{"id":12741,"date":"2025-07-02T15:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/a-northern-light\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:27:58","slug":"a-northern-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/a-northern-light\/","title":{"rendered":"A Northern Light in Southern Struggles: Swedish Solidarity Towards Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friends and Colleagues,<\/p>\n

Sweden and Greece are bound by a history of empathy, civic engagement, and shared democratic values. Welcome to join distinguished panelists\u00a0Giorgos Papandreou<\/strong>,\u00a0Kajsa Ekis Ekman<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Marie Mauzy<\/strong>, moderated by prominent journalist\u00a0Alexandra Pascalidou<\/strong>, as they trace this history and how solidarity can evolve in the face of new geopolitical and economic challenges. The discussions will reach from the presence of the Swedish Red Cross during WW2 to Sweden’s response to the Greek debt crisis, via the 1960s solidarity movements and Swedish reactions to the Greek military dictatorship. The event is co-organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens and NORMED, which operates under the auspices of the Research Centre for the Humanities,\u00a0and takes place at the Danish Institute in Athens, Herefondos 14, on\u00a0Monday<\/strong>,\u00a0July 7<\/strong>, at\u00a019:00<\/strong>.
\nTo register, please visit:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.sia.gr\/en\/events.php?eid=500#ParticipationForm<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Warmly welcome!<\/p>\n

\n

George Papandreou<\/strong>
\nfm. Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, MP<\/p>\n

Kajsa Ekis Ekman<\/strong>
\nJournalist, Author of\u00a0\u039a\u03bb\u03b5\u03bc\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03be\u03b7<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03a4\u03bf<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03c7\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03ba\u03c1\u03af\u03c3\u03b7\u03c2<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03bc\u03b5<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03c4\u03b7<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ac<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03c3\u03bf\u03c5\u03b7\u03b4\u03ae\u03c2<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u03b4\u03b7\u03bc\u03bf\u03c3\u03b9\u03bf\u03b3\u03c1\u03ac\u03c6\u03bf\u03c5<\/em>\u00a0(\u039a\u03ad\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2) and member of N\u00e4tverket f\u00f6r Grekland<\/p>\n

Marie Mauzy<\/strong>
\nAuthor, scholar<\/p>\n

Panel chair: Alexandra Pascalidou<\/strong>
\nAuthor, journalist<\/p>\n

Intervention by\u00a0Dr Sotiris Mousouris<\/strong>\u00a0(fm. United Nations Assistant Secretary General, 1982-1995).<\/p>\n

Welcome messages by\u00a0Jenny Wallensten<\/strong>\u00a0(SIA) and\u00a0George Kalpadakis<\/strong>\u00a0(Academy of Athens & NORMED).<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Dear Friends and Colleagues, Sweden and Greece are bound by a history of empathy, civic engagement, and shared democratic values. Welcome to join distinguished panelists\u00a0Giorgos Papandreou,\u00a0Kajsa Ekis Ekman\u00a0and\u00a0Marie Mauzy, moderated by prominent journalist\u00a0Alexandra Pascalidou, as they trace this history and how solidarity can evolve in the face of new geopolitical and economic challenges. The discussions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-activities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}