The Social Issues, Mass Media and Education Laboratory of the Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, of the University of Ioannina, and the Maliotis Cultural Center at Hellenic College in Boston, with the participation of:
– Ecumenical Patriarchate, Greek Education Department,
– Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Department of Greek Education,
– Greek Applied Linguistics Association
– Athens – Macedonian News Agency
– Study in Greece
– The University of Chicago, Center for Hellenic Studies, and
– Fondazione Vexillum,
organise the 11th International Summer University “Greek Language, Culture, and Mass Media.”
The project is scheduled to take place in Boston, on May 24 – 29 2025, at the Maliotis Cultural Center (campus of Hellenic College at 50 Goddard Avenue) in Brookline. It will be conducted through the Center for Lifelong Learning of the University of Ioannina. The program enjoys the auspices of the Hellenic Parliament.
The 11th International Summer University has the special title: ‘Diaspora mass media: challenges and prospects for the Greek language and culture’
Indicative topics:
-The international presence of diaspora mass media and their contribution to the modern Greek culture
-The contribution of the diaspora mass media towards spreading and preserving the Greek language
-Depictions and representations of Greece in diaspora mass media
-Diaspora mass media, identity, and multicultural horizons
-Diaspora mass media and modern crises (memoranda, refugees, climate, war, energy). Language representations and symbols
-The teaching role of diaspora mass media
-Possibilities for cooperation and synergies, in the framework of a global forum for Greek diaspora mass media.
A tradition of extroversion
Following 10 years of renowned success for the program, the tradition of fostering extroversion and synergies with prominent international institutions in education, culture, and mass media continues.
It is reminded that, in the previous years, the International Summer University “Greek Language, Culture, and Mass Media” has been supported by the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies, the Hellenic Representation of the European Parliament, the Association of European Journalists (Greek department), the Orthodox Academy of Crete, the French Department of the Club de la Presse Européenne in Paris, the Centre Culturel Hellénique in Paris, the Instituto De Letras in Rio De Janeiro University, the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts of Macquarie University, the Macquarie Greek Studies Foundation in Sydney, and many more.
Participation
Directors and journalists of diaspora mass media in America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa will participate in the program. Moreover, academics and researchers, intellectuals and artists from Greek and foreign universities and research centers will join the program.
The program will be offered for free. The program is addressed to journalists, undergraduate and graduate students, PhD holders, educators, and it accepts a number of professionals with relevant interests, in the framework of lifelong learning. The program offers certificates of attendance and educational material to the participants.
The presence of mass media in Greece and in the diaspora
The following organisations support the program as communication sponsors: ERT, ERT 2, ERT3, ERT WORLD, the First Program 105.8, the Voice of Greece, and the Parliament Channel. Real FM, Real News, and real.gr, along with CNN GREECE, serve as media sponsors, as well. The Greek Service of Deutsche Welle is also a media sponsor.
The following media sponsors also participate in the program: Orthodox Observer News, The National Herald in the U.S.A., the only daily Greek newspaper outside of Greece in Australia – The Greek Herald, the newspaper Neos Kosmos in Melbourne, the Hellenic Public Radio of New York COSMOS FM, the H W Media Group in Austria (diaspora websites https://hephaestuswien.com/, https://pyramisnews.gr and the Greek-speaking radio in Austria Hephaestus Radio). Furthermore, the Pyramis News, addressed to the Diaspora in Africa and the Arab countries, also participates in the program. Media sponsors also include the following diaspora media: Kallimera Massalia, WNTN Radio-1550 AM/Grecian Echoes in Boston, Hellenic Radio from Bedfordview in Johannesburg, the newspaper “Eleftheria” in London, 2mm Radio, Sydney, Darwin, Wollongong, the website «Ηχώ» of Central and South Africa, Broadcast Canadian & International TV Network (BCI media) in Canada, NEWSVILLE in Belgium and more.
Promoting the program
In 2025, the program is promoted through a TV and radio spot, with Giannis Bezos as the leading actor and director. The production was undertaken by the film production company Production House, with the directorial supervision of Mr. Panos Manolitsis and his team. Watch the spot here:
Program direction
Professor Nikoletta Tsitsanoudis – Mallidis, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Ioannina and Harvard CHS – GR Associate, is the Founder and Scientific Coordinator of the Program. She is also responsible for the unit “Greek language, culture, and mass media” unit within the Social Issues, Mass Media, and Education Studies Laboratory at the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Ioannina. Ms. Chrysoula Kourkounti, Executive Director of Maliotis Cultural Center, is responsible for the administrative direction of the program in Boston.
Information:
-Professor Nikoletta Tsitsanoudis – Mallidis, Dean of the School of Education, University of Ioannina
email: nitsi@uoi.gr
website: https://summerschool.ac.uoi.gr
fb: https://www.facebook.com/summerschoolgr?locale=el_GR ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟ ΜΕΛΕΤΗΣ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΩΝ ΘΕΜΑΤΩΝ, ΜΜΕ ΚΑΙ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗΣ Παιδαγωγικού Τμήματος Νηπιαγωγών Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων
Nikoletta Tsitsanoudis Mallidis, Όμιλος Αποφοίτων Διεθνούς Θερινού Πανεπιστημίου.
-Chrysoula Kourkounti, Executive Director of Maliotis Cultural Center
email: ckourkounti@hchc.edu,
website: https://maliotis.hchc.edu/
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