1. Biographical Notes
2. Abstracts
3. List of Contributors
2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "HELLENISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY"
MELBOURNE, 1-3 AUGUST 1997
Contributors
Professor Michel Bruneau
Michel Bruneau is Director of Research in the Centre of Scientific Research (France) based in the University of Bordeaux (TIDE). He is a geographer, has published books on the geography of Southeast Asia, and recently on the "Diasporas", RECLUS 1995, Paris.
He is in charge, with George Prevelakis, of an international research program on "the Greek Pontic diaspora" with the University of Thessaloniki, Paris-Sorbonne, Russian Academy of Science (Institute of Geography, Moscow).
He is preparing a book to be published in 1997 on "The Territories of the Pontic Greek Diaspora" from the proceedings of an international symposium that he has organised in the Ecole Francaise d'Athenes (28-31 March 1995).
Dr Michael Christakis
Michael Christakis was born in 1962 at Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens, where he was awarded a First Honours Degree in Political Sciences and Public Administration. He was also awarded a Master of Arts in European Studies from the University of Reading, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of KENT at Canterbury, England.
He is advisor for International Relations in the Foundation for Mediterranean Studies, Lecturer in the National School of Public Administration and Lecturer in the Junior Officers School of the Hellenic Air Force.
His research activities and specialization are in the field of European Union Affairs (Political Integration, Small Member States of the EU, Greece and the EU), in the field of Defence (Common Foreign and Security Policy, NATO, WEU) and in the relations among Balkan States. He has also an extensive experience as editor or co-editor of journals in the field of International Relations.
Michael Christakis has a number of publications on Greece and European Union, on Turkey and her Neighbouring Countries, and on the Hellenic Diaspora, including "Institutional and Governmental Adaptation to European Integration, The Case of Greece", "Intergovernmental Conference 1996: The Greek Positions", "Turkish Relations with the Former Soviet Republics of the Caucase", "Institutional Context and Networks for Better Coordinating the Activities of the Greek Diaspora", "Turkey - Middle East, The Dilemmas of Ankara in an New Environment", "Intergovernmental Conference 1996: The Negotiating Positions of Greece".
Dr Stephanos Constantinides
Stephanos Constantinides was born in Cyprus. He received his BA degree from the University of Athens and his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Paris University-Sorbonne. He teaches political science at the Université du Quebec a Montréal.
He is the author of several books and articles on ethnic relations. He also completed research on Cyprus, Greece and the Balkans in various fields and has published widely in academic journals and collective works. His latest book, published in 1995, was on the social structures of the Cypriot society and their influence on the Cyprus question. He is now engaged in research on the Balkans, Turkey and Greek-Turkish relations. Dr Constantinides is the editor of the academic journal Etudes Helleniques / Hellenic Studies and also the director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research (Canada).
Professor Van Coufoudakis
Van Coufoudakis holds the rank of Professor of Political Science and is the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. He is the author of one book, the editor of another, and the author of some 68 articles that have appeared in professional journals and books in the U.S., Canada, Belgium, England, Italy, Greece and Cyprus.
His research and teaching interests focus on post-W.W.II American foreign and defense policy in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, and on the foreign and defense policies of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He has also written on the political role of the Greek-American community. Dr Coufoudakis has also lectured in major universities and research centres in the U.S., Canada, England, Italy, Greece and Cyprus and is President of the Modern Greek Studies Association in the United States.
Mr Vasilis Damaskinos
Vasilis Damaskinos was born in 1952 in Kyrenia, Cyprus. He graduated from the Kyrenia Gymnasium and completed two specialized courses at the Military Academy. He studied Architectural and Perceptual Design in Johannesburg and Engineering in London. He has worked as a Senior Design Engineer for a number of key projects in Cyprus, including Dhekelia "B" Power Station (Larnaca), Evretou Dam (Paphos), Diversion Weirs on the rivers Zygos & Kryos, Southern Conveyor Project.
He is a founding member of the Cyprus Engineers Association and served on its first Central Board. He is currently a member of a number of professional institutions in Cyprus and abroad, including the Technical Chamber of Cyprus (ETEK), and has also served on its Study Committee. He is a consultant on engineering matters for five Insurance Companies, including Lloyds of London & Royal International. He has been appointed by the Government on the Education Committee of the Kyrenia District for a five year term.
He served as a member of the Central Committee of the Cyprus Research Centre (KY.KE.M.) and as General Secretary until 1997. He was a member of the organising team for the 1st International Conference on Hellenism held in Nicosia in November 1995. He has organised the Conference "The Information Society in the Eastern Mediterranean Countries" in Nicosia in June 1996.
He has published reports and articles in the local and international press, literary magazines and the ETEK journal. His research interests focus on Hellenism and Hellenic culture. He is currently the Secretary General of the "epsilon" Centre for the Study of Hellenism.
Mr Demetri Dollis, MP
Demetri Dollis is a Victorian Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Planning. He obtained his BA from Monash University in 1985, an MA Prelim. from Melbourne University and is currently working on his PhD thesis at Melbourne University. He has been involved in local, State and Federal politics since the late 1970's, including: Ministerial Advisor to the State Minister for Ethnic Affairs (1982-88); and to the Federal Minister for Social Security (1988); Federal Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs (1987-88). He was elected to State Parliament in the seat of Richmond in 1988, a seat he continues to hold to date. He was Leader of the Opposition in Victoria (until 1996).
Mr Dollis has served on a number of committees and chaired the Steering Committee, Review of Language Services in Victoria (1986); Advisor, Committee to Advise on Australia's Immigration Policies (1987); the Committee to Advise the Attorney General on Racial Vilification (1990-92); the Ministerial Committee on National Language Services (1991).
He has published a number of papers on local and international issues and on taxation reform.
Ms Demetra Egan
Demetra Egan was born in Greece and studied in Australia at Deakin University (Interpreting/Translating) and at the University of Melbourne (Post Graduate Studies in Modern Greek Language and Culture). She is a lecturer in Interpreting and Translating at Deakin University and the University of Melbourne. She also teaches Modern Greek Language at Swinburne University for the Hellenic Centre of Education. She is a founding member of the Hellenic Studies Forum and was General Secretary from 1989-1996. She was elected Chairperson (1996-). She is Executive Officer of the Language Australia Centre for Research and Development in Interpreting and Translating, Deakin University. She has been a member of the Panel of Examiners for Modern Greek of the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) since 1993.
She has co-organised the first International Conference on Greeks in English Speaking Countries, (Melbourne 1992) and the Pre and Post-Conference Program of the Global Cultural Diversity International Conference in Australia (1995) for the Australian Multicultural Foundation. She is the Conference Convenor of the 2nd International Conference of Research Institutes of Hellenism "Hellenism in the 21st Century" in Australia (1997).
Her research interests focus on Modern Greek language and the Hellenic Diaspora. More recent studies (some also delivered as conference papers) include: "Translation as a means of providing access to Greek-Australian literature" (1993/94), "Hellenism in the Australian Multicultural context" (1994), "The Modern Greek Language in Multicultural Australia" (1995), "The use of Modern Greek by second generation Greeks in Australia" (1995), "Contributions of Greek Migrant Women to Post World War II Australian Economy: The case of the Greek Brides of Australia" (1996). She is a member of a number of Australia and Greek-Australian professional Associations.
Professor Marios L. Evryviades
Marios Evryviades is a Professor in International Relations at Athens University of Economics and Business. In the years 1989-93 he was an adviser to, and the speech writer for, the President of Cyprus. From 1980-1989 he served in the Embassy of Cyprus in Washington DC as a Press Counsellor. He has been a Research Associate in the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University (1979-1980) as well as in the Centre for Policy Alternatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978-1980).
Marios Evryviades holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of the University of Tafts and has also completed his M.A. and M.A.L.D. at the same University. He has a Bachelor's degree in Political Sciences and History from the University of New Hampshire.
Marios Evryviades has been the editor of the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora (USA), 1988-1993, and of Cosmos Newsletter (Institute of International Relations, Panteion University). He has also been the co-editor, with P.M. Kitromilides, of Cyprus, Rev. Edit., (Oxford: Clio Press, 1995), as well as the co-editor, with B. Bourantonis, of A United Nations for the 21st Century (The Hague: Kluwer Publishers, 1998). Since 1993, he has been the Head of Documentation, Institute of International Relations.
His articles focus on international politics and have been published in journals such as, Current History, American Journal of International Law, Texas International Law Journal, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Paradigms, International Peacekeeping, Mediterranean Quarterly, Contemporary Security Policy as well as in collective works abroad and in Greece.
Mr Christos N. Fifis
Christos Fifis has been a Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek at La Trobe University since 1987. From 1975 to 1981 he was lecturer in Modern Greek at RMIT (Interpreters and Translators' Course) and from 1982 to 1986 lecturer in Modern Greek at Victoria College (Interpreters and Translators' Course).
From 1978-1994 he served as a member of the Panel of Examiners for Modern Greek of the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) and from 1984 to 1991 as the Chairperson of the Panel.
Other activities include President of the Melbourne Greek Students and Graduates Association (1973-74), co-editorship of the Melbourne bi-lingual periodical Antipodes (1988-89), Vice President and Acting President of the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ) (1990-92) and Secretary of the same Association (1994-96).
He has edited the poems of the Greek-Australian poet Nikos Ninolakis (1986) and has published articles on George Seferis, Yannis Ritsos, Zoe Karelli, Dimitris Tsaloumas, George T. Vafopoulos, Thanasis Papathanasopoulos, Greek-Australian literature, education and Greek-Australian community issues.
Associate Professor Stathis Gauntlett
Stathis Gauntlett was born and raised in (Old) South Wales. He read modern languages at Oxford as an undergraduate and also completed a doctorate there on the poetics of Rebetika (Greek Blues).
Appointed to the foundation lectureship in Modern Greek at the University of Melbourne in 1973; currently Associate Professor in Modern Greek and Head of the Department of Language Studies.
Main research interest: the oral traditions of Modern Greece and the Greek diaspora.
President of the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand.
Mr Petro Georgiou ?P
Mr Petro Georgiou is the Federal Member for Kooyong. He was born in 1947 and educated at Melbourne Boys High School, graduating with first class Honours in Political Science from the University of Melbourne.
From 1970 to 1973 he was a Senior Tutor in Politics at La Trobe University, while he completed his postgraduate work at the University of Melbourne. From 1975 to 1979 he was a Senior Adviser to the then Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Malcolm Fraser. In 1979 he was appointed Secretary of the Ethnic Television Review Panel and from 1980 to 1985 he was the Director of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs. In 1985 he returned to politics and worked as a Senior Adviser to Mr Andrew Peacock, who was then Leader of the Federal Opposition. From 1985 to 1989 he was Director of the Liberal Party's Policy Unit, and from 1989 to 1994 he was the State Director of the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division).
Mr Georgiou was first elected to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1994. He currently serves on the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade; Joint Committee of Public Accounts and on the Ministerial Committee on Government Communications.
Mr Nikos S. Koutsou
Nikos Koutsou was born in Pigi, Famagusta, Cyprus, in 1946. He completed his secondary education at the Famagusta Greek Gymnasium in 1966 and served in the National Guard from 1966-1967. He studied Law, Economics and Political Science at the University of Athens and Public Administration at Pantion University. He was elected Secretary and President of the Cyprus Research Centre (KY.KE.M.) between 1983-1996.
He is co-editor of various publications, and has published various articles mainly on the Cyprus problem.
As from February 1996 he is the President of the newly established political party New Horizons.
Mr Stavros J. Lambrinidis
Stavros Lambrinidis was born in Athens, Greece, on 6/2/1962. He has lived and worked in the United States for over 12 years. In addition to his native tongue he is fluent in English and has a working knowledge of French.
He is a 1980 graduate of Athens College High School in Athens, Greece. He attended the University ?f Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) between 1980-81. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude) in Economics and Political Science/Psychology from Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts) in 1984. In 1988 he received his Juris Doctor Degree from Yale Law School (New Haven, Connecticut).
Stavros Lambrinidis is an Attorney specializing in International Trade, Transactions, and Arbitration. He practiced law in Washington D.C. from 1988 to 1993. In 1994 he was Special Counsel to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs George Papandreou. His areas of responsibility included International legal matters, Greek-American Relations, and Greeks Abroad. From August 1994 to January 1996 he was Special Advisor to Minister of Education and Religious Affairs George Papandreou. Between January and October 1996 he served as Chief of Staff to Minister of Foreign Affairs Theodore Pangalos. He was appointed Secretary General for Hellenes Abroad in October 1996.
His professional activities in Greece include: Head of the Government Advisory Committee, Member of the Legal Team of the Hellenic Republic in the European Court, Member of the Coordinating Committee between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence, President of the D.C. Bar Association's Human Rights Committee.
His publications include: "It's About More Than Rocks", The Wall Street Journal (1996); "? ????da ??t?d?sf?µe?ta?", To Vima (1990); Exon-Florio Establishes New Test for U.S. Acquisitions by Foreign Interests, 1 Wash. Reg. Rep. 25 (with Cassidy) and CFIUS Comes of Age: Proposed Regulations and Developing Common Law, 1 Wash. Reg. Rep 64.
Mr Costas Nicolaides
Costas Nicolaides was born in Limassol in 1952. He graduated from the Kykkos Pancyprian Gymnasium in 1970 and during 1971-1972 served in the National Guard with the rank of officer. He is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Athens and has a diploma in Journalism and has attended post graduate seminars in Social Science and European Integration. He works in the Customs Department of the Ministry of Finance and has been a member of the First Committee formed for the study of the Implementation of Value Added Tax (V.A.T.) in Cyprus, a member of the team for the Development of V.A.T., and a member of the Three Member Committee which drafted the V.A.T. legislation.
He has been the lecturer of many educational seminars which have been organised by professional bodies and has published a number of articles in newspapers on subjects concerning V.A.T. and has been trained for this in the U.K., Greece, Italy and Denmark. He is the author of the books "V.A.T. on imports and exports of goods" and "The legal framework of Customs Value".
He has been a member of the Central Committee of KY.KE.M (The Cyprus Research Center) since 1984 and today is it's President. He was the President of the organizational committee for the First Worldwide Conference of the Co-Ordinating Committee of Research Institutes of Hellenism which took place in Nicosia in November 1995. He is a board member of the "Movement for Europe".
Mr Grigoris Niotis
Grigoris Niotis is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Athens. He is a Member of Parliament and President of the Standing Parliamentary Committee for Greeks Abroad. He was Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Responsible for Greeks Abroad (1994-96). He was first elected in Parliament and in the seat of Piraeus (B') in 1989 which he still holds.
He has received awards and distinctions in Greece and internationally and a special award (1995) by the Italian government for his efforts as Minister of Foreign Affairs to strengthen Greek-Italian friendship. His distinctions also include: Honorary Distinction by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, awarded to him personally by the Patriarch Mr Vartholomeos, for his services to the ecumenical orthodoxy (1995); Honorary Distinction by the President of the Democracy of Georgia (1994); Honorary Distinction by the Armenian Patriarchate, delivered to him by the Patriarch Mr Elias B' (1994); Special Distinction by the Governor of California of the USA for his contribution to the strengthening the Greek-American relations (1988) and a special Honorary Distinction by the Executive of the Council for Greeks Abroad for being instrumental in the process of organising Greeks Abroad.
As a Deputy Minister Responsible for Greeks Abroad he was the major initiator, inspirator and organiser of the first Founding Congress of the Council of Greeks Abroad (SAE) which led to the organisation of Greeks globally. This Congress took place in Thessaloniki between 29 November to 8 December 1995. He proposed and succeeded to have Thessaloniki approved as the Centre for all activity concerning Greeks of the Diaspora, and undertook initiatives to develop relations between institutions of Thessaloniki with Greeks Abroad.
As Deputy Minister he initiated the process of the inclusion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs into the Internet and for the promotion of the Greek positions abroad.
He organised the "Register of Hellenism" which is a comprehensive record of data about Greeks abroad. He created a special network between specialists from Greece and Abroad and managed to have a significant amount of information and data collected within a relatively short period of time.
He promoted the creation of a strong network of Greek federations of the diaspora, not only amongst themselves but with Greece as well.
He has participated in many conferences and has given many lectures on issues concerning the Greek Diaspora, such as: "The role of the scientific and research centres of Hellenism in the process of the organisation of Greeks Abroad", "The need to coordinate the Modern Greek language Chairs", "Hellenism in Cyberspace", "The contribution of the Hellenic Diaspora in promoting Greece as an international Intellectual Centre", "Educational networks of Hellenism", "Greece facing a new refugee problem" and "The Hellenic Diaspora as a factor of reinforcement of bipartisan relations".
Mr George Papadopoulos
George Papadopoulos is currently President of the Hellenic Studies Forum. He had formerly been, inter alia, Chairman and Chief Administrator of the Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Ethnic Affairs Portfolio, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at RMIT University.
At present he is Head of the Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure at RMIT University and also Chairman of Multicultural Arts Victoria.
Mr Photos Photiades
Photos Photiades was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. His family comes from Lapithos in the Kyrenia district, currently under Turkish occupation.
A graduate of the Pancyprian Gymnasium, he studied, on scholarship, at the School of Drama of the Greek National Theatre, where he received his Actor's Diploma. He has worked in this capacity both in Cyprus and Greece for about six years. He then completed a post-graduate course in Direction, again on scholarship, in Britain, where the British Council organised for him a program of attachments with all the great theatrical companies in Britain, such as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Nottingham Playhouse and others.
As Secretary of the International Theatre Institute he traveled to various countries, i.e. Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, South Korea, Hungary, the Netherlands and France and has participated in international conferences related to theatre.
He has worked as an actor and director in Cyprus, Greece, Britain, Canada and the U.S.A. in a wide range of roles and plays from Ancient Greek to modern Greek and international theatre.
His acting roles include: Nasraddin Hadja (by Soloviof), Trigorin ("The Seagull"), Coryphaeus ("Agamemnon"), The Knight ("Locantiera"), Alexis Zorba, Diary of a Madman (by Gogol), Ulysses ("Ulysses come back"), Creon ("Antigone" by Brecht), Abraham ("The Sacrifice"), Dhigenis, Apollo ("Oresteia"), Dionysus ("Bacchae") and others.
Photos Photiades has directed "The Island" and "Sutzui Pantzi is Dead" by Athol Fugart; "Gynaecocracy" by Byzantios, "The Judges" by Menander, "Medea" by Euripides, in Canada, "The Ring of the Mother" at the Greek National Opera in Athens, "The Circle of Passions" by K.E. Anagnostou, "The Legend of Dhigenis" (First Prize at Ithaca Theatre Festival, 1982), "Ecclesiazousae" and "Thesmophoriazousae" by Aristophanes, "Alexis Zorba" by Kazantzakis, "The Sacrifice of Abraham", "Famagusta Reigning" by K. Charalambides, "The Last Moon" by A. Koukkides, "Richard the Lionheart in Cyprus" by A. Pavlides, "Commedia" by Skourtis, "Katerina Kornaro" by Petsillides, etc. In Britain he has directed "Choeforoe", "Oedipus at Colonae", "Medea", etc.
Photos Photiades has also organised and conducted theatre workshops with teachers and students of drama, theatre directors and the public in Greece, Cyprus, England, Wales, Canada, USA, Sweden, and other countries on topics relating to Classical Greek Drama. He is also a Visiting Professor of Theatre at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Wales. In 1995/96 he was invited to the USA (New York, San Francisco, Sacramento, Berkeley, Oregon, Washington State) and to Sweden (Stockholm, Goteborg), where he gave one-man performances under the title "Man and Gods" with scenes from the Ancient Greek Drama in the original language.
He has also directed extracts from Faust and played the roles of Faust and Mephistopheles, under the title "Encounter with Faust", at the "Goethe Institute" in Nicosia. He is internationally known for his one-man performances on Ancient Greek theatre in the original language.
Ms Zena Poulli
Zena Poulli was born in Cyprus in 1952. She followed her graduated studies at the University of Manchester, and obtained a B.Sc. in Physics in 1972 after obtaining a British Council scholarship. She further followed a course on Computer Technology in the U.K. after a Commonwealth scholarship. Finally, she obtained a Master of Science from Cyprus University in 1996.
She is now a Physicist in Secondary Education. She has been a member of the team that wrote the books on Computer Awareness in Secondary Schools that are used in all schools in Cyprus. Additionally, she wrote a book on Databases.
She has been elected in the Cyprus Teachers Union Association twice. She has been in the Central Committee of KY.KE.M. from 1990 until today. She was in the organising committee of the first SAE in 1995 in Cyprus. She later took part in the SAE in Thessaloniki in 1996. She has represented KY.KE.M. in various seminars. She is currently doing a Research Project on Science and Technology in Education in the U.S.
Dr Spyridon Sfetas
Spyridon Sfetas was born in 1960 in Kilada-Larissis. He studied Greek Philology and History at the University of Thessaloniki from 1978-1983. From 1985 to 1990 he completed post-graduate studies on History of the Balkans and Slavic Philology at the University of Munich. In 1991 he obained PhD with a thesis on the Macedonian Issue. Since 1993 he has been working as a research fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies. He has written monographs and articles relating to subjects of Balkan History (late 19th - 20th century).
Mr Kostas Stavropoulos
Kostas Stavropoulos graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens and has studied at the New York University (M.A.) in International Law and Economics, and at the Heidelberg University where he completed his thesis (Ph.D.) on International Law and Human Rights.
He has been a Special Advisor on Greeks Abroad and Institutional Networks at the Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs and he continues to be a Research Fellow and an advisor at the Greek Centre for European Studies at the Foundation of Hellenic Culture.
He is the author of many studies and articles published in international scientific journals, in newspapers and other publications. He has participated and has represented the Greek Government in international committees, organizations, seminars, symposia and conferences and is a member of international committees of Greece for the European Union.
He has taught on European law in professional associations and the National Centre of Public Administration, and is also a visiting Fellow at the University "Macedonia".
Professor Anastasios Tamis
Anastasios Tamis is Professor and Researcher at La Trobe University of Melbourne, where he teaches socio-linguistics and the History of Greek Migration. He is also the Director of the Dardalis Archives of the Greek Diaspora at La Trobe University. He is the author of eight monographs and scores of articles in European, American and Australian journals. His book "The Immigration and Settlement of Macedonian Greeks in Australia" has received the first prize of the Academy of Athens.
Professor Oliver Taplin
Oliver Taplin has been a Tutorial Fellow of Magdalen College of Oxford since 1973 and was made a University Reader in 1993 and a Professor in 1996. While teaching a wide range of Greek and Latin Literature, he has been particularly interested in Epic Poetry and in Drama, and in following through their influence and reception in later ages. He has given lectures in many countries throughout the world, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.
His books include The Stagecraft of Aeschylus, Greek Tragedy in Action, Homeric Soundings, and Comic Angels. He has always been interested in reaching a wider audience through radio and television, for example in the series Greek Fire (Channel 4) and An Odyssey Round Odysseus (BBC Radio 4). He has also collaborated with modern productions of Greek drama, including The Oresteia directed by Peter Hall at the National Theatre. An interest in the power of performances, both in ancient and modern times, remains at the core of his interests.
Ms Thalia Tassou
Thalia Tassou was born in Cyprus. She studied Sociology (M.A.), Education (M.A.) and French Literature (M.A.) at Paris University-Sorbonne. She also received a degree in law (LL.B.) from the Universite du Quebec in Montreal, Canada.
Thalia Tassou is a lawyer practicing in Montreal, Quebec Canada.
Dr Constantinos Vgenopoulos
Constantinos Vgenopoulos was born in Patras, Greece. He is a graduate of Law and Political and Economic Sciences (University of Athens), he has a Master of Arts in Development Economics (University of Sussex) and a Doctor in Economic Sciences (Lyon University). He holds certificates of "Stage" in Development Finance (Institut National des Sciences Appliquees - Lyon) and Quantitative Methods in Construction Management (Hellenic Society of Operational Research, Athens).
He is currently a National Representative to OECD's SOPEMI, Paris (1995-) and President and General Director (1997-) of the Hellenic Centre for European Studies. He is a member of Amnesty International - Greek branch, the Hellenic Society of Demographic Studies, the Centre of Studies and Self Education (Vice-President, 1990), the European Association of Development Institutes (Geneva) and Co-Convenor of the Refugees Working Group, a member of the Bar Association of Athens and the Hellenic Economic Chamber.
He has been a Research Assistant at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, England (1969-71), an Assistant Program Organiser (Economics) BBC - South European Service London (1971-76), a Professor of Economics - Piraeus Institute of Technology (1977-81), a Professor of Economics - Technical and Vocational Teacher Training Institute (Athens 1981-83), an Advisor to the National Bank of Greece (1978-), he is Chairman of the National Investment Co. S.A. (1994-) and Visiting Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (1996-).
ABSTRACTS
Mapping Hellenism and Hellenic Diaspora
at Different Scales of Space and Time
Michel Bruneau
The global distribution of Greek communities is, of course, very uneven, but the Greek diaspora exists in every continent except in Eastern Asia. In my paper I shall present different scales: Asia Minor, Caucasus and USSR, United States, France, the Mediterranean basin. Special emphasis will be given to the different cartographic methodologies portraying Hellenism and Greek diaspora in several countries, regions, and at different periods. I will also present graphic models which represent one particular characteristic or dimension of Hellenism and/or its dynamics. The geographic approach of the networks of Hellenism is of interest in an era of globalization, and may have some consequences for its future. The interpretation is based on diachronic series of maps and models.
Greece and the European Union:
The Greek Approach to the Intergovernmental Conference
Michalis G. Christakis
Greece is a member state of the European Union and at the same time, a geographic part of the Balkans and the Mediterranean. These two are mainly the areas where Greece can play a major political and economic role. Its ultimate goal as a country is to integrate the Balkan countries into the European institutions, and to enhance significantly the co-operation of the E.U. with the Mediterranean countries.
On the eve of the 21st century, the European Union (E.U.) is confronted with acute challenges, demands and controversies caused by the sweeping changes that Europe has witnessed, especially since 1989. The Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty), in force since 1993, was a major step forward in the construction of the European edifice.
Nevertheless, the content of the Maastricht Treaty along with its form, foundations and orientations has been put under heavy criticism. The Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) was inaugurated in 1996 in order to find all the necessary remedies to the problems created. Still, it is taking place in a climate of intense social pressures which stem from the citizens' lack of trust vis-?-vis the complex European edifice, and the evident inability of the European Union to intervene effectively for the preservation of peace and the establishment of a stable system of security and co-operation in today's Europe.
Greece's aim regarding the IGC is to be able to play a significant role in this exercise and contribute in its own way in constructing the future of Europe. However, the Greek government would like a better conduct of its partners and allies regarding its interests especially on the problems facing in its external relations. To this extent, Greece would expect more understanding and support to its positions by the European Union.
The Greek government, as other member states, has not been in the position to find the perfect answers to all the questions by the IGC. It knows, however, which direction to follow. A new type of federal organisation of the European Union is an attractive option for the country. The answer, for Greece, to the challenges and crisis confronting the E.U. can be summed up in the promotion of Political Union. This is attractive not only for reasons of philosophical preference, but also for reasons associated with the country's geography and its position within the Union.
While supporting the federalist approach, the Greek government will not overlook and ignore the particular conditions of each member state, which are liberally called "particularities". In the case of Greece, this term has been overly used, something that automatically stirs up reaction. Nevertheless, the Greek "particularities" do exist.
Still, the main intention of Greece is to promote the concept that the 1996 revision should and could achieve a better balance of rights and obligations for all member states. Greece has finalised the positions which will advocate during the IGC most of which are summarised below.
The role of the European Parliament must be strengthened, so the process of codeciding has to be simplified and expanded further. The European Parliament must also have a greater say in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (C.F.S.P.) and in the Co-operation on Justice and Home Affairs. The Parliament should also have greater control over the work of the Commission and should participate more actively in the appointment of the latter's members.
Having realised these measures, the Commission will enjoy a strengthened status, due to the fact that its appointment will legitimise its power, enabling its members to undertake a more active role, not only in the E.U. matters, but also in the CFSP as well as in the Co-operation on Justice and Home Affairs. The Commission should also ensure the National Parliaments' constant awareness of political and economic developments in Europe.
Furthermore, the field competence of the E.U. should be expanded. Culture, education, consumer protection, transport, tourism, energy et alia, are sectors that should be given more attention.
The protection of the territorial integrity of the European Union is an issue to which more attention should also be given through the building of the appropriate mechanisms for safeguarding and preserving peace. These mechanisms should be included in the objectives of the Common Foreign Policy. Furthermore, the Western European Union should be incorporated into the framework of the Common Defence Policy (W.E.U.). This is a very important issue for Greece and it definitely requires careful examination. Issues of defence are quite delicate; not to mention the fact that there are different positions regarding the form of the E.U.'s relationship with the United States and NATO.
There is also the need for an effective decision-making mechanism. Greece will support the principle of equality between member states. While in the European Parliament, the population criterion is essential, it cannot apply to the Council to the same extent. If unanimous decisions are difficult to achieve within an enlarged Union, the Greek government does not overlook the fact that, in the course of integration the country will be confronted with divergences between the common and the national interest for several years to come. In the field of external policy, therefore, Greece should examine the possibility of invoking vital interests.
Greece is in search of allies and common ground among its partners in order to improve its position within the European Union. The country's target is to be able to play a significant role in the exercise of the IGC and contribute to the construction of the new Europe. Within this context, Greece aims to ensure the institutional, political and economic conditions necessary for the E.U.'s successful enlargement to Cyprus, Malta and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Very often, the Greeks have the impression that some of their partners make a selective implementation of the principles of International Law and respect of Human Rights. But Greece is part of Europe along with its problems and its partners should show the necessary solidarity. Greece contributes to the political operation and physiognomy of European Union and has in the past as well as in the present contributed to the joint effort of European unification. The same role will also play in the future in its effort to contribute in its own way to the construction of Europe of the 21st century.
Networks of Greek Diaspora and the Use of Modern Technology
Michalis G. Christakis
The recent discoveries in technology and especially in computers, the opening of new possibilities in the communication sector and the wide diffusion of ideas are basic factors forming a favourable environment internationally for undertaking new initiatives. This context is a crucial factor that facilitates the realisation of the networks of Greek Diaspora.
The realisation of the national strategy regarding Hellenism all over the world, through the establishment of the appropriate institutional network cannot be complete without the creation, development and good use of these networks. The new perspectives that are opening up world-wide form a new reality, that "imposes" on Hellenism to "lean on" its world-wide networks, always built and incorporated within long-established bilateral or multilateral relations.
The essential Networks that should be established are the following: a) cultural, b) educational, c) communications and media, and d) business and enterprises. In parallel, the Registry Office for Hellenism will have to proceed, in order to provide information on the issues of where, who and how many are the Diaspora Greeks.
The basic and original goal is the creation of an information network for the people, enterprises, as well as the scientific and social institutions of the Greek Diaspora. This network should evolve using at the same time all the infrastructure and the know how developed for other parallel activities (such as the Registry Office for Hellenism, the connection between the Diaspora Greeks and the National Centre). This goal will have to be accomplished through a close co-operation and co-ordination between Greece, the Research Institutes of Hellenism and the Community (or other) Organisations of Greeks, globally.
All the above networks will have to be based on the use of internet, which will greatly facilitate not only every kind of access to, but also the collection and distribution of all the above information. In particular, the whole undertaking is referred to the creation of an electronic system of collection, classification and distribution of information (like a major data base). This system with the appropriate software will open up the following prospects:
* the creation of a network of educational - commercial - cultural and economic exchanges based on the model of the European Network BC-NET.
* the prospect for the appropriate use of the potential of the diaspora through a qualitative registration and evaluation of the personal data of all the greeks world-wide.
* a comparative evaluation of the way and character of activities of the Greeks regarding the country of reception and establishment.
It is expected that these networks will maintain, strengthen and establish the wave of pro-Greek sentiments in the societies of the third countries and especially in those that host great contingents of Greeks.
The 21st Century:
Challenges for the Greek Foreign Policy
Stephanos Constantinides
Greece in the 21st century will face serious challenges -risks as well as opportunities, and it will depend upon its capacity to pass successfully through the "Symplegades" without mutilating its national body and ecumenical Hellenism in order to profit from the present opportunities and those that will appear in the future.
In this paper the author focuses on these opportunities and risks and tries to establish some kind of hierarchy of the objectives of Greek foreign policy.
Difficult relations with Turkey and how to avoid a clash with this country constitutes one of the challenges of the 21st century for Greece. But the greater risk for Greece will be the stagnation in such areas as the economy, administration and education. Without a great qualitative leap in these areas Greece will be unable to take advantage of the present and future opportunities in Europe, the Balkans and the Mediterranean and to go ahead with its European partners in the construction of the European Union.
Foreign Policy Challenges Facing Greece and Cyprus
on the Eve of the 21st Century:
Implications for the Greek/American Community
Van Coufoudakis
The paper examines foreign and security policy challenges confronting Greece and Cyprus on the eve of the 21st century. Greece is presented as the factor of stability in the Eastern Mediterranean and in Southeastern Europe. Moreover, Greece and Cyprus are confronted with foreign and security policy challenges not common to other members of the European regional organisations and especially the European Union. These challenges take on new significance as Europe is in the process of defining its own identity and its long term transatlantic relationship with the U.S. What is the role of the Greek-American community vis a vis the policies of the U.S., Greece and Cyprus on these issues? Will the Greek-American community be able to sustain its interest in these matters and influence the course of U.S. policy?
The Metamorphosis of Greece
Theodoros Couloumbis
The year 1974 could be considered as a gate connecting two very different periods of the 20th Century Greek history. In the period 1903-1974 our small and strategically placed country faced intense turbulence in its internal and external relations. Economically Greece was classed in the category of underdeveloped states - poor, agrarian, producer (but not processor) of raw materials, a country with foreign debt and dependent on its trade - especially for its imports of industrial products. Politically the country was characterised as divided, functioning with personal political parties based on patronage and whose main aim was to distribute the proceeds of a hypertrophic public sector. Deep divisions - confrontations of royalists against venizelists and communists against nationalists - characterised the decades from 1915 to 1974 causing repeated intervention of the army to the political process. As a result our country was governed by dictatorship between 1925-26, 1936-41 and 1967-74. A bloody, destructive and socially traumatic civil war in the years 1946-49 left deep wounds in the country's political and social fabric.
After 1974 the mission of Greece, a small and strategically placed country, which is obliged to defend the international peace and stability, is to safeguard its territorial integrity and to protect its established democratic system and its cultural values. Our country projects today its real face: a democratic, internationalistic, status quo, economically developed with commitment to the values of the free market economy, competition and private initiative, with sensitivity in the principles of the welfare state-a country which forms, at the same time, a sensitive strategic part of the European Union and NATO, bordering the unstable Balkan and Mediterranean regions.
Greece, in order to promote better its interests and security, must add its voice and integrate its policies with those of its partners in the European Union, the West European Union and NATO. United, the large and small states of the democratic and economically developed West, can contribute to the extension of regional systems of security and cooperation in our dangerous planet.
Digital Way of Living:
Digital Economy, Digital Education, Digital Future
Vasilis Damaskinos
Information Technologies are generating a new industrial revolution. This is a revolution based on information and is changing the way we work together and the way we live together.
Electronic commerce, electronic libraries, distance and self-learning, telediagnosis and telemedicine, all have the potential to reinforce our social infrastructure, to enhance the efficiency of our economic system and to improve our way of life.
At the dawn of the 21st Century, we are presented with a new challenge and a new opportunity.
Globalization and Hellenism
Demetri Dollis
Globalization involves the internationalisation of communication and above all an irreversible movement towards economic interdependence with the consequent dissolution of national economies. The phenomenon has the positive potential of leading to a more peaceful and integrated world and to an advanced cosmopolitan consciousness, namely to the triumph of a universality which was first asserted in the philosophy of classical Greece, and then re-defined and re-asserted in later Hellenism. It also has the negative potential of leading to a more homogenized, de-humanized world, detached by its values and traditions and driven by consumerism and by cultural uniformity.
A major result of globalization is the gradual erosion of the autonomy of nation-states in the economic field, an erosion which will inevitably lead to a radical re-definition of their focus. The new 'nations' would need to move away from nationalistic and potentially adversarial conceptions of power and see themselves as communities in which social solidarity and cultural values would occupy the centre of political action by government and by civil society. In the critical role of representing humanity, cultural pluralism and ethics against the threat of crude economic and materialistic imperatives, a meaningful role can be performed by countries like Greece, which is in a sense privileged in not finding itself at the centre of the economic arena, and naturally by cultural movements like Hellenism. Given the new context, Hellenism has therefore become much more relevant and important than in the past, but it needs to reach a new high level of sophistication to be able to contribute creatively to the filling of the socio-cultural void produced by modernity and mass society.
Hellenism and the age of globalization has a double task. The first one is to defend its visible and 'invisible' culture and its life-style models, to maintain a church which is culturally specific and spiritually ecumenical, and naturally to defend the Greek language which in its rich sedimentations contains fundamental aspects of the Greek spirit. Its other essential task is to rediscover and defend a central but threatened value of Greek and western culture, the notion that knowledge, education, culture, ethics are intrinsically worthwhile dimensions of humanity, which should be cultivated for their own sake and not be subservient to the one-dimensional utilitarian goals of economic rationalism.
Turkey's Roles in U.S. Strategy
During and After the Cold War
Marios Evryviades
The paper examines the military relationship between Turkey and the US and in particular Turkey's roles in American strategy during and after the Cold War.
It is argued that in the zero-sum game between the super-powers during the CW Turkey was of vital importance to the US and that immediately after WW I I the Pentagon considered Turkey a significant platform from which to attack the Soviet Union (a) with nuclear weapons and (b) to interdict advancing Soviet forces headed for the oil wells of the Persian Gulf region.
Additionally, Turkish bases were to be used and were used to ensure and promote US Middle East policies, especially with regard to the unhindered flow of oil to western markets.
Turkey's full potential as a regional US instrumentality however was not fully realized until the mid-80s in the aftermath of Iran's "desertion" from the western camp and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. During this period Turkey reached the apogee of its influence in the western centers of power.
With the end of the CE and the implosion of the Soviet Union Turkey lost its strategic significance to the US. It did retain regional importance as manifested during the Persian Gulf war. However, US reliance on regional allies is becoming increasingly problematic and Turkey exhibits a number of endemic factors of instability that cause policy makers in Washington to consider alternatives to Turkey in the Middle East. One such alternative is Iran in spite its theocratic regime which is potentially more stable and may offer a more realistic "stability model" for the region than the one offered by the fading Kemalist paradigm.
Waiting for the Poseidonians:
Greek Language and Identity in the 21st Century
Stathis Gauntlett
The centrality of the Greek language to Greek identity has long been asserted as a self-evident article of faith in a variety of fora ranging from conferences (including precursors of this one), to journalism, and to literature both ancient and modern (as the reference to Atheneaus and Cavafy in the title attests). That delinquent and lapsed Hellenophones are sometimes deplored or reviled in the discourse of Greek identity attests to an increasing anxiety at the formidable array of qualitative and quantitative threats to the future of this indispensable ingredient of Greekness, in both Greece and the diaspora. At home the national language is relentlessly assailed by the all-conquering globalisation of Anglo-American culture; abroad the language is additionally afflicted by the tri-generational extinction syndrome which some authoritative linguisticians uphold as universal for immigrant minority languages.
In order to confound pessimists and contribute significantly to Greek identity far into the next millennium, the Greek language will need to draw on more than just the survival strategies developed over the previous four millennia. Formal education is often seen as the protagonist in this Sisyphian struggle, but other linguistically beleaguered nations, such as the French and the Welsh, have also devised some rather drastic political and economic strategies which might be worth considering.
This paper explores a range of options.
To Continue the Odyssey
Toward a Conference Paper
George Papadopoulos
1. We need two elements in the continuing odysseys of the Greeks and their Hellenism both of which can be stimulated, supported and to a large extent maintained by the Co-Ordinating Committee of Research Institutes of Hellenism (SEEIE).
2. They are:
(i) a research agenda, and
(ii) a continuing forum for debating/discussing the meaning(s) of Hellenism/Greekness in such a manner as to inform and stimulate the continuing discussions with material particularly drawn from not only history but equally importantly the contemporary social sciences.
A research agenda that could develop appropriate comparative studies of the New Hellenic Diaspora in which scholars can agree on (to the extent that scholars ever agree and within a framework of principled rational dissent) terminology research techniques and appropriate transnational and international subjects of and for research. SEEIE could also act as a broker in stimulating and setting research agendas not only within but beyond its framework.
3. There is an agon in and of research and debate - we should seek it, confront it, embrace it - before Hellenism and the Greeks succumb to globalization which emanates from elsewhere (the English speaking world), but which is in itself a colonizing and totalizing force particularly as the context of the new communications technologies.
In the confrontation which can be civilized and friendly lies also liberation and freedom in the new world.
Technology in Cyprus - Past and Present
What is being done and what should be done
Zena Poulli
Since ancient times technology has played a very important role in the development of a country. Greeks were among the first to realise that and put a real effort in advancing technology. Findings like the Antikythira calculating machine dated 80 B.C. are a proof to that point. During the second half of this century, but more over its past decade, the process of change in the world has been accelerated by fast and extensive technological, social, political and economic developments.
The Cyprus economy has experienced some radical changes over the past 35 years. Starting with a structure which has as its base the agricultural and mineral products during the 1960s, the Cyprus economy changed and by the mid-1970s the manufacturing sector has gained prominence. The same economy changed again during the 1980s and it is now based on tourism and the provision of services. The above changes have allowed Cyprus not only to survive the radical international changes but also to have growth rates and economic indicators which can be favourably compared to those of other developed countries. Now, in the wake of a most successful Customs Union, Cyprus is on the threshold of joining the European Union.
It was said that: "People who make mistakes in foreseeing what's coming are not time travelers. They are not good business people". So if Cyprus is to become a good "time traveler" it should follow the technological developments.
The technological revolution that is shaping the world is increasingly affecting nearly every aspect of our life. All revolutions generate uncertainty, discontinuity and opportunity. Today's technological revolution is no exception. We have to respond and turn current opportunities into real benefit.
This is a general review of what is being done in Cyprus today and what more there is to do.
Wavering Between Historical Sensitivity and Political Realism:
Developments and Perspectives in the Macedonian Question
After the Greek-Skopje Interim Agreement
Spyridon Sfetas
The interim agreement, signed by Greece and FYROM in September 1995, opened up a new chapter in the relations between the two countries, but the question arises of whether Skopje will apply a policy of confidence building measures towards Greece or constitute a factor of destabilization on the Balkan peninsula. Analysing the political situation in FYROM and its foreign relations with the other Balkan-States, taking the position of the internation factor on the Macedonian Question into consideration, the speaker will try to explain Greece's attitude towards Skopje in retrospect and to assess what will be the gist of the Macedonian Question after the establishment of normal relations between Athens and Skopje and how Greece-Skopje inter-state relations will develop.
The Persisting Irredentism of the Macedoslavs
by means of Historiography
Anastasios Tamis
FYROM attempts to portray internationally the vision of a nation striving for d?tente and harmony in its bilateral relations with Greece, New Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. This illusive perspective is based on the David's syndrome, and finds popular base and support amongst the Hesperian countries for reasons relevant to economic, religious and power convenience. However, their intellectual resources in the newly-born State and their international centres of propaganda in Australia, Canada and Turkey, manufacture and maintain an aggressive and illusive irredentism, exploiting historiographical approaches, to rewrite the history of the Balkans. It is, therefore, rather simplistic to assume that the Macedonian issue will be resolved by any immediate diplomatic and political agreement or accord between the countries involved. As indeed it is rather naive on the part of Greece to assume that FYROM will yield to historical reasoning, by means of inflow of investments and commercial invention. The issue is not just economic, political or diplomatic. It is primarily anthropological and ethnographic. The "Macedonian" historiographers, social scientists, anthropologists, educators and ethnologists manipulate the history of the region, disregarding and disdaining original archival and documentary sources and applying explicitly as their tool the convenient approach of inter-subjectivism. So, the misconstrued interpretations of the past in the Bulgarian and pro-Slavic bibliography are fully adopted by the Macedoslav historiography, rearranging conveniently historical and ethnological legacies and doctrines and "macedonizing" the history and civilisation of all countries in the region. The process of macedonization is explicitly manifested and sustained to perpetuate irredentism, while at the same time it constitutes a boomerang for FYROM's stability and status quo, within the framework of constitutional nationalism.
What can Vase Paintings Tell us About the Lasting Significance of Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy?
(A lecture in honour of A.D Trendall)
Oliver Taplin
There are a large number of ancient Greek vase paintings, especially from Greek cities in southern Italy, mostly painted in the fourth century BC. These are extremely entertaining and interesting and not nearly as well known as they should be. We are in a position to study these properly thanks to the life work of Arthur Dale Trendall who died recently. He was much involved in Australian University life over many years and was the founding Chancellor of La Trobe University.
By looking at what was found interesting in the plays by the painters and their public, I hope to throw some light on the perennial significance of ancient Greek drama. For comedy, there are amusing glimpses of the importance of satire, absurdity, subversion of conventions and parody. For tragedy, we find a love of the sensational and spectacular, combined with profound ideas about the family, society, mortality, the hopes for a larger meaning in human life and the inevitable experience of bereavement. It is perhaps of special interest to see how Greeks, scattered throughout the ancient Mediterranean world, found a common ground in their theatrical experiences.
The Lasting Significance ?f Ancient Greek Tragedy
in The Modern World
Oliver Taplin
In this lecture I shall demonstrate the remarkable way that there have been more productions throughout the world of ancient Greek tragedy during the 1980's and 1990's than at any time since antiquity. I shall ask what it is that has led to this extraordinarily widespread renaissance. My answers will look at various movements in the contemporary theatre, as well as at the perennial issues explored by the plays. These include deep concerns about the individual in relation to the family and to society, gender conflict, and the possibilities for hope or for hopelessness in the face of the grim experiences and dangers of the "human condition".
I shall pay particular attention to some aspects which might well be claimed to be continuing strengths of the Hellenic contribution to the world today. These include the combination of the particular with the universal, of pessimism with optimism, and of the emotional with the intellectual. Just as tragedy originally spread out from Athens to the Greek Diaspora throughout the ancient Mediterranean, so now it has proved to have the power and universality to spread throughout the modern world.
Human Rights, ?nternational Law and Realpolitik
The case of Cyprus
Thalia Tassou
Human rights have become the new dominant ideology in internation relations. In this paper - taking as an example the case of Cyprus - we will try to show that the policy of human rights is applied in a selective manner taking into consideration the interests of the western world - the United States playing a leading role - than the general principles of justice and international law. It is evident that this question is very large and consequently we are going to limit ourselves at certain particular aspects of it in order to show that the ideology of human rights while being itself of an unquestionable ethical value - is in reality serving the interests of the rich and developed countries which manipulate it accordingly.
INSTITUTES - MEMBERS OF THE
COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF HELLENISM
Name: Address: Tel / Fax:
Cyprus Research Centre P.O. Box 8942 Tel: 357 02 317 969
2084 Nicosia Tel: 357 02-429 292
Cyprus Fax: 357 02-429 706
email: kykem@zenon.logos.hol.gr
Centre For Hellenic C.P. 382 Succursale Tel: (01) 514-277 3940
Studies & Research Outremont, Outremont Fax: (01) 514-270 8876
(Canada) (Que) H2V 4N3 email: k12414@er.uqam.ca
Canada
Group for the Study 149 Rue Leon Maurice Tel: 33-1- 4336 6070
of the Greek Diaspora Nordmaun Fax: 33-1- 4432 1438
7513 Paris, France 33-5- 5684 6855
Hellenic Centre For Prassa 1 & Didotou Tel: 301- 364 3277
European Studies 10680 Athens Fax: 301- 363 1133
Greece
Hellenic Foundation For 4 Xenophontos Street Tel: 301-331 5022-5
European & Foreign Policy Athens 105 57, Greece Fax: 301-364 2139
email: eliamep@compulink.gr
Hellenic Studies Forum Inc P.O. Box 18146 Tel: 0412 551 434
Collins Street East 03- 9725 1403
Melbourne Vic 3000 Fax: 03- 9725 1403
Australia 03 9428 0050
email: demhsf@netlink.com.au
Institute of Balkan P.O. Box 10611 Tel: 3031-832143
Studies 54110 Thessaloniki Fax: 3031-831429
Greece email: Imxa@Hyper.Gr.
Institute of Lykavitou 2, Tel: 301- 3636026
Mediterranean Studies 106 71 Athens, Greece Fax: 301- 3629352
email: imm@hol.gr
International Relations 3-5 Hill Street Tel: 301- 331 2325/27
Institute, Pantion Univ. 10558 Athens Fax: 301- 331 3575 Greece email: marios@aueb.gr
Research and Policy Valaoritou 15 Tel: 301- 362 6187
Strategy Institute Athens 106 71, Greece Fax: 301- 363 3684
The Speros Basil Vryonis 3140 Gold Camp Drive Tel: 916- 631 9099
Centre for the Study of Suite 50, Rancho Fax: 916- 631 7175
Hellenism Cordova, CA 95670
U.S.A.
CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTORS
Amvrazi, Eleni
Head, Modern Greek Studies Section
University of New South Wales
P.O. Box 1
Kensington NSW 2033, Australia
Tel: 61 (02) 9385-2218
Fax: 61 (02) 9385-1190
Andronikos, Pavlos
Head of Modern Greek Section, Monash University
Clayton Road
Clayton VIC 3168, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9905-3251
Fax: 61 (03) 9905-4627
Bruneau, Michel
CNRS Bordeaux and Center for the Study of Hellenism (Paris-Sorbonne)
149 Rue Leon Maurice
Nordmaun
7513 Paris, France
Tel: 33 (05) 56 84 6840 (W)
Tel: 33 (05) 56 37 4415 (H)
Fax: 33 (05) 56 84 6855
Christakis, Michalis
Advisor of International Relations,
Mediterranean Studies Institute
Lykavitou 2
106 71 Athens, Greece
Tel: 30 (01) 363 6026
Fax: 30 (01) 362 9352
Constantinides, Stephanos
Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research (Canada)
C.P. 382 Succursale
Outremont, Outremont
Quebec H2V 4N3, Canada
Tel: 1 (514) 277 3940
Fax: 1 (514) 270 8876
email: K12414@er.uqam.ca
Coufoudakis, Vangelis
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences,
Indiana University-Purdue University
Fort Wayne
Indiana 46805-1499, USA
Tel: (219) 481 6833
Tel: (219) 481 6160
Fax: (219) 481 6985
email: coufouda@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu
Couloumbis, Theodoros
Professor of International Relations, University of Athens; General Secretary, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
4 Xenophontos Street
105 57 Athens, Greece
Tel: 30 (1) 331 5022-5
Fax: 30 (1) 364 2139
email: eliamep@compulink.gr
Damaskinos, Vasilis
General Secretary, "E"Centre for the Study of Hellenism
2 Grammos Street,
2408 Engoni, Cyprus
Tel/Fax: 357 (02) 35 06 82, 49 05 41
email: v.damaskinos@cytanet.com.cy
Defiggou, Margarita
Advisor to the Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece (Mr G. Papandreou)
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
1, Vas. Sofias
Athens, Greece
Tel: 30 (01) 64 52 777
Fax: 30 (01) 339 4227
Dikeos, Thea
Associate Lecturer, Hellenic Studies, La Trobe University
P.O. Box 18146
Collins Street East
Melbourne Vic 3000, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9885-3651
Fax: 61 (03) 9479-1453
Dollis, Demetri
Member of Parliament, President World Interparliamentary Union of Hellenism.
196 Church Street
Richmond Vic 3121, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9429-1813
Fax: 61 (03) 9428-0050
email: ddollis@werple.mira.net.au
Egan, Demetra
Lecturer, Deakin University
Chairman, Hellenic Studies Forum
P.O. Box 18146
Collins Street East
Melbourne Vic 3000, Australia
Tel (Mob): 61 ( 0) 412 551 434
Fax: 61 (03) 9428-0050
Tel/Fax: 61 (03) 9725-1403
email: demhsf@netlink.com.au / demetra@deakin.edu.au
Evryviades, Marios
?thens University of Economics and Business
Institute of International Relations, Pantion University
3-5 Hill Street
105 58 Athens, Greece
Tel: 30 (01) 331 2325/27
Fax: 30 (01) 331 3575
email: marios@aueb.gr
Fifis, Christos
Lecturer, Hellenic Studies, La Trobe University; Hellenic Studies Forum
P.O. Box 18146
Collins Street East
Melbourne Vic 3000, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9479-2415
Fax: 61 (03) 9479-1453
Gantzis, Nick
President, Co-Ordinating Committee for the Justice of Cyprus (SEKA),
Department of History,
The University of Adelaide SA 5005
Tel: 61 (08) 8303-3751
Fax: 61 (08) 8303-3443
Gauntlett, Stathis
Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
President, Modern Greek Studies Association
of Australia and New Zealand
The University of Melbourne
Parkville Vic 3052, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9344-5672
Fax: 61 (03) 9349-3472
Georgiades, Andreas
High Commissioner of Cyprus in Australia
30 Beale Crescent
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Tel: 61 (06) 281-0832
61 (06) 281-0834
Fax: 61 (06) 281-0860
61 (06) 281-0901
Georgiou, Petro
Member of Parliament, Federal Government of Australia
695 Burke Road
Hawthorn East Vic 3123, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9882-3677
Fax: 61 (03) 9882-3773
Herodotou, Maria
Lecturer, Hellenic Studies, La Trobe University; Hellenic Studies Forum
P.O. Box 18146
Collins Street East
Melbourne Vic 3000, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9479-1302
Fax: 61 (03) 9479-1453
Karaisaridis, George
P.O. Box 18146
Collins Street East
Melbourne Vic 3000, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9579-1671
Fax: 61 (03) 9579-1061
Karalis, Vrasidas
Senior Lecturer, Modern Greek
University of Sydney
Tel: 61 (02) 9660-7402
Fax: 61 (02) 9692-3543
Koutsou, Nikos
Honorary President, Cyprus Research Centre
P.O. Box 8942
2084 Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel: 357 (02) 31 79 69 / 357 (02) 429 292
Fax: 357 (02) 429 706
email: kykem@zenon.logos.hol.gr
Nicolaides, Costas
President, Cyprus Research Centre.
P.O. Box 8942
2084 Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel: 357 (2) 31 79 69 / 429 292
Fax: 357 (2) 429 706
email: kykem@zenon.logos.hol.gr
Niotis, Grigoris
Member of Parliament, President, Parliamentary Committee for Greeks Abroad, Greek Parliament.
Karakoulouxi 48 & Morgendaou
Nikaia, Athens, Greece
Tel: 30 (01) 493 4936
Fax: 30 (01) 491 2333
Papadimitriou, George
University Lecturer; Legal Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece, Mr K. Simitis
Sina 30
106 72 Athens, Greece
Tel: 30 (01) 36 17 442 / 30 (01) 26 35 137
Fax: 30 (01) 36 29 353
Papadopoulos, George
President, Hellenic Studies Forum
P.O. Box 18146
Collins Street East
Melbourne Vic 3000, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9660-3878
Fax: 61 (03) 9660-2597
Perrakis, Stelios
General Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece; President of the Greek Centre of European Studies.
Vas. Sophias 2
Athens, Greece
Tel: 30 (01) 33 94 281
Fax: 30 (01) 33 94 201
30 (01) 33 94 221
Photiades, Photos
Actor-Director, Cyprus
Cyprus Broadcasting Foundation
Nicosia
Tel: 357 (02) 42 22 31
Fax: 357 (02) 314 050
Pnevmatikos, Spyros
Advisor to the Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece (Mr G. Papandreou)
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
1, Vas. Sofias
Athens, Greece
Fax: 30 (01) 339 4227
Poulli, Zena
General Secretary, Cyprus Research Centre
P.O. Box 8942
2084 Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel: 357 (02) 429 292
Fax: 357 (02) 429 706
Ralli-Catharios, Sophia
Author
136 Rainbow Street
Randwick NSW 2031, Australia
Sfetas, Spyros
Institute of Balkan Studies
P.O. Box 10611
54 110 Thessaloniki, Greece
Tel: 30 (031) 832 143
Fax: 30 (031) 831 429
Email: IMXA@HYPER.GR
Smolicz, George
Director, Centre for Multicultural Studies
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide SA 5005
Tel: 61 (08) 8303-5831
Fax: 61 (08) 8303-4397
Sophocleous, Abraham
Head of Modern Greek Section, RMIT
13 Maroong Drive
Research Vic 3095, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9468-2990
Fax: 61 (03) 9468-2991
Spilias, Athanasios
Modern Greek Lecturer; Hellenic Studies Forum
14 Birbank Court
Doncaster Vic 3108, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9848-4365
Stavropoulos, Kostas
Greek Centre of European Studies; Institute of Hellenic Culture.
Stratigou Kallari 50
Palaio Psihiko
Athens, Greece
Tel: 30 (01) 67 76 540
Fax: 30 (01) 67 25 826
Tamis, Anastasios
Lecturer in Modern Greek, La Trobe University;
President, Australian Institute of Macedonian Studies
53 Studley Road
Ivanhoe Vic 3079, Australia
Tel: 61 (03) 9479-2864
Fax: 61 (03) 9479-1453
?aplin, Oliver
Professor of Greek Literature and Culture, Oxford University
Magdalen College,
Oxford University
Oxford OXI 4AU, U.K.
Fax: 44 (018) 44 278 267
Fax: 44 (018) 65 276 094
Tassou, Thalia
Lawyer, Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research, Canada.
C.P. 382 Succursale
Outremont, Outremont
Quebec H2V 4N3, Canada
Tel: 514- 277 3940
Fax: 514- 270 8876
Tsianikas, Michael
Director of Studies, Modern Greek
Flinders University of South Australia
63 Daveys Road
Flagstaff Hill SA 5159, Australia
Tel: 61 (08) 8201-2588
61 (08) 8201-2016
Fax: 61 (08) 8201-2556