Greek Centre | Thursday 26 September | 7.00pm Professor Dimitris Christopoulos and Dr Kostis Karpozilos will present a lecture entitled Human Rights in the Age of Inequality: xenophobia, exclusion and the myth of the strong leader, at the Greek Centre on Thursday 26 September. With this lecture will close the 2019 Greek History and Culture Seminars series, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne. It is a common assumption that we have globally entered an era of exacerbation of social inequalities in an unforeseen manner at least for the Western World after WWII. Social policies of wealth redistribution are considered as outdated and responsible for major competitiveness deficit of developed economies. Within such circumstances, democracies are morally discredited and seem politically exhausted. Rule of law and human rights are often perceived as an unreasonable luxe, even more as a threat for the state security. Xenophobia, racism and the Far Right re-emerge relieved from the 20th century guilt whereas the discourse of the “strong leaders” becomes more and more authoritarian: from Russia to Brazil and from Turkey to the United States institutions.
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When: Thursday 26 September 2019, 7:00 pm Where: Greek Centre, Mezz, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Certificates of Participation will also be handed out. Drinks and light refreshments will be available.
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