Vienna University

 Six honorary doctoral degrees will be awarded to personalities from Austria, the United Kingdom, Poland, Turkey, Canada and the United States during the 7th edition on Thursday and Friday of the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy (UMF) scientific congress held at Parliament Palace in Bucharest, UMF rector Ioanel Sinescu told AGERPRES.

Nathalie Patricia Soursos of the Department for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Vienna University, will give a talk on "The Creation of Modern Athens in the 19th Century" at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, on Wednesday, June 20. Dr Soursos, who specializes in Greek history from the 19th Century onwards, will focus on the role of powerful elites in the creation of a modern Athens.

A historian who was viciously attacked by a gang of Golden Dawn members in the summer of 2008 testified on Friday at the ongoing trial on the criminal activities of the far-right party, telling judges that there were a lot of similarities between that assault and others of which the party stands accused.

Indian maestro Zubin Mehta will seek to inject what he says is some much-needed harmony into the world when he conducts the illustrious Vienna New Year’s Concert on Jan. 1.