Sorbonne

The Sorbonne university in Paris was forced to cancel a performance of a Greek tragedy featuring actors using black masks after students claimed it was “Afrophobic, colonialist and racist.” Protesters picketed the prestigious Paris university, stopping actors from entering the...

Dr Athena Coustenis studied English literature because her father wanted her to study something that would ensure a job in case she couldn’t find work as a physicist. Towards the end of her studies, she met Daniel Gautier, who...

A Byzantinologist as well as first woman to become the Rector of Sorbonne University, Helene Ahrweiler-Glykatzi, had pointed words for some of Greece's political and appointed leaders who she said are not up to their jobs. Speaking on Spiros Charitatos’...