A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2015
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Lansie Sylvia at the Dukakis Center
Posted April 20, 2016 by Politis
The Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Public and Humanitarian Service at the American College of Thessaloniki presents An Inspiration Exchange! workshop in nonprofit communication, community partnerships, and engagement strategy with Lansie Sylvia Director of Engagement, Here’s My Chance, Philadelphia Wednesday, April 20, 4 PM, Municipality of Pilea-Hortiatis, Panorama Cultural Center, Litsa Fokidi Hall “Here’s […]
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Civic engagement and the practices of democracy
Posted April 8, 2016 by Politis
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The Warehouse of Souls
Posted April 6, 2016 by Politis
By Nicholas Piston* It was somewhat poetic taking the ferry across the Aegean in the cover of night. I made my way to the outdoor deck, my preferred place to sit whenever taking a ferry in Greece, and stared out to Piraeus, gazing silently at the gates I volunteered briefly at while in Athens (which will have […]
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News in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities
Posted April 6, 2016 by Politis
The Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center in Public and Humanitarian Service, in collaboration with News-Decoder, Paris, and the ACT English Program, will host a Masterclass in New Media with Nelson Graves, Founder and Director, News-Decoder, on Monday, April 18, at 12 Noon, at The Met Hotel, Thessaloniki. “News in the Digital Age: Challenges and […]
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Fall 2015 highlights at the Dukakis Center
Posted April 5, 2016 by Politis
During the Fall 2015 semester the Dukakis Center was involved in three major undertakings, conceived above all to inspire young people to take an active role in the public life of their country. First, the Dukakis Center underwrote and was present at the annual Thessaloniki International Symposium organized by the Navarino Network, on Sunday, October […]
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Second Festival of Civic and Urban Culture, April 2016
Posted April 4, 2016 by Politis
Press release For immediate release March 24, 2016 During a ten-day period from April 11-20 the Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Public and Humanitarian Service at the American College of Thessaloniki will host its Second Festival of Civic and Urban Culture. The 2016 Festival will include, among others, a masterclass in stop-motion animation for […]
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The Sprit of Eidomeni
Posted March 27, 2016 by Politis
The makeshift migrant camp in Eidomeni has been in the news regularly since the end of 2015. Reports today claimed the camp was finally being evacuated by Greek authorities. This would not be the first time. Last November a group of fifteen Dukakis Center interns, from Greece, the US, and several Balkan countries, organized a […]
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Kostas Ifantis at the Dukakis Center
Posted March 21, 2016 by Politis
The Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Public and Humanitarian Service at the American College of Thessaloniki in collaboration with Navarino Network and the Kalliopi Koufa Foundation Cordially invite you to attend a Dukakis Lecture by Kostas Ifantis Panteion and Kadir Has Universities Greece and Turkey: Neighbours in a […]
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A public service announcement on uninsured vehicles
Posted March 10, 2016 by Politis
Is your vehicle currently insured? A penalty of 250 euros will apply for any uninsured vehicle the next few days, as soon as the cross check will be made by the Greek Ministry of Finance, since yesterday, was published the relevant law. If your vehicle is not then insured within two months, further penalties will […]
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Barriers to healthcare access for Roma women in Thessaloniki
Posted February 17, 2016 by Politis
As part of the Social Science 399-Service Learning class during the Fall 2015 semester at the American College of Thessaloniki, study abroad student Megan Yuan, a Public Health major from Rutgers University, undertook primary research among one of the most marginalized and disenfranchised demographics: Roma women. Through the Service Learning class, co-taught by Ruth Sutton […]
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What do these young people really want?
Posted December 17, 2015 by KK
By Krysta I am commenting on a recent article on the site Ανιχνεύσεις (“Η Νεολαία του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ ζητά να καταργηθεί η πρωινή προσευχή στα σχολεία“). I first asked myself, what is more interesting, the question of prayer in school or the activity of Syriza youth. Apart from the fact that the title is completely misleading […]
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The Aftermath of Despair and a Cartography of Hope
Posted November 30, 2015 by DW
You are cordially invited To a presentation of photographs by photojournalist Dimitris Bouras “Beyond Dichotomies: Reassembling Global Challenges through the Local: Syria / Iraq | Research Project | 1991, 2003 ~ 2007, 2010 ~ 2015 or, the Aftermath of Despair and a Cartography of Hope ” Tuesday, December 1, 1PM ACT NEW BuILDING A-V ROOM […]
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The same language
Posted November 27, 2015 by DW
By Alexia Apostolina A cloudy morning in November we woke up, dressed as warm as we could with a smile on our faces, bags with pullovers, raincoats and everything else we wanted to give to those people. Heroes. In the bus everyone seemed unsure, wondering about what we would come across in Eidomeni. Many feelings, many […]
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The Bourgeois of Calais
Posted November 13, 2015 by DW
Le référendum a été un désastre : tels les bourgeois de Calais, Tsipras a dû se rendre à Bruxelles le 12 juillet avec un projet d’accord encore plus dur que celui qu’il avait soumis à référendum. It’s not an allusion I expect a Greek journalist would make under the circumstances. I so took for granted […]
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Anything new here?
Posted November 12, 2015 by KK
By Krysta I am reading two new sites. First, Liberal.gr. My first impression is not positive. In one recent post the author wants to reply to his readers who he is (he used to write for www.capital.gr). But eventually after sharing two irrelevent stories he doesn’t say. Judging from his writing, I have difficulty taking […]
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The Dukakis Center: the inside story
Posted September 27, 2015 by Politis
A new academic year is beginning at the American College of Thessaloniki and the Dukakis Center is planning another banner year of events and public service initiatives. Politis caught up with Dr. David Wisner, Executive Director of the Dukakis Center, to get the inside story on the many events he has organized at ACT over […]
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@#$% democracy
Posted September 23, 2015 by DW
I first saw this illustration on Facebook early this past Monday morning, after I had read initial accounts in the Greek press on voter turnout in the September 20 general election. My first reflex was maybe to share it with awi tty caption. To be truthful, I experienced an odd combination of emotions when I […]
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The best and the brightest
Posted September 19, 2015 by DW
In the spring of 2006 I invited Pavlos Geroulanos to visit the Dukakis Center to speak on the topic of “youth and politics.” At the time Geroulanos was something like chief of staff to the then-president of PASOK, George Papandreou, having recently returned to Greece from the US, where he had done an MBA at […]
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The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Posted August 19, 2015 by DW
Last year I published a Kindle e-book on the Greek sovereign debt crisis. I wanted to understand, and explain to non-Greek readers, why Greeks behaved as they had during the crisis, and why they might have acted other than an American readership might have anticipated. I framed the story I told as a contemporary version […]
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Giving up the ghost
Posted July 26, 2015 by DW
It was a metaphor that was not uncommon in earlier moments of the crisis, that of Greece as a patient on life support. The notion of a sick man of Europe has a long pedigree after all. It has come back with a vengeance now, most recently in the form of a commentary by Maria […]