Past Events

For the third consecutive year, the Dukakis Center will co-host a session at Reworks Agora, the annual forum of the Reworks Music Festival. The event will take place on September 15 at Ypsilon, at 1 p.m., and will feature Epaminondas Christofilopoulos, UNESCO Chairholder in Futures Research, who will lecture, in… More

A group of 10 students from Salem State University in Massachusetts visited Thessaloniki in late May with their Professor, Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, to observe local and European elections and learn first hand about politics and electioneering in Greece. The Dukakis Center, in the persons of Director David Wisner and ACT alumnus… More

Dukakis Center director David Wisner traveled to Madrid, Spain, on April 10-13, to participate in the Seventh Annual European Think Tanks Summit following an invitation of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania (TTCSP), and the Real Instituto Elcano,Dr. Wisner’s invitation came on the heels of his… More

The Dukakis Center is tuning 20!To launch our birthday celebrations, the  Center has scheduled two major events in March. The first, to take place at the Municipality of Thessaloniki on March 9-10, is a mock national democratic convention for local high school and university students.The second event will also be… More

The Annual fall meeting of the Board of Honorary Advisors has been scheduled for Wednesday, November 14. The plenary session will take place, in situ and remotely via Skype, at 7 PM Athens time.Items on the agenda will include a recap of the 2016-17 year, and a preview of planning… More