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Scientific Conference: Within / Outside the City Walls: Refugee neighborhoods of Thessaloniki 

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(22-23/9/2023)

The Culture-Borders-Gender/LΑΒ (Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies – University of Macedonia) and the 100memories research project (Institute of Historical Research – National Research Foundation), in collaboration with the Cultural Venue of Islahane (Ministry of Culture), are jointly organizing an international, hybrid, and nomadic Conference (University of Macedonia-City-Islahane) in September 2023, with the theme:

Within / Outside the City Walls: Refugee neighborhoods of Thessaloniki (22-23/9/2023)

The concept of the ‘neighborhood’, as a subset of urban space, has been an important category in the sociological analysis of migration and refugeeness since the early 20th century. In 1925, Park and Burgess, published their classic work The City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019) that established them as founders of the Chicago School. Their research linked the migration of African-Americans and Spanish-speaking migrants to the creation of the so-called ‘ethnic neighborhoods’. This perception was also associated with the understanding of the refugee neighborhood as a site of resistance against assimilation and integration policies, while in many cases, ethnic neighborhoods became synonymous with ghettos. With the end of European colonialism, when Anthropology returns home, particularly to the Mediterranean environment of Europe, it hesitantly includes the study of urban space, focusing on neighborhoods. Despite the paradoxical intentions, it highlights the significance of place as a signifier of socialization and the formation of gendered self, citizenship, and the management of individual and collective memory. This participatory field observation has methodologically contributed to the multifaceted and dynamic dimension of the neighborhood for the production of knowledge and politics. In Greece, the refugee waves of 1922 intensified ethnic deviations from the national standard/archetype, not only due to reasons of language or religious difference, as exemplified in Thessaloniki between Jews and refugees, but also due to class and regional factors. After the 1922 ‘Asia Minor Catastrophe’ and the forced exchange of population based on the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), refugees who settled in the rural areas of northern Greece, Athens, Piraeus, as well as the urban environment within and outside the walls of Thessaloniki, had a significant impact on the country’s economic, social, and political life. The first ethnographic research on the “Heirs of the Asia Minor Catastrophe” was conducted in Kokkinia, a “refugee neighborhood” of Piraeus, by anthropologist Renée Hirschon during the 1970s (Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989). In Thessaloniki, our relationship with the Others/foreigners/persecuted has historically been shaped through personal narratives, everyday trivialities, materialities, traumas, delights, memories, and experiences which were not of interest to the grand narratives of national memory and are absent from our city’s national historical and archaeological museums.

The conference invites researchers in social sciences and humanities who use fieldwork, those who focus on the study of official and unofficial archival material, as well as those who have creatively (e.g., in literature, visual arts, cinema) been inspired by the lives of people in refugee neighborhoods, both within and outside the walls of Thessaloniki, to participate in the meeting.

Following the path of ethnography and cultural studies, we seek to explore in Thessaloniki, and beyond, the significance of ‘locality’ and ‘neighborhood’ in the context of inclusive and even conflictual relationships between refugees and other residents, as well as among themselves. Additionally, we aim to gain knowledge about everyday life and the trivial things, focusing on personal narratives, artist’s creative imagination, and fiction. Narratives creating ruptures and openings beyond the nostalgic reconstruction of the refugee past have been systematically ignored by the national narrative, but also for a more reflective and contemplative understanding of the present. This understanding maps the traumas and dynamics of the refugee condition in the current moment (see Svetlana Βoym, The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books, 2001).

The conference includes panels, workshops, walking tours, atelier-anti-tours, meetings at local spots, and a round-table discussion, in dialogue with European Cultural Days (2023 “Living Heritage”). As an honorary guest, Renée Hirschon, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, will return to her ethnographic field to highlight the significance of refugeeness in the present. She will explore its everyday construction of women’s gendered experience and its management of memory, both in material and narrative ways, within and outside the neighborhood, within the city and the state.

Venue and Mode of Conduct

The conference will take place at the University of Macedonia and at the Cultural Venue of Islahane. The mode of conduct will be hybrid.
For those attending the conference hybridly and only if they need a certificate of attendance, it is necessary to complete the following registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1c1EheqOHtclVWTeOQkJhSNlwlqJy3zOZ3MSgE_iCMZg/edit
For those attending the conference in person and only if they need a certificate of attendance, it is necessary to register before the start of the conference, outside the conference hall of the University of Macedonia.

Organization:

  • Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB, University of Macedonia
  • Special Research Fund, University of Macedonia
  • Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation
  • Service of Modern Monuments & Technical Works of Central Macedonia (YNMTEKM), Ministry of Culture (YPPPO)
  • Cultural Venue of Islahane
  • European Heritage Days 2023

Scientific Committee:

  • R. Hirschon (Professor Emerita, University of Oxford)
  • E. Voutyra (Professor Emerita, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
  • F. Tsibiridou (Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Scientific Coordinator)
  • I. Manos (Associate Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
  • E. Sideri (Assistant Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
  • E. Kyramargiou (Historian & Research Associate, Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation)
  • O. Lafazani (PhD in Social Geography, Harokopio University)
  • A. Ioannidou (Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
  • S. Mavrogeni (Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
  • M. Tsantsanoglou (Deputy General Director of MOMus and Artistic Director of MOMus-Museum of Modern Art)
  • A. Kondylidou (Archaeologist and Social Anthropologist)
  • C. Chrysanthopoulos (Special Teaching Staff, Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation)
  • M. Zermpoulis (Researcher/Scientific Associate of the CBG/Lab)

Organizing Committee:

  • D. Katayftsis (Researcher/Scientific Associate of the CBG/Lab)
  • Ch. Grammatikopoulou (Art Historian/Scientific Associate of the CBG/Lab)
  • E. Kapetanaki (PhD in Social Anthropology/Secondary Education Teacher)
  • N. Manolas (PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
  • A. Mitropanou (Graduate Student, MA Program, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
  • Ch. Groballi (Graduate Student, MA Program, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
  • A. Moumtzoglou (Special Teaching Staff, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
  • P. Paka (Administrative Staff of the CBG/Lab)

Conference Website: https://www.facebook.com/thessconf23/

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2023-2024 – M.Sc. in HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT

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INTERINSTITUTIONAL M.Sc. PROGRAMME 

M.Sc. IN HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT 

UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA – INTERNATIONAL HELLENIC UNIVERSITY 

DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES 

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 

ANNOUNCEMENT 

Admission of Graduate Students  

M.Sc. IN HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT 

The Programme of Studies Committee of the interinstitutional postgraduate programme of studies “M.Sc. in Humanitarian Logistics and Crisis Management” between the Departments of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia and Science and Technology of the University Center of International Programmes of Studies of the International Hellenic University invites interested parties to apply for the interinstitutional postgraduate programme of studies “M.Sc. in Humanitarian Logistics and Crisis Management” for the academic year 2023-2024. The courses of the programme are taught exclusively in English.  

1. The “M.Sc. in Humanitarian Logistics and Crisis Management” combines humanitarian logistics with crisis management, providing high quality theoretical and technological knowledge, as well as analytical and technological tools, to cover the need for professionals in the above scientific fields of government agencies including civil protection, national and international organizations, military, police, coast guard, fire department, NGOs, local authorities, private sector companies, as well as academia. 

The M.Sc. programme provides interdisciplinary education that combines technological, theoretical and managerial knowledge, as well as technological and analytical tools in humanitarian logistics and crisis management. Graduates obtain the necessary knowledge and skills, in the scientific fields of humanitarian logistics, crisis management, emergency management and business continuity for a successful academic and professional career. 

2. The postgraduate studies for this M.Sc. programme lead to the acquisition of a Master’s Degree. During the first semester, all students are required to attend three mandatory core courses and a combination of two elective courses. During the second semester all students follow a further three mandatory courses and a combination of two elective courses. Finally, during the third semester, students can choose either to work exclusively to the Master’s dissertation or to work to the Master’s dissertation and attend the course Consulting Project. 

The duration of the full-time study programme in order to obtain the Master’s degree is three (3) academic semesters. For students who so wish, there is also the possibility, upon request, of attending the programme on a part–time basis. In this case, the duration of the Master’s degree will be six (6) academic semesters. In addition, it is possible to attend the programme combining distance learning with traditional face-to-face teaching. 

3. To meet entry requirements, candidates should be graduates from Greek Higher Education Institutions or equivalent institutions from abroad, as well as graduates of Greek Higher Military Education Institutions, Hellenic Police Officers’ School, Hellenic Coast Guard Officers’ School, Hellenic Fire Corps Officers’ School. 

Graduates of Departments of equivalent institutions from abroad are accepted as candidates, on the condition that their first degree is recognized by the Hellenic National Academic Recognition and Information Center (D.O.A.T.A.P.; https://www.doatap.gr/) in accordance with the current legislation. 

In addition, candidates are required to have English language knowledge documented with a relevant certificate, corresponding at least to the State Certificate of Language Learning Level B2 or other certificate proving good knowledge of English. Holders of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree at a Foreign University in English are exempt from this obligation. 

4. Tuition fees of 3,200€ are required. The amount is payable in four instalments. 

5. The selection of postgraduate students will be undertaken in accordance with the provisions of current legislation based on the relevance of the subject of the candidate’s first degree with respect to the subject area of the postgraduate programme, the grades received in first degree qualifications, the grades received on the thesis and undergraduate courses related to the “M.Sc. in Humanitarian Logistics and Crisis Management”, the candidate’s certified proficiency in the English language, the candidate’s curriculum vitae and recommendation letters. Additional qualifications, such as job experience or additional languages and degrees, will be taken into consideration.  

Following an initial selection, interviews will be conducted by phone or Skype. 

6. Interested parties are invited to submit an application. Application deadline is the 12th of December 2023.  

A maximum of forty (40) students can be enrolled in the M.Sc. programme. 

Application documentation must include the following: 

  • A completed application form found at https://www.ihu.gr/ucips/postgraduate-programmes/hlcm#admissions. 
  • Copy of degrees (University degree, other postgraduate degree, etc.). Students that hold an undergraduate degree from a foreign (i.e. other than Greek) university which has not been recognized by the “Hellenic National Recognition and Information Center” (D.O.A.T.A.P. in Greek) will not be eligible to be awarded a postgraduate degree.  
  • Copy of the transcript of grades all years of undergraduate as well as any postgraduate studies.  
  • English language knowledge documented with a relevant certificate, corresponding at least to the State Certificate of Language Learning Level B2 or other certificate proving good knowledge of English. Holders of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree at a Foreign University in English are exempt from this obligation. 
  • At least two (2) recommendation letters. Letters must be signed by faculty members of the candidate’s university or by academics from other educational institutions that are familiar with the candidate’s academic background. In case of candidates with significant professional experience, they can also submit letters from people in their professional field. 
  • A detailed curriculum vitae. 
  • Any other information that, in the opinion of the candidates, would contribute to their more complete evaluation, such as certificates of participation in summer schools, conferences, student exchange programs, IKY scholarships. or other recognized institutions, prizes in competitions, presentations of papers in scientific conferences, proof of participation in research projects, scientific publications, certificates of professional experience, etc.  
  • A copy of ID or passport.  
  • A recent passport size photograph 

The necessary application documents are submitted via email to: infohlcm@ihu.edu.gr. Applicants are advised to include in the subject only the following: FULL NAME AND “APPLICATION 2023-2024”. 

The Master’s programme starts in February 2024. 

Further information is available on the Master’s programme website: https://www.ihu.gr/ucips/postgraduate-programmes/hlcm. 

Compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EE 2016/679) 

Prospective students who submit an application and the supporting documents, give their consent to the processing of their personal data for the purpose of assessment of their candidacy in order to become accepted to the postgraduate programme. If a candidate is not selected, his/her details are deleted from the School’s archives within a period of 30 days. A candidate whose application is not successful is entitled to receive the documents submitted, otherwise the documents are destroyed within 30 days. 

 Thessaloniki, 24 August 2023 

The M.Sc. Programme Director 

Maria Drakaki 

Professor 

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Program of the 4th International Seminar for PhD candidates

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17-18 February 2023

Organization: Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB, Department of BSAS, PAMAK
Conference Hall PAMAK – 1st floor (hybrids and live)

Methodology seminar
Public Anthropology and Cultural Studies: Issues in Methodology, Fieldwork and Archival Research

Seminar Platform: ZOOM
Link:  https://zoom.us/j/8364531775?pwd=OVg3YVZlbmVCYWs3S0JYcEFGYlV1QT09    Meeting ID: 836 453 1775     Passcode: KB2JKa

Participants:
–Pantelis Probonas, Journalist and PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the Department of History, Archeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly.
–Elena Mamoulaki, Dr. of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Universidad de Barcelona) and Architect Engineer (AUTH, MSc NTUA).
–Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology and its President Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia, Director of the Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB.

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“The Virtual, Otherwise” international conference, June 2 – 4, 2022

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The Greek node of the international conference “The Virtual, Otherwise” will take place in the Public Benefit Foundation of Nikolaos and Eleni Porfyrogenis in Agria onThursday, Friday and Saturday June 2-4, 2022.The program combines the screening of recorded keynotes and panels, live online discussions with anthropologists in various parts of the world and parallel actions (podcasts, exhibitions, games, music, screenings, theater workshop) that will be conducted live.
Indicative program
Thursday, June 2
12.00 Instagram Lives (Cairo)
13.00 Have you heard this? (podcast)
14.00 Sound Booth
15.00 The Joy of Glitching
16.00 Film Shorts: Feminist storytelling: engaging the future through the past
19.00 KEYNOTE Corazón de Robota (She-Robot Heart)
20.30 Opening – Welcome to the conference
21.00 Otherwise Athens: Four Prospects of Virtuality in the City
Friday June 3rd
9.00 Ghosting the City: Zooming in on Otherwise Publics in Virtual Worlds (Hamburg)
11.00 KEYNOTE Surveillance Capital and Occupation
12.00 Sound Booth
13.00 Artist’s Block: Creative Collaborations on Post-Soviet Panel-Block Apartment Art
15.00 Diasporic Praxis: Re-thinking Ethnographic Approaches to the Balkans (Bulgaria)
17.00 Exhibition– Environmental manifestations of trauma
18.00 Let’s decolonize the City! The Game & Video
19.00 Sound Booth
20.30 Desktop Cinema (Views on the Terrace)
21.30 Ethnographic film selections (Views on the Terrace)
Saturday June 4th
11.00 ΚΕΥΝΟΤΕ Aimee Meredith Cox
12-13.30 Say otherwise/Αnthrobombing Workshop (pre-registration only)
13.00 Virtual Geographies of Los Angeles: Responses to Ecology of Fear (UCLA)
13.30-14.30 Sound Booth
14.00 The Map, the Story & the Photograph: Multimodal Methods Against the Grain of Environmental Change
16.00 Sound Booth
17.00 Perspectives on public anthropology: open discussion with Anthrobombing
21.00 Music in the Metaverse !!!!
Organization & coordination
Penelope Papaelia
Penny Paspali
Organizing team
Evi Despotopoulou
Konstantinos Diamantis
Kostis Kalantzis
Mel Kalfanti
Violetta Koutsoukou
Dana Papachristou
Mimina Paterakis
Petros Petridis
Eleni Sideri
Sharon Jacobs
Nick Smith
Student Support Group Univ. Thessaly
Phoebus Zotis
Fotini Kitou
George Konstantinou
Dimitra Morosou
Michalis Panagiotopoulos
Anastasia Strimtsou
Erica Chiukadana
Olga Fotou-Parthenidou
Ilias Marios Haliamalias
Support agencies
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society for Visual Anthropology
Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network
Cooperation agencies
Social Anthropology Laboratory, PTH
Association of Social Anthropologists of Greece
Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB, PAMAK
Anthrobombing
KTEL of Magnesia
Courtesy of space: The Charitable Foundation of Nikolaos and Eleni Porphyrogenis

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Performance #thehead | On becoming an animal | Panos Sklavenitis

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Partnership of the Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab of the Department of Balkans, Slavic and Oriental Studies (PA.MAk), in the context of the new cycle of publications entitled: “The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab in the city” with MOMus-Museum ov Contemporary Art and Cultural Venue of Islahane – former Hamidieh School of Arts & Vocations.

Sunday, May 14, 2023 | 14:00

45 minutes

Meeting point: MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art (within TIF-Helexpo)

Open participation for the public

Visual artist Panos Sklavenitis curates for the first time an unexpected – and otherwise rather improbable – gathering of the various worlds of his project #thehead, as part of his participation in the main exhibition of the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. A large carnival-like procession of individuals and groups in their own disguises will perform their own ritual in the city center, following a route from the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art (within TIF-Helexpo) to the Cultural Venue of Islahane – formerly Hamidie School of Arts & Crafts (2 Eleni Zografou Street).

At 17:00, in collaboration with the Cultural Venue of Islahane, there will be an open discussion about the artist’s work hosted in the same space.

In the context of a discussion on art, politics, and the post-human, in collaboration with the initiative “The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab in the City”, the following will discuss the artist’s work: Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory (Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies / University of Macedonia), and Christina Grammatikopoulou, PhD in Art History and Theory, Postdoctoral Researcher (Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies / University of Macedonia), coordinated by Maria-Thaleia Karra, curator of the Biennale’s main exhibition “Being as Communion.”

Event language: Greek

Press release

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The aim of ETHNOGRAPHEIN is to contribute to a critical and interdisciplinary debate on the theory and practice of ethnography, the epistemology of research, the importance of embodied experience, but also the ways of disseminating the produced anthropological knowledge to the academic and non-academic publics. The anthropological study, as research practice and as politics of writing, involves critical appraisal, empathy, reflection, and self-referentiality, and highlight the importance of the multimodal analysis of the local for understanding the general.
Organisation: Fotini Tsibiridou – Ioannis Manos – Eleni Sideri
The seminars are held on Mondays from 16:00-18:00
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Seminar Platform: ZOOM Link  https://zoom.us/j/8364531775?pwd=OVg3YVZlbmVCYWs3S0JYcEFGYlV1QT09
Meeting ID: 836 453 1775     Passcode: KB2JKa

In the year 2022-2023 in the Culture–Borders–Gender/Lab (https://cbg-lab.uom.gr/) the 3rd round of ETHNOGRAPHY took place from December to May, with the title:

“Public Anthropology, Femininities, Masculinities and Feminist Criticism”

From the standpoint of a critical Public Anthropology and its encounter with feminist criticism, the seminars focus on current fields of analysis in Gender Studies, such as the construction and performance of femininity and masculinity.
Embodying hegemonies, social inequalities and power relations in terms of palimpsest patriarchies, femininities and masculinities constitute the key stakes for identity politics. At the same time, masculinities, femininities and identity politics are a privileged lens for observing and investigating the challenges to the institutional policies of equality as well as the extreme reactionary tendencies towards them. In this cycle of seminars, the complexity and dynamics of the socio-cultural condition in the constitution of the subject and in the performance of the gendered self are sought, synchronously and diachrinically, both in inclusive and conflictual contexts.
Within different social and historical contexts of palimpsest hegemonies, epistemological hierarchy, economic inequality, abandonment in the peripheries and exclusions at the borders but also amid the generalization of conflicts and precarity, the importance of hegemonic and toxic masculinities that resort to violence explores the discrediting, possession and eventual expropriation of females, as the historically first, colonized bodies. Questions such as: How are hegemonic masculinities and toxic masculinities reproduced and multiplied? How do femininities react to the multiplicity of subordination and how do they respond to the challenge of emancipation? What is our attitude as researchers interpersonally, publicly and digitally in all this?

Themes Discussed:
– Femicides, geronticides, care.
– Women in street and Hip-Hop cultures.
– Masculinities and vendetta  in the context of Crete.
-Patriarchy and colonialism of female and male bodies.
– Lesbian femininities and masculinities.
-New feminist methodologies.
-Eugenics, Heterosexuality and Family (1880s-1960s).
-Decolonization and  gay identities.
-Feminist journals in the Greek academia.
-Feminist theories, aesthetic practices and global technologies.

Participants:
–Athena Peglidou, Assistant Professor at the Department of History & Archeology at A.U.Th.
–Natalia Koutsougera, social anthropologist (EDIP, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Panteio University).
–Angeliki Sakellariou, graduate of the Dept. of Communication, Media and Culture at Panteio University.
–Aris Tsantiropoulos, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology at the University of Crete.
–Anne Simati, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Macedonia.
–Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Macedonia (Chairman of the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, Director of the Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB, Chair of the Gender Equality Committee at PAMAK 2020-2023.
–Dimitra Tzanaki, Dr. of History (University of Oxford), Postdoctoral Researcher at PTDE, University of the Aegean.
–Irini Avramopoulou, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Panteio University.
–Athina Athanasiou, Professor at the Dept. of Social Anthropology, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Pantheon University, Director of the Anthropological Research Laboratory.
–Maria Liapi, Sociologist-Researcher, member of the Board of Directors. Committee, scientific manager of the Diotima Center.
–Elena Tzelepi, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Thessaly (Department of History, Archeology and Social Anthropology), President of the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Committee at the same university.
–Kostas Giannakopoulos, Professor at the Dept. of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean, President of the Gender Equality Committee.
–Iris Lykourioti, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Architecture of the University of Thessaly.
–Elpida Karamba, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Culture, Creative Media and Industries of the University of Thessaly, art theorist and exhibition curator.
–Christina Grammatikopoulou, Art Historian, Dr. of the University of Barcelona and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Macedonia.

On the YouTube channel of the workshop you will find the above seminars and all of the ETHNOGRAPHEIN series: https://www.youtube.com/@user-dh7bw3yl6t

Follow us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2431681233762012

Join the group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2431681233762012

The Director of the Laboratory
Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology

Information:
Anna Moumtzoglou:  anna@uom.edu.gr, 2310891778
Penelope Paka:  pipaka@uom.edu.gr, 2310891176

Open Lectures by two visiting professors from South West University «Neofit Rilski» – Blagoevgrad, Boulgaria

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The Culture, Borders, Gender/LAB – Dep. of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies

Invites you to the organized lectures
within the «OUR FARAWAY NEIGHBORS» –lecture series

by two invited professors from Bulgaria:

Ana Luleva, Professor, celebrated member of the Faculty
of Ethnology and Balkan Studies at SWU “Neofit Rilski” – Blagoevgrad, Boulgaria.

Pavlina Solachka, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Ethnology and Balkan Studies, SWU
“Neofit Rilski” – Blagoevgrad, Boulgaria.

Monday, 20/03/2023, 19.00-21:00,
classroom 4

lecture titles:
Prof. Ana Luleva: The Bulgarian Female Labour Migration and the Moral Economy of
Care
Assistant Prof. Pavlina Solachka: Women’s narratives about work and everyday life in
the last decades of state socialism in Bulgaria (1970s and 1980s)

Abstacts
The Bulgarian Female Labour Migration and the Moral Economy of Care
Since the early 1990s, female labour migration from Bulgaria has become a common practice and has acquired unprecedented dimensions. In this lecture I will address the characteristics of the most popular form of the Bulgarian female labour migration to Italy, namely work as caregivers of old people, sick family members and children. The specificity of work – from the decision to get employed abroad as domestic care workers – through its practice to its meaning for the families of the female migrants marks it as an intersection point of pure economic goals and relationships, on the one hand, and moral ones, on the other. This defines my research problem: to analyse the moral economy of care from the perspective of women care workers.

Women’s narratives about work and everyday life in the last decades of state socialism
in Bulgaria (1970s and 1980s)
This lecture presents some of the main topics in the biographical narratives of women – tobacco workers during state socialism. Their value as sources for the study of gender arrangements and gender order at that time will be also discussed. The collection of biographical interviews was part of my research and the writing of my PhD thesis on “The Women’s workinglifein the Pirin Tobacco Factory, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria”.

Short CVs

Dr. Ana Luleva (ID https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-7185-7867) is a Professor of Ethnology at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and at the South-west University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad. Her research interests are in the fields of anthropology of socialism and post-socialism, gender studies, memory studies, critical heritage studies, anthropology of uncertainty and trust. She is an Editor-in-chief of the journal Antropologiya/Anthropology. Journal for Sociocultural Anthropology.
Among the recent publications are: Luleva, A. Culture of Dis/Trust in Bulgaria.
Anthropological Perspectives. 2021, Sofia: IK Gutenberg; Everyday Socialism: Promises, Realities, and Strategies. Edited by A. Luleva, I. Petrova, P. Petrov, Sv. Kazalarska, Y.Yancheva, and Zl. Bogdanova. 2022, Sofia: Acad. Publishing House ”Prof. Marin Drinov”; Luleva, A. Rethinking “Private” in State Socialist Bulgaria. – In: Everyday Socialism: Promises, Realities, and Strategies. Ed. by A. Luleva & all., 2022, Sofia: Acad. Publishing House ”Prof. Marin Drinov”, 50-79.

Dr. Pavlina Solachka is an assistant in the Faculty of Philology at the South-West University “Neofit Rilski” in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Prior to earning her PhD in Ethnology, Dr. Solachka earned her honorary Bachelor Degree in Ethnology at SWU “Neofit Rilski”,then enrolled in Master Degree program with a specific concentration in “Ethnicity and Culture”, again at SWU “Neofit Rilski”. In 2022, Dr. Solachka defended her PhD
Dissertation which examined “The everyday life of the female working class during late socialism: a case study of the tobacco plant ‘Pirin’ in Blagoevgrad.” Dr. Solachka’s research interests are in the field of anthropology, more specifically that of socialism and post-socialism, women’s studies, as well as the development of the Tabaco industry in Bulgaria. Dr. Solachka has several publications in journals, dedicated to research of state
socialism in Bulgaria.

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Gendered Paths and Experiences: Home, Work, University, and a Magazine as a Field of Empowerment and Solidarity

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On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Editorial Committee of the journal ‘EIRINI: Studies by Young Researchers on Gender,’ in collaboration with the ‘Culture-Borders-Gender’ Laboratory of the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, and the Committee on Gender Equality and Combating Discrimination of the University of Macedonia, is organizing an informative event titled ‘Gendered Paths and Experiences: Home, Work, University, and a Magazine as a Field of Empowerment and Solidarity‘ on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, from 1:30 to 3:30 PM in the ‘Ilias Kouskouvelis’ Conference Hall.

For those who are unable to attend in person, there is an option to connect here:
Link https://zoom.us/j/8364531775?pwd=OVg3YVZlbmVCYWs3S0JYcEFGYlV1QT09
Meeting ID: 836 453 1775 Passcode: KB2JKa

Language of the event: Greek