The Ethnography Club — The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab is organizing seminars for the academic year 2021-2022 with the theme:
“Public Anthropology and Cultural Heritage”
Coordination: Fotini Tsibiridou – Ioannis Manos
The 2nd Cycle, which begins in November 2021, titled “Public Anthropology and Cultural Heritage,” aims to incorporate the above issues within the framework of ‘Public Anthropology.’ This approach engages with society, intertwining the reflective and empathetic critical discourse of anthropological knowledge with alternative practices of critical publicity.
The concept of ‘cultural heritage’ is chosen, in the current period, as a field of reflection and revision of the neo-Hellenic “Self.” The modern Greek national narrative is articulated through performances, rituals, and symbols in public and private discourse and space, which, through politics and pathways of memory, constitute the dominant narrative about cultural heritage. This narrative, with the assistance of state policies, international organizations, local governance, and other collectives that give meaning and reproduce power relations and hegemonies, refers to the idea of continuity and linear progression of historical time while simultaneously creating many gaps and silences.
In this context, alongside the deconstruction of hegemonic discourses, anthropological approaches seek the meanings and dynamics that silences and gaps acquire in the lives of the different, the subaltern, and the collectives, as they are inscribed within the boundaries, margins, and borders of dominant narratives and cultural politics in the public sphere.
Seminar Platform: ZOOM Link https://zoom.us/j/8954478253
Meeting ID: 895 447 8253
Lectures of the 2nd Cycle of ETHNOGRAFEIN
“Φέρνοντας τον Αγιώρη”. Σκέψεις για τη χρησιμότητα της εθνογραφίας με αφορμή μια επιτόπια έρευνα στη Νεστάνη Αρκαδίας
Speaker: Giannis Drinis
PhD in Folklore Studies, University of Ioannina Head of the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intercultural Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Sports
November 22, 2021, (17:00-19:00)
“Κληρονομιά, Κράτος και Ανατρεπτικός Αρχαϊσμός: Η Αναζήτηση Εναλλακτικών Παρελθόντων και η Εθνογραφική Πράξη“
Speaker: Michael Herzfeld
Ernest E. Monrad Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, USA
December 6, 2021, (17:00-19:00)
“Συνομιλώντας με την τέχνη. Ερευνητικές αναζητήσεις και προοπτικές στην προσέγγιση μιας ‘δύσκολης’ πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς”.
Speaker: Eleana Yalouri
Associate Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University
January 17, 2022, (17:00-19:00)
“Οι πρακτικές οικειοποίησης της φύσης ως πολιτισμικές κληρονομιές”.
Speaker: Vassilis Nitsiakos
Professor of Social Folklore, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina
March 21, 2022, (17:00-19:00)
“Μνημειøκλασία: Δημόσιος χώρος, υλικότητες και η απο-αποικιοποίηση της ιστορίας”
Speaker: Penelope Papailias
Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly
April 4, 2022, (17:00-19:00)
«Οι τουριστικές και αρχαιολογικές οντολογίες της Δήλου: Εμπειρίες “ξέφωτης αλήθειας” και “άκρυπτου” κοσμοπολιτισμού»
Speaker: Despoina Nazou
PhD in Social Anthropology (University of the Aegean) Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
May 23, 2022, (17:00-19:00)
Language of presentations: Greek
