Commission on Urban Anthropology, IUAES
&
University of Peloponnese
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social and Educational Policy
CUA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Corinth, Greece, 27-29 May 2011
Market vs Society?
Human principles and economic rationale in changing times

PROGRAMME

Friday, May 27th

Registration: 09.00-14.00


Opening Session: 10.00-13.00

Welcome Addresses 10.00-10.45
Chair: Dr Manos Spyridakis

Professor Theodoros Papatheodorou, University Chancellor
Mr Alexandros Pneumatikos, Mayor of Corinth
Professor Athanasios Katsis, Head of Department of Social and Educational Policy
Dr Giuliana Prato, Chairperson Commission on Urban Anthropology

Coffee Break 10.45-11.00

Key-note Addresses 11.00-13.00:

Chair: Italo Pardo

Professor Rosemary Harris, Emeritus Reader in Anthropology, University College London:
Power and Powerlessness in Industry: Are the 1980s relevant in 2010?

Professor Elias Mossialos, Professor of Health Policy, London School of Economics:
Reforming Public Services in Greece: How far is Athens from Copenhagen?

Lunch, 13.00-14.00
Panel 1, 14.00-15.20

Chair: Andreas Feronas

Anna Mahaira (University of Ioannina), Marseilles and Lubeck: Nineteenth-century trading communities and the limits of free trade in archival sources and in literature.
Ioanna Laliotou (University of Thessaly), “Building the World of Tomorrow”: economy and society between crisis and war.
George Bicos (TEI of Athens), State, society and economy: the relation between them- as attempts of mutual control- throughout their historical evolution from the 18ο century until today.
Dimitris Venieris (University of Peloponnese), Market vs Society. Social Policy for Economy.

Coffee/Tea Break, 15.20 -15.30

Panel 2, 15.30-16.50

Chair: Ioanna Laliotou

Kostas Theologou (National Technical University of Athens), Let’s Get Socio-political: The Citizen’s Profile against Consumer’s Attitudes.
Andreas Feronas (University of Peloponnese), EU Social Inclusion Strategy in the context of “Europe 2020”: Potential and Limits.
Mariagela Veikou, (ASPAITE), The “economic crisis” and immigration: The dream of liberal multiculturalism is depriving the other of his/her otherness.
Theodoros Fouskas, (University of Panteion), Low status work and decollectivization: The case of Egyptian immigrants in Athens.

Poster presentations 1, 16.55-18.15

Chair: Michalis Fefes

Alesya Krit, (University College London), Rebel from the neo-liberal economic models rationale: escapist strategies of rebuilding economic and family values of the British in Spain.
Antonia Papadopoulou, (University of Peloponnese), Roma Families and Education in a Changing Era: The internal contradictions of the rationale of three Roma mothers concerning their children’s education.
Anastasios Grigorakis, (Université Paris VIII), Family, solidarities, services and market economy.
Alexia Kapravelou, (University of Panteion), Critical approach to post-fordist theory.
Dimitra Kofti, (University College London), ‘We, workers, have always been workers’: new managerial practices and old hierarchies.
Dimitris Poulios, (University of Cardiff), The “Architecture” of the Markets. Architectural and Urban identities in the era of Neoliberalism.
Yiorgos Ioannidis, (University of Crete), Employment in the Keynesian and neoliberal universe: theoretical transformations and political correlations
Kostas Gousis, (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Post – Fordist Economy and Lukács’ Ontological Foundation of Social Classes. Critical Perspectives on Slavoj Žižek’s Perception of “Commons”.

Conference Buffet Dinner 19.00

Saturday, May 28th

Panel 3, 9.00-10.20

Chair: Ritsa Deltsou

Emmanuela Vogiatzaki–Krukowski, (University of Peloponnese), Art and Society Global Senses - Lonely Societies.
Michel Rautenberg & Jean Baptiste Clais, (Université de Lyon, Centre max Weber, Université Jean Monnet Saint Etienne), Changing of the local network of exchange: from the Utopia of the 70th until the contemporary internet.
Athanasios Blessios, (University of Peloponnese), The figures of merchant and industrialist in the Greek Dramaturgy and Literature of the 19th and 20th century.
Maria Velioti-Georgopoulos, (University of Peloponnese), Carnival Performances as Cultural Goods in a Consumerist Society: serving market or cultural interests?

Coffee/Tea Break, 10.20-10.35

Panel 4, 10.35-11.55

Chair: Giuliana Prato

Abel Polese (Institute of Geography, Edinburgh), The Cultural Foundations of informal economies in Turkey
Marcello Mollica (University of Fribourg), Individual and Collective Resistance in Post-Conflict South Lebanon: Empirical Insights.
Italo Pardo (University of Kent), The Criminalizing Power of Ideological Rhetoric: Empirical Considerations on the ‘Formal’ and the ‘Informal’.
Christian Giordano (University of Fribourg), Between Town and Countryside: Social Networks and Personal Trust of Urban Agrarian Entrepreneurs

Poster presentations 2, 12.00-13.00

Chair: Athina Peglidou

Panagiotis Gouveris, (University of Peloponnese), The Hypocrisy Fictitious Disease as an Individualized Form of Social Reaction Against The Laws Of Market.
Elli Kouvari, (University of Peloponnese), Migrants in Greece. The right to health.
Efi Mastorodimou, (University of Thessaly), Reproduction unto consumption.
Evaggelia Chamourgiotaki, (University of Peloponnese), Leisure and the social reproduction˙ narratives of 12 immigrants in Greece.
Eleutheria Spandonidou, (University of Thessaly), “The contribution of immigrants in economic level and their social implications. The case of immigrants from FYROM”.
Alex Siapkaras, (National Technical University of Athens), University Management in a time of Market-Society Conflict Crisis.

Lunch break, 13.00-14.00

Panel 5, 14.00-15.20

Chair: Christian Giordano

Alex Weingrod, (Ben Gurion University, Israel), “The market trumps the state”, or, how the Minority Israeli Palestinians navigates within the Jewish state.
Halasur Matt Maralusiddaiah, Siddaligeswara Swamy & Balachandra Rao Jadav Lakkavalli Subbojirao, (Ministry of Culture, India), Traditional occupations and economy among the indigenous societies in South Asia.
Satya Narayan Munda (Ranchi College, Ranchi University), Jharkhand’s Village Market: A case study of Market versus Tribal Society in the era of liberalisation.
Siddaligeswara Swamy, Shivananda Swamy & Vittla Manohar (Ministry of Culture, India), The Jenu Kuruba tribe in Karnataka and their economy and life style.

Coffee/Tea Break, 15.20-15.35

Panel 6, 15.35-16.55

Chair: Marcello Mollica

Athina Peglidou (University of Thessaly), Monetary practices in medical context: corruption, generosity or humanism.
Christos Bakalis, (University of Aegean), Cultural capital: a feedback field between society and economy. A need for sustainable management.
Ritsa Deltsou, (University of Thessaly), Development Corporations in Greece.
Sissie Theodosiou, (Epirus Institute of Technology), Ambivalent flexibilities: anthropological explorations and perspectives.

Panel 7, 16.55-18.35

Chair: Sissie Theodosiou

Heidi Dumreicher & Bettina Kolb, (The Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability), The Hammam – the Islamic bath as an example of urban “glocal” socio-economy.
Paris Potiropoulos, (Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens), Between city and village: cultural practices, socioeconomic relations and “liquid” localities.
Brites Walter Fernando, (Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Argentina), The cities and urban processes under the logic of neoliberalism.
Corine Vedrine (Université Jean Monnet Saint Etienne), The renegotiation of identity and alterity in an economical and spatial changing: the case of a former industrial and miner district of Saint-Etienne (France).
Aimilia Voulvouli, (University of Aegean), Local Protests In Global Cities: The case of the Arnavutköy District Initiative in Istanbul.

Coffee/Tea Break, 18.35-18.45

Poster presentations 3, 18.45-19.55

Chair: Maria Velioti-Georgopoulos

Theodoros Katerinakis, (Drexel University, USA), Reconciling Market and Society with Banking Differently: a Social Network Analysis of Ethos in Greek Cooperative Banking in Crete.
Athanasios Andritsos (National Technical University of Athens), Society vs. the market in the arena of the corporate city. Contemporary challenges for the urban space in Greece after the arrival of the IMF.
Martin Lundsteen, (University of Barcelona), Considerations on urban regional planning in the metropolitan region of Barcelona and cultural conflicts.
Muna Makhlouf De la Garza, (University of Barcelona), An anthropological approach on the neighbourhood resistance against the capitalist appropriation of the city: a case in the city of Barcelona.
Artemis Driva, (University of Peloponnese), Market vs Society through gender discrimination”.
Antonis Skouloudis & Kostantinos Evangelinos, (University of Peloponnese), Organization-society information flows in a national context:
Assessing the non-financial disclosures of top Greek firms.
Kostas Fourikos, (University of Panteion), Research on Hilferding’ s, Lenin’ s and Boukharin’ s theses about monopolies and finance capital. Relation between modern changes in the formation of capital and new forms of international governance.
Meixuan Chen, (University College London), Overseas Chinese and the revival of lineage ideology.

CUA Business Meeting, 19.50-20.45

Sunday, May 29th

Panel 8, 9.00-10.20

Chair: Michel Rautenberg

Iraklis Mavridis, (University of Panteion), Notes for a political theology of neoliberal discourse.
Anastasia Marinopoulou, (Hellenic Open University), Defining Cosmopolitanism: European politics of the 21st century.
Ioannis Kyriakakis, (University College London), Religion and economy in the age of neo-liberalism.
Vasilis Maglaras, (Hellenic Open University), Sociology versus Economics, Early Parsons versus the Positivists.

Coffee/Tea Break, 10.20-10.35

Panel 9, 10.35-11.55

Chair: Alex Weingrod

Ilka Thiessen, (Vancouver Island University, Canada), Forex Trading and interpersonal relationships of Lending and Borrowing.
Giuliana B. Prato, (University of Kent), From Nationalization to Neo-Liberalism: Economic Policies and Urban Questions in South Italy.
Siri Hettige, (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka), Neo-liberal Economic Reforms and the Transformation of Sri Lankan Society.
Andromahi Economou, (Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens), “Market economy or an economy of society? Strategies and social actions for the cultivation of the olive in Southern Peloponnese (Laconia Greece) in changing times”.

Book Launch, 12.00-13.00
Panel Discussion of the volume, Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance: Anthropology in the Mediterranean Region, edited by Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato. Discussants: Prof. Christian Giordano and Prof. Fotini Tsibiridou.

Lunch, 13.00- 14.00

Panel 10, 14.00-15.40

Chair: Ilka Thiessen

Linda Navarro Matamoros, (Universidad de Murcia), Trends of the current company law.
Thanos Gkaragounis (University of Patras), The indivisibility of culture and economy.
Trent Schroyer, (Ramapo College of New Jersey), Beyond Western Economism.
Fotini Tsibiridou, (University of Macedonia), Embracing neoliberal ethics under a ‘charismatic’ governance: Reflexions on govermentality, power and citizenship experiences in the Sultanate of Oman.
Constantine Iliopoulos (Agricultural University of Athens), Public Policies toward Collective Entrepreneurship: An Anthropology-Informed Organizational Economics Approach.

Coffee/Tea Break, 15.40-15.55

Panel 11, 15.55-17.15

Chair: Trent Schroyer

Giorgos Stamelos, Pandelis Kiprianos, Stathis Balias, Ioannis Kamarianos, (University of Patras), State, University and Knowledge in Greece: Challenges and transformations
Demetrius Rokos, Efi Dimopoulou, Vaios Kotsios, (National Technical University of Athens), Development, environment and education.
Maria Nikolakaki, (University of Peloponnese), Neoliberal economic crisis and resistance in critical pedagogy.
Despoina Karakatsani & Pavlos Christos, (University of Peloponnese), School for education or school for work? Educational Policy-Planning about Technical and Vocational Educational System in Greece since 1950.

Summing up (20 minutes)

Excursion to the Antiquities of Corinth