While entering its third consecutive year, the INGAME project is nearly fully developed. INGAME is an EU-co-funded program that aims to promote social inclusion through gaming. The project involves the development of an educational online game, its associated services, and maintenance, and disseminating results on pedagogical practices among young adult learners. Anatolia College is a partner member of a consortium under the Erasmus+ KA3 Social inclusion and shared values in a network consisting of nine partners from eight different countries (Spain, Greece, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania) with the University of Salamanca as the leader of the consortium.

In 2021, Dr. Maria Kyriakidou, Chair of the ACT Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Dr. Maria Patsarika, a researcher for the project, suggested to the project leader, the University of Salamanca, the possibility of including an advisory group of College students to assist the development of the game. The leader agreed, and ACT formed an advisory group of volunteer ACT students. The students contributed to the project areas of interest and the action fields design along with the researchers from all partner countries to create the INGAME. Relevant to this, Drs. Kyriakidou and Patsarika presented a paper titled: "Ingame: Enacting Youth Citizenry through Serious Gaming" to the European Sociological Association conference last year. 

The following steps include the pilot testing of the game and training of educators and civil society stakeholders. The next face-to-face transnational partner meeting is in Nicosia, Cyprus, September 13-14, 2022.

Owner, ΦωτοΓραφείον

Ο Στέφανος Τσακίρης φοίτησε στη σχολή Γραφικών Τεχνών και Καλλιτεχνικών Σπουδών στο τμήμα Φωτογραφίας και Οπτικοακουστικών Μέσων, κοντά σε σπουδαίους δασκάλους του χώρου όπως τους Σ.Πάσχο, Κ.Αντωνιάδη και έπειτα μαθήτευσε κοντά στον Γιάννη Δήμου.

Το 2017 και με τη βοήθεια της ομάδας του, κατέκτησε το Guinness World Record με καλλιτεχνικό φωτογραφικό πρότζεκτ.

Από το 2004 συμμετέχει και προσφέρει εξειδικευμένες φωτογραφικές υπηρεσίες, όπως ψηφιοποιήσεις ιδιωτικών και μουσειακών συλλογών, έργων τέχνης και υποβρύχιες φωτογραφίσεις. Διατηρεί φωτογραφικό στούντιο στη Θεσσαλονίκη, με δραστηριότητα στη διαφήμιση και τη μόδα, ενώ επίσης διδάσκει τα αντίστοιχα αντικείμενα στο κολέγιο του ΑΚΤΟ. Από το 2006 συνεργάζεται με μουσεία σε εκπαιδευτικά φωτογραφικά προγράμματα. Πρόσφατα έχει συνιδρύσει το δημιουργικό δίπτυχο Janus Studio, το Ανήθικο Magazzino και την γκαλερί Pinakotheke. Διατηρεί συνεργασίες με καλλιτεχνικά ιδρύματα και μουσεία σε Ελλάδα και εξωτερικό και εκθέτει με προσωπικές φωτογραφικές εκθέσεις, θέματα κοινωνικού περιεχομένου.

Dukakis Center hosts Hans-Lukas Kieser, Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Professor of Late and Post-Ottoman History at the University of Zurich (Switzerland).

The lecture will take place on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, at 7 PM, at the Bissell Library, ACT - American College of Thessaloniki. 

The lecture is open to the general public and will be in English.

Hans_Lukas Kieser is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle (Australia), having also served as a Professor of Late and Post-Ottoman History at the University of Zurich. He specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. He has lectured at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, Bilgi University, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and Sciences Sociales in Paris, among others. He has been president of the Research Foundation Switzerland-Turkey. He has received multiple awards for his research, including the Boghossian Prize for work on the Armenian Genocide in 2017. He is the author of several groundbreaking studies, including his 2018 book Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide (Princeton University Press). His forthcoming book is on the Treaty of Lausanne (sous presse).

"Lausanne tacitly endorsed comprehensive policies of expulsion and extermination of hetero-ethnic and hetero-religious groups."

-- H-L Kieser

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Hans-Lukas Kieser, the preeminent specialist in early twentieth-century Turkish history, will deliver the Fall 2022 Dukakis Lecture on Wednesday, September 28, from 7-9 PM in the Bissell Library at ACT -- the American College of Thessaloniki. Professor Kieser's lecture, entitled "From Talaat Pasha to Atatürk via Lausanne: The Making of Republican Turkey" will mark the hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in July 1923.

Hans-Lukas Kieser is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle (Australia), having also served as a Professor of Late and Post-Ottoman History at the University of Zurich. He specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey and has lectured and taught at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, Bilgi University, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, among others. Professor Kieser has been president of the Research Foundation Switzerland-Turkey. He has received multiple awards for his research, including the Boghossian Prize for work on the Armenian Genocide in 2017. He is the author of several groundbreaking studies, including his 2018 book Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide (Princeton University Press). His forthcoming book is on the Treaty of Lausanne (sous presse).

The Dukakis Center has a 20-year tradition of hosting events devoted to fully appreciating Greek-Turkish relations. Invited speakers include Suhnaz Yilmaz, Taner Akcam, Heath Lowry, Thomas de Waal, Kostas Ifantis, and Pavlos Apostolidis, among many others. The Dukakis Center is directed by David Wisner, Professor of International Relations at ACT. 

Media inquiries should be sent to Olga Tsantila, Media Relations Officer at Anatolia College, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or email the Dukakis Center at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

"Lausanne tacitly endorsed comprehensive policies of expulsion and extermination of hetero-ethnic and hetero-religious groups."

-- H-L Kieser

The lecture will be in English with simultaneous translation into Greek. The event is open to the public. For participating in the event, please register here

July 4th came to the Dukakis Center at ACT a few days early this year. Two prominent American educators, Jenifer Neils, outgoing Director of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, and Scott Sprenger, President of the American University of Rome, appeared on the season finale of Dukakis Center Live on July 1st to celebrate Independence Day and the sustained exploits of American soft power.

Hosted by Dukakis Center Director Dr. David Wisner, the program explored the challenges faced currently by American living and working abroad and asked whether current developments in the United States and around the world had somehow diminished the desirability of holding a US passport, whether the specter of the waning of the American Century had somehow diminished the appeal of American culture worldwide. The result was a rich, nuanced, and encouraging discussion.

Both guests discussed the adverse local public opinion generated by such episodes as the American military operation in Iraq or the contested outcome of the 2020 Presidential election. Sprenger lamented some loss of American credibility overseas due to recent political developments in the United States and abroad (although the response of NATO to the war in Ukraine has reversed the trend to a degree). At the same time, Neils noted that America First was detrimental from a purely operational point of view. Happily, whatever negative publicity these developments engendered appears to have been epiphenomenal and not led to any long-term effects. Both the American School of Classical Studies and the American University of Rome effectively carry out a circumscribed mission of cultural diplomacy. As Sprenger put it, his university is committed to free thought, inquiry, and free speech, and as such, it continues to be a unique medium through which to share a vibrant American culture.

While Professors Neils and Sprenger alluded to the perennial problems of dealing with foreign bureaucracies as ex-pats, they also noted that their institutions had overcome the recent COVID pandemic resiliently, their appeal as centers of learning and culture unscathed. Sprenger announced after the program that the American University of Rome was poised to welcome its largest incoming class in September.

Professors Neils and Sprenger also revealed that their respective institutions both had a significant public service vocation with regard to the ethos of incoming students and the engagement of supporters of the institutions. Neils reminded the audience that the main archeological dig managed by the American School in Athens, the Agora, was made possible by American philanthropy, supporting the creation of a major museum on the site. Likewise, the American University of Rome has been awarded oversight of a dig on the Aventine Hill owing in large part to the public service dimension included in their proposal to manage the site. Both institutions, it may be concluded, are tending their gardens well -- literally: Neils and her students inspired the creation of an informal neighborhood caretakers group on and off the campus of the School, while AUR students volunteer to tend public gardens throughout Rome.

The American College of Thessaloniki (ACT) and the Jena Centre for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS) at Friedrich Schiller University in cooperation with the Foreign Affairs Institute (www.fainst.eu), the MOHA Research Center (www.moha.center), and the Balkan Strategies International Synergies (BSIS) launch the 1st Kavala International Summer School on reconciliation and social cohesion (Kavala, 5-10 September 2022).

The Summer School combines academic theory and the praxis of diplomacy to analyze policies and behaviors enabling reconciliation, tolerance, social cohesion, and good neighborliness at the local, national, and international levels, as well as a UN simulation under the guidance of well-known professors, scholars, diplomats, and businessmen. In addition, the participants/students will be able to improve their professional skills as they will work on real cases with politicians, leaders, and senior diplomats.

The Summer School will be able to provide scholarships for some of the participating students.

For further information, please email the coordinator, Dr. Theodoros Theodorou, Greece Ambassador a.H, Director General MOHA Research Center at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

On June 16-24, 2022, the innovative Young Business Creators entrepreneurship summer camp took place at the Anna Papageorgiou STEM Center at Anatolia College. The program concerned pupils who completed the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades of Primary School and was held in English at a level that the children understood.

Young Business Creators is based on the Jacobson Foundation for Youth Entrepreneurship method by the University of Iowa. Anatolia College adopted the know-how and educational materials and emphasized new technologies and modern practices in marketing.

The Entrepreneurship Hub of ACT - the American College of Thessaloniki organizes the program every summer. This year 29 students participated in the program. As young entrepreneurs, pupils learn how to build their small businesses through guidance and teamwork. The process includes the conception of idea, design, branding, production, and sales.

This year children visited the companies HATZOPOULOS SA, OXFORD COMPANY, and COMO, where executives showed them in practice how modern businesses operate.

On the last day of the program, the children presented and sold the products they had made to their parents, relatives, and friends during a bazaar organized at Anatolia College, raising over €1,300. The students donated the money to the "Sotir" Center for disabled persons.

Thanks to the program, the experienced trainers, the products the children produced and sold, and the live examples of businesses they saw, the children understood how entrepreneurship contributes to developing a person's personality. At the same time, the program strengthens the children's team spirit, communication, creative skills, and self-confidence.

ACT - the American College of Thessaloniki, a division of Anatolia College, as a non-profit educational institution, aims to develop and promote the knowledge and development of students' skills.

The Organization of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall in collaboration with the Summer Music Performance Program at ACT / A Division of Anatolia College and the MOYSA Orchestra present on Friday, July 1^st the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell (1659-1695) in a modern edition- 1940's Hollywood glamour.

Conductor Thodoris Papadimitriou

Direction/Coordination: Kent Smith, Sets/Costumes: Kent Smith

Preparation: Dr. Brandt Fredriksen (piano) 

Participating:
Dido - Kaitlyn Barnes
Aeneas - Daniel Chiu
Belinda - Alexa-Marie Fini and Despoina Andranioti
Sorceress - Shay Downey
1^st Witch - Alyssa DeLessio and Jillian Prakelt
2^nd Witch - Lauren Leonardi and Anya Bulchandani
2^nd Woman - Nyssa Welshans
Spirit - Christie Kim
1^st Sailor - Angelos Markou

Choir:
Vassilis Sapounidis
Angelos Markou
Despoina Andranioti
Natasa Molliou
Lambrini Manou
Ilektra Manousi

MOYSA – Youth Symphony Orchestra of Thessaloniki Concert Hall

Participating:
Harpsichord: Athanasios Papaisiou