16:30 – 17:00              Coffee and Registration

Opening Addresses:

Chair:                           Anna Koukkides-Procopiou

Senior Fellow, Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs

17:00 – 17:30                Evie Zambetakis

Director, Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative (EMSI)

Achilles Emilianides

Dean, School of Law, University of Nicosia

Andreas Theophanous

Head, Department of Politics and Governance

President of the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs,

University of Nicosia

I. Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean

Keynote Address:

17:30 – 18:00                Andreas Theophanous

Head, Department of Politics and Governance

President of the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs,

University of Nicosia

“Revisiting the Cyprus Question and the Need for a New Approach”

18:00 – 18:20                Discussion

18:20 – 18:30                Coffee Break

II. Eastern Mediterranean Security and Geopolitics

Chair:                           Hubert Faustmann

Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and Governance,

University of Nicosia

18:30 – 18:50                Nadia Arbatova

Head, Department of European Studies, Institute of World Economy and

International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences

“Great Power Involvement in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East and its Repercussions”

18:50 – 19:10                Antonino Occhiuto

Researcher, Euro-Gulf Information Centre

“Energy Security and Geopolitics”

19:10 – 19:30                Discussion

19:30 – 20:00                Reception