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The 2nd HO PhD Symposium on Modern Greece

 10 June 2005

On 10 June 2005, the Hellenic Observatory held the 2nd HO PhD Symposium on Modern Greece, focusing on current social science research on Greece. This proved to be an exciting and intellectually fruitful event, bringing to the Old Theatre of the LSE, and dozens of other teaching rooms across the campus, over 120 participants and the extraordinary figure of over 70 presenters.

The Symposium revolved around the panel sessions, of which there were sixteen, in which the PhD students - and those with recently acquired doctorates - presented their research and engaged in debate with their peers and other Symposium participants.

Each panel was chaired by one or two established scholars who were there both to enable the discussion and provide their own comments and suggestions on the panellists research findings. The panels were split up according to the focus of the research interests of those who had successfully applied to take part in the conference. It is no surprise, to those of you who work on issues related to contemporary Greece, that there was much interest in foreign affairs, matters relating to Greece and the EU and aspects of domestic Greek politics - and of course an number of high quality panels were devoted to those subjects.

Other panels were devoted to economics, history, social policy and public administration. More interestingly, there was a great wave of research interest in fields which do not traditionally attract so much attention. As such there were at least seven panels in total dedicated to media and communications, issues of migration and minorities and culture and identity.

Key-note speakers:

  • Professor Nicos Mouzelis, London School of Economics
  • Professor Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
  • Professor Nikolaos Zahariadis, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

The event was sponsored by:

  • The Bodossaki Foundation 

  • Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation

  • Kalofolias Group - Express Newspapers

Programme

9:30-10:00

Registration                             

10:00-10:15      

Welcome Address by Prof Kevin Featherstone              

10:15 -11:30       

Keynote Speeches 

Chair: Dr. Spyros Economides (LSE)

The Social Sciences in Greece: An Assessment
Professor Stathis Kalyvas (Department of Political Science, Yale University)

Political Manipulation, Greek Foreign Policy, and the Macedonian Question
Professor Nikolaos Zahariadis (Department of Government, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)             

11:30-12:00        

Coffee Break               

12:00-13:30 

Panel Session I.        

13:30 -14:30    

Lunch Break                   

14:30-16:00  

Panel Meetings - Session II                        

16:00-16:15     

Coffee Break

16:15-17:30  

Panel Meetings - Session III            

17:30-18:30      

Keynote Speeches 

Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone (LSE)

Bridges between modern and postmodern theorizing
Professor Nicos Mouzelis (LSE)

Closing Remarks by Professor Kevin Featherstone (LSE)

18:45   

 Reception 

Venue Details            

  • Registration, Welcome Address, Plenary Sessions Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Papers

SESSION 1

Panel 1 - Media and Communication 
Chair: Dr Nikos Papadakis, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 2 - Foreign Policy I 
Chair: Dr Spyros Economides, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 3 - Health and Welfare Policy
Chair: Dr George Tsakos, Royal Free University College London Medical School
Read the papers

Panel 4 - Greece and the EU: Politics 
Chair: Dr Dimitrios Papadimitriou, University of Manchester
Read the papers

SESSION 2

Panel 1 - Media and Technology 
Chair: Dr Petros Iosifidis, City University, London
Read the papers

Panel 2 - Foreign Policy II
Chair: Professor Nikolaos Zahariadis, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Read the papers

Panel 3 - Migration and Minorities I 
Chair: Dr Gerasimos Konidaris, University of Sheffield
Read the papers

Panel 4 - Domestic Politics I 
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 5 - History I 
Chairs: Professor Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University, USA  & Dr Philip Carabott, King's College, London
Read the papers

Panel 6 - State and Society 
Chair: Professor Nicos Mouzelis, London School of Economics
Read the papers

SESSION 3

Panel 1 - Greece and the EU: Public Policy Chair: Professor Panos Tsakloglou, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 2 - Domestic Politics II 
Chairs: Professor Kevin Featherstone, London School of Economics & Mr Roman Gerodimos, University of Bournemouth
Read the papers


Panel 3 - Migration and Minorities II 
Chair: Dr Gerasimos Konidaris, University of Sheffield
Read the papers

Panel 4 - Culture 
Chairs: Professor Dimitris Tziovas, University of Birmingham & Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou, Oxford University
Read the papers


Panel 5 - Economics and Finance
Chair: Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 6 - Identity
Chair: Professor Peter Loizos, London School of Economics
Read the papers

 

 

 

 

 

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