Vouleftiko - Lecture, 21 March 2018
Within the Events Series 2018 entitled "Leadership and Humanitarian Values", which are under the auspices of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS GR) based in Nafplio, presents a lecture by Maria D. Efthymiou, Associate Professor of History of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, who will introduce the topic "Historical paradox: the religious origins of the European Enlightenment ". The lecture will be delivered at the Vouleftiko Hall in Nafplio, with the support of the Municipality of Nafplio.
Synopsis of the lecture
This lecture argues that the 16th-century Religious Reformation movement -and, mainly, the Calvinist view of things- is based at the heart of the thoughts and attitudes of the European Enlightenment of the 18th century. The huge participation of Calvinist groups in the 17th-century English Revolution and the dynamism of English thinkers at the end of the 17th century on the concerns about society and its operation, prove the way in which thoughts matured and then flourished in the 18th-century America, France and England.
Maria Efthymiou - brief resume
Maria Efthymiou was born in 1955 in Larissa. She studied History at the University of Athens and at the Sorbonne University, from which she also received her Ph.D. in History. Since 1981 she has been teaching topics from the History of Hellenism during the Ottoman domination, as well as World History, at the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Athens. She has been taught seven foreign languages. In 2013 she received the Vassilis Xanthopoulos - Stefanos Pneumatikos Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching.
Starting time
19:00
Entrance
Free
Information
Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University
Philhellene Square and King Otto Street, 211 00 Nafplion
tel: 27520 47030, fax: 27520 47039, mail: chsnafplion@chs.harvard.edu
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