Scientific News (13)

The interdisciplinary, virtual conference "Youth Resisting Dictatorship in Greece (1967-74) and beyond: Social Sciences and Humanities Perspectives", organized by the University of Crete Research Center for the Humanities, the Social and Education Sciences (UCRC), under the EC project "Free your mind: Youth Activism in Southern Europe in Times of Dictatorship" (FYM), on 19 & 20 November 2021, was held with notable success.

The program included oral presentations by 29 expert speakers, and the keynote address by a distinguished expert scholar from the social sciences and humanities, from Greece and abroad. The conference was attended via the platform by more than 145 participants from the academic community and the general public, from 7 countries.

The aim of the conference was to raise awareness of remembrance, common history and values, as well as the Union's aim, that is to promote peace, its values and the well-being of its peoples by stimulating debate, reflection and the development of networks.

The conference was carried out in the context of the FYM project funded by the European Union’s EUROPE FOR CITIZENS programme (Strand 1: EUROPEAN REMEMBRANCE), Grant Decision: Nr.617561. The project is coordinated by Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, while its partners are: Associação Cultural Ephemera, the University of Crete Research Center for the Humanities, the Social and Education Sciences (UCRC), Complutense University of Madrid, and the Society of Cretan Historical Studies / Historical Museum of Crete.


Find out more:
Post-Conference Summary Report
Detailed Program & Abstracts in english and greek
Conference Website
Keynote Speech: K. Kornetis, "Between Marat and Sade: Rethinking Student Protest in the Authoritarian context of the European South"
Panel 9 The movement against the dictatorship outside of Greece & the European integration
Conference Snapshots


 

UCRC welcomes you to the Scientific Conference "Youth Resisting Dictatorship in Greece (1967-74) and beyond: Social Sciences and Humanities Perspectives", which will be held virtually on November 19-20, 2021.

The Conference is organized by UCRC in the framework of the project "Free your mind: Youth Activism in Southern Europe in Times of Dictatorship" (FYM), under the European Commission's "Europe for Citizens - European Remembrance" (REMEM) programme, coordinated by Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.

To participate in the conference you need to register for free at:  https://fym.keme.uoc.gr/en/registration/

Throughout the conference, the audience will be able to submit their questions and comments to the speakers via chat of the zoom platform to be discussed at the end of each session.

The Detailed Program & Abstracts in english are available at: https://fym.keme.uoc.gr/en/conference-programme/

On Tuesday,9^th  November  2021, at 17.30hrs, Maria Bottis, Professor of Information Law at the Ionian University  and Scientific Advisor of the European project SIENNA (Horizon 2020- Shareholder-informed ethics for new technologies with high socio-economic and human rights impact) for Greece (Ionian University is the Greek partner) presents the SIENNA proposal for an International Code of Conduct for data sharing in genomics of 2021, to the members of Bioethics Centre and the students of the Joint Graduate Programme in Bioethics.

Τhe presentation is part of the implementation and diffusion of SIENNA results as a work of the SIENNA Network, to which the Laboratory for Bioethics of the University of Crete is a member.

SIENNA stands for ‘Stakeholder informed ethics for new technologies with high socio-economic and human rights impact). It aims to developsethical frameworks, recommendations for better regulation as well as operational tools for the ethical management of human genomics, human enhancement, AI & robotics.

The liaison officer on the part of SIENNA, is Professor Maria Bottis, Ionian University, who  collaborates with the Director of the Bioethics Centre of the University of Crete, Professor Stavroula Tsinorema.

The SIENNA project has received funding under the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 741716. SIENNA is coordinated by the University of Twente.

The collaboration of the Bioethics Centre with the SIENNA project aims at discussing and diffusing the outcomes of SIENNA research as well as co-organizing scientific events on the above mentioned themes regarding  the three main technologies of SIENNA (human genomics, human enhancement and AI & robotics). The mission of the Bioethics Centre is directly aligned with the scientific objectives of the SIENNA project.


For further details see the website of SIENNA here: https://www.sienna-project.eu/


For further reading, the following SIENNA reports are available open access:

Analysis of the legal and human rights requirements for genomics in and outside the EU https://zenodo.org/record/4066659#.YQkoqogzbcs

Analysis of the legal and human rights requirements for Human Enhancement Technologies in and outside the EU https://zenodo.org/record/4066617#.YQko5Igzbcs

Analysis of the legal and human rights requirements for AI and robotics in and outside the EU https://zenodo.org/record/4066812#.YQkpH4gzbcs

Ethical analysis of human genetics and genomics

https://zenodo.org/record/4068016#.YQkpQ4gzbcs

Ethical analysis of human enhancement technologies

https://zenodo.org/record/4068071#.YQkpiIgzbcs

Ethical analysis of AI and Robotics technologies

https://zenodo.org/record/4068083#.YQkpnYgzbcs