Global Studies LAS has provisionally approved a (GLBL 298) study abroad course for the Modern Greek Studies Program to Cyprus in the coming Fall 2013. The course will be entitled: "Conflict and Post Conflict Resolution in Modern Cyprus: Life and Culture Divided by Wall". The course will be available, depending on the number of students who will register for it. For more information on the course you can check the following electronic link: http://studyabroad.illinois.edu/userfiles/pages/facultyledprog.aspx After attending classes for eight weeks in campus, the course will offer undergraduate students the opportunity to visit Cyprus and gain a first-hand experience of how the political, economic, social and cultural life of the divided country has developed since the end of the military conflict in 1974. Students will be able to visit the island and enrich their knowledge on its history and culture; visit world-unique historical and cultural ancient, medieval and modern monuments; and meet with high-ranking state officials, NGO activists and people who lived through the events of the 1960s and 1970s and gain first-hand information on what happened and how those events changed people's lives.

Author: Dr. Stefanos Katsikas-Director of the Program

Published Date: Wed, 08 May 2013

.....Michelle Asbill (EU Studies) and Hephestion Bolaris (Classics), both excellent students of the Modern Greek Studies Program in our campus for winning a FLAS Fellowship by the European Union Center (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) to continue with their studies in Modern Greek next year. Michelle won the FLAS fellowship to study Intermediate Modern Greek I and II and Hephestion Bolaris won the FLAS fellowship to study Advanced Modern Greek I and II. Well done to them, congratulations to their families and thanks to the EUC for its decision. For those, who are not familiar with FLAS Fellowships, these fellowships support graduate and undergraduate study in modern foreign languages in combination with area studies, international studies, or international or area aspects of professional studies. Graduate students may receive full tuition and fee waiver and a stipend of $15,000 payable over an academic year (eligibility for tuition waiver varies by home department and school). Undergraduate students receive $10,000 for tuition and fees and a $5,000 stipend. For more info: http://www.flas.illinois.edu/

Author: Dr. Stefanos Katsikas-Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program

Published Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013

Dr. Stefanos Katsikas, Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program at the University of Illinois, was awarded a $4,000 research grant from the European Union Center, UIUC, for this project "Religion, Peace and Conflict: Greece, the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean", which will lead to a General Education course by the same name to be hopefully offered as from the next academic year (2013-14)

Author: Dr. Stefanos Katsikas-Director of the Program

Published Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013

Dr. Stefanos Katsikas, Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program, University of Illinois, has won a $750 conference travel grant to present a paper at the "Bridging the Balkans Conference" to be held in May 2013 at King's College London on the occasion of the centenary of the signing of the London Peace Conference (May 1913), which marked the end of the First Balkan War.

Author: Dr. Stefanos Katsikas-Director of the Program

Published Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013

Dr. Stefanos Katsikas, Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program, University of Illinois, has won a $1,500 grant by the European Union Center (EUC), University of Illinois, for the Modern Greek Studies Program, for the development of a one-credit enhancement course in Modern Greek.

Author: Dr. Stefanos Katsikas-Director of the Program

Published Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013