Conference Videos
Watch onlineDay 1
May 07, 2015
Day 2
May 08, 2015
Day 3
May 09, 2015
Day 4
May 10, 2015
8:00 - 8:50
Registration
8:50 - 9:00
Welcome – Brief instructions concerning the day’s program
Nikos Gouraros
08:59
Session Α1. Co-ordinator: Bishop Joseph of Patara
Decoding the signs of our times
9:15 - 9:30
An attempt at a niptic/philokalic approach to the Internet
9:30 - 9:45
The era of new media technologies and its challenges
9:45 - 10:00
Virtual reality and reality of virtue: Ethics of internet-based relationships informed by St Maximos the Confessor’s doctrine of prosopon and logoi of creatures
Questions-Discussion (A1)
10:14
Session A2. Co-ordinator: Deacon Juhana Sirén
10:15 - 10:30
Addressing those outside the Church: pitfalls, problems and probable solutions. The experience of the “Pravmir” mission web-page
10:30 - 10:45
Discernment: Spiritual Eyeglasses for Web Surfers
10:45 - 11:00
The “Rublev” orthodox digital library project. How the internet could offer spiritual benefits. New technologies in the Orthodox faith.
11:00 - 11:15
When the Internet intrudes as a threat to friendly relations
Questions-Discussion (A2)
11:30 - 12:00
BREAK
11:59
Session Α3. Co-ordinator: Prof. Jean-Claude Larchet
12:00 - 12:15
Digital ‘Word’: a reflection on evangelism in the virtual age
12:15 - 12:30
What are the positions of the Orthodox Church in a “Modern World”?
12:30 - 12:45
In the realm of digital media: the loss of consciousness as a threat to the Christian worldview
12:45 - 13:00
Digital Media – the Great Commission. Can the two collaborate?
Mission in the digital world, highlights of our experience – Forerunner’s Holy Monastery in Anatoli, Agia
13:15 - 13:30
Crowd funding in the Orthodox media: myths and reality
Questions-Discussion (A3)
14:00 - 15:00
LUNCH
15:29
Session Α4. Co-ordinator: Bishop Romanos Daoud of Edessa
15:30 - 15:45
Orthodoxy on social media: speak and do no harm
15:45 - 16:00
The Role of Social Networks in the Christian Life
16:00 - 16:15
Enlisting Digital Media into Pastoral Care in the Far East
16:15 - 16:30
From the digital valley of hunger to the “Bread of Life”
Questions-Discussion (A4)
16:44
Session A5. Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Jivko Panev
16:45 - 17:00
Technology and religious life: is heaven getting closer?
17:00 - 17:15
The Virtuality of communication: anthropological threats and the struggle against them
17:15 - 17:30
Old wine in new wineskins: digital multidimensional media as New Church?
17:30 - 17:45
“Through a Glass, Darkly”: Pastoral Challenges in an Age of Social Media (SKYPE call)
17:45 - 18:00
The main reason for ecclesiastical journalism, the quest, its starting-points and the methodological consequences of this quest.
Questions-Discussion (A5)
18:15 - 19:00
REST BREAK
19:00 - 21:00
OFFICIAL OPENING
- Message of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomew by His representative, Metropolitan Amfilohios of Kissamos and Selinon
- Welcoming Speeches - Addresses by Primates of Churches
20:10 - 20:19
Internet and spiritual life (video)
20:20 - 20:40
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
20:40 - 21:00
Dissemination of the Word of God via the Internet
21:00 - 21:30
TREAT
6:30 - 8:30
MATINS – DIVINE LITURGY on the Feast of Saint John the Theologian – Chapel of Saint George Kavouriou. The Liturgy will be celebrated by Elder Efraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi and the “Tropos” Byzantine choir will sing, conducted by Konstantinos Angelidis.
8:50 - 9:00
Brief instructions concerning the day’s program
08:59
Session Β1. Co-ordinator: Fr. Nektarios Mamalougos
9:00 - 9:15
Digital Technology and Cyberspace: a further test of the person (Videotaped Recording)
9:15 - 9:30
Ethical and spiritual issues related to the use of pseudonyms in Orthodox Internet forums
9:30 - 9:45
Grains of Orthodox pastoral experience from two decades on the Internet
9:45 - 10:00
The ‘Question to the Priest’ as a kind of journalistic discourse and a type of communication on the Internet
10:00 - 10:15
Digital libraries as spiritual heritage’s alternatives: the case of Theological Studies Academy’s (Volos) Digital Library
Questions-Discussion (B1)
10:29
Session Β2. Co-ordinator: Prof. Vladimir Legoyda
10:30 - 10:45
Spreading theology through e-learning: the experience of Balamand University
10:45 - 11:00
Pan-Orthodox Internet Study Programs
Questions-Discussion (B2)
11:15 - 11:45
BREAK
Panel Discussion: The Relationships between User and Pastor – The Implications of Internet Discourse
12:43
Co-ordinator: Archimandrite Anthimos Iliopoulos
12:44
Session Β3. Co-ordinator: Hieromonk Ieremia, Putna Monastery
12:45 - 13:00
The differentiation between communicative action, ritual action practice and virtual communications as a foundation for a pastoral approach to the Internet and Digital Media
13:00 - 13:15
Opportunities for ecclesiastical intervention in cyberspace to preserve the authentic Orthodox ethos
13:15 - 13:30
The pastoral care of the Church as an expression of communion in Christ
13:30 - 13:45
Spreading the discourse of catechism in spoken form on the internet (as .mp3 speech files). Experience from the running of the “Pantocrator” web site
Questions-Discussion (B3)
14:00 - 15:00
LUNCH
15:29
Session Β4. Co-ordinator: Dr. Symeon-Norris J. Chumley
15:30 - 15:45
The responsibility of the shepherd in the face of Social Media Networks
15:45 - 16:00
An Orthodox service blog
16:00 - 16:15
Pemptousia: A lifeline on the Internet
The presence of Putna monastery in the digital world: an attempt to communicate its ethos
Questions-Discussion (B4)
16:45 - 17:15
BREAK – TREAT
17:14
Session Β5. Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Michel Elias Najim
17:15 - 17:30
Past and present in the presence of the Polish Orthodox Church in the Internet; ideas and perspectives
17:30 - 17:45
The role of the media in contemporary pastoral care and missionary work- the experience of Latin America
17:45 - 18:00
Reaching to the Cloud – Digital Media in a Finnish Orthodox Context
18:00 - 18:15
e-Learning at Orthodox Mission’s Higher Educational Institutions; The Case of Orthodox Theological Faculty at Congo (Discussion)
18:15 - 18:30
Promotion of pastoral values through the Internet- digital pastoral care as a tool for deradicalization and social peace
Questions-Discussion (B5)
PANEL DISCUSSION: Pastoral Care, Theology, Divine Worship “via” the Internet. Reality, problems and perspectives
08:59
Session C1. Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Nicolae Dascălu
9:00 - 9:15
“Watch then thyself”(Πρόσεχε σεαυτῷ): Spiritual Practice and Digital Culture
9:15 - 9:30
3 topics for non-church young people: an attempt to grab the attention
9:30 - 9:45
Publishing information from the orthodox world on the net : be responsible!
Questions-Discussion (C1)
9:59
Session C2. Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis
10:00 - 10:15
The Use of the Internet in Pastoral Care
10:15 - 10:30
Pan-ecclesiastical discussion on the web-page: success or disappointment?
10:30 - 10:45
From the classical media to the digital media in the mission of the Church
Questions-Discussion (C2)
11:00 - 11:30
BREAK
PANEL DISCUSSION: The Ecclesiastical News from past to present. Special perspectives and characteristics in the Internet era.
11:31
Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Georgios Georgakopoulos
11:59
Session C3. Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Pavel Velikanov
12:15 - 12:30
The virtue of Internet-abstinence
12:30 - 12:45
Pathological on-line behaviors, recent scientific Greek and International data
12:45 - 13:00
Safe Internet use and protection against threats
13:00 - 13:15
High-risk online behaviors
Questions-Discussion (C3)
Final Discussion by the Scientific Committee of the Conference
13:31
Discussion Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis
14:00 - 15:00
LUNCH
15:00 - 17:00
TOUR OF ATHENS
19:00 - 19:30
CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS
19:30 - 19:45
His Eminence Metropolitan Pavlos of Glyfada presents His Eminence Ioannis, Archbishop of Ochrid and Metropolitan of Skopje
Speech by His Eminence Ioannis, Archbishop of Ochrid and Metropolitan of Skopje
20:15 - 21:00
“BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”. Screening the Documentary about the Theological School of Halki
21:00 - 21:30
TREAT
7:00 - 11:00