Conference program 14/2/2014 ATHENS : LOVE MAKES FAMILIES

Conference program

17.00 Opening
Short video: “Why we need ...”
Greetings from Stella Belia, Chairwoman Of “Oikogeneies Ouranio Tokso” (Ouranio Tokso Families)

17.30 First Part
Theophano Papazisi
Professor of Civil Law at the Law Faculty of Atistoteleio University of Thessaloniki “Same-sex Parenting Family: The Greek reality and the regulations in other jurisdictions”

Alexandra Halkias
Associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Panteion University
“Otherness, love and family: Challenges with a meaning”

Dimitra Kogkidou
Professor in the Department of Education of Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki
“Kostis’ two dads buy a game that costs…” – Is our educational system taking account diversity in the family?

19.00 Discussion

19.30 Break

20.00 Second Part
Alkestis Kontogianni
Dean at the University of Peloponnese and chair of the Department of Theatre Studies of the same university will present the children's book “Two Small Eggs” created by “Oikogeneies Ouranio Tokso”

Kostas Giannakopoulos
Professor of the Department of Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean
“Conceptions of family, male homosexuality and public/private in postwar Greece until the '90s”

Venetia Kantsa
Permanent assistant professor, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean and

&Aspasia Chalkidou
PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean
“Making a family at an interval between the laws: some notes on same-sex parenting»

Athena Athanasiou
Associate professor in the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University,
“Beyond Heterosexual Family”

21.30 Discussion

22.00 Closing