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The Social Issues, Mass Media and Education Laboratory of the Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, of the University of Ioannina, and the Maliotis Cultural Center of Hellenic College Holy Cross in Boston, with the participation of:
  • Ecumenical Patriarchate, Greek Education Department,
  • Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Department of Greek Education,
  • Greek Applied Linguistics Association
  • Athens – Macedonian News Agency
  • Study in Greece
  • The University of Chicago, Center for Hellenic Studies, and
  • Fondazione Vexillum,
  • Hellenic Association of Political Scientists,
organize the 11th  International Summer University “Greek Language, Culture, and Mass Media.” The project is scheduled to take place in Boston, on May 24 – 29 2025, at the Maliotis Cultural Center (campus of Hellenic College at 50 Goddard Avenue) in Brookline. It will be conducted through the Center for Lifelong Learning of the University of Ioannina.
The program enjoys the auspices of the Hellenic Parliament and will be held under the auspices and with the support of the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is underlined that the program has been included in the strategic plan of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Hellenism Abroad (2024-2027).
The 11th International Summer University has the special title: Diaspora mass media: challenges and prospects for the Greek language and culture.
Indicative topics:
  • The international presence of diaspora mass media and their contribution to the modern Greek culture
  • The contribution of the diaspora mass media towards spreading and preserving the Greek language
  • Depictions and representations of Greece in diaspora mass media
  • Diaspora mass media, identity, and multicultural horizons
  • Diaspora mass media and modern crises (memoranda, refugees, climate, war, energy). Language representations and symbols
  • The teaching role of diaspora mass media
  • Possibilities for cooperation and synergies, in the framework of a global forum for Greek diaspora mass media
The program will follow and will be shared on the University of Ioannina Website and Maliotis website.
Participation
Directors and journalists of diaspora mass media in America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa will participate in the program. Moreover, academics and researchers, intellectuals and artists from Greek and foreign universities and research centers will join the program.
 
About the Program
10th International Summer University 2024, Maliotis Cultural center, Boston, MA
 
A Tradition of Extroversion
Following 10 years of renowned success for the program, the tradition of fostering extroversion and synergies with prominent international institutions in education, culture, and mass media continues. It is reminded that, in the previous years, the International Summer University “Greek Language, Culture, and Mass Media” has been supported by the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies, the Hellenic Representation of the European Parliament, the Association of European Journalists (Greek department), the Orthodox Academy of Crete, the French Department of the Club de la Presse Européenne in Paris, the Centre Culturel Hellénique in Paris, the Instituto De Letras in Rio De Janeiro University, the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts of Macquarie University, the Macquarie Greek Studies Foundation in Sydney, and many more. 
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Program direction
Professor Nikoletta Tsitsanoudis – Mallidis, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Ioannina and Harvard CHS – GR Associate, is the Founder and Scientific Coordinator of the Program. She is also responsible for the unit “Greek language, culture, and mass media” unit within the Social Issues, Mass Media, and Education Studies Laboratory at the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Ioannina. Ms. Chrysoula Kourkounti, Executive Director of Maliotis Cultural Center, is responsible for the administrative direction of the program in Boston.
 

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