1o Ημερήσιο Γενικό Λύκειο Αίγινας - 2ο Διεθνές Ακαδημαϊκό Συνέδριο "Γιάννης Πούντος".

Στον χώρο του λαογραφικού μουσείου Αίγινας από Παρασκευή 01/11/2024 μέχρι Κυριακή 03/11/2024, με πρωτοβουλία του διακεκριμένου καθηγητή του Ανοιχτού Πανεπιστημίου, τμήματος Ανθρωπιστικών σπουδών, κ. Γεωργίου Βλαχάκη, ο οποίος μας τιμά με την παρουσία του, θα λάβει χώρα το 2ο Διεθνές ακαδημαϊκό συνέδριο "Γιάννης Πούντος" προς τιμήν του αείμνηστου φίλου, συναδέλφου, Φυσικού και διευθυντή του 1ου Ημερησίου Γενικού Λυκείου Αίγινας. Στο συνέδριο θα λάβουν μέρος πολλοί εξέχοντες ακαδημαϊκοί από διάφορα ευρωπαϊκά πανεπιστήμια και η θεματολογία θα καλύπτει ένα ευρύ φάσμα επιστημονικών αντικειμένων. Επισυνάπτεται πρόγραμμα.

9th International Workshop on Science and Literature &
2nd International Workshop, Giannis Pountos

Insular weathers, global atmospheres: Exploring the aerial histories of islands

Aegina 1-3 November 2024

Preliminary Planning Aegina Atmospheric Humanities Conference II:

November 1:
14:00-15:00 Registration; coffee
15:00-15:30 Welcome address; Mayor of Aegina, Rector of Hellenic Open University, Vice-President of Hellenic Physicists Association, Member of Giannis Pountos Family, other authorities
15:30-17:30 Local session: Introduction to the Greek archipelago
George N. Vlahakis, Iraklis Vogiatzis, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos,
Wuthering islands of the Greek Archipelago. A poetic perspective.
Panagiotis Nastos, Domestic rainwater harvesting systems as practices to create resilience to climate change and to enhance water security in small dry islands
Kostas Skordoulis, Gianna Katsiampoura, Aeolian Parks in the Greek islands: Lessons to be learned from the “Save Agrafa” campaign
17:30-18:00 Break
18:00-19:00 Session one: Turning islands into (hi)stories(Fleming, Vuolo, Martin)
Morgan Martin,“Shifting Sands” at Skara Brae: Sand blows, erosion, and the narration of an island in flux
Nicola Vuolo, A series of (un)fortunate events. The island effect in literature and biology.
20:00-22:00 First conference dinner

November 2:
9:00-10:30 Session two: Island climates changing people
Benedetta Panisson, Climate Changes Sex
Argyro Loukaki, Bathing in Aegina's sublime light: Saronic atmospheric creativity from antiquity to modernity
Katiana Matzaridou Mantetzioglou, Exiled Climes: Weathering the Elements of Isolation
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 book presentations(movie Jana Kopelent-Rehak)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Art event / performance (Anthea Caddy
15:00-16:30 Session three:Island geopolitics and climate knowledge
Robert-Jan Wille, Atmospheric geopolitics from Tenerife to Svalbard. German weather balloonists and the island borders of Europe, 1871-1933
Sebastian Grevsmühl, Placing remote islands in the Indian Ocean at the centre of the map: Meteorological research at Kerguelen islands and the rise and fall of an aeronautical hub (1950s-1980s)
Maria Terdimou, New islands, new rivers, new lakes: the surface of our planet is transforming
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:30 Session four: Local atmospheres, insular ecologies
Milica Prokic, ‘The stone with veins’: Sketching a pre-carceral portrait of Goliotok
Jana Kopelent -Rehak, We live in the water. Climate, Aging, and Socioecology on Smith Island
Giovanni Bulian, Black winds, Korean winds and demon winds. Local knowledge and weather risk mitigation practices in Suō-Ōshima Island, Japan.
19:30-21:30 Second conference dinner

November 3:
8:30-10:30 Session five (partially online): Atmospheric sites in the Pacific
James R. Fleming, No Woman is an Island: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere
Ciaran Doolin, An Ice Age on a temperate Pacific island? Julius von Haast and the debate over past glaciation in New Zealand
Constantin Canavas, “You don’t see the cloud in the horizon!” The atmospheric rhetoric in the Philippine wars of independence in the 1890s in the frame of the insular mobility
Wang Jianyu, Research on Strontium-90 in the Pacific Nuclear Proving Ground and the Birth of the Systemic Ecological View
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Session six: Insular Europe: engaging with clouds (Ziche, Scholz, Jankovic)
Luca Scholz, Insular Interventions: Envisioning the Spatial Imaginaries of Weather Modification
Paul Ziche, Islands in the clouds–Romanticist destabilisations through atmospheric phenomena
Vladimir Jankovic, Manhattan Island: Urban Meteorology in the Big Apple
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session seven: Hawai‘i between poetics and climate science (Saunders, Dörries, Renner)
Ryan Saunders, Rain in the Palms: A Poetics of Weather in Hawaiʻi
Matthias Dörries, Maui, Hawaii, and the history of the concept of microclimate
Madison Renner, Big Island, small world: Maintaining atmospheric access in Hawai’i throughout the history of the Keeling curve
15:30-16:30 Closing remarks