The Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Lecture Series

With the announcement of the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Chair, Mr. Tsakopoulos also established an annual lecture series entitled “Aristotle and the Moderns.” The series focuses on the importance and relevance of Aristotle’s teachings in today’s world, particularly with regard to his books, the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics. “Our notions of justice and the importance of the rule of law, the definition of what it is to be a good person and a good citizen, are most eloquently and accurately described by Aristotle in these two books,” Mr. Tsakopoulos affirmed at the time of the establishment of the series. The annual public lecture considers contemporary debates in broadly conceived, innovative, and multidisciplinary ways.

• November 21 , 2005
  Rule of Law, Democracy and the Ombudsman in Contemporary Europe
  by Nikiforos Diamandouros -The European Ombudsman

   

• September 28, 2006
  Wise Crowds: Aristotle, Athens, and the Marquis de Condorcet
  by Prof. Josiah Ober - Professor of Political Science & Classics, Stanford University

   

• October 3, 2007
  The Good Life and the Good Economy: The View from Aristotle to Bergson and Rawls
  by Prof. Edmond Phelps, Nobel Laureate &
  Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University

   

• October 6, 2008
  Greek Ideals and World Order in the 20th Century
  by Mark Mazower, Professor of History, Columbia University

   

  December 14, 2009
  Reconciliation after Mass Atrocity: Lessons from Ancient Athens
  by Adriaan Lanni, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

   

• December 9, 2010

• On the Quality of Life: The Ancients Teaching the Moderns

  Nadia Urbinati, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies, Columbia University