Organizers: dëcoloиıze hellάş in collaboration with the Decolonial Initiative at Brown University Convenors: Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University) and Konstantinos Thanasakis (The Laskaridis Foundation, Athens) Language: English (but discussion can be both Greek and English, perhaps Turkish too)
The Acropolis is again in the global news, following the recent and
highly controversial interventions. One of the things that the on-going
public debate has exposed is how little is publicly known about the rich
and fascinating histories of this monumental landscape, beyond the
classical period. In this discussion, part of a series of activities on
“Decolonizing the Acropolis”, we will present and discuss the
historical, archaeological, architectural, artistic, and other evidence
on the Ottoman lives of the Acropolis landscape. Beyond the scholarly
and public importance of this presentation, we hope that our panel will
encourage archaeologists, artists, and heritage specialists to reflect
on how the Ottoman life of this monumental landscape can become more
widely known, commemorated, and incorporated into the various tours and
other activities around the monument.Amongst the questions to be
explored are:- What do we know about the Ottoman Acropolis?- What was
the importance and the meaning of this landscape for the Ottoman,
imperial and local, administration, and for the inhabitants of Athens?-
How did the various visitors to the site react to the Acropolis as an
Ottoman landscape?- How much of that Ottoman material presence remains
on site, despite the two centuries of national purification?- How can we
make such a presence more widely known today?Speakers / Titles of
presentations:1. Şükrü Ilicak (Institute for Mediterranean Studies,
Rethymno), “The Acropolis during the Greek Revolution: New Evidence from
the Ottoman State Archives”2. Tasos Tanoulas (Dr-NTU Athens, in charge
of the Restorations of the Propylaia 1984-2010), “The Ottoman Acropolis
in the frame of Decolonize Hellas: Factual and theoretical
implications”3. Elizabeth Fowden (University of Cambridge), “The Holy
Rock in the City of Sages”4. Dimitris Loupis (Historian, PhD candidate,
Harvard University), “Securing Peace under the Shade of Marbled Past:
The Western Slope of the Acropolis of Athens during the Ottoman Era”
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
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