Past Events

They are calling it America250 in certain circles. In 2025-26, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the adoption and signing of the American Declaration of Independence, we will host a year-long series of activities with various partners to mark this important moment in American history. Entitled "When in the course… More

Our director, David Wisner, has said regularly that one of the principal roles of the Dukakis Center must be to promote serious scholarship on the topics falling within the Center’s mandate, owing to the fact that we are based on the campus of an American university. By the same token,… More

For the second time this month, the Dukakis Center at ACT and the Demos Center at ACG teamed up to co-host a roundtable session on the theme “The World in 2025.” The event, an integral part of the Demos Center’s “Voices of Democracy” series, took place on May 28, 2025,… More

A loving woman, wife, and mother, with a true desire for human rights activism and social work,who showed the world how vulnerability is not a sign of weakness. A person’s legacy is measured by the lives they touch, the values they uphold, and the impact they leave behind. Katharine “Kitty”… More

Our fans were chuffed. Jaws dropped around the room. A lone, unnamed journalist who had stayed to the bitter end triumphantly called the scene before him an unqualified success -- "Με επιτυχία ολοκληρώθηκε!” he would write in his midnight lede. The Dukakis Center at ACT thus brought its Silver Jubilee… More