Current Projects

2011: GPSG International Conference: “The Politics of Extreme Austerity: Greece Beyond the Crisis”, December 2011, University of Strathclyde – Panel 1: The Political Economy of the Crisis

1: Prof. Antigone Lyberaki (Panteion) and Dr. Platon Tinios (Piraeus), “Informal social protection and
family indebtedness: some hidden economic crisis dynamics”

2: Dr. M. Matsaganis (AUEB) and Chrysa Leventi (AUEB), “Poverty and inequality during the Great
Recession: the case of Greece”

3: Dr Sotiria Theodoropoulou and Dr Andrew Watt (European Trade Union Institute), “The Greek tragedy:
the abject failure of national austerity in the context of an unfinished monetary union”

4: Eoin Drea (Cork), “Repeating the Mistakes of Austerity? Lessons for Greece from the Irish Economic Experience of the 1920s and 1930s”

2011: Post-Crisis Public Policy Reform in Southern Europe, GPSG Panel at the ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik

1. C. Paraskevopoulos (University of Macedonia), “Accounting for variation in the impact of and response to economic crisis in Greece & Portugal”

2. M. Matsaganis (Athens University of Economics & Business), “Economic crisis and welfare reform in Greece”

3. B. Clements (University of Leicester) and K. Nanou (European University Institute), “Economic crisis and public attitudes towards domestic and EU institutions in Greece, Portugal and Spain”

4. Reykjavik panel Question and Answer session

2011: GPSG Panels 1 and 5, 19-21 April 2011, Novotel London West, 61st Annual Conference of the PSA

1: Prof. Nicolas Demertzis (University of Athens), “The Emotions-Politics Nexus: Approaching the Crisis”

2: Prof. Barry Richards (Bournemouth University), “Emotional Governance, Extremism and the National Stage”

3: Prof. Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “Discourse, Affect, Enjoyment: Lacanian Political Theory and the Economy”

4: Dr. Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University), “Extreme Emotions: Victimhood and Populism in the Discourse of Greek Anarchists during the December 2008 Riots”

5: Dr. Sappho Xenakis (ELIAMEP / University of Oxford), “In the eye of the beholder: Accounting for the role of emotions in Greek politics”

6: Giorgos Katsampekis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “Populism in post-democratic times”

2010: International Roundtable – Public Policy in Southern Europe, 1 April 2010, The Dome, Edinburgh, 60th Annual Conference of the PSA

Prof. Jacint Jordana, Professor, Institut Barcelona d’ Estudis Internacionals

Prof. José Magone, Professor, Berlin School of Economics and Law

Prof. Claudio Radaelli, Professor of European Public Policy, University of Exeter

Dr Dimitris Sotiropoulos, Associate Professor, University of Athens

Questions and answers session