{"id":919,"date":"2020-10-23T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T09:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/?p=919"},"modified":"2021-02-17T02:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T23:19:40","slug":"performing-national-identity-commemorations-institutions-and-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"PERFORMING NATIONAL IDENTITY: COMMEMORATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND RITUALS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Conference for the celebration <\/strong><\/strong>of the bicentennial of the 1821 Greek Revolution <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 24-26 (new date), 2021, Thessaloniki, Greece<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-organized\nby:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folklore and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia-Thrace
Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
Laboratory for the Study of Culture, Borders and Gender, (Department of BS\u039fS, University of Macedonia)
Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia
Section of Folklore, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CALL FOR PAPERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is common knowledge in the social sciences that collective\nidentities are neither eternal nor fixed. They are fluid, historically shaped,\nand object of management and negotiation by collective and individual actors.\nIt is also common ground that national identities have been formed during\nmodernity when the nation-state emerged as an essential and dominant political\norganization unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outset of the relationship between the nation’s\ncollectivity and the state’s territoriality is traced in the historical period\nof the industrial and urban revolution in Europe. However, this relationship is\nredefined continuously and shapes, historically, the dominant narrative around\nnational identity, national origin, and the way the nation and the modern\ncollective self are constructed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Greece, despite the debates and different perspectives,\nthe view of the pre-existing cultural community of Hellenism is commonly\naccepted, and it is reconstructed on a new ground after the national liberation\nstruggles and the establishment of the modern Greek state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference explores ways of constructing the community\nthrough performative expressions of collective identities, as they become\nvisible in the institutional discourse, public events, rituals, and symbols\nused by the state and citizens to (re)produce the nation. These are contexts\nand processes in which experiences of the self, the collective, the national\nbelonging, and the citizen are produced through interactions, hegemonic\ndiscourses, experiences of power, symbolic meanings, and embodied practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept of performance is chosen as the appropriate\ntheoretical and analytical framework to study complex and multilevel forms of\nsocial action and different cultural practices that shape, reproduce or even\nchallenge the multiple discourses and embodied ways in which national identity\nis constructed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference will host presentations (in Greek or English)\nand discuss the issue of national identity, focusing on institutions’ role and\nvarious forms of performance in the context of institutional discourse, social\ninteraction, and various bodily practices. Indicative thematic areas are as\nfollows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Collective, state, and private\ninstitutions (e.g., educational institutions, museums, associations, cultural\nassociations)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Religion, rituals, celebrations,\nand symbols<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Communities, borders and\nboundaries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Space, architecture, monuments,\nand memory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Family, kinship, and gender<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Material culture, nutritional\npractices, customary life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Language, arts, dance, music,\nsongs, costumes, sports<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Technology, media, digital and\naudiovisual culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The invitation is aimed at social sciences and humanities\nresearchers (Social Anthropology, Folklore, History, Sociology, Cultural\nStudies, etc.) who employ case studies and critical thinking to highlight the\nmeanings and limitations, and dynamics of national identity performances in\ncontemporary times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submission of applications – Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Summary of up to 250 words\n(in Greek or English) with the title of the presentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Contact details: name, scientific\nstatus, email address<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Conference languages: Greek,\nEnglish<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Deadline for the abstract\nsubmission: November 30, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail: lemmth.vsas.synedrio2021@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleni Gelani, PhD Candidate in Folklore and\nSocial Anthropology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientific Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n