Research Seminar Series
In 2025 we relaunched our Research Seminars series, hosting current state-of-the-art research on Greece and/or Cyprus by fellows, research associates and external speakers. The seminars host ‘disciplinary’ research (e.g., economics, sociology, political science, etc) but have an interdisciplinary character as well as an interest in locating research on Greece/Cyprus within the wider European and international literatures and socio-policy contexts.
The seminar series runs both online and in-person. You can find out more about our upcoming and recent seminars & listen to the podcasts of our past seminars below.
Upcoming Seminars
| Date and time | Monday 4.00-5.30pm |
| Location | In-person and online |
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The 2019 increase in the Greek minimum wage: evidence on wages, employment, and worker reallocation
Monday 12 October 2026, 4.00pm-5.30pm
Speaker: Manolis Galenianos, Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London
Venue: TBC| LSE Campus
Monday 16 November 2026, 4.00pm-5.30pm
Speaker: Dimitris Ballas, Full Professor (Chair of Economic Geography, since September 2017) and Head of Economic Geography Department, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen
Venue: TBC| LSE Campus
Willing and able to cheat? Self-reported versus third-party-verified claims in EU farm payments
Monday 23 November 2026, 4.00pm-5.30pm
Speaker: Stefanos Tyros, physicist and economist, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck
Venue: TBC| LSE Campus
From guarantor to governor: Türkiye, patronage, and agency in Northern Cyprus
Wednesday 3 June 2026, 12:30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Dr Sinem Arslan, Visiting Fellow, LSE Centre for Research on Contemporary Greece and Cyprus - Hellenic Observatory
Venue: OLD.1.26, Old Building, LSE
Remote Work, Remote-Feasible Jobs, and Worker Well-Being Across 141 Countries
Wednesday 20 May 2026, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Christos A. Makridis, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Venue: OLD.1.21, Old Building, LSE
On the role of innovation in the generation of value-added trade opportunities
Wednesday 25 March 2026, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Kyriakos Drivas, Associate Professor, University of Piraeus
Venue: CBG.2.02, Centre Building, LSE
Landholding inequality and the political economy of place: The case of Greece
Wednesday 18 March 2026, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Venue: CBG.2.03, Centre Building, LSE
Democracy and Independent Authorities in Greece: checks and imbalances
Wednesday 11 March 2026, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, Professor of Political Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Venue: CBG.2.02, Centre Building, LSE
The financial health of non-financial corporations in Greece
Wednesday 4 March 2026, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Marina Eliza Spaliara, Professor, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
Venue: CBG.2.02, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 18 February 2026, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speakers: Athanassios Gouglas (Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, MPA Programme, University of the West of Scotland) and Mihalis Melidis (Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Exeter)
Venue: OLD.4.10, Old Building, LSE
The Greek anti-vaccination social movement and the 'underdog' culture
Wednesday 11 February 2026, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Manussos Marangudakis, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of the Aegean
Venue: Yangtze Theatre, Centre Building, LSE
The new era of polycrisis? Small states, international relations, and Greek foreign policy
Wednesday 4 February 2026, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Alexandros Zachariades, Research Associate, “Disappearing Act(DISACT)”, University of Cyprus; Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Venue: Yangtze Theatre, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 28 January 2026, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Angelos Chryssogelos, Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University
Venue: Yangtze Theatre, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 21 January 2026, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speakers: Charis Psaltis (Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cyprus) and Neophytos Loizides (Professor of International Conflict Analysis, University of Warwick)
Venue: Yangtze Theatre, Centre Building, LSE
Words and votes in the Greek Parliament, 1865–1915: A discursive-network theory of legislative order
Wednesday 10 December 2025, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Aris Grivokostopoulos, Doctoral Affiliate, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Venue: CBG 2.02, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 19 November 2025, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Yani Kartalis, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen; Research Fellow at Lisbon University Institute.
Venue: CBG 2.02, Centre Building, LSE
Conditionality lending vs performance-based budgeting: lessons from public sector reform in Greece
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Angelos Angelou, Visiting Fellow, European Institute, LSE
Venue: CBG 2.02, Centre Building, LSE
Brain drain, skills mismatch and the fiscal multiplier
Wednesday 29 October 2025, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Eugenia Vella, Assistant Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business (School of Economics); Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy
Venue: CBG 2.02, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 22 October 2025, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Georgios Samaras, Research Associate, Politics & Geopolitics Cluster, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Venue: CBG 2.02, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 15 October 2025, 12.30pm-2.00pm
Speaker: Will Bartlett, Research Associate, Economy and Public Policy Cluster, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Venue: CBG 2.02,Centre Building, LSE
Digital consumers and platform workers in Greece
Wednesday 11 June 2025, 4.00pm-5.30pm
Speaker: Eleftheria Lekakis, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), University of Sussex and Photini Vrikki, Lecturer in Digital Methods in the Humanities, UCL
Venue: KSW.1.04, 20 Kingsway, LSE
Wednesday 28 May 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pm
Speaker: Plutachos Sakellaris, Professor of Economics and Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business
Venue: Yangtze Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 14 May 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pm
Speaker: Nikolaos Terzidis, Assistant Professor, University of Groningen
Venue: Yangtze Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 30 April 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pm
Speaker: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Director, Hellenic Observatory Centre; Eleftherios Venizelos Chair of Contemporary Greek Studies; Professor in Political Economy
Venue: CBG.1.08, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 2 April 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pmSpeaker: Gregoris Ioannou, Reader at the Faculty of Business and Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
Venue: CBG.1.04, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 26 March 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pm
Speaker: Stella Ladi, Professor in Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London; Associate Professor, Panteion University, Athens
Venue: CBG.1.04, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
The corporate governance of Greek banksWednesday 19 March 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pm
Speaker: Dimitri Vayanos, Professor of Finance; Director, Department of Finance, LSE
Venue: CBG.1.06, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Mapping the Greek housing market and housing uncertainty
Wednesday 5 March 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pmSpeaker: Theodore Panagiotidis, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia
Venue: CBG.1.04, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 19 February 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pmSpeaker: Theodoros Zachariadis, Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Cyprus Institute
Venue: CBG.1.04, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 12 February 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pm
Speaker: Dimitrios Minos, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics, King's Business School, King's College London
Venue: CBG.1.04, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 5 February 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pmSpeaker: Dimitris Papadimitriou, Professor of Political Science, University of Manchester
Venue: CBG.1.06, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Wednesday 29 January 2025, 2.30pm-4.00pm
Speaker: Athanasia Chalari, Associate Lecturer, The Open University
Venue: CBG.1.04, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
The missing links: mismatch, mismanagement and technological backwardness in Greek industry
Tuesday 19 November 2024, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speaker: Filippos Petroulakis, Research Economist, Economic Analysis and Research Department, Bank of Greece
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Director, Hellenic Observatory Centre
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Theatre, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
The digital footprint of climate-driven displacement: transformation or disruption?
CANCELLEDTuesday 12 November 2024, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speakers: Afroditi Koulaxi, LSE100 Fellow
Maria-Christina Vogkli, Guest Teacher, Sociology Department, LSEChair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Director, Hellenic Observatory Centre
Venue: CBG.1.05, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Migration diplomacy and electoral politics in Greek-Turkish relations
Tuesday 15 October 2024, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speaker: Gerasimos Tsourapas, Professor of International Relations, University of Glasgow
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Emeritus
Professor; Professorial Research Fellow, Hellenic ObservatoryVenue: CBG.1.05, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
The Republic of Cyprus and the EU sanctions on Russia: navigating shelter seeking and political shocks
Tuesday 1 October 2024, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speaker: Revecca Pedi, Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Macedonia, Greece
Chair: Spyros Economides, Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics, LSE
Venue: CBG.1.06, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Spring Term
Before and after the 1974 transition to democracy: institutions, politics and economics in post-war Greece
Thursday 9 May 2024, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speaker: George Alogoskoufis, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics & Business
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Winter Term
Remnants of Civil War: immediate and long-run effects of electoral oppression in cold war Greece
Tuesday 19 March 2024, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speaker: George Melios, Research Fellow, Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science, LSE; Research Advisor, Gallup
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: CBG.2.04, 2nd floor, Centre Building, LSE
Cyprus and EU sanctions: macroeconomic impacts and policies for a sustained recovery
Tuesday 12 March 2024, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speaker: Stelios Sakkas, Research Economist, Economics Research Centre, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: CBG.2.05, 2nd floor, Centre Building, LSE
Greek economy: the trajectory from crisis to sustainable growth
Tuesday 5 March 2024, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speakers: Anthony Bartzokas, Associate Professor, University of Athens; Professorial Fellow, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
Peter Sanfey, Deputy Director for Country Economics and Policy within the Economics, Policy and Governance Department, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Professor of Political Economy and Eleftherios K. Venizelos Chair in Contemporary Greek Studies
Venue: CBG.1.06, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
From statism to cooperation for export-oriented production? The case of contract farming in Greece
Tuesday 6 February 2024, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speaker: Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), University of Oxford
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: CBG.2.06, 2nd floor, Centre Building, LSE
Refugees from Anatolia in Greece. A Centennial Assessment.
Tuesday 16 January 2024, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speaker: Elias Papaioannou, Professor of Economics, London Business School
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Professor of Political Economy and Eleftherios K. Venizelos Chair in Contemporary Greek Studies
Venue: CBG.2.06, 2nd floor, Centre Building, LSE
Autumn Term
Coming to terms with forced migration
Tuesday 14 November 2023, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Speaker: Marilena Anastasopoulou, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, European Institute, LSE
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: SAL.LG.04, Lower Ground, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE
The birth of a new predominant party system? The May and June 2023 elections in Greece
Tuesday 24 October 2023
Speaker: Yannis Tsirbas, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: MAR.2.05, 2nd floor, Marshall Building, LSE
The twin deficits, monetary instability and debt crises in the history of modern Greece
Tuesday 3 October 2023
Speaker: George Alogoskoufis, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics & Business
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: CBG.2.05, 2nd floor, Centre Building, LSE
Exiting the Crisis: the challenges of reform agency in Greece
Tuesday 11 October 2022
Speaker: Calliope Spanou, Professor of Administrative Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Jens Bastian, CATS Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: CBG.1.06, 1st floor, Centre Building, LSE
Entrepreneurship and Firm Resilience in Times of Crisis: evidence from Greece
Tuesday 25 October 2022
Speaker: Ioannis Kaplanis, Research Fellow, Athens University of Economics and Business
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE
Venue: Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
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Political Trust and Satisfaction with Democracy in Greece in Comparative Perspective (1986-2020)
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Speaker: Sofia Vassilopoulou, Professor of European Politics, Department of European and International Studies, King’s College London
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
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The Privatisation of Public Space by Leisure Industries and Commercial Gentrification in (post) Pandemic Greece
Tuesday 22 November 2022
Speaker: Philipp Katsinas, Visiting Fellow, LSE
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE
Venue: CBG.2.05, Centre Building, LSE
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Crisis, Clientelism and Institutional Resilience: reflections on a public sector reform under the MoUs
Tuesday 24 January 2023
Speaker: Dimitris Katsikas, Assistant Professor of International & European Political Economy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE
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Intergenerational Mobility in Education in Greece
Tuesday 28 February 2023, 6.00pm- 7.30pm
Speaker: Nikos Vettas, General Director of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE); Professor, Athens University of Economics & Business
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Centre Building, LSE
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Greece’s Strategy Vis-à-Vis Turkey: from ‘hard’ to ‘smart balancing’?
Tuesday 14 March 2023, 6.00pm- 7.30pm
Speaker: Panayotis Tsakonas, Professor of International Relations, Security Studies & Foreign Policy Analysis, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Centre Building, LSE
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Exploring ‘Culture Wars’ in Greece: mapping new conflicts and voter support
Wednesday 22 March 2023, 6.00pm- 7.30pm
Speakers: Sokratis Koniordos, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Department of Political Science & International Affairs, University of the Peloponnese
Roula Nezi, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Surrey
Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, Professor of Political Science, Νational and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Venue: CBG.2.02, 2nd Floor, Centre Building, LSE
Youth and Politics in Protracted Conflicts
Tuesday 5 October 2021
Speakers: Huseyin Cakal, Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Keele University
Oded Adomi Leshem, Fellow, Truman Research Institute, Hebrew University
Neophytos Loizides, Professor in International Conflict Analysis, University of Kent
Charis Psaltis, Associate Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cyprus
Chair: Philipp Katsinas, Hellenic Observatory Research Officer
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Public Trust and Citizen Engagement in Greece: learning from the past?
Tuesday 2 November 2021
Speaker: Stefanos Loukopoulos, Co-founder and Director of Vouliwatch
Discassants:
Vasiliki Georgiadou, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University
Lamprini Rori, Assistant Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Chair: Spyros Economides, Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics, LSE
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Entrepreneurialising Solidarity? A Pragmatic Sociology of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Greece
Tuesday 16 November 2021
Speaker: Dimitris Soudias, Hellenic Bank Association Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute, LSE
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Cyprus and Stability in the Eastern Mediterranean
Tuesday 30 November 2021
Speaker: Ambassador Alexandros N. Zenon, f. High Commissioner of Cyprus to the UK
Discussant: Emmanuel Karagiannis, Reader in International Security, King’s College London
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
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Crisis Management within Government: Papandreou and Tsipras compared
Tuesday 18 January 2022
Speakers: Kevin Featherstone, Director of the Hellenic Observatory
Dimitris Papadimitriou, Professor of Politics, University of Manchester
Chair: Spyros Economides, Hellenic Observatory Deputy Director; Associate Professor of International Relations and European Politics, LSE
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Intelligent Modelling of e-Government Initiatives in Greece
Tuesday 15 February 2022
Speakers: Fay Makantasi, Research Director, diaNEOsis
Diomidis Spinellis, Professor of Software Engineering, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
George Xirogiannis, Deputy Director General at SEV Hellenic Federation and Enterprises; CEO at SEV’s research institute.
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor in Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor in European Politics; Director of the Hellenic Observator
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Deciphering the Formulation of Greek Economic Diplomacy towards the Western Balkans
Tuesday 1 March 2022
Speakers: Nikolaos Tzifakis, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of the Peloponnese
Ritsa Panagiotou, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE), Athens
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute, LSE
Evaluating the Impact of Labour Market Reforms in Greece during 2010-2018
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Speaker: Nikos Vettas, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor in Political Economy, European Institute, LSE; member of the Hellenic Observatory; Director of the LSE Research unit on Southeast Europe
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Is Greece Falling Behind in the E-Economy? What is to be Done?
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Speaker: Charalambos Tsekeris, Research Fellow, National Centre for Social Research, Greece; Professor Extraordinary, School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University
Discussants: Effie Bitrou, Head of Digital Banking, National Bank of Greece
Calliope Spanou, Professor of Administrative Science – Public Administration, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor in Political Economy, European Institute, LSE; Director of the LSE Research unit on Southeast Europe
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Can the Greek Economy Recover Once Again?
Tuesday 19 January 2021
Speakers:
Julia Brouillard, Associate Economist, Country Economics and Policy Team, EBRD
Dr Peter Sanfey, Deputy Director for Country Economics and Policy within the Economics, Policy and Governance Department, EBRD
Dimitris Sourvanos, Associate Counsellor, Governance and Political Affairs Team, EBRD
Discussant: Dimitri Vayanos, Professor of Finance, LSE; Director of the Financial Markets Group and the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor in Political Economy, European Institute, LSE; Director of the LSE Research unit on Southeast Europe
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The Invisible Impact of Frozen Conflicts: a case study of foreign domestic workers in Cyprus
Tuesday 16 February 2021
Speaker: Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Assistant Professor in Human Rights & Transitional Justice, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor in Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor in European Politics; Director of the Hellenic Observatory
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Crisis and Change: the right of Greek citizens to vote abroad
Tuesday 16 March 2021
Speakers:
Othon Anastasakis, Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX); Senior Research Fellow, St Antony’s College
Foteini Kalantzi, A.G. Leventis Research Officer, Diaspora Project in SEESOX, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Chair: Spyros Economides, Deputy Director, Hellenic Observatory
Revisiting Challenges to Greek Foreign Policy
Tuesday 15 October 2019
Speaker: Spyros Economides, Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics, LSE; Deputy Director of the Hellenic Observatory
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director, LSE
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theater, Centre Building
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Greek Politics After the 2019 Elections: future prospects
Tuesday 29 October 2019
Speakers:
Maria Karaklioumi, Political Analyst at polling company RASS SA.
Spyros Kosmidis, Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director, LSE
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
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Fiscal Space in the Eurozone: redistribution in Greece and Ireland
Tuesday 12 November 2019
Speakers:
Angelos Angelou, PhD candidate at the European Institute
Chrysoula Papalexatou, Hellenic Bank Association Postdoctoral Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director, LSE
Venue: CBG 1.02, Centre Building
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Retirement and Expenditure in TurbuWinter Times
Tuesday 10 December 2019
Speaker: Ioannis Laliotis, Lecturer at the Department of Economics, City University of London
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor in Political Economy at the European Institute, LSE
Venue: CBG 1.02, Centre Building
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Winter Term
What Drives People to Accept or Resist Austerity? Evidence from a survey experiment in Greece
Tuesday 21 January 2020
Speaker: Theofanis Exadaktylos, Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Surrey; Visiting Professor at the College of Europe
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor in Political Economy at the European Institute, LSE
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building
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Immigrant and Refugee Segregation Dynamics (InSert)
Tuesday 4 February 2020
Speaker: Paschalis A. Arvanitidis, Associate Professor of Institutional Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Thessaly
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE
Venue: Yangtze Lecture Theatre, Centre Building
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Economic Growth in Greece: barriers and prospects
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Speakers: Apostolis Philippopoulos, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business
George Economides, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of International & European Economic Studies, School of Economic Sciences, Athens University of Economics and Business
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building
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Distributional Changes in TurbuWinter Times: Greece 2007-2016
Tuesday 10 March 2020
Speaker: Panos Tsakloglou, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building
Organising against Democracy: the local organisational development of the Golden Dawn in Greece
Tuesday 9 October 2018
Speaker: Antonis A. Ellinas, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Cyprus
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Director of the Hellenic Observatory
Venue: Cañada Blanch Room (COW 1.11), 1st Floor, European Institute, Cowdray House
Greece’s Russian Policy
Tuesday 23 October 2018
Speaker: Panagiota Manoli, Assistant Professor in Political Economy of International Relations, Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean (Greece)
Chair: Spyros Economides, Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics, LSE
Venue: Cañada Blanch Room (COW 1.11), 1st Floor, European Institute, Cowdray House
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Rebooting the Greek Economy: How Greece can lift growth, employment and stabilise public debt
Tuesday 30 October 2018
Speaker: Nicos Christodoulakis, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business
Discussant: Manolis Galenianos, Professor of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Director of the Hellenic Observatory
Venue: Old Building (OLD 3.21), 3rd Floor, Department of Finance
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The political consequences of intergenerational inequality in Greece
Tuesday 6 November 2018
Speaker: Spyros Kosmidis, Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Director of the Hellenic Observatory
Venue: Cañada Blanch Room (COW 1.11), 1st Floor, European Institute, Cowdray House
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The Case of the Far-Right and Far-Left in Greece: Understanding Online Political Networks
Tuesday 15 January 2019
Speaker: Lamprini Rori, Lecturer on Politics, University of Exeter
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Director of the Hellenic Observatory
Venue: Cañada Blanch Room (COW 1.11), 1st Floor, European Institute, Cowdray House
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Towards a National Competition and Competitiveness Policy for Greece
Tuesday 29 January 2019
Speaker: Yannis Katsoulakos, Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor of Political Economy
Venue: Cañada Blanch Room (COW 1.11), 1st Floor, European Institute, Cowdray House
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Transforming the housing system: austerity and property taxation during the 'Greek crisis'
Tuesday 26 February 2019
Speaker: Philipp Katsinas, Hellenic Bank Association Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor of Political Economy
Venue: Cañada Blanch Room (COW 1.11), 1st Floor, European Institute, Cowdray House
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Analysing Crisis Discourse in Greece: who should we blame?
Tuesday 26 March 2019
Speaker: Stella Ladi, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University, London; Assistant Professor, Panteion University in Athens
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Director of the Hellenic Observatory
Venue: Cañada Blanch Room (COW 1.11), 1st Floor, European Institute, Cowdray House
The Energy Geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Role of Greece
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Speaker: Emmanuel Karagiannis, Senior Lecturer, Department of Defence Studies, King's College London
The Depoliticisation of Greece’s Public Revenue Administration
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Speakers: Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos,Senior Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London and Anargyros Passas, Associate Professor of State Administration and European Integration, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
We are grateful to the National Bank of Greece for funding this research project.
The Political Economy of Privatization in Greece after the Economic Crisis
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
Speaker: Özgün Sarimehmet Duman, Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Partners and Reforms in the Wage-Setting System in Greece under Austerity
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Speakers: Andreas Kornelakis, King’s College London; Horen Voskeritsian, UWE-Bristol and Panos Kapotas, University of Portsmouth
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Nation Branding and Nation Competitiveness: Implications for Greece
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Speaker: George J. Avlonitis, Professor of Marketing, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)
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The Effects of Economic Crisis on Greek Entrepreneurship
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Speaker: Jessie Voumvaki, Senior Economist, Head of Entrepreneurship and Business Analysis, Economic Analysis Department, National Bank of Greece
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Mobility of Highly-Skilled Individuals, Local Innovation and Entrepreneurship Activity
Tuesday 20 February 2018
Speaker: Claire Economidou, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Piraeus, Greece
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
The Political Economy of NPLs resolution in Greece: Ownership and Conditionality
Eleni Panagiotarea, Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Communication architecture of the border: Constructions of Europe’s humanitarian securitization
Myria Georgiou, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Media and Communications, LSE
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
The Analytics of the Greek Crisis
Dimitri Vayanos, Professor of Finance, Head of the Department of Finance, Director of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality, LSE
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Outward migration from Greece during the crisis
Lois Labrianidis, Secretary General for Strategic and Private Investments, Greek Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism; Professor of Economic Georgraphy, University of Macedonia; Manolis Pratsinakis, Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Macedonia; Research Fellow, Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam
We are grateful to the National Bank of Greece for funding this research project.
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Advance or Regression? Gender balance and the crisis in Greece
Antigone Lyberaki, Professor of Economics, Panteion University; Visiting Professor, Hellenic Observatory Platon TINIOS, Assistant Professor at Piraeus University; Visiting Senior Fellow, Hellenic Observatory
We are grateful to the National Bank of Greece for funding this research project.
Winter Term
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Contrasting Greek and UK Youths’ Subjective Responses to Austerity: Lessons for other European countries
Athanasia Chalari, Principal Lecturer in Sociology; Subject Leader in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Northampton
Clive Sealey, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Theory, University of Worcester
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Changing the policy agenda? The impact of the Golden Dawn on Greek party politics
Kyriaki Nanou, Lecturer in European Politics, School of Politics & International Relations, University of Nottingham
Daphne Halikiopoulou, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Reading
We are grateful to the National Bank of Greece for funding this research project.
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Religious pluralism and Education in Greece
Effie Fokas, Principal Investigator, GRASSROOTSMOBILISE; Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy; Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Margarita Markoviti, Postdoctoral Fellow, GRASSROOTSMOBILISE, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Beyond Crisis: Constitutional Change in Greece after the Memoranda
Anna Tsiftsoglou, NBG Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Reflections on the "Punctuated Equilibrium" Theory of Modern Greek History
Stathis N. Kalyvas, Arnold Wolfers Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Evaluating the structural reform of central government departments in Greece
Panagiotis Zervopoulos, Assistant Professor in Quantitative Methods, Bursa Orhangazi University
We are grateful to the National Bank of Greece for funding this research project.
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Exploring the psychological effects of the Greek financial crisis
Bettina Davou, Professor of Psychology, Department of Communication & Media Studies, Director of Laboratory for Psychological Applications & Communication Planning, University of Athens
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Pension Poor and Housing Rich: A generational perspective of the Greek crisis, its aftermath and possible ways out
Platon Tinios, Assistant Professor at Piraeus University; Visiting Senior Fellow, Hellenic Observatory
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Political development and the rise of the Golden Dawn in Greece
Antonis Ellinas, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Cyprus
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Of Austerity, Human Rights and International Institutions
Margot Salomon, Associate Professor; Law Department and at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, LSE; Director Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy, LSE
Winter Term
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
How do Greek Foreign Elites perceive Turkey: findings from an empirical research project
Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, Director of the Center for International and European Studies (CIES); Chair of the Department of International Relations, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
We are grateful to the National Bank of Greece for funding this research project.
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Young Greeks and Democracy: social representations and imaginaries and the impact of the crisis
Thalia Magioglou, Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE and Centre Edgar Morin/IIAC, EHESS, Paris France
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
The Agent-Structure Issue in Foreign Policy Analysis: The "Macedonian" issue
Georgios Evangelopoulos, Scientific Advisor to the President of the Hellenic Republic, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute of International Relations (IDIS) at Panteion University of Athens
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Still Europeanized?: Greek Foreign Policy During the Eurozone Crisis
Angelos Chryssogelos, National Bank of Greece Postdoctoral Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Experiments with austerity and anti-poverty policies in Greece
Vassilis Arapoglou, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology,University of Crete; Visiting Senior Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
We are grateful to the National Bank of Greece for funding this research project.
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Greece: Taking Stock; Economic and Financial Changes Since the Onset of the Global and Euro Area Crises
Eleni Louri-Dendrinou, Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business; Former Deputy Governor, Bank of Greece
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Crisis and Democracy- Democracy in Crisis Social Anthropological Perspectives on the Fragility of the Social Contract
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Durham
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
The Newly Disadvantaged: Responses to rapid socioeconomic change in Greece
Alexander Kentikelenis, Research Associate, King's College, University of Cambridge
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Banal, benign or pernicious? The relationship between religion and national identity from the perspective of religious minorities in Greece
Effie Fokas, Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens, and Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
The European Debt Crisis: The Greek Case
Costas Simitis, Former Greek Prime Minister
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Winter Term
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
What Do Greek Political Elites Think about Europe and the Crisis? Preliminary Results of Recent Survey Research
Dimitri Sotiropoulos, Associate Professor, University of Athens
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
The Restructuring of the Greek Economy: 2010-2014
Panos Tsakloglou, Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
How to study the crisis anthropologically? Theoretical and methodological puzzles
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Reader in Social Anthropology, University of Kent
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Policing the Crisis: The other side of the story
Rosa Vasilaki, National Bank of Greece Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSEWe are grateful to the National Bank of Greece for funding this research project.
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Privatizations: Auction and Market design during the Crisis
Vasiliki Skreta, Economics Department, UCL
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Crisis and Austerity: A Painful Watershed for the Greek Welfare State
Maria Petmesidou, Professor of Social Policy, Democritus University of Thrace; ROP/ISSC Fellow
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Civil Society and Religion in Greece in a Period of Crisis
Manussos Marangudakis, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Aegean
Friday, 1 November 2013
The Challenges of Administrative Reform in Greece
Evy Christofilopoulou, Greek Deputy Minister for Administrative Reform
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
The Persistence of Political Terrorism
George Kassimeris, Reader in Terrorism Studies, University of Wolverhampton
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
The Dynamics of Conflict in the Greek Civil War 1946-49
Nicos Christodoulakis, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business; Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
On the Limits of Fiscal Consolidation within a Monetary Union - How to resolve the austerity puzzle at the Europeriphery
Iannis (John) A. Mourmouras, Chief Economic Adviser to the Greek Prime Minister; Former Deputy Finance Minister of Greece
Winter Term
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
The slow growth and sudden demise of supplementary pension provision in Cyprus
Bernard H. Casey, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick; Visiting Senior Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Emerging ethnic economies at times of crisis: socio-economic and spatial dimensions of migrants’ entrepreneurship in Athens
Panos Hatziprokopiou, Department of Spatial Planning & Development, School of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The Hellenic Observatory gratefully acknowledges the National Bank of Greece for the funding of this research project.
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Does the Greek labour market work? Crisis and adjustment across the Greek regions
Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor in the Political Economy of South East Europe, LSE
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Crisis and famine in island Greece: Sovereign debt, political violence and topologies of memory in Chios
Nicolas Argenti, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Brunel University
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
The Greek Growth Project
Theodore Pelagidis, Non-resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, USA; Professor of Economic Analysis, University of Piraeus
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Stylized Characteristics of the Greek Inflation: Some Policy Recommendations
Nicholas Apergis, Professor in Economics, Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Currency crisis and collapse in interwar Greece: Predicament or Policy Failure?
Nicos Christodoulakis, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business; Former Greek Minister of Economy & Finance; Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
The Eurozone Crisis and Austerity Politics: A Trigger for Administrative Reform in Greece?
Stella LADI, Senior Lecturer, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Politics, Privatization and Performance in Greek Telecommunications
Nikolaos Zahariadis, Professor & Director of International Relations, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Accommodating the Cyprus issue in the European Union’s political and legal order
Nikos Skoutaris, A.N. Hadjiyiannis Senior Research Fellow; Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Winter Term
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Greek Prime Ministers and the Problem of Reform Capacity
Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics; Director of the Hellenic Observatory
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
De Facto States and the Threshold of Sovereignty
Rebecca Bryant, A.N. Hadjiyiannis Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Transition of Credit Spreads in the European Periphery Debt Crisis
George Christodoulakis, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Manchester
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
'God Save the Green': renewable energy programmes in the Greek economic crisis
Daniel Knight, National Bank of Greece Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
The (Very Deep) Roots of Greece’s Crisis: A Historical Reassessment
Stathis N. Kalyvas, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science; Director, Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 11 October 2011Greece's European Policy Making
Yannis Valinakis, Ministry of Finance Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE; Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece; Professor of International Relations/Jean Monnet Professor of European Diplomacy, University of Athens
Thuesday, 25 October 2011
The current reform of IKA and the re-establishment of Social Insurance credibility in Greece - Reconciling social dilemmas and funding challenges
Dimitris Micharikopoulos, Senior Advisor, Social Insurance Institute
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Familistic welfare capitalism in Greece: from the crisis of social reproduction to the emergence of a political economy of generalised insecurity
Theodoros Papadopoulos, Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Bath
Monday, 28 November 2011
Greece's Economy: Crisis and Exit Strategies
Yannos Papantoniou, Former Minister of National Economy, Greece, 1994-2003
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Of Debts and Denial: The Greek Crisis in the context of the post-2008 world
Yanis Varoufakis, Professor of Economics, University of Athens
Winter Term
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Social Policy and Social Justice in Greece: the unfair deficit
Dimitris Venieris, Visiting Senior Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE; Associate Professor of Social Policy, University of Peloponnese
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Social change in modern Greece: the contribution of young generation to a new social reality
Athanasia Chalari, A.C. Laskaridis Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
The 'Callicrates' reform: Transforming Greek local government in the years of austerity
Vasilis Leontisis, National Bank of Greece Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Democratic Accountability in Greece
Spyros Kosmidis, National Bank of Greece Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Pushing the EU borders to the East: The Europeanization of Greek Foreign Policy in the aftermath of the Eastern Enlargement
Theofanis Exadaktylos, Ministry of Finance Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE; Lecturer in European Politics, University of Surrey
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
The EMU-sovereign debt crisis: Fundamentals, expectations and contagion
Michael Arghyrou, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Business School
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
The political management of the crisis. Problems and implications
Christos Lyrintzis, Department of Political Science & Public Administration, University of Athens; National Bank of Greece Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 9 November 2010The interplay of ICT innovation with state administrative tradition: Evidence from the Greek Taxation Information System (TAXIS)
Elpida Prasopoulou, A.C. Laskaridis Post-doc Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
The Forgotten European Spring of the Greek Communist Party, 1987-1991
Susannah Verney, Assistant Professor of European Integration, University of Athens; Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
The twin deficits hypothesis: Evidence from Greece
Theodore Panagiotidis, Lecturer in Econometrics; Ministry of Economy, Competitiveness & Shipping Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Winter Term
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
The Sovereign Debt Debate and Greece
Gikas A. Hardouvelis, Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus
Tuesday, 25 January 2011Determinants and effects of government size: Overview of theory and the Greek experience
Chris Tsoukis, Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan Business School; Ministry of Economy, Competitiveness & Shipping Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Hollow at the Core? Greek Prime Ministers and the Constraints on Governing
Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor, Director of the Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 22 February 2011The Eden-Dill Mission and the Doomed Quest to Save Greece from Axis Occupation, February to April 1941
Steve Morewood, Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Special Education and Equal Opportunities in the Context of Economic Crisis
Eleftheria Bernidaki-Aldous, Professor of Classics, Holder of the Endowed Chair of Modern Greek Studies Eleftherios Venizelos, American College of Greece, Deree
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Imagined Enemies. In quest of the deeper reasons for Greek-Turkish Antagonism
Alexis Heraclides, Professor of International Relations & Conflict Analysis, Panteion University of Social & Political Science; National Bank of Greece Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Investigating Greek Multinationals' Behaviour: Identifying Opportunities, Overcoming Barriers and Creating Competitiveness
Fragkiskos Filippaios, MBA Course Director International), Principal Lecturer in International Business, Kingston University London; Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Expanding and Aligning the EU; European Integration and Neighbourhood Policies: A Greek Overview
Dimitris Katsoudas, Former Secretary-General for EU Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Employment Regulation and Labour Relations in Greece
Christos A. Ioannou, Mediator-Arbitrator, Organisation for Mediation and Arbitration (O.ME.D)
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Greece and the Crisis: Recovery or Decline?
Yannos Papantoniou, Former Minister of Trade; National Economy; Defence; President, Centre for Progressive Policy Research
Tuesday 8 December 2009
Is Athens burning? Urban Riots, Urban Planning and National Identity
Georges Prevelakis, NBG Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory; Professor of Geopolitics, University of Pantheon-Sorbonne
Winter Term
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Political Developments in Greece during the last Decade. A slide towards the Segmentary Society
Thanos Veremis, Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE; Professor of Political History, University of Athens; Board Member of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Rethinking Public Financial Management and Budgeting in Greece: An Integrated Approach to Governance
Effie Vraniali, A.C. Laskaridis Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Greece's Faltering Economy: Facets and evidence of low competitiveness and institutional weakness
Theodore Pelagidis, Ministries of Economy & Finance Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE; Professor Economic Analysis, University of Piraeus, Department of Maritime Studies
Wendnesday, 17 February 2010
South East Europe: the Energy Challenges Ahead
Plutarchos Sakellaris, Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB)
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
The Emerging BRIC Economies: Evidence from the Interest Rate Transmission Mechanism
Prodromos Vlamis, Ministries of Economy & Finance Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE; Temp Assistant Professor in Economics (AUEB); Associate, Department Land Economy, Cambridge University
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Exploring the Muslim past: Western Thrace during the Second World War and the Greek Civil War
Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies; Hellenic Observatory Director, LSE and Dimitris Papadimitriou, NBG Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory; Reader in European Politics, University of Manchester
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Ten years of EMU: Convergence, divergence and new priorities in the Euro-zone
Professor Nicos Christodoulakis, NBG Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE; Athens University of Economics and Business; Greek Minister of Economics & Finance (2001-2004)
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
The Greek-Turkish Conflict in the Aegean: In Quest of Resolution
Alexis Heraclides, Professor of International Relations & Conflict Analysis, Panteion University of Social & Political Science
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Decreasing global energy supply resources and regionalism: correlation, efficiency and patterns of energy co-operation in South-East Europe
Diana Bozhilova, A.C. Laskaridis Post-doctoral Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Constitutional limitations of privatizations: the Greek experience under a comparative perspective
George Katrougalos,Demokritos University of Thrace and Organization for Mediation and Arbitration Services
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Managing the flow: a Greek policy for optimizing gains from ongoing regional energy developments
Constantinos Filis, Institute of International Relations, Centre for Russia and Eurasia, Athens
Winter Term
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Greece and the EU : Prospects for Greece's European Policy
Panayiotis Ioakimides, University of Athens
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Skills and wage inequality in Greece: 1995-2002
Rebekka Christopoulou, Ministry of Economy & Finance Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Distributional implications of tax evasion in Greece
Manos Matsaganis, Athens University of Economics & Business
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Problem-Solving and Ideology in Public Policy Instrumentation: Populism, Modernization, and all that
Kostas Lavdas, NBG Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Greek-US security relations: the limits of influence and partnership
Kostas Ifantis, Institute of Defence Analysis (IAA) Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Conditionality, EMU, and the Limits of Reform: reflections on southern European adjustment
George Pagoulatos, Associate Professor of Politics, Athens University of Economics & Business
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
The EU and the wider Black Sea area: what role for Greece?
Dimitris TriantafyllouDirector General, International Centre for Black Sea Studies, Greece
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Microeconomic reform options for Greece
Costas Meghir,Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UCL and Co-Director, ESRC Research Centre at the Institute of Fiscal Studies
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
1999 and All That: Greek-Turkish rapprochement and its impact
James Ker -Lindsay, Senior Research Fellow, European Research Centre, Kingston University
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
The Greek Economy in the Euro-Zone: A Retrospective & Future Challenges
Nicos Christodoulakis, Former Greek Minister of Economics & Finance; Professor of Economic Analysis, Athens Economics University
Winter Term
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Micro-perspectives on Immigrant Welfare in Greece
Effie Fokas,A.C. Laskaridis Post-doctoral Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
The trade- offs between transition and sustainable development in the former socialist countries of the Balkans
Rumen Gechev, Professor of Economics, University of National and World
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Greek FDI and FDI in Greece
Fragkiskos Filippaios, MEF Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory & Lecturer, Kent Business School, University of Kent and Kostas Tzioumis, NBG Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory & and Consultant, Financial Sector Vice-Presidency, The World Bank
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Foreign aid in the Balkans
Vladimir Gligorov, Professor of Economics, Vienna Institute of International Economic Studies
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Modernization and Centre-Left Dilemmas in Greece: the Revenge of the Underdogs
EuclidTsakalotos, Professor of Economics, University of Athens
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Socio-Economic Differences in the Perceived Quality of High and Low-paid Jobs in the European Union
Ioannis Theodossiou,Centre for European Labour Market Research, University of Aberdeen Business School, University of Aberdeen
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
Balkan Immigration to Greece Spatialities of Urbanism in Modern Greek Political Culture Theodore Lianos, Department of Economics, Athens University of Business and Economics
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
The Hellenic Plan for Reconstruction in the Balkans: A Challenge for Greek Foreign Policy Charalambos Tsardanidis, Institute of International Economic Relations, Greece
Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Institutions and the Implementation of EU Policy in Greece: The Case of Public Procurement
Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos, National Bank of Greece Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 5 December 2006
Gaining from Migration: The Cases of Albania and Bulgaria
Eugenia Markova, Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Winter Term
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Wage Differentials in Greece: Inter-industry Differentials, Gender Pay Gap, Low-wage Workers, Public and Private Sector Pay
Elias Ioakeimoglou, Economic Advisor at the Institute of Labour, Greece. Senior Research at the Cyprus Institute of Labour
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Subsidising European Industry: Is Greece an Exception?
Nikolaos Zahariadis, Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA; National Bank of Greece Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Adding Value to the Legacy: post-Olympic utilisation of the Athens 2004 venues
Christos Hajiemmanouil, President of the Hellenic Olympic Properties, Greece
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Olympic Airways: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Insights into the Governance Issues of Greek State-owned Enterprises
Professor Rigas Doganis, Former CEO of Olympic Airways, Rigas Doganis & Associates, UK
Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Social and Economic Aspects of Ageing and Social Protection
Platon Tinios, University of Piraeus, Greece
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Entrepreneurship in Greece
Takis Politis, Scientific Advisor of IOVE (Foundation of Economic and Industrial Research), Greece
Autumn Term
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
Euro-Turkish Relations and Cyprus
Andreas Theophanous, Research and Development Centre Director, Intercollege, Cyprus
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Col. Papadopoulos and the Seduction of the 'Mother of Parliaments'
Richard Clogg, Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
Tuesday, 8 November 2005
Complying with the EU? the politics of reforming Olympic Airways, 1994-2003
Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director, LSE
Tuesday, 22 November 2005
The Political Economy of the Regional Allocation of Public Investment in Greece, 1976-2004
Yiannis Psycharis, Assistant Professor, Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly
Tuesday, 29 November 2005
Structural Reforms in Greece: lessons from the Irish model for the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy
Eleni Louri, Athens University of Economics and Business; Office of the Greek Prime Minister
Tuesday, 6 December 2005
Poverty and Social Policy in Greece: economic modernisation, social cracks and the contradictions of corporatism
Elias Kikilias, National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), Greece
Winter Term
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Spatialities of Urbanism in Modern Greek Political Culture
Lila Leontidou, Dean School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University
Tuesday, 31 January 2006
Aspects of Crisis and Reform Interventions in Greek State Bureaucracy and AdministrationAntonis Makrydemetres, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens; Greek Prime Minister's Office
Tuesday, 7 March 2006
The Balkan Economic Migration to Greece
Antigoni Lyberaki, Department of Economic and Regional Development, Panteion Univeristy
Tuesday,14 March 2006
Education Reform in Greece
Thanos Veremis, National Education Council Director; Professor, Department of International and European Studies, University of Athens
Autumn Term
Tuesday,12 October 2004
In Denial? Why so many Greek Cypriots voted against the Annan Plan: the difficulties of reliable explanation
Peter Loizos, Anthropology Department, LSE
Tuesday, 26 October 2004
Welfare and Religion in Modern Europe (WREP): the Greek Case
Grace Davie and Effie Fokas, Centre for European Studies, University of Exeter
Tuesday, 9 November 2004
Geographical and Political Economy Perspectives on Regional Disparities in Greece
Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis, Lecturer in the Political Economy of Greece and Southeastern Europe, LSE
Tuesday, 30 November 2004
Historiography and Greek-Turkish Reconciliation: Is it Possible for Greeks and Turks to find a common historical narrative?
Bruce Clark, Religion Correspondent, The Economist
Tuesday, 7 December 2004
The Effects of Greek accession to the Euro on the Greek economy
Michael Arghyrou, Lecturer in Economics, Brunel University
Winter Term
Tuesday, 25 January 2005
Education and Inequality in Greece
Panos Tsakloglou, Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory
Tuesday, 8 February 2005
Culture and Entrepreneurship in Historical Perspective: Nineteenth Century Greek Merchant Communities
Sakis Gekas, Teaching Fellow, Economic History Department, LSE
Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Evaluating Greek Immigration Policies in the 1990sGerasimos Konidaris, Lecturer in International and Comparative Politics, University of Sheffield
Tuesday,1 March 2005
Corruption in International Law: the Case of Greece
Maria Gavouneli, Lecturer in International Law, University of Athens; Advisor to the Minister of Justice of the Hellenic Republic
Tuesday, 15 March 2005
The Pros and Cons of Greek Foreign Direct Investments
Lois Labrianidis, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Macedonia
Autumn Term
The Political Economy of Finance: Greece from Postwar to EMU
Speaker: George Pagoulatos, Assistant Professor, Department of International and European Economic Studies Athens University of Economics and Business
Date: 14 October 2003
Eurasian Gambles Over Cyprus's EU prospects
Speaker: Vassilis Fouskas, Editor of the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University. ~
Date: 28 October 2003
The Competitiveness of the Greek Economy in the Enlarged European Union
Speaker: Ross E Catterall, Director, Director, International Finance, Economics and Accounting Research Group, Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. Date: 4 November 2003
Were the eagle and the phoenix birds of a feather? The US and the Greek coup of 21st April 1967
Speaker: Louis Klarevas, Associate Professor of Political Science City University of New York and Associate of the Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Date: 18 November 2003
Rethinking belated modernization: Greek culture in transition.
Speaker: Dimitris Tziovas, Professor of Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Date: 25 November 2003
Greece and the Balkans: Quo Vadis?
Speaker: Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, Defence Analysis Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Date: 9 December 2003
Winter Term
EMU strategies: Lessons from Greece in view of the EU Enlargement (Graphs & Table)
Speaker: Theodoros Papaspyrou, Special Adviser, Bank of Greece
Date: 20 January 2004
Europe and the Balkans: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Speaker: Misha Glenny, Writer and Broadcaster. Date: 27 January 2004
The Greek System of Financial Regulation: In Need of Structural Streamlining and Procedural Safeguards
Speaker: Christos Hadjiemmanuil, Senior Lecturer in Law, LSE Date: 3 February 2004
Kosova's Independence - A Crisis for Greece?
Speaker: James Pettifer, Professor, Conflict Studies Research Centre, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.
Date: 24 February 2004
Assessing the Results of the 7 March 2004 Parliamentary Elections in Greece
Speakers: Spyros Economides, International Relations, LSE; Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory, European Institute, LSE; Christos Hadjiemmanuil, Dept of Law, LSE; Elias Mossialos, LSE Health and Social Care & Social Policy; Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, Defence Analyses Institute Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Date: 9 March 2004
Autumn Term
The Cyprus problem and the European Union - The role of the Cypriot Vouli
Speaker: Dr Stelios Stavridis, University of Reading and Honorary Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Date: Wednesday, 16 October 2002
Political Corruption: lessons from ancient Greece, medieval England and Mary Douglas
Speaker: Dr Peter Bratsis, CUNY and Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory
Date: Tuesday, 22 October 2002
A voiding a 'Cyprus of the Balkans': What Macedonia today should learn from the Cyprus of the 1960s
Speaker: Claude Nicolet, Specialist on Civil Society and Regional Security in the Balkans, Zurich
Date: Tuesday, 19 November 2002
Everything you ever wanted to know about national identity, but were afraid to ask the Greek-Americans
Speaker: Dr Peter Bratsis, CUNY and Research Fellow, The Hellenic Observatory
Date: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
The Changing Dilemmas of Greek Security
Speaker: Dr Spyros Economides, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Date: Wednesday, 4 December 2002
Unholy Alliance: Greece and Miloševic's Serbia
Speaker: Takis Michas, Eleftherotypia, Athens Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2002
Winter Term
Cyprus and the European Union: Before and After Copenhagen Speaker: Dr Thomas Diez, University of Birmingham
Date: Tuesday, 21 January 2003
FYR Macedonia's Economic Arrangements with International Institutions: Gains and Losses. The first in a series of the Balkan Reconstruction Network Seminars organised jointly by the Hellenic Observatory and the Centre for the Study of Global Governance Speaker: Silvana Mojsovska, Institute of Economics, University "Sts Cyril and Methodius"
Date: Tuesday, 28 January 2003
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Greece Speaker: Dr Yannis Stavrakakis, University of Nottingham
Date: Tuesday, 4 February 2003
Democratization and administrative reform in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: Is there a distinct ideal-type of South European bureaucracies? Speaker: Dr Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, Senior Research Officer, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2003
The Greek EU Presidency and the Convention on the Future of Europe
Speakers: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Director of the Hellenic Observatory, LSE; Dr Kirsty Hughes, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies Brussels & Associate Fellow, European Institute, LSE
Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2003
Issues on Greek Migration Trends and Policy Considerations
Speaker: Dr Gregory T. Papanikos, Secretary General, Economic and Social Committee of Greece (OKE) Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director, LSE
Date: Tuesday, 11 March 2003
The Modernisation Experiment: The Greek Socialists in Power 1996-2002
Speaker: Dr Dimitris Papadimitriou, Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director, LSE
Date: Tuesday, 18 March 2003
Spring Term
Formal Weakness and Informal Strength: Civil Society in Contemporary Greece
Speaker: Dr Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, Senior Research Officer, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Date: Tuesday 20 May 2003
Greece between Old and New Europe: Strategic Challenges in a Changing European and International Security Environment
Speaker: Dr Lou Klarevas, Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Date: Tuesday 27 May 2003
Michalemas Term
The State of the Balkans after the War in Kosovo Speakers: B. Clark, The Economist; V. Gligorov, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies; M. Kaldor, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE; J. Pettifer, University of Bath; S. Woodward, King's College, London January 2000
The Prospects for Democracy in South Eastern Europe
Speakers: Professor Nikiforos Diamandouros, National Ombudsman of Greece / University of Athens Discussant: Dr Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Law Department, LSE
February 2000
The Repercussions of the Elsinki European Council on the Greek-Turkish Relations, the Cyprus Accession to the European Union and the European Integration of Turkey [in Greek] Speakers: Spyros Economides, LSE; Andreas Hatzikyriakos, Mega Channel, Cyprus; Alkis Kourkoulas, Newspaper To Vima; Christos Stylianidis, Political Modernisation Movement, Cyprus March 2000 (co-organised with the Hellenic Centre)
Globalization, Europeanization and Changing Models of European Capitalism Speakers: Professor Vivien Schmidt, International Relations, Boston University, Discussant: Professor David Soskice, Visiting Professor, LSE
March 2000
The Balkans and the Markets Speaker: Andrew Kenningham, Senior Economist, Emerging Markets Research, Merrill Lynch
November 2000
Winter Term
The Federal Future of Europe Sperakers: Professor Dusan Sidjanski, University of Geneva; Professor PaulTaylor, LSE and Professor William Wallace, LSE Chair: Professor Loukas Tsoukalis
January 2001
Diaspora, Identity and Nation-Building Speaker: Professor Paschalis Kitromilides, University of Athens Discussant: Professor Fred Halliday, International Relations, LSE
January 2001
Politicising the Diaspora: Contested Identities among the Greek Cypriot Community in Britain Speaker: Dr Madeleine Dimitriou, PhD, University of Kent, Canterbury
11 January 2001
Learning through Participation; Greece and the IGCs
Speaker: Athina Markantoni, PhD, University of Kent, Canterbury
25 January 2001
Local Government Corruption and Scandals in Greece
Speaker: Dimitris Christopoulos, Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England 8 February 2001
Projections of the 'Nation' and 'Other' in Greek and Turkish History Textbooks
Speaker: Dr Yasemin Soysal & Ms Vasilia Antoniou, University of Essex
February 2001
In search of an Advocacy Coalition: Making the Greek Pension System fit the Eurozone
Speaker: Dr Dimitris Papadimitriou, Lecturer, University of Bradford
22 February 2001
Human Rights and the EU's Foreign Policy
Speaker:Ruby Gropas, PhD, University of Cambridge
8 March 2001
Rationality without Vision: The Amsterdam Treaty and its Critics.
Speaker: Dimitris Chryssochoou, Reader, University of Exeter
Discussant: Simon Hix, LSE
The Road towards EMU: Greece's Experience in the 1990s
Speakers: Yannis Stournaras, then Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Ministry of National Economy & Dr Miranda Xafa, Consultant, Salomon Brothers
The Transformation of the Greek Economy
Speaker: Nicos Christodoulakis, then Deputy Minister of Finance, Greece
Annual Research Seminar
Old Wines in New Bottles? The Macedonian Question(s)
Speaker: Dr D. Livanios, University of Cambridge
Inflation and Stabilisation in Early Post-War Greece
Speaker: Dr A. Lykogiannis, LSE
Flexible Labour Markets, Unemployment and Trade Union Decline in Greece
Speaker: Dr S. Seferiades, University of Cambridge
An Impossible Country: The Failure of the Dayton Process to Reintegrate Bosnia-Herzegovina
Speaker: Dr S. Bose, LSE
The Search for Regionalism in the Balkans
Speaker: D. Papahadjopoulos, LSE