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19 May 2021

Tourism of Tomorrow 2021: Takeaways from ACT’s online conference

Greece is a strong competitor in the market, Greek tourism in particular will likely achieve its record 2019 numbers after the end of 2023 and into 2024, and we’re looking at returning to “business as usual” by 2023; these were some of the takeaways from the 4th Tourism of Tomorrow… More

10 May 2021

Celebrating one year of the ACTivities Magazine

Last year ACT launched a magazine in order to highlight the creative work of the ACT community. The magazine was named ACTivities and can be found on the ACT website at https://www.act.edu/student-services/activities-magazine. Volume 1, Issue 1, titled “Quarantined Creativity” was released in May 2020, the second issue “With Challenge Comes… More

19 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 on Wednesday, March 10,… More

25 February 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 PHOTO CREDIT: DUKAKIS CENTER

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

24 February 2021

Data Girl Danjela Lura on Landing a Tech Internship

We caught up with ACT student, Danjela Lura, Computer Science major, and founder of the “ACT Data Girls” club after she presented the “Landing a Tech Internship” webinar during International Education Week in fall 2020. Danjela was keen to talk about her experience and the ways that her liberal arts education… More

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