[reminder] Appraising Greek and Indian Classics on Strategic Leadership
Friday, 25 October 2024 | 6 pm
HISTORY HOUR
Appraising Greek and Indian Classics on Strategic Leadership
Vasileios Syros
Senior Research Fellow, University of Basel, Basel
Moderated by
Anthony da Silva
Scholar-in-residence, Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Goa
Co-chaired by
Prakash Parienkar
Director, Visiting Research Professors Programme, Goa University, Goa
Please join us for a History Hour lecture on ‘Appraising Greek and Indian Classics on Strategic Leadership’ by Vasileios Syros and moderated by Anthony da Silva on Friday, 25 October 2024 at 6 pm at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim.
Please join us for tea at 5:30 pm.
Visiting Research Professors Programme
School of International and Area Studies
Goa University
Appraising Greek and Indian Classics on Strategic Leadership
The lecture will address how a comparative interpretation of ancient Greek and Indian sources and case studies can facilitate a more holistic understanding of the principles of strategic leadership. More specifically, we will discuss how ancient strategic thinking resonates with modern theories of leadership and how it can help us derive lessons and best practices in the twenty-first century.
Vasileios Syros
Vasileios Syros is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He also serves as the Director of the Early Modern Greek Culture Program at The Medici Archive Project (Florence, Italy). His areas of interest include the history of medieval and early modern political thought and cross-cultural leadership.
He received his PhD in Medieval and Modern History from the University of Heidelberg, conducted postdoctoral research at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne, and was appointed Docent in Political History at the University of Helsinki. He has held research positions and fellowships at Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University (Japan), the Academy of Finland, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Professor Syros served as Full Professor and Greek Chair (sponsored by the Government of the Hellenic Republic) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India). He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Military History and Conflict Studies at the United Service Institution of India (USI), India’s oldest and foremost tri-service think-tank (est. 1870) for research into national security and military affairs.
Anthony da Silva
Anthony da Silva is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim. He has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan, USA. He taught for many years at Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune, as well as universities in the USA. He has edited The Jesuit in South Asia (2021) and The Jesuits, Goa and the Arts (2023).
Prakash Parienkar
Prakash Parienkar is the Director of the Visiting Research Professors Programme at the Goa University. He is Associate Professor of Konkani and Vice-Dean (Research) at the Shenoi Goembab School of Languages and Literature, Goa University. He is the author of numerous books and short stories in Konkani. His anthology, Varsal, was conferred the Sahitya Akademi Award for its literary merit and contribution to the Konkani language.
Visiting Research Professors Programme
School of International and Area Studies
Goa University, Taleigao Plateau, Goa 403206, India
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Xavier Centre of Historical Research
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