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The 4th HO PhD Symposium on Contemporary Greece and Cyprus

25-26 June 2009

The 4th Hellenic Observatory PhD Symposium was held on 25 and 26 June 2009 and attracted over 100 paper givers from Europe and beyond. As ever the topics of PhD research were diverse and we had to divide the 27 specialist panels into 5 sessions to accommodate them all.

We were genuinely pleased to be able to host three eminent plenary speakers. On the first day, Professor Paschalis Kitromilides, Director of the Institute of Neohellenic Research in Greece, gave a valuable introduction of the ‘do’s’ and ‘don't’s’ in academic research in the study of nationalism. Later in the evening, Alexis Papahelas, Editor of Kathimerini, entertained the audience to a prescient and pithy overview of the major problems confronting the Greek political system and identifying the areas of reform to be prioritised.

Rounding off the Symposium, the third plenary speaker Professor Nicos Christodoulakis, visiting the Hellenic Observatory as National Bank of Greece Senior Research Fellow, spoke to the theme of market reform in Greece.

The Symposium also gave us the opportunity to launch a book by the Hellenic Observatory Director, Professor Kevin Featherstone and Dr Dimitris Papadimitriou entitled The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Supporters:
We would also like to thank the Greek Politics Group of the PSA for their generous donation of 2 x £200 prizes to scholars (to be selected) who presented at the LSE Hellenic Observatory’s 4th PhD Symposium on Contemporary Greece and Cyprus.

Programme

9:00 - 9:30

Thursday 25 June, 2009

Registration                             

9:30 -10:15       

Welcome Address: Preparing a PhD
Professor Kevin Featherstone (LSE)                    

10:15 -11:30     

Plenary Session I: Suggestions and Pointers for the Study of Nationalism

11:30 -12:00 

Coffee Break                     

12:00-13:30

Panel Meetings - Session I.          

13:30 -14:30

Lunch Break                  

14:30-16:00 

Panel Meetings - Session II.                       

16:00-16:30     

Coffee Break    

16:30-18:00 

Panel Meetings - Session III.        

18:00-19:15     

Plenary Session II: Looking at Greek Politics Today

19:15-20:30

Reception & Book Launch: The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity & Policy Conflict in Greece by Kevin Featherstone & Dimitris Papadimitriou (2008), Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Friday 26 June, 2009

9:30 - 11:00

Panel Meetings - Session I.

11:00-11:30 

Coffee Break 

11:30-13:00

Panel Meetings Session II.   

1300-14:00

Lunch Break                     

14:00-15:15

Plenary Session III: Market Reforms in Greece: Failures and Opportunities       

15:15-15:30

Closing Remarks by Professor Kevin Featherstone (LSE)  

 

Plenary Sessions


Plenary Session I: Suggestions and pointers for the Study of Nationalism

 

                Lecture 1              

Speaker:                  

Professor Pachalis Kitromilidis, Director of the Institute for Neohellenic Research, Greece     

Plenary Session II: Looking at Greek Politics Today  

Speaker:             

Mr Alexis Papahelas, Chief Editor of the Greek newspaper 'I Kathimerini'.               

Plenary Session III: Market Reforms in Greece: Failures and Opportunities

Speaker:                  

Professor Nicos Christodoulakis, European Ombudsman; Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Athens       

Symposium Papers

25 June 2009
SESSION I

Panel 1: History I: Economic Trends & Intellectual Production
Chair: Dr Philip Carabott, King's College London
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Panel 2 - Economic Psychology & Experimental Economics
Chair: Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 3 - Educational Practice & Social Positioning
Chair: Dr Anna Traianou, Goldsmiths University of London
Read the papers

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


Panel 5 - Social Capital & Local Governance Chair: Professor Achilleas Mitsos, University of the Aegean
Read the papers

Panel 6 - Media & Communication
Chair: Dr Mirca Madianou, University of Cambridge
Read the papers


SESSION II

Panel 1 - Communities, Minorities & Human Rights
Chair: Dr Pavlos Eleftheriadis, University of Oxford 
Read the papers

Panel 2 - Cyprus & the EU
Chair: Dr James Ker-Lindsay, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 3 - Educational Policy
Chair: Dr Nafsika Alexiadou, University of Keele
Read the papers

Panel 4 - Welfare State & Social Protection Chair: Dr George Tsakos, University College London
Read the papers

Panel 5 - Political Parties I: Discourse & Ideology
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 6 - Domestic Policies & the EU Chair: Professor Achilleas Mitsos, University of the Aegean
Read the papers

SESSION III

Panel 1 - Applied Economics
Chair: Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 2 - Foreign & Security Policy
Chair: Dr Othonas Anastasakis, University of Oxford & Dr Spyros Economides, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 3 - The Europeanisation of Domestic Policies & Polities
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, London School of Economics
Read the papers

Panel 4 - Law & Citizenship
Chair: Dr Pavlos Eleftheriadis, University of Oxford
Read the papers

Panel 5 - Ethnicity, Immigration & Human Trafficking
Chair: Dr Gerasimos Konidaris, University of Sheffield
Read the papers


26 June 2009
SESSION I

Panel 1 - Political Parties II: Cleavages & Electoral Politics
Chair: Dr Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos, Birkbeck College
Read the papers

Panel 2 - National & Regional Identities
Chair: Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli, University of Leeds
Read the papers
 

Panel 3 - Political Economy
Chair: Dr Fragiskos Filippaios, University of Kingston
Read the papers

Panel 4 - Narratives & Unofficial Histories
Chair: Dr Alexandra Georgakopoulou, King's College London
Read the papers

Panel 5 - Responding to Change: the Banking Sector
Chair: Dr Prodromos Vlamis, University of Cambridge
Read the papers

SESSION II

Panel 1 - History II: The Enosis & the Greek Junta
Chair: Dr Stefanos Katsikas, Goldsmiths University of London
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Panel 2 - Perceptions & Identities
Chair: Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli, University of Leeds
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Panel 3 - Education & Social Exclusion
Chair: Dr Elias Avramidis, University of Exeter
Read the papers

Panel 4 - Business & Finance
Chair: Dr Fragiskos Filippaios, University of Kingston
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Panel 5 - Employment & Social Relations
Chair: Dr Prodromos Vlamis, University of Cambridge
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