EXHIBITION IN LAUSANNE |Ex Oriente Lux : Cosopolitan Smyrna and the Greeks of Anatolia until the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
Our exhibition is a journey through the history and culture of the region of Asia Minor with Smyrna (now Izmir) as its epicenter at the beginning of the 20th century.A journey until the Treaty of Lausanne which marked the end of the Greek presence in Asia Minor.We exploreCosmopolitan Smyrna, nicknamed the “pearl of the Orient”, as well as its personalities, the art, the music, the abruptly interrupted efforts to create a university which would have served as a link between the West and the East (with“Ex Oriente Lux” as motto).We walk through the streets of Smyrna in 1919, through the photos of the Swiss photographer Boissonnas from a rare edition of our library.We commemorate the events from 1922 until the Treaty of Lausanne through photos and historical documents of our association.The exhibition is part of the events of the City of Lausanne on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne (1923-2023).
Organized by Melissa for Hellenism With the support of the City of Lausanne Acknowledgments: Greek Project
From 14.3 to 29.4.2023 From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day & WE FREE ENTRANCE For guided tourcontact: melissa.hellenisme [at] gmail.com
Smyrne, ville cosmopolite, la “Perle de l’Orient”. Puis, la Catastrophe de Smyrne en 1922. Le film présente les évènements historiques à travers la vie des membres d’une famille grecque de Smyrne de 1915 à 1922.
Avec le soutien (communication) :
Association Amitiés gréco-suisses
Association des Grecs de Lausanne “ESTIA”
Association des Hellènes & Philhellènes de la Côte “AKTI”
Conference of Theofanis Tasis in Lausanne entitled Correction nature, healing man : Human upgrading as a cure and a moral duty.
Sunday, Novembrer 7th, 2021 at 5 pm
Continental hotel, pl. de la Gare 2, Lausanne
Language: Greek
Theofanis Tasis was born in 1976 in Munich. After finishing high school in Germany, he studied Physics (M.Sc. 2002) and Philosophy (M.A. 2004) at the University of Crete. In 2007 he was awarded his Ph.D. in Philosophy with honors (summa cum laude) at the Freie Universität Berlin. His Ph.D. thesis introduced Cornelius Castoriadis, until relatively unknown in Germany, in current german academic debates. According to the statistics provided from the Freie Universität’s digital library his Ph.D. thesis has been downloaded since then over 5000 times. It was published by DMV Publications, Cornelius Castoriadis: Eine Disposition der Philosophie (2008). His monography Castoriadis, a philosophy of autonomy published in Greece by Eurasia Publications won the Kaftantzogleio Prize of the University of Athens in 2008 and is now in its second edition. After completing his national military service (2007 to 2008) he taught as a Lecturer political philosophy and contemporary social theory at the Department of Sociology of the University of Crete (2008-2011). He was an Erasmus Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin (2010), a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Academie Louvain and a fellow Researcher at the Centre Prospero des Facultes Universitaire Saint- Louis de Bruxelles (2011-2013). He was a visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (October 2012-April 2013) and at the Alpen- Adria Universität Klagenfurt (April 2013- February 2015) and is currently Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include: Political philosophy, especially in theories of democracy, ancient Greek philosophy, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Existentialism, Critical Theory and Neopragmatism. He has authored several research papers, and participated in and presided over many international and regional seminars, workshops, and conferences. In his current research project titled «Politics of Bios» he is trying to lay the groundwork for the development of a way of thinking about the political based on the zoe/bios distinction and in terms of the body and the human senses. His latest book Politics of Bios: On Irony published by Eurasia Publications (2012) is the first part of a planned trilogy and won the Kaftantzogleio Prize of the University of Athens in 2013. Besides his philosophical writings he has published two poetry volumes «Fysiologika Euremata», Kedros Publications (2001) , «Apogeumata ston Kapitalismo», Gutenberg Publications (2010) and a collection of philosophical aphorisms «Pharmacon», Eurasia Publications (2012). He has also translated and edited books by Martin Heidegger and Roberto Unger into greek and is currently translating Michael Walzer. Theofanis Tasis is a member of the Greek Philosophical Society and a member of the German Humanist Association (Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands). He is a contributor for the “Kathimerini” newspaper and has been interviewed on numerous occasions by various nationwide media in Greece and participated in televised round table discussions.
