Susannah Verney was re-elected as Convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Southern European Politics. The Group has 324 members and is currently the 5th largest Standing Group in the European Consortium of Political Research http://standinggroups.ecpr.eu/sep/
Associate Professor Dimitris A. Sotiropoulos wrote an article on Greeks and Social Europe at EUforum, an initiative of the Institute of International Relations Clingendael. http://euforum.nl/en/greeks-and-social-europe
On Friday 27 May 2016 SEE students, teaching staff and Administration of the academic year 2015-2016 we all enjoyed our farewell party that took place at our Faculty building. After spending a hard working year, we had the chance to drink a glass of wine and say goodbye at the end of a hardworking year that we spent together.
PROFESSOR JOVAN TEOKAREVIC, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade gave a guest lecture on “Western Balkans 2016: Between Deep Crises and Uncertain Perspectives”
Associate Professor Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos gave a lecture on "Democracy in the world today: a comparative approch" at Southeast European University at Tetovo.
Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is doing empirical field research on the development of democracy in the Western Balkans in the post-crisis period. He regularly visits Belgrade and Skopje as part of this research and has already published, in electronic format, a preliminary paper on the derailment of democracy in the region: http://www.eliamep.gr/wp…
Special Issue "Is Turkey De-Europeanising? Encounters with Europe in a Candidate Country" (Issue 1, volume 21) of the academic journal of South European Society and Politics. Guest Editors: Senem Aydin-Duzgit & Alper Kaliber. Our Faculty member Susannah Verney is co-editor (with Anna Bosco) of this academic journal.
Dr. Dimitrios Kontogeorgis, Αdjunct lecturer, International Hellenic University, School of Humanities gave a guest lecture on “The Romanian National Movement (1750-1850). Its origins and early phase”, Friday, 18 March 2016 ** 7.00 p.m.
