Τρίτη 31 Μαΐου 2011

ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ ΣΤΟ ΟΛΛΑΝΔΙΚΟ ΙΝΣΤΙΤΟΥΤΟ

The Netherlands Institute at Athens
cordially invites you to the
conference
“SOCIAL MATTER(S)
Recent Approaches to Material Culture”
on Thursday, June 2, 2011
at the Netherlands Institute at Athens
Makri 11 – Makrygianni (Metro Akropoli)


Programme

09.00 – 09.30 Registration.

09.30 – 09.45 Welcome by Dr Christiane Tytgat – Director NIA, Dr Tryfon Bampilis – NIA & Leiden University.

INTRODUCTION

09.45 – 10.30 Dr Eleana Yalouri, Panteion University, ‘Things’, ‘Artefacts’, ‘Objects’ and ‘Stuff’: Why do ‘matter’ matters matter?

SESSION 1: CLAIMS, DENIALS, AND THE MATERIALITY OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

10.30 – 11.00 Prof. Pieter ter Keurs, Dutch National Museum of Antiquities Leiden & Leiden University, Flexible Networks: Reflections on objects and people.

11.00 – 11.30 Dr Aris Anagnostopoulos, Swedish Institute at Athens, The Materiality of Absence in Two Different Greek Cases.
SESSION 2: THE MATERIALITY OF SPACE AND PLACE

11.50 – 12.20 Dr Aimilia Voulvouli, University of the Aegean, Place as Matter, Matter as Identity: The struggle against the Third Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul Turkey.

12.20 – 12.50 Dr Andronicos Theocharidis, University of the Aegean, Aging Things and their Substitutes: Vernacular collecting practices in an Aegean island.

12.50 – 13.20 Dr Maria Jaidopulu Vrijea, Harokopion University, Everyday Life in the City: Materiality in practices, representations and lived timespaces.

SESSION 3: MATTERS OF PRACTICE, TRACES OF MATTER

15.30 – 16.00 Dr Elia Petridou, University of the Aegean, Fashioning Culture: Practice and materiality in the study of clothes and clothing.

16.00 – 16.30 Dr Elpida Rikou, Athens School of Fine Arts, Tino Sehgal and ‘the dematerialization of the art object taken to an extreme’: Is ‘materiality’ of relevance to an anthropology of contemporary art?

16.30 – 17.00 Dr Tryfon Bampilis, Netherlands Institute at Athens & Leiden University, Liquor Matters: Reflections on the fetishism of a commodity.

17.30 – 18.30 End Discussion and Conclusions.

R.S.V.P. tel. 210-92 10 760 or nia@nia.gr