Thessaloniki Conference 2015
Conference Title: Conceiving Disasters and Pandemics: Causes and Prevention
01-02 October, 2015
Department of Philosophy and Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Programme
Thursday, October 1st 2015
08:30-09:00 | Registration | |||
09:00-09:30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks Pericles A. Mitkas, Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Eleni Kalokairinou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Bert Gordijn, Dublin City University, Ireland, Representing the Chair of COST Action IS 1201 |
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09:3010:45 | Keynote 1 – The Ebola Epidemic in West Presenter: Anastassios E. Philalithis, AKC, MBBS (Lon), PhD (Ath), MRCP (UK), MSc (Com Med) (Lon), Professor of Social Medicine, Faculty of Social Medicine, University of Crete. Chair: Bert Gordijn, Dublin City University, Ireland |
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10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break | |||
11:15-12:45 | WG 1 meeting Healthcare ethics - workshop on developing ethics training material |
WG 2 meeting Bioethics, culture, & moral theory |
WG 3 & 4 meeting Draft UNESCO Guidelines for Children in Research during Disasters |
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12:45-14:00 | Lunch | |||
14:00-15:15 | Keynote 2 - Mapping climate disadvantage Presenter: Professor John O’ Neill, Hallsworth Chair in Political Economy, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester (presentation through skype). Chair: Eleni Kalokairinou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. |
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15:15-15:45 | Coffee Break | |||
15:45-17:45 | WG 1 meeting Healthcare ethics |
WG 2 meeting Bioethics, culture, & moral theory |
WG 3 meeting Research ethics |
WG 4 meeting Ethics & governance |
20:00 | Conference Dinner |
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
09:15-10:45 | Keynote 3 – Unemployment in Greece as a factor of social cohesion breakdown: causes, morphology and policies. Presenter: Yiannis Sakellis, Professor of Labour Economics and Social Policy, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. |
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10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break | |||
11:15-13:15 | Working Group Presentations to Plenary WG1: Kadri Simm, Johan von Schreeb WG2: Bert Gordijn, Caroline Clarinval WG3: Eugenijus Gefenas, Péter Kakuk WG4: Ana Borovecki, Dónal O’Mathúna |
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13:15-14:30 | Lunch | |||
14:30-15:45 | Keynote 4 – Essentialism as a key-concept for disaster bioethics: the case-study of environmental issues Presenter: J. N. Markopoulos, Professor at the Postgraduate Program of the Faculty of Education, School of Primary Education, Department of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and New Technologies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Chair: Ignaas Devisch, Ghent University, Belgium. |
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15:45-16:15 | Coffee Break | |||
16:15-17:15 | Working Group Presentations to Plenary. The Chair or Vice-chair of each WG will present the work accomplished so far and the future plans of each WG. |
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17:15-17:30 | Concluding remarks Bert Gordijn, Dublin City University, Ireland Chair of COST Action IS 1 201 |
- You may download the programme in a printable PDF version here.
Venue
The conference will take place at Aristotle University Research Dissemination Centre, known as KEDEA Building (the Red Building), Amphitheatre III and the Foyer, both on Level -1. KEDEA Building is situated in 3rd Septemvriou street, just opposite the University of Makedonia (Panepistimio Makedonia), the second University of Thessaloniki. Septemvriou street crosses Egnatia street.
Livestream of the conference
The conference will be livestreamed via https://www.auth.gr/video/19309 or http://www.auth.gr/news/audiovisual