Supervised by: Professor Panagiotis Roilos, President of the Governing Board of ECCD.
Sponsor: Region of Central Greece
International Scientific Committee: Professor Homi Bhabha (Harvard), Professor Peter Frankopan (Oxford), Professor Michelle Lamont (Harvard), Professor Spiros Pollalis (Harvard), Professor Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Professor Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard) founder of the Academy and chair of the Committee.
Topic of the 2023 Seminars: DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION, MEMORY
Seminar 1: MOVEMENT AND MORALITY: ETHICAL QUESTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY FORCED MIGRATION
Instructor: Matthew J. Gibney, Elizabeth Colson Professor of Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and former Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford (2017-2022)
Seminar 2: IMAGING WAR, IMAGINING PEACE. MEMORY, JUSTICE, AND REPAIR
Instructors: Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University and member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and Leo Spitzer, K. T. Vernon Professor of History Emeritus and Research Professor, Dartmouth College
The seminars are conducted in English and include intensive interdisciplinary lessons addressed to 20-25 selected undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as doctoral candidates from Greece and abroad.
