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16 October 2021

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… More

02 June 2021

Dukakis Center hosts Ruth Sutton of InCommOn for presentation on circular economy and urban community building

Ruth Sutton taught English and Civil Society at ACT from 2008-2017. In this capacity she was a leading force at the Dukakis Center, overseeing two major projects in 2009-10 and 2010-11, the Recycle Monster and Street Kid to School Kid. After departing from ACT she returned to her previous vocation… More

01 June 2021

Dukakis Center hosts two podcasts on modern Greek history

Mary Beth Norton, Aristides Hatzis, and David Wisner discuss 1776 and 1821

The Dukakis Center hosted two podcasts on key episodes in modern Greek history in the month of May 2021, with a view toward launching a new series of video and audio programs on Greek history in collaboration with the local web tv program Anixneusis. The first podcast, which was recorded… More

18 March 2021

Cold War 2.0 or Mutual Understanding? China expert Orville Schell speaks at the Dukakis Center

Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, is one of those rare public figures who can shift seamlessly from the esoteric to the essential, from the fictional to the factual, from philosophy to policy. This trait was in abundance this past Wednesday evening,… More

16 March 2021

Our heroes, our monster: lessons learned from the 3rd annual Thessaloniki Civil Society Forum

Front row, l-r: Nikos Zaharis, Epaminondas Christofilopoulos; back row, l-r: David Wisner, Anna Damaskou, Georgios Siakas

In 1995 the French journalist and scholar Jean Lacouture published a small book with a series of portraits of the figures who had “made” the world after World War II. Some were widely acknowledged to be monstrous for their misdeeds; others were the source of Lacouture’s personal inspiration. In a… More

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