The website www.blod.gr (acronym for Bodossaki Lectures on Demand) is the only site in Greece – and one of the few internationally – to focus exclusively on the promotion of lectures and other intellectual content. Launched in October 2011 at the initiative and expense of the Bodossaki Foundation, it is part of the Foundation’s primary objective of promoting education in Greece. It is a social non-profit service, which aims to disseminate knowledge and intelligent dialogue in our country through the use of modern technological tools.
On the website you’ll find video recordings of selected speeches, lectures, and public events from across the spectrum of intellectual life in Greece.
Choose among 37 thematic categories, 6,000 topics, and over 8,000 speakers, and treat yourself to quality time with new ideas and knowledge from notable speakers.
Among the 8,000 speakers featured on BLOD, you can listen distinguished Greeks from the fields of science, the arts, and ideas – to mention just a few: MIT award-winning professor Constantinos Daskalakis, renowned history professor Maria Efthymiou, internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor Leonidas Kavakos, architect and academic Manolis Korres, famous astrophysicist Stamatis Krimizis, leading theoretical physicist Dimitris Nanopoulos, as well as beloved figures Kiki Dimoula and Alki Zei. On BLOD, you can also discover major international figures such as Nobel laureates James Cronin, David Gross, and Orhan Pamuk; acclaimed authors Antonio Tabucchi, Pascal Bruckner, Paul Auster, Andrés Neuman, and Victoria Hislop; philosophers Étienne Balibar and Alain Badiou; director Peter Stein; visual artist Marina Abramović; among many others.
Browse from the comfort of your home and choose according to your interests on this unique hub of intellectual dialogue, open to every internet user who seeks to expand their knowledge horizons.
Over the 14 years of blod.gr presence, thousands of hours of lectures have been recorded—many of which would not have been preserved under other circumstances. Once uploaded, these lectures remain permanently available to the public.