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Comment by Georgia Sarikoudi on August 20, 2010 at 3:10pm

Hello to all of you
my name is Georgia Sarikoudi and i m doing my fieldwork in Czech Republic; my subject is the Greeks who went in Czechoslovakia after the greek civil war. i will be in prague from september. i will be glad if i could meet some collegues from Czech Republic, so that we can discuss about anthropology and eastern europe and of course we can also hang out
georgia

Comment by Viorel Anastasoaie on February 26, 2010 at 1:43pm

Dear colleagues,

A last call for a panel I co-organise with Agnieszka Pasieka from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, at EASA conference in August this year. If you are still not decided to which panel to apply take a look. The DEADLINE is 1 of March, next Monday.

All the best,
Viorel

EASA, 2010: Crisis and imagination.
Maynooth, 24-27.08.2010
Workshop113: Postsocialist Eastern Europe: social transformations and crises in personal biographies
Convenors
Agnieszka Pasieka (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) pasieka@eth.mpg.de
Marian Viorel Anastasoaie (University College, London) m.anastasoaie@ucl.ac.uk

Description
Last year’s anniversary of 20 years since the end of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe was unanimously celebrated as the triumph of liberty, of the peoples against oppression, of capitalism over communism. Still, 1989 constituted a watershed in the lives of millions of Eastern Europeans, a world event that induced major changes and had complex consequences for people's biographies. Rather than taking the triumphant perspective of the victory of democracy and capitalism, neither the opposite vision of the advancement of oppressive neo-liberalism, this panel proposes to analyze the 1989 change as a source of crises in personal lives of Eastern Europeans. We propose to see these crises as complex moments when larger economic, political and historical processes intertwine with personal trajectories, opening or closing the horizon of possibilities of shaping one's life. We invite contributions that explore ethnographically post-socialist transformations focusing on critical moments in personal lives, such as: changes in professional trajectories, loss/(re)gain of social and political status, religious conversion, accountability of one's participation in or collaboration with the communist regimes, and other critical experiences people were confronted with in their everyday lives.

Comment by alexandra balandina on November 17, 2009 at 1:13pm

Hi, I am ethnomusicologist-anthropologist with origins from Russia and former Yugoslavia (currently living in Greece) and am interested in furthering my research in this area. I am looking forward to be part of this group, get to know other people with similar interests and start receiving news and announcements related to current anthropologies in this region. Best, Alexandra.

Comment by deniz batum on September 10, 2009 at 11:35am

THE IDEA OF EUROPE: Memories and Postcoloniality

Utrecht University, 29-30 October 2009





Jointly organised by the Centre for the Humanities, the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK); Focus & Massa, Culture and Identities; the Institute for History and Culture and the Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University, NL.



‘The Ethics of European Memory: what is to be done?’

Thursday 29 October, 2009



Chair:

Ann Rigney

(Utrecht University, on behalf of Culture and Identities)



Keynote Speakers:



Luisa Passerini

(Prof. Cultural History, Turin University, Italy)



Irit Rogoff

(Prof. of Visual Cultures, Goldsmith University, UK)



Occidentalism, Orientalism, and the idea of a postcolonial Europe.’

Friday 30 October, 2009



Chair:

Sandra Ponzanesi

(Utrecht University, on behalf of AHRC, UK)



Keynote Speakers:



Avishai Margalit

(Kennan Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University/

Schulman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem).



Paul Gilroy

(Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory, London School of Economics, UK)



Luisa Passerini & Simon Glendinning

(Prof. Cultural History, Turin University, Italy

& Reader in European Philosophy, London School of Economics, UK)





THE IDEA OF EUROPE: Memories and Postcoloniality is a two-part event to discuss how Europe can be rethought from a postcolonial and postsecular perspective. The first day brings together memory thinking, heritage practice and postcolonial theory to explore challenges and potentialities in the making of a new European memory which can account for its multicultural past. The second day discusses from different intellectual traditions and perspectives the idea of Europe as an imagined and actual space. It focuses in particular on the relationship between ‘Occidentalism, Orientalism, and the idea of a postcolonial Europe’ which requires a further understanding of the contemporary postsecular climate both within and beyond Europe’s borders.

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