This Week
Monday Judicial employees begin a four-day strike over demands about wages and working conditions. To Thursday. Human rights activists to protest in solidarity with the two homosexual couples whose civil marriage is likely to be annulled by a court on Rhodes, during the hearing of the case on Thursday. At 6 p.m. outside Parliament. To celebrate World Translation Day, September 30, the Hellenic Association of Translators is hosting two conferences in Athens and Thessaloniki. Today’s conference will take place at 7 p.m. at the Stoa tou Vivliou book arcade in Athens. In Thessaloniki, the conference will be held tomorrow, September 30, at 7 p.m. at Aristotle University. For further details, log on to www.pem.gr. Tuesday World Translation Day. University of Athens in collaboration with the Hellenic Audiovisual Institute (IOM) hold an international symposium on pornography, titled «Globalization Media and Adult/Sexual Content: Challenges to Regulation and Research.» The conference begins at 5.30 p.m. at the press center of the General Secretariat of Communication in Kallithea. To tomorrow. For further information, log on to www.iom.gr. Eugenides Foundation launches the e-KnowNet project «Research Laboratories – Educators – Science Centers: Collaboration with the Use of Information and Communication Technology» starting 9 a.m. For further information, visit www.e-knownet.eu. Doctors Without Borders holds a press conference to state the detention conditions of migrants without documents at detention centers on Lesvos and in Patras. At noon at the Foreign Press Association. Wednesday Greek Journalists’ Union (ESIEA) holds a 24-hour strike opposing social security reforms. The strike will result in a media blackout and Kathimerini English Edition will not be available on Thursday. It will be back as normal on Friday. Athens Plus will not be affected. European Network for Information and Communication is organizing a «Night of Discussion» titled «Development and the Hellenic Diaspora,» with official guest Deputy Foreign Minister Theodoros Kassimis. Begins at 8.30 p.m. at the restaurant Gefsis me Onomasia Proelefsis, 317 Kifissias, Kifissia. For info, call 210.672.4562 or visit www.euronem.org.gr. Thursday The 5th conference on Artificial Intelligence begins at 9 a.m. at the cultural center of Ermoupolis on Syros. The conference is organized by the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society and Aegean University. To Saturday. Friday University of Thessaly is hosting a three-day panhellenic conference on «Woman and Tradition» in Karditsa. The conference aims to showcase the important role of women in the development and promotion of a society’s culture and practices. To Sunday.
