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Decolonize Hellas\/Decolonize the Balkans and Eastern Europe: A first contact<\/h2>\r\n20\/04\/2021<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YxsRE23lUMA” el_width=”60″ align=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Cover photo: Inter-Courtyard Door in Eratyra. Fotini Tsibiridou. October 2020<\/p>\n

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[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Date<\/strong>:<\/strong> May 19th, 2021
\n\u03a4ime<\/strong>:<\/strong> 5-8pm
\nOrganizers:<\/strong> d\u00ebcolo\u0438\u0131ze hell\u03ac\u015f with the Culture, Borders, Gender\/LAB<\/a> and the MA in History, Anthropology and Culture in Eastern and South Eastern Europe<\/a> of the University of Macedonia and the CREABALK network\/.<\/a><\/p>\n

Convenors<\/strong>: Fotini Tsibiridou, Eleni Sideri, Ioannis Manos<\/p>\n

This workshop brought together anthropologists, geographers and sociologists, field researcher scholars and artists from Southeastern Europe, who have long dealt with minorities, borders, immigrants, cultural difference, patriarchy, race and social inequality. We sought for ways that everyday stories of cohabitation and creative counter-publics could be inscribed in projects of historical and epistemological decolonization of our time.<\/span><\/p>\n

This workshop raised issues related to the study of the enlarged Balkan space in the global discussion on decoloniality. In collaboration with the CREABALK network, the workshop highlighted the importance of alternative ways of understanding, teaching and fusing critical and creative knowledge with empathy, beyond academia and in communication with the general public\/audience of Balkan cities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The workshop was conducted in English<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Program<\/strong>:
\n1. \u00abDecolonize Hellas\/Decolonize the Balkans and Eastern Europe:
\na first contact\u00bb, Introductory remarks, by Fotini Tsibiridou
\n2. \u201cFrameworks of race and decolonisation: bridging post-Yugoslav spaces and Hellas\u201d?, podcast by Catherine Baker
\n3. \u201cDecolonial theory and practices in Eastern and South Eastern Europe\u201d, Special Issue presentation by Philipp Lottholz (on behalf of Katarina Ku\u0161i\u0107, Polina Manolova)
\n4. \u201cThe Return of the Colonial: Understanding the Role of Eastern Europe in Global Colonisation Debates and Decolonial Struggles\u201d, Workshop presentation by Zolt\u00e1n Ginelli (on behalf of Romina Istratii, M\u00e1rton Demeter)
\n5. \u201cDoing epistemic decolonization in Bosnia: peripheral selves\u201d, reflections by Daniela Majstorovic
\n6. \u201cThessaloniki and Other Balkan Cities: Monuments, Memory, Representation, Affective Biographies, Cultural Geographies and Everyday Sensory Anthropology\u201d, on the CREABALK network activities by Eleni Sideri (Pierre Sint\u00e8s, Alessandro Galliccio, Olivier Givre, Fotini Tsibiridou)<\/p>\n

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In the following link, you can watch a digital tour (in French) in the exhibition Rue d’Alger<\/em> by Alessandro Gallicchio \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 Pierre Sint\u00e8s. The exhibition works as a passage that links the Balkan with the Mediterranean, marking their multiple geographies, exceptions and colonial histories. The exhibition took place under \u039cANIFESTA 13 MARSEILLE and will be discussed in the workshop among other projects by researchers and artists.<\/p>\n