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Weatherhead Migration Cluster Seminar: “Creating Inclusive Communities: Examples from the Greek Front”
March 30th, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: online only
Speaker: Thalia Dragonas, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Athens
Thalia Dragonas is Emerita Professor of Social Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She was Dean of the School of Education (2015-2018), Chair of the Department of Early Childhood Education for several terms, member of the board of the Greek Open University and the Center of Educational Research. Her research activity lies in the area of identities and the articulation of the social with the psychological. She has participated in and directed many Greek and international projects on minority and refugee integration. She worked extensively for the educational reform of the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace (1997-2019). She is currently participating in the Erasmus+ European-African collaborative project “Humanitarian Action—Climate Change and Displacements.” Specific areas of research interests are: social inclusion; minorities; refugee integration; psychosocial identity; intergroup relations; intercultural education; ethnocentrism in the educational system.
About the Weatherhead Migration Cluster: The Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs awarded a “research cluster” award to FXB Center Director of Research Jacqueline Bhabha and Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Sarah Dryden-Peterson for a 3-year seminar series on migration. Dr. Vasileia Digidiki, an FXB Health and Human Rights fellow, is also a core member of the cluster. The title of the research cluster is “Building Inclusion, Sustaining Solidarity: Frontline Host Communities, Distress Migrants and the Role of the State.” It is construed to include work that covers both government and non-government practice and how it impacts the well-being or rights of refugees and other distressed migrants. The funding supports a group of Harvard doctoral students working on topics related to the cluster’s focus, and a regular seminar series open to all members of the Harvard community.
Please register to attend this Zoom event.