The Enlightenment and the Orthodox World

Professor Paschalis Kitromilides will deliver the lecture 'The Enlightenment and the Orthodox World', followed by a reception. This event is free and open to all.

Professor Kitromilides is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Athens and Director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies. He has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and at other universities in Europe and America, and his authoritative book Enlightenment and Revolution, The Making of Modern Greece was published by Harvard University Press in 2013. His lecture will address the concept of an ‘Orthodox Enlightenment’ contributing to the European intellectual experience in the eighteenth century, with reference to prominent intellectual leaders from the Orthodox cultural traditions of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.