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Second workshop of the EASA Mediterraneanist Network:
'Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropology of the Mediterranean Area'
Athens, 5 – 7 November 2009

MedNet, the Mediterraneanist Network of EASA, held its second scientific workshop in Athens from 5 to 7 November 2009, at the École Française d’Athènes (French School at Athens). The aims of the workshop were, firstly, to organize an open forum where MedNet members could present aspects of their ongoing research projects to encourage a review of the state of the art of anthropological research of the Mediterranean area and, secondly, to intensify the growing communication structure between network members which was established during past MedNet meetings and at the very successful first MedNet workshop held at Catania, Sicily in November 2007.

This second MedNet workshop was held in cooperation with the French School at Athens, which provided its extremely pleasant venue for the two-day scientific meeting and, on the third day, organised an excursion to the archaeological site of Delphi, where MedNet members were given an excellent guided tour of the ancient ruins and the Delphi museum by Prof. Dominique Mulliez, the Director of the French School at Athens. Thanks must be given to Prof. Maria Couroucli, of the CNRS and the French School at Athens, who most ably acted as local organiser of the workshop.

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

FIRST WORKING SESSION

Moshe Shokeid, Tel Aviv University
Center and Periphery in Israel Social Geography

Jutta Lauth Bacas, Academy of Athens
Informal networks of irregular migrants to Greece

William Kavanagh, CEU San Pablo University, Madrid
Anthropological Theorizing about Europe's frontiers
and the case of the Portuguese-Spanish border

SECOND WORKING SESSION

Maria Papapavlou, University of Athens
Current research on music cultures in the Mediterranean

Marion Krüger, University of Tubingen
Flamenco between arts, ritual body practice and identity politics

ROUND TABLE

Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropology of the Mediterranean Area

Chair: Maria Couroucli, French School at Athens.
Participants: Lily Stylianoudi, Academy of Athens. Paul Clough, University of Malta. Gerasimos Makris, Panteion University, Athens

THIRD WORKING SESSION

Francesco LaRocca, University of Catania
Intangible Heritage, an Italian experience

Eva Carlestal, Linkoping University, Sweden
Processes of place making

Antonio M. Pusceddu, University of Sienna
Connecting experiences and places: social poetics of change
in an Epirote village

FOURTH WORKING SESSION

Marina Petronoti, Research Center for Social Science, Athens
Body culture and the politics of representation

Paul Clough, University of Malta
The management of African immigrants at a large Open Center:
Cultural brokerage and multi-cultural learning in Malta

FIFTH WORKING SESSION

Andromachi Oikonomou, Academy of Athens
Anthropological approaches to material culture
in a Mediterranean context: a Greek point of view

Katerina Seraïdari, Centre d’anthropologie sociale, Toulouse
Religion in the anthropology of Greece: A neglected object of study?

Eugenia Roussou, University College, London
Orthodoxy at the Crossroads: Religious Pluralism in the Greek ‘evil eye’

SIXTH WORKING SESSION

Sina Lucia Kottmann, University of Tubingen
Where cultures and religions of the Mediterranean meet: playful and serious staging of the Own and the Other on Spain's borders to Morocco

Carlo Capello, University of Turin
Al ‘Aql wa al Nafs: Embodiment, Anthropopoiesis and Religion in Morocco

EXCURSION TO DELPHI

Guided tour of the Archeological Site and the Museum of Delphi lead by Prof. Dominique Mulliez, the Director of the French School at Athens.

Organisers:      

Jutta Lauth Bacas, Academy of Athens
William Kavanagh, CEU San Pablo University, Madrid

Local Organiser:

Maria Couroucli, CNRS and the French School at Athens

Participants

Maria Belioti, General Archives of the State, Nauplio
Jutta Lauth Bacas, Academy of Athens
Carlo Capello, University of Turin
Eva Carlestal, Linkoping University Sweden
Paul Clough, University of Malta
Maria Couroucli, French School at Athens
William Kavanagh, CEU San Pablo University, Madrid
Sina Lucia Kottmann, University of Tubingen
Marion Krüger, University of Tubingen
Francesco LaRocca, University of Catania
Gerasimos Makris, Panteion University, Athens
Andromachi Oikonomou, Academy of Athens
Maria Papapavlou, University of Athens
Marina Petronoti, Research Center for Social Science, Athens
Antonio Pusceddu, University of Sienna
Elpida Rikou, High School of Fine Arts, Athens
Eugenia Roussou, University College, London
Katerina Seraïdari, Centre d’anthropologie sociale, Toulouse
Lily Stylianoudi, Academy of Athens