American Studies Seminar December 2008

Remarks by Consul General Yee at the opening of the Transatlantic Studies Seminar March 16, 2009 (PDF)

Transatlantic Relations Seminar

Organized by

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Law Faculty & the U.S. Consulate General in Thessaloniki with the support of the Thessaloniki Municipality

Transatlantic Relations: a community of values and interests

December 8 and 9, 2008 Thessaloniki Municipal Library
29 Ethnikis Amynis Str.

Monday, December 8, 2008

16:30 - 17:00 Arrival of Students, Registration

17:00-17:15 Welcoming Remarks

Costas Hadjiconstantinou, Chair of the Law Faculty

Hoyt B. Yee, Consul General of the United States of America

17:15 - 18:00 Lecture: “American Hegemony as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Transatlantic Journeys of Enlightenment Ideas and their Impact on Early American Thought”

Dimitrios Akrivoulis, Lecturer, Department of Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia

18:00 – 18:30 Break

18:30 – 20:00 Panel: Mapping Law and Politics across the Atlantic

Moderator: Costas Hadjiconstantinou, Chair of the Law Faculty

“Imaging Some American and European Perspectives in International Public Law: Mars, Venus and Spatio-legal Fragmentation?”

Miltiadis Sarigiannidis, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

“Anti-Americanism in Europe since 1945”

Ioannis D. Stefanidis, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

“EU Enlargement Policy in the Framework of Transatlantic Relations: Competition or Convergence?”

Sotiris Serbos, Lecturer, Department of Social Policy, Democritus University of Thrace

“EU-U.S. Strategic Cooperation in South East Europe”

Fotini Bellou, Lecturer, Department of International and European Studies, University of Macedonia

Discussion

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

13:30 – 14:00 Arrival of Students

14:00 – 15:00 Lecture: “Global Financial Crisis: Lessons learnt from transatlantic cooperation to overcome the crisis”

Benton Gup, Professor of Finance and Holder, Robert Hunt Cochrane/Alabama Bankers Chair, Economics, Finance & Legal Studies

15:00 Break

15:30 – 17:00 Panel: Building a Euro-American Homo Economicus

Moderator:

“An Allegedly Unprecedented Financial Crisis: Who is to blame?”

Panagiotis Glavinis, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

“EU - U.S. Co-operation in G-8”

Konstantinos Hazakis, Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and Development, Democritus University of Thrace

“EU and U.S. Constitutionalism”

Iossif Ktenidis, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Discussion – Question/Answer

Concluding Remarks

Miltiadis Sarigiannidis, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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