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«Decolonize Hellas/Decolonize the Balkans and Eastern Europe: a first contact»
Webinar/workshop (19.5. 2021, 5-8 pm) University of Macedonia
Convenors: FotiniTsibiridou, Eleni Sideri, Ioannis Manos
Link https://zoom.us/j/8954478253
Meeting ID: 895 447 8253
Decolonize Hellas https://decolonizehellas.org/, Culture, Borders, Gender/LAB https://cbg-lab.uom.gr/en/, MA History, Anthropology and Culture in Eastern and South Eastern Europe https://www.uom.gr/en/mahac, CREABALK network https://cbg-lab.uom.gr/en/blog/networks/creabalk/
Program/Participants:
1. «Decolonize Hellas/Decolonize the Balkans and Eastern Europe: a first contact», Introductory remarks, by FotiniTsibiridou
2.“Frameworks of race and decolonisation: bridging post-Yugoslav spaces and Hellas”?, podcast by Catherine Baker
3.“Decolonial theory and practices in Eastern and South Eastern Europe”, SpecialIssuepresentation by Polina Manolova (on behalf of Katarina Kušić, Philipp Lottholz),
4.“The Return of the Colonial: Understanding the Role of Eastern Europe in Global Colonisation Debates and Decolonial Struggles”, Workshop presentation by Zoltán Ginelli (on behalf of Romina Istratii, Márton Demeter)
5.“Doing epistemic decolonization in Bosnia: peripheral selves”, reflections by Daniela Majstorovic
6.“Thessaloniki and Other Balkan Cities: Monuments, Memory, Representation, Affective Biographies, Cultural Geographies and Everyday Sensory Anthropology”, on the CREABALK network activities by Eleni Sideri (Pierre Sintès, Alessandro Galliccio, Olivier Givre, Fotini Tsibiridou)
Coordination of the panel/discussion: Ioannis Manos
Bios:
Catherine Baker is Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History(University of Hall). She is a specialist in post-Cold War history, international relations and cultural studies, including the post-Yugoslav region in a transnational and global context.Her research projects are connected by an overarching interest in the politics of representing, narrating and knowing about the past. Catherine’s current projects include relationships between war / the military and popular culture; the cultural politics of international events (including the Eurovision Song Contest); LGBTQ politics and identities since the late Cold War, including queer representation in media; and ‘race’ in the Yugoslav region. She has also researched interpreters / translators in peacekeeping.
Contact: Catherine.Baker@hull.ac.uk
Alessandro Gallicchio is Professor of contemporary art history at École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes and adjunct faculty member at TELEMMe (AMU-CNRS) in Aix-en-Provence/Marseille. After he completed his PhD, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art and Centre Pompidou (Labex CAP) and worked on the relations between art and urban space in contemporary Albania. Through an interdisciplinary approach, engaging a dialogue between art history, cultural geography, architectural history, and anthropology, he launched with Pierre Sintès MonuMed, an art and social sciences project focused on the new practices of artistic and architectural monumentalization. In 2020 he was André Chastel fellow at the Villa Medici in Rome and in 2021 he is researcher in residence at École Françaised’Athènes. As an independent curator, he collaborates with international art centers and museums and he presented Rue d’Alger exhibition in Manifesta 13 Marseille Les Parallèles du Sud Biennial.
Contact: alessandro.gallicchio@gmail.com
Zoltán Ginelliis a PhD Candidate in Geography at EötvösLoránd University. His research and teaching focuses on critical geography, historical and political geography, and the geographies of knowledge, but he also specializes in the history, sociology and philosophy of science, science communication, and science and technology studies. His forthcoming dissertation book is a transnational history of the “quantitative revolution” in Cold War geography, and his current research reinterprets colonial history and postcolonialist thought in Eastern Europe. Since 2015, he has been a part-time Research Assistant in the international research projects “1989 After 1989” and “Socialism Goes Global” at the University of Exeter. Zoltán is devoted to fighting social injustice, promoting progressive teaching and critical geography in Hungary, for which he runs two blogs, the Forum for Hungarian Critical Geographers (https://www.facebook.com/kritikaifoldrajz) and Critical Geographies (https://kritikaifoldrajz.hu). Whenever he can, Zoltán enjoys academic reading, blog writing, traveling, and art, while on gloomy evenings plays the blues on his prized guitar, an American Fender Stratocaster.
Contact: zginelli@gmail.com
Olivier Givre, is anthropologist and Associate Professor at the University Lumière-Lyon2 (France). He works mainly in the Balkans (Bulgaria, Greece and other countries) on several fields: ritual and religious dynamics, memoryand heritage processes, border and territory issues. His present research interests concern ecological anthropology, sensory anthropology and research-creation. He is the cofounder of the CREABALK – Creative Balkans network. https://univ-lyon2.academia.edu/OlivierGivre
Contact: olivier.givre1@univ-lyon2.fr
Danijela Majstorović (MA 2003, Ohio University; PhD 2006 University of Banja Luka) is a Professor of English Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Banja Luka’s English department. She is also a Humboldt Experienced Research Fellow studying social protests and third-wave migrations in and from post-2015 Western Balkans at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. She was a visiting researcher at Lancaster University in 2006, a Fulbright fellow at UCLA in 2012-2013, a Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta in 2014 and a visiting researcher at Indiana University in 2016. Her research interests involve critical discourse analysis, critical theory, feminist theory, post- and decolonial theory, and post-Dayton Bosnia. She published over 25 journal articles, co-authored Youth Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Palgrave, 2013), authored Diskursiperiferije (Biblioteka XX vek, Belgrade) and Diskurs, moć i međunarodnazajednica (FF Banja Luka, 2007). She edited Living With Patriarchy: Discursive Construction of Gendered Subjects Across Cultures (John Benjamins, 2011), U okriljunacije (CKSP Banja Luka, 2011) and Kritičkekulturološkestudije u postjugoslovenskomprostoru (Banja Luka, 2012). Her new book Discourse and Affect in Post-socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina: Peripheral Selves is due to come for Palgrave in 2021.
Contact: kulturoloskestudije@gmail.com
Polina Manolova holds a PhD in East European Studies from the University of Birmingham, UK. She teaches under- and postgraduate courses in migration, borders and power asymmetries across Europe. Her research focuses on intra-EU migrations and pathways of incorporation of east European migrants in Germany. Furthermore, she is interested in exploring the spread of Western modernity and (self) Orientalisation narratives in postsocialist Europe. She is a member and co-founder of the Dialoguing Posts Network. Currently, she is based in the University of Tuebingen (Germany).
Contact: polinamanolova@gmail.com
Ioannis Manos is Αssociate Professor in the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. He studied History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Social Anthropology at the Universities of Hamburg, Germany and Sussex in the UK. He worked as a Full Time Visiting Research Fellow at the Sussex European Institute, (Sussex University) holding a Marie Curie scholarship from the European Union. He is a member of the editorial collective of the Teaching Anthropology Journal (Royal Anthropological Institute) and co-convener of the EASA-Teaching Anthropology Network. He is a founding member of the academic network for Anthropology and the Balkans «Border Crossings», member of the Advisory Board and co-editor of its publication series. His main research interests focus on Southeast Europe and his publications include articles and co-edited volumes on geopolitical borders and border regions, nationalism and identity politics, anthropology of dance, migration and the methodology of teaching anthropology.
Contact address: imanos@uom.edu.gr
Eleni Sideri, holds a PhD in social anthropology from SOAS/University of London. She completed three master degrees in Social Anthropology, Near and Middle Eastern studies (SOAS) and sociolinguistics (AUTH). She holds also a degree in Film Studies (AUTH). She did fieldwork in the Caucasus, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Greece. Her academic interests include diasporas, transnational migrations, mobilities, tourism and post-conflict urban development, language and sociolinguistics, post-socialist societies and cinemas, film and TV narratives, anthropology of media, experimental ethnographic writing, digital technologies. She co-edited the volume Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea (2017) Macmillan/Palgrave.
Contact: elasideri@uom.edu.gr
Pierre Sintès is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Geography at Aix- Marseille University, France. His research is about the social and political transformations related to migration, diaspora and mobility in Greece and other Balkan’s countries. He focuses more particularly on discourses of identification, and social and ethnic affiliations and relationships between identity and space. His recent publications (in English) include Chasing the Past: Geopolitics of Memory on the Margins of Modern Greece (Liverpool University Press, 2020), Social Practices and Local Configurations in the Balkans (European University of Tirana Press, 2013) and Borders, Mobilities and Migrations. Perspectives from the Mediterranean, 19–21st Century (Peter Lang, 2011).He is the cofounder of the CREABALK – Creative Balkans network.
Contact: Pierre.sintes@univ-amu.fr
Fotini Tsibiridou is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia and acting Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Culture, Borders and Gender. She has done fieldwork in a former refugee village and among the Pomaks in Greek Thrace, in Macedonian and Peloponnese villages and the Sultanate of Oman. She has also researched nationalism and multiculturalist discourses and practices in Greek Thrace, as well as gender, citizenship and creative counter publics in Istanbul. Currently (since 2018) she is researching two topics: post-Ottoman religiosity and gendered subjectivity in the frame of post-colonial critique (Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East), and feminist and other decolonizing methodologies deployed in creative protests and resistance practices in Mediterranean cities in the way to/of cosmopolitics. She is the cofounder of the CREABALK – Creative Balkans network.
Contact: ft@uom.edu.gr
Educational Seminar on the topic: “Digital Technologies and Research in Social and Humanities Sciences”
Friday, April 9, 2021, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Zoom Platform: https://zoom.us/my/bsas9 (to join easily, copy and paste this link into your browser)
Certificates of attendance will be provided to participants who register via the following form (by April 8 at 12:00 PM): https://forms.gle/QwddFUMeHXmdANhC8
Language of the event: Greek
Lecture by Rumena Bužarovska: «The Feminist Movement in North Macedonia»
The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab, in collaboration with the Postgraduate Program in Human Rights and Migration Studies, as part of the lecture series “Our Distant Neighbors” and the course “Comparative Issues in Gender and Cultural Diversity,” invites you to the lecture by Rumena Bužarovska, Associate Professor of American Literature, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia,
on the topic: “The Feminist Movement in North Macedonia”
The online event will take place on Monday, March 22, 2021, at 18:30, at the link https://zoom.us/my/bsas2
The session will be moderated by Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology, Chair of the BSO Department at the University of Macedonia, and Director of the Laboratory.
Abstract
This lecture aims to provide an overview of the general feminist movement in North Macedonia, focusing on the 1991 period, after independence from Yugoslavia. It focuses on the following questions: how have policies regarding gender equality changed during this time, and to what extent were they affected by feminist organizations? What role did the government play in reducing or promoting the rights of women on a state level? What effect did the local equivalent of the #metoo movement (#segakazhuvam) have on raising awareness and changing policies?
Bio
Rumena Bužarovska (1981, Skopje, North Macedonia) has authored four short story collections and a study on humor in contemporary American and Macedonian short fiction. Her short story collections have been published in the USA, Germany, Hungary, Italy and all the countries of the former Yugoslavia, and her stories have appeared in magazines such as The Southern Review, Electric Literature and Wespennest. She is also a literary translator from English into Macedonian (Lewis Carroll, Truman Capote, J.M. Coetzee, Flannery O’Connor, Iain Reid). In 2016 she was selected as one of the Ten New Voices of Europe by Literary Europe Live platform within Literature Across Frontiers, she is the 2017 winner of the regional Edo Budiša prize awarded by the Istria County in Croatia, and is the recipient of the 2018 Fall Residency at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She is co-initiator and co-organizer of the PeachPreach women’s storytelling event in Macedonia and associate professor of American literature at the State University in Skopje.
“When the Pomegranates Bleed. Stories from Nagorno-Karabakh”
INVITATION
The Club for the study of Borders, Culture and Diversity and the Ethnography Club of the Lab/ Cultures- Borders- Gender in the framework of the lecture series “Our Distant Neighbours” in partnership with the MA in Politics and Economics in Contemporary Eastern and South Eastern Europe of the Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and of Oriental Studies of UoM.
invite you to the online event
“When the Pomegranates Bleed. Stories from Nagorno-Karabakh”
Friday 19/3/2021, 15.00-17.00 (local time)
Zoom Platform
With the participation of
- Thomas De Waal, Senior fellow, Carnegie Europe, “War or Peace in the Caucasus? After the Second Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict”
«Digital-Stories from the Field»
- Ruzan Gishyan, multimedia production manager, CHAIKHANA.MEDIA
- Heydar Isayev, freelance reporter
- Ulkar Natiqqizi, freelance reporter
- Sona Simonyan, video production manager, CHAIKHANA.MEDIA
The event is coordinated by Eleni Sideri, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Dept. Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, UoM.
The event will be in English and registration at https://forms.gle/aEmNcPeTa9eHDpsi6 is required.
Lecture by Gazmend Kapllani, Albanian Program Director at DePaul University in Chicago, on his writing experience.
The Language and Literature Study Club, in collaboration with the Borders Study Club and the Ethnography Club of the Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab, presents the lecture series “Our Distant Neighbors.”
They are hosting Gazmend Kapllani, Director of the Albanian Program Hidai “Eddie” Bregu at DePaul University in Chicago, who will give a lecture on his writing experience.
The online event will take place on Friday, March 12, 2021, at 6:30 PM, via the link https://zoom.us/my/bsas9
Dimitris Kargiotis, Professor of Comparative Philology (University of Ioannina), and Elina Kapetanaki, Social Anthropologist, Postdoctoral Researcher (Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia), will discuss Kapllani’s work.
The event will be moderated by Alexandra Ioannidou, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Slavic Literatures and Slavic Culture (University of Macedonia).
Language of the event: Greek
Presentation and discussion of Dimitris Psarras’ book, which is about Rigas Feraios
The Language and Literature Study Club of the Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab, as part of the lecture series “Our Distant Neighbors” and in collaboration with the Decolonize Hellas initiative,
invites you on Monday, March 1, 2021, at 19:00, at the link https://zoom.us/my/bsas9 to the presentation and discussion of Dimitris Psarras’ book, Πώς συλλογάται ο Ρήγας; Επιστροφή στις πηγές.
Τhe author will be in conversation with historians: Nikos Sigalas and Tasos Kostopoulos.
The session will be moderated by Alexandra Ioannidou, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Slavic Literatures and Slavic Culture (Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia).
From the Decolonize Hellas initiative, Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Relations (American University of Beirut), and Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory (Chair of the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia), will also contribute.
Language of the event: Greek
Call for papers
The ‘Club of Gender Studies’ in collaboration with the ‘Club of Ethnography’ of the Culture-Borders-
Gender/LAB at the Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies (BSOS) supports and hosts the
publication of a new annual magazine entitled ‘EIRINI-Anthropological Journal for the Study of Gender,
Cultural Diversity and Social Discriminations’ (https://ireneanthropologic.wixsite.com/website).
The Journal will host publications of research papers of postgraduate students, PhD candidates, and alumni of BSOS and other departments of UoM. The Journal will also accept papers of young graduates in Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies and other Social Sciences from Greek and foreign programs which study cultural diversity and social discrimination with a special focus on Gender Studies supporting equality.
For more details:
