1st Konitsa Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography
and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans
Konitsa, Greece, 30/7-12/8 2006
Thematic fields
“Anthropological Theory and the Understanding of the Balkans”
“Ethnography of Border Regions”
“Fieldwork: Epistemological, Methodological and Ethical Aspects”
“Comparative Folklore: Aspects of Culture in a Comparative Perspective”
Courses offered
Course director: Prof. Vassilis Nitsiakos
“Anthropological Theory and the Understanding of the Balkans”
Dr. Georgios Agelopoulos, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
Dr. Deema Kaneff, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
“Yugoslavia's Dissolution and New Post-Socialist Concepts of New Balkan States”
Dr. Ljupco Risteski, Department of Ethnology, St Cyril and Methodious University, Skopje
“Nations, Migrations and the Construction of Ethnic Groups: Rituals, Narratives, Discourses and Material Culture”
Dr. Yiorghos Tsimouris, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Athens
Dr. Valia Kravva, Technological Institute of Thessaloniki
“Economic Anthropology and Social Transformations in South-Eastern Europe”
Dr. Aliki Angelidou, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Athens
Dr. Sophie Chevalier, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon
“Borders and Identities”
Dr. Evgenia Blagoeva, Anthropology Department, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
Dr. Rossitza Guentcheva, Department of Anthropology, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
“Ethnographic Research in Border Areas: Field Practice in both Sides of the Greek-Albanian Border”
Prof. Vassilis Nitsiakos, Dep. of History and Archaeology, Univ. of Ioannina
Dr. Vassilis Dalkavoukis, Dep. of History and Ethnology, Democritus Univ. of Thrace
Mr. Kostas Mantzos, Dep. of History and Archaeology, Univ. of Ioannina
“Fieldwork Methodology: Qualitative and Applied Research”
Dr. Bojan Zikic, Dep. of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
Mrs Jana Bacevic, Dep. of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
“Music and Dance in the Balkans: Culture, Identity, and Power”
Dr. Panagiotis Panopoulos, Dep. of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean, Mytilini
Dr. Ioannis Manos, Dep. of Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia, Florina
Guest lectures
Maurice Godelier, Professor of Social Anthropology
“Which Relationship Makes a Society”
Jane Cowan, Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex
“The League of Nations Minorities Treaties Supervision (1919-1933) as Site of Encounter: Anthropological Reflections on International Bureaucrats, States, Minorities and Advocates Negotiating Petitions and Projects in relation to Macedonia”
Dimitra Gefou-Madianou, Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Athens
“Culture and Ethnography”
Dr. Eftichia Voutira, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
“Cultural Construction of Refugees in Greece”
Dr. Rajko Mursic, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Dep. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana
“Ambivalences of Identification and Alterity: From Laibach to Sutka”
Dr. Fotini Tsimbiridou, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
“Gender, Ethnography and Islam”
