Past events

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Event in Collaboration with HPST: H συμβολή της συνεργασίας Πανεπιστημίων και Ερευνητικών Κέντρων στην ανάπτυξη της έρευνας στην Ελλάδα / The Significance of the Collaboration between Universities and Research Centers in Research Development in Greece
Speaker: Prof. Iacovos Vasalos
A recording of the lecture may be found here
More information on ICE-HT (ΕΙΧΗΜΥΘ – ΙΕΧΜΗ) here

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Event: Κινηματογράφος και Κοινωνία / Cinema and Society
Speaker: Costa Gavras & Prof. Michael Herzfeld
A recording of the lecture may be found here

Sunday, November 1, 2020

Event: Lecture
Topic: “The Legal Issues of the 2020 US National Election”,
Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Harvard Law School; see here
Location: Remotely via Zoom; see here

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Event:  Lecture
Topic:  “COVID at its Worst: The Perspective of a Boston Surgeon – and a Message of Hope”
Speaker: Dr. George Velmahos, Mass General Hospital & Harvard University; see here
Location: Remotely via Zoom

Sunday, May 17, 2020

Event: Lecture
Title: “The geopolitics of COVID-19”
Speaker: Professor Petros Vabvakas, Department of Political Science & Director of the Institute for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Emmanuel College, Boston; see here
Location: Remotely via Zoom

Sunday, May 10th, 2020

Event:  A members-only discussion
Topic:  “The challenges of local universities and research institutions, in light of the possibility of a non-residential fall 2020”
Location: Remotely via Zoom

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Event: Lecture
Topic: A conversation with Dr. Eirini Iliaki, Infectious Disease Specialist
Speaker: Dr. Eirini Iliaki, Harvard Medical School; see here 
Location: Remotely via Zoom

Tuesday, September 9, 2018

Event: New Student Orientation Workshop and Welcome Reception
Panelist:
Prof. Stella Kourembanas, Chief, Newborn Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Prof. Irene Georgakoudi, Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, see here
Prof. Elizabeth Prodromou, Fletcher School, Tufts University, see here
Prof. Themis Sapsis, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, see here
Location: General Consulate of Greece in Boston
Cosponsored with the Consulate of Greece

Saturday, May 5, 2018

Event: Annual Banquet,
Keynote Speaker: Professor Nikolas Stephanopoulos, University of Chicago (presently at Harvard U.) See here
Topic: “The Fight Against Gerrymandering”
Location: Alumni Lounge, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Friday, March 31, 2018

Event: Lecture
Speaker: Professor Stathis Kalyvas, formerly of Yale U. and now at Oxford Universities; see here
Topic: “Putting the Cart Before the Horse? The developmental trajectory of Modern Greece”
Location: Alumni Lounge, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Saturday, March 10, 2018

Event: Lecture
Speaker: Professor George Tsebelis, University of Michigan; see here
Topic: “Greek Constitution and amendment from a Comparative Perspective”
Location: Tufts Alumni Lounge, Tufts University, Medford MA

Friday, January 26, 2018

Event: Academic Kafeneion: A panel discussion on careers in industry and academia
Location: Sloan School, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Panelists:
Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas, MIT; see here
Prof. Yiannis Paschalidis, BU; see here
Prof. Maria Kontaridis; see here

Friday, January 26, 2018

Event: Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Angeliki Diane Rigos, Executive Director, Tata Center for Technology & Design, MIT; see here
Topic: “Reimagining Academia’s Role in Social Innovation”
Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Event: Reception for the new Consul General of Greece, the Honorable Mr. Stratos Efthymiou and his Family
Location: Maliotis Cultural Center, Brookline, MA
Cosponsored with The Friends of the Maliotis Center

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Event: New Student Orientation Workshop and Welcome Reception
Panelist:
Prof. Costis Daskalakis, Electrical and Computer Science, MIT, see here
Prof. Christos Georgakis, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, see here
Prof. Manolis Kellis, Electrical and Computer Science, MIT, see here
Prof. Jay Samons, Classical Studies, Boston University, see here
Location: General Consulate of Greece in Boston
Cosponsored with the Consulate of Greece

Friday, June 9th, 2017

Event: Farewell Reception for Consul General Iphigenia Kanara,
Location: Maliotis Cultural Center
Cosponsored with The Friends of the Maliotis Center

Saturday, June 3, 2017

Event: 2017 Annual Banquet
Location: Wayside Inn in Sudbury
Keynote Speaker: Professor Gregory Nagy, Harvard University, see here.
Topic: “Examples of Continuities in Πολιτισμός”

Wednesday, May 17th, 2017

Event: Academic Kafeneion – a reception for members and prospective members
Organized in collaboration with the Hellenic Bioscientific Association (see here)
Location: MIT Campus

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Event: Panel Discussion
Topic: “Why Nations Fail: The Case of Greece and Lessons Learned from Latin America”
Panelists:
• Professor Daron Acemoglu of MIT, see here and co-author of the Book “Why Nations Fail”
• Professor George Alogoskoufis, Karamanlis Professor at Tufts U. and Professor of Economics at the Athens U of Economics and Business; see here. Former Greek Minister of the Economy, and
• Professor Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard; see here. An expert in Latin American Economics and former Chief of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Location: Sloan School, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Friday, October 21, 2016

Event: Academic Kafeneion – a reception for members and prospective members
Location: Harvard University
Special Guest: Professor Pericles Mitkas, Rector of the Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki,

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Event:                Student Orientation Workshop and Welcome Reception
Panelist:
Prof. Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Chemical and Biological  Engineering, Tufts University
Prof. Manolis Kellis, Electrical and Computer Science, MIT, see here
Prof. Jay Samons, Classical Studies, Boston University, see here
Location:          General Consulate of Greece in Boston
Cosponsored by the Hellenic Bioscientific Association and the Consulate of Greece in Boston

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Event: Annual Banquet
Keynote Speaker:  The Honorable Ifigenia Kanara, Consul General of Greece in Boston
Topic: “Greece at the Front Line of Europe’s Refugee Crisis”
Location:  Newton Marriott, Newton, MA

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Event: Lecture
Speaker: Prof. P.J. Tsakonas of the University of the Aegean, see here
Topic: “The Forced Migration in the Mediterranean, and the Perspectives & Strategies of the EU and the South European States”.
Location: Sophia Gordon Hall, Tufts University,

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Event: Lecture
Speaker: Professor Dimitris Bertsimas, MIT, see here.
Topic: “Health Care Analytics”
Location: Alumnae Lounge, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Event: Annual Banquet,
Speaker: Professor Kostas Lavdas, Karamanlis Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, see here
Topic:  “Europe as a Precondition of Democracy in Today’s Greece”
Location:  Newton Marriott, Newton, MA

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Event: Lecture & One Year Anniversary Reception
Speaker: Professor Eleni Mantzourani, University of Athens, see here
Sponsored by the Onassis Foundation,
Title: “Disease and Therapy: medical and other therapeutical practices in prehistoric eastern Mediterranean”
Location: Alumnae Lounge, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Thursday, November 11, 2014

Event: Lecture
Topic: The Good Life
Speaker:  Prof. Pascal Bruckner, L’institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France
Location:  Alumnae Lounge, Tufts University, Medford, MA

October 16, 2014

Event: Inaugural Lecture
Speaker: Professor Panagiotis Roilos, Harvard University, see here
Title:  “Literature as Cultural Politics: C. P. Cavafy’s Diasporic Hellenism”
Location: Granoff Music Center, TUFTS University, Medford, MA

Thursday, September 18,

Event: Panel Discussion
Topic: “Promoting interactions between bio-scientists in Greece and US”
Panelists:
Prof. Vassilis Zannis (Boston University)
Prof. Gregory Stephanopoulos (MIT)
Dr. Stelios Papadopoulos (Fondation Sante)
Prof. Konstantinos Drosatos (Temple University)
Location:  General Consulate of Greece in Boston

Friday, May 23, 2014

Event:                Members Reception and
Musial presentation by Prf. Liaropoulos, Berklee School of Music
Location:          Maliotis Cultural Center, Brookline, MA