This international conference, held in Athens, is planned as the inaugurating event of the Onassis Cultural Centre - Athens, a new cultural space with the fundamental aim of presenting, projecting and encouraging contemporary Greek culture and its dissemination beyond Greece. The Conference is organized in collaboration with eight leading world class academic institutions. Leading thinkers, academics, scientists and intellectuals from all over the world will gather to discuss, debate and open new routes of thought on issues of universal and diachronic interests.