TEDx Athens
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at [...]
2nd Jazz Education Conference 2010
Teaching Improvisation – A Bridge over Classical and Jazz Studies
The conference organized by the department of Music of the Ionian University in Corfu, on October 21-24, 2010, is addressed to music educators, musicians, scholars, students and everyone interested in the art of musical improvisation in both jazz and classical music.
The conference organizing committee welcomes proposals [...]
Dancing Bodies: Practices and Politics
1st International Dance Conference
Athens Concert Hall proves once again it’s interest for the art of dance by opening it’s gates to the 1st Dance Conference entitled: “Dancing Bodies: Practices and Politics.” The Conference is organized by the Greek Dancers Union in cooperation with the Theater Studies department of the Peloponnese University and the Athens Concert [...]
Global Leaders Endorse Securing of All Nuclear Material by 2014
Following two days of meetings in Washington, leaders from around the world agreed to take tangible and meaningful steps to secure the world’s nuclear materials.
President Obama, who initiated the global effort in a speech in Prague in April 2009, called the collective agreement “a testament to what is possible” in multilateral partnership.
Speaking at the conclusion [...]
Nabshow! Where Content Comes to Life
From broadcasting to broader-casting, the NAB Show is the premier event for content professionals. A gathering of more than 85,000 electronic media citizens from 157 countries, the NAB Show is a living, interactive city unlike no other in the world, where imagination meets technology.
The 2010 NAB Show is the one event that effectively bridges the [...]
Quality Management and Greek Schools: Is this the Future for Sustainable Improvements and Change?
Few schools, if any, claim perfection; very few schools, also, admit that they are hopelessly bad. Most schools, it is safe to assume, wish that they were better in some way or the other. For those schools seeking to change themselves, to create a better learning environment, or to improve the students’ performance, the major [...]
United Nations Climate Change Conference
About U.S. Participation in COP-15
The U.S. is committed to forging an international response and achieving a successful outcome at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen, December 7-18.
Climate Change is one of the greatest threats facing our planet, and the United States is taking significant action to meet this challenge. Under President Obama, the [...]
Social Media, Greek Style
does social media mean in a country where most people still don’t have easy access to broadband? That was the question on display at the “New Media, New Content?” conference at the Hellenic Audiovisual institute in Athens on October 7, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy’s cultural program Mosaiko. The conference, held the day after highly-charged [...]
Library Policies: From Local to National
6th International Conference of the Committee for the Support of Libraries
The Athens Information Resource Center of the American Embassy in Athens will participate in the 2009 conference organized by the Committee for the Support of Libraries (CSL) under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Education.
The committee has organized five conferences in Greece, inviting library [...]
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