Panagiotis Iliopoulos is a Ph.D. in Philosophy and postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Madrid and Crete. He teaches at the University of Ioannina, and is an elected member of its Senate. He has also taught at the Universities of Athens, Thessaloniki and the Peloponnese in Greece, as well as at the universities of New York, Bogazici, and Eastern Connecticut. He has received the Orlyk Award from the National Dragomanov University of Kiev, and the P. Oikonomou Award of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences from the Academy of Athens. In 2021 he was a candidate for the Prize of Excellent Teaching at the Open University of Cyprus. His main research interests are: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy. He has lectured widely in Greek and foreign universities, and he has presented scientific papers in various philosophical conferences all over the world. His articles and reviews have been published in several Greek and foreign philosophy journals, or have been included in international collective volumes. Several of them have been translated to several languages other than Greek or English. Dr. Iliopoulos has served as the Vice President of ISUD (International Society for Universal Dialogue) and also as the Vice President in the Scientific Council of the Academy of Institutions and Cultures, among other organizations where he has participated in the respective Boards of Directors. Regarding publications, he has authored five monographs and more than ninety articles. Recently he co-edited a collective volume on Nationalism in Routledge, London.

During his Fulbright Scholarship, he will spend four months at the State University of New York (Binghamton) and Cornell University. He will work with Professor Anthony Preus who published a translation of Pierre Pellegrin's book on Aristotle's Politics at SUNY Press, but also with Lisa Tessman who is serving as Vice President/President Elect of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and others. In his research project, Dr Iliopoulos starts with the observation that in Hellenistic philosophy, the issue of identity becomes gradually very important. Several other subsequent issues, connected with political inclusivity, arise and often conclude to philosophical ideas about the formation of political societies with a view to analysing how political duties are to be understood. In the present study, he will substantiate that the Hellenistic philosophers are aware of the difficulties of this transition from one to many, from the individual to the whole, and that Stoicism reinforces the emphasis on the practical aspect of the phenomenon of appropriation, proposing beneficial actions, and thus maintains political life. While this may be the beginning of another political utopia in the history of philosophy, with his research he aims to reject this possibility and to explore a) how the concept of the identity of the individual in Hellenistic theories prevents political conceptions from being converted into idealistic schemes, and b) how law and ideology are neither the unique possible constituents of political life nor the main references in a political life of inclusivity. Further, part of the research will be a comparative analysis in accordance with selected political theories of the 20th century that will shed more light on this discussion. Professor Charles A. Goodman who is the Director of the Program in Philosophy, Politics and Law, will be a valuable collaborator for the project of Dr Iliopoulos about Seneca’s ideas on politics and on the influences of the law. Of particular importance will be the collaboration with Professor Maxim A. Pensky, whose field is also political philosophy, and who is the co-director of the Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention. Furthermore, Dr Iliopoulos will cooperate with Professor Mateo Duque on an edition about political philosophy in antiquity regarding the issue of identity.