Past Events

When: Every Monday
Where: Gerakas / Cholargos Farmers’ Markets

When: Every Friday
Where: Aghia Paraskevi Farmers’ Market

Organized by: Office of Public Affairs
powered by: NGO Boroume

• Are you a member of the ACG Community (Student/Faculty/Staff)?
• Do you want to engage in volunteer community-based work?
• Are you interested in helping reduce food waste while helping others in need?

Then, we are looking for YOU!

When:
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | 10:00 – 10:30
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | 8:00 – 8:30

Where: Deree front lawn

Organized by: ACG Health & Wellness Center

An event by Sophie Themelis, Executive Coordinator, Wellness Pilates Instructor

Awaken from the stillness of sleep to an outward expression of Joy. This 30-minute Active Meditation Session includes a balance of form and freedom using Tai Chi and Pilates inspired moves, meditation, reflections and ending with a nice cup of tea.

For more information please contact Sophie Themelis at 210 6009800 ext.1700 or at [email protected]

When: Tuesday, May 30 2023, 15:00-16:00
Where: 7th Level Auditorium

Organized by:
The Art History Society

About the event

Name of the speaker: Kate Wilcox

Information for the speaker: Kate M. Wilcox is an Edinburgh-based museum professional who creates supportive museum experiences that encourage inquiry, reflection, and critical thinking.

Commissioned by the Scotland + Venice consortium to produce a multimedia installation for the 59th International Art Exhibition, artist-curator Alberta Whittle employs her signature wayward curatorial approach in the creation of deep dive (pause): uncoiling memory, which is envisioned as a ‘space built on black love, care, queerness, community and healing.’ This presentation begins by providing context as to why wayward curation is necessary to combat the exclusionary mandates of hegemonic institutions and acknowledges the political interests of the installation’s commissioner. This is followed by an analysis of how modes of resistance are conceptualized within the critical theories Whittle has identified as influential to her practice. Wayward curation is further deconstructed with a final assessment of how the content, design, and production of the installation resists racist, patriarchal, and heteronormative paradigms embedded within the art world. Central to this is Whittle’s network of accomplices – composed of institutions, curators, performers, technicians, and invigilators – who forge a mutually supportive mode of operating through an additive production process. Also worth examination is the continuing evolution of this exhibition as it changes galleries, institutions, and audiences.

Graduates at work
The latest skills, competencies and tips to enter the world of work with success

When: Tuesday May 30, 2023 | 13:00-16:00
Where: ACG Events Hall

Organized by:
Office of Career Services

About the event

Are you a senior student and have questions about the day after graduation?
Transition smoothly out of college and into the workplace with this workshop, offered by top job market experts and our career coaches from the Office of Career Services!

During the workshop, you will:

• Get practical information to look for and find the right job for you, including current opportunities available
• Get insights into the current job market and strategic job search
• Receive training on how to position yourself in the job market and personal branding
• Brand yourself, build your CV and social media identity
• Learn how skills are detected on a CV from the recruiters and the importance of verbal effectiveness
• Be introduced to the needs of the marketplace: insights on the current job market and advice to identify opportunities for you
• Be updated on jobs available through the Office of Career Services and how our people can support you.

Learn all about the latest skills, competencies and tips to enter the world of work with success!

Agenda

12:30-13:00 Registration

13:00- 14:00 Be introduced to the needs of the marketplace: insights on the current job market and advice to identify opportunities for you. Learn all about the latest skills, competencies and tips to enter the world of work with success!

Introduction:

Dimitris Megremis – Director, Office of Career Services

Marina Perantonaki – Senior Manager, Office of Career Services

Experts Panel

Panel Regulator: Dimitris Megremis – Director, Office of Career Services

Eirini Kampouri – Co-Founder & Managing Partner, apply2day

Ethel Agelatou – Employer Branding | Associate Director, EY Greece

Joanna Basa – Senior Associate/Project Leader, Just One Recruitment & Executive Search agency

Roy Filou – Group Brand Manager Nestlé Waters, Nestlé

14:00-14:30 Networking break

14:30-16:00 Training: How to position yourself in the job market and do personal branding. Get practical information to look for and find the right job for you, including current opportunities available

Alexandra Prindezi – Manager, Office of Career Services

• How to set the role
• Learn how skills are detected on a CV from the recruiters and the importance of verbal effectiveness

Marina Perantonaki – Senior Manager, Office of Career Services

• Brand yourself, build your CV and social media identity
• Briefing on jobs available through the Office of Career Services and how our people can support you.

Organized by
Sociology Society, Deree – The American College of Greece

in collaboration with
Student Association for International Affairs (SAFIA)

 

When:
Monday, May 29, 2023 | 12:30-17:00
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 | 14:30-17:30

Where: Arts Center Auditorium

Attendance is free of charge.
Parking on campus upon availability.

 

About the Event

The Athens Social Sciences Forum is an annual Undergraduate Student Conference organized by the Sociology Society of the American College of Greece-Deree in collaboration with the Student Association for International Affairs (SAFIA). Social Science students from ACG and Greek public universities will present their work (outstanding research papers or theses) in this open, annual event. The purpose of the Athens Social Sciences Forum is to showcase and celebrate student research, to promote interinstitutional collaboration, and to provide space for dialogue and meaningful exchange of ideas among students of different social science disciplines.

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Register to attend

A certificate of attendance will be issued to those who attend both days.

 

PROGRAM

DAY 1 | MAY 29

12:40-12:50 | Welcome and Introduction

• Welcome Remarks, Dr. Chryssa Zachou, Sociology Department Head
• Ilaeira Korda, President of the Sociology Society
• Niki Tourka, President of SAFIA

12:50-14:10 | SESSION 1

Moderator:  Ilaeira Korda

1. Tsoumpi, Amalia: From Mommy Dearest to Helen of Troy: The Enduring Legacy of the Madonna-Whore Dichotomy in Ambivalent Sexism and Intimate Relationships
2. Krati, Maria: Αthena: A Website for the Survivors of Sexual Violence
3. Karathanasis, Kostas: “Τzou”- Racing Against Adversity: A Woman’s Inspiring Comeback Story” ”(short documentary)

Q&A

14:10-14:30 | Break

14:30-15:25 | SESSION 2

 Moderator:  Penelope Liverakos

1. Papaioannou, Anastasios: Toward a Sadistic Society: The Rise of fauxcest Pornography
2. Bollas, Angelos: Non-Penetrative Sex & Gay Men’s Friendships: An Exploratory Study

Q&A

15:25-15:35 | Break

15:35-16:50 | SESSION 3

Moderator: Niki Tourka

1. Fais, Vera: Music as Propaganda Under the Third Reich: The Case of Bach
2. Tsocha, Magdalini: Η ιδεολογία των Αδελφών Μουσουλμάνων και η πολιτική πρακτική σήμερα
3. Drosos Anagnostopoulos Phevos: Τι θα μπορούσε να Μειώσει την Ανθρωπογενή Πίεση επί των Φυσικών Πόρων: Η Απο-Ανάπτυξη (Degrowth) ή ο Έλεγχος του Πληθυσμού;

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DAY 2 | MAY 30

14:30-16:10 |SESSION 1

Moderator:  Anastasios Papaioanou

1. Karkalou, Romina: Exploring the Architectonics of the Association between Trait Emotional Intelligence, Occupational Stress and Resilience in Employees in Greece
2. Emvaloti, Evangelia (Evelina): Cultural Kaleidoscope: Journeying through X-Culture
3. Simosis, Christos How to Defend European Champions
4. Giannakouli, Melina, Geography is Destiny: Is globalization threatening the relevance and importance of geopolitics?

Q&A

16:10-16:20 | Break

16:20- 17:30 | SESSION 2

Moderator:  Penelope Liverakos

1. Giatzoglou, Evgenia: Χρόνια νόσος και επικοινωνία εστιασμένη στον γιατρό: Υπάρχει άλλο σενάριο;
2. Kelemi, Anna-Maria: Ο ρόλος της οικογένειας στη νευρική ανορεξία: Θεωρητικά μοντέλα και προτάσεις για θεραπεία
3. Provias, Evangelos: Χαμηλής ποιότητας φαγητό με τέλεια όψη: Πως οι εταιρείες παράγουν τροφές στις οποίες είναι αδύνατον να αντισταθείς!

Q&A

When: Every Monday
Where: Gerakas / Cholargos Farmers’ Markets

When: Every Friday
Where: Aghia Paraskevi Farmers’ Market

Organized by: Office of Public Affairs
powered by: NGO Boroume

• Are you a member of the ACG Community (Student/Faculty/Staff)?
• Do you want to engage in volunteer community-based work?
• Are you interested in helping reduce food waste while helping others in need?

Then, we are looking for YOU!

 

SARONIDA BEACH CLEANING

When:Sunday, May 28 2023, 11:00-13:00
Where: Saronida Beach

Organized by:
The American College of Greece
Healthy Seas
Ghost Diving Greece

Supported by:
Saronikos Municipality

About the event

Οn the occasion of World Environment Day, The American College of Greece and Healthy Seas are organizing a beach cleanup event and environmental education activities along the Saronida coast. Moreover, volunteer divers from Ghost Diving Greece will remove debris found underwater in the surrounding area.

About Healthy Seas

Healthy Seas is a non-profit organisation with a mission to remove waste from the seas, in particular fishing nets, and ensure marine litter will become a valuable resource. Nylon fishing nets are regenerated into ECONYL^® yarn, a high-quality raw material used to create new products, such as socks, swimwear, sportswear or carpets, while other types of plastic nets are also reused, becoming jewelry, accessories or provided for research and education purposes. Since its founding in 2013, Healthy Seas has collected over 905 tons of fishing nets and other marine litter with the help of volunteer divers and fishers.

About Ghost Diving Greece

Ghost Diving Greece has been operating since 2015 aiming at the removal of ghost nets from reefs and wrecks. The team is made up of volunteer divers with specialized know-how and equipment, necessary for the implementation of these demanding activities. It is part of the international network of the Ghost Diving Foundation.

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Theoni Water supports ACG

 

SARONIDA BEACH CLEANING

When:Sunday, May 28 2023, 11:00-13:00
Where: Saronida Beach

Organized by:
The American College of Greece
Healthy Seas
Ghost Diving Greece

Supported by:
Saronikos Municipality

About the event

Οn the occasion of World Environment Day, The American College of Greece and Healthy Seas are organizing a beach cleanup event and environmental education activities along the Saronida coast. Moreover, volunteer divers from Ghost Diving Greece will remove debris found underwater in the surrounding area.

About Healthy Seas

Healthy Seas is a non-profit organisation with a mission to remove waste from the seas, in particular fishing nets, and ensure marine litter will become a valuable resource. Nylon fishing nets are regenerated into ECONYL^® yarn, a high-quality raw material used to create new products, such as socks, swimwear, sportswear or carpets, while other types of plastic nets are also reused, becoming jewelry, accessories or provided for research and education purposes. Since its founding in 2013, Healthy Seas has collected over 905 tons of fishing nets and other marine litter with the help of volunteer divers and fishers.

About Ghost Diving Greece

Ghost Diving Greece has been operating since 2015 aiming at the removal of ghost nets from reefs and wrecks. The team is made up of volunteer divers with specialized know-how and equipment, necessary for the implementation of these demanding activities. It is part of the international network of the Ghost Diving Foundation.

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Theoni Water supports ACG

Party | Network | Reconnect

A reunion is not just a tradition! It’s a unique opportunity to celebrate with old friends, explore new networking opportunities, and enjoy the campus like you used to do!

When: Saturday, May 27, 2023 | 18:00
Where: Deree – The American College of Greece
Participation: 30€
As a non-profit institution, ACG will direct all event proceeds to support the Deree Scholarship Fund

Event Program

 18:00-20:00

• Alumni Registration – Deree Gate
• Deree Campus Tours
• Welcome Drinks – Deree Main Corridor
  

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 18:30-20:00

• Speed Networking – Deree Student Lounge
• Re-connect with your Professors – Deree Student Lounge
  

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 20:00-20:15

• Welcome Remarks – Deree 200 level
  

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20:15-20:45

• Live Music Performance by Deree Music Major Students and Alumni – Deree 200 level
  

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 20:45 – 23:00

• Party/Cocktail Reception – Deree 200 level
• Live DJ
  

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23:00

• The Party Continues at the Deree Student Lounge!

 

Supported by

 

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#2023DereeReunion #Homecoming

When: May 26 – June 2, 2023
Where: all around campus

About the event

Don’t miss the 2023 Arts Festival, taking place at Deree – The American College of Greece, which is free and open to the public and will feature exciting cultural events – such as concerts, art exhibitions, dance and theatre performances – by artists from around the world!

From May 26 – June 2, the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts at Deree, presents this year’s Arts Festival! Following the successful course of the first Arts Festival in 2012, the festival is expected to be rich in various cultural events that will take place on campus. Faculty and students from the departments of Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, and Visual Arts and Art History have collaborated with established artists to create an exciting program that combines lectures, master classes, performances, and workshops for a true celebration of the arts!

See the program here.

When: Every Monday
Where: Gerakas / Cholargos Farmers’ Markets

When: Every Friday
Where: Aghia Paraskevi Farmers’ Market

Organized by: Office of Public Affairs
powered by: NGO Boroume

• Are you a member of the ACG Community (Student/Faculty/Staff)?
• Do you want to engage in volunteer community-based work?
• Are you interested in helping reduce food waste while helping others in need?

Then, we are looking for YOU!

When:
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | 10:00 – 10:30
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | 8:00 – 8:30

Where: Deree front lawn

Organized by: ACG Health & Wellness Center

An event by Sophie Themelis, Executive Coordinator, Wellness Pilates Instructor

Awaken from the stillness of sleep to an outward expression of Joy. This 30-minute Active Meditation Session includes a balance of form and freedom using Tai Chi and Pilates inspired moves, meditation, reflections and ending with a nice cup of tea.

For more information please contact Sophie Themelis at 210 6009800 ext.1700 or at [email protected]

When: Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 13:00-14:00
Where: online

Join Zoom Meeting HERE
Meeting ID: 975 8197 6290
Passcode (if needed): 984195

Organized by:
The ACG Counseling Center
With the support of the ACG Diversity and Inclusion Club

About the event

The purpose of this online event is to raise awareness and inform ACG students, faculty and staff on Gender Diversity and other issues pertaining to the LGBTQ+ Community. The presenters will elaborate on recent findings of relevant studies and discuss specific challenges and ways in which higher education institutions can facilitate and enhance the successful adaptation and integration of LGBTQ+ students within academic environments.

Presenters
Jason Chadderdon
Marianna Petsetaki
Students of the MS in Counseling Psychology & Psychotherapy
Counselors-in-Training

Discussant
Nikolaos Takis, Ph.D
Clinical Psychologist
Associate Professor
Director of the ACG Counseling Center

Q &A discussion will follow the presentations

When: Every Monday
Where: Gerakas / Cholargos Farmers’ Markets

When: Every Friday
Where: Aghia Paraskevi Farmers’ Market

Organized by: Office of Public Affairs
powered by: NGO Boroume

• Are you a member of the ACG Community (Student/Faculty/Staff)?
• Do you want to engage in volunteer community-based work?
• Are you interested in helping reduce food waste while helping others in need?

Then, we are looking for YOU!

In the context of Piano City Athens Festival, Deree – The American College of Greece

When: Saturday, May 13, 11:00-17:00 | Sunday, May 14, 11:00-15:00

Where: 7th level Auditorium

Co-organized by:
FRSFPA-Music Programs @ Deree – The American College of Greece and Piano City Athens

Under the auspices of the Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ministry of Tourism, Region of Attica, Greek National Tourism Organization with the support of the City of Athens. Artistic direction by Athens State Orchestra.

About the event

On Saturday, May 13, 2023, Deree Music professor and distinguished pianist Christine Tokatlian will offer a piano masterclass!Younger students, rising soloists and piano dui will be guided to the development of individuality in musical interpretation through a detailed approach to technical dexterity and clarity of expression. The participation to the masterclass is free of charge and a priority order will be followed.

All interested pianists please contact prof. Tokatlian through her email [email protected].

Bio
Christine Tokatlian
Concert Pianist
Assistant Professor of Music & Music Performance, FRSFPA @Deree-ACG

Christine Tokatlian, is a concert pianist praised for her academic distinctions and passionate performance. In 2008 she was awarded the honorary ‘Eleni Myconiou’ prize for artistic excellence by the Athens Academy. At the age of six Christine was already taking piano lessons at the National Conservatory of Greece which led to a Soloist’s diploma with a grade of Excellence by unanimous vote and First Prize, under the supervision of Manolis Kokalis. Studying under renowned pianists including Dimitris Toufexis, Yu Chun Yee and Bernard Roberts, between 1996 and 1999, Christine receives her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Deree-The American College of Greece, and post-graduate diplomas in Advanced Piano Performance from the Royal College of Music in London (PGDip, PGAdvDip).

Performing around Greece, the United Kingdom, Italy, Lebanon, Germany and Armenia alongside distinguished artists including the Komitas Quartet, Christine’s recitals include works by classical, romantic and contemporary composers, as well as new-experimental music all performed with her distinct temperament, undeniably fueled by her Armenian descent. And with the same passionate spirit she premiered Khatchaturian’s Piano Concerto with the Thessaloniki State Orchestra in the Thessaloniki Concert Hall in 2010.

Christine also communicates her talent through teaching as she is currently a professor of music at Deree – The American College of Greece and a piano professor at the Meandrio Conservatory.

She has recorded with various ensembles and artists and in a range of musical styles particularly interested in new music.

Her PhD research at Chichester University, UK, focuses on contemporary Armenian piano music and its impact on the re(de)construction of Armenian musical identity. Her research has been presented in international conferences in Athens, London, Istanbul, Berlin and Latvia.

Christine serves as a jury member in national competitions and gives piano masterclasses in Greece and abroad. Her students have been awarded several prizes and distinctions in international piano competitions.

Armenian Piano Images, Christine’s first personal recording with works of contemporary Armenian composers, some of which are world premieres, serves as a window for her audience to see into her dream of magical musical performance.

Piano City Athens Festival, Deree – The American College of Greece

When: Friday, May 12, 2023
Where: 7th level Auditorium

Co-organized by:
FRSFPA-Music Programs @ Deree – The American College of Greece and Piano City Athens

Under the auspices of the Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ministry of Tourism, Region of Attica, Greek National Tourism Organization with the support of the City of Athens. Artistic direction by Athens State Orchestra.

About the event

Deree – The American College of Greece invites the Athenian public to a day of a piano marathon festival!
On May 12, 2023, from noon until late at night, amazing pianists will be hosted at the state-of-the-art facilities of Deree.
The program is varied and diverse with the participation of students, distinguished alumni and internationally renowned faculty members of the Music programs who invite us to a full-day feast filled with pianistic inspiration and virtuosity. Works of the classical repertoire, improvisations, jazz, chamber music, art songs, works for four hands and two pianos will be presented in solo recitals and group concerts, featuring a wide range of the pianistic art.

The concerts are organized as part of the 1st Piano City Athens festival.

12,13,14 ΜΑΥ 2023 – all over Athens!

For the program and the artists’ bios, check out below:

 

12.30-13.50

Deree Music Majors in Concert

Works for solo piano, piano duo, chamber music and electronics with piano

Piano: Vasileios Gavvaris, Ivana Zafeiraki, Angel Latsides, Ioli Sifoniou, Yuqing Chen

Violi: Ilektra Mavropsaridi, Aris Broustis

Cello: Stergios Karkas

Electronics: Efthymis Naoumis

Instruction: Christine Tokatlian & Leslie Jones

14.00-14.30

Pyrros Marmatakis: Four themes from the play Inside Hamlet’s mind, Original composition

14.30-15.00

Christos Yonas-Kontos: Eleven Future Recursions, Original composition, Piano Recital

A musical meditation on how the Past and Future are recursively conceived in the Present. Eleven parts conveying feelings; gestures and states of mind ineffable by other means all co-existing separately and in unity, transforming into one another in time like symbols in the halls of memory.

 

15.15-15.45

Vasileios Gavvaris: Struggle and Glory, Piano Recital

A musical journey featuring compositions distant in time, connected by shared values. A common heroic journey from darkness to light, from struggle to glory, in search of a heroic figure.

15.45-16.30

Break

 

16.30-17.00

Evelina Antemisari: Piano Recital

A journey into the lucid dream, back to reality and an encounter with the beloved J. Brahms and the fascinating but at the same time deeply expressive Prokofiev.

 

17.00-17.30

Nick Venner: Piano Recital

A musical sentimental journey from the enchanting and expressive baroque of Rameau to the magical and romantic universe of Chopin, with phantasy and dreaming as our guides.

 

17.40-18.10

Stathis Chomatsas: Piano Recital

A recital inspired by nature, Gothic art and the concepts of time and perception. Works from Italian and French Baroque will be heard, leading to intense and lyrical Russian romanticism, and ending in the special ‘dark’ color of the 21st century.

 

18.10-18.40

Stathis Chomatsas & Vrez Khachaturian: 2 Mancunians in Athens, Piano Duo

A music journey in 19th century Paris, where the Macabre and the mystery of death fascinate the very human mind like a quest in the Universe, as the Planets project their own majesty! In a journey, where a coffee in Paris does not prevent a dance in Buenos Aires. Because, Music knows no distance!

 

19.00-20.00

Elena Christodoulou: From Paris to Buenos Aires…1901-1952, Piano Recital

A recital dedicated to piano works by four composers of classical music of the 20th century with significant influence that aims to present some of the most important musical trends of the era. A distinctive musical journey with starting point the impressionistic aura of Paris, the passion and exoticism of Andalusia, the influenced by jazz elements musical scene of early 20^th century New York and final destination the explosive and polyrhythmic melodies of Argentina.

 

20.15-21.15

Christine Tokatlian & Spyros Souladakis: Classical + 200, Piano Duo

Is there a secret mystery hidden in the number 200? In 1781 Mozart submits his score for the Sonata…and in 1981 a polystylistic suite ridicules the stupidity of Nikolai Gogol’s characters in a circumstance of tragic parody. Distinct quotations of popular motives of the musical canon of 200 + years…from the Baroque to post-Romanticism they find their way and paradoxically merge in the avant-garde.

 

21.30-22.20

Dimitri Toufexis, Romantics and more, Piano Recital

Dimitri Toufexis returns at Deree. As the Mentor of all of us, he travels us beyond Romanticism. We will enjoy him in a concert that will bring the pianistic marathon to its end.

Bios of the artists

In alphabetical order

 

Paraskevi-Eleni (Evelina) Antemisari was born in Athens in August, 2005. At the age of six she started studying Piano with her mother Chrissa Diagourta. At the age of eleven she continued her piano lessons with the distinguished pianist Dimitri Toufexis. She also plays the Violin and the Alto Saxophone at a high level. On July 2020 – at the age of 14 – she was unanimously awarded a Professor’s and Performer’s Piano Diploma (Prof. Dimitri Toufexis) with the rare grade of «Excellent, a 1st prize and the Gold Medal of the Philharmonic Conservatory». She has received a Diploma in Harmony with a grade of «Excellent» (Philharmonic Conservatory, Theodore Broutzakis, 2020), a Grade 6 Music Theory Certificate (ABRSM, Theodore Broutzakis, 2021) and a Grade 8 Violin Performance Certificate (ABRSM, George Mandylas, 2021).

She is a member of the Orchestra of Pierce-The American College of Greece (2017-present) and of the award winning Rosarte Choir (2012-2019). She is an excellent student, she has participated in a number of music concerts throughout Greece and Europe and has won several prizes in National and International composition, piano performance, physics and mathematics competitions. She has participated in Music Academies in Greece and Europe and has attended piano, composition and conducting seminars with the renowned pianists, composers and conductors Robert Levin, Michael Korstick, Alain Lefevre, Jonathan Girard, Yiannis Hadjiloizou, Konstantinos Destounis, Titos Gouvelis, Theodore Tzovanakis, Christine Tokatlian, Lina Tonia, Dimitri Toufexis, Brandt Fredriksen, Jacques Rouvier, Andreas Groethuysen and others.

She is a senior student at high school and since 2017 she has been studying at The American College of Greece (Pierce) with a Music Scholarship, from which she was awarded the ACG Pierce Orchestra Award for her significant contribution to the College orchestra. She has already been accepted to continue her Higher Music studies in Piano Performance and Composition by the highest ranked Music Universities such as the Royal College of Music (London), the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Glasgow) and the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester). She is very active towards environmental protection and sustainable development and she is an active member of the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association (HELMEPA).

The versatile musician Stathis Chomatsas has been recipient of numerous awards for his compositional work and his piano skills (Piano Soloist Prize E. Mykoniou from the Academy of Athens, 1st prize in the 2nd UNESCO Panhellenic Competition, 3rd prize in the International Competition ‘De Bach Au Jazz 2021’, 3rd prize in First Thessaloniki Piano Festival Competition; 1st prize in the Dionysia Trust 2021 Composition Competition, 3rd prize in the First Th. Antoniou Composition Competition, etc.). He was also a finalist in the 2019 RNCM Gold Medal competition.

He has appeared several times as a soloist with orchestras (E.R.T. Youth Symphony Orchestra, Athenian Ensemble UK, Orchestra of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, etc.). Moreover, he has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in halls such as the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera, Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) Concert Hall, etc. As a composer, his works have been performed in important venues such as the Alternative Stage, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, the Royal College of Music in London, the RNCM, etc., and have been recorded by the Music Ensembles of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Music from The American College of Greece and a BA (Hons) in Music Performance (Piano) from the Open University UK, having received a full tuition scholarship (H. C. Krentzman, Dimitri Toufexis class). In addition, he holds a Master in Music (MMus) and a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Performance from the RNCM, with a full tuition scholarship from the prestigious Onassis Foundation (Frank Wibaut class).

In addition, he holds a Piano Soloist Diploma (class D. Toufexis) and Composition Diploma (class Dimitris Economou), both with Excellence and First Prize from the Anagennisi Conservatory. He also holds Music Theory Degrees (Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue-Orchestration) with Honors (classes F. Pappas and G. Malefakis). In addition, he has studied conducting with Miltos Logiadis in Athens and Mark Heron at the RNCM.

Elena Christodoulou has pursued a career of remarkable diversity. Regarded for her “…exquisite and crystal-clear ability of her fingers…worth jealous control of sound, phrasing and musical intentions…extrovert martellato sound, impressive technical skills…” (Musical Tone magazine, Greece, D. Mallouhos).

She has given numerous piano recitals and chamber music concerts in four continents: North America, Europe, Asia, North Africa. She has appeared in Austria (Salzburg), U.S.A. (Boston, Salt Lake City, Dayton), Italy (Rome), Egypt (Cairo and Alexandria Opera House), U.A.E. (Dubai), Iran (Vahdat and Roudaki Hall), Greece (Athens and Thessaloniki Megaron Concert Hall). She has performed as a soloist with various orchestras such as the Wiener KammerOrchester (direction M. Mihailidis), the Orchestra of Colors (direction M. Logiadis), the Italian Camerata String Orchestra “Partenopea” (direction E. Volpe), the chamber orchestra of the American College of Greece, the Greek Saxophone Orchestra (artistic direction Th. Kerkezos) etc. She has also recorded for the Greek National Radio, TV, and the Greek Radio broadcasting in Boston.

She has been invited by the Greek Composers’ Union to interpret works by contemporary Greek composers, many of which have dedicated their works to her (M.I. Alexiadis, T. Rosopoulos). She has given a series of piano masterclasses and concerts in Iran under the auspices of The Tehran Arts University, as well as in the International Summer Academy (Zeus Music Festival) in Greece under the auspices of Vladimir Spivakov and Vladimir Krainev International Charity Foundation. She has collaborated with numerous Embassies in Greece (such as the Embassy of Serbia under the patronage of Princess Katherine of Serbia), with the aim of promoting the Greek, American, and European classical music. She has been awarded by the charity organization Lions Club International for her musical contribution.

She has given courses on music at the American College of Greece (School of Continuing and Professional Studies). Many of her students have won prizes in several piano competitions (Unesco Art and Sciences piano competition, Maria Chairogiorgou piano competition etc.) as well as have graduated (Piano Diploma) from the Greek Conservatories (Athenaeum, Nakas, Municipality of Maroussi) with honors.

She received her Piano Diploma with Honors, first prize, and a gold medal under the instruction of Dimitri Toufexis. She graduated from Deree-The American College of Greece, where she received a B.A. in Music, with Highest Distinction. As a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship and the Onassis Foundation Scholarship, she earned the Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from The Boston Conservatory of Music under the instruction of Michael Lewin. She also studied with other great pianists, such as Leon Fleisher, Jacob Lateiner (Mozarteum Academy, Austria), Aquilles delle Vigne, Nicolae Petrof, Marcella Crudelli. In recognition of her contribution to the artistic activities of The American College of Greece, she was awarded with the Special Artistic Award, the second award given in the history of the College. She is a prize winner in several piano competitions (“Associazione Culturale Fryderick Chopin” Rome, Boston Conservatory Concerto competition) as well as a jury member in several piano competitions.

Vasileios Gavvaris is a 22-year-old pianist with origins from both Greece and Cyprus. He is a senior student of Music Performance at Deree-The American College of Greece, studying under the supervision of Dr. Tatiana Papageorgiou, with whom he has also been awarded the Piano Soloist’s Diploma with the grade Excellent Unanimous and First Prize from Panarmonio Conservatory. Based on his academic excellence, he is currently the recipient of the Frances Rich Scholarship of the School of Fine and Performing Arts. He started playing the piano at the age of 13 under the instruction of Maria Velmachou at the National Conservatory of Sparta, the town where he grew up.

Vasileios has participated in several national and international piano competitions. Among his most important distinctions are the 1st Prize at the Felouris Music Competition, the 2nd, and the 3rd Prize at the Piano Competitions of the Filonas Music Association, the 2nd Prize at the Chaerogiorgou-Sigara Piano Competition, a Merit Award at the Unesco TLEE Piano Competition, and an Honorable Mention at the Montecatini International Piano Competition. He has also been granted an award for his artistic excellence and ethos by the Sainopoulos Foundation.

He has actively participated in numerous piano masterclasses in Greece and abroad by acclaimed soloists and piano professors, such as Andrzej Jasiński, Dr. Tamás Ungár, Peter Nagy, Dimitri Toufexis, Jean-Louis Steuermann, Janis Vakarelis, Angelina Kopyrina, Dr. Christine Tokatlian, Elena Mouzala, Dr. Lorenda Ramou, and Prodromos Symeonides. He has performed on various occasions at the premises of The American College of Greece, as well as in events at the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, the Theoharakis Foundation, the Acropolis of Ancient Sparta, the Pierce Theatre, the Parnassos Concert Hall, the Lilian Voudouri Musical Library, and other venues in Greece. Apart from his solo performances, he has worked with chamber music ensembles and vocal accompaniment. For the past two years, he is the accompanist of the ACG Community Choir, as part of the work-study program at Deree.

He holds an Advanced Harmony Diploma from the National Conservatory of Greece, while he has practiced extensively Greek traditional percussion instruments, having performed in important venues, such as the Athens Concert Hall and the Herodes Atticus Theater.

During his studies at Deree, he has been an active member of the Music Society. He is currently serving as the President, working towards the organization of musical and educational activities for the community. For his vision and contribution, he has been awarded the Outstanding Member Award in 2020.

Vrez Khachaturian was born in Yerevan, Armenia. He started his musical studies at a very young age at the specialized music school “Alexander Spendiaryan”. In 2017 he was accepted with a scholarship to the Royal Northern College of Music in the United Kingdom, from where he graduated with a Master of Music in Performance (Piano) under Benjamin Frith. At the same time, he was the main pianist of the experimental electronic ensemble of the RNCM, under the guidance of Mauricio Pauly. Throughout his studies in England he was a scholar of the A.G. Leventis Foundation, AGBU as well as the RNCM.

He has attended seminars and courses with Philippe Cassard, Graham Scott, Murray McLachlan, Adam Swayne, Helen Krizos, Peter Lawson, Dina Parakhina, Dan Whieldon, Lilia Bojadjieva, Toms Ostrovskis and Giorgos Chatzinikos among others. He has given recitals in Greece and the United Kingdom, and holds numerous prizes from piano competitions (Maria Cherogiorgou-Sigara, Arafineios, Marika Mantzagriotaki, YPEPTH, H.O.N. etc.), including a UNESCO medal.

He studied at the Athens Conservatoire, initially with Dionysis Mallouchos and then with Maria Efstratiadis, where he received the Piano Diploma with a prize and special distinction. He is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens (majoring in Acoustic and Music Technology). In addition, he holds degrees in Piano, Harmony and Counterpoint from the Municipal Conservatory of Kallithea, where he studied on a scholarship.

He has been a member of the Athens Symphony Youth Orchestra, participating as a pianist in many concerts throughout Greece. At the same time, he very often took part in the artistic events of the Department of Music Studies “May-June Music”, where in the years 2015-2017 he was a key member of the organizing team.

He has worked as manager and producer in the studios of the National Library of Greece at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, as well as at the radio station “88.6 UP Radio”, as a producer. He is active as a private piano teacher as well as a music teacher in primary and secondary schools.

Alongside his classical studies, he shows great interest in composition and music production, while his works have been heard in various theater performances and projects (French Institute of Athens, Onassis Stegi, Parnassos Hall, “Melina” Cultural Center etc.). He was responsible for the sound design of the successful theatrical performance “Oi Mouses pou Agapisa”, starring Grigoris Valtinos and with performances all over Greece.

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Spyros Souladakis (concert pianist, teacher) has given many concerts (both solo and chamber music) in Greece and abroad. He has performed in London (Wigmore Hall, the National Gallery, etc.), Rome, Paris, Milano, Weimar, in the Athens Concert Hall, in Thessalonica, Crete, Rhodes, Cyprus etc. In Great Britain, he won the first prize in “Robert Sutherland” competition for piano accompanying. He has participated in many piano masterclasses where well-known musicians such as Paul Badura Skoda, Nelly Acopian – Tamarina, Konstantin & Julia Ganev, Aleksandar Raichev, were invited. He has also accompanied many artists in various concerts, masterclasses, courses, auditions etc. He graduated from the Royal College of Music, where he studied with John Blakely and Nigel Clayton. In Greece, he studied piano with Ida Lori Margariti and Marina Koutouvali, and graduated in 1999 (Diploma in performance with Distinction). While in London, he also studied orchestration and composition. Since 2004 he teaches piano and theory of music in schools and conservatories in Athens. 

Christine Tokatlian, is a concert pianist praised for her academic distinctions and passionate performance. In 2008 she was awarded the honorary ‘Eleni Myconiou’ prize for artistic excellence by the Athens Academy. At the age of six Christine was already taking piano lessons at the National Conservatory of Greece which led to a Soloist’s diploma with a grade of Excellence by unanimous vote and First Prize, under the supervision of Manolis Kokalis. Studying under renowned pianists including Dimitri Toufexis, Yu Chun Yee and Bernard Roberts, between 1996 and 1999, Christine receives her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Deree-The American College of Greece, and post-graduate diplomas in Advanced Piano Performance from the Royal College of Music in London (PGDip, PGAdvDip).

Performing around Greece, the United Kingdom, Italy, Lebanon, Germany and Armenia alongside distinguished artists including the Komitas Quartet, Christine’s recitals include works by classical, romantic and contemporary composers, as well as new-experimental music all performed with her distinct temperament, undeniably fueled by her Armenian descent. And with the same passionate spirit she premiered Khatchaturian’s Piano Concerto with the Thessaloniki State Orchestra in the Thessaloniki Concert Hall in 2010. Christine also communicates her talent through teaching as she is currently a professor of music at Deree-The American College of Greece and a piano professor at the Maiandrio Conservatory.

She has recorded with various ensembles and artists and in a range of musical styles particularly interested in new music.

Her PhD research at Chichester University, UK, focuses on contemporary Armenian piano music and its impact on the re(de)construction of Armenian musical identity. Her research has been presented in international conferences in Athens, London, Istanbul, Berlin and Latvia.

Christine serves as a jury member in national competitions and gives piano masterclasses in Greece and abroad. Her students have been awarded several prizes and distinctions in international piano competitions.

Armenian Piano Images, Christine’s first personal recording with works of contemporary Armenian composers, some of which are world premieres, serves as a window for her audience to see into her dream of magical musical performance.

Dimitri Toufexis is a world-renowned musician and a significant presence in the world of music. As a piano soloist, he has won wide acclaim from the international music community. As a conductor, he has been highly praised for his work. As a teacher, he constitutes a point of reference for his ability to impart his virtuosity and passion for music to his students, many of whom have excelled as pianists and conductors.

At the age of 3, he was initiated into music by his father and his musical talent became apparent very quickly. At the age of 10, he won a double scholarship from the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he completed all of his musical studies. His debuts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center in Washington were received enthusiastically by critics.

During his career, he has been awarded many honors and prizes, which include First Prizes in the New York Times Piano Competition and the Three Rivers International Piano Competition with the Symphony Orchestra of Pittsburgh. In addition, he was honored with the Katherine Tuck Award, the Wurlitzer Award and the Medal of Zenon given by the Government of Cyprus for his contribution to culture.

He has performed throughout the world giving concerts at the most prestigious venues in America, Europe and Asia. He has appeared as a soloist with the most distinguished orchestras in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Honolulu, Seattle, San Francisco, Florida, Pennsylvania, Dresden, London, Yugoslavia, Vienna, Bucharest, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Cyprus, Australia, Switzerland, Athens and Thessaloniki. He always remembers his collaborations with legendary conductors such as Bernstein, Previn, Johannos, Maazel, Rudel, Katims, Comissiona, Talmi, Fiddler, Schneider, Mehta, Chung and Sunshine.  He was invited numerous times to the White House and the United Nations and has appeared more than 40 times at Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center.

As a professor he taught for many years at Lehigh University and Moravian College in the United States, for two years at the Juilliard School of Music in New York and for 32 years at the American College of Greece where he is now Professor Emeritus.

He has recorded for the BBC in London, has issued CDs with Musical Heritage and Philips labels and has appeared on television more than 350 times.

Nikos Venner was born in Athens, Greece. His musical talent showed from a very young age and he began his studies at the National Conservatory of Athens. He studied under the internationally acclaimed pianist Dimitri Toufexis and in June of 2018 he received his concert piano diploma with the distinction of ‘excellent unanimously and first prize’ at the I. Sygelakis Conservatory.

Nikos is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Deree-The American College of Greece and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music. During his undergraduate studies he became the recipient of the Frances L. Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts Scholarship as well as the recipient of the Outstanding Senior Achievement Award for his artistic activity. Additionally, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Music with honors in Music Performance from the Open University of England.

He continued his studies, graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) with a Masters in Music Performance under professors Aaron Shorr and Fali Pavri, in 2021. He has won the third prize at the National Competition of the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa, as well as the third prize in 2016 and the second prize in 2018 at the National Competition of UNESCO. Additionally, he was awarded the second prize at the International Piano Competition (ISCART) of Lugano, Switzerland in 2021, as well as the second prize at the International Moscow Music Competition (IMMC) in September 2021. Finally, he was awarded with the Order of Letters and Fine Arts prize by the Academy of Athens in April 2022. As a soloist, he has played recitals in many concert halls including the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron), the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera as well as the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, in Austria. 

Christos Yonas-Kontos was born in Athens in 1993. He is a graduate of the Hellenic American Educational Foundation: Athens College – Psychico College with an International Baccalaureate. In 2016, he received the Piano Soloist Diploma from the Musical Horizons Conservatory in the class of professor Betty Gaitanou-Barzouka. In 2020, he completed his studies in Music at the Frances Rich School of Fine Arts of The American College of Greece, where he studied classical piano under the guidance of the renowned pianist, Dimitri Toufexis. He has been awarded multiple pianistic awards and he is a graduate and member of the Contemporary Music Composition and Interpretation Workshop, where he has studied with the composer Dr. Alexander Kalogera.

Among other appearances, he has performed at the Alternative Stage of the National Opera in the confines of the Piandaemonium International Piano Festival (2017); at the Tinos Cultural Foundation (2012); at the Contemporary Greek Music Festival (2017) in Chios, and the International Musical Meetings Festival (2017, 2018) in Naxos.

After two years away from music exploring the fields of mathematics and games, Christos found himself on a recursive trajectory back to music with his primary concern being the creative exploration of the present moment through sound, performance and the piano. He is currently a founding member of the jazz experimental music group Frall together with the musicians Augustinos Michalopoulos-Stathopoulos and Dimitris Kokkos.

Deree e-Roadshow Samos

Τετάρτη 10 Μαΐου 2023, 18:00

Μοναδικές ευκαιρίες σπουδών και καριέρας,
με την υποτροφία του Ιδρύματος Ζαμπέτη!

Τώρα, οι νέοι της Σάμου έχουν έναν πολύ σημαντικό λόγο να επιλέξουν το Deree για τις σπουδές τους! Πώς;
Διεκδικώντας την πλήρη υποτροφία που προσφέρει το Ίδρυμα Ζαμπέτη, ένας νέος ή μία νέα που κατοικεί μόνιμα στη Σάμο μπορεί να παρακολουθήσει ένα από τα 38 σύγχρονα ακαδημαϊκά προγράμματα του Deree και να ζήσει μία ανεπανάληπτη εμπειρία σπουδών! Η υποτροφία καλύπτει όλη τη διάρκεια των σπουδών του/της υποτρόφου καθώς και το 100% των διδάκτρων. Περιλαμβάνει διαμονή στις φοιτητικές εστίες του Kολλεγίου, διατροφή, και παροχή βιβλίων. Όμως, το ταξίδι προς το μέλλον συνεχίζεται με ακόμα περισσότερες ευκαιρίες. Παρακολουθήστε την online παρουσίαση του e-Deree Roadshow και ανακαλύψτε όλους τους λόγους για τους οποίους είναι ένας κορυφαίος προορισμός σπουδών:

• Τα σύγχρονα, υψηλής ποιότητας ακαδημαϊκά προγράμματά του.
• Τις εγκαταστάσεις αιχμής, που προσφέρουν στους φοιτητές όλες τις τεχνολογικές δυνατότητες να καλλιεργήσουν τις κλίσεις και τα ταλέντα τους.
• Την πρακτική άσκηση και τις ευκαιρίες καριέρας, ώστε να ακολουθήσουν επιτυχημένες πορείες στην Ελλάδα και στον κόσμο.
• Τις εμπειρίες σπουδών στο εξωτερικό σε επώνυμα συνεργαζόμενα πανεπιστήμια.
• Την πλούσια φοιτητική ζωή, που προσφέρει στα παιδιά δεξιότητες απαραίτητες για να ξεχωρίσουν στην αγορά εργασίας.
• Το πρόγραμμα Παράλληλων Σπουδών, που επιτρέπει σε φοιτητές του ελληνικού πανεπιστημίου να εμπλουτίσουν τις γνώσεις τους και να ενισχύσουν το πτυχίο τους.
• Τις υποτροφίες και το πρόγραμμα οικονομικής στήριξης ύψους €6,2 εκ., που βοηθά τους φοιτητές να στηρίξουν τις ακαδημαϊκές ανάγκες τους.

Θέλετε να μάθετε περισσότερα;

Δηλώστε συμμετοχή σήμερα και…. Keep moving towards the future!

Συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα συμμετοχής ή επικοινωνήστε μαζί μας στο 210 600 9800 εσωτ. 1322 ή στο [email protected]

Deree. #Futureproof

When:

Opening: Friday, April 28 18:00-21:00

Duration: April 29-May 11

Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 15:00-18:00 Saturday 12:00-16:00

Where: ACG Gallery, Deree – The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias Street, 15342, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

About the exhibition

The Space Between is an exhibition featuring the works of graduating Visual Arts students from Τhe American College of Greece Elena Gazi and Eden Scroggins. It is co-curated by students from the Art History program, Athina Lasithiotaki and Katerina Milesi. The exhibition also features objects and household items from the artist Frances Rich, courtesy of the Frances L. Rich Estate.

The exhibition places the viewer in the liminal space between the two artists’ immersive installation spaces. Informed both by science fiction and the culture and practice of textiles, Scroggins’ Pocket Dimension, presents an alternative dimension with brightly colored, handcrafted, alien forms made of woven fabric and wire that invade and disrupt the planes of her installation. The work emphasizes the hidden cracks between materials, practical methodologies, and uncanny emotional experience. Gazi’s Ark of the Forgotten is a sanctuary of abandoned objects, toys, fabrics, and bones that have been recovered, collected, and sculpted into an altar. In contrast with museum tactics, the Ark of the Forgotten lets these objects garden their own narratives and personal mythologies.

Together, childhood memories invade cosmic worlds, while [household] furniture, the relics from a previous artist’s life, is scattered in the space between. The viewer is called into a liminal space, to participate in a tribute to nostalgic recollections and speculative futures. The exhibition explores the distance between here and there, acknowledging the presence of the void.

Open to all, with free admission

Join us for a week of mindfulness and relaxation during the Spring semester final exam period, with herbal teas, puzzles, coloring pages and a calm positive environment to help you relax.

As a special treat, mindfulness, mediation and wellbeing sessions will take place, lead by ACG community members.

To learn more click here

See you there!

Check the program

27th Kimon Friar Lecture
Child Adoption: Greek Myth, Literature, and Reality

 

By Gonda Van Steen
Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, Department of Classics at King’s College London

When: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 18:30
Where: ACG Events Hall, The American College of Greece,
6 Gravias Street, Aghia Paraskevi-Athens, Greece
(Parking upon availability)

Organized by: The American College of Greece & the Attica Tradition Foundation

The event is free and open to the public, on a first-come, first-served basis. Reception to follow

 

About the event

Gonda Van Steen’s research on children’s adoptions from Greece to the USA in the 1950s and 1960s leads her to look at texts from ancient and modern Greek literature with fresh eyes. In this lecture, she will cover topics from 5^th century BCE Greek tragedy, and specifically Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus (ca. 430 BCE). She will also explore how the modern field of adoption studies and its terminology may help us to reconceptualize the famous story written by Georgios Vizyinos, Τὸ ἁμάρτημα τῆς μητρός μου, My Mother’s Sin.

 

About the speaker

Gonda Van Steen earned a BA and MA degree in Classics in her native Belgium and a PhD degree in Classics and Hellenic Studies from Princeton University. Her research interests include Greek language and literature through Byzantine and Modern Greek, Western travelers to Greece and the Ottoman Empire, 19^th and 20^th century receptions of the classics and especially of ancient theater, and modern Greek intellectual and social history. Van Steen holds the position of Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature in the Centre for Hellenic Studies and the Department of Classics at King’s College London. She is the first woman to hold the Koraes Chair.

Van Steen is the author of the following books: Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece, published by Princeton University Press in 2000 and was awarded the John D. Criticos Prize from the London Hellenic Society; Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire, (2010); Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands (OUP, 2011); Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967-1974 (OUP, 2015) and Adoption, Memory and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo? (University of Michigan Press, 2019). The latter appeared also in Greek translation as Ζητούνται παιδιά από την Ελλάδα: Υιοθεσίες στην Αμερική του Ψυχρού Πολέμου (Athens: Potamos, 2021). This book won the 2019 Book Prize of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies. Van Steen is also preparing the annotated edition of a postwar and Civil War memoir written by an American social worker active in relief services in northern Greece: The Battle for Bodies, Hearts, and Minds in Postwar Greece: Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946-1951 (Routledge, 2023). Van Steen has further published articles on ancient Greek and late antique literature, on postwar Greek feminism, and on Cavafy. Her latest research project is a long-term study of the organized mass adoptions of Greek children to the USA (and to the Netherlands) in the first fifteen years following the end of the Greek Civil War (1950-mid 1960s).

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For more information, contact us at: +30 210 600 9800 ext. 1456 or [email protected]

When: Every Monday
Where: Gerakas / Cholargos Farmers’ Markets

When: Every Friday
Where: Aghia Paraskevi Farmers’ Market

Organized by: Office of Public Affairs
powered by: NGO Boroume

• Are you a member of the ACG Community (Student/Faculty/Staff)?
• Do you want to engage in volunteer community-based work?
• Are you interested in helping reduce food waste while helping others in need?

Then, we are looking for YOU!

A Day at Deree
Σάββατο, 8 Απριλίου | 10:00-14:00

Το Deree ανοίγει και πάλι το campus του και σας καλεί να ανακαλύψετε από κοντά όλα όσα το καθιστούν κορυφαία επιλογή σπουδών!
Δηλώστε συμμετοχή και κλείστε θέση για “Μία Μέρα στο Deree!”

Γίνε φοιτητής για μία ώρα!

Μπείτε σε τάξη ή εργαστήριο και παρακολουθήστε ένα μάθημα της επιλογής σας ανακαλύπτοντας παράλληλα τις μοναδικές εγκαταστάσεις μας:

• Την αίθουσα Χρηματοπιστωτικών Συναλλαγών (STR) όπου οι φοιτητές μας εκπαιδεύονται ως traders σε πραγματικές συνθήκες χρηματιστηρίου
• Το Εργαστήριο Βιολογίας, όπου οι φοιτητές μας μαθαίνουν τα πάντα για το ανθρώπινο σώμα πάνω στο Τραπέζι Ανατομίας (Anatomy Table), ένα τελευταίας τεχνολογίας απόκτημα του Κολλεγίου
• Τα σύγχρονα αμφιθέατρα
• Τη μοναδική βιβλιοθήκη
• Τις υπερσύγχρονες αθλητικές εγκαταστάσεις και πολλά άλλα!

Η φοίτηση στο Deree δεν είναι μόνο μάθημα!

“Μία Μέρα στο Deree” δεν είναι αρκετή για να γνωρίσετε την πληθώρα των clubs & societies μέσα από τα οποία οι φοιτητές μας ανακαλύπτουν και καλλιεργούν τα ταλέντα και τις κλίσεις τους. Θα πάρετε όμως μία πολύ καλή γεύση του τι σημαίνει να είσαι #Futureproof!

Ποιο πρόγραμμα σπουδών να διαλέξω;

Οι σύμβουλοι Καριέρας και Εγγραφών του Deree θα είναι στη διάθεσή σας εκείνη τη μέρα για να σας βοηθήσουν να διαλέξετε εκείνο το πρόγραμμα σπουδών, που, όχι μόνο θα ταιριάζει στις ανάγκες σας, αλλά θα είναι αυτή επιλογή που θα σας οδηγήσει σε ένα επιτυχημένο μέλλον!

Ακόμη θα ανακαλύψετε:

• Τα 32 σύγχρονα προγράμματα σπουδών, 6 προγράμματα σε συνεργασία με το πανεπιστήμιο Clarkson, τις 58 υποειδικότητες και τα 9 μεταπτυχιακά προγράμματα του Deree
• Το πρόγραμμα Παράλληλων Σπουδών, για φοιτητές των δημόσιων εκπαιδευτικών ιδρυμάτων
• Τις ευκαιρίες για Πρακτική Άσκηση σε κορυφαίες εταιρείες σε Ελλάδα και εξωτερικό
• Το πρόγραμμα Study Abroad
• Τις Υποτροφίες μας

Συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα συμμετοχής που ακολουθεί και κλείστε τη θέση σας για “Μία Μέρα στο Deree” που θα σας μείνει αξέχαστη!
(περιορισμένος αριθμός θέσεων!)

When: Every Monday
Where: Gerakas / Cholargos Farmers’ Markets

When: Every Friday
Where: Aghia Paraskevi Farmers’ Market

Organized by: Office of Public Affairs
powered by: NGO Boroume

• Are you a member of the ACG Community (Student/Faculty/Staff)?
• Do you want to engage in volunteer community-based work?
• Are you interested in helping reduce food waste while helping others in need?

Then, we are looking for YOU!

World-renowned and award-winning author, Margaret Atwood, in discussion with Haris Vlavianos, award-winning poet & Professor of History, Deree – The American College of Greece

When: Thursday, April 6, 2023 | 18:00
Where: Pierce Theater, Aghia Paraskevi Campus, 6 Gravias Str.

Organized by: Office of Academic Affairs

The event is free and open to the public.
In-person event, on a first-come, first-served basis.

About the event 

ACG welcomes two-time Booker prize-winning author of over 50 books, including The Handmaid’s Tale and its record-breaking sequel, The Testaments, Margaret Atwood, to our inaugural S. Sue Horner Lectureship in Gender Studies & Religion. Atwood, who has been described as the most important living author of our time, is best known for her haunting visions of future dystopias. In her novels, Atwood explores issues related to gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language and even power politics.

The words twittering world originate from a T.S. Eliot poem, Burnt Norton, part of his Four Quartets work. Atwood will discuss how literature has meaning in this world, with distractions that keep us numb to the deeper meaning of life.

About the Author

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number-one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020, she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry in a decade, followed in 2022 by Burning Questions, a selection of essays from 2004 – 2021. Her next collection of short stories, Old Babes in the Wood, was published in March 2023.

Atwood has won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature.

Learn more about the author HERE

About the S. Sue Horner Lectureship in Gender Studies & Religion

The S. Sue Horner Lectureship in Gender Studies & Religion was developed to bring leading thought leaders from various professional fields of study to The American College of Greece. The lectureship is named in memory of Dr. S. Sue Horner, a valued member of our community and spouse of ACG president, Dr. David G. Horner. ACG’s beloved “Dr. Sue” was an accomplished scholar and passionate advocate for equity and access for women in higher education and society in general. This lectureship is in keeping with Dr. S. Sue Horner’s mission of providing a platform for thoughtful and provocative discussions that explore the best ideas on issues in gender studies and religion.

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For more information, contact College Events – Office of Public Affairs, [email protected]

photo credit Luis Mora

When: Thursday, April 6, 2023| 16:00-17:00 (EEST, Athens)

Where: Online

Organized by: the Office of Career Services, in collaboration with the Libra Group

 

Are you creative? Passionate? Goal-oriented? Self-motivated?

Libra is looking for candidates like you. Apply for the Libra Internship Program and explore your potential in one of the world’s most prestigious workplaces!

The Libra Internship Program is a paid opportunity for college students to intern with the Libra Group and its businesses around the world. Internship roles are available in social responsibility, finance, engineering, people operations, accounting, hotel operations and more.

Register in our virtual Info Session below and learn all about Libra’s Spring 2024 Internship Program.

Please note that slots are available on a first come, first served basis. If the session is full, please email the Libra Internship Program team to be added to the waitlist.

Register to the info session using your school email:

 

The Spring 2024 application deadline is April 19, 2023 at 17:00 (ET, New York).

For more information, reach the Office of Career Services at [email protected] or at 210 600 9800 ext. 1311.

In-person and online lecture

By Ioannis Stylianidis
PhD candidate, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies
2022 Research Fellow at The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy

When: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | 14:30-15:20 (student activity hour)

Where: 6th level auditorium, Deree-ACG (in-person attendance)
Online attendance (via Zoom) here

Organized by
Department of History, Philosophy and the Ancient World, Deree – The American College of Greece
in collaboration with
ISGAP – Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

The event is free and open to the public.

 

About the lecture

This lecture seeks to present how the Jewish cultural heritage is vandalized in Greece during the timeframe of populism (2015-2018). During this period places of Jewish cultural heritage in Greece are vandalized. The spectacle of vandalism in the sphere of media is considered paramount of importance for the political aesthetic, as acts of vandalism against the Jewish cultural heritage can be considered as a crystal-clear antisemitism. The timeframe of populism thrives urbanization in the public sphere. As a result, people are more susceptible to mass mobilization, protest and acts of violence in urban spaces. However, it is not only the urban (offline) environment which is affected but also the sphere of media, as an online space. According to the definition of media violence, the effects of urban violence and its coverage extend beyond the individual viewer, especially when polarization and division, as a result of populism, are dominant factors in society. As a result, the effects of this reality are reflected in the audience, and likely to make people more aggressive, as media often acts as a window on to that reality.

Based on the above, this lecture seeks to discuss examples of online and offline antisemitic acts during the period of 2015-2018, and how the ”timeframe” of populism affects antisemitism.

About the speaker

Ioannis Stylianidis is pursuing a PhD at the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies and the University of Heidelberg. His doctoral theme deals with the representation of Jews in the Greek press by focusing on the study of anti-Semitism from a global and transcultural perspective. Ioannis holds two Master’s degrees in the fields of Theology and Culture (Thessaloniki) and Jewish Civilization (Heidelberg). He has also studied Middle East Anthropology and Central Asia Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and Modern Hebrew at the University of Haifa. Learn more about the speaker here

 

For further inquiries, please contact College Events-Office of Public Affairs, [email protected]

When: Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 14:30 – 17:00

Where: Events Hall

Organized by:
The Biomedical Sciences Program – the Environmental Studies Program – Department of Science
and Mathematics

About the event

Join us to discover how to properly write scientific papers, reports, lab reports, research proposals, how to prepare for capstones thesis and the internships. Understand the various mark schemes and rubrics used in the assessments.

This workshop is addressed only to Biomedical Sciences & Environmental Studies Students

PROGRAM

14:30-14:32 | Introduction

• Dr. Paraskevi Papadopoulou: Professor, Head, Department of Science and Mathematics & Director, Biomedical Sciences Program, Deree-ACG

14:32-14:40 | Academic writing in the era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the sciences field

• Dr. Paraskevi Papadopoulou: Professor, Head, Department of Science and Mathematics & Director, Biomedical Sciences Program, Deree-ACG

14:40-14:50 | Preparing literature & systematic review papers and research proposals in sciences

• Dr. Stella Apostolaki: Executive Director, Center of Excellence in Sustainability, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Environmental Studies Program, Deree-ACG

14:50-15:00 | Student support & resources on academic writing available for BMS and ES students

• Dr. Paraskevi Papadopoulou: Professor, Head, Department of Science and Mathematics & Director, Biomedical Sciences Program, Deree-ACG

15:00-15:35 | Presentations-Workshops-Coordinated by PP & SA

One table with hard copies of handouts and manuals

• Dr. Georgia Kythreoti:Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences/Environmental Studies: On how to write methods, results and discussion of lab reports and scientific reports (Thesis, Papers)
• Dr. Anastasia Misseyannni: Professor, Environmental Studies/Biomedical Sciences: On how to prepare posters and oral presentations
• Dr. Christina Marouli:Associate Professor, Environmental Studies: On how to prepare critical review papers and group projects
• Dr. Michail Fragkos: Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences/Environmental Studies: On how to prepare a research proposal for Capstones
• Dr. Alexia Polissidis: Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences/Environmental Studies: On how to use citation managers-referencing
  The presentations will last 7min each.

15:35-17:00 | Working in groups and closing remarks

• Dr. Paraskevi Papadopoulou: Professor, Head, Department of Science and Mathematics & Director, Biomedical Sciences Program, Deree-ACG

When: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | 14:30-15:20

Where: Arts Center Auditorium

A presentation by Mr. Adam Markakis, CEO and founder of Kineo

About the event
An overview of how micromobility can improve our lives, our cities and the environment as well as lessons learned from Kineo’s journey.

Adam Markakis

Adam is the CEO and founder of Kineo, a startup that enables flexible ownership for micromobility. He reads, writes, and speaks about cities and sustainable urban mobility, and through all of his activities, he strives to communicate the human-centered values that can make our cities friendlier, healthier, and happier.

He studied in the United Kingdom (University of Essex, LSE), and for most of his professional career has been in the mobility industry (Autohellas, Welcome Pickups) in finance and business roles.

When:
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 | 13:00–16:00
Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | 13:00–16:00
Where: Main Corridor

Organized by: Deree Fashion Club

Supported by: Office of Sustainability – Public Affairs, Environmental Studies Society, Deree Student Association

About the event 

Come support our mission to promote sustainable fashion, and introduce
the second-hand clothing way of shopping to the ACG community.

When: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 | 10:30 check-in, 11:00 – 13:00 program

Where: The American College of Greece, Events Hall, upper floor of John S. Bailey Library

 

With the support of

Event Details

Education Unites is an event showcasing Greece’s only college scholarship program for refugee students. The event celebrates the outstanding Education Unites scholarship recipients with remarks from U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic George J. Tsunis and The American College of Greece President David G. Horner. The collaborative program promotes the shared Greek and American values of democracy, generosity and respect for human dignity.

Through a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Embassy in Athens and a matching financial contribution from The American College of Greece, more than 40 refugee, migrant and displaced students are pursuing undergraduate and graduate classes at The American College of Greece.

The event provides an opportunity to engage with these scholarship recipients and hear about the program’s transformative impact, which provides support to students from Ukraine, Afghanistan Pakistan, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ghana studying in diverse fields, including Biomedical Sciences, Philosophy, Graphic Design, Cinema Studies, Aeronautical Engineering, Psychology, IT, and International Business.

Program

10:30-11:00 | Guests arrive and check in

11:00 | ACG President Dr. David G. Horner welcome

11:10 | Short film

11:20 | U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic George J. Tsunis

11:30-12.00 | Education Unites scholarship student discussion

12:05 | Closing, President Horner

12:10-1:00 | Reception with refreshments

About the Organizers

The American College of Greece
Founded 150 years ago by American women, ACG has evolved into the oldest and largest American-accredited, nonprofit educational institution in Europe. Today, ACG remains grounded in its founders’ commitment to service and equitable, inclusive education, enrolling more than 7,000 students in its comprehensive pre-K – graduate-level system spread across three campuses in Athens. Headquartered in Boston and governed by a U.S.-based board of trustees, ACG is a U.S. 501c3 non-profit, financially stable and rapidly growing.

The U.S. Embassy in Athens

The mission of the U.S. Embassy in Greece is to strengthen cooperation, friendship and trade between the United States and Greece, to be a model diplomatic platform for the promotion of U.S. Government policies and objectives, and to protect the lives and interests of U.S. citizens.

 

BLOOD DRIVE in support of NIMTS and Agios Savvas Hospitals

When:
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 | 09:00-13:30
Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | 09:00-13:30
Thursday, April 6, 2023 | 09:00-13:30

Where: Deree Student Lounge, ACG campus

Supported by
ACG Sustainability Leaders
SNF Scholars’ Organization
ACG Health & Wellness Center

When: Monday, April 3 – Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Where: Deree Faculty Lounge

Co-organized by:
Sociology Department-SLAS, Deree-ACG and NGO Nostos

Attendees will be accepted on a first come, first served basis due to limited number of seats.
Pre-registration is mandatory.

Register here to attend, by March 31

The seminar is free and will be held primarily in Greek. Parking on campus upon availability.

About the event

Combining Nostos’ 25-year field experience with academic research, the aim of the three-day (3) seminar is to explore aspects of immigrants’ integration in the specific urban environment and to address the various challenges involved in the process of their inclusion over time.

The seminar consists of three afternoon sessions on the social integration of third country nationals in the Athenian urban environment from the 1990s to the present.

Three films of contemporary Greek cinema, which depict different phases of immigrant experience in Athens, are used as a common point of reference for critical discussions on the “diachronic” relationship between migration and the city. The film screenings will be followed by presentations of researchers, migration experts and practitioners.

The seminar is addressed to social scientists, students of social sciences and humanities, teachers, social workers, professionals of migrant integration structures and services.

A certificate of attendance will be issued to those who attend all 3 sessions.

PROGRAM

DAY 1:

Monday, April 3, 2023 – Away from the city centre: The 1990s
The case of “repatriates” from the former USSR, social integration policies, settlement, housing practices segregation and inclusion.

17:30-17:45 | Welcome and Introduction

• Welcome Remarks: Chryssa Zachou, Ph.D  Head, Department of Sociology, Deree – ACG
• Introduction: Cissie Andritsopoulou, Ph.D, Head of NOSTOS Scientific Team

17:45-19:20 | Film screening

• From the edge of the city (Από την άκρη της πόλης), director C. Giannaris, 1998

19:20-19:35 | Break

19:30-21:00 | Panel discussion

• Expatriates at the “edge” of the city

Moderator:  Gregory Katsas, Ph.D, Sociology Department, Deree – ACG
Presenters:
Georgia Lagoumitzi MPhil, Department of Sociology, Deree – ACG
Cissie Andritsopoulou, Ph.D Sociology of Education, Head of NOSTOS Scientific Team

Q&A session

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DAY 2:

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 – In the heart of the city? 2005-2015
Various immigrant groups and their settlement in Athens, integration policies, housing practices and the challenges of inclusion

17:30-17:40 | Introduction

• Introduction: C. Andritsopoulou, Ph.D Head of NOSTOS Scientific Team

17:40-19:10 | Film screening

• Akadimia Platonos (Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος), director F. Tsitos, 2009

19:10-19:35 | Break

19:35 | Panel discussion

• Immigrants in the heart of the city

Moderator: Chryssa Zachou, Ph.D.  Head of the Department of Sociology, Deree – ACG
Presenters:
Cissie Andritsopoulou, Ph.D Sociology of Education, NOSTOS Scientific Team Head
Dimitris Balampanidis, Ph.D  Urban Geographer, Researcher, Department of Geography, Harokopio University
Lefteris Papagiannakis, Director of the Greek Council for Refugees, former Vice Mayor on Migrant and Refugee Affairs, Athens

Q&A session

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DAY 3:

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 – In and out of the city centre: 2015-
Refugees, integration policies, accommodation facilities and housing schemes and the challenge of inclusion

17:30-17:45 | Introduction

• Introduction: Cissie Andritsopoulou, Ph.D, Head of NOSTOS Scientific Team

17:45-19:15 | Film screening

• Amerika square, director G. Sakaridis, 2016

19:15-19:30 | Break

19:25-8:50 | Panel discussion

• Refugees in and out of the city centre

Moderator: Chryssa Zachou, Ph.D  Head of the Department of Sociology, Deree – ACG
Presenters:
Petros Mastakas, Protection Department, UNHCR
Angelo Tramountanis, Researcher National Center of Social Research (EKKE)
Lilika Trikalinou, Ph.D  Urban Sociology, VTC IEKEP Manager
ACG Education Unites Program: Kathleen Macdonell, Director and students of the program: Fridoon Joinda, Damla Metin

Q&A session

Concluding remarks

• Reception

When: Monday, April 3 – Thursday, April 6 | Activity Hours

Where: Main Corridor

Organized by: Environmental Studies Society, Sociology Society

With the participation of: Education Unites Program

Supported by: Center of Excellence in Sustainability

About the initiative

Help support refugees and pets residing at the Schisto Camp with a donation!

See below the list of essential items

• SCHOOL ITEMS FOR KIDS
  Notebooks, pencils, colored markers, colored pencils, erasers, sharpeners, scissors, glue sticks, sketch blocks, school bags (if second hand, school bags should be clean and in very good condition)
• CLOTHING
  Kids’ shoes of all sizes. If second hand, the shoes should be clean and in very good condition
• BOOKS
  English learners’ books (for all levels and ages); English literature books (for all ages)
• SNACKS
  Packed snacks for kids: cookies, croissants, juices
• PET FOOD
  Dry food for cats and dogs

When: Every Monday
Where: Gerakas / Cholargos Farmers’ Markets

When: Every Friday
Where: Aghia Paraskevi Farmers’ Market

Organized by: Office of Public Affairs
powered by: NGO Boroume

• Are you a member of the ACG Community (Student/Faculty/Staff)?
• Do you want to engage in volunteer community-based work?
• Are you interested in helping reduce food waste while helping others in need?

Then, we are looking for YOU!

When: Friday, March 31, at 14:00

Where: Online via zoom

Event Details

This Friday, March 31st, at 14:00, Deree Music Society will hold an Online Open Discussion, in celebration of Women’s History Month.

For this year’s women’s month, we invite four women who have conquered the music world in three fields (composition, conducting, and performance) with their talent and hard-working spirit. We are inviting them to initiate, through their personal stories, a creative conversation that will inspire young women to pursue music professionally.

Guest Speakers:

Danae Dörken – Pianist

Zoe Zeniodi-Conductor

Lina Tonia – Composer

Sofia Kamayianni – Composer

Art History Week: Curating Workshop

by Dr. Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani, Humanities Research Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of York

When: Thursday, March 30, 2023 | 14:10 – 15:30

Where: New Painting Studios (next to Pierce)

Organized by: the Art History Society 

About the event

By taking as focal point the refugee and migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, we will explore the complexities of curating a photography or art exhibition on another person’s suffering. What are the ethical ramifications one should consider in this context and to what extent do these differ depending on the nature of the works presented or the context of display? Following a presentation, the participants will engage through a hands-on workshop with these curatorial and ethical questions.

When: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | 14:30-15:20

Where: Arts Center Auditorium

Event Details

The event aims to introduce students and faculty to SAP University Alliances program. The program is designed to help students and graduates learn about technology and innovation to shape the future. It also enables them to employ skills and acquire certifications that will help them join SAP or their global ecosystem of partners and customers.

The event has two main goals: to inspire young people about digital technologies and to create awareness, great experience, and enthusiasm about SAP Technologies among students at higher education institutions.

For any inquiries please contact [email protected]

When: Monday, March 27, 2023 | 18:00
Where: Pierce Theater

Organized by: The American College of Greece and Hellenic Basketball Federation (HBF)

 

About the event – Program

Welcome Remarks

Theodore Priskomatis
Executive Director of Athletics, Deree – The American College of Greece

Speakers/Panelists

Zoe Rapti
Deputy Minister of Health

Costas Missas
Former National Teams Coach and Hellenic Basketball Federation (HBF) Education Advisor

Symeon Siomopoulos, PhD
Sports Psychologist
Associate Professor, Sports Management, Deree – School of Business and Economics

Moderator

Nikos Takis, PhD
Clinical Psychologist – Psychotherapist
Assistant Professor, Deree – School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Director of Counseling Center, The American College of Greece

 

The discussion will be held in Greek.

The event is free and open to the public. Parking upon availability.

For more information, please contact College Events-Office of Public Affairs, [email protected]

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Τα Οφέλη του Αθλητισμού στην Ψυχική Υγεία των Εφήβων – Νέων

When: Δευτέρα, 27 Μαρτίου 2023 | 18:00

Where: Pierce Theater

Organized by: The American College of Greece και Ελληνική Ομοσπονδία Καλαθοσφαίρισης (ΕΟΚ)

 

Πρόγραμμα εκδήλωσης

Χαιρετισμός

Θεόδωρος Πρισκομάτης
Γενικός Διευθυντής Αθλητικού Τμήματος Αμερικανικού Κολλεγίου Ελλάδος

Ομιλητές

Ζωή Ράπτη
Υφυπουργός Υγείας

Κώστας Μίσσας
Ομοσπονδιακός Προπονητής και Σύμβουλος Εκπαίδευσης Ελληνικής Ομοσπονδίας Καλαθοσφαίρισης (ΕΟΚ)

Σίμος Σιωμόπουλος, PhD
Αθλητικός Ψυχολόγος
Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Sports Management, Αμερικανικό Κολλέγιο Ελλάδος

Συντονιστής

Νίκος Τάκης, PhD
Κλινικός Ψυχoλόγος – Ψυχοθεραπευτής
Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Διευθυντής Counseling Center, Αμερικανικό Κολλέγιο Ελλάδος

 

Η συζήτηση θα πραγματοποιηθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα.

Η εκδήλωση είναι ανοικτή και δωρεάν στο κοινό.

Parking κατόπιν διαθεσιμότητας.

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες επικοινωνήστε με το College Events – Office of Public Affairs: [email protected]

 

Stanford University a cappella group Counterpoint, in concert with the ACG Community Choir

When: Monday, March 27, 14:00 – 15:20

Where: 7th Level Auditorium

Organized by: ACG Community Choir & Deree Music Society

About the event

Counterpoint, Stanford University’s second-oldest and only soprano/alto a cappella group, is visiting Deree for an interactive workshop on “Arranging for A Cappella Ensemble” and a Choral Music Concert with our ACG Community Choir, under the direction of Prof. Minakoulis! Join us! 

Find out more about Counterpoint here

When: March 27–31, 2023 | 11:00–18:00

Where: Hybrid | On campus, between March 27–30 and online, on March 31

Organized by: The Office of Career Services

 

About the event

After 2 years of remote events, Career Days is back on campus with unique job and internship opportunities! Going strong for the 47th year, Deree’s historic job fair brings together the business world with fresh talent, in an aim to create mutually beneficial career opportunities and collaborations.

Join us to find your match among industry representatives and promising students!

This year’s event will be rolled out in hybrid mode, offering you the flexibility to attend:

• On campus, between March 27-30 and
• Online, on March 31

More details and registration here.

When: Thursday, March 23, 2023 | 20:30

Where: Black Box Theatre

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Free admission, open to the public

 

About the event

Don’t miss this concert of new music that explores the borderline between acoustic music and electronic sound. Featuring ACG Music faculty and the music of composers associated with The Collective, an international cooperative of composers seeking to give a platform to, and highlight the diversity and quality of powerful, individual artistic voices.

When: March 23, 2023 | 6:00 PM PST

Where: Starbucks Reserve Seattle Roastery, 1124 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101

Organized by: Office of North American Enrollment & U.S. Federal Aid

 

About the events

Got questions about enrollment at The American College of Greece, life in Athens, the campus or U.S. Federal Aid? Bring your parents or guardians along and let’s have a chat about your academic future at ACG over a cup of Starbucks coffee. Save the date!

Please RSVP using the following form:

 

ΕΚΔΗΛΩΣΗ: ΩΔΗ ΣΤΟΝ ΕΥΖΩΝΑ

Υπό την Αιγίδα της Α.Ε. της Προέδρου της Δημοκρατίας Κατερίνας Σακελλαροπούλου

When: Πέμπτη, 23 Μαρτίου 2023, 18:00
Where: Pierce Theater

Organized by: The American College of Greece και ΑΜΚΕ ΦΕΡΜΕΛΗ

Η εκδήλωση είναι ανοικτή και δωρεάν στο κοινό. Parking κατόπιν διαθεσιμότητας.

Πρόγραμμα

18:00 – 18:05 | Καλωσόρισμα
Κλώντια Καρύδη
Αντιπρόεδρος, Public Affairs, Αμερικανικό Κολλέγιο Ελλάδος

18:05 – 18:20 | Το έργο της ΑΜΚΕ ΦΕΡΜΕΛΗ
Λίζα Πενθερουδάκη
Ιδρύτρια

18:20 – 18:30 | Ομιλία
Στρατηγός ε.α. Αλκιβιάδης Στεφανής
τ. Υφυπουργός Εθνικής Άμυνας

18:30 – 18:40 | Ευζωνική Στολή – Οι Εύζωνες και η Ιστορία τους
Εσαεί Εύζωνος Γαβριλάκης Νικόλαος
Πρόεδρος Δ.Σ. Συλλόγου Ευζώνων Προεδρικής Φρουράς – Ο ΕΥΖΩΝ

18:40 – 18:50 | Συμμετοχή Μαθητών Pierce
Παρουσίαση: Στέλλα Καραγεωργίου, Καθηγήτρια Εικαστικών Pierce

18:50 – 19:00 | Μαθητικοί Χοροί

Παρουσίαση: Κατερίνα Τσιούφη, Καθηγήτρια Φυσικής Αγωγής και υπεύθυνη της ομάδας Παραδοσιακού Χορού Pierce

19:00 | Ποίημα για τους Εύζωνες

Στο lobby του Pierce Theater θα συνεκθέτονται δημιουργίες μαθητών του Pierce και καλλιτεχνών:

Καλογεροπούλου Σοφία

Κανά Ειρήνη

Κρητικού Μαίρη

Μαυρικάκης Μηνάς

Παπαμιχαλόπουλος Κωνσταντίνος

Πεπελάση Μαριέττα

Πενθερουδάκη Λίζα

Σκόκου Μαργαρίτα

Συλίκου Κωνσταντίνα

Ματζαβίνος Τάσος

Κερεστέτζης Κωνσταντινος

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Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες επικοινωνήστε με το College Events – Office of Public Affairs: [email protected]

Could you be an Honors student?

Join our info session to find out!

When: Thursday, March 23, activity hour (14:10-15:10)
Where: Deree Student Lounge

Organized by: International Honors Program

About the event

Motivated and seeking to enrich your academic background? Is interdisciplinary learning among your interests? Are you looking for opportunities for independent scholarship? Then the International Honors Program might be the academic experience for you.

Join the info session to learn about the program’s philosophy, aims, benefits and admissions criteria.

Whatever you major or discipline, this comprehensive info-session will have all your questions answered!

World Wide Teach-in Climate and Justice

Introducing Biodiversity, Climate Change and Justice to College Students: Using the Deree-ACG Forest as a Living Laboratory

When: Wednesday, March 22, 14:30 – 15:20

Where: 6^th level Auditorium, Deree – The American College of Greece

Organized by: The Biomedical Sciences Program and the Environmental Studies Program, Department of Science and Mathematics, Deree-ACG

 

About the event:

Deree students will introduce work done on three Learning Objects by using the Deree-ACG forest as a living laboratory. This event is part of the World-Wide Teach-in Climate and Justice where Deree-ACG is one of the hosts.

Students will also present in more detail their work during the Deree Student Symposium and World Environment Day, 2023.

1st Learning Object: Biodiversity basics and biodiversity loss related to the 5 Kingdoms of life: Bacteria (Monera), Protista, Fungi, Plants, and Animals. Students will try to connect the activities with climate change impact

2nd Learning Object: Introduction to concepts of Climate Change/Crisis, interlinkages between Biodiversity and Climate Change, and Justice to college students with minimal or no background on the topics

3rd Learning Object: Assessment of the previous LOs (closing the loop), preparation of reports, presentations, conference posters, apps on essential findings, analysis, conclusions, and future recommendations.

The language of the in-person event is English.

Participants will receive a Certificate of Participation or Attendance.

For any inquiries, please contact [email protected]

 

PROGRAM

 14:30-14:40:     Introduction

Paraskevi Papadopoulou, Ph.D.

Head, Department of Science and Mathematics and Director, Biomedical Sciences Program, Deree-ACG

 

14:40-14:50:     Studying Biodiversity @ Deree-ACG Forest

1st Learning Object group of students

Supervised by Paraskevi Papadopoulou, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Sciences & Environmental Studies

Student work from: BMS students & BI 1101 Introduction to Biology II students

 

14:50-15:00:     Studying Climate Change & Climate Justice

2nd Learning Object group of students

Supervised by Stella Apostolaki, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Program Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program & Director, Center of Excellence in Sustainability, Deree-ACG

Student work from: The Honors Course HNS 2285 Greening the Campus

 

15:00-15:10:     Assessing Biodiversity @ Deree-ACG Forest, Climate Change and Climate Justice

3rd Learning Object group of students

Supervised by Anastasia Misseyanni, Ph.D., Professor, Environmental Studies & Biomedical Sciences, Deree-ACG

Student work from: BI 1007 Environmental Ecology & ES 3340 Integrated Methods in Environmental Analysis I

 

15:10-15:20:     Discussion, Future Plans and Closing Remarks

 

 

Studying Biodiversity @ Deree-ACG Forest | 1st Learning Object Course: BI 1101 Introduction to Biology II
Student’s name	Major
Apostolou Anastasia	Biomedical Sciences
Bita Christina	Biomedical Sciences
de Stoutz Philippe	Biomedical Sciences
Katsouli Dimitra	Biomedical Sciences
Lego Erika	Biomedical Sciences
Lazaridi Anna	Biomedical Sciences
Samlian Miranna	Biomedical Sciences
Studying Climate Change & Climate Justice | 2nd Learning Object Course: HNS 2285 Greening the Campus
Student’s name	Major
Angeli, Evangelia	English
Arzouni, Mohamad	Cybersecurity and Networks
Caraman, Nona	Philosophy
Diamantidis, Achillefs- Panagiotis	International Business
Evangeliou, Evangelos	Finance
Fiorentinos, Anna	Philosophy
Foley, Caroline	Non-Degree
Ganelli, Anastasia	Shipping Management
Grieco, Andreas	Economics
Karakatsanis, Alexandros	Finance
Kotsiris, Nikolas	Finance
Makol, Eryk -Dariusz	Cinema Studies
Omar, Lazya Salar	International Business
Papadopoulou, Evanthia	Entrepreneurship Management
Varvadouka, Evanthia	International Business
Volonaki, Danai	International Tourism & Hospitality Management
Assessing Biodiversity @ Deree-ACG Forest, Climate Change and Climate Justice | 3rd Learning Object Courses: BI 1007 Environmental Ecology, ES 3340 Integrated Methods in Environmental Analysis I, ES 4430 Environmental Studies Capstone
Student’s name	Major
Eikenberry Stefan	Environmental Studies
Kyriazidi Eleftheria	Environmental Studies
Tsoutsa del Rio Iro	Environmental Studies

 

When: March 22, 2023 

Where: Student Lounge

The students of the course Music in the Community in association with the Office of Student Affairs organize an event that aims at raising awareness of the tragic repercussions of the recent earthquakes by celebrating the wealth and significance of the cultures of all the affected populations.

The event entitled Fostering Empathy, Resilience and Hope will be held on Wednesday, March 22 during activity hour (14:20 -15:20). Short presentations and music of the area will introduce us to the history and culture of the various populations living in the areas that were devastated by the recent earthquakes. 

 

When: Wednesday, March 22, 13:30-15:45
Where: ACG Events Hall  

Organized by:  Social Issues Club 

Guest Speakers: Eva Kotta, Vasiliki Liafoy, Panayiotis Papaioannou  

About the event 

In the framework of International Women’s Day, this event aims to offer the opportunity to those present to ask questions and discuss interactively with guest speakers on the topic of femicides both in Greece and Internationally. The goal is to raise awareness and sensitize the audience on an individual and social level to the existing situation, challenge them to reflect, and develop practical solutions. 

A conversation with artist Irini Karayannopoulou and curator Christina Petkopoulou

“A lady, they say, is known by her gloves. This means there’s a time and a place for wearing gloves and they should always be immaculate.”
– Kay Thomas, Secrets of Loveliness

 

When: Tuesday, March 21 | 14:10-15:20

Where: 7th Level Auditorium, The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias Str., Aghia Paraskevi, 153 42, Athens

Organized by: Art History Society 

 

About the event

Join us in a conversation with artist Irini Karayannopoulou and curator Christina Petkopoulou, who will discuss their newly launched femzine Janus II. In the publication, Karayannopoulou has carefully selected vintage soft porn images and altered them by adding her drawings to create new female forms that break free from the male gaze. The artworks are accompanied by excerpts from the guidebook Secrets of Loveliness (1964) and lyrics from popular songs from the 1960s, selected by Petkopoulou.

Unleash your imagination and doodle your way to the world final in Amsterdam!

When: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | 12:00-17:00
Where: Deree Main Corridor

Workshop

When: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | 12:30-14:30
Where: ACG Events Hall

About the event 

A global competition for the new generation of artists, creatives and students. Red Bull gives wings to your imagination and lets your mind wander through imaginative doodles. Enjoy a doodling workshop with multidisciplinary artist Soteur (Sotiris Fokeas), get the opportunity to learn and get doodling tips from the best doodler in Greece and get a chance to enter the world final in Amsterdam! Doodle away and see where your mind takes you!

To discover more about Sotiris Fokeas click here

To find out more about the Red Bull Doodle Art competition, click here

A Group Exhibition of Works from ACG Art Collection

Opening: 20/03 at 17:30

21-23/03/2023 from 14:00-17:00 at the ACG Art Gallery

Curators: Clio Georgiadis, Katsounis Evan, Lasithiotaki Athina, Milesi Katerina, Pitsilka Elena

In Collaboration with the ACG Art Collection

“Parousa” is a phrase used in the Greek language. It is used by a person, who identifies as a female, when she needs to declare her presence somewhere. This place can range from a classroom, a room, or even a gallery space. Parousa in this case, delves into the very presence of a woman in this exhibition space as a statement of existence.

Parousa explores and illuminates the presence of females in art and whether they are effectively conveyed as empowered agents or displayed in their prevailing lack of agency. Ultimately, we aim to explore the impact women have had on society and the arts and vice versa.

 

 

When: March 18, 2023 | 11 AM CST

Where: Starbucks Reserve Chicago Roastery, 646 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

Organized by: Office of North American Enrollment & U.S. Federal Aid

 

About the events

Got questions about enrollment at The American College of Greece, life in Athens, the campus or U.S. Federal Aid? Bring your parents or guardians along and let’s have a chat about your academic future at ACG over a cup of Starbucks coffee. Save the date!

Please RSVP using the following form:

ΤΟ DEREE ΕΡΧΕΤΑΙ ΣΤΗ ΡΟΔΟ!

Παρασκευή 17, Σάββατο 18 & Κυριακή 19 Μαρτίου, 2023

Για τρεις ημέρες, το Deree θα βρίσκεται στην πόλη της Ρόδου, με τις αποσκευές του γεμάτες καινοτόμες εκπαιδευτικές επιλογές και προτάσεις.

Στο ξενοδοχείο BEST WESTERN Plaza Hotel, Iερού Λόχου 7 (Thaleia Conference Room), στη διάρκεια ατομικών info sessions, οι σύμβουλοι του Deree θα ενημερώσουν τους νέους της Ρόδου και τους γονείς τους σχετικά με:

• όλα όσα κάνουν το Deree κορυφαία εκπαιδευτική επιλογή
• τη σύγχρονη γκάμα ακαδημαϊκών προγραμμάτων
• τα soft skills και τους λόγουςπου είναι περιζήτητα στην αγορά εργασίας
• το ευρύ πρόγραμμα υποτροφιών και οικονομικής στήριξης, που δίνει την ευκαιρία στους νέους να ακολουθήσουν τις σπουδές που ονειρεύτηκαν
• το πρόγραμμα παράλληλων σπουδών, που επιτρέπει σε φοιτητές του ελληνικού πανεπιστημίου να ενισχύσουν τις γνώσεις και το πτυχίο τους.

Οι συμμετέχοντες θα έχουν επιπλέον τη δυνατότητα να συμπληρώσουν δωρεάν το “HORIZON”, το έγκυρο τεστ Επαγγελματικών Ενδιαφερόντων της Orientum.

Δηλώστε συμμετοχή σήμερα!

Keep moving towards the future! 

Συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα συμμετοχής ή επικοινωνήστε μαζί μας στο 210 600 9800 εσωτ. 1322 ή στο [email protected]

Deree. #Futureproof

Wednesday, March 15 | 18:00-19:30

Are you looking to enhance your opportunities for career advancement, considering a new career, or preparing for study at the doctoral level? Whatever your question, knowledge is the answer! Join our online Information Session to learn how you can master your future.

• Find out why you should choose Deree for your graduate studies
• Learn about program structure and content and how you can combine work with studies
• Listen to Career experts on job opportunities in the sector of your interest
• Find out about application process, tuition and scholarships.
• Ask your questions to faculty and current students

The event will take place via Zoom, at Athens local time. Please book your space via our registration form.

Feel free to get in touch with our Admissions Counsellors at any time, if you have questions before the online event by calling: +30 210 600 9800 or email: [email protected]

When: Tuesday March 14, 14:10-15:10
Where: 7th Level Auditorium
Organized by: The Department of Science and Mathematics of The American College of Greece

Speaker

Dr. Evangelos Andreakos
Principal Investigator, Immunology Laboratory, Clinical, Experimental Surgery & Translational Research Center
Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens

New Era – Opportunities through challenges

When: March 14-17, 2023

Where: ACG Events Hall

Organized by:
School of Business and Economics

 

About Deree Business Week

Deree Business Week is an annual forum delivered by the Student Academic Societies of the School of Business & Economics of Deree – The American College of Greece. It aims at bringing together ACG business students, faculty and alumni with distinguished industry professionals while fostering the sharing of ideas and best practices between them.

In its 16th edition, Business Week will focus on how the multiple crises can lead to  opportunities for new solutions, personal and professional growth.

All speakers will be introduced by representatives of the respective host societies.

Business Week 2023 program

A Masterclass by Gregory Patrick Karr

When: Monday, March 13, 18:00-20:00

Where: Center for the Arts Auditorium
Free and open to the public

Organized by: BA in Cinema Studies, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Deree – The American College of Greece

 

About the event

A masterclass by Cannes film festival acting nominee and international actor/performer Gregory Patrick Karr (Gregory Patrikareas). The masterclass will address Greece’s position in the international reality of world cinema and will examine strategies that can be implemented for the young filmmaker, actor and student who wants to be involved in any aspect of independent filmmaking, whether it is in the creative, the production or the technical aspects of independent cinema. Gregory Patrick Karr will talk about working with renowned Greek directors like Angelopoulos and Koundouros, both in actual filming and post-production as an actor and dubbing director — and his current acting experience as an English-speaking actor in international productions in Greece.

 

About the speaker

With studies and experience in acting, Gregory Patrik Karr has worked in Greece and abroad in theatre, film and television and collaborations with top Greek and international directors and actors. Gregory has competed at Cannes for best actor (in Angelopoulos’ The Suspended Step of the Stork), worked and toured with The Royal Shakespeare Company and La Mama Theatre New York among others and graduated with honors at the legendary Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, alma mater of the likes of Lawrence Olivier, Harold Pinter and Vanessa Redgrave to name a few. He has starred opposite actors such as Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, James Fox and Charles Dance and directed English dubbing for top directors such Theo Angelopoulos (Dust of Time: with Michel Piccoli and William Dafoe), Nikos Koundouros (Byron: Ballad of a Demon, The Photographers) and Giannis Smaragdis (El Greco). He has also worked with some of the most legendary Greek actors in all media, such as Alekos Alexandrakis and Ilias Logothetis, as well as voice-overed hundreds of documentaries, industrial videos and commercials for both in Greece and abroad. Currently he is writing, directing, acting and producing both independent and commercial films and negotiating breakthrough projects for the international market. The completion and release of his first feature film The Neighbour is being finalized and negotiated for the end of 2023.

Arabic Food • Dance • Traditions • Spirituality

When: Thursday, March 9, 2023

Displays & Reflections: 11:00-15:00, Main Corridor
Food & Dance: 14:10, Student Lounge

Organized by:
ACG Health & Wellness Center
Cultural Exchange & Modern Languages Club

*Sahtein means wishing you good health, twice

PROGRAM

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For more information please contact Sophie Themelis at 210 6009800 ext.1700 or at [email protected]

ΤΟ DEREE ΕΡΧΕΤΑΙ ΣΤΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΙΝΑ!

Παρασκευή 3, Σάββατο 4 & Κυριακή 5 Μαρτίου, 2023

Για τρεις ημέρες, το Deree θα βρίσκεται στο ξενοδοχείο Hotel Du Lac (Κ. Παπούλια & Ίκκου), στα Ιωάννινα, με τις αποσκευές του γεμάτες καινοτόμες εκπαιδευτικές επιλογές και προτάσεις.

Στις 3 Μαρτίου στις 19:00, οι εκπρόσωποι του Deree θα παρουσιάσουν

• όλα όσα κάνουν το Deree κορυφαία εκπαιδευτική επιλογή
• την σύγχρονη γκάμα ακαδημαϊκών προγραμμάτων
• τα soft skills και τους λόγουςπου είναι περιζήτητα στην αγορά εργασίας
• το ευρύ πρόγραμμα υποτροφιών και οικονομικής στήριξης, που δίνει την ευκαιρία στους νέους να ακολουθήσουν τις σπουδές που ονειρεύτηκαν
• το πρόγραμμα παράλληλων σπουδών, που επιτρέπει σε φοιτητές του ελληνικού πανεπιστημίου να ενισχύσουν τις γνώσεις και το πτυχίο τους.

Ακόμη, στις 4 & 5 Μαρτίου, οι μαθητές Β΄ και Γ΄ Λυκείου θα έχουν την αποκλειστική ευκαιρία να πραγματοποιήσουν ατομικές συναντήσεις με τους ακαδημαϊκούς μας συμβούλους και να συνομιλήσουν για όσα τους απασχολούν.

Οι συμμετέχοντες θα έχουν επιπλέον τη δυνατότητα να συμπληρώσουν δωρεάν το “HORIZON”, το έγκυρο τεστ Επαγγελματικών Ενδιαφερόντων της Orientum.

Δηλώστε συμμετοχή σήμερα!

Keep moving towards the future! 

Συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα συμμετοχής ή επικοινωνήστε μαζί μας στο 210 600 9800 εσωτ. 1254 ή στο [email protected]

Deree. #Futureproof

About The American College of Greece

Located in Athens and founded in 1875 in Smyrna, Asia Minor by women missionaries from Boston of the United Church of Christ, ACG is the oldest, comprehensive, U.S.-accredited college in Europe and the premier private college in Greece. An independent, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, co-educational, institution, the College has sought since its founding to offer a transformative, U.S.-style learning experience to its students while instilling the ethos “Non ministrari sed ministrare”
(“Not to be served but to serve”), a dictum which continues to underpin the College’s mission and vision.

About the event

At a time when U.S.-Greece relations are at a peak and the interest of U.S. universities and investors in Greece is growing and as part of the celebration of ACG’s 100-year anniversary of operations in Greece in 2023 and 150-year anniversary of its founding in 2025, this event aims at highlighting the importance of and ACG’s leading role in delivering U.S.-style education in Greece. The event will feature high-level speakers from the Greek Embassy in the U.S., the U.S. State Department and the U.S. and Greek business communities and will showcase ACG’s long- standing ties with U.S. academic institutions, top-quality education and research programs, and economic and social impact in Greece. The event is “by-invitation” only; guests are asked to register in advance.

When: Thursday, March 2, 2023 | 6-8pm

Where: The Dupont Circle Hotel, Dupont Ballroom. 1500 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington DC 20036

Organized by: The American College of Greece, Under the Auspices of the Embassy of Greece in Washington DC and in collaboration with the American – Hellenic Chamber of Commerce

If you are interested in attending, please contact [email protected]

Program

5:30 | Arrival of guests – Registration

6:00 | ACG Video

6:03 | Welcome
Ambassador Daniel Smith, Chair, ACG Board of Trustees

6:05 | ACG Institute of Hellenic Growth & Prosperity (IHGP) Report Presentation & the ACG 150 Strategic Plan
Dr. David Horner, ACG President

6:15-6:45 | Panel 1: “Education as a pillar of U.S. – Greece relations”
Panelists:
• Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to the U.S., HE Alexandra Papadopoulou
• Ethan Rosenzweig, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
• Erika Olson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
• Moderator: Bill Antholis, CEO of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, ACG Trustee

6:50-7:20 | Panel 2: “Education as a pillar of Greece’s economic growth”
Panelists:
• Allyson Knox, Senior Director of Education Policy at Microsoft Corp.
• Nikolaos Bakatselos, President, American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
• Marina Hatsopoulos, Entrepreneur and Writer, Board Chair, Levitronix Technologies
• Moderator: Katerina Sokou, Washington DC Correspondent and Foreign Affairs Analyst

7:20 | Closing remarks
Dr. David Horner, ACG President

7:25-8:00 | Networking reception

 

Bios of the speakers

Ambassador Daniel Smith
Chair, ACG Board of Trustees

Daniel B. Smith joined the Board in 2021 and serves as Chair of the Board.  Before he retired from the Department of State with the Department’s highest rank of Career Ambassador, he served as Acting Secretary of State and Acting Deputy Secretary of State.  Prior to that, he was Director of the Foreign Service Institute from 2018 until 2021. Ambassador Smith served as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research from 2013 to 2018 and as Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic from 2010 to 2013. Previously he was Executive Secretary of the State Department, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, and Deputy Executive Secretary. In addition to Greece, his overseas service includes tours in Bern, Istanbul, Ottawa, Stockholm.  His last overseas assignment was as chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Mission in India.  He also taught Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Ambassador Smith is a recipient of the Arnold L. Raphel Memorial Award, the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award, a Presidential Distinguished Service Award, and the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of Colorado and M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Stanford University.  He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Diane.

 

David G. Horner
ACG President

Since becoming president in 2008, David Horner has provided transformative leadership to The American College of Greece resulting in:

• 71% increase in total enrollment
• 800% increase in student financial aid
• “In-bound” and “out-bound” study abroad programs serving over 1,000 students annually
• Over 1,100 Greek public university students studying annually in “parallel” at Deree
• Over 3,000 students and business professionals enrolled annually in Alba graduate business and Executive Education programs
• Over 1,300 children enrolled in Deree Sports Academies and Summer Camp
• Over 56,000 children educated through the Behrakis Foundation Youth Anti-Smoking Initiative

Previously, Dr. Horner served as president of North Park University (Chicago) from 1987-2004 and Barrington College, his undergraduate alma mater, from 1979-1985. At the time of his Barrington appointment, he was the youngest (age 29) college or university president in the U.S. and led the College into its successful merger with Gordon College (MA). During his North Park presidency, enrollment tripled, major capital projects were completed, and the endowment grew six-fold.

President Horner received a: bachelor’s degree (philosophy), summa cum laude, from Barrington College; MA (philosophy) from the University of Rhode Island; MBA and PhD in higher education administration and policy analysis from Stanford University. Together with his late spouse, S. Sue Horner, he has two grown children and four grandchildren.

 

Alexandra Papadopoulou
Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to the U.S.

Ambassador Alexandra Papadopoulou was appointed as Ambassador of Greece to the U.S. in February 2019. Prior to that, she has served as Head of the Diplomatic Cabinet of the Greek Prime Minister, Permanent Representative of Greece to the EU, Director General for European Affairs/in charge of the Greek Presidency of the EU in 2014, Head of the Greek Liaison Office in Skopje and Deputy Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations.

 

She also served as Head of the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in Kosovo.

 

Ambassador Papadopoulou holds a Law Degree from the University of Athens and a Master’s Degree in International Relations/International Law from the University of Pennsylvania (Fulbright Scholar).

 

Ethan Rosenzweig
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Academic Programs
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
U.S. Department of State

Ethan joins the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) from Atlanta, GA, where he worked at Emory University’s School of Law as Associate Dean overseeing enrollment management and student services including international recruiting and engagement activities.

A graduate of Emory Law, Ethan clerked for the Honorable G. Ernest Tidwell of the U.S. District Court of Northern Georgia and then practiced law in Charleston, South Carolina.  Before Emory, he completed a Presidential Management Fellowship at the U.S. Department of Education, and received his undergraduate and master’s degrees in public policy from American University.

Originally from Louisiana where his family still resides, he says he doesn’t return often enough and misses the crawfish and jambalaya.

 

Erica Olson
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs

Erika Olson is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State overseeing policy for Southern Europe and the Caucasus. She previously served as Director for Regional Political Military Affairs in Europe guiding U.S. participation at NATO and the OSCE. From 2019-2021 she directed the Office of Northern Europe, the Baltics, and Arctic Security.

While serving as Economic Counselor for the United States Mission in Turkey from 2016-2019, she won the Department’s Herbert Salzman Award for Excellence in International Economic Performance. Overseas she has also served as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Bratislava, Slovakia; Deputy Political Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia; Political Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and Consul and Economic Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. In Washington she was Senior Advisor and Acting Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Heather Higginbottom and a Watch Officer/ Senior Watch Officer in the Secretary of State’s Operation Center. She entered the State Department as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Ms. Olson worked alongside Ambassador Robert Oakley at the National Defense University on conflict and resilience. She advised the Director General of the Foreign Commercial Service at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and worked for Microsoft and the Mitsui Corporation.

Erika holds a M.A. in Foreign Affairs with a concentration in international economic policy from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and a B.A. with Honors in psychology and Japanese studies from Whitman College. She studied at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. She speaks Turkish and Russian, and has studied Japanese, Georgian, and Slovak.

 

Bill Antholis
CEO of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, ACG Trustee

William Antholis joined the ACG Board of Trustees in 2015 and is a member of the Advancement & Public Affairs Committee.  He is director and CEO of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history. From 2004 to 2014, he was managing director at the Brookings Institution, and before that he served for five years as director of studies at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 1995 to 1999, he served in government: At the White House, he was director of international economic affairs on the staff of the National Security Council and National Economic Council, where he served as the chief staff person for the G8 Summits in 1997 and 1998. He also was deputy director of the White House climate change policy team. At the State Department, he served on the policy planning staff and in the economic affairs bureau. He has published two books, as well as many articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on U.S. politics, U.S. foreign policy, international organizations, the G8, climate change, and trade. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in politics (1993) and his B.A. from the University of Virginia in government and foreign affairs (1986), where he was an Echols Scholar and Phi Beta Kappa, and where his Politics Honors thesis won the Stevenson Award.

 

Allyson Knox
Senior Director of Education Policy at Microsoft Corp.

Allyson Knox is Senior Director of Education Policy and Programs in Microsoft’s Washington DC office.  She currently serves as an advocate at the federal and state levels for the company’s positions on STEM education (particularly computer science), workforce development, and technology in education. She recently led an initiative to make computer science courses count as core high school graduation credits in all fifty states and now is leading policy efforts focused on expanding the cybersecurity workforce.

Throughout her career at Microsoft, Allyson has created public/public partnerships resulting in programs such as InterroBang (an interactive online/real-world game), CareerForward (virtual course), and the Scaling-Up Innovation (in-person trainings).

Prior to joining Microsoft, Allyson managed workforce programs at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC.  Prior to coming to Washington, DC, Allyson worked in a number of community roles in Michigan.  She directed the Young Spartan Program at Michigan State University, taught entrepreneurship through Michigan State University Extension, trained community leaders at the Michigan Community Service Commission, wrote federal grants at the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce, and created a nationally-recognized community outreach program at Jocundry’s Books.

Allyson received her B.A. from University of Michigan, an MA in Educational Leadership from Michigan State University, and a Masters in Education from Harvard University.

 

Nikolaos Bakatselos
President, American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce

Nikolaos Bakatselos is the President & CEO of “Pyramis Metallourgia A.E.” and “Pyramis Deutschland GmbH”.

Nikolaos Bakatselos was Member of the Board of Directors, and Deputy Managing Director, of “Northern Greece Publishing S.A.”. He has held the position of Managing Director of “Imperium AEEX”, and Member of the Board of Directors of “Egnatia Bank Securities S.A.”.  He was a Member of the Board of Directors of Attica Bank from February 2014 until June 2016.

Nikolaos Bakatselos was a Member of the Steering Committee of the “International Hellenic University” from 2006 until January 2014 and Member of the Board and President of the Northern Greece Committee of EEDE.  He is Member of the Committee Support CERTH, Trustee of Anatolia College, Member of the Board of Directors of SVE, Member of the Board of Directors of IOBE and Honorary Consul of Belgium for Northern Greece.

After being a Member of the Board of Directors of the American – Hellenic Chamber of Commerce for several years, in June 2010 he was elected Vice President of AmChamGR and President of the Northern Greece Committee and since June 2019 he is the President of AmChamGR.

Nikolaos Bakatselos is Founding Member and Member of the Board of Council of Competitiveness of Greece.

From October 2019 until February 2022 he was elected President of Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator S.A. by the General Assembly of HEDNO.

He holds a B.A. in Sociology from University of Reading and a MSc in Shipping, Trade and Finance from City University Business School.

 

Marina Hatsopoulos
Entrepreneur and Writer, Board Chair, Levitronix Technologies

Marina Hatsopoulos was Founding CEO of Z Corporation, an early market leader in 3D printing out of MIT, from 1994 through its sale in 2005. She is Board Chair of Levitronix Technologies, the worldwide leader in magnetically-levitated bearingless motor technology, and President of Hellenic Innovation Network. She is on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She is on the Advisory Board of the Nantucket Conference, MIT Enterprise Forum Greece, Eurobank’s EGG incubator, Mindspace Startup Program and MIT ReACT. She was a member of the National Board of Research & Innovation for the Republic of Cyprus. She is a regular guest speaker at MIT Bootcamps, Brown University and other universities. She was a Director of Cynosure Inc., a $400 million leader in the laser aesthetics market; GSI Group, a $300 million supplier of laser-based equipment; and Contex Holding, a $100 million leading manufacturer of large-format scanners. She was an investor and Director of Dear Kate performance apparel and Tea Forte, a luxury tea brand. She has also written articles, essays and short stories which have been published in Venturebeat, The Observer, CEOWORLD Magazine, Antioch Review, Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary, and numerous other journals (also at windystreet.com). She holds B.A. degrees from Brown University in Math and in Music, and an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering.

 

Katerina Sokou
Washington D.C. Correspondent – Foreign Affairs Analyst; Theodore Couloumbis Research Fellow on “Greek-American Relations” at ELIAMEP

Katerina Sokou is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Future Europe Initiative of the Atlantic Council and the inaugural Theodore Couloumbis Research Fellow on “Greek-American Relations” at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP).

She is the Washington DC correspondent for Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini, where she is also a columnist. In Washington since 2013, she has been a visiting scholar at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, where she conducted research on the U.S. role in the Greek debt crisis, a member of the editorial board at the European Institute, has written for the Washington Post, and corresponded for SKAI TV.

Katerina studied History (First Class Honors) at the University of Ioannina and holds postgraduate degrees in International Studies from the University of Warwick and in Journalism from Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism. She started her career as a financial reporter at To Vima, covering Greece and the Eurozone, and was International Financial News editor at Kathimerini during the global financial crisis.

She has covered extensively the Greek financial crisis, providing commentary for news media in the US and Europe. Katerina is a PhD candidate at the University of Piraeus, a director at The Hellenic Initiative Canada, a member of the advisory committee at the Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism, and a member of the Hellenic American Women’s Council.

When: Wednesday, March 1, 15:30 – 16:20

Where:​ Arts Auditorium

A lecture by Dr. Jochen Sokoly, Associate Professor of Islamic Art History at VCUarts Qatar. His research focuses on the culture of the early Islamic caliphates, specifically on inscribed textiles within the context of court, administration, and manufacture. The lecture will focus on early Islamic art and architecture and its antique heritage.

“The Christianization of Urban Space in Late Antiquity: The Case of Philippopolis”

A guest lecture by Ivo Topalilov

Associate Professor, Head of the Centre of Thracology, Institute for Balkan Studies Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

When: February 28, 14:10-15:10
Where: 7th Level Auditorium

Organized by: Department of History, Philosophy and the Ancient World/ Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts

 

When: Friday, February 24, 2023 | 14:30-15:30 (student activity hour)

Where: Arts Center Auditorium

Organized by:
ACG Institute of Global Affairs (IGA)

 

The Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) of The American College of Greece is pleased to invite ACG students, faculty and staff to a discussion about the Russian invasion to Ukraine and the lessons learned, one year after.

 

Panelists:

Alexandros Diakopoulos
Vice Admiral (retired) and former National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister

Manos Karagiannis
Reader in International Security, King’s College London

The discussion will be moderated by

Anna Visvizi
Associate Professor, Department of Management & International Business
Board Member, Institute of Global Affairs (IGA)

 

Join us and share your thoughts.

For info: [email protected]

 

ΓΙΑΤΙ ΝΑ ΣΠΟΥΔΑΣΩ ΣΤΗΝ ΣΧΟΛΗ ΚΑΛΩΝ ΤΕΧΝΩΝ ΤΟΥ DEREE?

Tα Deree Info Sessions παρουσιάζουν τη Σχολή Καλών και Παραστατικών Τεχνών Frances Rich.

Τετάρτη 22 Φεβρουαρίου | 18:00

Σας ενδιαφέρουν σπουδές στο Graphic Design, στις Εικαστικές Τέχνες, στη Μουσική, στο Θέατρο, στην Ιστορία της Τέχνης, στο Μουσικό Θέατρο ή στον Χορό; 

Σύμβουλοι εγγραφών του Deree και καθηγητές της Σχολής μιλούν για όλα όσα μπορεί να προσφέρει το Deree στους νέους για μία futureproof σταδιοδρομία στον χώρο των τεχνών!

Μάθετε για:

• Τα προσφερόμενα προγράμματα σπουδών
• Τις υποτροφίες
• Την παράλληλη φοίτηση αν είστε φοιτητής του ελληνικού Πανεπιστημίου
• Τις ευκαιρίες για σπουδές σε πανεπιστήμια του εξωτερικού
• Τα soft skills
• Τους επαγγελματικούς δρόμους μετά την αποφοίτηση
• Τις προοπτικές για μεταπτυχιακά και ακαδημαϊκή σταδιοδρομία

Η παρουσίαση θα πραγματοποιηθεί Online.  

Συμπληρώστε την φόρμα εγγραφής για να μπορέσετε να παρακολουθήσετε online το Deree Info Session και να μάθετε για όλα όσα προσφέρει το Deree στους φοιτητές Καλών Τεχνών.

H Σχολή Καλών και Παραστατικών Τεχνών Frances Rich του Deree — The American College of Greece προσφέρει προπτυχιακές σπουδές στην Ιστορία της Τέχνης, τη Γραφιστική, τη Μουσική, τη Μουσική Εκτέλεση και Ερμηνεία, τις Θεατρικές και τις Εικαστικές Τέχνες. Επιπλέον, προσφέρει μία επιλογή από υποειδικότητες (minors), όπως Σπουδές Χορού και Κίνησης, Μουσική και Μουσικό Θέατρο.

Η Σχολή ιδρύθηκε το 2011, και το 2014 μετονομάστηκε σε Frances Rich, προς τιμήν της ομώνυμης Αμερικανίδας γλύπτριας. Ωστόσο, στην πλειονότητά τους, τα προγράμματα προσφέρονταν στο Deree και πριν από την ίδρυση της Σχολής.

Τα προγράμματα είναι αναγνωρισμένα από το Open University της Αγγλίας. Το Deree είναι πιστοποιημένο από το New England Commission in Higher Education (NECHE) ‒ μη κερδοσκοπικό οργανισμό που πιστοποιεί εκπαιδευτικά ιδρύματα όπως τα Harvard, Yale, MIT, Brown και άλλα έγκριτα κολέγια και πανεπιστήμια‒ ενώ η συνεργασία με το Open University ξεκίνησε το 2011. Οι απόφοιτοι λαμβάνουν διπλό πτυχίο: τον πιστοποιημένο τίτλο σπουδών από το Open University και τον αμερικανικό τίτλο. Οι υποψήφιοι σπουδαστές με αποδεδειγμένη οικονομική ανάγκη ή φοιτητές με εξαιρετικές ακαδημαϊκές επιδόσεις υποστηρίζονται μέσω υποτροφιών και οικονομικής βοήθειας. 

 

When:​ Monday, 20 February | 14:30 – 15:30

Where:​ Student Lounge

Join us to hear LIVE updates from the doctors on the ground in the devastated areas of the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. Latest reports say over 13 million people affected.

Speakers:​

Doctor from Istanbul Medical Chamber (Live from Turkey)

Representative from MSF – Médecins Sans Frontières

In response, we are deploying a fundraising initiative to support:

• Istanbul Medical Chamber
• MSF- Médecins Sans Frontières
• Turkish Kidney Foundation
• HeyvaSor

When: Thursdays February 2, 9,16, 2023 | 14:10-15:10

Where: Events Hall

Organized by:
ACG Health & Wellness Center

 

About the event
A mini series on how our attitudes shape our happiness.

Facilitators:
Olivia Kyriakidou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of the MS in Organizational Psychology
Sophie Themelis, Executive Coordinator, Wellness, Pilates Instructor, ACG Health & Wellness Center

You can see the program here.

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For more information, please contact Sophie Themelis at 210 600 9800 ext. 1700 or at [email protected]

Celebration of Tsiknopempti & Greek Carnival

EVENT DETAILS

When: February 16, 2023 12.00 – 16.00

Where: Deree Main Corridor

Organised by: Office of Student Affairs

About the event

Celebrate Greek culture with us at the Greek Carnival & Tsiknopempti event! Join us for a day of grilling traditional Greek souvlaki and pita, all while dressing up in costume. Immerse yourself in the festivities and have some fun with your fellow students. Don’t miss out on this unique cultural experience!

“Women in Science and Science for Women”

When: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 | 14:10-15:10

Where: 7^th Auditorium

Guest Lecture delivered by Dr. Christina Dalla, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School, NKUA

A lecture on women in STEM disciplines addressing the challenges and hopes for the next generation of female scientists.

Organized by

The Biomedical Sciences Program, the Environmental Studies Program & the Math Area, Department of Science and Mathematics, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Deree – The American College of Greece

 

Online lecture

Organized by
Department of History, Philosophy and the Ancient World, Deree – The American College of Greece
in collaboration with
ISGAP – Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

Lecture Speaker:
Dr. Luis Fleischman
Professor of Sociology at Palm Beach State College, Florida, USA

When: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 | 14:10-15:10 (student activity hour)

Where: You may join the event online (Zoom) here

The event is free and open to the public.

 

Bio of the Speaker

Dr. Luis Fleischman
Professor of Sociology at Palm Beach State College, Florida, USA

Luis Fleischman is a political sociologist and a sociologist of international relations. He is currently a professor of Sociology at Palm Beach State College and the founding co-chair of the Palm Beach Center for Democracy, a think-tank based in South Florida.

Previously he has worked for the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, Florida and Central New Jersey for more than two decades as Executive Director for community and political relations. In that capacity, he has worked extensively on issues related to the Middle East and national security, serving as a liaison between these organizations and members of Congress, foreign consuls, the media, and the local community at large.

Fleischman holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York City, an M.A degree from the New School, and a B.A in Political Science and Labor Studies from Tel Aviv University.

He is the author of the book The Middle East Riddle” A Study of the Middle East Process and Israeli-Arab Relations in Changing Times (New Academia 2021) and Latin America in the Post Chavez Era: A Threat to U.S Security (Potomac Books, 2013). He has written an extensive number of academic and journalistic articles on issues related to the Middle East, Democracy, Latin America and National Security.

Fleischman is also a frequent guest of TV and radio programs in Spanish on issues related to the Middle East and international affairs in outlets such as CNN Spanish, NTN24, Newsmax, MegaTV, NTN 24 and other networks across the United States and Latin America. His opinion pieces s have been published in the Chicago Tribune, Newsmax, Palm Beach Post, the Sun-Sentinel, El Nuevo Herald, Infobae (Argentina), El Correo (Peru), El Pais (Uruguay), El Observador (Uruguay), La Republica (Ecuador), El Universal and El Nacional (Venezuela).

Fleischman was also part of the tam of foreign policy advisors on Latin American affairs for the 2012 “Romney for President” campaign.

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For more information, please contact College Events-Office of Public Affairs, [email protected]

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Us!

EVENT DETAILS

When: Tuesday, February 14, 13:00 – 16:00 pm

Where: Student Lounge and Main Corridor

Organised by: Deree Student Activities Board

Supported by: Deree Student Association & Office of Student Affairs

About the event

A day full of events featuring a special makeup class by Panagiotis Karakasis, free makeup by Oriflame by Argiro, raffle with special gifts, free hot chocolate and sweet treat, gift corner with flowers and cards, dance,music, photo booth, games and activities (darts game, love notes garland). Indulge in the festive atmosphere and make lasting memories with your friends and loved ones.

When: Thursdays February 2, 9,16, 2023 | 14:10-15:10

Where: Events Hall

Organized by:
ACG Health & Wellness Center

 

About the event
A mini series on how our attitudes shape our happiness.

Facilitators:
Olivia Kyriakidou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of the MS in Organizational Psychology
Sophie Themelis, Executive Coordinator, Wellness, Pilates Instructor, ACG Health & Wellness Center

You can see the program here.

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For more information, please contact Sophie Themelis at 210 600 9800 ext. 1700 or at [email protected]

When: Saturday, February 4, 2023 | 18:30

Where: Pierce Theater, The American College of Greece

Organized by: The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts of The American College of Greece

 

About the event

A concert celebrating the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the greatest musical genius of all times. Mozart’s iconic works will be brought to life in a memorable evening, performed with all the joy and exuberance of talented young musicians.

The Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra-ASON under the direction of Pavlos Sergiou with piano soloist Lydia Iatraki (P’13, D’19) will perform Mozart’s works

• The Marriage of Figaro Overture
• Piano Concerto No. 20, in D minor, K. 466
• Great Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

 

Dr. Tatiana Papageorgiou, renowned pianist and Deree professor, will introduce the concert, sharing insights about the great master and the music that will be performed.

Young musicians and music lovers are invited to communicate with Dr. Tatiana Papageorgiou, pianist, Deree professor ([email protected]) in order to participate as performers or listeners in the upcoming masterclasses that will take place at The American College of Greece, during the 2023 spring semester.

The event is open to the public, free admission. Parking will be available.

 

Bios

Lydia Iatraki
piano soloist

Lydia Iatraki is a young pianist, graduate of Pierce – The American College of Greece (P’13) and Deree – The American College of Greece (D’19).  Lydia earned her BA in Piano Performance from the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts-Music Department, along with distinctions including the Outstanding Graduating Student Award in Music Performance and the Parallel Studies Award being also a student of Musicology at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.  Following competitive entrance auditions, Lydia pursued graduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, from where she earned her Master’s degree in piano performance in 2022.  She studied piano with Dr Tatiana Papageorgiou at Deree – The American College of Greece and at Kodály Conservatoire, from where she earned the national Piano Soloist Diploma with the grade ‘Excellent unanimously and First Prize’.  While in Glasgow, she studied in the class of eminent pianist Aaron Shorr.  She has also attended piano masterclasses in Athens with Daniel Blumenthal and Dimitris Toufexis, as well as at the International Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg in the classes of Dina Yoffe, Yafei Chuang and Frank Wibaut.  Lydia has been recipient of important music awards and scholarships including those from the UNESCO Panhellenic Music Competition, the Attica Tradition Foundation, the International Propeller Club and the Royal Conservatoire Scotland School of Music. 

 

Pavlos Sergiou
chief conductor

Musical director, chief conductor and founding member of the Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra (ASON). Pavlos Sergiou studied piano and harmony with the eminent composer Konstantinos Kydoniatis, advanced music theory, counterpoint, fugue and composition with Yannis Ioannidis, and choral music with Panagiotis Skoufis. Later, as a Greek State scholar (IKY) , he studied orchestral conducting in Cologne, Germany, in the class of Volker Wangenheim, graduating in 1988.

Maestro Sergiou has conducted a large number of first performances of works commissioned for the “New Music Theater” class of the famous composer Mauricio Kagel in Cologne. Until 1993, Mr Sergiou held the post of Musical Director at the regional Saxony-Anhalt Theater, conducting numerous performances of operas, operettas, and symphonic music. While working in Germany, he also conducted concerts and opera performances in Corfu.  Upon his return to Greece in 1995, he has maintained his conducting career along with his pedagogical work. He has conducted the Athens State Orchestra (KOA), the orchestras of the Greek National Radio (ERT), the Orchestra of Colors, the Orchestra of Patras, the Athens City Symphony Orchestra, and the Greek Opera (ΕΛΣ).  In addition to his innovative work with the Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra, he has been a founding member of the Athens Chamber Orchestra, having conducted all its concerts and recordings. Since 2000, he has been the Musical Director of the Athens Orfeio Conservatoire. In the same year he was elected at the Music Department of the Philosophical School of the Athens Kapodistrian University, where he continues teaching today holding the rank of Professor.

  

Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra

For the third decade, the Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra – ASON (Αθηναϊκή Συμφωνική Ορχήστρα Νέων – ΑΣΟΝ) trains the young and new musicians and introduces them to the great symphonic repertoire.  A great number of musicians among the members of professional Greek orchestras today “learned the job” behind the ASON music stands.  Permanent conductor Pavlos Sergiou seeks systematically the presence of ASON not only in Athens but also throughout the Greek region.  In its short history, ASON can be proud of the large number of early performances of works often written in not easy idioms; for giving over two hundred fifty (250) concerts throughout the country; for its partnership with some of the most prominent Greek soloists; for providing systematic “forum” to young Greek and foreign conductors and soloists, and for its pedagogic work through concerts (of both: the whole Orchestra and various chamber music groups) in schools.

It should be noted that the most enthusiastic founding member of ASON was Mrs. Nancy Bargerstock, distinguished violinist and professor at that time at Deree – The American College of Greece.

 

Tatiana Papageorgiou
concert pianist and Deree-ACG professor

Dr. Tatiana Papageorgiou is a concert pianist with diverse professional activity as performer, arranger, teacher and musicologist. She has been teaching music theory, piano, twentieth-century music and appreciation courses in film music and Greek music at Deree-The American College of Greece, since 1999.  A graduate of the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, she pursued advanced studies in piano and theory, as a scholar of the British Council, the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and the Royal College of Music.  Her teachers have included the legendary pianists Lev Vlassenko and Yonty Solomon.  Her concert appearances have taken her around the world, including Europe, Australia, North and South America, Africa and China and she has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the London Philharmonic, the Moscow New Opera, the Beijing Symphony, the Warsaw National Opera Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic of Central Germany and the Athens State Symphony.  Her groundbreaking doctoral research into the symphonic music of Mikis Theodorakis has resulted in the unearthing of unpublished works, in music editorial work, various arrangements, transcriptions and orchestrations of his works, as well as world first performances and a complete recording of his piano and symphonic music in close collaboration with the composer.  Her recent piano arrangements of Theodorakis’ songs, ballets and film scores have been published by Schott International in 2011 and have been praised by the international press.  Her recent projects include performances of Chopin’s music at Herod Atticus Theater, the Athens Megaron Concert Hall and a tour around Greece.

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For any inquiries please contact College Events-Office of Public Affairs, [email protected]

When: February 3, 2023 | 12:00 – 17:00
Where: Deree Student Lounge

Organized by: The Office of Career Services

 

About the event

APIVITA visits ACG to pollinate the youth of the American College of Greece with APIculture and APIvalues. You will have the opportunity to get a feeling of our BEEhive and #beeonboard!

BEE the future is our amazing Internship Program; an opportunity for every student to start their career in a multinational, sustainable and full of life environment in the field of their studies.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

 

Agenda

Check-in/Registration (11:30 – 12:00)

PART I (12:00 – 13:15)

About APIVITA – Company’s History- Our Culture-Philosophy & Ethos
Choukalas A. – Head of Sustainability, APIVITA & URIAGE, Derma Division, PUIG Group
The importance of Sustainability as part of APIVITA’s DNA
Choukalas A. – Head of Sustainability, APIVITA & URIAGE, Derma Division, PUIG Group
Life in the Lab- Where innovation comes from
Gardikis K. – Research & Development Director
How we create our Global Digital Buzzzz* : Digital communication, Social Media, e-Commerce, Digital Design and PR
Kazagli E.- Global Social Media Manager & Georgakopoulou A. – Global E-business Manager
“Mystery Challenge” with BIG winners!

PART II (13:15 – 13:30)

BEE the Future Internship Program
Alexopoulou V., Krimpali F. & Perikou A. – HR Team

Break Time (13:30 – 14:15)

PART III (14:15 – 17:00)

Meet & Greet (with HR and Internship Managers) – One to one meetings
Leon E. & Tsakouli P. – Accounting Team
Gardikis K., Kataleifou A. & Panagiotidou E. – R&D Team
Kazagli E., Georgakopoulou A., Korizi L., Iatrou V. & Delliou Z. – Global Brand Communication Team
Gkouzioti L., Alexopoulou V., Krimpali F. & Perikou A. – HR Team

 

When: Thursdays February 2, 9,16, 2023 | 14:10-15:10

Where: Events Hall

Organized by:
ACG Health & Wellness Center

 

About the event
A mini series on how our attitudes shape our happiness.

Facilitators:
Olivia Kyriakidou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of the MS in Organizational Psychology
Sophie Themelis, Executive Coordinator, Wellness, Pilates Instructor, ACG Health & Wellness Center

You can see the program here.

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For more information, please contact Sophie Themelis at 210 600 9800 ext. 1700 or at [email protected]

Are leaders born or made, or none…?

Join our speakers for an open and interactive discussion about how we, as students, can enhance our leadership traits today and prepare for our future!

When: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 | 14:30 – 15:30

Where: Student Lounge 

Organized by: Deree Student Association

 

Join the Cause and Donate!

All donations are going to “ELPIDA Association of Friends of Children with cancer”.

When: Monday, January 30 – Friday, February 3, 2023 | 10:30 – 19:00
Where: Main Corridor

Organized by: Deree Student Association

 

About the event

The aim of the World Cancer Day is to raise awareness and educate and encourage people about early detection, prevention, and treatment. Be part of making someone else’s life a little bit better.

An exhibition curated by Galini Notti at Radio Athènes in collaboration with ACG Art Collection and  Deree – The American College of Greece

When: January 29-March 12, 2023

Opening: Sunday, January 29 | 12:00-16:00
Operating hours: Wednesday, 16:00-20:00 | Saturday, 12:00-16:00, and by appointment

Where: Radio Athènes, Petraki 15, Plaka, Athens, 105 63

Organised by: The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts in collaboration with Radio Athènes

Supported by: Art History, Graphic Design, and Visual Arts Programs

 

About the event

The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts at Deree – The American College of Greece in collaboration with Radio Athènes presents the exhibition Nikos Velmos (1890-1930) Drawings curated by Galini Notti at Radio Athènes, in Plaka, Athens. The exhibition presents a selection of Nikos Velmos’s drawings from The American College of Greece Art Collection, which includes 438 drawings donated by the collector Takis Efstathiou. It is the first time that part of Velmos’s drawings is being exhibited 93 years after his death.

About the artist

Nikos Velmos (1890-1930, Athens, Greece), pseudonym of Nikos Voyatzakis, was a self-taught artist with a diverse, critical and socially engaged approach to the arts and politics. He was involved in theater, literature and painting. In 1926 he started publishing the journal Frangelio (The Scourge) in which he criticized the hypocrisy and the establishment of his epoch but also included literary writings of his own along with these of other noteworthy poets and writers. Apart from the main magazine, in 1927 Velmos published a supplement called Filla Technis (Art Papers) of Frangelio. These were monographs on Greek and international artists such as El Greco, Beethoven, Yiannoulis Chalepas or thematic issues as for instance οn self-taught artists. The publication of Frangelio lasted until 1929.

In 1928 Velmos opened an art space on the ground floor of his house, at 21 Nikodimou street in Plaka, which he named Asylon Technis (Art Shelter). In Asylon Technis Velmos organized exhibitions of established artists such as Yiannoulis Chalepas and Dimitris Galanis, educational exhibitions as the one on El Greco with print reproductions and copies by renowned Greek artists, as well as exhibitions of self-taught artists like himself. Yiannis Tsarouchis first exhibited in Asylon Technis. The exhibitions of self-taught artists aimed not only at the recognition of important yet overlooked artists but also opposed the academicism of his era. Asylon Technis and Frangelio were particularly important for the art life of Athens at the time. In addition to the exhibitions in Asylon Technis conversations on artistic and sociopolitical issues were being organized. It became a hub for the most prominent art personalities of this period, such as Stratis Doukas, Fotis Kontoglou, Spyros Papaloukas, Aghinor Asteriadis, Giulio Caimi, and Dimitris Pikionis – the avant-garde of that time which paved the way for the forthcoming generation of the 1930s.

Regarding the painting of Nikos Velmos, many of his drawings are illustrations for Frangelio. He painted the persons close to him, his friends – many of them were his contemporaries – everyday people, the poor and the outcasts whose hardship he could feel. He also painted landscapes, trees, animals, decorative patterns, set designs, theatrical scenes, saints.

The drawings of Nikos Velmos depict their epoch, Greece after the Asia Minor Catastrophe, but they are both historical and contemporary. They express his deep connection with people and life, his subversive ideas and point of view on art. He approached art, politics and life as a whole. He didn’t distinguish between the arts. Art and life were interrelated for him. He wrote, “Art comes from the experience of life”* in a text about the actor, theater director and his teacher Thomas Economou. He relied on self-organization and his friends, he was hands-on, and he created a framework and a network for the recognition of people and works he considered noteworthy but marginal. He didn’t seek to gain renown through his actions but was interested in defending his ideas against all forms of power and standing by the side of the poor and weak. All his life, action and art were a battle fought with different means, for a fairer world.

The current exhibition comprises many persons and places, taverns, graveyards, the house of Rodakis in Aegina, Panormos in Tinos where he went to meet Chalepas, Athens, Mount Athos. It approaches the work of Nikos Velmos as contemporary work. It is presented at Radio Athènes in Plaka, near Nikodimou street, where Asylon Technis used to be, and is being held thanks to the support and trust of the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts at Deree – The American College of Greece and Radio Athènes.

* Nikos Velmos, “Thomas Economou”, magazine Frangelio, n^o 14, 19 March 1927, p. 3. Reprinted at the magazine Farfoulas, issues 19-20-21, November 2016, p. 55.

 

About the curator

Galini Notti (b. 1980) is a curator who lives and works in Athens, Greece. In 2020, she curated the show Statues that don’t move, don’t speak, don’t laugh in three public squares in Athens. She has also curated one of the “Top Tens” for the project Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens at Onassis Cultural Centre, the exhibition Survey in the context of Art-Athina 2017, co-curated the show (Im)material Gestures as part of the project PIIGS_An Alternative Geography of Curating at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, curated the exhibition Overseas at The American College of Greece in Athens and the show Fireworks out of Season – Riviera at the Riviera open-air cinema in the Exarcheia neighborhood of Athens.

About the ACG Art Collection

The American College of Greece Art Collection (ACG Art Collection), is an organic part of the educational mission of the College and is the result of diligent support of emerging and established artists – the majority of them of Greek origin – and of donations and bequests. It is an extensive collection of fine and decorative arts which numbers approximately 4,500 artworks of various media and objects from Antiquity to the present. The majority of the works of the collection are on permanent display in the interior and exterior spaces of the college premises. During the annual exhibition, which is held as part of the annual Arts Festival at the ACG Art Gallery, invited artists and curators are encouraged to explore and make use of the collection. The collection is accessible to academic researchers, students, art professionals and the general public, and serves as an educational and research platform.

About Radio Athènes

Radio Athènes, Institute for the Advancement of Contemporary Visual Culture, is a book project, a showroom, an exhibition space and a curatorial practice. Flexible, independent, nomadic, interdisciplinary, Radio Athènes works together with emerging, established and under-recognized artists from around the world to present exhibitions, lectures, screenings and readings in the fields  of contemporary art, literature, philosophy, dance and the applied arts. It is dedicated to new ideas, and experiments with formats that challenge our perception of art. Recent projects include the archiving and contextualization of the work of Bia Davou and Pantelis Xagoraris, Greek artists working in the 1970s, largely unknown outside our geographic coordinates; the creation of www.radioathenes.tv , a site serving up a collective experience to dispersed viewers in collaboration with designer David Reinfurt; and Always Starts with an Encounter: Wols—Eileen Quinlan (co-published with Sequence Press), a book reflecting on two artists from different centuries that have been exploring the material boundaries of the photographic process. Radio Athènes was founded by Helena Papadopoulos in 2015.

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Special thanks to Aristide Antonas and ASFA for lending us one of the display cases from the Vitrines Project (2017) especially designed for Documenta 14; Socratis Loupas for sharing his knowledge on Nikos Velmos; Diamantis Karavolas; Takis Efstathiou; Dr. Katerina Thomas; Effie Halivopoulou; Ioanna Papapavlou; Niki Kladakis; and Dessy Griva.

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photo credit: Nikos Velmos, Pencil with Objects, ca. 1927, Graphite on paper, 9.9 x 14 cm, Courtesy of The American College of Greece Art Collection, Gift of Takis Efstathiou

When: January 27, 2023 | 12:00 – 17:00
Where: Deree Student Lounge

Organized by: The Office of Career Services

 

About the event

Nestlé visits Deree to connect with the young talents of The American College of Greece. You will have the opportunity to get a real taste of Nestlé brands and learn what it means to ”Be a Force for Good”!
Experienced professionals from Nestlé’s key departments are excited to meet and give you a first – hand experience of life at Nestlé. Learn more about Nestlé’s different functions and how to apply for opportunities to become a part of the Nestlé community.

 

Nestlé Day – Agenda

12:00 – 12:30 | Check-in/Registration

12:30 – 13:30 | Being a Force for Good at Nestlé

13:30 – 14:00 | A Day in the life of Marketing Department

14:00 – 14:30 | A Day in the life of Sales Department

14:30 – 16:00 | Network

16:00 – 17:00 | Landing a job in the Supply Chain & Finance department: Skills we are looking for

 

On-the-spot registration will also be available, but on first-come-first-served basis (limited spots available).

When: Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 17:00-20:00

Where: ACG Events Hall, The American College of Greece

Organized by: ACG Center of Excellence in Logistics, Shipping and Transportation (CoELST) & the Greek Energy Forum (GEF)

by January 24

Parking upon availability.

 

About the event

Learn about our plans to collaborate toward expanding and disseminating the energy state of the art, perform research, publish articles and reports as well as train the current and future professionals. After the event, a prestigious group of high-level international energy executives and regulators will participate in an exciting panel discussion titled “Lessons learned from the energy crisis and the way forward”.

 

Agenda

16:30 – 17:00 | Registration and coffee

17:00 – 17:20 | Welcome speeches

• Panos Vlachopoulos – ACG Vice President of Academic Affairs
• Alexandros Lagakos – Co-Founder Greek Energy Forum, COO of Blue Grid
• Alexandra Sdoukou – Secretary General for Energy & Mineral Resources, Ministry for the Environment and Energy

17:20 – 17:45 | The ACG-GEF cooperation

• George Kokosalakis – Executive Director, ACG Center of Excellence in Logistics, Shipping, and Transportation
• Michalis Mathioulakis – GEF Academic Director, Energy Strategy Analyst

17:45 – 19:30 | Panel discussion: Lessons learned from the energy crisis and the way forward

• Nikos Tsafos – Chief energy adviser to the Prime Minister of Greece, Pierce Alumnus 1999
• David Livingston – Senior Advisor, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
• Athanasios Dagoumas – President at Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE)
• Rikard Scoufias – Chairman, Hellenic Hydrocarbons and Energy Resources Management Company S.A. (HEREMA)
• Yanos Michopoulos – Corporate Governance and ESG – Institute of Directors
• Stella Zacharia – TERNA ENERGY, Head of Energy Assessment, Policy & Regulation / CEO, OPTIMUS ENERGY

19:30 – 19:50 | Q&A Session 

19:50 – 20:00 | Closing remarks

• Panagiotis Mavroeidis Kamperis, GEF Management Committee and Short Term LNG Trader at Qatar Gas
• Vassilis Mitrelis –  Credit Risk Manager, Informa (Lloyds Intelligence List), GEF Member, Deree Alumnus 2017

20:00 – 21:00 | Open discussion & networking

• Light buffet will be offered

The zoom link to join online the event is

https://zoom.us/j/97718221383

Meeting ID: 977 1822 1383

When: January 25 & 26, 14:00-16:00

Where: Deree Main Corridor

Organized by: Office of Student Affairs

About the event

Get involved in Student Life!
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet our active Clubs, Organizations, and Societies.
Get to know everything about their scope, activities, meeting times and connect with other like-minded Deree students.

For more information, please contact the Office of Student Affairs at 210 600 9800 ext. 1446 or at [email protected]

When: Monday, January 23, 2023 | 18:00-20:00

Where: Arts Center Auditorium

Organized by: BA in Cinema Studies, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Deree – The American College of Greece

The event is free and open to the public

 

About the event

A screening of the short film “FOX” and a discussion session with film director Jaqueline Lentzou on her creative process.

Jaqueline Lentzou will share her insight into her distinct cinematic voice and the process of directing her first feature film “Moon, 66 Questions”.

 

Speaker’s Bio

Jacqueline (Athens, 1989) is an artist whose cinematic language involves discovering poetry in -seemingly- mundane premises. Her tools are word and image association, the dream-construct, intuition. She experiments with formats, durations, and tones. Her work she aims to discuss non-traditional family systems, loneliness, love, and most importantly, the lack of it.

Jacqueline is the recipient of numerous prominent awards, including the Leica Cine Discovery Award by Semaine de La Critique for Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018), the Golden Hugo in Chicago IFF for The End of Suffering ( A proposal)(2020), as well as the Grand Prix in Reykjavik IFF and Sevilla Film Festival for Moon, 66 Questions (2021), her debut feature which premiered in Berlinale Encounters Competition, receiving raving reviews globally.

Retrospectives on her full body of work have taken place in Montreal, Vienna, Porto and Ghent.

Jacqueline is the New York Onassis foundation fellowship recipient for 2022. She was in the three finalists for the prestigious Rolex Mentor&Protegé scheme 2022-2024.

When: January 19, 14:10

Where: Deree Main Corridor and Student Lounge

Organized by: Office of Student Affairs

Join us for a special movie screening event to kick off the new semester! And the best part… FREE POPCORN for everyone!

This is a great opportunity to make new friends and have a good time, so don’t miss out!

For more information, please contact the Office of Student Affairs at 210 600 9800 ext. 1446 or at [email protected]

 

Online lecture

Organized by
Department of History, Philosophy and the Ancient World, Deree – The American College of Greece
in collaboration with
ISGAP – Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

Lecture Speaker:
Dr. David Nussbaum, Ph.D., C. Psych.
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Scarborough (retired)
ISGAP Senior Research Fellow

When: Thursday, January 19, 2023 | 14:10-15:10

Where: You may join the event online (Zoom) here

The event is free and open to the public.

 

About the lecture

Throughout Jewish history, irrational, intense and disproportionate hatred of the Jewish People and its violent aftermath have presented existential threats to Jewish communities around the world. Contemporary antisemitism focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on fabricated allegations intending to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish State and by extension, vilify Jews and others anywhere who support Israel’s existence. Commensurate with the continuity and magnitude of this extreme prejudice and behavior, there is an extensive literature on the history and historical analyses of the phenomenon, but a relative lack of rigorous attempts to understand underlying psychological dimensions of the groups and individuals who actualize antisemitism. Specifically, existing treatments do not provide concurrent analyses of different types of antisemitism, and do not address how individuals occupying different positions within antisemitic group hierarchies differ with respect to cognitive, emotional, motivational, and perceptual modalities in general and their interactive relationships to antisemitism.

This talk will briefly outline different types of human information processing, hierarchical organizational structures, and aggression types. These building blocks will be used to identify and differentiate distinct types of antisemitism, the psychology of individuals occupying different positions in antisemitic hierarchies from the complex (e.g., national) to the simple (e.g., lone wolves), and suggest strategies for effectively countering the multifaceted array of antisemitic organizations and individuals aligned against the Jewish People by effective messaging and activities. Proposed empirical studies to validate and refine these ideas will be described.

Bio of the Speaker

Dr. David Nussbaum, Ph. D., C. Psych.
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Scarborough (retired); ISGAP Senior Research Fellow

Prof. Nussbaum was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) between 2005 and 2013. Prior to his position at UTSC, he was an Adjunct Professor at York University from 1984 to 2004. More recently from 2011 through 2020, Prof. Nussbaum held a series of renewed Guest (Visiting) Professorships at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China. Originally setting out to be a clinical psychologist, he instead followed a radically different approach to understanding behavior that was afforded by a third-year undergraduate course entitled “Molecular Psychobiology”. Following graduate school, he retrained as a clinician and worked within forensic settings doing both clinical work and research. Prof. Nussbaum was continuously struck by the absence of behavioral neuroscience in the forensic area and conducted both his clinical practice and empirical research within a behavioral neuroscience framework. An elected Fellow of both the Canadian (CPA) and American Psychological Associations, he was awarded Professor of the Year (Psychology) at UTSC in 2011. He served as Chair of the CPA Sections on Criminal Justice (7 years), Psychopharmacology (23 years), and Extremism and Terrorism (6 years.) Prof. Nussbaum has also served as a Psychology Member of the Ontario Review Board since 1997. He has lectured internationally including Belgium, China, Finland, Germany, Japan, Israel, Kenya, Sweden, and the United States. His research interests span Behavioral Neuroscience, Epistemology of Psychology, Violent Risk Prediction and Extremism & Terrorism.  He has published 45 peer reviewed papers, and delivered over 125 peer-reviewed talks at professional and scientific meetings and conferences.

For more information, please contact College Events-Office of Public Affairs, [email protected]

When: Tuesday January 17, 2023 |14:10- 15:30 (student activity hour)

Where: ACG Events Hall, The American College of Greece

About the event

An interactive discussion with Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Minister of Digital Governance of Greece one on one with Apostolos Mangiriadis, News Anchor at ERT.

Organized by:
Office of Public Affairs
ACG Research, Technology & Innovation Network (RTIN)

Supported by:
Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Scholars’ Organization
Deree Academic Societies: IT, Cyber Security, MIS, Philosophy, International Honors Program

 

Bios

Kyriakos Pierrakakis,
Minister of Digital Governance of Greece

 Kyriakos Pierrakakis is the Minister of Digital Governance in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

He is a Greek computer and political scientist and politician.

In 2007 he earned a Master in Public Policy from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and in 2009 he earned a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from MIT. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Athens University of Economics and Business.

He served as Director of Research at Dianeosis, an independent non-profit think tank. He produced an array of research papers with a strong focus on economic growth and understanding the prevailing perceptions and beliefs among Greeks.

He has also worked on technology policy for various research institutes in Greece and abroad and headed Youth Foundation as president.

He was born on 1983 in Athens. He is married with three children. He speaks English and French.

 

Apostolos Mangiriadis,
News Anchor of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT)

Apostolos Mangiriadis is the News Anchor of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT). Previously he worked as a Political Correspondent for SKAI TV and SKAI Radio and as a News Anchor for the network’s nightly newscast.

He was the Editor-in-Chief of “Histories” for SKAI TV, the country’s leading current affairs tv program, and worked as a political correspondent/columnist for TA NEA newspaper, Greece’s historic daily. Previously he was a Political Correspondent for MEGA TV.

He is a frequent contributor to newspaper and magazine publications. He conducts media training and coaching workshops for senior executives of big companies and moderation at corporate events.

Mr. Mangiriadis holds a Master in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York and a BA in Political Science from the Athens Law School. He was born and raised in Theesaloniki, Greece in 1979.

When: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | 14:10-15:10

Where: Student Lounge

Organized by:
International Student Services Office
ACG Health & Wellness Center

 

Facilitator: Sophie Themelis, Executive Coordinator, Wellness, Pilates Instructor, ACG Health & Wellness Center

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For more information, please contact at 210 600 9800 ext. 1700, 1412

 

When: Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Where:
Session A @ 13:00 Residence l
Session B @ 14:00 Residence ll

Organized by:
ACG Health & Wellness Center

 

About the event

Headache, fatigue, insomnia, difficulty focusing, lack of appetite are some of the symptoms of jetlag. Exposure to sunlight, gentle exercise, eating fruits, vegetables, avoiding salty and sugary foods and staying hydrated by drinking non-alcoholic and non-caffeinated drinks. Reset your body clock and reduce jetlag symptoms with a 30-minute session that includes active meditation, informative chat and ends with nice cup of herbal tea.

Facilitator: Sophie Themelis, Executive Coordinator, Wellness, Pilates Instructor

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For more information, please contact Sophie Themelis at 210 600 9800 ext. 1700 or at [email protected]

 

When: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 | 8:45-14:00
Where: Loulis Food Ingredients

Organized by:
Office of Public Affairs

Supported by:
International Honors Program
Deree Office of Student Affairs
Center of Excellence in Sustainability
Deree Student Association
ACG Sustainability Leaders
SNF Scholars

About the event

Baking for a good cause!
Let’s celebrate the Christmas spirit by baking goods that will be donated to a local organization, with the generous help of Loulis Food Ingredients!
Loulis Food Ingredients are offering their superb facilities in Keratsini, the necessary ingredients and the guidance of professional pastry chefs in order for us to bake and package sweet treats, which— through the NGO Boroume—will be distributed to youngsters 13-22 years old with special educational needs, studying at the Laboratory of Special Vocational Education and Training of Piraeus (Εργαστήριο Ειδικής Επαγγελματικής Εκπαίδευσης και Κατάρτισης Πειραιά).
After the baking process, we will be offered a guided tour at the Loulis Mills museum.

The event is open to all Deree students, faculty, staff and alumni. Transportation from/to ACG is provided for free.

Visit Schedule

08:45 Meeting at the ACG Main Gate
09:00 Departure with the bus
10:00 Welcome at Loulis Food Ingredients by Olga Manou (Pierce ’80), Corporate Communications & Sustainability Director, Loulis Food Ingredients
14:00 Return to ACG Campus

N.B.: The volunteer activity and the museum tour will take place between 10:00 and 13:00

Please register via Eventora, by Wednesday, December 15. The registration is mandatory, since there is a limit to the number of people that can participate.

For more information contact the Office of Public Affairs, [email protected].

Because ACG Cares!

When: December 8, 2022 | 11.00-14.00
Where: ACG Events Hall, The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias St., Agia Paraskevi

Organized by:
ACG Advancement Office, in collaboration with the ACG Archives and Special Collections Department

 

About the event

A special event for Pierce Alumnae who originate from Smyrna inviting them to preserve their collective memory and interconnect Smyrna with their personal stories. The event is part of the Memories Workshop organized in 2021 by the ACG Advancement Office and on the occasion of the tragic anniversary of the Smyrna catastrophe, inextricably linked to the history of our school.

Through storytelling and the presentation of archival material, we will discuss giving, women’s education, innovation and inclusion that characterized Pierce as they experienced it and capture the soul force that connects generations through time when noble visions and ideals govern them.

The workshop will be moderated by Christiana Lambrinidis, Pierce ’76 Alumna, playwright, director and human rights activist, who hails from Smyrna.

To attend, please contact Tina Roumeliotis at [email protected] or contact +30 210 600 9800 (ext. 1379).

Registration is open until Monday, December 5, 2022.

Ποια είναι τα επαγγέλματα του μέλλοντος;

Ποιος συνδυασμός σπουδών θα σε οδηγήσει σε αυτά;

Θέλεις να δώσεις επιπλέον αξία στις σπουδές σου στο ελληνικό πανεπιστήμιο;

Ο δρόμος που θα σε οδηγήσει στο επάγγελμα του μέλλοντος και θα σε κάνει #Futureproof περνάει μέσα από το Deree!

Είτε ενδιαφέρεσαι να ξεκινήσεις σήμερα το ταξίδι των σπουδών σου είτε να ενισχύσεις τη φοίτησή σου στο ελληνικό πανεπιστήμιο με ένα δεύτερο αντικείμενο, τα FutureProof επαγγέλματα του 2030 θα σου δείξουν την κατεύθυνση που πρέπει να ακολουθήσεις, ώστε να προετοιμαστείς με επιτυχία για κάθε πιθανό μέλλον.

Δήλωσε σήμερα συμμετοχή στην εκδήλωση του Deree #Futureproof επαγγέλματα του 2030 στις 7 Δεκεμβρίου και ενημερώσου για τις επιλογές και τους συνδυασμούς σπουδών που θα σε βοηθήσουν να χτίσεις το μέλλον σου όπως εσύ το θέλεις!

Η ενέργεια πραγματοποιείται από το Deree και τους συμβούλους σταδιοδρομίας της Orientum.

Δείτε το πρόγραμμα της εκδήλωσης εδώ

 

 

When: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 | 18:00-19:30
Where: ACG Events Hall, Aghia Paraskevi Campus, 6 Gravias Str.

Organized by:
ACG Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts
ACG Institute of Global Affairs

 

About the event

On the occasion of the publication of the book Diaspora engagement in times of severe economic crisis: Greece and beyond (2022, Palgrave Macmillan), the panelists will address the state of Greece’s relations with its diasporas as these have evolved during the recent years of consecutive crises and uncertainty. The panelists will discuss the significance of diasporic institutions, crises-driven migration and diasporic mobility, diasporic solidarity with the motherland, the role of diasporic networks and associations in the era of technological communication. Join us for a compelling and original discussion on the role and significance of Hellenism abroad.

The event is free and open to the public.

by December 5, 2022

For more information contact College Events – Office of Public Affairs, [email protected]

 

Bios of the speakers
(in alphabetical order)

Othon Anastasakis | Director, European Studies Centre & SEESOX
Principal Investigator of the Greek Diaspora Project, University of Oxford

Othon Anastasakis is Director of the European Studies Centre, Oxford; Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX); Senior Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford; Visiting Professor at the Prague University of Economics and Business. He is the Principal Investigator of the Greek Diaspora Project at the University of Oxford; Principal Investigator of the project on Migration Diplomacy: EU-Turkey relations. He is the editor and co-author of several books including more recently Diaspora engagement in times of severe economic crisis: Greece and beyond (Palgrave Macmillan 2022); The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a troubled past (Berghahn 2021); The Legacy of Yugoslavia: Politics, economy and society (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2020). Balkan legacies of the Great War: The past is never dead (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He has also written on: Populism, illiberalism and far right; Comparative European politics; Migration and diaspora studies; Balkan party politics; South East European geopolitics; Greek-Turkish relations; Greek politics; Russia and the Balkans.

Manolis Pratsinakis | Assistant Professor in Social Geography, Harokopio University, Research Affiliate on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford’s Centre

Manolis Pratsinakis is Assistant Professor in Social Geography at Harokopio University and research affiliate at the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society at the University of Oxford. He was previously Departmental Lecturer in Migration Studies at the School of Anthropology, University of Oxford and SEESOX/Onassis fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Before he was Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Macedonia, and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. His academic interests broadly concern the study of migration and nationalism. He has done research and published on immigrant-native relations, ethnic boundaries and categorisation, everyday nationhood, brain drain, and intra-EU mobility in the post 2008 period. Manolis has studied Geography (BA) and Migration Studies (MA) and completed his PhD in  Urban Ethnography and Ethnic Studies.

Lamprini Rori | Assistant Professor in Political Analysis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Lamprini Rori is an Assistant Professor in Political Analysis at the University of Athens.  Before joining the University of Athens, she was a Lecturer in Politics at Exeter University, Jean Monnet Fellow at EUI, the AG Leventis Visiting Fellow in Modern Greek Studies, at SEESOX in St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and previously a Marie Curie (IE) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, hosted by the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University.  She has worked in research projects on political behavior in crisis-ridden Greece (radicalism, indignants’ movements) and the Greek diaspora. Also, she has published on party change, elections, campaigns, the far right in Europe, political violence and the rise of right-wing extremism.

Katerina Sokou | Washington D.C. Correspondent – Foreign Affairs Analyst;  Theodore Couloumbis Research Fellow on “Greek-American Relations”  at ELIAMEP

Katerina Sokou is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Future Europe Initiative of the Atlantic Council and the inaugural Theodore Couloumbis Research Fellow on “Greek-American Relations” at ELIAMEP. She is the Washington DC correspondent for Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini, where she is also a columnist. In Washington since 2013, she has been a visiting scholar at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, where she conducted research on the U.S. role in the Greek debt crisis, a member of the editorial board at the European Institute, has written for the Washington Post, and corresponded for SKAI TV.

Katerina studied History (First Class Honors) at the University of Ioannina and holds postgraduate degrees in International Studies from the University of Warwick and in Journalism from Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism. She started her career as a financial reporter at To Vima, covering Greece and the Eurozone, and was International Financial News editor at Kathimerini during the global financial crisis. She has covered extensively the Greek financial crisis, providing commentary for news media in the US and Europe. Katerina is a PhD candidate at the University of Piraeus, a director at The Hellenic Initiative Canada, a member of the advisory committee at the Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism, and a member of the Hellenic American Women’s Council.

Panos Vlachopoulos | Executive Dean at Deree – The American College of Greece and Honorary Professor of Education at Macquarie University Australia

Dr. Panos Vlachopoulos is the newly appointed Executive Dean of Deree-The American College of Greece. He has an extensive record of research, teaching and administration. He holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Aberdeen, a Master’s in Education from the University of Manchester, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Pedagogy from the Aristotle University of Greece. Dean Vlachopoulos has published numerous scholarly works in the area of Education-with a special focus on the relationship between technology and learning-and has held numerous grants in areas related to Pedagogy.  Dean Vlachopoulos is also a research collaborator in the MiGrant project team, which aims at exploring young Greek migration trajectories in Australia and Germany during the time of the economic crises.

 

Bio of the moderator

Eirini Karamouzi | Associate Professor in Contemporary History, University of Sheffield. Fellow, Institute of Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts, ACG

Eirini Karamouzi is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Greece, the EEC and the Cold War: The Second Enlargement as well as co-editor of The Balkans in the Cold War. She has held fellowships at EUI, LSE, Yale, and University of Tampere. She is editor of Contemporary European History journal. She has published extensively on issues of history of European integration, European Cold War, peace mobilization in Southern Europe, and Balkan cooperation. She co-directs an AHRC network grant on global anti-nuclear activism. Her new project deals with the role of tourism and mobility in constructing a Southern European identity.

A lecture by

Dr. Artemios Pehlivanidis

Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School of the National University of Athens 

When: Monday, December 5, 2022 | 11:00-13:00

Where: ACG Events Hall
Open to the public

Organized by: Psychology Society, Deree – The American College of Greece

 

The Psychology Society is organizing a presentation regarding the “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” that will be delivered by Artemios Pehlivanidis, Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School of the National University of Athens.

The lecture will be held in Greek.

 

A Masterclass by Giorgos Karnavas 

When: December 2, 2022 | 19:00-21:00

Where: Arts Center Auditorium, The American College of Greece
Open to the public

Organized by: BA in Cinema Studies, Deree – The American College of Greece

 

About the event

A first-hand insight into film producing in Greece and on the current landscape of European and International Co-Productions. Giorgos Karnavas, producer of independent arthouse Greek films, European co-productions and recently executive producer of The Palm D’or 2022  Winner Triangle of Sadness, will take us through his personal journey of making films, from picking directors and stories that matter, to navigating the international film market and business.

 

About the speaker

Giorgos Karnavas studied Political Sciences at the University of Athens and Finance at the Hellenic Management Association while taking courses on scriptwriting. He is the founder and producer of Synch Festival. He has promoted shows by artists such as Pet Shop Boys, Antony and the Johnsons, Nine Inch Nails, Happy Mondays and Róisin Murphy.

Giorgos entered film production in 2011 and is a member of ACE, and a member of the European and Greek Film Academies. He was a “Producer on the Move” in 2013 when he joined forces with Konstantinos Kontovrakis in order to establish Heretic, a boutique film house producing and selling films on a global scale. In 2018 he was awarded the prestigious Prix Eurimages at the European Academy Awards.

Selected Filmography: Triangle of Sadness (2022), Magnetic Fields, Mediterraneo (2021), Pari, Kala Azar (2020), Son of Sofia (2017), Wasted Youth (2011), etc.

ΤΟ DEREE ΕΡΧΕΤΑΙ ΣΤΑ ΧΑΝΙΑ!

Παρασκευή 2, Σάββατο 3 & Κυριακή 4 Δεκεμβρίου, 2022

Οι σύμβουλοι του Deree θα βρίσκονται για 3 ημέρες στα Χανιά, όπου θα πραγματοποιήσουν προσωπικά ραντεβού με τους ενδιαφερομένους και θα απαντήσουν στα ερωτήματά τους για όλα όσα πρέπει να γνωρίζουν για τις σπουδές στο Deree.

• Τι κάνει το Deree κορυφαία εκπαιδευτική επιλογή;
• Ποια ακαδημαϊκά προγράμματα προσφέρει;
• Τι είναι τα soft skills; Γιατί είναι περιζήτητα στην αγορά εργασίας;
• Δικαιούμαι υποτροφία για τις σπουδές μου στο Deree;
• Πώς μπορώ να συνδυάσω τις σπουδές μου στο ελληνικό πανεπιστήμιο με έναν δεύτερο κύκλο σπουδών στο Deree;

Απαντήσεις σε όλα τα παραπάνω και ακόμα περισσότερα ερωτήματα στις 2, 3 & 4 Δεκεμβρίου στο Samaria Hotel Κυδωνίας 69.

Δηλώστε τώρα συμμετοχή!

Keep moving towards the future! 

Συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα συμμετοχής ή επικοινωνήστε μαζί μας στο 210 600 9800 εσωτ. 1254 ή στο [email protected]

Deree. #Futureproof

When: December 2, 2022 | 12:00 – 16:45
Where: ACG Events Hall, Upper-Level Library

Organized by: The Office of Career Services

 

About the event

EY visits Deree and welcomes the young talents of the American College of Greece!

EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people, and society, and building trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax, and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

Experienced professionals from EY’s key Service Lines are excited to come, for students to network and dare to ask questions on placement opportunities in EY, only to receive better answers, while listening to their perspective on starting a career path in EY Greece, one of the Big 4s.

Learn more about EY’s different functions and how to apply for opportunities to become a member of EY’s diverse teams. A LinkedIn workshop will follow, to empower you to build a strong social media presence.

The EY Greece team is looking forward to welcoming you!

 

EY Day – Agenda

12:00 – 12:30 | Registration/Check-in

12:30 – 13:00 | Event kick-off, ACG Welcoming EY Greece – Short Discussion
Speakers:
Dimetris Megremis – Director, Office of Career Services
Ioanna Fanarioti –  Talent Director, EY Greece & South CESA Cluster

13:00 – 13:20 | The EY Exceptional Experience. It’s Your to build. – Q&As
Talent Attraction & Acquisition Team

13:20 – 14:20 | EY Service Lines – Assurance, Consulting, SaT & Tax

14:20 – 15:20 | Network & Dare with EY (Discuss career opportunities with EY Executives from Assurance, Consulting, SaT, Tax & CBS)

15:20 – 15:40 | Break

15:45 – 16:45 | LinkedIn – Not a tool; a means to an “end”

 

On-the-spot registration will also be available, but on first-come-first-served basis (limited spots available).

 

When: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | 19:00

Where: Black Box Theater, The American College of Greece

Organized by:
The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

 

About the event

The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts and the Music Department of the American College of Greece have the pleasure to invite you to a concert entitled Bel Canto / Canto Soave: Italian Vocal Music from the Early Baroque into the Early Romantic Period.

The ladies of Canto Soave (sweet singing) seek the roots of Bel Canto (beautiful singing), in the masterpieces of 17^th  century Italian monody and follow its blooming through the compositions of the Early Romantic period. Compositions for one, two and three voices  by G. Caccini, L. Luzzaschi, C. Monteverdi, G.F. Handel, G. Paisiello, G. Donizetti, V. Bellini and G. Rossini will be accompanied by period instruments. The ensemble consists of Maira Milolidaki and Natassa Angelopoulou sopranos, Effi Minakoulis mezzo soprano – theorbo, Katerina Ktona cembalo.

The event will be held in the Black Box Theater on Wednesday November 30 at 19.00. Refreshments will be offered after the end of the concert.

 

When: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | 14:30-15:20 (student activity hour)

Where: Arts Center Auditorium, The American College of Greece

Organized by:
ACG Institute of Global Affairs (IGA)

 

About the event

A discussion about the impact of U.S. midterm elections addressed to ACG students, faculty and staff.

 

Presenters:

Dr. Harry Papasotiriou, Professor of International Relations, Panteion University, Director of the Institute of International Relations (IDIS)

Dr. Constantinos Filis, Associate Professor of International Relations and European Affairs, Director of the ACG Institute of Global Affairs (IGA)

Moderator:

Dr. Nikos Lampas, Assistant Professor of International Relations and European Affairs, Member of the IGA Academic Advisory Board

Online lecture

by Yehudit Barsky

Organized by
Department of History, Philosophy and the Ancient World, Deree-ACG
in collaboration with
ISGAP – Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

When: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 |14:10-15:10 (activity hour)

Where: You may join the event online (Zoom) here

The event is free and open to the public.

Bio of the Speaker

 

Yehudit Barsky

Yehudit Barsky is a Middle East counterterrorism specialist and serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. Her research interests encompass the nexus between anti-Semitism and Islamism, radicalization methodologies in extremist movements, and the intersection between recruitment systems of jihadist, white supremacist, and other terrorist organizations. For full bio click here.

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