Networks, Exchanges and Conflicts in the circum

INSTITUTE FOR NEOHELLENIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL HELLENIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION
48, Vassileos Constantinou avenue, 116 35 Athens, Greece
THEMATIC NETWORK OF EUROPEAN
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRES ON THE MEDITERRANEAN
AREA (REMSH)
Athens Seminar
(26-28 May 2005)
Networks, Exchanges and Conflicts
in the circum-Mediterranean Area
PROGRAMME
Contact:
Evridiki Sifneos: [email protected]
Ourania Polycandrioti: [email protected]
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Networks, Exchanges and Conflicts
in the circum-Mediterranean Area
The conception of the Mediterranean area as an immense network of regular and
casual connections overland, by sea and by air, in which towns are the vital hubs of
commercial, cultural and religious exchanges, is an attractive and often repeated idea.
Historians and anthropologists have stressed connections and exchanges in order to
validate the notion of the Mediterranean as a region of common cultural features.
However the Mediterranean is also an area of confrontation, conflict, tension, negative
reciprocity and difference.
Our meeting aims to explore these three elements (Networks, Exchanges and
Conflicts) and their intersections in the circum-Mediterranean area.
The Athens seminar comprises four sessions:
Thursday, 26th May 2005
20.00-20.30
Registration of the participants at the National Hellenic Research
Foundation (48 Vassileos Constantinou avenue, entrance from Vassileos
Georgiou road, main entrance hall)
20.30-21.30
Reception, followed by a short musical program, with songs from the
Mediterranean area. Performing: George Makaris, guitar, Kaiti Koulia,
vocals.
Friday, 27th May 2005 (morning)
09.30-12.00
(Coffee break in between)
Chair: Henk Driessen
Greetings
Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Thierry Fabre
Session I. The Mediterranean as a network region.
Jeremy Boissevain
Anthony Molho
Gelina Harlaftis
“Second thoughts on Networks in the Mediterranean”
“Commercial Networks in the Early Modern World (and the
Mediterranean): A Seminar at the European University Institute”
“Entrepreneurial networks from Eastern Mediterranean”
12.30-14.30
Lunch
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Friday, 27th May 2005 (afternoon)
15.00 –17.00
(Coffee break in between)
Chair: Thierry Fabre
Session II. Sharing Pilgrimage Sites
Dionigi Albera
Maria Couroucli
Galia Valtchinova
Nour Haddad
“Situations de coexistence interconfessionnelle en Méditerranée :
esquisse d'une réflexion comparative”
“Partager un lieu saint; le cas du pèlerinage de Saint George à
Prinkipo (Istanbul)”
“Localizing Jerusalem: the Dynamics of contact and conflict
around two local Jerusalems in the South-Eastern Balkans”
“Pèlerinages votifs de fécondité au Liban: démarches rituelles
partagées”
Friday, 27th May 2005
20.30
Diner
Saturday, 28th May (morning)
09.30-12.00
(Coffee break in between)
Chair: Maria Christina Chatziioannou
Intervention by Dr. Achilleas Mitsos, Director – General for Research DG, European
Commission
Session III. Contested Conflicts and Frontiers
B. Baskar
Cédric Parizot
“Culture as a limited Good: Appropriating Prestigious
Personalities and Cultural Forms in South-East Europe”
“Violence in a Conflict: the Case of the Greek Revolution of 1821”
“Contested Borders, Contested Identity: The Case of Regionalism
in South East Europe ”
“Créer les frontières ethniques : L’utilisation de la narration en
monde bulgare”
“The Grim Line : Palestinian practices, Israëli border policies”
13.00-14.30
Lunch
M. Efthimiou
Dimitar Bechev
Nadia Danova
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Saturday, 28th May (afternoon)
15.00-17.00
Chair: Pierre Vergès
Session IV. The organizational framework: from Remsh1 to Ramses II
With the participation of all the network members.
Organizing committee
Thierry Fabre (Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, France)
Henk Driessen (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Maria Christina Chatziioannou (Institut for Neohellenic Research / NHRF, Greece)
Ourania Polycandrioti (Institut for Neohellenic Research / NHRF, Greece)
Evridiki Sifneos (Institut for Neohellenic Research / NHRF, Greece)
Christine Agriantoni (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Co-ordinator:
Evridiki Sifneos