Dr Ioannis N. Grigoriadis presented on 3 March 2016 a paper entitled “Democratic Transition and the Rising Tide of Majoritarianism: Comparing the Cases of Greece and Turkey” at the “Constitutional Politics in Turkey” Conference, New School for Social Research, New York.
More information can be found at:
https://politicsandlawinturkey.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/constitutional-politics-in-turkey-8-1.pdf
Dr Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered a lecture on 26 February 2016 entitled “History in the Making or False Dawn? How Close are we to a Cyprus Agreement?” at the SOAS Annual Lecture Series on Turkey, University of London.
More information can be found at:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/events/turkey/26feb2016-history-in-the-making-or-false-dawn-how-close-are-we-to-a-cyprus-agreement.html
Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered a lecture on 25 February 2016 entitled “Greece, Turkey and the Refugee Crisis: Between Norms and Interests” at the Goodenough College Lecture Series, University of London.
Dr Ioannis N. Grigoriadis participated in a meeting of the Greek-Turkish Forum, held at the Home for Cooperation (H4C), Nicosia, Cyprus, between 13 and 14 January 2016. In the meeting all aspects of the Cyprus issue were discussed in light of the bicommunal negotiations. On 15 January 2016 Dr. Grigoriadis delivered a lecture on Turkish politics at the University of Cyprus.
Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered a lecture on 14 January 2016 entitled “Κύπρος-Τουρκία: Μύθοι και Πραγματικότητα [Cyprus and Turkey: Myths and Reality]”, at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia.
More information can be found at:
http://www.thecypriotpuzzle.org/event-cyprus-turkey-myths-and-reality/
“Εντυπώσεις από μια Περιήγηση στις Ανατολικές Εσχατιές της Τουρκίας:
Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και το Κουρδικό Ζήτημα [Observations from a Travel to Turkey’s Easternmost Provinces: Cultural Heritage and the Kurdish Issue]”, Lecture delivered at the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, Athens, 12 January 2016
Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis participated in the 49th Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, which took place in Denver CO, from 21 to 24 November 2015. He presented a paper entitled “EU and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East and Jihadism: Pragmatism vs. Ideology?”
More information can be found at:
http://mesana.org/annual-meeting/previous/index.html
Dr Ioannis N. Grigoriadis participated in the Jean Monnet annual conference 2015 “A Union of shared values – the role of education and civil society”, which took place at the Management Centre Europe (Rue de l’Aqueduc 118, 1050 Brussels) on 9-10 November 2015.
The European Union is based on the values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values have recently been put into question, notably through the series of terrorist attacks in and around Europe. The topics of migration, discrimination, social exclusion, security, financial and social crisis dominate the EU political agenda, and have a direct influence on the respect of fundamental rights and values.
Following the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris last January, the European Ministers responsible for Education and the European Commissioner Tibor Navracsics agreed on a joint Declaration to promote citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education. The European Commission is supporting the aims of the Declaration by implementing a number of actions within the Erasmus+ programme. These actions include support to the mobility of learners and teachers, strategic partnerships and education institutions, cooperation platforms, as well as to policy dialogue and joint projects on citizenship education, volunteering and youth exchanges. This year’s Jean Monnet Conference was also one of the actions supporting the aims of the Declaration.
The conference brought together some 350 participants, including Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Commissioner Tibor Navracsics. Debates took place during plenary sessions and during three working groups addressing different facets of the conference theme.
More information can be found at:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/events/2015/1109-jean-monnet-conference_en.
Dr Ioannis N. Grigoriadis participated in a meeting of the Greek-Turkish Forum, held at the Home for Cooperation (H4C), Nicosia, Cyprus, between 26 and 28 October 2015. In the meeting all aspects of the Cyprus issue were discussed in light of the ongoing bicommunal negotiations.
Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis presented on 26 October 2015 a paper entitled “Overcoming Conflicting Approaches of a Common Past: Experiences from Teaching in Greece and Turkey”, at a conference on education policy in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus at Goethe Institut, Nicosia, Cyprus.