Vana NICOLAIDOU CV ENGL 2013

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Dr Vana Nicolaïdou-Kyrianidou
Assistant Professor with tenure in Political Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology (Faculty of Philosophy)
Section of Philosophy, University of Athens.
E-mail : [email protected]r & [e-mail]
RESEARCH INTERESTS
▪ Classical and Contemporary Political Philosophy
▪ Political Theology (specifically Byzantine Imperial ideology)
▪ History of Political Ideas
▪ Political Ontology
EDUCATION
1976-1980 University of Athens, Department of Philosophy, Gratuate Honors.
Rewards: Foundation Emm. Andreadis.
POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
1980 -1987: Université de Paris IV, Paris – Sorbonne, fellow scholarship : Foundation
Sophia N. Saripolou.
Seminars:
▪ Professor Pierre BOUTANG:
«Métaphysique de la Parole»
«Philosophie politique de Kant»
«Le souci politique et la recherche du salut»
«Les noms divins»
«L'homme comme être désirant: Philèbe de Platon»
«De l'âme: Le IVe Livre de la République de Platon et Traité de l'âme d'Ari stote»
«L'être et l'au-delà de l'essence»
«Aristote, De l'interprétation»
▪ Professor Emmanuel LÉVINAS:
«Husserl»
«Le flux du temps et la conscience»
▪ Professor Geneviève RODIS-LEWIS:
«L'ontologie de Descartes»

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▪ Professor Henri BIRAULT:
«Heidegger»,
«Heidegger et Sartre: le temps et la mort»
«Nietzsche et le néant».
▪ Professor J. BRUAIRE:
«De la philosophie politique».
▪ Professor Jacques DERRIDA (École Normale Supérieure):
«Le Procès de F. Kafka et La critique de la raison pratique de Kant
«La condition de la condition»
DIPLÔME D'ÉTUDES APPROFONDIES:
Université de Paris IV
DEA de Philosophie (1981)
MA Dissertation : «Lévinas lecteur de Platon», examinated by the Professors Pierre
BOUTANG and J.-L. MARION.
DOCTORAT DE TROISIÈME CYCLE EN PHILOSOPHIE:
«Les fondements métaphysiques de la politique de Platon (Des premiers dialogues jusqu'à
la République)»
Supervisor : Professor Pierre BOUTANG, Université de Paris IV, Paris-Sorbonne
Docteur de troisième cycle en Philosophie, with Honours degree.
Members of the Committee : the Professors Jacques BOMPAIRE, Pierre BOUTANG and
Jean-Luc MARION.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1. DOCTORAL THESIS : Les fondements métaphysiques de la politique de Platon
(Des premiers dialogues jusqu'à la République),
Athènes 1992 [Bibliothèque Sophie
N. Saripolos, 89], 243 pp.
Printed by the Foundation Sophia N. Saripolos.
References and citations of my thesis :
- P. DOUKELLIS, «Regards sur les publications helléniques - Chronique 1993», Dialogues
d'Histoire Ancienne
, 19, 1993, pp. 289 .
- L. BRISSON avec la collaboration de F. PLIN, Platon 1990-1995. Bibliographie , [Paris,
Vrin, 1999.], Page 256 , section 8492 .
Accessible in the website: http://www.aph.cnrs.fr/BiblPlatBPFrontFrench.html
- International Philosophical Bibliography / Repertoire Bibliographique de la Phi osophie
(Louvain-la-Neuve and Leuven), XLVII-2, 1995, pp. 218 , No 4249 * .
― A. ΤΡΩΙΑΝΟΥ-ΛΟΥΛΑ, «H ωριµότητα στο δίκαιο», in: Mνήµη II I. ∆ασκαλοπούλου, K.
Σταµάτη, Xρ. Mπάκα
, III : Mελέτες Eγκληµατολογίας, αντεγκληµατικής πολιτικής, Iστορίας
και Kοινωνιολογίας του Ποινικού ∆ικαίου
, Athens 1995, p. 1158 nn. 15 and 17, p. 1164 n.
29.
- Année Philologique , 64, 1993, No 4514.
2. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2.1 Ionian University (Corfu, 1991-1998 ).

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- INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY.
- PHILOSOPHICAL CURRENTS.
- HISTORY OF IDEAS ( ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL.
- PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.
- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
- CLASSICAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
▪ During my tenure I participated on committees supervising undergraduate dissertations
of the following students : Mr D. ARCHONTAS, Ms. M. MOUTZOURI and Ms E. SKEBERI .
2.2 University of Thessaly (Volos, 1999 -2005 )
Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology:
- INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
- CLASSICAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND MODERNITY.
- HISTORY OF SCIENCE.
▪ I supervised the dissertation of the student Mr A. SKORDAS.
2.3 ACTUAL ACADEMIC POSITION
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Athens (2006 - )
- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (text interpretation)
- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY
- SYSTEMATIC INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY AND MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
- HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
- EPISTEMOLOGY - LOGIC
2.4 Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III
In March 1995 I was invited and I gave two Seminar lectures at the University Paul-Valéry
Montpellier III (invited by the Professors Marie-Paule MASSON and Annie-France
LAURENS):
• «Georges Gémiste Pléthon et le mouvement néo-païen à Byzance» and
• «Héraklès devant le Vice et la Vertu: un choix politique»
(Reference: M. GALINIER, La colonne Trajane et les forums impériaux , Rome, 2007,
Collection de l'École Française de Rome No 382, p. 209 and note 321).
Participation, during my stay in Montpellier, in the sessions of the Working Group on the
variety of definitions of religious freedom and tolerance in different cultural environments
worldwide. The organization joined the actions of the UNESCO International Year for
Tolerance , in cooperation with the Section of Linguistics (PRAXILING) of the University
Paul-Valéry.
Cf. M.-P. MASSON / V. NICOLAÏDOU-KYRIANIDOU / S. PERENTIDIS, «Grec: Désacralisa-
tion, pluralisme religieux et absolutisme monothéiste», in: Dire la tolérance (coordonné
par Paul SIBLOT), UNESCO - Praxiling [Publié en 1997 par l'Organisation des Nations
Unies pour l 'Éducation, la Science et la Culture], pp. 19-22 .
Accessible in the website : http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001146/114648fo.pdf

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Also, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III : Seminar conference on 6 March 1998:
«L'empereur à l'image de Dieu» (invited by the Professors Marie-Paule MASSON and
Gerard DEDEYAN).
External member (membre extérieur) to the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en
Sciences humaines et Sociales
( CRISES ), Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III. Working
group «Transfert et réception des idées, des textes et des savoirs».
See also the website:
http://recherche.univmontp3.fr/crises/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=192
&Itemid=1
3. POSTGRADUATE TEACHING AND DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONS
3.1 University of Athens, Section of Philosophy :
«DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS»
«LAW AND ETHICS».
«POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY».
3.2 Supervisor/internal examiner of following MA :
Mrs. M. ATHINEOU , Mr. Michael BASILEIOU, Mr. John GALINOS , Mr. K. GEORGE , Mr. K.
GKALEAS , Mr. K. GKIKAS , Mr. S. EFSTATHIOU , Mrs. N. ZAGKA , Mr. P. ILIOPOULOS ,
Mrs. M. LAIOU , Mr. K. MAKRIS , Mrs. A. MOSCHOVITSI , Mrs. E. BOBOLOU , Mrs. E.
BURI, Mrs. A. DANE, Mr. A. PANTAZIS , Mr. A. PAPALEXIS , Mr. I. PAPASSIMAKIS , Mr. D.
PEPPES , Mrs. A. PETROMELIDOU, Mrs. Chr. PLIATSIKA, Mr. A. POLLATOS , Mr. Nick
SMYRNAKIS , Mr. K. STAVRAKOPOULOS , Mrs. E. CHAIKALI , Mr. G. CHANTZIS Mr. Chr .
CHRONIS .
3.3 Supervisor of the thesis of the following PhD. students :
Mrs H Senol Hatice İSİL, Mr. John PAPASSIMAKIS , Mr. D. PARASKEVAKIS , Mrs. A. PE-
TROMELIDOU, Mr. Nick TAGKOULIS.
▪ As supervisor, I followed the development of a thesis drawn up by Mr. N. SMYRNAKIS ,
examinated on February 26, 2013 by the seven-member committee and graduated with
honors.
3.4. Internal examinator of the following PhD students :
Mr. A. B, Mr. E. Dracodaeidis, Mr. A KOUTROUBAS, Mrs. Ch. LAGOPATI-TOBRA, Mr. N.
NTOLLAS, Mrs. A. XANTHOPOULOU, Mrs. G. POULOPOULOU, Mrs. SECHIDOU, Mr. A.
STAVROPOULOS, Mr. Th. TSOUCHLOS.
▪ Member of the advisory committees for doctoral theses of the following candidates:
Mrs. Ch. DIMOU, Mr. E. IOANNOU , Mr. S. KOUROUPAKIS , Mrs. I. DOULA , O. , Mr. I.
MANIATIS , Mr. P. PAPAGEORGIOU, Mr. I. PAPADOPOULOS , Mrs. A.-M. TSERONI and Mr.
John PSACHOULAS .
▪ Member examinating committee that evaluated the theses of the following candidates:
Mr. Ant . VASILAKIS , Mr. E. DRAKONTAEIDIS, Mr. Ath KOUTROUMPAS , Mrs. X. LAGO-
PATI - TOMBROU , Mr. P. DOLLAS, Ms A.. XANTHOPOULOU , Mrs. G. POULOPOULOU ,
Mrs. SECHIDOU , Mr. A. STAVROPOULOS , Mr. T. TSOUCHLOS.
▪ With my own initiative our University has contracted a cooperation protocol with the
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III concerning the common supervision of doctoral
theses (co-tutelle).

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Mrs. Panagiota DAOUTI is preparing a thesis under my supervision in co-operation with
my French colleague Mrs Brigitte PEREZ-JEAN of the above French university.
See also the website:
http://recherche.univ-
montp3.fr/crises/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=371
4. OTHER MONOGRAPHS AND PAPERS
4.1 . «Γλώσσα, Φιλοσοφία και Mεταφυσική κατά τον Jacques Derrida», in :
Mεταφυσική. Aπόψεις επάνω στη σύγχρονη Mεταφυσική (ed. K. BOUDOURIS ), Athens
1980 (reprint : Athens 1989), pp. 103-112. Precedes my translation of the essay, J.
DERRIDA, «Bία και Mεταφυσική. ∆οκίµιο πάνω στη σκέψη του Emmanuel Levinas » (ibid.,
pp. 57-101 ), followed by my own comments to the text (ibid., pp. 113-122 ) and
Biographical and bibliographical data (ibid., pp. 102-103 ) .
4.2. «Aπόψεις της φιλοσοφίας του M. Merleau-Ponty σχετικές προς την οντολο-
γία του», in the same volume , pp. 329-336. Precedes my translation of the article of
Merleau-Ponty, « Mεταφυσική και άνθρωπος » (ibid., pp. 309-327 ), followed by my
comments (ibid., pp. 336-339 ) and Biographical and bibliographical data (ibid., pp. 327-
328 ) .
Citations:
― Mωρίς M ΕΡΛΩ -Π ΟΝΤΥ , H αµφιβολία του Σεζάν. Tο µάτι και το πνεύµα (µτφρ. A. M ΟΥΡΙ -
ΚΗ ), Athens 1991, p. 120.
― N.-X. M ΠΑΝΑΚΟΥ -Κ ΑΡΑΓΚΟΥΝΗ , «H δυναµική του βλέµµατος στη φιλοσοφία του M.
Merleau-Ponty», Eλληνική Φιλοσοφική Eπιθεώρηση , vol. 14, fasc. 40, Jan. 1997, note 23
p. 27.
4.3. «Πολιτική και Έρως στο Φαίδρο », in: Έρωτας, Παιδεία και Φιλοσοφία (K. BOUDOURIS
ed.), Athens 1989, p. 202–223.
References :
― Année Philologique 60, 1989, σ. 272 (No 4066),
― Plato Bibliography 1988-92 (International Plato Society, 1992),
― L. B RISSON / H. I OANNIDI , Platon 1985–1990, Lustrum. Internationale Forschungsbe-
richte aus dem Bereich des klassischen Altertums,
34, 1992, p. 211 (No 6789).
4.4. «H πολιτική ως τέχνη : πράξη και κατασκευή», in: H πολιτική και ο Πολιτικός ,
(ed. ∆ιεθνής Eταιρεία Eλληνικής Φιλοσοφίας), Athens 1990, p. 211–232.
Refereces :
― Plato Bibliography 1988–92 (International Plato Society, 1992).
― Annee Philologique 63, 1992, p. 327 (No 4327).
― L. B RISSON avec la collaboration de F. P LIN , Platon 1990–1995. Bibliographie, [Paris,
Vrin, 1999.], p. 256-257, No 8493.
4.5. O πολιτικός κατά τον Γεώργιο Γεµιστό-Πλήθωνα. Eίναι πλατωνική η κατά
Πλήθωνα πολιτική φιλοσοφία;
, Athens 1992, 62 p.
Review :
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Revue des Études Byzantines , 52, 1994, p. 333, by Marie-Hélène C ONGOURDEAU .