Prof. Constantina Theofanopoulou’s Post

Just participating in this exciting seminar: in the end, collecting funds and resurces is always the most critical passage for every institution.

Preservation easements can be such powerful tools as we seek to permanently preserve important events in US history.

This is an interesting conference in the context of 21st century challenges and lessons we could learn from Brigid

Are you familiar with the story of Quantrill's Raid on the city of Lawrence during the Civil War? If not, you should read Will Haynes' story "City of Sorrow."

“What if we included the arts and humanities in all policies and programs intended to help us deliver on the promise of our nation?” On March 27, 2024, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) held the 212th meeting of the National Council on the Arts. The theme and programming focused on “Meeting the Moment: Building a Healthy Performing Arts Ecosystem.” In this blog post, I am sharing my takeaways from the meeting. #ArtAsASolution

Can we make this mandatory for all USA citizens? Why, Who, What, When, Where, & How can also lead us to bringing down ancestral brickwalls by knowing the issues of the time.

A DATA DRIVEN RESEARCH AS A COMMUNICATION (ADVERTISING) PROJECT FOR THE BRAND. When we’ve made a survey for DreamApp I realised that the naked truth could be an interesting communication project for a brand. And it’s true. It highlight’s an expertness of the brand and makes a brand more consciousness. More meaningful. Which cases with a research do you know?

Join the discussion how to promote a framework where justice and imagination as well as science and the fine arts can thrive.

Colleagues and creative collaborators, I am revisiting old chestnuts to set context for the upcoming US arts summit on Jan 30 at arts.gov. For the committed wonks, here is the full slide set of my 2015 US Cultural Policy course. It still teaches, as they say, though much more evidence and research exists now. I treated questions of equity under the rubric of cultural democracy. Of course, that is the leading policy priority for our work today, and I would now reframe the course in that context. Forgive where the graphics went wobbly. I didn't fuss over it out of expediency! Link to large pdf slide set in comments! #HealBridgeThrive

A lovely review of my co-edited collection 'Sports and the American Presidency' in the Journal of Sport History: https://lnkd.in/e_DiRkyK: "[The editors] have compiled a quite remarkable collection on, as the title indicates, sports and the American presidency from the time of Theodore Roosevelt to the present... One can imagine that any number of these chapters would work well in classes on twentieth-century (and twenty-first-century—yes, we need to start thinking about teaching the last two decades or so) American history, political history, the presidency, or sports studies courses. Scholars will also certainly benefit from these contributions and find ample space to build upon them… a very fine collection."