With many of us heading back into a kind of self-imposed lockdown with the new wave of the pandemic, the Onassis Foundation’s We Stay Close, Not Closed virtual culture platform offers opportunities to listen to and watch guests from around the world talk about their experience of the new reality.
Watch a discussion with American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist and translator Daniel Mendelsohn on the subject of the Egyptiot Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) on the Onassis Foundation’s We Stay Close, Not Closed virtual culture platform on YouTube.
Irish actress and theater and opera director Fiona Shaw and philosopher Simon Critchley delve into the subject of Medea, the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis in Greek mythology, and wife of the mythical hero Jason, in a conversation recorded in 2017 as part of the Onassis Foundation’s “A World of Emotions” exhibition.
The Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Foreign Ministry are organizing a webinar for Thursday about the food and drink sector in the United Kingdom, in France, Italy and Portugal.
The American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and the Atlantic Council will hold a digital event on Tuesday on the “East Med and the trilateral partnership (Greece-Israel-Cyprus) and its role in regional energy security and economic cooperation in the age of Covid-19 and beyond.”
New Democracy deputy Dimitris Keridis is organizing a live online debate titled “The Economic Crisis of the Pandemic: More or less Europe?” to take place at 9 p.m. on Monday.
The American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce is on Thursday organizing an online public debate on the role the industry could play in the future, titled “Greek Industry and the New Growth Model: Necessary Reforms.”
Spirit, wine and beer importers Amvyx SA and the Nissos brewery will be hosting an online discussion on Monday about the “day after” in catering, entertainment and hospitality businesses.
Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras will be participating in a public online debate on Tuesday on a recent decision by Germany’s top administrative court on the European Central Bank’s bond-buying scheme.
The Delphi Economic Forum and the E-Kyklos think tank are organizing an online debate titled “The Day After in Greek-Turkish Relations,” with the participation of former foreign ministers Evangelos Venizelos and Dora Bakoyiannis and former defense minister Evangelos Apostolakis.
SAS, one of the market leaders in analytics and artificial intelligence, is organizing a special series of free virtual sessions titled “The Analytics Response,” to discuss the conditions the coronavirus has created and how major enterprises have reacted and managed the issue in Greece and Cyprus.
Tim Burgess, founder and frontman of British indie rock band the Charlatans, is coming to Athens for an open discussion and DJ set at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center’s Lighthouse venue on Sunday, February 16.
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) office in Athens is organizing a panel discussion on the topic “Greece’s Far Right – An Exception in Europe?” at Evdomos, near Syntagma Square, on Tuesday November 26, at 6.30 p.m.
International affairs think-tank the Atlantic Council will be holding a discussion on “Greece as a Geostrategic Ally,” which will be streamed on its website live from Washington DC at 5 p.m. local Greek time, the US Embassy has said.
Multifaceted German director Werner Herzog is heading to the Greek capital, where he will be scouting for talent, presenting his work and sharing his significant wisdom with fans, in a series of events at the Onassis Cultural Center and the Goethe Institute.
Next Monday the US Embassy in Athens, together with the US Mission to the European Union, the Atlantic Council, and diaNEOsis, will launch #DisinfoWeek Europe, a week-long series of strategic dialogues focused on the global challenge of disinformation, with a public event in Athens.
Inspired by Emily Dickinson’s well-known verse calling for a sideways reflection upon truth, Liana Sakelliou discusses issues of gender identity with four renowned Greek women writers who have been translated and published recently in the United States.
Distinguished British theater critic, writer and journalist Lyn Gardner, who works for The Guardian and The Stage, is coming to Athens as part of a British Council program titled “Culture After Brexit,” exploring what UK’s the cultural relationship with Europe might be like after the country leaves the bloc.
Pulitzer Prize winning Greek-American author Jeffrey Eugenides will be talking about his work and issues relating to identity during a two-stop visit to Greece.
Internationally renowned Irish writer John Connolly, known as the “Dubliner who writes like an American,” will be sitting down with Kathimerini’s Elias Maglinis for a discussion on the Onassis Cultural Center’s main stage on Wednesday, July 4.