Venue: Stephanos Dragoumis Auditorium at the Museum of Byzantine Culture

Thessaloniki, 7-9 December 2018

During the course of its first fifteen-year existence (2001-2015), the Mount Athos Center has played host to ten scientific conferences, covering a broad range of subjects related to the more than one-thousand-year-old history and spirituality of Athonite monasticism. Additionally, more specialised areas have also been covered, including architecture, travellers’ accounts, Athonite scholarship, Dependencies of Athos (Metochia), and so on. More than 300 scientific papers have been presented by Greek and foreign speakers at these conferences, providing valuable new insights into the history and life of the Monastic State.

The Department of Culture and Science of the Municipality of Larissa, in collaboration with the Mount Athos Center, presents an exhibition of photographs by Dimitris Louzikiotis entitled ‘Athos: Gazing from Without’, which is due to open on Tuesday 12 February 2019 in the exhibition space on the ground floor of the ‘Mill of Pappas’ in Larissa.