPTEMBER 2022

Monday 5 September 2022, 09:00: Opening ceremony of the Summer Academy of the European Law School Network entitled ‘Digitalization and Institutions’ organized by the School of Law of NKUA.

Friday 9 September 2022, 17:00: Opening ceremony of a two-day conference entitled ‘The New Modern Greek syllabus’ organized by the Department of Primary Education of NKUA.

Web link: http://live.uoa.gr

Tuesday 20 September 2022, 12:00: Opening ceremony of a one-day conference entitled ‘Comprehensive Characterisation, Documentation and Promotion of the Value Chain of Greek Foods’ organized by NKUA in collaboration with ‘FoodOmicsGR, National Research Infrastructure for the Comprehensive Characterisation of Foods’.

Web link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CauntAahLEQ

Friday 23 September 2022, 19:00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, N.K.U.A., upon Mr. Ciro Esposito, professor of Pediatric Surgery and Director of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the Federico II University Hospital of Naples, Italy.

Web link: https://youtu.be/Ok5MdW2yhTc

Monday 26 September 2022, 09:00: Opening ceremony of the International Scientific Conference entitled ‘32nd Congress of the Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores / Linking Pots: Manufacturing and Selling Roman Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean’ organized by the Department of History and Archaeology of NKUA in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Web link: https://youtu.be/v0cLTUZiewc

Thursday 29 September 2022, 12:00: Welcome ceremony of the students of the English-taught Undergraduate Programs “BA Program in the Archaeology, History and Literature of Ancient Greece” and “Medical Degree” of N.K.U.A.

AUGUST 2022

Friday 26 August 2022, 19:00: Awarding Ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, School of Economics and Political Sciences, NKUA, upon the Senator (D-NJ) Robert Menendez, Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

Web link: https://youtu.be/-uJz4WJTMc8 

JULY 2022

Monday 4 July 2022, 14:30: Opening ceremony of the scientific conference entitled ‘8th Balkan Botanical Congress’ organized by the Department of Biology, NKUA.

Tuesday 5 July 2022, 18:30: Event organized by NKUA under the title ‘DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY, NKUA: HISTORY AND CHALLENGES. 5 years of Training and Research with the use of the Anatomage Tables’.

Wednesday 6 July 2022, 19:00: Honorary event co-organized by NKUA and the Section of Public Law, School of Law, NKUA, in memory of the late Epameinondas Spiliotopoulos, Teacher and Emeritus Professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Web link: https://youtu.be/spky4IIz9pY

Thursday 7 July 2022, 11:30: Event for the presentation of the participations and distinctions of the students of the School of Law, NKUA, at international legal competitions co-organized by NKUA and the University’s School of Law.

Web link: https://youtu.be/3fJKqgZ65ec

Monday 11 July 2022, 10:00: Opening ceremony of the Summer School entitled ‘Refugee and Migration Studies’ co-organized by the NKUA’s Hub of Excellence for Asylum and Migration and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights (Harvard School of Public Health - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health).

Tuesday 12 July 2022, 11:00: Awarding of the certificates of attendance of the Summer Course for Modern Greek Studies.

JUNE 2022

Wednesday 1 June 2022, 15:00, Thursday 2 June 2022, 09:00 and Friday 3 June 2022, 10:00: General Assembly of the European Network of Judicial Councils organized by the Hellenic Council of State.

Monday 6 June 2022, 09:00: Summer Academy entitled ‘The City of Athens as Cradle of the Cultural Heritage of Europe’ organized by the Department of German Language and Literature, NKUA.

Tuesday 7 June 2022, 19:00: Awarding Ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, NKUA, upon the professor of the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, Mr Željko Kaluđerović.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vq4Hzh03u8

Wednesday 8 June 2022, 19:00: Proclamation Ceremony of the Emeritus Professor of Cardiology of the School of Health Sciences of NKUA and former President of the Body of Emeritus Professors of the University of Athens, Mr Dionysios Kokkinos, as Emeritus President of the Body of Emeritus Professors of the University of Athens.

Web link: https://youtu.be/10C5vQsq_w4

Thursday 9 June 2022, 19:00: Concert of musical ensembles organized by the Department of Music Studies, NKUA.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 19:00: Awarding Ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon Ms Julia Kl. Tseti, pharmacist, MSc.

Web link: https://youtu.be/B1iOUwt4kOs

Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:30: Awarding Ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of Political Science & Public Administration, School of Economics & Political Sciences, NKUA, upon Her Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

Tuesday 21 June 2022, 18:00: Event for the presentation of the Cooperation Programmes between the Municipality of Lixouri, Cephalonia, and NKUA in the framework of the Integrated Spatial Investment of the Region of Ionian Islands.

Thursday 23 June 2022, 19:00: Awarding Ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of Music Studies, School of Philosophy, NKUA, upon the ethnomusicologist, Mr Steven Feld.

Web link: https://youtu.be/UInD4K8Kf5M

Monday 27 June 2022, 09:00: Opening Ceremony of the 1st MedCyclones Workshop and Training School, a part of the Cost MedCyclones Action entitled ‘European Network for Mediterranean Cyclones in Weather and Climate (Cost Action CA19109)’.

Web link: https://youtu.be/05__-Hod4eM

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 19:00: Awarding Ceremony conferring the title of Honorary Professor upon the Vice-President in perpetuity of the European Interdisciplinary Academy of Sciences (Académie Européenne Interdisciplinaire des Sciences), Mr Anastassios-Ioannis Metaxas, Honorary Professor of European Universities and Emeritus Professor of Political Science of the University of Athens.

Web link: https://youtu.be/hoDu5P33UH4

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 19:00: Awarding Ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science, NKUA, upon the Emeritus Professor of Columbia University, USA, Mr Philip Kitcher.

Web link: https://youtu.be/lAe3__vjVS0

MAY 2022

Monday, 9 May, 2022, 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the School of Law, NKUA, upon the Professor of Civil Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna, Austria, Mr Rudolf Welser.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3OyyPTnRDE

Tuesday, 10 May, 2022, 19.30: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of Chemistry, School of Science, NKUA, upon the Professor of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences of the School of Public Health of Yale University, USA, Mr Vasilis Vasiliou.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8r-q0Qh0Y

Wednesday, 11 May, 2022, 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon the Professor of the University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, Mr Julio Acero.

Web link: https://youtu.be/qTEowyjAV-4

Thursday, 12 May, 2022, 09.00: Opening ceremony of the Eurojust Justice International Conference entitled ‘Cross-Mediterranean Judicial Cooperation for Fighting Migrant Smuggling’.

Tuesday, 17 May, 2022, 19.00:  Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon the Professor of Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard University, USA, Mr George Velmahos.

Web link: https://youtu.be/kzya5NkjKwk

Wednesday, 18 May, 2022, Thursday, 19 May, 2022, Friday, 20 May, 2022: CIVIS European University’s annual ‘Global CIVIS Days’ event organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Saturday, 21 May, 2022, 10.00: One-Day Conference entitled ‘The Presence of Women in Science: Reflections and Perspectives’ co-organized by 7 non-profit scientific associations focusing on Science, namely the Geological Society of Greece, the Association of Greek Physicists, the Association of Greek Chemists, the Hellenic Mathematical Society, the Hellenic Informatics Union, the Union of Environmental Scientists of Greece and the Panhellenic Union of Bioscientists.

Web link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7BQoHdV3RE

Wednesday, 25 May, 2022, 09.30: Opening ceremony of the scientific conference entitled ‘Xenakis 22: Centenary International Symposium’ organized by the Department of Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Friday, 27 May, 2022, 12.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, NKUA, upon the Professor of the KU Leuven, Belgium, Mr Jan Opsomer.

Web link: https://youtu.be/wHTtdUscI0M

Friday, 27 May, 2022, 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, NKUA, upon the Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and President and Chief Executive Officer of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA, Ms Laurie H. Glimcher.

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRnZ4bY8k_I

Monday, 30 May, 2022, 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of Spanish Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, NKUA, upon the Professor of the School of Economic Sciences and Director of the Research Centre for Latin American Studies of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ms María de Monserrat Llairó, as well as upon the Professor of the Department of Greek and Slavic Philology of the University of Granada, Spain, Mr Moschos Morfakidis Filaktos.

Web link: https://youtu.be/E44eAR6D5pM

Tuesday, 31 May, 2022, 19.15: Honorary volume offering to the Emeritus Professor of the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, NKUA, Ms Olga Katsiardi-Hering.

MARCH 2022

Thursday, 3 March, 2022, 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa upon the holder of the Chair ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’, Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and European Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, Mr. Kevin Featherstone, by the Department of Political Science, School of Economics and Political Science, NKUA.

Web link: https://youtu.be/1r7GbNumsCA

Thursday, March 10, 2022, 12.00: ELSA Greece hosts the “Helga Pedersen” Virtual Trial Competition, organized by ELSA International, with the support of the Council of Europe.

The event will be broadcasted exclusively online.

Thursday, 17 March, 2022, 17.00: Scientific event of the Faculty of Criminal Sciences of the School of Law in memory of the prematurely deceased assistant Professor Aglaia Liourdi.

Web link: https://youtu.be/F2DmezNDIcM

Friday, March 18, 2022, 12.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa upon the composer Mr. Georgios A. Apergis by the Department of Music Studies, School of Philosophy, NKUA.

Web link: https://youtu.be/2cC29-IVjVI

Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 10.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa upon Professor of Modern Greek Language and Philology (Kimon Doukas) Columbia University (USA), Dr. Karen Van Dyck by the Department of English Language and Philology, School of Philosophy, NKUA.

Web link: https://youtu.be/Bc7BR5Brf1I

Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 19.00: Official celebration for the National Anniversary of March 25, 1821. The program of the ceremony includes an address by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Meletios-Athanasios K. Dimopoulos, speech by the Professor of the School of Law, Spyridon Vlachopoulos entitled: "The legacy of the Greek revolutionaries for a modern Rule of Law". A short music program from the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens will follow.

Web link: https://youtu.be/PyKzgoLjpIA

On the same day and at 11.00 am, the established coronation of the statues in the area of the Propylaea will take place.

FEBRUARY 2022

Friday, February 11, 2022, 18.00 Event entitled: "Women and Girls in Science ", organizedb by the Committee for Gender Equality and the Historical Archive of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on the occasion of February 11, International Day for the Participation of Women and Girls in Science.

The event will be broadcast exclusively online at the link: https://youtu.be/Shc4Iy20EWE

JANUARY 2022

Monday, January 10, 2022, 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences of NKUA upon professor of Pulmonology at Kings College Hospital, Great Britain, Mr. John Moxham

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/-8P1ciYOTCM

Thursday, January 27, 2022, 07.00-17.00: Opening ceremony of the Hellenic Pedagogical Society conference entitled: "Modern trends and developments in the sciences of Education". The event is organized by the School of Education of NKUA in collaboration with the Hellenic Pedagogical Society.

Information about the YouTube link in the "Events" folder of the NKUA email.

DECEMBER 2021

Wednesday, December 1st, 2021, 17.30-21.00: Results’ Presentation of the Research Programmes of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for 1821. The event is organized in the framework of the celebration of the 200 years from The Hellenic Revolution.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/6XdKSPtsh84

Thursday, December, 2 2021, 10.00-21.00: Results’ Presentation of the Research Programmes of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for 1821. The event is organized in the framework of the celebration of the 200 years from The Hellenic Revolution.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/uo6axoMyEbU

Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 19.00: Event conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, upon Mr. Ilias Mosialos, professor of Health Policy and Administration of Imperial College London, UK.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/kYTzIRZTKhc

Thursday, December 9,  2021, 16.00-17.00:  Speech by Mr. Denys Barau in the framework of the international conference entitled: “With the pen of others: aspects of revolutionary Greece in the 19th century” organized by the Deanery of the School of Philosophy, NKUA.

Information about the YouTube link in the "Events" folder of the NKUA email.

Saturday, December 11, Δεκεμβρίου 2021, 12.30-21.00: Closing ceremony of the international conference entitled: “With the pen of others: aspects of revolutionary Greece in the 19th century” organized by the Deanery of the School of Philosophy, NKUA.

Information about the YouTube link in the "Events" folder of the NKUA email.

Thursday, December 16, 2021, 12.00: Awarding ceremony for the students of NKUA who distinguished at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo (2021).

Information about the YouTube link in the "Events" folder of the NKUA email.

Τuesday, December 21, 2021, 19.00:

Event conferring the title of doctor honoris causa of the Department of Mathematics, School of Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, professor Dimitrios Mpertsimas.

Information about the YouTube link in the "Events" folder of the NKUA email.

JANUARY 2020

Thursday, January 16th, 2020 at 18.00:  Honorary volume offering to Professor Emeritus of the Department of Medicine Georgios L. Petrikkos. The event is organized by the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Friday,  January 17th, 2020  at 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mr. David Rimm, Professor of Anatomic Pathology and Medical Oncology at Yale University (U.S.A.).

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 at 18.00:  Conference entitled «The Many and the Few: Multitude and Virtue».  The conference is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation on the occasion of the Anniversary Year Thermopylae-Salamis 2020. The event is under the auspices of H.E. the President of the Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos.

Saturday, January 25th, 2020 at 20.00:  Concert of the Department of Music Studies of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 11.30: Event devoted to the Day of the Three Hierarchs and the Hellenic Education organized by the National and Kapodistrian University. On the same day at 10.00 a.m., the annual memorial ceremony for the Founders, Benefactors, Donors, Professors, Students and the Administrative Staff of the University of Athens will take place at the Kapnikarea Church.

DECEMBER 2019

Tuesday, December 10th 2019, at 18.00: Opening ceremony of the scientific Conference entitled: «Saint Kosmas the Aetolian: 240 years since his martyrdom». The Conference is organized by the Deanship of the School of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Wednesday December 11th, 2019 at 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Italian Language and Literature National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mr. Nicola Crocetti, publisher, hellenist and translator.

Friday, December 13th, 2019, at 19.00:  Opening ceremony of the 25th International Conference of Sport Law entitled: « Professionalism and Sports Law in International Sports Activities». The event is organized by the Laboratory of Sport Law, School of Physical Education and Sport Science in collaboration with IASL Sports Law Academy.

Monday, December 16th 2019, at 18.00: Event on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Professors Emeriti Association of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday, December 17th 2019, at 18.30: Honorary volume offering to Professor Emeritus Antonios Manitakis.  H.E. the President of the Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos will honor the event with his presence.

Thursday, December 19th 2019, at 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Music Studies of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Stavros Xarchakos, composer and conductor.

Saturday December 21st 2019, hrs 11.00-15.00:  Graduation ceremony of the Hellenic Red Cross.

NOVEMBER 2019

Monday, November 11th, 2019 at 19.00:  Honorary volume offering to Professor Emeritus Minas Al. Alexiadis, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Saturday, November 23rd 2019, hrs 9.00-18.00: Scientific conference organized by the Youth and Family Foundation of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens on the occasion of the 100 years since the Pontian Greeks genocide.

Monday, November 25th, 2019 at 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the Honorary Member title of Professors Emeriti Union upon Academician, Professor Stamatios Krimigis. The event is organized by the Union of Professors Emeriti, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 at 18.00: Awarding ceremony for the Law School Students who participated in international competitions. The event is organized by the Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 at 17.30:  Opening ceremony of the scientific conference entitled: «Antisemitism, Holocaust and Philosophical Thinking».  The conference is organized by the Political Philosophy Research Laboratory, Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday, November 29th, 2019 hrs 9.00-11.00:  Closing ceremony of the Athens EU Model simulation event entitled: «Refugee crisis».  The event is organized by the European Integration and Policy Laboratory, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, School of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday, November 29th, 2019 at 18.00:  Opening ceremony of the 5th Pan-hellenic Conference entitled:  «Biology in Education».  The conference is organized by the Department of Biology, the Laboratory for Didactics and Epistemology of Physics, Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Panhellenic Association of Bio-scientists.

OCTOBER 2019

Friday, October 4th  2019,  at 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Michael Giannakakis, University of Columbia, U.S.A.

Wednesday, October 9th 2019, hrs 15.00-20.00:  Opening ceremony of the scientific Conference entitled: «Population movements to the Ionian Islands: from the 13th century to the Union with Greece».  The conference is organized by the Department of Italian Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Centre of Ionian Studies.

Thursday, October 10th  2019, at 18.30: Scientific event organized on the occasion of International Day of Mental Health, entitled: «Psychic Health promotion and suicidal prevention». The event is organized by the Greek Psychiatric Society, the Aʹ & Bʹ Psychiatric Clinics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Psychiatric University Clinic at Hospital “Agioi Anargyroi” and the Hellenic Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Thursday, October 17th  2019, hrs 10.00-11.00 and 11.30-13.30 :  Guided tours at Propylaia (Main Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimou St. 30) in Greek language (at 10.00) and in English language (at 11.30 and 12.30).

Friday, October 18th  2019, at 18.30: Opening ceremony of the 6th Panhellenic scientific Conference entitled: «Information and communication technologies inclusion and usage in the educational process». The conference is organized by the Department of Primary Education in collaboration with the Greek Scientific Society of Information Technology and Communication in Education.

Monday, October 21st 2019, at 19.00:   Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Mark G. Hans, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Friday, October 25th, 2019, 12.00 :  Celebration of the national anniversary of October 28th, 1940. The official ceremony includes: address by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos, speech by the Associate Professor of the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, Dimitrios M. Pavlopoulos as well as a short musical programme by the Choir of the University Department of Music Studies, under the direction of Professor Nikolaos Malliaras. On the same day at 10.30 the established coronation of the statues will take place at Propylaia. The ceremony is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Wednesday, October 30th 2019, at 19.00: Commemorative volume offering for the Professor of School of Law, Thanassis Papachrystou (deceased). The event is organized by the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, October 31st  2019, at 19.00:  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Luca Serianni, University of Rome, Italy.

SEPTEMBER 2019

Thursday, September 5th 2019, hrs 10.00-11.00 and 11.00-12.00 :  Guided tours at Propylaia (Main Building of the National and Kapodistrian Unversity of Athens, Panepistimou St. 30) in Greek language (at 10.00) and in English Language (at 11.00).

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019, hrs 10.00-11.00 and 11.00-12.00 :  Guided tours at Propylaia (Main Building of the National and Kapodistrian Unversity of Athens, Panepistimou St. 30) in Greek language (at 10.00) and in English Language (at 11.00).

Thursday, September 12th 2019, hrs 15.00-20.00 :  Opening ceremony of the 15th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law entitled: “Sovereignty: A concept in a state of flux?”.  The conference is organized by the European Society of International Law and the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Friday, September 13th 2019,  hrs 09.00 -20.00 : Conference proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law entitled: “Sovereignty: A concept in a state of flux?”.  The conference is organized by the European Society of International Law and the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Saturday, September 14th 2019, hrs 09.00-20.00 :  Conference closing ceremony of the 15th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law entitled: “Sovereignty: A concept in a state of flux?”.  The conference is organized by the European Society of International Law and the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday, September 17th 2019, at 10.00 :  Welcoming ceremony of the international incoming students at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens under Erasmus+ program and bilateral international agreements of the University.

Wednesday, September 18th 2019, hrs 10.00-11.00 and 11.00-12.00 : Guided tours at Propylaia (Main Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimou St. 30) in Greek language (at 10.00) and in English Language (at 11.00).

Thursday, September 19th, 2019 hrs 09.00 – 12.00 :   Regional Congress of the International Association of Geomorphologists entitled: “Geomorphology of Climate and Tectonically sensitive areas”.  The Congress is organized by the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Geology Association of Greece, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Patras, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), and Harokopio University.

Saturday, September 21st 2019, hrs 08.00 – 15.00 :  Conference proceedings of the Regional Congress of the International Association of Geomorphologists entitled:“Geomorphology of Climate and Tectonically sensitive areas”.  The Congress is organized by the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Geology Association of Greece, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Patras,  Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), and Harokopio University.

Tuesday, September 24th, 2019, at 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Michael Petrides, McGill University, Canada.

Thursday, September 26th, 2019 hrs 10.00-11.00 and 11.00-12.00 : Guided tours at Propylaia (Main Building of the National and Kapodistrian Unversity of Athens, Panepistimou St. 30) in Greek language (at 10.00) an in English Language (at 11.00).

Saturday, September 28th 2019, hrs 10.00-11.00 and 11.00-12.00 : Guided tours at Propylaia (Main Building of the National and Kapodistrian Unversity of Athens, Panepistimou St. 30) in Greek language (at 10.00) and in English Language (at 11.00).

JULY 2019

Thursday, July 4, 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor of Pathology-Infectious Diseases at Brown University, U.S.A., Mr. Eleftherios Mylonakis.

JUNE 2019

Tuesday, June, 4 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor of Anesthesiology at Alabama University, Birmingham, Mr. Sadis Matalon.

Thursday, June 6, 2019, 9.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor of Cognitive Science at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, Ms. Nancy Nersessian.

Friday, June 14, 2019, 18.30-21.00 Opening ceremony of the 11th Child Psychiatric Conference organized by the Child Psychiatry Clinic, Department of Medicine, School of Health Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday, June, 25 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, School of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor of Humanitarian Sciences at Columbia University, Mr. Axel Honneth.

MAY 2019

Tuesday, May, 7 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor of Neuroscience at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Dr. Nikolaos Logothetis.

Wednesday, May 22, 2019, 18.00 15th International Conference of the Geological Society of Greece organized by the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, School of Sciences, Natonal and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Friday, May 24, 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor of Comparative Law at New York University, Mr. Franco Ferrari.

Monday, May 27, 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor of Neurology at Harvard University, Mr. Michael Mosckowitz.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Theatrical Studies, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon distinguished director, filmmaker and translator, Mr. Dimitrios Maurikiou.

Friday, May 31, 2019, 17.00 Scientific event entitled: “Back to Learning – the role of mentorship” organized by the European Union of Professor Emerity.

APRIL 2019

Τuesday, Arpil 2, 2019, 12.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Economics, School of Economic and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon economist and banker Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize 2006).

Τuesday, Arpil 2, 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor emeritus Ioannis Milopoulos, Trento University and  Toronto University.

Monday, Arpil 8, 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor
of Obstetrics and Embryonic Medicine, Aris Papageorgiou, London University and Director of the Institute of Clinical Research in Obstetrics and Perinatal Medicine of the University of Oxford.

Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 19.00 Celebration of the 40 Years of the Laboratory of Disease Research of the Musculoskeletal System, Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

 

MARCH 2019

Saturday, March 2, 2019, 15.00-17.00 Finals of the European Law Moot Court Competition organized by the Section of International and European Studies, School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Τuesday, March 5, 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of French Language and Litterature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Arab poet and intellectual Adonis (Ali Esber).

Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 19.00 Scientific event dedicated to the memory of professor emeritus Savvas Agouridis organized by the Scholl of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, March 14, 2019, 19.00 Honorary event for Manolis Glezos organized by the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Monday, March 18, 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor emeritus at the University of Regensburg, Germany Mr Herbert Roth.

Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 18.00 Scientific event on the occasion of the 150 years since the passing of Andreas Kalvos organized by the Section of Modern Greek Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Benaki Museum and the magazine “Nea Efthini”. H.E. the President of the Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos will honor the event with his presence.

Friday, March 22, 2019, 12.00 Celebration of the National Anniversary of March 25th, 1821. The official ceremony includes: address by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos, speech by the Professor of the Department of Theatre Studies Anna Tambaki as well as a short musical programme by the Choir of the University Department of Music Studies, under the direction of Professor Nikolaos Malliaras. The ceremony is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Friday, March 29, 2019, 17.00 Celebration of 100 years since the foundation of the Deposits and Loans Fund (1919-2019).

FEBRUARY 2019

 

Monday, February 11, 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, former Director of the German Archaeological Institute of Athens.

Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 19.00 Opening Ceremony of the Conference entitled: "Religions and Human Rights" organized by the Department of Social Theology and Religious Sciences, School of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi.

Thursday, February 28,  2019, 9.00-17.00 International Conference entitled: "Sexual Abuse of Children: Next Steps for Holistic Support of Children" organized by "The Smile of the Child".

JANUARY 2019

 

Monday, January 28, 2018, 19.00 Book presentation of the emeritus professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mr. Dimitrios Linos.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 19.00 Event devoted to the Day of the Three Hierarchs and the Hellenic Education organized by the National and Kapodistrian University. On the same day at 10.00 a.m., the annual memorial ceremony for the Founders, Benefactors, Donors, Professors, Students and the Administrative Staff of the University of Athens will take place at the Kapnikarea Church.

DECEMBER 2018

Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 19.00 Celebration ceremony of the 100th Anniversary of the establishment of the First Pediatric Pathology Clinic of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, December 13 2018, 18.00 Opening Ceremony of the 11th Panhellenic Conference of the Hellenic Association of Bioscientists in collaboration with the Department of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Monday, December 17, 2018, 19.00 Event honoring the retired academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The event is organized by the Professors Emeriti Association of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, School of  Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor of Sociology Nikolaos Fokas, University Eotvos Lorand, Budapest, Hungary.

 

NOVEMBER 2018

Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Emeritus Stylianos E. Antonarakis.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Theology, Theological School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon His Holiness Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch.

Wednesday, November 21, 2018, 19.00 Scientific event organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Region of North Aegean.

Thursday, November 22, 2018, 19.00 Official ceremony conferring the Honorary Professor title of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mr. Walter Puchner, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Theatre Studies, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Monday, November 26, 2018, 19.00 Celebration ceremony of the 60th Anniversary of the 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. H.E. the President of the Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos will honor the event with his presence.

OCTOBER 2018

Monday, October 8, 2018, 19.00Honorary event in memory of the significant professor of Law Vasilios Tryfonos Oikonomidou. The event is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Law School of N.K.U.A., the Municipality of Gortynia, the “Pagortyniaki” Association and the Club "Agios Tryfon". H.E. the President of the Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos will honor the event with his presence.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 18.30Scientific event organized in the framework of the World Mental Health Day, by the Department of Child Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine and the A΄ & B΄ Psychiatric Clinics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Hellenic Psychiatric Society and the Hellenic Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Association of Children and Adolescent Psychiatrists.

Thursday, October 11, 2018, 18.00Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon H.E. the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Mr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier. H.E. the President of the Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos will honor the event with his presence.

Friday, October 12, 2018, 19.00Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of History and Archaeology of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon film director Kostas Gavras.

Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 18.00Awarding ceremony of Law School students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens who participated in international competitions.

Friday, October 19, 2018, 18.00Official celebration of the World Bioethics Day 2018, organized by the UNESCO Hellenic Foundation of Bioethics and the Applied Philosophy Laboratory of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy & Psychology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Monday, October 22, 2018, 09.00-12.00Opening Ceremony of the "12th International Medieval and Modern Ceramics Conference of the Mediterranean" organized by the Department of History and Archeology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 19.00Honorary event for the retired academic staff of the Therapeutic Clinic of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 19.00 Celebration of the national anniversary of October 28th, 1940. The official ceremony includes: address by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Meletios-Athanassios K. Dimopoulos, speech by the Professor of the Department of History and Archaeology Maria Efthimiou as well as a short musical programme by the Mixed Choir of the University Department of Music Studies. On the same day at 10.00 there will be the established coronation of the statues at Propylaia.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 19.00Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of History and Archaeology of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor Antonio Molho, Brown University, U.S.A.

SEPTEMBER 2018

Monday, September 24, 2018, 19.00 Presentation of the Educational Programme «Pre-Medical Management Program».The event is organized by the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Athens Medical Association.

Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 10.00 Welcome ceremony of the incoming Erasmus+ students of the 2018-1019 winter semester.

Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 19.00 Opening ceremony of the 35th Balkan Medical Week, organized by the Hellenic Section of the Balkan Medical Union.

Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Departments of Philology and History & Archeology of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon professor Fritz Mitthoff, Vienna University.

 

AUGUST 2018

Wednesday, August 8 2018, 8.30-10.30 Opening Ceremony of the International Conference of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS) organized by the Department of Social Theology, School of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

JULY 2018

Wednesday, July 17, 2018, 19.00 Opening Ceremony of the 5th European IASSIDD Conference on Cognitive and Developmental Disorders organized by the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Association of Parents, Guardians and Friends of Autistic People in Larissa.

JUNE 2018

Monday, June 4, 2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Carlos Pellegrini, University of Washington, U.S.A.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Arthur Li, University of Hong Kong.

Thursday, June 7, 2018, 9.00-11.00 Opening Ceremony of the Third International Symposium Thomisticum entitled «Αquinas and the Greeks». The Symposium is co-organized by the Faculty of Philosophy of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy, Psychology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Research Center of Academy of Athens and the International Organization “Symposium Thomisticum”.

Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 19.00 Scientific event organized by the Association of Professors Emeriti of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, June 14, 2018, 19.00 Opening ceremony of the 8th Panhellenic Conference of Educational Sciences organized by the Special Education Programme of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 19.00 Honorary volume offering to Professor Emeritus Giannis Meletis, organized by the Hematology Clinic - Bone Marrow Transplant Unit of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, June 21, 2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title, School of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois, U.S.A.

Τuesday, June 26, 2018, 19.00 Presentation of the 3rd volume of the book “History of the Athenian Law School” by Professor Emeritus Ioannis Karakostas, former Vice-Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, June 28, 2018, 16.00- 21.00 Conference organized by the Panhellenic Association of Teaching and Research Staff (POSDEP).

ΜΑΥ 208

Thursday, May 3, 2018, 10.00 Informative meeting on the programs and the Center for Education and Lifelong Learning (KE.DI.VI.M.) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Friday, May 4, 2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Richard Fentiman, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Theology, School of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon the Great Protopresident of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Dr. Georgios Tsetsis.

Friday 11 Μαΐου 2018, ώρα 19.00 Honorary volume offering to Professor Emeritus Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos, Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences,  National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, School of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Leο Panitch, York University, Canada.

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 19.00 Opening Ceremony of the “EUFEPS Annual Meeting 2018” organized by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Societies (EUFEPS).

Tuesday, May 29, 2018, 18.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of Spanish Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Jaime Pont Ibanez, Lleida University, Spain and Professor Paul Chandler, Hawaii University, U.S.A.

Wednesday, May 30,  2018, 19.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Philippe Nelidoff, Toulouse University, France.

Thursday, May 31, 2018, 18.00 Opening Ceremony of the “17th Postgraduate Course in Endocrine Surgery” organized by the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

APRIL 2018

Tuesday April 24, 2018, 17.30 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mr. Hasso Hofmann, professor emeritus of Humboldt University, Germany.  

Thursday Αpril 26 ,2018, 18.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mr. Owen Rennert, professor of Georgetown University, Washington, U.S.A..

Friday April 27,  2018, 19.00 Honorary volume offering to professor emeritus Christos Liapis, organized by the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

MARCH 2018

Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 17.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Η.Ε. the President of the Portuguese Republic Mr. Marcelo Rebelo De Sousa.

 Thursday, March 15, 2018, 19.00 Presentation of the Commemorative Set of stamps – Feuillet “Myrtis” by the Hellenic Post.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018 19.00 Lecture entitled: "Ancient Greek Mathematics" on the occasion of the proclamation of the year 2018 as the "Year of Mathematics" by the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs.

 Friday, March 23, 2018, 19.00 Celebration of the National Anniversary of March 25th, 1821. The official ceremony includes: address by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos, speech by the Professor of the Department of History and Archaeology Anastasia Papadia-Lala as well as a short musical programme by the Choir of the University Department of Music Studies, under the direction of Professor Nikolaos Malliaras. The ceremony is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday,March 29, 2018, 19.00 Celebration of the 100th Anniversary  of the foundation of the Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

 Friday, March 30, 2018, 20.30 Concert of the Mixed Choir of the Department of Music Studies of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Athens Philharmonic Orchestra.

FEBRUARY 2018

Thursday February 8, 2018, 18.30 Lecture by H.E. the President of Georgia, Mr. Giorgi Margvelashvili entitled: “Cooperation between Georgia and Greece in wider European context

 Wednesday February 14, 2018, 19.00 Honorary volume offering to Professor Emeritus Panagiotis Ioakimidis, organized by the School of Economics and Political Sciences.

 Wednesday February 21, 2018, 19.00 Book presentation of professor Ioannis Mazis.  

 Thursday,February 22, 2018, 18.00 Opening Ceremony of the International Scientific Conference entitled: "Russian Literature and its interaction with οther national literatures of Europe" of the Department of Russian language and literature of Slavic Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

 Friday February 23, 2018, 12.00 Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor Honoris Causa title of the Department of English Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Η.Ε. the President of the Republic of Ireland Mr. Michael D. Higgins.


JANUARY 2018

Friday, January 12, 2018, 19.00: Official ceremony conferring the Honorary Professor title of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mr. Christoph Hammerle, Professor and Director of the Clinical Prosthetic and Dental Materials at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Thursday, January 25, 2018, 19.00: Book Presentation of the MP, former Minister and Professor Emeritus, Dimitrios Kremastinos.

Tuesday, January 30, 11.30: Event devoted to the Day of the Three Hierarchs and the Hellenic Education organized by the National and Kapodistrian University. On the same day at 10.00 a.m. after the Mass at the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary (Kapnikarea), the annual memorial ceremony for the Founders, Benefactors, Donors, Professors, Students and the Administrative Staff of the University of Athens will take place.

DECEMBER 2017

Friday, December 1st, 2017, 16.30 :  Opening ceremony of the conference entitled: «Greek schools today: the School of Philosophy discusses and proposes».  The event is organized by the School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in the framework of the 180th anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Monday, December 11th, 2017, 19.00 :  Event honoring the retired Professors of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The event is organized by the Professors Emeriti Association of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

 Thursday, December 14th, 2017, 19.00 :  International Scientific Symposium honoring the Professor Emeritus Erie Stavropoulou. The event is organized by the Department of Philology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

 Wednesday, December 20th, 2017, 19.00 :  Event honoring the Professor Emeritus of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences Georgios P. Lyritis.  The event is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

NOVEMBER 2017

Friday, November 3rd, 2017, 19.00 :   Event entitled:  «The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Cyprus», which is organized in the framework of the 180th anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Monday, November 6th, 2017, 19.00 :  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of Social Theology, School of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Emeritus Christos Giannaras, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens.

Friday, November 10th,  2017,  18.00 :  Scientific event entitled : «International Day of Medical Physics 2017».  The event is organized by the 2nd Laboratory of Radiology – University General Hospital «ATTIKON», Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017, 19.00 :  Official ceremony conferring the Honorary Professor title of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos.

Friday, November 24th, 2017, 19.00 :  Scientific event honoring the memory of the Professor of the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Ioannis Anastopoulos.  The event is organized by the School of Law. His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos will attend the ceremony.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2017, 19.00 :   Event on «Τhe Research and Innovation at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens», organized in the framework of the 180th anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Wednesday, November 29th, 2017, 19.00 :  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of Chemistry, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor of  Chemistry Jean Paul Sauvage, (Prize Nobel 2016), Professor of the University of Strasbourg, France.

Thursday, November 30th, 2017, 19.00 : Event dedicated to Hadrian, Roman Emperor, Philhellene and Ruler of the City of Athens during the Roman Empire Era, organized by the Professors Emeriti Association of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Italian School of Archaeology of Athens. His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos will attend the ceremony.

OCTOBER 2017

Thursday, October 5th, 2017, 10.00 : International scientific symposium entitled:  «International Investment Law & the Law of Armed Conflict», which is organized by the Research Centre of International Public Law, School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Monday, October 9th, 2017, 19.00 :  Scientific event entitled: «The influence and impact of the School of Law on Institutions and Culture».  The event is organized in the framework of the 180th anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.  His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos will address the inaugural speech on “The School of Law as alma mater of the Public Law”.

Tuesday, October 10th, 2017,  19.00 :  Official ceremony conferring the Honorary Professor title of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mr. Spyridon Moulopoulos, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, October 17th, 2017, 09.30 :  Opening ceremony of the interdisciplinary conference entitled:  «Beginning and evolution of the world and man in regards to the Hexaëmeron of Saint Basil the Great».  The conference is organized by the School of  Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the framework of the 180th anniversary of the University of Athens.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2017, 19.00 :   Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of Mathematics, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor Panagiotis Souganidis, University of Chicago, U.S.A.

Thursday, October 26th, 2017, 19.00 :  Celebration of the national anniversary of October 28th, 1940. The official ceremony includes: address by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos, speech by the Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs and International Relations, Professor Konstantinos Buraselis entitled: «The hubris of numbers and the unity of the Greeks» as well as a short musical programme by the Choir of the University Department of Music Studies, under the direction of Professor Nikolaos Malliaras.  The ceremony is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

 

SEPTEMBER 2017

 

Thursday, September 7th, 2017 at 19.00:  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Professor of Economics Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A..

 Monday, September 18th, 2017 at 19.00:  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of Greek Philology, School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mr. Bernhard Palme, Professor of Greek-Roman Antiquity Knowledge and Papyrology, University of Vienna, Austria.

 Thursday, September 21st, 2017 at 10.00 : Orientation Day for the new incoming Erasmus students at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (fall semester, academic year 2017-2018) organized by the Department of European and International Relations of the University.

 Friday, September 29th, 2017 at 18.30 : Opening ceremony of the 10th Panhellenic Child Psychiatry Congress organized by the Child Psychiatry Clinic of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Child Psychiatry Association of Greece.

JULY 2017

 

Wednesday, July 12th, 2017, 11.00:  Event for the presentation of the participations and excellence of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Law School Students in International Law Contests.


JUNE 2017

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017, 19.00 :  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of English Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mrs. Kiki Dimoula, Academician and Poet.  The ceremony is organized in the framework of the 180th Anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Wednesday, June 7th, 2017, 19.00 :  Honorary volume offering to Mr. Vasileios Kleisouras, Professor Emeritus of the School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian of Athens.

Thursday, June 8th, 2017, 19.00 :  Conference entitled “The transformations of the singing voice” organized by the Department of Music Studies, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Monday June 12th, 2017, 19.00 :  Awarding ceremony conferring the Honorary Professor title of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mr. Georgios Daikos,  Professor Emeritus of the School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Wednesday, June 14th, 2017, 19.00 :  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens  upon Mr. Franz-Jürgen Säcker, Professor of Competition and Energy Law, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Thursday, June 15th, 2017, 19.00 : Opening ceremony of the 7th Panhellenic Conference of Education Sciences, entitled “Education of charismatic children in Greece”.  The conference is organized by the Department of Primary Education, School of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Friday, June 23rd, 2017, 19.00 :  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the  School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens  upon Mr. Richard Fentiman, Professor of Private International Law, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Monday,  June 26th, 2017, 19.00 :  Celebration ceremony of the 30th Anniversary of the Summer Course in Modern Greek Studies Scholarships Programme of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The event is organized by the Deanship of School of Philosophy and the Modern Greek Language Teaching Centre of the University of Athens in the framework of the 180th Anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday,  June 27th, 2017, 19.00 :  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences,  National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mr. Leonard Wartofsky, Professor of Endocrinology, University Georgetown, U.S.A.

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017, 19.00 :  Celebration ceremony of the 30th Anniversary of the Erasmus+ Programme. The event is organized by the University of Athens in the framework of the 180th Anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, June 29th, 2017, 19.00 :  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of Mathematics, School of Science,  National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Narayanaswamy Balakrishman, Professor of Statistics, University MacMaster, Canada.

Friday, June 30th, 2017, 19.00:   Prizes award ceremony of the Cassini Students Contest. The event is organized by the Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, Physics Department, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

MAY 2017

Wednesday, May 3rd 2017, 19.00:  Official celebration ceremony of the 180th Anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos is going to honour with his presence the ceremony and address the main speech entitled "The National and Kapodistrian University, a constant promoter of the European scientific tradition."

Friday, May 5th 2017, 20.00: Opening ceremony of the 4th Scientific Conference entitled “Physical Education and Athletics in the contemporary world: Education, Society and Culture”.  The conference is organized by the School of Physical Education and Sport Science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday,  May 9th 2017, 19.00:  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of Spanish Language and Literature of the School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon Mrs. Francie Chassen-López, Professor of History at the Kentucky University, U.S.A.

Thursday,  May 11th 2017, 19.00:  Lecture by the Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Duress and All Albania, entitled   “From the School of Theology of Athens to crucial missions (Africa – Albania)”.  The event is organized by the School of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in the framework of the 180th Anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Tuesday,  May 16th 2017, 19.00Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the Department of Social Theology, School of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan Bishop of Skopje Kyr Kyr John VI.

Wednesday, May 17th, 2017, 19.00: Event organized in the framework of the 180th Anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, entitled: “ The contribution of Eptanisian Professors to the  University of Athens: 1837-1937”.  The event is under the auspices of His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos.

Wednesday,  May 24th  2017, 19.00:  Awarding ceremony conferring the Doctor honoris causa title of the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens upon  Mr. Michael Vilaras, Department President at the European Court of Justice.

Thursday, May 25th 2017, 18.00:  Opening ceremony of the 8th International Conference entitled “Comparative Linguistics”. The conference is organized by the Department of the Italian Language and Literature of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Wednesday, May 31st 2017, 19.00: Honorary Event dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of the Lassithi Plateau Battle (20-30 May 1867) and to the Great Benefactor of the University, Antonios F. Papadakis (originated from Lassithi).  The event is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Region of Crete and the Lassithi Plateau Municipality. The event is under the auspices of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos.

APRIL 2017

Monday, 3rd of April, 19.00: Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa  by the Department of Biology, School of Science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, upon Mr. Arne Strid, Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Gothenburg and former Director of the Botanic Garden, Sweden.

Tuesday, 25th of April, 19.00:  Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa  by the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, upon  Mr. Hans-Henning Eckstein, Professor of  Vascular surgery and Director of the Vascular surgery of the Clinical Department at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany.

Wednesday, 26th of April, 19.00:  Event organized in honour of the benefactors and donors of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on the occasion of the 180 years anniversary of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, 27th of April, 12.00: Opening ceremony of the conference entitled “Research sources of the contemporary Greek Theatrology”. The conference is organized by the Department of Theatre Studies, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Thursday, 27th of April, 18.30:   Awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa by the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, upon Professor Dame Helen Wallace, Fellow of the British Academy, United Kingdom.