"The Science and Orthodox Christianity relationship: past-present-future" DAY 2

The third international conference concludes a three-year effort by Project SOW to map the ongoing discussion on science and Orthodox Christianity throughout the world. Intensive research and long hours of discussions in conferences, workshops and interviews revealed a number of important thematic areas where the discussion is more vibrant, revealing controversial yet fruitful aspects of the science-religion relationship. Among these areas are bioethics, ecology and environment, psychology-psychoanalysis, which also seem to open new perspectives in the future discussion. Furthermore, the role of philosophy and history, with a focus on the notion of modernity, appear to be crucial in the understanding of the science-Orthodoxy relationship and its advancement. This, however, would be incomplete without the exchange of fundamental viewpoints between the Orthodox world and components of the ongoing discussion in the West.

Day 2 | Friday, November 30, 2018

Session 6 | Nature and Bioethics
Chair: Aleksandra Stevanović, Department for History and Philosophy of Natural Sciences and Technology, University of Belgrade

Rev. Panagiotis Kapodistrias, Master of Theology, Holy Metropolis of Zakynthos and Strophades
The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the “green Patriarch” as the spearhead of a new ecological ethos and change of mentality concerning the natural environment

Suzana Polić, Director, Central Institute for Conservation, Belgrade | Senior Scientific Associate, University of Belgrade
Dialogue between the technologist and the theologian on electronic personality

Bruce Foltz, Professor Emer. of Philosophy, Eckerd College
Orthodox Christianity and the Archaic Experience of Nature

Presentation of the film "A Threefold Logos: Dictionary of Technology as the dialogue between science and religion". Filmed by Prof. A. Petrovic and A. Stevanovic.
Session 7 | Nature and Bioethics
Chair: Konstantinos Konstantinidis, M.D., Urology Surgeon | President, Andrology Institute of Athens

Sergey Krivovichev, Professor, St. Petersburg State University | Chairman, Kola Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences
Information and the hierarchy of nature: theological implications

Gayle Woloschak, Northwestern University School of Medicine | Zygon Center for Religion and Science, Lutheran School of Theology
Orthodox Perspectives on Gene Editing: Ramifications of CRISPR Technology

Maria Bouri, Pediatrician, MA Medical Humanities, Dip Palliative Medicine, Νational Primary Health Network, Greece
Medicine, suffering and death: palliation and the ethics of caring for those we cannot cure
Session 8 | Historical Aspects of the Science-Orthodoxy relationship
Chair: Meropi Morfouli, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris & Jeremie Lachaume, Scient. Collaborator of Project SOW

Alexandre Kostov, Director of Research, Institute for Balkan Studies, Sofia
& Ivaylo Nachev, Researcher, Institute for Balkan Studies, Sofia
Ecology and environment from an Orthodox perspective: current encounters in Bulgaria

Sandy Sakorrafou, Historian of Science, Hellenic Open University
Science, Religion and Bioethical Issues in Greek Orthodox Journals (1998 to the present)

Adrian Lemeni, Professor, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Bucharest University
The iconic structure of reason, testified by the Patristic Tradition: A significant aspect in the ecclesial approach of the relationship between Orthodox theology and science
Session 9 | Historical Aspects of the Science-Orthodoxy relationship
Chair: Kostas Tampakis, Researcher, Project SOW, IHR/NHRF

Donald Yerxa, Editor, Fides et Historia
Science and Religion in Historical Perspective: Some Thoughts from the Engaged Periphery

Peter Harrison, Director, Inst. for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland
Comparative Histories and the Emergence of Modern Science

Vasilios Makrides, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Erfurt
Religion Matters: Why has a Scientific Revolution not Taken Place in the Orthodox East?
Session 10 | Round Table: The Future of the Science-Orthodoxy relationship
Directed by: Efthymios Nicolaidis, Research Director, Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation | Director of Project SOW

And with the participation of:
Alexey Bodrov, Founder & Rector, St Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute, Moscow
Rev. Nikolaos Loudovikos, Professor, University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki
Magdalena Stavinschi, Director, Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies in Science, Spirituality, Society, Bucharest

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