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Andreas Demetriou
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Andreas Demetriou was born August 15th, 1950 in Stongylo, Famagusta, Cyprus. Demetriou attended the University of Thessaloniki and obtained a Ph.D. in psychology in 1983. After completing his doctoral degree he was a professor of developmental and educational psychology at the University of Thessaloniki until 1996. Demetriou then became a professor at the University of Cyprus, serving in various leadership positions from 1996 to 2008, including chairing the Department of Educational Science and serving as dean for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and dean of the School of Social Sciences and Sciences of Education. He also became the founding president of the Interim Governing Board of the Cyprus University of Technology
11th June 2009-Cyprus-Minister of Education and Culture H. E. Prof. Andreas Demetriou
No full textTirage 1 :CERN Director-General, R. Heuer and Minister of Education and Culture, H. E. Prof. Andreas Demetriou; Tirage 2:Council President,T. Åkesson, Ecole Normale Supérieure,K. Kounnas, Chairman of the Cyprus CERN Committee,C. N. Papanicolas, R. Heuer,A. Demetriou, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cyprus in Geneva,A. Hadjichrysanthou, Directorate Office,E. Tsesmeli
Ancient Historians and Fascism: How to React Intellectually to Totalitarianism (or Not)
No full textDuring Fascist regime in Italy (1922-1943) the cult of ancient Rome became part of the official ideology and Roman history and culture were the object of heavy manipulations and exploitations. On the contrary ancient Greece was devalued and also in academic field partly marginalized. That is the context in which a very significant debate arose about ancient Greek liberty among Gateano De Sanctis, then the most important ancient historian and an open anti-fascist, and some of his students as Aldo Ferrabino, Arnaldo Momigliano and Piero Treves. Ferrabino was the most sensitive to some themes of Fascism and of Gentile's authoritarian political theory; in Momigliano De Sanctis' methodological teaching meets partly Croce's and Hegel's concept of history with a universal perspective of ancient history, to which his Jew education is not irrelevant; after his death there has been some harsh controversy regarding his relationship with fascist politics. Piero Treves was born in a very anti-fascist family and was also himself fed by Croce's philosophy; his book on Demosthenes was a clear anti-fascist praise of Greek liberty. So Greek history was then the field of a lively confrontation on the key values of political freedom and liberty of thought. Learning from the past means also learning from how scholars of the preceding generations had studied the past because that allows us to liberate ourselves from the short-terms passions of the contemporary age
The Trackers
No full textThe plot of Sophocles’ Trackers comes from the Hymn to Hermes attributed to Homer. To this mythical material Sophocles added the elements that were the fundamental ingredient of the dramatic genre called ‘satyr play’, namely the chorus of satyrs led by their old father, Silenus.
It is not possible to tell if this peculiar version had a reception of its own, distinct from that of the hexametric composition falsely attributed to Homer. Some aspects of Sophocles’ play might have inspired other authors, though, as the presence of the nymph Cyllene among the characters of the satyr play.
What can be said for sure is the fact that, after late antiquity, the Trackers, like the great majority of the satyr plays composed in the 5th century (with the only exception of Euripides’ Cyclops), fell into oblivion.
The destiny of the play changed suddenly in 1912, when Arthur S. Hunt published the papyrus written in the 2nd century AD he had found, together with Bernard P. Grenfell, in the Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus (P. Oxy. 1174), containing the first 458 lines of the play.
The most famous theatrical pieces inspired by this satyr play are the following: the small opera The naissance de la lyre (“The birth of the lyre”), composed by Albert Roussel and performed on the 1st of July 1925 in Paris, at the Palais Garnier (libretto by Théodore Reinach, one of the most brilliant French classicists, who closely adhered to the plot of the Sophoclean version), and the play The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, written by Tony Harrison and first performed on the evening of the 12th of July, 1988, in the ancient stadium of Delphi, in Greece
The internet as a new channel for political participation?
No full textThis chapter focuses on the political use of the internet considering both individual and organisational use. Firstly, we look at how individuals which took part in the Athens European Social Forum (ESF) use the internet politically. Secondly, we shed light on how social movement families and organisations mobilized in the Italian Global Justice Movement (GJM) use the web, highlighting limits and opportunities of using the web politically.
Data were gathered using different research instruments: a survey of participants in the European Social Forum in Athens and a series of interviews with spokespersons of different social movement families of the Italian GJM.
While quantitative data allows for controlling relations among variables concerning the political use of the internet by individuals, qualitative data provides more detailed information on internet use in the everyday life of activists and organisations
Suspending democracy? The governance of the EU’s political and economic crisis as a process of neoliberal restructuring
No full textThe economic crisis of the European Union (EU) is threatening also the fragile foundations of European democracy. It is not, however, as it might seem, a transitional stage of ‘authoritarianism of emergency’ due to the severity of the crisis and the need to face it as quickly as possible. Conversely, as this chapter aims to demonstrate, the economic choices made in recent years, the policies imposed on States and European citizens, as well as the method chosen to implement these policies – in brief, what this essay defines as the ‘economic governance’ of the EU – can be read as a further step towards its neoliberalization. This new constitutionalism of the EU is based on a twofold development: on the one hand, the onward de-democratization of European politics, with the substitution of democracy with forms of neoliberal governance; on the other hand, the onward de-politicization of European economy, based on the empowerment of unelected bodies, such as the European Central Bank (ECB), and the marginalization of elected representatives. The chapter describes the neoliberal restructuring of the EU and national states both on the political and economic level, by analysing the EU’s responses to its democratic deficit and the role played by the ECB in the economic and financial crisis
Epigenetic chromatin modifiers in barley: I. Cloning, mapping and expression analysis of the plant specific HD2 family of histone deacetylases from barley, during seed development and after hormonal treatment
No full textEpigenetic phenomena have been associated with modifications of chromatin structure. These are achieved, in part, by histone post-translational modifications including acetylations and deacetylations, the later being catalyzed by histone deacetylaces (HDACs). Eukaryotic HDACs are grouped into three major families, RPD3/HDA1, SIR2 and the plant-specific HD2. HDAC genes have been analyzed from model plants such as arabidopsis,rice and maize and have been shown to be involved in various cellular processes including seed development, vegetative and reproductive growth and responses to abiotic and biotic stress, but reports on HDACs from other crops are limited. In this work two full-length cDNAs (HvHDAC2-1 and HvHDAC2-2) encoding two members of the plant-specific HD2 family, respectively, were isolated and characterized from barley (Hordeum vulgare), an agronomically important cereal crop.HvHDAC2-1 andHvHDAC2-2 were mapped on barley chromosomes 1H and 3H, respectively, which could prove useful in developing markers for marker-assisted selection in breeding programs. Expression analysis of the barley HD2 genes demonstrated that they are expressed in all tissues and seed developmental stages examined.Significant differences were observed among tissues and seed stages, andbetween cultivars with varying seed size, suggesting an association of thesegenes with seed development. Furthermore, the HD2 genes from barley werefound to respond to treatments with plant stress-related hormones such asjasmonic acid (JA), abscisic acid (ABA) and salicylic acid (SA) implying anassociation of these genes with plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stress.The expression pattern of HD2 genes suggests a possible role for these genesin the epigenetic regulation of seed development and stress response
Three Visions of Liberty: John Stuart Mill, Isaiah Berlin, Quentin Skinner
No full textAn investigation of the notion of "liberty' in three English authors: JS Mill, I. Berlin and Q. Skinne
Go with the Flow: When Listeners Use Music as Technology
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161892.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)ISMR 2016 : 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, New York City, USA, August 7-11, 201
Nonlinear refractive index of ultrafast laser inscribed waveguides in gallium lanthanum sulphide
No full textWe demonstrate ultrafast all-optical switching in femtosecond laser inscribed nonlinear directional couplers in gallium lanthanum sulphide operated at 1.55 μm. We report on the evaluation of the nonlinear refractive index of the waveguides forming the directional couplers by making use of the switching parameters. The nonlinear refractive index is reduced by the inscription process to about 4–5 times compared to bulk material
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