Graduate student workshop
5th International Doctoral Research Seminar
Exploring complexity:
Multimodal methodologies in a diverse, glocalised world
February 23-24, 2024
University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
CALL FOR PAPERS
Studying human societies and cultures in the contemporary globalised world, simultaneously interconnected and fragmented, demands a nuanced and multifaceted methodological approach. The 5th Doctoral Research Seminar organised by the Laboratory for the Study of Culture, Borders, and Gender in the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, on February 23-24, explores how the layered and nuanced aspects of social reality are unravelled. We believe exploring the intricate nature of human experience is best achieved through diverse methodologies. These multimodal methodologies span various analytical, interpretive, and interactive techniques and offer a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of diverse contexts of social action.
Furthermore, the seminar explores the dynamic relationship between traditional ethnographic methods and the emerging challenges and opportunities of digital technology and AI. We are concerned with the ways these innovative tools can support the interpretation of social phenomena and reshape the ethnographic practice and the production of anthropological knowledge. Our objective is to discuss the challenges and opportunities that arise for ethnographers and social researchers from these technological developments, as well as the tools and perspectives required for their productive utilisation.
We invite PhD candidates and early-stage social sciences and humanities researchers to engage with us in this seminar. We encourage submissions of case studies that may include, but are not limited to, the following themes and their intersections:
- Cultural practices, rituals, symbols, and institutions
- Border areas, identities, diversity, and cross-border mobility
- The experiences of minority groups, immigration, and refugees
- Gender dynamics, relations, and the concept of embodiment
- Studies in literature, art, language, and translation
- Analyses of material culture, space, architecture, and monuments
- The influence of digital technologies on digital and audiovisual cultures
Invited Speakers
Friday, February 23
“Multimodality and an ethnography of ‘going beyond’ ” [in Greek]
Dr. Eleni Sideri
Associate Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies
University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Saturday, February 24
“Co-design as ethnographic method”
Dr. Fabio Mattioli
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Sciences
Associated Researcher, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics,
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Abstract Submission
- Abstracts should be no more than 250 words.
- Please provide a short biography, emphasizing your academic qualifications and research interests, along with your contact details
- Submission Deadline: January 10, 2024
- Submission email address: cbg-lab@uom.edu.gr
- Notification of abstract acceptance: January 20, 2024
- For any inquiries, contact Mrs Anna Moumtzoglou: anna@uom.edu.gr
Conference format, location and other significant information
- The seminar is primarily scheduled to take place on-site with in-person attendance
- The presentations from our guest speakers can be attended online through the ZOOM platform
- Online paper presentations will be accommodated in exceptional circumstances
- Paper presentation: It should not exceed 15’
- Working languages: Greek, English
- Seminar venue: Conference room (1st floor) – University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
- A Certificate of Attendance will be issued to all participants of the seminar
Publication Prospects:
Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special section of the CBG LAB’s online, open access and peer reviewed academic journals:
- Culture-Borders-Gender/Studies (https://tinyurl.com/msrbkxw2)
- EIRINI (https://tinyurl.com/5n8z8s52).
Scientific Committee
- Fotini Tsibiridou (Director), Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies
- Ioannis Manos, Associate Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies
- Eleni Sideri, Assistant Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies
- Aleka Ioannidou, Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies
- Stavroula Mavrogeni, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies
- Eleni Gavra, Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies
- Loukretsious Soutsiou, Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies
- Dr. Christina Grammatikopoulou, Fellow, Culture – Borders – Gender /LΑB
Organizing Committee
- Fotini Tsibiridou
- Ioannis Manos
- Eleni Sideri
- Christina Grammatikopoulou
- Anna Moumtzoglou, Special Technical Lab Personnel, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies
- Paka Pinelopi, Administrative personnel
Program of the 4th International Seminar for PhD candidates
17-18 February 2023
Organization: Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB, Department of BSAS, PAMAK
Conference Hall PAMAK – 1st floor (hybrids and live)
Methodology seminar
Public Anthropology and Cultural Studies: Issues in Methodology, Fieldwork and Archival Research
Seminar Platform: ZOOM
Link: https://zoom.us/j/8364531775?pwd=OVg3YVZlbmVCYWs3S0JYcEFGYlV1QT09 Meeting ID: 836 453 1775 Passcode: KB2JKa
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.
3rd Online International Seminar for PhD Candidates
“Culture, Borders, Genders: Audiovisual Representations and Interpretive Attempts in the Digital Age”
25-26 February 2022
Organisation: Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB, Department of BSAS, PAMAK
INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE AND PRESENT AN ANNOUNCEMENT
The Culture- Borders-Gender/LAB organizes the 3rd Seminar for PhD candidates, in order to highlight the work carried out by young researchers.
The invitation to participate and present announcements is addressed to young researchers in the social sciences and humanities and concerns case studies that focus indicatively, and not exclusively, on the following thematic fields but also on their possible combinations:
-Cultural practices, rituals, symbols, institutions, discourses
-Borders and border regions, identities and othernesses, cross-border mobility
-Minority, immigrant and refugee experiences
-Gender relations,body
-Literature, arts, language and translation
-Material culture, space, architecture, monuments
-Digital technologies, digital and audiovisual culture
About the program
-This year’s 3rd Seminar will be held online with the possibility of connecting and watching by anyone interested.
-It will include an online workshop on the topic ” Anthropological Research, and Digital Media: Creating Ethnographic Narratives with New Technologies”
Invited speakers:
–Petros Petridis, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University
–Iakovos Panagopoulos. Academic Scholar Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University / Postdoctoral Researcher Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences
-New doctoral and postdoctoral researchers are invited to present specific chapters or topics from their research
-A certificate of attendance will be granted to each interested party.
– Details of the program, participants and other organizational information will be announced in due course.
-Working languages will be Greek and English.
Send summaries
Deadline: February 11, 2021
Contact email: anna@uom.edu.gr, Information: Anna Moumtzoglou
-Summary of 250 words (in Greek or English) with the title of the announcement
-5-8 keywords relevant to the case study
-Contact information: full name, scientific qualification, contact email address
2nd International Seminar for PhD candidates
“Culture, borders, gender: Interpretive understanding, creative practices and historical journeys in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East “
26-28 February 2021
Organization: Laboratory for the Study of Culture, Borders, and Gender, Department of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
On the occasion of the completion of 5 years since the establishment of Culture – Borders – Gender / LΑB
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PRESENTATION OF ANNOUNCEMENT
The combination of theoretical, epistemological, and methodological traditions and approaches between different scientific fields, aiming at the cultivation of Area Studies, is the basis on which the Laboratory for the Study of Culture, Borders, and Gender of the Department of Department of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies operates. According to the premises of its founding act and its scientific goals, the Laboratory studies complex processes of culture and gender experiences, as well as processes of creating boundaries and boundaries, similarities and differences, on a cultural and symbolic level.
At the core of the Laboratory’s approach is the study of cultures as a historical, social, and interpretive process in the SE and AN. Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East. Populations living in border areas between nation-states, and/or moving through them, and the ways in which gender is constructed and gender experience are also examined comparatively.
On the occasion of the five years since its establishment, and in the context of the fulfillment of the above objectives, the Culture – Borders – Gender / LΑB organizes the 2nd Seminar for Ph.D. candidates, in order to highlight the work done by early-stage researchers.
The call for participation in the seminar is addressed to early-stage researchers in the social sciences and humanities and concerns case studies that focus indicatively, and not exclusively, on the following thematic areas but also on their possible combinations:
• Cultural practices, rituals, symbols, institutions, reasons
• Borders and border areas, identities and diversity, cross-border mobility
• Minority, immigration, and refugee experiences
• Gender, gender relations, body
• Literature, arts, language and translation
• Material culture, space, architecture, monuments
• Digital technologies, digital and audiovisual culture
About the program
• This year’s 2nd Seminar will be held online with the possibility of connection and attendance by any interested party (after registration).
• It will include panels with guest speakers / three and sessions with researchers’ announcements.
• A certificate of attendance will be issued.
• Details of the program, the participants, and other organizational information will be announced in due course.
• Working languages will be Greek and English.
Send abstracts for an announcement
Deadline: January 20, 2021
Contact email: anna@uom.edu.gr , Information: Anna Moumtzoglou
• Summary of 250 words (in Greek or English) with the title of the announcement
• 5-8 keywords relevant to the case study
• Contact details: name, scientific status, email address
INVITATION TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE FOR PUBLICATION
ELECTRONIC MINUTES OF THE MEETING (e-book)
The Culture – Borders – Gender / LΑB and the organizing committee will edit the publication of the electronic minutes of the meeting, which will include the elaborated texts of the presentation. Writing language can be Greek or English.
Deadline for the Submission of paper: May 15, 2021