Dukakis Center at a glance

Fall 2013

Maria Psoinos has published “(Inter)disciplinary Research and Practice with Refugees Resettling in Europe: The need for a ‘phronetic’ social science,” in the Official Proceedings of the European Conference on Social Sciences (Brighton, 2013). ISSN: 2188-1154.

Filippos Proedrou has published Ανάπτυξη και Ευημερία στον 21ο αιώνα: Η προσέγγιση των οικολογικών οικονομικών και η περίπτωση της Ελλάδας [Development and welfare in the 21st century. The approach of ecological economics and the case of Greece] (Thessaloniki: IWrite, 2013).

Dr. Proedrou’s paper “Re-conceptualizing the Energy and Security Complex in the Eastern Mediterranean,” was published in Cyprus Review, vol. 24, no. 2, 2013, pp. 15-28 (the same paper has also appeared in Geopolitics of Energy, OGEL 3, 2013). His paper entitled “Global Governance and Cosmopolitan Democracy: Bridging the gap between proponents and opponents,” co-authored by Christos Frangonikolopoulos, has also been published, in Bridges: Conversations in Global Politics and Public Policy (vol. 2, no. 2, 2013).

Maria Kyriakidou has completed an internally funded research project entitled“Between Orientalism and Balkanism: Western images of Thessaloniki and its environs in the early twentieth century travel reports.” In the context of this project, she organized a workshop on “Art, Aesthetics and Power” at ACT on 22 May 2013.

Dr. Kyriakidou has also presented two papers from the project to date at international conferences: “Between Orientalism and Balkanism: Western images of Northern Greece in the early twentieth century travel reports,” Conference of the International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS), Paris, April 2013; “Inventing the Urban Space of Salonika, Greece: An orientalist perspective,” Inter[sections]. A Conference on Architecture, City and Cinema, Porto, September 2013 (this latter paper was published with the conference proceedings). A third paper entitled “When West Meets the East: Discovering the Levant during the Great War,” will be presented at the international conference War and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century in Lisbon in November 2013.

Finally, Dr. Kyriakidou has prepared and submitted the manuscript for a forthcoming volume of which she is co-editor (with Maria Ioannou), entitled Female Beauty in Art: History, Feminism, Women Artists (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).

Since January 2013 Maria Patsarika has been working as Research Associate at The University of Sheffield, School of Architecture, on the research project “Children Transforming Spatial Design: Creative encounters with children” (3-year project funded by the Leverhulme Foundation).

Dr. Patsarika’s has two papers awaiting publication: “Playful voices in participatory design,” with R. Parnell, book chapter in Talking Colin Ward (forthcoming 2013); and “New Capitalism, Educational Modernization and the New Role of the Professional Student,” forthcoming in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (2013).

Vasilieos Pergantis is now a scientific collaborator at the Kalliopi Koufa Foundation for the Promotion of International and Human Rights Law in Thessaloniki, in which capacity he organized the Foundation’s inaugural colloquium on International Law and the Financial Crisis in May 2013. Dr. Pergantis’ paper on the relationship between Art 4(h) of the African Union Constitutive Act and the Responsibility to Protect has been accepted for publication in the journal Global Responsibility to Protect (forthcoming 2014).

Joseph Michael Gratale has presented the following papers: “National Insecurities in Times of War: The Response of American Political Theater After 9-11,” University of Thessaloniki, conference on “The Viewing of Politics and the Politics of Viewing,” April 2013; “'Shooting Indians': The Photography of Edward Curtis,” American College of Thessaloniki, conference on “Art, Aesthetics, and Power,” May 2013; and “The War on Terror and the Re-Codification of War,” University of Thessaly, 10th International Conference on Semiotics, October 2013.

Vincent Mueller continues to work part time as James Martin Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Department of Philosophy. He has contributed to several collected volumes on the philosophy of computing and artificial intelligence due to appear in late 2013 or early 2014, and has presented papers recently at the universities of Sussex, Exeter, and Oxford, as well as in the online ShanghAI series.

Dr Mueller has also organized the following academic conferences:

• With Ron Chrisley, EUCog Members’ Conference “Social and Ethical Aspects of Cognitive Systems,” Brighton, October 2013
• PT-AI 2013, “Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence,” Oxford, September 2013
• With Luisa Damiano, SMLC 2013 workshop on the “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions,” Bergamo, September 2013
• With Antoni Gomila, EUCog Members’ Conference “Learning,” Palma de Mallorca, April 2013

David Wisner represented the Dukakis Center at the North American launch of the Center for Talented Youth Greece at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in September 2013. The Dukakis Center will pilot a summer civic leadership program for high school and undergraduate college students in June 2014. Present also at the launch was Congressman John Sarbanes.

Dr. Wisner will give a talk at the European Studies Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford, in November 2013 on the state of US policy in Kosovo and Southeast Europe.

Aigli Brouskou participated in the AMICAL (American International Consortium of Academic Libraries) workshop in Rome at John Cabot University in January 2013, along with a team of ACT librarians,for the training and preparation of an ethnographic research project among the ACT faculty, and their uses of the library and the librarians. The project took place throughout the spring 2013 semester, and the results were presented by Bissell Library librarians at the AMICAL Rome Conference in June 2013.

Dr. Brouskou was a member of the team of scholars who published the Catalogue of Greek Magic Folktales, eds. G. Megas, Anna Angelopoulos, Aigli Brouskou, Marianthi Kaplanoglou, Emmanouela Katrinaki. (English translation from Greek by Deborah Brown Kazazis.) Edited by the Folklore Fellows Communications n. 303, Academia Scientiarum Fennica. ISBN 978-951-41-1089-4.

Finally, Dr. Brouskou has presented the following workshops and conference papers

• “Selecting Grimm’s folktales for a storytelling workshop in the Elders Home,” International Conference, “The Brothers Grimm and the Folktale: narrations, readings, and transformations,” School of Philosophy, University of Athens, Athens, December 2012.
• “A storytelling workshop in an Elders Home: one year experiences with patients with dementia,” International Congress on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia, Association of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders, Thessaloniki, February 2013.
• “Anthropological Approaches to Adolescence,” Post Graduate Seminar on Child Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Thessaloniki, March 2013.
• “Soundscapes in a music class at ACT,” 2nd Anatolia College Symposium on Rethinking on Technology, June 2013.
• “The Catalogue of Greek Magic Folktales: a 30 years adventure,” 11th Folktale Festival of the Island of Kea (presentation of the publication of the book), Kea, July 2013.
• “Cinderella in Egypt or the Secret of the Pyramid,” 3rd Folktale Festival, Folktales on the back of the Centaur, Agios Georgios Nilias, Mount Pelion, August 2013.

In 2013 Nikos Dimitriadis has published two papers: “Mission Among Other Faiths: An Orthodox Perspective,” with Fr KM George, Petros Vassiliadis, and Niki Papageorgiou, in Orthodox Perspectives on Mission, Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series 17 (Oxford: Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, 2013; and “The Orthodox Contribution in the foundation of Interreligious dialogue in World Christian Mission,” Theologia, 2013.

Dr. Dimitriadis has also participated in the following conferences, symposia, and workshops:

• “Sephardic Jews in Salonika: forced migration and adjustment in an Ottoman context,” Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religion, “Religion, Migration and Mutation,” European Association for the Study of Religion and the International Association for the History of Religions, Liverpool, September 2013.
• “Orthodox Contribution to the foundation of Interreligious Dialogue in World Christian Mission” International Conference “An Orthodox approach for a theology of Religions,” Monastery of Agia Theodora, Thessaloniki, June 2013.
• “Orthodox Theology of Interreligious Dialogue,” University of Thessaloniki, International Interreligious Symposium, Thessaloniki, May 2013.
• “Aesthetic Transformations of Mary Magdelene: A female paradigm of 'a natural leader' discredited,” American College of Thessaloniki, conference on Art, Aesthetics and Power, May 2013.
• “Strengthening the Islamic-Christian Coexistence Values in Greece, through education, freedom of worship and human rights. An initiative to discuss the application of the Amman Message in Greece and the world,” October 2013, Thessaloniki.