On the topic of “Patrimonio Cultural: testimonio del pasado, compromiso con el futuro” (Cultural Heritage: testimony to the past, commitment to the future), the member of the Steering Committee of the UNESCO Chair of the Ionian University, Dr. Elena Avramidou, spoke upon invitation at the Andrés Bello University, in Santiago, Chile, in the (...)

    A Workshop connecting cultural-heritage protection with financial crime, illicit trafficking and asset recovery at the 43rd Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime The UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage-related Activities (TCHER) at the Ionian University successfully organised a Plenary Workshop, “UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural (...)

            The UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage participates at the First Forum of Mediterranean UNESCO Chairs – The Futures of Mediterranean Heritage, which will take place from 8 to 11 September 2026 at the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli, in Corti. A day of heritage and cultural immersion (September 8) will precede three days of (...)

            The holder of the UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage of the Ionian University Professor Stavros Katsios and Dr. Maria Gkioni, member of the scientific committee of the Chair participated at the 1st Conference of the Greek UNESCO Chairs which took place from Friday 4th to Saturday 6th 2026 in Alexandroupolis, organised by the (...)

          Upon the invitation of the director of the UNESCO Chair in Film Art and Cultural Diversity of the Beijing Film Academy, Ms. Zhou Zhijun, the director of the UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and to Cultural Heritage-Related Activities at the Ionian University, Professor Katsios Stavros, visited Beijing and Qingdao in (...)

            To promote the exchange of classical literary works between China and the West and to deepen scholarly dialogue in this field, the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese School of Classical Studies at Athens co-hosted an international academic conference titled "The Formation of Classical Literary (...)

         

FIRST LIVE SESSION OF THE “OUR HOMELAND IS LANGUAGE” NETWORK A Journey through Time with the Antikythera Mechanism Astypalaia, July 1 - 2, 2025 The Astypalaia High School and the Hellenic Library of Southern California are organizing the first live Session of the “Our Homeland is Language” Network, which will take place in Astypalaia, on July 1 and 2, 2025, with the following theme: “A (...)

The Public Central Historical Library of Corfu, in collaboration with the Catholic Archdiocese of Corfu-Zante-Kephalonia and the N. Kazantzakis Museum, is organizing an event entitled "Nikos Kazantzakis, Tertsines, “ST THERESA"—poetry", reflection, search, exercise, divine love”. The event will take place on Wednesday, March 26 at 17:00 in the “Evi Laskari” Events Hall of the Public Central (...)

Inscribing in the UNESCO World Intangible Cultural Heritage

"Nikos Kazantzakis and Lu Xun: Convergences and divergences" was the topic of the speech of the executive director and coordinator of the Hellenic Center for Sinology Dr. Elena Avramidou at the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum in Myrtia, Crete, during the unveiling ceremony of the sculptural composition "Dialogue of Souls Lu Sun and Kazantzakis". The work is by the well-known Chinese artist Wu (...)