THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PORTRAIT OF CYPRIOT SOCIETY

PROGRAM


09:00-9:30 Registration

09:30-9:40 Welcome speeches
Constantinos Fellas, Vice-Rector for Academic Staff and Research, University of Nicosia
Yiannakis Kolokassides, Chairman of the Board, Promitheas Research Institute

09:40-10:00 Keynote speech 1:
The "crises" in Cyprus and their impact on the political system and negotiations on the Cyprus problem
Nicos Christodoulides, Government Spokesperson

10:00-11:30 Session I: Political Implications
Moderator: Odysseas Christou, Assistant Professor, University of Nicosia
The reproduction of the Cypriot opposition in the unfinished regime of exception
Nikos Moudouros, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cyprus
Socio-political rifts and political representation in contemporary Cyprus
Yiannos Katsouridis, University of Cyprus and InE Prometheus
Abstention in the context of structural crisis: the case of Cyprus
Constantinos Stylianou, PhD Candidate, University of Cyprus
The "peace dividend" in the post-2013 period
Constantinos Adamides, Director of the Diplomatic Academy, University of Nicosia

11:30-12:00 Break

12:00-13:15 Session II: Economic Impact
Moderator: Constantinos Adamides, Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Nicosia
Turkey's policy of imposing memoranda on the Turkish Cypriot community as a form of coercion/violence, crises of legitimacy, and the focus on Cypriot identity
Anna Misiouli, PhD Candidate, University of Cyprus
Crisis in Cyprus: Social transformations and the new spirit of capitalism
Constantinos Constantinou, PhD Candidate, University of the Aegean
The Eurogroup's decisions on Cyprus and their socio-economic impact
Odysseas Christou, Assistant Professor, University of Nicosia
Christina Ioannou, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Nicosia
Achilleas Emilianides, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Nicosia

13:15-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:45 Session C: Social Impact
Moderator: Constantinos Fellas, Vice-Rector for Academic Staff and Research, University of Nicosia
Understanding contemporary structural relations between periphery and core in the European Union:
the case of Cyprus
Kostas Christodoulides, Director of the Alexander Research Center and PhD Candidate, European University
The 2013 haircut and organized football fans
George Thomas, PhD Candidate, University of Central Lancashire
Youth migration in Cyprus in the context of the economic crisis: a unified explanatory framework
Nikos Trimikliniotis, Associate Professor, University of Nicosia
Sophia Stavrou, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cyprus
Dimitris Trimithiotis, University of Cyprus

15:45-16:00 Break

16:00-16:30 Closing speech:
Market ethics: From the war against the poor
and refugees to the self-destruction of Europe?
George Tsiakalos, Professor of Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki