The academic world mourns the passing of eminent Byzantine scholar Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, who died at the age of 99. A formidable intellectual and a trailblazer for women in education, her death was announced this Monday.
Glykatzi-Ahrweiler: A career of historic...
France’s Sorbonne Paris Nord University is poised to become the first foreign institution to open a private university in Greece under a new law.
The university submitted its application to Greece’s Ministry of Education on Friday, seeking approval to establish...
The Sorbonne university in Paris was forced to cancel a performance of a Greek tragedy featuring actors using black masks after students claimed it was “Afrophobic, colonialist and racist.”
Protesters picketed the prestigious Paris university, stopping actors from entering the...
Dr Athena Coustenis studied English literature because her father wanted her to study something that would ensure a job in case she couldn’t find work as a physicist. Towards the end of her studies, she met Daniel Gautier, who...
A Byzantinologist as well as first woman to become the Rector of Sorbonne University, Helene Ahrweiler-Glykatzi, had pointed words for some of Greece's political and appointed leaders who she said are not up to their jobs.
Speaking on Spiros Charitatos’...
