09.30 : Welcome by LHF Chairman, Quentin Compton-Bishop
Opening remarks by Professor Jenifer Neils, Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
10.00 -11.00 : Keynote speech: The Challenges of Pluralism - Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Professor and Director of the Centre of Asia Minor Studies, Athens
11.00 - 11.30 : Coffee break
11.30 - 13.00 : Session 1 – Dignitaries in the Levantine World

• Greeks in the service of the Republic of Venice. Venetian Consuls in the Ottoman Empire (1670-1715) - Umberto Signori (State University of Milan)
• Merchant office holders in 18th century Levantine trade. Non-business profit-seeking mechanisms, power politics and Levantine identity - Despina Vlami (Academy of Athens)
• The Consulate of the Septinsular Republic (1800-07) in the Dardanelles and Ionian shipping in Constantinople and the Black Sea in the beginning of the 19th century - Gerassimos Pagratis (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
• Levantines and the British Consular Service - Lucia Patrizio Gunning (University College London)
• Q&A

13.00 - 14.00 : Lunch break
14.00 - 15.30 : Session 2 – Networks, Families and Institutions

• The German Teutonia Club and its role as a cultural hub of the Levantines in pre-World War 1 Istanbul - Richard Wittman (Orient-Institut, Istanbul)
• 3rd International Conference of The Levantine Heritage Foundation, Athens, 2-3 November 2018
• The sports activity of the English Commercial School “Barkshire” in Smyrna and Athens - Andreas Baltas (Panteion University, Athens)
• The Durighellos: three generations of consuls, merchants and antiquarians in the Levant - Elisabeth Fontan (Musée du Louvre, Paris) and Michel Klat (independent researcher, London)
• The Baltazzi family and rural change in Western Anatolia in the Late Ottoman Empire - Önder Eren Akgül (Georgetown University, USA)
• Q&A

15.30 - 16.00 : Coffee break
16.00 - 17.30 : Session 3 – The role of Religion and Interreligious connections

• The Catholic bishops and their community on the Island of Syros and the Ottoman authorities - Elias Kolovos (University of Crete)
• A Muslim ayan and his Christian partner: interreligious economic cooperation in Smyrna in the beginning of the 19th century - Sophia Laiou (Ionian University, Corfu)
• A visit to an invisible community: the Protestant Greeks of Asia Minor in the late Ottoman Empire - Gülen Göktürk (Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey)
• American Protestantism, Greek Orthodoxy and Greece’s Megali Idea: Evolution of the relationship between American Protestant missionaries and Greek Orthodox throughout the 19th century - Ahmet Gençturk (Tor Vergata University of Rome)
• Q&A

17.30 - 18.30 : Roundtable – Searching the Family Past / Family Portraits

• Exploring the Murat Levantine identity - Joseph Nicholas Murat
• 3rd International Conference of The Levantine Heritage Foundation, Athens, 2-3 November 2018 - Anastasia: Speaking her silence, Şebnem Şenyener
• The unknown story of a painter: Mario Prassinos (1916-1985) - Seza Sinanlar Uslu

18.30 -18.40 : Closing of Day 1

09.30 - 10.30: Keynote speech: Greeks and Levantines in Egypt: Parallel Lives - Alexander Kitroeff, Haverford College, USA
10.30 - 11.00 : Book presentation: The Smyrna Quay – Tracing a symbol of Progress and Splendour - Achilleas Chatziconstantinou and George Poulimenos
11.00 -11.30 : Coffee break
11.30 - 13.00 : Session 4 – Levantine Identities – Who/what is a Levantine?

• The Levantins – an Italian word - Jérôme Muniglia de’ Giustiniani (independent researcher, France)
• Through the eyes of a Levantine: Hieronymo Giustiniani’s manuscript on Genoese Chios - Ioanna Koukounis (Independent researcher, Athens)
• The Levantine in the eyes of the ‘Levantine’: Jacqueline Kahanoff between Levant and the West - David Tal (University of Calgary, Canada)
• Levantine Identities in Eric Ambler’s ‘The Mask of Dimitrios and The Light of Day’ - Nagihan Haliloğlu (Ibn Haldun University, Turkey)
• Q&A

13.00 - 14.00 : Lunch break
14.00 -15.30 : Session 5 – Cosmopolitan cities in transition

• Salonica, Jerusalem of the Balkans - Philip Mansel (Institute of Historical Research, London)
• Cosmopolitan Athens: the communities of western Europeans in Athens 1800-1920 - Nikos Potamianos (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas)
• Smyrna in the wartime: End of October 1914 – September 8th, 1922 - Hervé Georgelin (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
• The network of the Bank of Athens in the Levant, 1893-1930@ Urban and architectural aspects - Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
• Q&A

15.30 - 16.00 : Coffee break
16.00 - 17.30 : Session 6 – Levantines in a post-Ottoman world

• Between the Levant and the League: Thanassis Aghnides and the Greco-Turkish population exchange - Haakon Ikonomou (Aarhus University, Denmark)
• The role of Malta following the Smyrna humanitarian crisis of 1922 - Giorgio Peresso (Malta)
• Uncertain legal status: Rise and fall of Turkey’s Levantine community - Giordano Altarozzi (Petro Maior University, Romania) and Iulia-Alexandra Oprea (Sapienza University of Rome)
• The murder of Léonard Calomati and the end of the Levantine presence in Chios - Vassilis Ayiannidis (Athens)
• Q&A

17.30 - 18.30 : Levantine Unions socializing event - Izmir Levantine Union, Istanbul Levantine Union, LHF, Hellenic Levantine Union. Discussion on challenges, collaborations and synergies
18.30 - 18.40 : Closing of the Conference - LHF Chairman