5th International Graduate and Undergraduate Student “Border Crossings” Conference

CROSSROADS AND BOUNDARIES: CHALLENGES FOR ANTHROPOLOGY IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE

 Borut Brumen’s Memorial Days

Šalovci, Slovenia

April 26-29, 2007

 

Thursday, 26th April:

16.00 Arrival and registration at the students' dormitory in Murska Sobota (Official name and address: Dijaški dom Murska Sobota, Tomšičeva 15).

18.00 Opening ceremony at the students' dormitory.

20.00 Dinner for all the participants at the students' dormitory.


 

Friday, 27th April:

08.00 Breakfast.

08.30 Departure from Murska Sobota to Šalovci.

09.00 – 09.30 Opening speech by the mayor of Šalovci.

09.30 – 11.00 First session.

09.30 – 09.45 Golfo Tsergou. (Thessaloniki)

Anthropology and community studies in the 1960 – 1970.

09.45 – 10.00 Iskra Gerazova. (Skopje)

“Vodici” in Bituše: Strong and vibrant traditions in the village of Bituše for the religious holiday of Theophany (Epiphany).

10.00 – 10.15 Theodora Matziropoulou. (Thessaloniki)

Women and firewalking religious rituals in northern Greece.

10.15 – 10.30 Ana Lakčević. (Belgrade)

“Tobelijas”.

10.30 – 10.45 Maria Karastathi. (Ioannina)

Bridewealth and social structure in a community of central Greece.

10.45 – 11.00 Discussion.

11.00 – 11.30 Break.

11.30 – 13.00 Second session.

11.30 – 11.45 Athanasia Spirtzi. (Mytilini)

The political role of archaeology.

11.45 – 12.00 Evangelia Matsuki. (Ioannina)

Ideological juxtapositions concerning the function of the Museum of National Resistance of Athens.

12.00 – 12.15 Alexandra Athanasopoulou, Georgios Stathopoulos. (Ioannina)

Heroic sculptures as polyphonic sites of national recollection: A case study from Greece.

12.15 – 12.30 Christina Lina, Giorgos Koulis. (Florina)

Visual representation of the past and national history: The case of the ‘300’ Spartan warriors of Leonidas against the Persians.

12.30 – 12.45 Chara Papanastasatou, Apostolos Tsobanis-Notios. (Florina)

Football and nationalism: The articulation of the Greek national identity during a sport event.

12.45 – 13.00 Discussion.

13.00 – 15.0 Lunch break.

15.00 – 16.30 Third session.

15.00 – 15.15 Theodoros Kouros. (Ioannina)

Space and socio-cultural change in a Vlach village of Greece.

15.15 – 15.30 Barbara Turk. (Ljubljana)

Division of public space between Albanian and Macedonian inhabitants of Gostivar.

15.30 – 15.45 Maria Costi. (Nicosia)

Searching for the connections of the divided city: School for the creation of sounds in the walled city of Nicosia.

15.45 – 16.00 Pandelis Probonas. (Komotini)

National patterns and urban space: The names of the streets in a multiethnic city.

16.00 – 16.15 Georgia Kitsaki. (Ioannina)

The production of local history through street-naming: The case of Ioannina.

16.15 – 16.30 Discussion.

16.30 – 17.00 Break.

17.00 – 18.30 Fourth session.

17.00 – 17.15 Dragica Marinič. (Ljubljana)

Cultural incubator - youth transnational and cultural space: The case of the revitalization of urban space and the old city centre in Maribor.

17.15 – 17.30 Anja Gjorgjeska. (Skopje)

Electronic games – a new virtual subculture.

17.30 – 17.45 Simona Govednik. (Ljubljana)

Old Lore, New Media: Vampires Live!

17.45 – 18.00 Giorgos Samantas. (Mytilini)

Sonic resistance and acoustic body in rave music: The “free parties” in Athens.

18.00 – 18.15 Stamatia Mitsopoulou. (Komotini)

Youth humor as a form of resistance and attack: An ethnographic approach.

18.15 – 18.30 Discussion.

18.30 – 18.45 Break.

18.45 – 19.15 Film.

19.15 Return to Murska Sobota.

20.00 Dinner in Murska Sobota.

 

Saturday, 28th April:

08.00 Breakfast.

08.45 Departure from Murska Sobota to Šalovci.

09.30 – 11.00 First session.

09.30 – 9.45 Falia Varelaki. (Komotini)

Observing the “self” and the “other” in the field: Participant observation in a recreation place.

09.45 – 10.00 Tina Glavič. (Ljubljana)

Doing fieldwork in a total institution: A challenge for anthropologists?

10.00 – 10.15 Sara Arko. (Ljubljana)

Fieldwork and self: On identification in Macedonian space.

10.15 – 10.30 Radharani Pernarčič. (Ljubljana)

“You should be more” / “You shouldn't”: Elaboration on twisted tolerance and politeness when they turn from an active choice to a passive stance.

10.30 – 10.45 Sonja Zlobko. (Ljubljana)

Revolution in real and imaginary space.

 

10.45 – 11.00 Discussion.

11.00 – 11.30 Break.

11.30 – 13.00 Second session.

11.30 – 11.45 Katarina Žakelj. (Ljubljana)

Egression: Influence of the conflicts surrounding village post-signs on the identity and language use of the Slovene minority in Carinthia.

11.45 – 12.00 Lucia Rodeghiero. (Milan)

The minority school on the Italian-Slovene border (Trieste province): an ethnographic analysis.

12.00 – 12.15 Kostas Poumpouridis. (Thessaloniki)

Imaginations from the other side: Discovering the kingdom of Ruritania.

12.15 – 12.30 Mirna Buić.

“Balkan Food” in Slovenia: Nothing new, a sign of multiculturalism or an alien element?

12.30 – 12.45 Nopi Simitliotou. (Florina)

Examining religious rights and power struggles in contemporary Greece: The Christian orthodox religion and the worship of the twelve gods of antiquity.

12.45 – 13.00 Discussion.

13.00 – 15.00 Lunch break.

15.00 – 16.30 Third session.

15.00 – 15.15 Spyros Zervas, Ariadni Antoniadou. (Ioannina)

Refugee identities in Thessaloniki.

15.15 – 15.30 Chrisa Yianopoulou. (Thessaloniki)

Immigrant pupils’ integration problems in the multicultural High School of Thessaloniki.

15.30 – 15.45 Konstantinos Karvelis, Evgenia Bellou. (Ioannina)

“Must an immigrant hold our flag?” National symbols and the position of immigrants in Greek society.

15.45 – 16.00 Besim Can Zirh. (London)

Euro-Alevis: From gastarbeiter to transnational community.

16.00 – 16.30 Concluding discussion.

16.30 – 17.00 Break.

17.00 – 17.45 Workshop on online ethnographic exhibitions led by prof. Giorgos Ageloupoulos.

17.45 – 18.00 Break.

18.00 – 19.00 Film.

19.15 Return to Murska Sobota.

20.00 Dinner in Murska Sobota.


 

Sunday, 29th April:

08.00 Breakfast.

09.30 Excursion through the region of Prekmurje.

18.00 Return to Murska Sobota.