Subject: The Center for Hellenic Studies at Temple University
From: ioannisk@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Ioannis Kakadiaris)

			     ANNOUNCEMENT

	 THE CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

It is our pleasure to invite you to navigate through the home page of
The Center of Hellenic Studies at Temple University with starting
point at the URL: http://zoro.cis.temple.edu/~chs/.

Establishment and general aims of the Center

The Center for Hellenic Studies based at Temple University, was established in
January 1995 to serve as a significant intellectual beacon promoting the
values, culture, and contributions of Hellenism to world civilization. Through
its educational, scholarly, and community outreach programs, the Center
endeavors to make widely known the vast and meaningful formative influence of
the Hellenic Civilization of all periods on contemporary values of humanism,
liberal democracy, social dialogue, philanthropy, and artistic creativity. At
the same time, it also seeks to highlight the specific contributions of the
Hellenic diaspora community to all facets of American life. Not only do these
represent the achievements of the Ambassadors of contemporary Hellenism but
they are also a source of national and homeland pride. In the process the bonds
between diaspora and homeland are reaffirmed.

As an educational and cultural forum emphasizing democratic and humanistic
ideals, the Temple Center for Hellenic Studies would advance the following
objectives:
  - keep alive the great legacy that Hellenic Culture has bequethed to
    Western Civilization;
  - foster the study and understanding of the Hellenic Diaspora experience; 
  - become a major contributor to the Core Curriculum programs of Temple 
    and other universities in the mid-Atlantic region and champion all
    their Hellenic Studies efforts;
  - organize and sponsor Hellenic Cultural events, including lectures, 
    conferences, exhibitions, and artistic performances for the
    benefit of its many constituencies in the tri-state area; and 
  - provide an academic agency for a variety of community outreach programs 
    aimed at, but not limited to, the continuing development and promotion 
    of the large Hellenic-American community of the region.

An Invitation

Any individual or organization can become an associate of the Center.
Upon receiving such a request for membership such individuals or organizations
will be placed into our mailing list, receive our newsletter and educational
material, have access to our BBS, and be offered any other opportunity of
participation to the Center's activities and to the utilization of its
resources. We extend a cordial invitation to all to join us!

We will be pleased to hear from you at chs@zoro.cis.temple.edu.

Dr. Kyriakos Kontopoulos
Director of The Center for Hellenic Studies
Professor of Sociology
Temple University
email: kontokyr@astro.ocis.temple.edu