Professor of Harvard Panagiotis Roilos' speech to High School students
On Tuesday, October 22, 2024, Harvard Professor Panagiotis Roilos visited our School and spoke to Athens College and Psychico College High School 2 students. His speech took place in the Theater on the topic: "Democracy and education today? On the threshold of the post-human era" and focused on the new era we are currently living in and how rapid technological developments, especially after the emergence of artificial intelligence, affect people, society, and education.
The Professor then took questions from the students.
About Panagiotis Roilos
He holds a BA in Classics, Byzantine, and Modern Greek Literature from the University of Athens and a PhD from Harvard University (1999). He is Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the George Seferis Chair in Modern Greek Studies and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
He is the President of the European Cultural Center of Delphi, a major cultural institute in Europe, which is based in Athens and Delphi and functions under the auspices of the Council of Europe and the supervision of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
Professor Roilos has been a Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and has been offered a Forschungsstipendium für erfahrene Wissenschaftler from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is the founder and director of the Delphi Academy of European Studies. He has been a member of the “Greece 2021” Committee and serves on the Advisory Board of the research and policy institute Dianeosis. He has been awarded an Honorary PhD from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens.