Fulbright Greece Celebrates its 70th Anniversary!

Fulbright Greece Celebrates its 70th Anniversary!

Logo designed by Zoe Keramea, Fulbright Αrtist on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary Logo Competition of the Fulbright Program.

Fulbright Greece is celebrating 70 years of educational and cultural exchanges between Greece and the United States! Help us celebrate the power of education. The strength of a global community. The value of mutual understanding.

Fulbright Greece in collaboration with other institutions plans a series of events to celebrate its history and its mission. Check out below details of upcoming lectures, conferences and educational activities or visit Fulbright at Facebook and YouTube for regular updates.

Join Fulbright Greece at 70 and celebrate with us our incredible journey.

FULBRIGHT LECTURE SERIES
at the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Cotsen Hall

November 15, 2017 - 7.00 p.m.
Education and Development
Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras in conversation with Evangelia Kouneli, School Advisor for Primary Education, Ph.D in Educational Studies, and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, Associate Professor of Political Science, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (in Greek with simultaneous translation)

November 30, 2017 - 7.00 p.m.
The Best Way to Send Knowledge is to Wrap it up in a Person: 70 Years Fulbright Greece and its Relationship with the American School of Classical Studies (ASCSA)
Fulbright Alumna Dr. Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan & Doreen C. Spitzer ASCSA archivist /
Annual Archives Lecture co-organized with the Fulbright Foundation in Greece.

HELAAS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
at the Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center, Thessaloniki

December 15-17, 2017
The Politics of Space and the Humanities
The Department of American Literature of the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in collaboration with the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS) and with the support of the Fulbright Foundation Greece (70th anniversary of American Studies in Greece) present an international conference on "The Politics of Space and the Humanities”.

The conference keynote speakers are:

· Michael Joyce, Vassar College, U.S.A.

· Yiorgos Kalogeras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

· Savas Patsalidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

· Linda Peake, York University, Canada

The conference has attracted a large number of scholars and Fulbright alumni from Greece and abroad. The conference will launch the events of the 70th Anniversary of the Fulbright Foundation with special attention to its contribution to the development of American Studies in Greece.

The diverse topics to be presented at our conference fall under three large research areas: American Studies, Anglophone/Postcolonial Studies, and issues of global concern.

Members of the organizing committee: Tatiani Rapatzikou (Assoc. Professor AUTh); Zoe Detsi (Assoc. Professor AUTh); Effie Yiannopoulou (Assistant Professor AUTh)

EDUCATIONAL FORUM / FULBRIGHT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS OF ATHENS
at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

April 26-27, 2018
Redesigning Educational Systems: From Theory to Praxis
Organized by the Fulbright Foundation in collaboration with the American Community Schools of Athens (program to be announced).

FULBRIGHT EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

The Fulbright Foundation in Greece is engaging with its alumni community through partnerships with local TEDx events and, next March, with the Panorama of Entrepreneurship and Career Development. Fulbright Alumna and renowned poet and translator, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, talked on the main stage of TEDxAthens about her poetry. Also present was Marianthi Liapi, Fulbright Alumna, who talked about the Educational Pla(y)ces Group at the Transformable Intelligent Environments Laboratory (TUC TIE Lab). The Laboratory engages architects with teachers and their students through creative, hands-on learning activities that have a dynamic, positive spatial imprint. Dr. Theoklis Zaoutis, current U.S. Fulbright Visiting Scholar to Greece, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, Director of the Graduate Clinical Epidemiology Program at Pennsylvania University (UPENN) and Chief of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Philadelphia Pediatric Hospital (CHOP), talked on the TEDxPatras stage about the Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance.

FULBRIGHT 100 MENTORS PLATFORM FOR GRANTEES AND ALUMNI

The Foundation has created a platform on the 100 mentors site, co-founded by Fulbright Alumnus, Yiorgos Nikoletakis, as a global educational alumni network. Fulbright Greece grantees and alumni are invited to sign up to the Fulbright Foundation Greece platform and to create a professional profile so that grantees can meet alumni and benefit from their experiences in order to prepare for their own U.S. stay. It also allows grantees and alumni to seek out each other for information about U.S. institutions, for contacts when traveling, and for potential collaborations. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, you can contact Els Siakos Hanappe at for an invitation.

FULBRIGHT GREECE ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY
at the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Cotsen Hall

June 13, 2018
Join Fulbright Greece at 70 and celebrate with us our incredible journey.

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