I don't have any good links in English yet but this year's symposium in Athens Greece is coming up this weekend. Here's a PDF in Greek of the agenda - if someone knows a good way to get this in English please link it in this thread
https://epicuros.gr/Symposio/kombos16/16oS_Pr.pdf
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AthensSeminar
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16th Panhellenic Symposium on Epicurean Philosophy
14–15 February 2026
Municipal College of Athens Theatre (Bodosakeio)
Paleopanagias Avenue, Kantza 15351, Attica
Information: epicuros.gr
Co-organizers:
Municipality of Pallini
Friends of Epicurean Philosophy: “Garden of Athens,” “Garden of Thessaloniki”
Saturday, 14 February 2026
17:00–17:30 Opening of the Symposium
Christos Aidonis, Mayor of Pallini
Greetings:
Leonidas Alexandridis, Representative of the Garden of Athens
Antonis Bilisis, Representative of the Garden of Thessaloniki
Dimitris Christakis, Representative of the Garden of Heraklion
Kyriakos Veresies, Representative of the Garden of Lysis (Cyprus)
International Friends of Epicurean Philosophy
Villy Pavlou, Director of the Municipal College of Athens
Encomium to Epicurus
(Lucretius, On the Nature of Things II.1–19 and IV.9–42)
Theodora Siarkou, Actress, Special Advisor on Gender Equality, Municipality of Pallini
The Timeless Message of Epicurus
17:30–18:45 Session A: Psychosomatic Health and Eudaimonia
Chairs: Christos Giapitzakis, Dimitris Liarmakopoulos
- Scientific Humanism and Psychosomatic Health – Christos Giapitzakis
- On Eudaimonia – Giorgos Gkonis
- In the Enemy’s Camp: Philosophy as Therapy of the Soul – Christos Koutsotassios
- The Garden as a Therapeutic Community: Epicurean Philosophy and the 12 Steps of Recovery – Kyriakos Veresies
18:45–19:00 Break – Poster Presentations
19:00–19:15 Artistic Interlude
Selections from Panhellenic Symposia of Epicurean Philosophy
Music: Athanasios Simoglou, Marios Strofalis, Manos Hadjidakis
19:15–20:30 Session B: Epicurean Approaches to the Contemporary World
Chairs: Takis Panagiotopoulos, Antonis Bilisis
- Irrationalism and Pseudoscience in Troubled Times: When the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. An Epicurean Perspective on Our Contradictory Age – Stefanos Trachanas
- Epicurean Philosophy as an Antidote to the Absurdity of Our Time – Stratis Katakos
- Relational Dynamics within Groups through the Lens of Epicurean Philosophy – Evangelia Maritsa
- Epicurus in the Modern Era – Theodoros Georgiou
20:30–21:00 Discussion
Sunday, 15 February 2026
Epicurean Philosophy from Antiquity to the Present
10:00–11:30 Session C: The Epicurean Human Being Across Different Periods
Chairs: Leonidas Alexandridis, Kyriakos Veresies
- From the Musicality of Character to the Ethics of Music – Dimitris Christakis
- Gilgamesh: The Epicurean Human at the Dawn of History – Eleni Michopoulou
- The Enlightenment of the 18th Century and Epicurus – Leonidas Alexandridis
- Democracy through the Eyes of Epicurus – Takis Kalyvas
- Epicurus through the Eyes of a New Friend – Thanasis Lalas
11:30–11:45 Break – Poster Presentations
11:45–12:00 Artistic Interlude
Christianna Dimitriadou (song) – Giorgos Tagklis (guitar)
12:00–13:00 Session D: Epicurean Epistemology
Chairs: Evangelia Pitsikali, Dimitris Liarmakopoulos
- Criterion of Truth and Perceptual Capacity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos
- Epicurean Approaches to Language – Evangelia Pitsikali
- The Concept of Human Nature in Light of Evolutionary and Epicurean Theory – Vasilis Roukas
13:00–14:00 Session E: Epicurean Approaches to Physics
Chairs: Giorgos Gkonis, Anastasios Liolios
- The Physics of Epicurean Philosophy: Connections with Modern Physics – Anastasios Liolios
- The Epicurean Stance on the Interpretation Problem of Quantum Mechanics – Spyros Tserkis
- Chaos Theory in Human History and the Philosophy of Epicurus – Giorgos Froutzos
- Epicurus’ Contribution to Prigogine’s Thought and the Understanding of Physical Complexity – Ioannis Antoniou
14:00–14:30 Discussion with the Audience – Symposium Conclusions
Poster Presentations (Selected)
- Poems – Giorgia Siokou
- Epicurean Philosophy and Friendship – Efthymios Koliokotsis
- Free Will of Investors and Eudaimonia – Nikolaos Loukeris
- The Epicurean Philosophers of Dion – Theano Kalimeri
Speakers
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