5th Konitsa International Summer School
in Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans
Konitsa, Greece, 28/7–12/8/2010
Courses offered
(Course director: Prof. Vassilis Nitsiakos)
1st group of courses (29/7 – 1/8)
“Historical Anthropology of the Balkans”
Prof. Dr. Karl Kaser, Chair of the Centre for Southeast European History, University of Graz
“Economic Anthropology and/of Postsocialist Europe: From ‘Transition’ to ‘Global Transformations’”
Dr. Aliki Angelidou, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Athens
Dimitra Kofti, Phd candidate, Department of Anthropology, University College London
“Doing Fieldwork: Theory, Method and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge”
Dr. Christina Veikou, Dep. of History and Ethnology, Democritus Univ. of Thrace. Komotini
Dr. Vassilis Dalkavoukis, Dep. of History and Ethnology, Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Komotini
Dr. Ioannis Manos, Dep. of Balkan Studies, Univ. of Western Macedonia, Florina
Ethnographic research in border areas:
Course and fieldwork practice for all participants (2-6/8)
“Ethnographic Research in Border Areas: Field Practice in both Sides of the Greek-Albanian Border”
Prof. Vassilis Nitsiakos, Dep. of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina
Dr. Vassilis Dalkavoukis, Dep. of History and Ethnology, Democritus Univ. of Thrace. Komotini
Dr. Valia Kravva, Technological Institute of Thessaloniki
Mr. Kostas Mantzos, PhD Candidate, Dep. of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina
Dr. Ioannis Manos, Department of Balkan Studies, Univ. of Western Macedonia, Florina
2nd group of courses (7–10/8)
"Interculturality as a Topos of Anhropological Theory”
Associate Professor Dr. Snjezana Zoric
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zadar
"Studying Oral Traditions in Comparative Perspective:
Introduction to the Study of Oral Tradition: Comparative Method, Fieldwork and Ethnography
Gender and Genre in Comparative Perspectives: Festival, State and Folklore Texts and Performances
Assistant Professor Dr. Marilena Papachristophorou, Dep. of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina
Prof. Dr. Hande Birkalan-Gedik, Dep. of Anthropology, Yeditepe University, Istanbul
“Border Zones’ Minorities (the Pomak Case)”
Dr. Margarita Karamihova, Senior Researcher at Balkan Ethnology Department of Ethnographic Institute with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
Guest lectures and workshops by invited speakers
Prof. Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Germany)
Lecture:
“One Capitalism or Many? Perspectives from Economic Anthropology”
Workshop:
“Competing paradigms at the interface between anthropology and economics: the eternal recurrence of the Methodenstreit”
Chris Hann ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)is a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and head of the department “Socialist and Postsocialist Eurasia”. He previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Kent (Canterbury) in the UK. His research covers many areas of social anthropology, including economic anthropology and religion. His current ethnographic project is in China (“Feudalism, socialism and the current mixed economy in rural Xiniang”)
Prof. Neni Panourgia, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, Department of Anthropology and Program in Narrative Medicine
Lecture:
"The Improbable Worlds and Lives of Things: Stones, Papers, Humans"
Workshop:
"From Village to Hospital to Courtroom, From Malaria Shots to Protection of Human Subjects, to Security Clearance: New Fieldwork Sites and their Challenges".
