Past Events

2000-2001

October 23rd , 2000
GREECE AND THE OLYMPICS OF 2004
A discussion over lunch between Theodoros Pangalos, Minister of Culture of Greece and Columbia University faculty and administration

 

December 5th and 8th , 2000
TURKISH-GREEK RELATIONS AND THE PROBLEM OF CYPRUS DE-BALKANIZING THE BALKANS THE CURRENT STATE OF GRECO-TURKISH RELATIONS: THE VIEW FROM ATHENS
A series of three lectures by Theodore A. Couloumbis, Director General, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy

 

December 1st-3rd , 2000  
CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS: RETHINKING AUTONOMY
An international conference on the impact of Castoriadis's legacy
Hosted by Maison Francaise, Columbia University and sponsored by The Program in Hellenic Studies, Dept. of Classics and The Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, The Sterling Currier Fund, The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and The Foundation for Hellenic Culture.

 

February 1st , 2001
DISSENTING JOURNALISM: GREECE, THE CIA AND THE USA
A panel discussion to celebrate Anti's three decades in journalism, featuring Victor Navasky, Professor of Magazine Journalism, Columbia University, Christopher Hitchens, Columnist, Vanity Fair and The Nation, Frances Stonor Saunders, Arts Editor of The New Statesman, Warren Hinckle, Managing Editor, The San Francisco Examiner and Manos Stephanidis, Art critic and Columnist, Anti magazine.
Organized in collaboration with the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia
University

 

March 8th , 2000

SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM: ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FOR OUR TIMES
Thirty-third Bampton lecture, Columbia University, given by Archbishop Demetrios

 

March 22nd , 2001

ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE ACCURSED SNAKE
A Karaghiozis Performance by Aris Diakovasilis, followed by discussion with the audience on the art of the shadow puppet theater

 

April 27th , 2001

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BALKANS: THE ROLE OF GREECE IN ACHIEVING PEACE
A lecture by Dimitris Platis, Consul General of Greece
Organized in collaboration with: The Harriman Institute, SIPA, the Center for Historical and Social Science and the East-Central European Center of Columbia University

 

April 30th , 2001
THE WEAVER AND THE WEB: FABRICATING AN ALTERNATIVE MUSEUM
A presentation-performance of work-in-progress by Marina Kotzamani, Assistant Professor, Classics Department, a Columbia University team of students and the artists Alex Melamid, Anna Lascari, Nikos Alexiou and Eleni Sikelianos