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Lectures and Seminar discussions in Athens by Prof. Robert Baron, Senior Fulbright Specialist [4-23/10/23]

Lectures and Seminar discussions in Athens by Prof. Robert Baron, Senior Fulbright Specialist [4-23/10/23]

Robert Baron, a folklore specialist, is on the faculty of the MA in Cultural Sustainability Program at Goucher College, Baltimore. He has served as Director of the Folk Arts Program, Music Program and Museum Program of the New York State Council on the Arts. Baron is Secretary of the ICH NGO Forum, which provides advisory services as part of the UNESCO ICH program, co-chair of the Cultural Heritage and Property Working Group of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore and Vice President of the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. His research interests include heritage studies, public folklore, museum studies and creolization. Baron has been a Non-Resident Fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African-American Research at Harvard, a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Finland, the Philippines and Slovenia and Smithsonian Museum Practice Fellow.

Dr. Baron will be in Athens from 1.10.2023 to 24.10.2023 as a Fulbright Senior Specialist, invited by the Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as part of a project organized by Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou, Assoc. Professor of Folklore . He will share with professional colleagues and students of folklore and with interested members of the public his expertise in topics such as intangible cultural heritage and its management, public folklore and folklorists’ contemporary prospects and careers , folklore in education, folklore and tourism and folklore archives. He will be presenting and chairing the following lectures and roundtable discussions:

  1. Folklore and Tourism – Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability – Lecture. Wednesday 04.10.2023, 16.00 -18.00p.m., School of Philosophy, N.K.U.A., University Campus Zografou, room 209.
  2. Building a Public Sector Career in Folklore and ICH – Roundtable discussion. Monday 09.10.2023, 15.30 – 17.00 p.m., School of Philosophy, N.K.U.A., University Campus Zografou, room 735.
  3. American Public Folklore – Practices and Key Concepts in Historical Perspective – Lecture. Monday 09.10.2023, 17.30 19.30 p.m., School of Philosophy, N.K.U.A., University Campus Zografou, room 209.
  4. Folklore in Education – Roundtable Discussion. Tuesday 10.10.2023, 15.30 – 17.30 p.m., School of Philosophy, N.K.U.A., University Campus Zografou, room 735.
  5. New Directions for Folklore Archives – Lecture. Thursday 12.10.2023, 15.30 – 17.30 p.m., Auditorium of the Library of the School of Philosophy of N.K.U.A., University Campus Zografou.
  6. The 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage at 20 Years – Reflections on Accomplishments, Shortcomings and Future Directions – Lecture. Monday 23.10.2023, 18.00 – 20.00 p.m. Central premises of the N.K.U.A., 30 Panepistimiou Str., Auditorium “Ioannis Drakopoulos”.

Dr. Baron’s lectures and roundtable seminars are open to academics, educationalists and interested members of the public.

10th Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics. Comparing Diachronies [20 – 25/07/2025]

10th Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics. Comparing Diachronies [20 – 25/07/2025]

We are happy to inform you that registration is now open for the 10th Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics (http://naxos-diachronic-linguistics-2025.uoa.gr/). National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Arizona State University, University of Osnabrück and University of Cambridge collaborate with the CIVIS Course “Diachronic Linguistics in the 21st century” and coordinate a summer school program, a […]

The “MOVE AS YOU ARE” Program – Project is co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ program in the field of Sports

The “MOVE AS YOU ARE” Program – Project is co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ program in the field of Sports

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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ranks first in Greece and Cyprus – Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2025 and US News Global University Rankings 2025-2026 announced

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ranks first in Greece and Cyprus – Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2025 and US News Global University Rankings 2025-2026 announced

US News & World Report Media Company has recently published the results of its Best Global Universities Rankings for 2025-2026. In this 11th consecutive annual edition of the US News Best Global Universities Rankings, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens placed 1st among Greek and Cypriot Universities and 216th worldwide. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki […]

Once again, top-scoring candidates choose the University of Athens

Once again, top-scoring candidates choose the University of Athens

It is a day of joy for many candidates who have recently sat the nationwide examinations for admission to Greece’s Higher Educational Institutions. Among this year’s top achievers—those scoring over 19,000 points—a significant number have once again set their sights on enrolling in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). One of the highest […]

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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which was inaugurated on May 3, 1837, was initially housed in a renovated Ottoman building on the northeastern side of the Acropolis. This building has since been restored and now functions as the University Museum. Originally named the "Othonian University," after Otto, the first king of Greece, it consisted of four academic departments and 52 students. As the first university of the newly established Greek state, as well as of the broader Balkan and Mediterranean region, it assumed an important socio-historical role, which was pivotal in the development of specific forms of knowledge and culture within the country.

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