NEWS

• 20 December 2019 / January in Vamvakou!
  January means the holidays are over in Greece, but in the village of Vamvakou, there’s always a reason for festivities. Dozens of events and activities await visitors in January—as they do every month—in the Laconian mountain village.
• 18 December 2019 / SNF Agora director, author of recent NYT op-ed, to teach Hopkins course
  Practicing Democracy, the title of a course she’ll be teaching during Johns Hopkins University’s upcoming Intersession program, is something SNF Agora Institute director Hahrie Han thinks a lot about.
• 17 December 2019 / Columbia’s SNF Public Humanities Initiative Launches with Call for Proposals
  The multifarious field of public humanities has at its core the simple aim of engaging the public in thought and conversation on important ideas. In doing this, the new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative (SNFPHI), part of Columbia’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination, will work to activate latent creative potential in Greece for the public benefit.
• 17 December 2019 / The SNF and Basketball Legend Panagiotis Giannakis Join Forces for Youth Empowerment and Establish Field of Life
  On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, SNF and basketball legend Panagiotis Giannakis introduced Field of Life, a new nonprofit organization and initiative anchored in Giannakis’s old neighborhood in Southwestern Attica.
• 16 December 2019 / New journalistic Projects Emerge from the iMEdD Incubator
  Over the past nine months, 19 creators have been hatching innovative journalistic projects at the iMEdD incubator, leveraging the organization’s expertise, strategic guidance, and tools.
• 12 December 2019 / Sailing for All, from Evros to Crete
  Now, even more people with disabilities will have the opportunity to experience the unique sense of freedom offered by sailing and contact with the sea, thanks to the “Hellenic Wind4all” program, a major new initiative by the Hellenic Sailing Federation.
• 11 December 2019 / The Great Flight: A Story about the SNFCC
  Our pilot is the strangest butterfly in Athens, and our destination is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).
• 11 December 2019 / SNF Agora Institute Presents “Faith, Race, & Politics” in Ohio
  An upcoming conference presented by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute will examine the role faith can play in bringing people together to engage in democracy and civic life.
• 10 December 2019 / The CSIS Schieffer Series Presents “The Syria Withdrawal and Next Steps”
  What will the withdrawal of United States forces from Syria mean for the situation there and for the region more broadly? What’s the U.S.’s next move?