Our Faraway Neighbours

Ιnvitation

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On behalf of Culture, Borders, Gender/Lab and the course Ethnographies of Turkey and the Middle East, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, you are invited to the screening of the film    ” The Wanted 18” ( 2014, 75′, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3946020/ ) on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, at 18.00, auditorium 9, University of Macedonia.

 The film is a Palestinian-Canadian documentary created by Amer Shomali, visual artist and director, and Paul Cowan, screenwriter and combines oral testimonies, archival material and animation to relate the story of the first independent cow breeding farm in Palestine. The film was the Palestinian nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.

The screening is held in collaboration with the Palestinian Film Festival of Athens. A ZOOM discussion with Ms. Carol Sansour, poet, cultural producer and director of the Palestinian Film Festival of Athens will follow.

The event is coordinated by the students of the course Ethnographies of Turkey and the Middle East.

We sincerely thank the students of the course “Ethnographies of Turkey and the Middle East” – BSAS, Konstantinos Andriotakis and Konstantinos – Evangelos Hekimoglou, who designed the poster of the event.

You are all kindly invited!

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Universities in the Shadow of Genocide: Discipline, Resistance, Decolonization

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The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab in collaboration with Decolonize Hellas is organizing an online event, which will take place on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, featuring international participants. The theme of the event is: Universities in the Shadow of Genocide: Discipline, Resistance, Decolonization.

The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab is also technically supporting the event, taking a stand against academicocide—i.e., the systematic destruction of educational and knowledge structures, especially higher education and research, aimed at erasing the ability of Palestinians to rebuild their society.

The discussion will be held online via Zoom.
Click the link below to join:
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Open Lectures by two visiting professors from South West University «Neofit Rilski» – Blagoevgrad, Boulgaria

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The Culture, Borders, Gender/LAB – Dep. of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies

Invites you to the organized lectures
within the «OUR FARAWAY NEIGHBORS» –lecture series

by two invited professors from Bulgaria:

Ana Luleva, Professor, celebrated member of the Faculty
of Ethnology and Balkan Studies at SWU “Neofit Rilski” – Blagoevgrad, Boulgaria.

Pavlina Solachka, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Ethnology and Balkan Studies, SWU
“Neofit Rilski” – Blagoevgrad, Boulgaria.

Monday, 20/03/2023, 19.00-21:00,
classroom 4

lecture titles:
Prof. Ana Luleva: The Bulgarian Female Labour Migration and the Moral Economy of
Care
Assistant Prof. Pavlina Solachka: Women’s narratives about work and everyday life in
the last decades of state socialism in Bulgaria (1970s and 1980s)

Abstacts
The Bulgarian Female Labour Migration and the Moral Economy of Care
Since the early 1990s, female labour migration from Bulgaria has become a common practice and has acquired unprecedented dimensions. In this lecture I will address the characteristics of the most popular form of the Bulgarian female labour migration to Italy, namely work as caregivers of old people, sick family members and children. The specificity of work – from the decision to get employed abroad as domestic care workers – through its practice to its meaning for the families of the female migrants marks it as an intersection point of pure economic goals and relationships, on the one hand, and moral ones, on the other. This defines my research problem: to analyse the moral economy of care from the perspective of women care workers.

Women’s narratives about work and everyday life in the last decades of state socialism
in Bulgaria (1970s and 1980s)
This lecture presents some of the main topics in the biographical narratives of women – tobacco workers during state socialism. Their value as sources for the study of gender arrangements and gender order at that time will be also discussed. The collection of biographical interviews was part of my research and the writing of my PhD thesis on “The Women’s workinglifein the Pirin Tobacco Factory, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria”.

Short CVs

Dr. Ana Luleva (ID https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-7185-7867) is a Professor of Ethnology at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and at the South-west University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad. Her research interests are in the fields of anthropology of socialism and post-socialism, gender studies, memory studies, critical heritage studies, anthropology of uncertainty and trust. She is an Editor-in-chief of the journal Antropologiya/Anthropology. Journal for Sociocultural Anthropology.
Among the recent publications are: Luleva, A. Culture of Dis/Trust in Bulgaria.
Anthropological Perspectives. 2021, Sofia: IK Gutenberg; Everyday Socialism: Promises, Realities, and Strategies. Edited by A. Luleva, I. Petrova, P. Petrov, Sv. Kazalarska, Y.Yancheva, and Zl. Bogdanova. 2022, Sofia: Acad. Publishing House ”Prof. Marin Drinov”; Luleva, A. Rethinking “Private” in State Socialist Bulgaria. – In: Everyday Socialism: Promises, Realities, and Strategies. Ed. by A. Luleva & all., 2022, Sofia: Acad. Publishing House ”Prof. Marin Drinov”, 50-79.

Dr. Pavlina Solachka is an assistant in the Faculty of Philology at the South-West University “Neofit Rilski” in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Prior to earning her PhD in Ethnology, Dr. Solachka earned her honorary Bachelor Degree in Ethnology at SWU “Neofit Rilski”,then enrolled in Master Degree program with a specific concentration in “Ethnicity and Culture”, again at SWU “Neofit Rilski”. In 2022, Dr. Solachka defended her PhD
Dissertation which examined “The everyday life of the female working class during late socialism: a case study of the tobacco plant ‘Pirin’ in Blagoevgrad.” Dr. Solachka’s research interests are in the field of anthropology, more specifically that of socialism and post-socialism, women’s studies, as well as the development of the Tabaco industry in Bulgaria. Dr. Solachka has several publications in journals, dedicated to research of state
socialism in Bulgaria.

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“Untiling” the tiles of today’s Balkan mosaic Filmmaking workshop on storytelling & film screenings

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INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION

Organizing team: Balkans Beyond Borders & Culture –Borders –Gender/Lab, University of Macedonia, department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies.

Date: Friday, March 3d, Thessaloniki, Greece

15:00 – 19:00 workshop and film marathon

The workshop is funded by the Research Committee – UOM.

Description
What does cinema, intersectionality and Haiku poems have in common?

Drawing upon the theme of the 13th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival titled ‘Untiling the Mosaic’ we invite you to a workshop, where we will discuss and contemplate on the “gaze”, anthropology in film, how to tell stories through images, and address the multiple identities we all carry, our personal and social mosaic. We invite you to create your own short films, consisting of three acts through three shots, inspired by the structure of Haiku poems, which are made up of three verses which capture a moment in the present time, within the ‘now’, kind of like a movie.

The workshop and film marathon will be followed by a screening of selected films from the competition programme of the 13th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival ‘Untiling the Mosaic’, consisting of films by young filmmakers from the Balkans, which thematically touch upon the experience of the coexisting multiple and intersecting identities such as gender, social class, sexuality and ethnicity. By making this ‘mosaic’ visible and deconstructing it, the possibilities of redefining it, suddenly appears.

Programme

Workshop: “Haiku Shorts: filmmaking and storytelling in three acts”

15:00 – 15:30 “Cinema and Anthropology. Saying a lot just in few words”, Eleni Sideri , Ass. Prof. BSOS-UoM

15:30 – 16:00 “’Mosaic of identities & telling stories: film form in three acts’”, Vasiliki Maltasoglou, Festival Director & co-founder of Balkans Beyond Borders.

Film Marathon 17:00 – 19:00

We wander and explore the nearby environment, the neighborhood of the university, and film with our mobile phone or any other equipment at our disposal, images, sounds and sensations that capture a mosaic of identities that coexist in a moment in time. The Haiku poem, consisting of three verses, becomes the vehicle of the cinematic composition and creation of a film, with a maximum duration of 1 minute, consisting of three shots.

  • Delivery of films and experience sharing 19:00-19:30

 Number of Participants: 15 There will be accepted in order of priority. Certificates of attendance will be given.

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/K2xdowhDXY6C5fvw7

CV’s of participants

Vasiliki Maltasoglou is Festival Director of the Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival and co-founder of the organization Balkans Beyond Borders. She has finished her studies in International Politics but professionally her expertise is in digital marketing. In Balkans Beyond Borders she directs the Festival, realizes workshops on filmmaking and storytelling, and curates all screenings and cultural events of BBB. 

Eleni Sideri

https://www.uom.gr/en/elasideri

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Presentation of a poetry anthology from North Macedonia

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The Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies and the Language and Literature Study Club of the Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab, as part of the lecture series ‘Our Distant Neighbors,’ organized a presentation and discussion of a poetry anthology from North Macedonia titled: “Μακεδόνικο Παραμύθι, Ανθολογία μεταπολεμικής ποίησης από τη Βόρεια Μακεδονία” on Thursday, May 27, 2021, at 19:00, via ZOOM, at the link: Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8954478253 Meeting ID: 895 447 8253″.

The book was presented by:
Alexandra Ioannidou, Slavologist, Professor at the University of Macedonia
Dine Doneff, Composer, Munich
Christian Voss, Slavologist, Professor at Humboldt University, Berlin
Dimitris Moschos, Historian
Poems were read by students of the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies.

Language of the event: Greek

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Lecture by Rumena Bužarovska: «The Feminist Movement in North Macedonia»

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The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab, in collaboration with the Postgraduate Program in Human Rights and Migration Studies, as part of the lecture series “Our Distant Neighbors” and the course “Comparative Issues in Gender and Cultural Diversity,” invites you to the lecture by Rumena Bužarovska, Associate Professor of American Literature, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia,

on the topic: “The Feminist Movement in North Macedonia”

The online event will take place on Monday, March 22, 2021, at 18:30, at the link https://zoom.us/my/bsas2

The session will be moderated by Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology, Chair of the BSO Department at the University of Macedonia, and Director of the Laboratory.

Abstract
This lecture aims to provide an overview of the general feminist movement in North Macedonia, focusing on the 1991 period, after independence from Yugoslavia. It focuses on the following questions: how have policies regarding gender equality changed during this time, and to what extent were they affected by feminist organizations? What role did the government play in reducing or promoting the rights of women on a state level? What effect did the local equivalent of the #metoo movement (#segakazhuvam) have on raising awareness and changing policies? 

Bio
Rumena Bužarovska (1981, Skopje, North Macedonia) has authored four short story collections and a study on humor in contemporary American and Macedonian short fiction. Her short story collections have been published in the USA, Germany, Hungary, Italy and all the countries of the former Yugoslavia, and her stories have appeared in magazines such as The Southern Review, Electric Literature and Wespennest. She is also a literary translator from English into Macedonian (Lewis Carroll, Truman Capote, J.M. Coetzee, Flannery O’Connor, Iain Reid). In 2016 she was selected as one of the Ten New Voices of Europe by Literary Europe Live platform within Literature Across Frontiers, she is the 2017 winner of the regional Edo Budiša prize awarded by the Istria County in Croatia, and is the recipient of the 2018 Fall Residency at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She is co-initiator and co-organizer of the PeachPreach women’s storytelling event in Macedonia and associate professor of American literature at the State University in Skopje.  

“When the Pomegranates Bleed. Stories from Nagorno-Karabakh”

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Sergei Parajanov, Τhe Colour of Pomegranates, 1969

INVITATION
The Club for the study of Borders, Culture and Diversity and the Ethnography Club of the Lab/ Cultures- Borders- Gender in the framework of the lecture series  “Our Distant Neighbours” in partnership with the MA in Politics and Economics in Contemporary Eastern and South Eastern Europe of the Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and of Oriental Studies of UoM.

invite you to the online event
“When the Pomegranates Bleed. Stories from Nagorno-Karabakh”

Friday 19/3/2021, 15.00-17.00 (local time)
Zoom Platform

With the participation of

  • Thomas De Waal, Senior fellow, Carnegie Europe, “War or Peace in the Caucasus? After the Second Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict”

«Digital-Stories from the Field»

  • Ruzan Gishyan, multimedia production manager, CHAIKHANA.MEDIA
  • Heydar Isayev, freelance reporter
  • Ulkar Natiqqizi, freelance reporter
  • Sona Simonyan, video production manager, CHAIKHANA.MEDIA

The event is coordinated by Eleni Sideri, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Dept. Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, UoM.

The event will be in English and registration at https://forms.gle/aEmNcPeTa9eHDpsi6 is required.

Lecture by Gazmend Kapllani, Albanian Program Director at DePaul University in Chicago, on his writing experience.

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The Language and Literature Study Club, in collaboration with the Borders Study Club and the Ethnography Club of the Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab, presents the lecture series “Our Distant Neighbors.”

They are hosting Gazmend Kapllani, Director of the Albanian Program Hidai “Eddie” Bregu at DePaul University in Chicago, who will give a lecture on his writing experience.

The online event will take place on Friday, March 12, 2021, at 6:30 PM, via the link https://zoom.us/my/bsas9

Dimitris Kargiotis, Professor of Comparative Philology (University of Ioannina), and Elina Kapetanaki, Social Anthropologist, Postdoctoral Researcher (Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia), will discuss Kapllani’s work.

The event will be moderated by Alexandra Ioannidou, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Slavic Literatures and Slavic Culture (University of Macedonia).

Language of the event: Greek

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Presentation and discussion of Dimitris Psarras’ book, which is about Rigas Feraios

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The Language and Literature Study Club of the Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab, as part of the lecture series “Our Distant Neighbors” and in collaboration with the Decolonize Hellas initiative,
invites you on Monday, March 1, 2021, at 19:00, at the link https://zoom.us/my/bsas9 to the presentation and discussion of Dimitris Psarras’ book, Πώς συλλογάται ο Ρήγας; Επιστροφή στις πηγές.

Τhe author will be in conversation with historians: Nikos Sigalas and Tasos Kostopoulos.

The session will be moderated by Alexandra Ioannidou, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Slavic Literatures and Slavic Culture (Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia).

From the Decolonize Hellas initiative, Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Relations (American University of Beirut), and Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory (Chair of the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia), will also contribute.

Language of the event: Greek

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