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The 3rd Hellenic Observatory PhD Symposium

Contemporary Greece: Structures, Context and Challenges

14 & 15 June 2007
London School of Economics and Political Science


Call for Papers

We invite submissions for the 3rd PhD symposium on ‘Contemporary Greece: 
Structures, Context and Challenges’. A main objective of the symposium is 
to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between young scholars 
currently undertaking research on Greece. The 3rd symposium, as with the 
previous two, is intended to help graduate research students to overcome 
the academic isolation associated to PhD research, to ‘try’ their ideas and 
findings on wider audiences, and to establish new collaborative links 
across disciplines. Researchers will also be able to ‘engage’ with a wider 
academic community, including academic members of staff at the LSE, and 
also a number of other distinguished scholars who will act as keynote 
speakers and discussants to the symposium.

We welcome contributions from research students (current and recent) across 
any field of the Social Sciences and Humanities whose PhD focuses on 
contemporary Greece. The topics covered in the symposium include, but are 
not limited to:
·	Media and Public Perceptions
·	Foreign Policy
·	Public Policy (including welfare, education, and social policies)
·	Economic Policy (including labour market, industrial, and regional 
policies)
·	Economic Problems and Performance (including macro/micro economics 
and finance)
·	Greece and Southeast Europe (including economic and political 
cooperation and energy)
·	Domestic and EU politics
·	Migration and Minorities
·	History and Culture
·	State and Society

Abstracts of 500 words maximum must be submitted via the ‘paper proposal’ 
form. Abstracts should indicate the academic significance of the topic, 
relevance of conceptual literature, and analytical structure. A limited 
number of travel grants of £200 maximum will be available to the 
contributors. The deadline for the submission of the abstracts and for 
application for the travel grants is 12 March 2007. Postgraduates can apply 
for the travel grant by filling the appropriate section of the ‘paper 
proposal’ form. The ‘paper proposal’ form can be downloaded from: 
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/hellenicObservatory. Submissions can be 
made by email only to: [log in to unmask] 

Successful applicants will be notified by mid-April and will be requested 
to submit their full paper by 1 June 2007. There will be a registration fee 
of £10 for all participants, payable by cheque to the Hellenic Observatory, 
Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, or upon registration. General 
participants are welcome to attend.

For further information please contact:

Ms Eleni Xiarchogiannopoulou
Research Assistant
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel:	0044 20 79556529 (Monday & Tuesday)

or

Ms Sofia Christofidou
Administrator
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel:	0044 20 79556066 (Monday – Thursday)