2nd International Conference  "Greeks in English Speaking Countries" Culture, Identity, Politics

Venue: Sacramento, California 

Organised and hosted by: 
Speros Basil Vryonis Centre for the Study of Hellenism 

Contributors: 

Athan Anagnostou, Penny Anagnoustou,  
Savvas Augoustakis 
-The Politics of Welfare Service Developments Within the Greek Community in Australia 

Antonia Cakouros 
 -The Greek Spirit and Its Journey with Drama and Dance into the Diaspora 

Costas Carras 
 -Hellenism, Orthodoxy, and the Greek Community in Britain 

Con Castan 
 -Greeks and Barbarians in Australia 

Peter Chimbos 
 -Factors Affecting Ethnic Group Cohesion: The Case of Greek Canadians 

Yiorgos Chouliaras 
 -Writing in the Diaspora and the Diaspora of Writing 

Dimitrios Constantelos 
 -The Greek Orthodox Church and the Future of the Greek Identity in America 

Stephanos Constantinides 
 -The Impact of the Greek-Canadian Lobby on the Foreign Policy of Canada 

Demetra Egan 
 -Translating Greek-Australian Literature 

Marios Evriviades 
 -Mobilizing the Greek Diaspora: The Role of Athens and Nicosia 

Chris Fifis 
-The Teaching of Modern Greek in Australia: Expectations, Institutions, and the Politics of Multiculturalism 

Stathis Gauntlet 
 -Greek-Australian Identity and the British Colonial Heritage 

Efie Gavakia and Anastassios Stalikas 
 -Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem, and Academic Achievement 

Constantine Hatzidimitriou 
 -Church-Community Relations in the United States 

George Kanarakis 
 -Patterns of “Greekness” in Diaspora Literature: The Australian Experience 

George Karaisaridis 
 -The Greek Lobby in Australia: Rethinking the Fundamentals 

Alexander Kitroeff 
 -The Idea of the Nation and the Diaspora 

Andrew Kopan 
-Greek Education in America and the Third Generation of Greek 
Americans: The Case of Chicago 

Nikos Koutsou 
 -Greek Lobbies: A View from Cyprus 

Vivianne Morris 
 -The Greek Women of Australia and the Greek Print Media 

Helen Papanikolas 
 -A Sketch of Greek Immigrant Life in the American West 

Eugene T. Rossides 
 -US Relations with Greece and Cyprus, the “Tilt towards Turkey”, and the Challenges Facing the Greek-American Community 

Maria Roussou 
-Ethnicity, language, and Gender: Greek Women in the United Kingdom from the 1900s to the 1990s 

Stan Salagaras 
 -The Multicultural Education System of Australia and Greek Education 

Alice Scourby 
 -Beyond Patriarchy 

Constantine Tsoukalas 
-Transterritorial Imageries and Symbolic Antinomies: The Greek State, Bureaucracy, and the Diaspora 

Speros Vryonis, Jnr 
-The Identification and Preservation of the Sources for the History of the Greek-American Diaspora 

John Yannakis 
 -Megistoupoleis and Migration 
 

The proceedings of this conference are published in: 
Ioannides Christos (ed.), Greeks in English Speaking Countries: Culture, Identity, Politics, Caratzas, New Rochelle, New York, 1997.