Sideri Eleni
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    Sideri Eleni

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies


    Academic Area

    Anthropology of Post-socialism with emphasis on the Caucasus and the Black Sea

    Curriculum Vitae
    Academic Titles

    -2016. Βachelor  in Film Studies. School of Fine Arts-AUTH. Specialisation: ScriptWriting

    -2006. PhD in Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies / University of London.

    -2002. Masters Degree in Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies / University of London.

    -2000. Master of Arts in Language and Communication Sciences. Postgraduate Degree in French, German, Italian Philology and Mechanical and Computer Engineering-AUTH. Specialisation:: Sociolinguistics..

    -1997. Postgraduate in Social Anthropology. School of Oriental and African Studies / University of London.

    -1996. Bachelor in French Language and Literature, School of Philosophy-AUTH.

    Research Interests
    • Diasporas,
    • transnational migration,
    • forms of mobility & immobility,
    • tourism,
    • language and storytelling,
    • visual anthropology / cinema and anthropology,
    • new technologies and digital expression,
    • cities and globalization,
    • European cultural policies,
    • post-socialist world,
    • Black Sea,
    • Caucasus

    Teaching


    • ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT AND SOCIAL THEORY
      (ΒΣΑ302-ΙΙΙ)

    Type
    COMPULSORY

    Department Abbreviation
    BSO

    Department
    DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES

    Course Outlines

    The course begins with the discovery of the Other in the new world, the diffusion of European modernity through Colonialism, with the beginnings and the establishment of the world capitalist system. Anthropological thought, in terms of political economy, is examined in the long run and until the introduction of travel curiosity in the science of Social and Cultural Anthropology. At the same time, and systematically from the 19th century until today, its relationship with other related branches of social sciences and humanities is investigated. Emphasis is placed on the work of the classical thinkers of social theory (Durkheim, Weber, Marx, Frankfurt School), their basic ideas and the historical context that gave birth to them in order to determine the principles of the social and cultural composition of the self, the community, the change and difference. The aim of the course is to acquaint first-year students with the subject and methodology of social anthropology as well as with the basic concepts of social theory and the practical issues of academic research and writing in the social sciences. Students are introduced to the basic concepts, definitions and fields of Social and Cultural Anthropology (kinship, economics, political organization, symbolic systems-religion, gender) and the kind of holistic view of societies between ethnographic present and historical past. . The basic theoretical schools of the 20th and 21st centuries (American, British and French) are examined, which defined anthropological thought (function, post / structure, interpretive approach). Finally, the course introduces students to the methodological peculiarities of ethnographic field research, comparative method and holistic anthropological understanding

    • ANTHROPOLOGY OF MIGRATION AND DIASPORAS IN SE. EUROPE AND THE NEAR EAST
      (ΒΣΑ307-ΙΙΙ-2)

    Type
    ELECTIVE

    Department Abbreviation
    BSO

    Department
    DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES

    Course Outlines

    COURSE OUTLINE

    (1) GENERAL

    SCHOOL

    Economics  and Peripheral Studies

    ACADEMIC UNIT

    Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies

    LEVEL OF STUDIES

    Graduate

    COURSE CODE

     

    SEMESTER

    5ο

    COURSE TITLE

    Anthropology of Migration and Diasporas from South-east Europe to the Near East

     

    INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES
    if credits are awarded for separate components of the course, e.g. lectures, laboratory exercises, etc. If the credits are awarded for the whole of the course, give the weekly teaching hours and the total credits

    WEEKLY TEACHING HOURS

    CREDITS

     

    4

    6

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Add rows if necessary. The organisation of teaching and the teaching methods used are described in detail at (d).

     

     

    COURSE TYPE

    general background,
    special background, specialised general knowledge, skills development

    Special background

    PREREQUISITE COURSES:

     

    No

    LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION and EXAMINATIONS:

    English

    IS THE COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS

    Yes

    COURSE WEBSITE (URL)

    https://openeclass.uom.gr/courses/BSO256/

               

    (2) LEARNING OUTCOMES

    Learning outcomes

    The course learning outcomes, specific knowledge, skills and competences of an appropriate level, which the students will acquire with the successful completion of the course are described.

    Consult Appendix A

    • Description of the level of learning outcomes for each qualifications cycle, according to the Qualifications Framework of the European Higher Education Area
    • Descriptors for Levels 6, 7 & 8 of the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning and Appendix B
    • Guidelines for writing Learning Outcomes

     

     

    1. Intellectual Skills

     

    • Understanding the different aspects of migration, integration, inclusions in relation to anthropological methods and concepts

    • Combining interdisciplinary information stemming  from the study of empirical data to reach conclusions

    • Learning to formulate an argument based on bibliographical research

     

    2. Research Skills

    • Development of capacities bibliographical research

    • Structure of an academic text

    • Presentation skills using new technologies

     

     

    3. Development of Research Technologies

     

    • Developing digital research skills

    • Deeper understanding and analysis of visual material

     

     

     

     

     

    General Competences

    Taking into consideration the general competences that the degree-holder must acquire (as these appear in the Diploma Supplement and appear below), at which of the following does the course aim?

    Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology

    Adapting to new situations

    Decision-making

    Working independently

    Team work

    Working in an international environment

    Working in an interdisciplinary environment

    Production of new research ideas

    Project planning and management

    Respect for difference and multiculturalism

    Respect for the natural environment

    Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues

    Criticism and self-criticism

    Production of free, creative and inductive thinking

    ……

    Others…

    …….

     

     

    • Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information
    • Independent and/or team work
    •  Respectfordifferenceandmulticulturalism
    • Production of free, creative and inductive thinking

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (3) SYLLABUS

     

    The course examines different forms of migration, transnational and economic migration, brain drain, gender migration, and compares them to other categories of movement and attitude such as refugee and diaspora. Different approaches to the study of migration will be studied (economic and historical approach network study, global south and migration). Different forms of diaspora are compared, such as historical and contemporary diasporas, diaspora as a double consciousness, the concept of diaspora, and LGBTQ+ communities and online diasporas. Finally, the course will highlight different policies of integration, collective organization and artistic expression of immigrants or diasporas (e.g., literature of immigration, diasporic cinema, etc.). The ethnographic examples will concern migrants from/to the regions of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as the Near East.

    The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the different categories of immigration as well as with the different immigrant communities and diasporas of Northern and South-Eastern Europe & the Near East. The examples of cross-cultural encounters, displacements and the management of the diasporic condition in the wider region of North Africa, SE Europe and the Near East constitute the field of observation of ethnographic and other factual data that allow students to deepen their knowledge in basic anthropological concepts and analytical categories taught in previous years about space and time, region, ethnicity, gender identity and types of community from modernity to the digital age

     

     

    1 Introduction

     

    2. Methodology Issues

    the field of anthropology of immigration-definition, methodology and methods, methodological nationalism, best practices

     

    3. World Migrations and Diaspora (19th century - First half of the 20th century)

    world migrations in the 19th century, diaspora and its historical review, immigrant subjectivity, Greek diaspora in the USA

     

    4. International Migration and Diasporic Identities (2nd half-20th-21st)

    transnationalism/immigration, globalization, hybrid identities, new diasporas

     

    5. Economy and Immigration and the Economy of Immigration (from 'black' work to the status of precariousness)

    Labour, Remittances, Precarity, Ethical and Sympathetic Economy, 'Black'/Grey Economy, Migrant Entrepreneurship

     

    6. Border-Security—National/European Policies

    Governmentality, Foucault, security, borders, control

     

    7. Multiculturalism- Xenophobia and Racism

    Hospitality, citizenship, anthropology and citizenship, diaspora, naturalization law of blood, law of land, integration, inclusion, multiculturalism

     

    8. Marriages and International Families

    Transnational family, caring, letter brides, small weddings

     

    9. Return Migration

    Nostos, nostalgia, brain drain, brain drain/gain

     

    10. New Forms of Inclusion-Movements

    forms of solidarity, movements, associations, occupations, new technologies

     

    11. Migrations and Art. Literature, Museums and Cinema

    Art, representation, migration

     

    12. Presentations

    13. Presentations

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


    (4) TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION

    DELIVERY
    Face-to-face, Distance learning, etc.

    Face-to-Face

    USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Use of ICT in teaching, laboratory education, communication with students

    ICT in teaching

    ICT in the communication with students

    TEACHING METHODS

    The manner and methods of teaching are described in detail.

    Lectures, seminars, laboratory practice, fieldwork, study and analysis of bibliography, tutorials, placements, clinical practice, art workshop, interactive teaching, educational visits, project, essay writing, artistic creativity, etc.

     

    The student's study hours for each learning activity are given as well as the hours of non-directed study according to the principles of the ECTS

    Activity

    Semester workload

    Interactive Teaching

    26

    Seminars

    26

    Study and Analysis of bibliography

    50

    Writing Essay

    48

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Course total

    150

     

    STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

    Description of the evaluation procedure

     

    Language of evaluation, methods of evaluation, summative or conclusive, multiple choice questionnaires, short-answer questions, open-ended questions, problem solving, written work, essay/report, oral examination, public presentation, laboratory work, clinical examination of patient, art interpretation, other

     

    Specifically-defined evaluation criteria are given, and if and where they are accessible to students.

     

    Summative evaluation: a written essay  and presentation (compulsory), interactive participation, smaller assignments within the class. Τhe essay will be possible for students completing 70% of the attendance of the course. When this is not the case, there will be written examination.

     

    The written assignment (4000, the bibliography is included) should demonstrate that students comprehend the theoretical concerns and can comment on the ethnographic material thoroughly and critically,  structure and academic text and academic writing (eg. bibliographic requirements, argumentation) . The paper will necessarily contain two of the key words of the course and will be comparative in nature, i.e. it will compare two cases from the post-socialist world.

     

    Explanation of Grading

     

    9-10: Excellent critical analysis and argumentation, very good use and understanding of anthropological sources, coherent structure, very good use of academic language and conventions

     

    8-7: Good critical analysis and argumentation, good use and understanding of anthropological sources, solid structure although it has minor weaknesses, moderate use of academic language and conventions

     

    5-6: Problematic analysis and argumentation usually contains incoherent argumentation, description without attempting a critical analysis of the sources e.g. emphasizing only the description of empirical examples but showing a basic understanding of the sources, structure lacking clarity and coherence which at least presents a general argument, moderate use of sources but does not contain plagiarism and respects conventions but presents language weaknesses

     

    4 and below No substantial attempt to use academic sources and style e.g. use of main secondary electronic sources which are not confirmed either themselves or their sources or their methodology of a clear argument, problems of understanding the text due to weaknesses in the structure, plagiarism, not respecting the academic conventions, good use of language

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (5) ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

    - Suggested bibliography:

     

    C. Brettell.2003.  Anthropology and migration. Essays on transnationalism, ethnicity, and identity. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press. Pp.9-23, 23-47.

    S. Castles& M.Miller (1998) The Age of Migration. International Population Movement , London/Hampshire: 67-104, 104-141.

    Koser, Khalid 2007. International Migration: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press 28-41.

    S. Vertovec& R. Cohen (eds) Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism, Cheltenham: Elgar Reference Collection

    Werbner, Pnina. "Global pathways. Working class cosmopolitans and the creation of transnational ethnic worlds." Social anthropology 7.1 (1999): 17-35.

     

     

    - Related academic journals:

     

    Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    Journal of International Migration and Integration

    Migration and Society

     

     

    • COMPARATIVE ISSUES IN GENDER AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
      (HRMS205)

    Type
    COMPULSORY

    Department Abbreviation
    HURMIS

    Department
    MASTER'S DEGREE IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND MIGRATION STUDIES

    Course Outlines

    Η περιγραφή του μαθήματος δεν είναι διαθέσιμη

    • CULTURAL POLICIES IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
      (HAC905)

    Type
    ELECTIVE

    Department Abbreviation
    ΜΙΑΠΑΝΕ

    Department
    MASTER'S DEGREE IN HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURE IN EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE

    Course Outlines

    The course examines the complex relationship of ‘politics’ and ‘culture’ in the film production of the former Yugoslavia. For decades, cinema as cultural text has been connected to the national narratives. The birth of Yugoslavia after World War II, which stopped the inception of national cinemas, laid the foundations of “Cinema Kommunisto’. The personal vision of Tito to create a Yugoslav cinema balanced between ideological orthodoxy, propaganda and artistic creation. After the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, the independent republics were invited to respond to a cinematic landscape of cultural flows, transnational partnerships and global viewership. The course, starting from film (fiction and documentary) and to a lesser extent, television of the former Yugoslavia countries, will examine issues of national High/ Low culture and cinema, ideology and art, gender, memory and representation, transnationalism and Europeanness through the use of audio-visual and multimedia methods as well as visits to cultural organisations and sites (Cinemateque, Museum of Cinema, festivals).

    Indicative bibliography:

    Cuche D. 1996. La notion de culture dans les science sociales. Paris: La Decouverte

    Dermentzopoulos Ch. & Spyridakis M. 2004. Anthropologia, Kultura and Politiki [Anthropology, Culture, and Politics]. Athens: Metechmio.

    Goulding D.  J. 2002. Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience 1945-2001. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

    Hill J. & Gibson P. Church. 2001. Film Studies, Critical Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Thompson Κ. & Bordwell D.  1997. An Art History. An Introduction. NY: McGraw Hill .

    Wachtel A. Baruch. 1998. Making A Nation, Breaking A Nation. Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

    • ETHNOGRAPHIES OF POST SOCIALISM
      (ΒΣ304-ΙΙΙ)

    Type
    ELECTIVE

    Department Abbreviation
    BSO

    Department
    DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES

    Course Outlines

    COURSE OUTLINE

    (1)     GENERAL

    SCHOOL

    Economics and Peripheral Studies

    ACADEMIC UNIT

    Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies

    LEVEL OF STUDIES

    Graduate

    COURSE CODE

     

    SEMESTER

    4th

    COURSE TITLE

    Ethnographies of  Postsocialism

    INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES
    if credits are awarded for separate components of the course, e.g. lectures, laboratory exercises, etc. If the credits are awarded for the whole of the course, give the weekly teaching hours and the total credits

    WEEKLY TEACHING HOURS

    CREDITS

     

    4

    6

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Add rows if necessary. The organisation of teaching and the teaching methods used are described in detail at (d).

     

     

    COURSE TYPE

    general background,
    special background, specialised general knowledge, skills development

    Special background

    PREREQUISITE COURSES:

     

    No

    LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION and EXAMINATIONS:

    English

    IS THE COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS

    Yes

    COURSE WEBSITE (URL)

    https://openeclass.uom.gr/courses/BSO255/

               

    (2)     LEARNING OUTCOMES

    Learning outcomes

    The course learning outcomes, specific knowledge, skills and competences of an appropriate level, which the students will acquire with the successful completion of the course are described.

    Consult Appendix A

    • Description of the level of learning outcomes for each qualifications cycle, according to the Qualifications Framework of the European Higher Education Area
    • Descriptors for Levels 6, 7 & 8 of the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning and Appendix B
    • Guidelines for writing Learning Outcomes

     

     

    1. Intellectual Skills

     

    • Understanding the economic and political transformations of the so-called transition in relation to the basic anthropological concepts

    • Combining interdisciplinary information stemming  from the study of empirical data to reach conclusions

    • Learning to formulate an argument based on bibliographical research

     

     

    2. Research Skills

    • Development of capacities bibliographical research

    • Structure of an academic text

    • Presentation skills using new technologies

     

     

     

    3. Development of Research Technologies

     

    • Developing digital research skills

    • Deeper understanding and analysis of visual material

     

     

    General Competences

    Taking into consideration the general competences that the degree-holder must acquire (as these appear in the Diploma Supplement and appear below), at which of the following does the course aim?

    Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology

    Adapting to new situations

    Decision-making

    Working independently

    Team work

    Working in an international environment

    Working in an interdisciplinary environment

    Production of new research ideas

    Project planning and management

    Respect for difference and multiculturalism

    Respect for the natural environment

    Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues

    Criticism and self-criticism

    Production of free, creative and inductive thinking

    ……

    Others…

    …….

     

     

     

    • Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information
    • Independent and/or team work
    •  Respectfordifferenceandmulticulturalism
    • Production of free, creative and inductive thinking

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (3)     SYLLABUS

     

     

    The course examines, from the point of view of social anthropology, the different aspects of the concept of "transition" mainly in the context of the societies of the former USSR, and secondarily, the Eastern and SE Europe as well as the so-called socialist world eg. China, Cuba etc. Drawing ethnographic examples from specific countries, the course will study issues of social transformation from existing socialism to "post-communist capitalism" from the perspective of their social, political and cultural impacts on the everyday lives of citizens as well as the coping mechanisms and survival strategies devised to deal with 'social change'. The following issues are included: a) old and new conceptions of property and work in the face of rising unemployment, b) redefining the concept of collective 'belonging', c) the creation of pressure groups and 'civil society', d) survival strategies and the human cost of the "transition" e) critique of the conceptualization of "post-socialism" as a colonial conception of neoliberalism, f) emergence of new gender identities

     

    The aim of the course is to acquaint the students with the transformations of the transition from the socialist past to the capitalist present and to draw connections from this period with the advent of neo-liberalism in the heart of Europe. The course will critically reflect on both the idea of transition, geographical and cultural area and essentialist identities. At the center of this approach will be ethnographic works in dialogue with cultural criticism, history and other interdisciplinary encounters to help student comprehend the study of everyday life, ideology, political practices and experiences

     

    Weekly Sessions

     

    1 Introduction

     

    2. Postsocialism and Postcolonial Criticism

    Transition, postsocialism and postcolonial critique

     

    3. From modernity to neo-liberal capitalism I (Land-Property)

    modernity, feudalism, industrialization of agriculture, collectivization, privatization, stigmatized land

     

    4. From modernity to neo-liberal capitalism II (Market)

    market, barter, NEP, exchange, money, consumption, the market economy, precarity

     

    5. From progress to ecological destruction (industrialization-workers)

    Industrialization, progress, workers/working class, development, developed socialism, ecology and indigeneity (shamanism), ecological disasters Chernobyl, Aral

     

    6. The alphabets  of postsocialism (languages and belonging)

    indigenization, nationalism, the Soviet nation, lingua franca, affirmative action, state minorities/majorities and stateless

     

    7. From the women's issue to FEMEN-ism

    patriarchy, zandruga, the new proletariat, Islam in Central Asia/Caucasus-women, the 'bride-rape', Marxism and feminism, double standard (subjugation), women and religion, LGBTQI and exclusions

     

    8. From 'propiska' to transnational migration

    Movement, diasporas, urbanization, the socialist city, transnational migrations, internal passports (propiska), historical homelands

     

    9. From Socialist Brotherhood to World Socialisms I (China)

      the International, internationalism (internationalism), the brotherhood of peoples, China Maoism, the new middle class, nationalism

     

    10. From socialist brotherhood to world socialisms II. (Cuba-Africa)

    revolution, racism and the first/second world, the commodification of revolution, the (post)socialist periphery

     

    11. From popular democracy to civil society

    Positive discrimination, civil society, NGOs, the concept of democratization, Europeanization

     

    12. The socialist heritage, memory and tourism

    nostalgia, memory, tourism, tourism development, refinement, heritage

     

    13. Review-Presentations

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


    (4)     TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION

    DELIVERY
    Face-to-face, Distance learning, etc.

    Face to Face

    USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Use of ICT in teaching, laboratory education, communication with students

    ICT in teaching

    ICT in the communication with students

    TEACHING METHODS

    The manner and methods of teaching are described in detail.

    Lectures, seminars, laboratory practice, fieldwork, study and analysis of bibliography, tutorials, placements, clinical practice, art workshop, interactive teaching, educational visits, project, essay writing, artistic creativity, etc.

     

    The student's study hours for each learning activity are given as well as the hours of non-directed study according to the principles of the ECTS

    Activity

    Semester workload

    Interactive Teaching

    26

    Seminars

    26

    Study and Analysis of bibliography

    50

    Writing Essay

    48

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Course total

    150

     

    STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

    Description of the evaluation procedure

     

    Language of evaluation, methods of evaluation, summative or conclusive, multiple choice questionnaires, short-answer questions, open-ended questions, problem solving, written work, essay/report, oral examination, public presentation, laboratory work, clinical examination of patient, art interpretation, other

     

    Specifically-defined evaluation criteria are given, and if and where they are accessible to students.

     

     

    Summative evaluation: interactive participation, presentation, written essay, smaller assignment within class

     

    The written assignment should demonstrate that the student has understood the theoretical concerns and can comment on the ethnographic material thoroughly and critically in a text that has structured and showed examples of understanding of academic writing (eg bibliographic requirements, argumentation) . The paper will necessarily contain two of the key words of the course and will be comparative in nature, i.e. it will compare two cases from the post-socialist world

     

    Explanation of Grading

     

    9-10: Excellent critical analysis and argumentation, very good use and understanding of anthropological sources, coherent structure, very good use of academic language and conventions

     

    8-7: Good critical analysis and argumentation, good use of sources and understanding of anthropological sources, structure that does not create problems of understanding although it has weaknesses, moderate use of academic language and conventions

     

    5-6: Problematic analysis and argumentation usually contains incoherent argumentation, description without attempting a critical analysis of the sources eg emphasizing only the description of empirical examples but showing a basic understanding of the sources, structure lacking clarity and coherence

    which at least presents a general argument, moderate use of sources but does not contain plagiarism and respects conventions but presents language weaknesses

     

    4 and below No substantial attempt to use academic sources and wording eg use of main secondary electronic sources that are not confirmed either themselves or their sources or their methodology of a clear argument, problems of understanding the text due to weaknesses in the structure, plagiarism, not respecting the academic conventions, good use of language

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (5)     ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

    - Suggested bibliography:

     

    Godelier, M. Η θεωρία της μετάβασης στο Μαρξ. Γκούτενμπερτγκ.1987

    Verdery, K. (1996). K. (1996). What Was Socialism and Why did it Fail?. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Todorova, M. (1997). Imagining the Balkans. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Voutira, E. A. (2006). Post-Soviet diaspora politics: The case of the Soviet Greeks. Journal of modern Greek studies24(2), 379-414.

    Ascherson, N. (1996). Black Sea. New York: Hill and Wang.

     

    - Related academic journals:

     

    Slavic Review

    Anthropology of East Europe Review

    Ab Imperio

     

     

     

     

    • ETHNOGRAPHIES OF TURKEY AND THE MIDDLE EAST
      (ΒΑ303-ΙΙΙ)

    Type
    ELECTIVE

    Department Abbreviation
    BSO

    Department
    DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES

    Course Outlines

    Το μάθημα περιλαμβάνει 2 ενότητες: Α. Στην πρώτη ενότητα αναλύεται η σχέση της Ανθρωπολογίας με τη μελέτη της Τουρκίας και της Μέσης Ανατολής. Αναζητώνται τα όρια των διεπιστημονικών συνεργασιών της Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας με τις συναφείς κοινωνικές και πολιτικές επιστήμες στο πλαίσιο των Ανατολικών σπουδών, καθώς και η συνομιλία της με τον κινηματογράφο, την κινηματογραφική αναπαράσταση και αφήγηση. Εξετάζονται συστηματικά τα ζητήματα του οριενταλισμού, της αποικιοκρατίας, της ‘παράδοσης’ του Ισλάμ και των άλλων θρησκευτικών παραδόσεων στην περιοχή, καθώς και τα ζητήματα της οργάνωσης κατά φυλές, οι μειονότητες, τα φύλα και η κουλτούρα των σύγχρονων κρατών. Β. Στη δεύτερη ενότητα εξετάζονται οι ειδικές θεματικές της ευρύτερης Μέσης Ανατολής έτσι όπως αναδεικνύονται από τη μελέτη της καθημερινότητας και μέσα από τη συστηματική εθνογραφική έρευνα. Γίνεται αναφορά σε συγκεκριμένες εθνογραφίες από την Αν Μεσόγειο, την Βόρεια Αφρική, την Μέση Ανατολή, την Κεντρική Ασία και το Ιράν. Αναδεικνύεται η σημασία της  μελέτης της καθημερινότητας και της κουλτούρας  καθώς και η σχέση του τοπικού με το παγκόσμιο στο παρόν και στη μακρά διάρκεια.

    Σελ. Μαθήματος https://openeclass.uom.gr/courses/UNI238/  

    • POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN EASTERN AND SEE
      (MAPE0211)

    Type
    ELECTIVE

    Department Abbreviation
    MPE

    Department
    MASTER'S DEGREE IN POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF CONTEMPORARY EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE

    Course Outlines

    The purpose of this course is to introduce MA students to the disciplinary area of Political Anthropology, as a particular branch of the discipline of Social Anthropology with an emphasis on the Regions of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The focus of the course is on the regional particularities of theory and research in the regions. Emphasis is placed on the familiarization with the relevant ethnographic texts that constitute the basis for the corpus of Balkan and East European Anthropology. The course also addresses the relations between Ethnography (fieldwork research) and Social Anthropology (analysis) The syllabus is based on ethnographic texts, films, and documentaries.

    Publications


    • Books (14 records)

    Περιλαμβάνει Βιβλία ή/και μονογραφίες σε διεθνείς ή ελληνικούς εκδοτικούς οίκους. Κεφάλαια ή άρθρα συλλογικών τόμων ή επιμέλεια τόμων σε διεθνείς ή ελληνικούς εκδοτικούς οίκους.

      2017

      • Hospitality, Acceptance and Integration” Hellenic Open University-Press Project. Refugee Education and Support Initiative. Development of educational material for the online refugee awareness training program (Action 8).

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      • Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia. Afterword in Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia (Eds.) Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea Region. Macmillan-Palgrave, Macmillan-Palgrave, pp 171-199.

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      • Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia. Introduction to Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia (Eds.) Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea Region. Macmillan-Palgrave, Macmillan-Palgrave, pp. 1-35.

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      • Eleni Sideri . Historical Diasporas, Religion and Identity: Exploring the Case of the Tsalka Greeks. Pp. 35-57.
      • Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia (Eds.) Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea Region. Macmillan-Palgrave

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      2016

      • Mobility in Thessaloniki: The Greek Economic Crisis and the Transformation of Mobility in Walking in the European City. Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography edited by T. Shortell and E Brown. Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 91-109.

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      • Urban Memory and Mobility: The Designing of a City Museum in Greece in Airing the Past: Inquiries into Digital Memories edited by N.R.Ortega, F.Diez-Platas and Seppo Kuivakari,pp 45-57 Oxford: Inter- disciplinary Press [E-BOOK]

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      • Γέφυρες, Νησίδες και Χάσματα στο Η μνήμη αφηγείται την πόλη. Προφορική Ιστορία και στη Μνήμη του Αστικού Χώρου Πλέθρον, (με την επιμέλεια των Ποθητή Χαντζαρούλα και Riki Van Boeschoten), 125-145.

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      • Im / mobility, Urbanism and Belonging: Being Immobile and Dreaming Mobility in Volos-Greece in Bounded Mobilities Edited by Sabina Leoncini, Julia Schwarz, Andreas Hackl, Miriam Gutekunst. Bielefeld: Verlag. Pp. 95-113.

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      • Immaginare Casa: L 'Im-mobiita dei Gregci dell ex Uionne Sovietica [Imagine Home: The Immobilization of Greeks in the Former Soviet Union] (2016) In Chi, cosa. Rifugiati, transnazionalism e frontiere [To whom. Refugees, Transnationality and Borders] Osvaldo Constantini, Aurora Massa and Jvan Yazdani (eds). Rome: Editions Misiones, pp. 257-280.

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      2013

      • Travelling in the Caucasus: Mobile Methodologies and Lifestyles in the Field in Lifestyle Mobilities edited by T. Duncan, S. Cohen and M. Thulemark. London, Ashgate. Pp 113-129.

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      • Μιλώντας Ελληνικά στον Καύκασο στο Έθνος πέρα των Συνόρων. Οι Ομογενειακές Πολιτικές του Ελληνικού Κράτους. Λ. Βεντούρα και Λ. Μπλατσιώτης (επ.). Αθήνα: Βιβλιόραμα. σσ 439-465

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      2012

      • “Frozen conflicts, mobility and the future of the Greek-Abkhazians in Reflections on Abkhazia: 1992-2012 edited by Metin Sonmez ,

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      2010

      • B-log on Social Change and Educational Reform: The Case of a Greek University Class in Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction: Experiences and Outcomes edited by L. Shedletsky & Joan E. Aitken. Maine: IGI-GLOBAL. pp123-140.

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      • Scientific Journals (10 records)

      Περιλαμβάνει Άρθρα σε διεθνή ή ελληνικά επιστημονικά περιοδικά (με κριτές).

        2019

        • How can a mix of innovative research methods (like walking, visiting the place of labour) and creative representation through digital arts combining photographs, and podcasts challenge students’ perceptions of ‘what we do in class’, ‘how knowledge is constructed’ and ‘who immigrants are’?”

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        2017

        • Bridging Worlds: Producing and Imagining the Transnational through TV Narratives. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, Volume 9, No. 2 – Special Issue Narrative and Audiovisual Creation, pp.27-35 (open access)

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        2016

        2015

        • Accumulating Transnational Social Capital among the Greeks from the former Soviet Union: Education, Ethnicity, Gender”. Journal of Identity and Migration Studies vol 9/1, pp. 69-87

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        2012

        • “Looking for the ‘language of recognition’ among the Greek communities of Georgia”. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 21(1), pp 41-60.

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        • Τhe land of the Golden Fleece: conflict and heritage in Abkhazia” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 14(2), pp. 263-279.

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        2009

        • “Pearls are a girl’s best friend: nostalgia and its discontents in the life stories of two Georgian women” International Black Sea University Scientific Journal 1(3), 97-112 (published July 2010)

        2008

        • “Τhe diaspora of the term diaspora. a working paper of a definition”. Transtext(e)sTranscultures Journal of Global Cultural Studies 4, pp 32-47

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        2007

        • Past strategies and present exigencies: time and social networks in modern Tbilisi” in Re-public

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        2006

        • In quest of eastern Europe: troubling encounters in the post-cold war field” Anthropology Matters vol. 8(1)

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        • Conferences (5 records)

        Περιλαμβάνει Άρθρα σε δημοσιευμένα πρακτικά διεθνών ή ελληνικών συνεδρίων (με κριτές).

          2015

          • Locating Belonging, refiguring space: Mediterranean crossings and the4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (joint paper with Lydia Roupakia and Evi Baniotopoulou) in the minutes of E’ Conference of the European Association of Modern Greek Studies (EENS),

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          2014

          • 8-10/5/2014 Αθήνα, Digital Story-telling in Times of Crisis, Τίτλος Παρουσίασης Digital story-telling and the city: designing the museum of the city of Volos

          2008

          • . Narrating the Homeland: the double articulation of the language with the national and diaspora in Studies in Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Dept. of Linguistics, School of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy 28th Language& Society. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, April 21-22-2007, Thessaloniki: Institute of New-Hellenic Studies, p.p.378-391.

          2007

          • Crossing the b-orders: from Georgia to Greece in Gendering transformations/Έμφυλοι Μετασχηματισμοί. Proceedings edited by G. Papageorgiou. Rethymnon: University of Crete, pp.98-109.
          • From imagining the nation to Imagining the Diaspora: Transnationalism and Diasporic Greek Media in G(l)ocal Media in Transition. The case of South-Eastern Europe 1990-2007 edited by H. Briel (ed). Skopje: Blesok, 73-87.
          • Other (9 records)

          Περιλαμβάνει Παρουσιάσεις σε διεθνή ή ελληνικά συνέδρια χωρίς δημοσίευση σε πρακτικά.

            2019

            • 9/2/2019, Λονδίνο, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research-Birbeck College, Identity, projection and the Other. Τίτλος Παρουσίασης European Cinema as Cinema of the Other: constructing identity in regional co-production markets.
            • 31/5-2/6/2019. Bόλος. Data-Stories Conference. New Critical Aesthetics and Discourses for Critical Digital Ethnography. Τίτλος Παρουσίασης My Post-Doc in Three Pictures.Data Visulasation and Ethnographic Writing /Representation.
            • 12-13/9/2019. Μασσαλία. 3rd Balkan Studies Conference . Villes des Balkans. Echelles Locale, Nationale, Globale. Τίτλος Παρουσίασης Thessaloniki and Sarajevo as Regional Film Markets. EU cultural Politics and City Branding.

            2018

            • 12-13/5/2018, Θεσσαλονίκη, Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας, Teaching and Learning Anthropology and Ethnography in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Making sense of cultural difference in familiar and unfamiliar contexts. Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Being here-seeing there”: Teaching area studies through feature films

            2016

            • 16-12/4/2016, Σόφια, COST Action IS1203 In search of transcultural memory in Europe (ISTME) Transcultural memory and reception in Europe Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Mediated memory: European media policy and memory in Georgian cinema

            2015

            • 24-28/6/2015, IMISCOE Ετήσιο Συνέδριο, Γενεύη, Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Greek Diaspora Voting.

            2013

            • 6-7/07/2013, Λονδίνο, Hellenic Greek Centre, Contemporary Greek Film Cultures, Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Nation as Family and Transnational Families

            2007

            • 24-27/05/2007, Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in South Eastern Europe, Τιμισοάρα, Association of South Eastern Europe Anthropology (ASEA), Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Borders and Orders: constructing regions and selves in shifting European lands.

            2000

            • 23-15/06/2000, 1st Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender Ethics the Ethics of Gender, Λιντς, University of Leeds, Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Online Engendered Identities and Language.
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