4-7 December 2025, Museum of Byzantine Culture

 
As part of its 25^th anniversary celebrations, the Mount Athos Center is organising its 12^th International Scientific Conference on the theme ‘Mount Athos and Thessaloniki through the Centuries’, which will be held from 4-7 December 2025 in the ‘Stephanos Dragoumis’ Auditorium at the Byzantine Museum of Culture.
 

As noted by the Scientific Committee, ‘The aim of the scientific contributions to the conference is to shed light on some of the most important aspects of the relationship between Mount Athos and Thessaloniki. For example, the conference will set out to enrich our knowledge of the relations between Mount Athos and the secular and ecclesiastical authorities of Thessaloniki through the centuries, as well as Athos’s relations with the city’s social, economic and commercial life. The conference papers will also examine theological movements, and the hagiographical connections and interplay of architectural and artistic influences between Mount Athos and Thessaloniki. In order to highlight the strong spiritual bonds between the two places, the conference will begin with a round table on the special theme of the emblematic figure of St. Gregory Palamas and his relationship with Mount Athos.’   
Within the framework of the conference, a facsimile edition has been produced of the rare work Mount Athos and Its Monasteries (1924) by the British archaeologist, historian and researcher of the British School at Athens Frederick William Hasluck (1878–1920). This book is the ninth publication in the series Athonika Analekta produced by the Mount Athos Center and includes an introduction by Athanasios Semoglou, Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Art in the School of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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Scientific Committee

Chairman
Kriton Chryssochoidis, Honorary Director of Research, Institute of Historical Research, Hellenic National Research Foundation

Members
1. Hieromonk Ieronymos Simonopetritis, First Vice-President of the Mount Athos Center
2. Monk Euthymios Zographitis, Regular member of the Board of Directors of the Mount Athos Center
3. Hieromonk Chariton Docheiaritis, Regular member of the Board of Directors of the Mount Athos Center
4. Theodoros Yangou, Professor of Canon Law, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
5. Symeon Paschalides, Professor of Patristics and Hagiography, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Director of the Patriarchal Institute of Patristic Studies
6. Athanasios Semoglou, Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Art, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
7. Phokion Kotzageorgis, Professor of Ottoman History, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
8. Dimitris Stamatopoulos, Professor of Balkan History, Dept. of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
9. Stavros Mamaloukos, Professor of Medieval & Traditional Architecture, Dept. of Architecture, University of Patras
10. Flora Karagianni, Dr. of Byzantine Archaeology / Head of the Dept. of Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Antiquities & Museums, Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Thessaloniki /  Director of the European Centre of Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Monuments
11. Georgios Skiadaresis, Dr. of Archaeology, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Chalkidiki and Mount Athos
 

For the abstracts of the speakers’ papers: ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΕΔΩ