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DEPARTMENT FOR BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA
23-24 January 2021

The Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia, seeking the economic and social consequences of the Coronavirus crisis in Greece and the Balkans, is organizing a two-day conference on  January the 23-24 2021, entitled: “2020 an extraordinary year in pandemic times: Academic experiences and research practices from the Balkans”.

The pandemic that broke out in the winter of 2020 and affected the whole world brought major changes in all areas of human activitylong, had so many victims and radically change people’s relationships and lives. Documenting the pandemic and its impact is still a work in progress.Thereofore, there is a need to capture the methodology and ethics associated with issues of research, teaching and everyday survival in the time of the pandemic. A comparative assessment by the Balkan countries is considered useful and necessary one year after the first confinement. We are looking to assess in a comparative way, theimportance of social science research, as it took place in the neighboring Balkan countries and the wider region. Did the pandemic contribute to the development of more networks and partnerships or not? Are there scientific fields favoured by  the conditions of the pandemic? What are the financial and communication tools developed? Does it have a more aggravating effect on other fields? How  did COVID-19 shape  the academic space and the universities themselves within the conditions of in tele-working? What the impact on the relationships within the university community, between students and professors or within each category? What are the implications for students and their studies, research interests, employment and daily survival?

The purpose of this conference is to fill this gap, i.e. to make a description and assessment of the pandemic in academia and social research (political science, sociology, economics, social anthropology, communication, psychology, cultural studies, new technologies and News Inside.) Through a comparative look of the Area studies in Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as their neighborhoods, the conference is particularly interested in the participation of young scientists and research teams. Selected conference papers, after evaluation, will be published online.

Those interested in participating should send a presentation title, contact details and a brief description of the topic to emails vvlasidis@uom.gr, elasideri@uom.edu.gr until October 15, 2020. Researchers whose topics will be accepted will be notified by mail on October 30, 2020.

The conference will be held on 23-24 January 2021 with a physical presence at the University of Macedonia (but there will be the possibility of hybrid participation) unless the health protocols prohibit physical presence, at which time it will be held online.

INDICATIVE  THEMES
-Digital university, the new university
-Financing under the shadow of COVID-19
– Transnational collaborations, networks, research and pandemic
-Methods and methodology of social sciences in the pandemic
-Teaching and electronic platforms
-Beyond COVID research
-Study education at the time of COVID
-Post-COVID university
-Universitas, educational institution and academic communities
-Gender discrimination and equality practices during the pandemic
-University and society: strengthening or reducing the links between them

https://contemporarygreekfilmcultures4.blogspot.com/2020/09/in-case-oyu-miss-yhe-conference-or-you.html?fbclid=IwAR0O-FOfkdGysCVAeS944ftzZjy5rai1SOGqBcP9xVln85DhVxySu-Ft35o

The International Conference Cultural Neighborhoods and Co-productions In South-East Europe and Beyond 4^th Conference on Contemporary Greek Film Cultures will be held digitally on the Zoom platform between 27-28 / 8/2020. The conference is organized by the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies and the Thessaloniki Film Festival as well as the Study Group of Contemporary Greek Film Cultures.

Through the different aspects of co-productions, the conference will explore how Greek cinema is connected to other regional cinemas, such as those of Southeastern Europe, and how these connections form ‘cultural neighborhoods’. In addition, it will explore how these links relate to the EU cultural policies as well as the formation of a European identity.

For the digital attendance of the conference there will be an announcement on the website https://contemporarygreekfilmcultures4.blogspot.com/ after 20/8.
The detailed programme is found at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e6yx49daq6q1gjh/PROGRAM_1672020eng.docx?dl=0

For the Organizing Committee
Eleni Sideri
Assistant Professor

The Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Visual Anthropology are excited to bring to you its second carbon-neutral biennial conference: Distribute 2020, which will take place on May 7, 8, and 9, 2020.

Like its previous iteration (Displacements 2018), Distribute 2020 will be virtual and distributed: virtual in that it will be anchored by a dedicated conference website streaming prerecorded multimedia panels; and distributed in that presenters and viewers from across the globe will participate in the conference via in-person local “nodes.”

Distribute 2020 plans to offer three full days of streamed audio-visual panels and in-person local nodes where participants can gather with others to view the conference and join in related activities like workshops, art exhibitions, and dinner salons. Our goal is a low-cost, highly accessible, carbon-neutral conference that might pave the way for rethinking the mega-conference model.

Our 2020 theme, “Distribute” is meant to operate on multiple levels. Distribute is an analytic lens to study the dispersal, diffusion, and (re)distribution of humans and nonhumans, and of resources, practices, and ideas. Distribute is also a call or imperative – redistribute! – to prompt more ethically and politically engaged forms of scholarship.

Distribute 2020 asks: How can we turn our collective anthropological attention to questions of distribution and redistribution, and to the economics and politics, the violence and poetics of allocation and dispensation, movement and migration, organizing and repositioning? And, in so doing, how might we generate forms of publicly engaged scholarship that reach beyond the traditional confines of academia?

Distribute 2020 joins a rising tide of voices addressing such critical questions, offering an anthropological response and a means to imagine another anthropology into existence.