[…]officials and senior foreign diplomats. The Propeller Award has been a driving force for a number of DEREE students and has allowed them to achieve an education that has been the cornerstone of their later career successes. ACG President David G. Horner commented: “The American College of Greece is very grateful for this relationship and for the support provided by the Propeller Club to our students. Scholarships are essential to the College’s ability to ensure that talented students are afforded the opportunity to attain a quality education. Philanthropy has been an important part of the mission of the College since […]
[…]He started working as a journalist and a photographer in 1996. Ever since he has published a number of articles, in several major magazines and newspapers in Greece like travel.gr, gastronomos, kantina and more. He prefers to shoot portraits and to produce his own social issues in regions around the globe. He lives in Athens, Greece. Pantazis Pastras, Senior Research Analyst Pantazis Pastras is a Senior Researcher with over 10 years of experience in the management and marketing of tourism destinations. Since joining TOPOSOPHY in 2013, he has been responsible for designing and overseeing research projects, including strategic development plans […]
[…]agendas, marked by various aesthetics. By juxtaposing selected works of the collection with a number of contemporary artworks, through curatorial gestures that gently balance the absurd and the poetic, “Keep on Keeping on” reveals hidden connections as seen through the prism of today’s knowledge, and demonstrates the obscure unity of a contemporary art collection: the ecumenical anthropocentric element. The exhibition attempts to expand preconceived perceptions of visual language, both in terms of the artwork as well as the framework of the contemporary art exhibition itself. By exhibiting seemingly random objects together, the sense of the unexpected is provoked. The viewer’s […]
Alumnus Profiled: Michalis Sarros Graduated: DEREE’95 Lives in: Athens, Greece Current Position: Human Resources & Corporate Communications Director, AstraZeneca Greece “All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them” Walt Disney “The only way to do great work is to love what you do” Steve Jobs MICHALIS SARROS was born in Athens, Greece, and graduated from DEREE in 1995. He earned an MA in Human Resources Management from the University of Westminster in UK. He has more than 15 years of experience in the HR field in Greece and abroad. More precisely he has worked for […]
[…]The talk by Dr. Panos Leventis is titled ‘Visualizing the Crisis: Two Graffiti Artists in the Center of Athens’ and will focus on the work of two street artists who have used the heavily damaged urban canvas of the Athens historic center to illustrate their own socio-economic predicament. ACG Debating Reunion It wouldn’t be a proper semester without the presence of the highly active DEREE Debating Club. On November 20-21, the club celebrates the 50th DEREE Invitational- Debate Tournament. The event will host 200 participants representing high school students, university students and alumni, while it will offer former ACG debaters […]
[…]the position of Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature in the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of Classics at King’s College London, as well as being an Advisory Board Member of the ACG Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts (IHCLA). Gonda Van Steen’s research on children’s adoptions from Greece to the USA in the 1950s and 1960s led her to look at texts from ancient and modern Greek literature with fresh eyes. In this lecture, she covered topics from the 5th century BCE Greek tragedy Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and also explored how the modern […]
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[…]After completing her doctorate in 1995, she provided clinical services in the Community Counseling Center of the Association of Psychosocial Health of Children and Adolescents (APHCA) and in private practice, taught and supervised psychology and medical students in academic institution, such as the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Department of EKPA’s Medical School, the Department of Psychology of EKPA and the Department of Social and Clinical Psychology of Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki. She coordinated EU funded programs aiming at improving mental health services provision and minor’s quality of life through research, prevention and clinical intervention activities. She co-authored more than 20 […]
Alumna Profiled: Maria Katsarou Graduated: Deree ’95 Lives in: Manchester, United Kingdom Current Position: Founder and Managing Director Leadership Psychology Institute “Failure sucks but it instructs.” Maria Katsarou grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and came to Greece in 1984. She graduated from Deree – The American College of Greece in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in Management and Organizational Behavior. She acquired two master’s degrees in Human Resources and in Psychology, both from the UK, and a Doctorate in Leadership Psychology from William James College, Boston, USA. Maria has followed a successful career in Human Resources for 12 years, and has worked and lived in […]
[…]took place at The American College of Greece (ACG) premises. The event was co-organized by the Center of Excellence in Sustainability and the ACG Office of Public Affairs, the Municipality of Agia Paraskevi, and the EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece, managed by Athena Research Center, under the Auspices of the Μinistry of Environment & Energy, with the participation of the LIFE IP AdaptInGr. CLIMATHON is an initiative of ΕΙΤ Climate-KIC, supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. It is a 24-hour ideathon that aims to engage and raise awareness among citizens on issues related to the climate crisis and […]
