The Association of Social Anthropologists of Greece (SKAE / ASAG) celebrates European Anthropology Days from the 15th of February up to the 20th of March under the rhetorical question “Is Anthropology present?“. Anthropology, in its polyphonic, open and critical approach, can contribute decisively to highlighting social problems, mitigating their causes and amplifying the voices of those affected. Anthropology enables new paths of understanding and can inform new policies and alternatives, evidence-based practices and shared visions.
Our celebrations include four movie screenings, four workshops, two performances, one exhibition and an online event held in English (link to access provided below) as well as six dedicated blog posts on ΣΚΑΕ/ASAG’s website. We are collaborating with the Ethnographic Film Festival in Athens, Fiji, Anthropology-inspired Storytelling network in Volos, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens), the University of Thessaly (Volos), the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki), the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Aegean, four K-12 schools in Piraeus, Korydallos, Athens and the island of Amorgos, and a cinema club based on Amorgos. Our planned activities are outlined below.
AnthroDays in Greece activities and events
• Zanneio Model Senior High School of Piraeus (16/02/2024). What’s research like in Social Anthropology? Workshop by Dr Eleni Kotsira (Zanneio class of 2011, ASAG member). https://elenikotsira.wordpress.com/public-engagement-digital-outputs/
• ASTOR Cinema, Athens, (17/02/2024), 15:00. Lab of Anthropological Research, Dept. Of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens) and the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival-Ethnofest: Screening and discussion of the film «Elsewhere, Everywhere” (2020). Discussants: Gerasimos Makris, Professor, Katerina Rozakou, Assistant Professor, Petros Petridis, Assistant Professor, Eleni Kotsira, Alma Economics, Otherwise Magazine.
https://eae.panteion.gr/en/, https://www.ethnofest.gr/, https://www.ethnofest.gr/el/film/elsewhere-everywhere
• Amorgos Film Club Cinema (18/02/2024, 18:30). Screening and discussion of the film «Elsewhere, Everywhere” (2020) in collaboration with ETHNOFEST coordinated by Violetta Koutsoukou, PhD candidate, Dept of Social Anthropology, Panteion University.
• Vocational High School of Korydallos, “Ethnographic films as exchange, narrative and materiality”, Screening and discussion of Films with school community: by Kostis Kalantzis, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Culture and Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly. Films: Dowsing the Past: Materialities of Civil War Memories, https://youtu.be/7wNqNEsDEQo?si=QCAcfeHrGX9y6a4v, The impossible narration: Memory and photography of the Kalavryta Slaughter, https://youtu.be/OOYyxXvXuiA?si=Kt38ASgU-3UpRpjf
• Vocational High School of Korydallos (19/02/2024, 12:30).“Designing together” a collaboration of the school community with local governance through a European project (COPE/URBACT IV) on designing names and logos for the reuse of a municipal building for newcomers professionals. Coordinated by teachers Eftichia Siembenou, Margarita Gelada, and Antonios Kambourparisis, and Mimina Pateraki, an anthropologist at the Dept of Research, Development and Planning, Municipality of Korydallos.
• Vocational High School of Korydallos (20/02/2024, 10:00 am. – 12:00 p.m.), Shadow theater performance “Karagkiozis the Refugee” by the 2nd Applied Arts department, curator/student Ioannis Pappas
• 46th High school of Athens, Dr Georgia Sarikoudi, Postdoctoral researcher, Dept of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and philologist. https://46gym-athin.att.sch.gr/.
• Vocational High School of Amorgos Island, “Water Mythologies: Apollo in Amorgos, the protector of water”: Participation in the environmental project of the VH School of Amorgos by Violetta Koutsoukou PhD candidate, Dept of Social Anthropology, Panteion University. http://1epal-amorg.kyk.sch.gr/index.html.
• Culture, Borders, Gender Lab of Dept of Balkans, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thursday, 14th of March, (18:00-20:00) “Multiple gazes towards Northern Greek province: Kalampaki’s “Kourbani” custom and the critical ethnographic encounter”, Foteini Tsibiridou, professor of Social Anthropology and director of Lab, Dimitris Kataiftsis, teaching associate in Social Anthropology, Nikos Manolas, PhD candidate in Anthropology, Anastasia Mitropoanou, MA student in Anthropology (Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies department – University of Macedonia) https://cbg-lab.uom.gr/en/
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84454977279?pwd=pALbkousabbfjetVU410D3UMbA4bHb.1
• Lab of Social Anthropology, Dept. of History, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly (Volos). “Sounding Daniel” Αudiovisual ethnographic essays about the floods in Magnesia, Sept. 2023. Undergraduate seminar “Sound Studies and Cultural Critique”, winter semester 2023-24. Tutor: Dafni Tragaki, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Archeology, Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxcWeSo3zFh_E88rej0yACQ
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Dedicated blog posts on European Anthropology Days to appear on ΣΚΑΕ/ASAG’s blog: > https://anthroassociation.gr/blog/