CONFERENCE WITH SUBJECT “CIVIL SOCIETY AND ORTHODOXY”

 

CONFERENCE WITH SUBJECT

“CIVIL SOCIETY AND ORTHODOXY”

Boston, 16 – 17 November 2012
Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek School of Theology
(Archbishop Iakovos Library)

Friday, 16 November 2012
19:15 Official Opening of the Conference
• Welcome address by Rev. Fr. Nicholas C. Triantafilou, President of Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

• Greeting address by the President of the I.A.O. General Assembly, Member of the Russian State Duma Mr. Sergei Popov

• Greeting address by Rev. Fr. Thomas FitzGerald, Dean of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

• Report by Mr. Anastasios Nerantzis, Member of the Hellenic Parliament, I.A.O. Secretary General

• Key Note Address by His Eminence Demetrios, Archbishop of America

• Greeting addresses by representatives of Churches and Communities

Saturday, 17 November 2012

09.00 – 10.30 1st Session: Democracy, Civil Society and Orthodoxy
• Mr. Andrew Natsios, Executive Professor, George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service

• Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou, Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Southeastern Europe Study Group, (Ret.) Vice Chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom,

• Prof. Valery Alexeev, V. Lomonosov Moscow University, I.A.O. Advisor

11.00 – 12.30 2nd Session: Orthodox theology and participatory democracy

• Human Rights and the Orthodox Church (Dr. Marian Gh. Simion, Assistant Director, Boston Theological Institute, Field Education Supervisor, Harvard Divinity School)
• Freedom, Human Rights – Orthodox Church – Modern world (Dr. Kostas Mygdalis, I.A.O. Advisor)
• Participatory Democracy and Religion (Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Clapsis, Archbishop Iakovos Professor of Systematic Theology, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology)

15:00-16:30 3rd Session: The presence of Orthodox Christians in the American Public Space. (Current Situation – Perspectives)

• Very Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky, Director of External Affairs and Interchurch Relations of the Orthodox Church in America
• Fr. Vasken Kouzouian, Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church
• The Orthodox Churches response to global humanitarian needs (Mr. Pascalis Papouras, Special Assistant to the Executive office of IOCC)

• His Grace Bishop David Anba, General Bishop, Archdiocese of North American, Coptic Orthodox Church

17.00 – 18:30 4th Session: Orthodox youth in the Social Sphere
((Reports by students of Theology and the Social Sciences)

• Ms. Nadia Abuelezam

• Mr. Thomas Manuel

• Mr. Michael Andrzejewski

19:00 – 20:30 5th Session: Civil Society, Representational Democracy
and Partisan Politics

Round table.

Foreword by Dr. Kostas Mygdalis, I.A.O. Advisor

Participants: Mr. Anastasios Nerantzis, Member of the Hellenic Parliament, I.A.O. Secretary General, Mr. Leonidas Raptakis, Rhode Island State Senator, Prof. Valery Alexeev, V. Lomonosov Moscow University, I.A.O. Advisor, Mr. George Varnava, Member of the House of Representatives of Cyprus, Member of the I.A.O. Financial Committee, Mr. George Aghjayan, Chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America, Eastern Region