Selected events and academic activities are included in the News-section in order to inform the academic and research community as well as the public about issues related to culture, borders and gender.
Mother Teresa University in Skopje in partnership with University of Sassari, Italy and University “St.Kliment Ohridski” Bitola, is organizing
the international conference on the topic: “Migration and development: Looking Forward Post-Covid-19”.
The conference will be held in the premises of the Mother Teresa University in Skopje, Macedonia on June 10th 2021.
Participants can choose between attending the conference in person and presenting virtually.
All
interested applicants must submit an abstract of max. 300 words, Arial
12-p, paper title with all authors, affiliations and contact details.
The abstracts must be written in English, which is also the working language of the conference.
Attached
you will find the call for papers and I would kindly ask you to share
the call with your network in order to have more qualitative submitted
papers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Department of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies, the “History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe LAB” and the “Culture-Borders-Gender /LAB” co-organize a conference entitled “2020 an extraordinary year in pandemic times: Academic experiences and research practices from the Balkans“, which will take place online on the zoom platform on 23rd and 24th of January 2021. The link of the conference will be announced on Friday 22/1/2021 The conference is open to the public. To register, enter your details on the platform: https://forms.gle/BYgwBWDFTdM7QpU6A
How
can anthropological knowledge be thought otherwise? What might the
implications of this be for research practice and communication more
broadly? This keynote panel introduces the core themes of the conference
by bringing together three contemporary thinkers and the unique ideas
that each mobilise in their critical engagements with knowledge.
18:05 | Professor Haidy Geismar (UCL)
18:25 | Dr Ludovic Coupaye (UCL) | The Anthropology of Techniques and the Techniques of Anthropology
18:45 | Kuña Jaqueline Aranduhá (Kuñangue Aty Guasu / UFGD) | Decolonising anthropology: a perspective from Guarani & Kaiowá indigenous women
19:05 | Panel discussion
19:40 – 20:40 | Kuñangue Online: Opening Ceremony
To attend, please register for free on Eventbrite, and joining instructions will be shared on the day. To stay in the loop, please follow UCL MAL on our social media: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. UCL MAL is an interdisciplinary research network that explores innovative methods for conducting and presenting ethnographic research. We have organised several seminar series and exhibitions at UCL and have presented work and ideas at Somerset House, Modern Art Oxford, and the Tate Modern. Founded in 2017 by doctoral research students at UCL Anthropology, today MAL is composed of over 50 members around the world, with representatives from anthropology, art, computer science, sound studies, film, and human rights. MAL has been generously supported by UCL Anthropology, the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL Grand Challenges, and the British Museum.
November 12-13, 2021 – Princeton University and Columbia University in the City of New York
Princeton University’s Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of History at Columbia University invite scholars at all stages of their careers to submit proposals for individual papers to be given at a two-day international history conference scheduled for Friday to Saturday, November 12-13, 2021. The conference will explore the social, political, cultural, and economic interconnections between the Greek War of Independence and the Americas.
The conference, which participates in global bicentennial celebrations of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, is intended to further historical thinking connecting histories of an age of revolutions on multiple continents. It may lend itself to work in a comparative vein or comparisons may arise through discussion of intensive case studies. The organizers anticipate work that fuels rethinking sovereignty, peoplehood, and a world of nations and empires through actors and processes.
Themes to be explored include models of revolution in the Americas in rethinking the Greek Independence struggle; the liberal international moment of the 1820s in southern Europe and connections with the independence movements in South America; attitudes within Greece towards the Americas and the move to independence in the western hemisphere; questions of republics and slavery composed by African-Americans in 1820s; response to the slavery question in the Morea. Approaches to foreign and economic affairs including intervention and non-intervention policies developed in the Americas, such as the Monroe Doctrine and the policy of states in the Americas toward an independent Greece; the rise of an international market for sovereign debt and the debt boom/bust of the 1820s; economic and technological aspects of American involvement including steamship purchases; the suppression of piracy; the involvement of Protestant missions; the rescue of Greek orphans. Intellectual history and cultural and artistic responses, such as international Benthamism and radical constitutionalism; novel approaches to philhellenes of the Western Hemisphere, including classicizing political thought (e.g., Jefferson, Koraes); and the impact of philhellenism on American life, culture, and institutions (e.g., the cases of Francis Lieber and Samuel Gridley Howe); rethinking American philhellenes in Greece; the circulation of memoirs, journalism, captive and travel literature and the literary representation of the Greek war in the United States; memories of 1821 and Greek-American life over the following century and a half.
The conference is intended to meet over two sequential days, one each at the respective campuses of the hosting institutions. If the conference is held in person as planned, speakers selected will be provided four nights lodging (2 nights in Princeton, 2 nights in New York City, booked on their behalf) and reimbursement of a fixed amount toward travel expenses. Selected participants should however be prepared for possible changes in the modality of the conference if continuing public health and safety concerns prevail against or limit physical assembly. Health and safety concerns might even dictate a change in the dates of the conference. The organizers commit to making a decision in good time regarding modality. Speakers should not purchase tickets for travel that are not fully refundable until they are notified by the organizers to do so. Should the conference be held virtually or in hybrid mode, there will be no reimbursements towards unexecuted travel expenses, and should the conference be held in person on different dates, there be will no reimbursement for travel arrangements made with respect to the original dates.
Deadline for proposals is Monday, February 8, 2021. Applicants should submit an abstract of no longer than 300 words and a one-page summary curriculum vitae to Sara Brooks (sbrooks@princeton.edu), Secretary to the Program
Committee.
Program Committee: Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton
University); Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University); Natasha Wheatley
(Princeton University); Peter Wirzbicki (Princeton University); Mark
Mazower (Columbia University); Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University);
Kostas Kostis (University of Athens)
