UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY - DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
International Conference:
Folk Culture and Boundaries in the Balkans
Volos, 7-8 June 2008
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Programme
The conference programme is also available in printable form [.pdf, 730kB].
Saturday 7 June
Morning Session
- 08:30-09:00
- Arrival - Speakers registration
- 09:00-09:30
- Greetings - Official opening of the Conference
- President: Celia Nikolaidou (University of Thessaly)
- 09:30
- Lefteris Topaloglou (University of Thessaly)
The nature and role of boundaries. >> - 09:50
- George Angelopoulos (University of Macedonia)
The "opportunity" boundary and the "curse" boundary: Multiple aspects of the experience of the Greek-Bulgarian border. >> - 10:10
- Sarah Green (University of Manchester)
Contested boundaries and ordinariness in the Balkans: on the problems of locating culture around the Greek-Albanian border. >> - 10:30
- Vasilis Nitsiakos (University of Ioannina)
Greeks or Albanians? "Tradition", "culture" and identity in Chimara of Albania. >> - 10:50
- Domna Michail (University of Western Macedonia)
Boundary crossing and boundary maintenance between the Albanian Immigrants and the Greek community in Argos Orestiko - Kastoria. >> - 11:10
- Discussion
- 11:20
- Coffee break
- President: Vasilis Nitsiakos (University of Ioannina)
- 11:30
- Ioannis Manos (University of Western Macedonia)
Dance and the orchestration of locality: Politics, politicians as power holders and cultural associations as cultural managers. >> - 11:50
- Rozita Dimova (Free University, Berlin)
The cradle of "the Biblical Land:" The Ohrid Summer Festival between Folklore, High Arts and Nationalism in the F.Y.R. of Macedonia. >> - 12:10
- Ljupco S. Risteski (University Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje)
Symbolic of village community space among Balkan Slavs. >> - 12:30
- Discussion
Evening Session
- President: Aliki Angelidou (Panteion University)
- 18:00
- Nikos Kokkas (University of Thessaly)
Islamic fundamentalism and ethnic demarcation. The case of the Pomaks of Thrace. >> - 18:20
- Katerina Markou (University of Crete)
Ethnic boundaries, folk culture, national policies and identity dynamics in Greek Thrace. >> - 18:40
- Evangelos Avdikos (University of Thessaly)
Petrota in Evros and Malko Gradiste region in Bulgaria: reclamation of common memory. - 19:00
- Ulo Valk (University of Tartu)
Drawing Discursive Boundaries: Estonian Identity from National Mythology to New Age. >> - 19:40
- Discussion
Sunday 8 June
Morning Session
- President: Ulo Valk (University of Tartu)
- 10:00
- Christos Papakostas (University of Thessaly)
Intra-local musicians and inter-ethnic music. The case of the Roma of Irakleia in Serres in the Greek-Bulgarian border. >> - 10:20
- Margarita Karamihova (Boulgarian Academy of Science)
Pervious ethnic and relifious boundaries. A Case Study of Zlataritsa, Boulgaria. >> - 10:40
- Aliki Angelidou (Panteio University)
Economic practices and negotiations of identity in the Bulgarian immigrants of Athens. >> - 11:30
- Discussion
- 12:15
- Coffee break
- 12:45 - 14:00
- Coordination: Evangelos Avdikos, Celia Nikolaidou
- Round table: all speakers participate
