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14 July 2025

Civic tech/Civic AI at the Dukakis Center

The Dukakis Center at ACT has been organizing events dedicated to civic tech and, now, civic AI, for two decades. The Director of the Center has a long-standing interest in civic-tech, having taught a pilot hybrid senior seminar on e-democracy via Blackboard in 2004, and has subsequently written and lectured… More

14 July 2025

The Spirit of '76

They are calling it America250 in certain circles. In 2025-26, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the adoption and signing of the American Declaration of Independence, we will host a year-long series of activities with various partners to mark this important moment in American history. Entitled "When in the course… More

14 July 2025

Publicly engaged scholarship at the Dukakis Center

Future of Voting in America, Museum of Cycladic Art

Our director, David Wisner, has said regularly that one of the principal roles of the Dukakis Center must be to promote serious scholarship on the topics falling within the Center’s mandate, owing to the fact that we are based on the campus of an American university. By the same token,… More

01 June 2025

Dukakis Center co-hosts “Voices of Democracy” encore in Athens

l-r: Alkman Granitsas, Brady Kiesling, Effie Fokas, Katerina Bakoyianni, Mary Cardaras, Nikos Konstandaras, David Wisner

For the second time this month, the Dukakis Center at ACT and the Demos Center at ACG teamed up to co-host a roundtable session on the theme “The World in 2025.” The event, an integral part of the Demos Center’s “Voices of Democracy” series, took place on May 28, 2025,… More

22 May 2025

Kitty Dukakis: A tribute

A loving woman, wife, and mother, with a true desire for human rights activism and social work,who showed the world how vulnerability is not a sign of weakness. A person’s legacy is measured by the lives they touch, the values they uphold, and the impact they leave behind. Katharine “Kitty”… More

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