Conference leaders
Yannis Dafermos is a lecturer in economics at the Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. He is also a research associate at the New Economics Foundation. His research interests include financial macroeconomics, fiscal and monetary policy, inequality and poverty, and ecological macroeconomics. His publications have appeared in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, International Review of Applied Economics and Review of Political Economy. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Athens.
Email address: Yannis.Dafermos@uwe.ac.uk
Web page: https://sites.google.com/site/yannisdafermos/home
Marica Frangakis is a British trained economist (LSE; Univ. of Sussex), who has worked for many years in the banking sector (Agricultural Bank of Greece; National Bank of Greece Group). She is at present an independent researcher, with a special focus in the areas of macro-economics and finance, especially pertaining to the European Union. She is a member of the Board of the “Nicos Poulantzas Institute” and a member of the Steering Committee of the European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe (www.euromemo.eu). She has published widely on the public debt crisis in Greece and in the Eurozone (Journal of Contemporary European Studies, LUXEMBURG Gesellschaftsanalyse und linke praxis, TRANSFORM! Journal, Z-Zeitschrift Marxistiche Erneurung, etc)
E-mail address: frangaki@otenet.gr
Web page: http://www.academia.edu
Christos Tsironis is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Social Theory at the School of Theology, sector of Ethics and Sociology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He studied in Greece and in Germany. For more than one decade he took part in various Seminars and Long Term Training courses of the Council of Europe and other organizations focused on the issues of Intercultural Communication and Human Rights. He worked as social researcher in national and international research programs. His research interests focus on the ambivalence and challenges of Late Modernity. They include: Social and cultural Theory; the Welfare State; Social Policies and Social Problems; Epistemology of Humanities and Social Sciences; Sociology of Religion, Human Rights and Education. He has authored the following books:
1. Consumerism in Contemporary Social Theory: A critical appraisal of Z. Bauman, Thessaloniki: Barbounakis, 2013 (Gr pp.295)
2. Man and Society: A contribution on the Dialogue between Theology and Social Theory, Thessaloniki: Vanias, 2013 (Gr pp. 330)
3. Globalization and Local Communities: Social Ethics and Community Work, Thessaloniki: Vanias, 2007, (Gr pp.267)
4. Social Exclusion and Education in Late Modernity, Thessaloniki: Vanias, 2003, (Gr pp.531)
E-mail address: tsironis@theo.auth.gr
Web page: http://users.auth.gr/~tsironis/