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.
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
