Dukakis Center launches monthly web tv program
The Dukakis Center has launched a new series of virtual events, in the form of a monthly program in English on the Anixneusis web tv channel. The objective of this series of live video webcasts is to engage with an informal network of experts on topics of interest to an anglophone segment of the Greek public.
The program is hosted by Dr. David Wisner, Professor of International Relations at ACT and Executive Director of the Dukakis Center for Public Service. Senior intern Chrysi Kioulmouratoglou (English, Class of 2022) is the program’s production assistant.
Two pre-taped programs were broadcast in May 2021 to test the format, the one featuring Mary Beth Norton of Cornell University, former President of the American Historical Society, and Aristides Hatzis of the University of Athens, the other a presentation of Ambassador Monteagle Stearns’ posthumous book on Andreas Papandreou.
A live pilot was then broadcast on September 17, with James Wasserstrom, anti-corruption official at the US Embassy in Kabul from 2009-14, on hand to discuss the ramifications of the Biden Administration’s decision to withdraw all US troops in Afghanistan.
The most recent episode of the program aired on October 15 and featured Peter Gries, Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester (UK) and Director of the Manchester China Institute, who outlined a pan-European research project designed to measure public views of Chinese investment in various EU member-states, including Greece. The Dukakis Center will launch a joint research project with the MCI in 2022.
The Anixneusis web tv channel is the creation of Thessaloniki-based journalist Pantelis Savvidis. Readers of a certain age will recall Mr. Savvidis’ signature news program of the same name, which was carried Friday evenings on ERT3, and attracted a wide audience across Greece. Mr. Savvidis had hosted ACT faculty and Dukakis Center staff on his program going back to 2001, when Dukakis Center Director David Wisner first appeared on his program to discuss American politics.
The next episode of Dukakis Center Live will feature special guest Othon Anastasakis, Director of the European Studies Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, who co-hosted the Dukakis Center’s symposium on political reform in Greece in November 2011. The topic of the discussion will be “Ten Years of Reform and Crisis in Greek and EU Politics (2011-2021).” This program will be a companion piece to a virtual exhibition of Dukakis Center banners and posters from 2011-2021, which is being designed by senior intern Arsa Soto (CS, Class of 2022), and which will open on November 3.
In January, Dr. Wisner will host Beth Simone Noveck, an Obama Administration alumna currently at Northeastern University, and Efi Stefopoulou, of the National School of Public Administration and the Hellenic Ministry of Public Administration, for a discussion on human capital in public administration. This episode will coincide with the fourth annual Civil Society Forum, to take place on January 27 in collaboration with the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Future programs will be announced in due course.
