LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: EUROPEAN INSTITUTE, HELLENIC OBSERVATORY

Policy & Research Seminar Series

The Hellenic Observatory Research Seminar series provides a forum for academic and policy research addressed mainly to student and academic audiences within London, but also to the wider Greek community.

The seminars run normally fortnightly every second Tuesday during the two teaching terms and are open to all with no ticket required. For more information email hellenicobservatory@lse.ac.uk or call 020 79556066. The latest news and updates about events can be found at http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/hellenicObservatory/1st_PAGE/Forthcoming_Events.aspx

Venue (except where otherwise stated): Canada Blanch Room, COW 1.11 (J.116), 1st floor, Cowdray House,
European Institute, LSE, Portugal Street London WC2A 2AE

17 January 2012, 6.15-7.45pm
Hellenic Observatory RESEARCH SEMINAR
Professor Dimitris Venieris, Visiting Senior Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE; Associate Professor of Social Policy, University of Peloponnese
"Social Policy and Social Justice in Greece: the unfair deficit"

25 January 2012 , 6.30-8.00pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Hellenic Observatory PUBLIC LECTURE, in association with APCO
Dr Erato Kozakou-Marcoulis, Cyprus Foreign Affairs Minister
"The Geostrategic Importance of Cyprus: Long Term Trends & Prospects"

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR SCHEDULED FOR 31 January 2012 BY
Dr Rebecca Bryant HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

14 February 2012, 6.15-7.45pm
Hellenic Observatory RESEARCH SEMINAR
Dr Athanasia Chalari, A.C Laskaridis Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
"Social change in modern Greece: the contribution of young generation to a new social reality"

21 February 2012, 6.15-7.45pm
Hellenic Observatory RESEARCH SEMINAR
Dr Vasilis Leontisis, National Bank of Greece Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
'The 'Callicrates' reform: Transforming Greek local government in the years of austerity'

28 February 2012, 6.15-7.45pm
Hellenic Observatory RESEARCH SEMINAR
Dr Spyros Kosmidis, National Bank of Greece Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
'Democratic Accountability in Greece'

Monday, 5 March 2012
12th ANNUAL LECTURE
Costas Azariadis, Mallinckrodt Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
"Greece between Austerity, Reform and the Drachma"

13 March 2012, 6.15-7.45pm
Hellenic Observatory RESEARCH SEMINAR
Dr Theofanis Exadaktylos, Ministry of Finance Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE; Lecturer in European Politics, University of Surrey
'Pushing the EU borders to the East: The Europeanization of Greek Foreign Policy in the aftermath of the Eastern Enlargement'