Embassy of the United States

American Studies Seminar December 2008

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

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

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       

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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