Conferences

  • The Transmission of Scientific Ideas to the Countries of the European Periphery during the Enlightenment (International meeting in Delphi, organized in the context of the European project “Prometheus”, 23-27 July 1995): “The Dispute concerning the Heliocentric System during the Greek Enlightenment”.
  • 7th Conference of the Association of Greek and Cypriot Physicists (Heraklion, Crete, 4-7 April 1996): “Negotiations about the Heliocentric System in the Greek Speaking World of the 18th Century”.
  • 3rd British – North American History of Science Meeting: Crossing Boundaries (Edinburgh, 23-26 July 1996): “The Transmission of Scientific Ideas to the Greek Speaking World During the Enlightenment”. Commentator: Jed Buchwald.
  • Limits of the Ancient Heritage. Manipulations of the Ancient Civilization by the Neo-hellenic Thought. (International Conference organized by the University of Crete, Rethimno, 30 October to 3 November 1996): “The Break Which Never Happened: Sciences and Ancient Greek Thought in the Greek Speaking World During the 18th Century”.
  • Science in the European Periphery. From the Enlightenment to the 20th Century (Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència I de la Tècnica, Barcelona, 31 May to 1 June 1999): “The Historiography of the Greek Scientific Thought of the 18th and the Early 19th Centuries”.
  • 13th Symposium of History and Art: The Perception of Time (International Symposium organized by Monemvasiotikos Homilos in Monemvasia, 15-17 July 2000): “The concept of time in the works of the Greek scholars of the 18th century: The case of Eugenios Voulgaris”.
  • Samos: The Mediterranean Dimension of an Aegean Island (Aegean Museum of Natural History, Samos, 13 August 2000): “Aristarchus of Samos and Copernicus: The story of a note”.
  • Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 2nd meeting: Scientific Travels (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 17-21 September 2000): “Scientific Travels of the Greek Scholars during the 18th century”.
  • Greece and the Balkans: Cultural encounters since the Enlightenment (The University of Birmingham. Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, 28-30 June 2001): “National Space and the Intellectual Journeys of the Eighteenth-Century Greek-speaking Scholars”.
  • Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology: Lunchtime Colloquia (MIT, Cambridge MA, 12 March 2002): “Cultural Encounters and Philosophical Pursuits: Natural Philosophy in the Greek Intellectual Space of the 18th Century”.
  • Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 3rd meeting: Scientific and Technological Textbooks in the European Periphery (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Athens University, Aegina 2-9 June 2002): “Scientific and Philosophical Textbooks in the Greek Intellectual Space of the 18th Century”.
  • The Idea of Nature in the Culture of the Tanzimat (Sabanci University, Doğanbey village, Söke, Turkey, 13-16 June 2002. Chair: Şerif Mardin). Commentator of Kostas Gavroglu’s paper «The Confluence of Different Cultures: One or Many Natures?»; title of comment «Appropriation of What? A Historiographic Contemplation».