Professor Scott Bowman AO

Professor Scott Bowman AO Vice-Chancellor and President of Charles Darwin University

Hello, my name’s Scott Bowman, I’m the Vice-Chancellor at Charles Darwin University. It is absolutely fantastic to welcome you to this very unique conference, a conference that is looking at the Hellenic diaspora, a conference that will take place over three days but also over three great locations here in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia and in Greece in Rhodes and also Thessalonica. The conference also brings together three great partners, Charles Darwin University and also the University of the Aegean, which we’ve had a relationship with for over 18 years and the incredible Macedonia University in Thessalonica, which we have had a relationship with for over 10 years. So for our university, these two universities are two of our longest standing partners and it is just wonderful that we’re working with them again. And what a conference it’s going to be, it is going to be looking at so many issues around our relationships between the two great countries. It is also wonderful that at the conference we will be launching the fourth edition of Perspectives on the Atlantic diaspora, a book which really brings together over 60 scholars talking about incredibly important issues to our relationship. Look, I wish you all the very best for the conference. My only regret is that I won’t be there in Rhodes or Thessalonica. They are two places that I have been to and I really want to visit again, and I will visit them again. So have an absolutely fantastic conference and just have a good time. Thank you.

Professor Scott Bowman AO, Vice Chancellor and President, Charles Darwin University