Welcome speeches:
Mina Moraitou, Benaki Museum of Islamic Art
Christos Hadjiiosif, Director of Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH.
Tonia Kiousopoulou, President of Department of History & Archaeology, University of Crete

Short presentations:
Olga Katziardi-Hering, Department of History & Archaeology, N.K.U.A.
Nicolas Vatin, CNRS & Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Antonis Anastasopoulos – Elias Kolovos – Marinos Sarigiannis, Department of History & Archaeology U.C. and I.M.S./FORTH
Elisavet A. Zachariadou, Academia Europaea & I.M.S./FORTH

The Islamic Art Museum will remain open until 19:00 for those who would like to visit the the exhibition “Thomas Hope: Drawings of Ottoman Istanbul”