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Opening Ceremony

Speakers:

Professor Achilleas G. Chaldaeakes
Chair
The Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology 2022, The GLOCAL COMELA 2022
School of Philosophy
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Pavlos Kavouras
Keynote Speaker
The Faculty of Music Studies
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Pavlos Kavouras is professor of the Faculty of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). His scientific work blends anthropology and sociology, musicology, history, philosophy and cultural studies. He was Founder and Director (2007-2022) of the Ethnomusicology and Cultural Anthropology Laboratory of the NKUA. He has participated as principal or collaborating partner in many international projects related to lecturing, teaching and ethnographic research, as well as numerous other institutional synergies in art and education management. Since 2016, he has been visiting professor at UCLA, Department of Ethnomusicology, and in 2015, he, as Onassis Foundation Greek Scholars Fellow, gave a series of invited lectures in the United States of America, at the universities of California (UCLA), Stanford, Illinois, Michigan and Harvard. Since 2012, his academic, artistic and philosophical interests are focused on migration and otherness in a broad geo-cultural perspective employing music and film as venues for understanding otherness and as vehicles for attaining Self-awareness. In 2019 he was appointed by the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs to represent Greece in the Ancient Civilizations Academic Forum in La Paz Bolivia. Since 2020, he is a founding member of the NKUA Center for Excellence dealing with “Inter-religious Dialogue.” He has done extensive ethnographic research in Greece, the USA, Southwest India and Egypt. He has published numerous books and articles in English and in Greek, and is the General Editor of the Ethnomusicology and Anthropology scholarly series for Nissos Publications. He has taught various academic courses both at undergraduate and graduate levels such as Introduction to Ethnomusicology, Anthropology of Music, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnographic Film, Music and the Divine, Seminar: Music Ethnographies, Seminar: Music Biographies, Seminar: Discourse Analysis, Questions of Methodology, Music and the Other Arts. His publications include Ghlendi and xenitia: the poetics of exile in rural Greece, Trickster and Cain: a musical allegory, Folklore and tradition: issues of re-presentation and performance of music and dance, “Ethnographies of dialogical singing, dialogical ethnography,” and “Allegories of nostalgia: music, tradition and modernity in the Mediterranean area”. His recent research projects include “Performigrations: People Are the Territory” (European Union – Canada Programme for Cooperation in Higher Education and Vocational Training, 2014-2016). “ARISTEIA II, Western Art Music at the Time of Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Greek Culture and European Integration” (WestArtMus 2014-2015), “Video Life Stories of Immigrants” (Hellenic Ministry of the Interior 2012-2013).

Trickster and Cain: A Musical Allegory

In this lecture, I will juxtapose the mythological figure of trickster to the biblical figure of Cain. In doing so, my purpose is to shed light on the dynamics of human thinking. Trickster is a potent symbol of humanity. It is found in the oral literatures of tribal peoples worldwide, in the context of which his mode of thinking and acting is amply demonstrated. Trickster became widely known to the Western world as a unique expression of humanity mainly through the works of the anthropologist Paul Radin and the psychologist Carl Jung. Trickstering is a unique human quality which concerns a one-way logic of being in the world. Trickster’s flow of consciousness moves from a center or point of departure outwards, having no destination, and is defined by the lack of any subject/object differentiation. Trickster stands ideally for abductive logic, to use the philosopher’s Charles Saunders Peirce terminology, as opposed to the other two Peircean kinds of logic, inductive and deductive, which I take to represent together the logic of Cain. In the case of Cain, human thinking is characterized by the subject/object divide, which introduces an epistemological and, eventually, a reflexive dualism, with serious, moral and ethical implications. Cain’s logic flows from the particular to the whole and vice versa, inductively or deductively, as it is defined and determined by the mental law of “Two” in the thinker’s or actor’s reflexive relationship with the world –his or her physical, social and spiritual cosmos. After setting the stage for a critical encountering between the primitive trickster and the biblical Cain, I will interpret their exchanges and incompatible expressions regarding their non-reflexive and reflexive ways of being in the world, respectively. Finally, I will turn to music and allegory attempting to blend these two fundamental components of humanity with the archetypal characters of trickster and Cain. It is in the context of such a dialogue that trickster’s encountering with Cain acquires its musical and allegorical momentum and sheds light through its abductive othering to the question of interpretation and human consciousness.

Ioanna Sitaridou
Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics, Co-Director for the Cambridge Centre of Greek Studies. Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Linguistics and Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics PIB and YA, Queens’ College

Prior to her Cambridge appointment in 2004 Prof. Ioanna Sitaridou worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Centre on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg, investigating word order in Old Romance and the licensing/loss of null subjects in the history of French and Occitan (2002-2005), with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Meisel.

She received her PhD in Romance linguistics at the University of Manchester (2002) under the supervision of Prof. Nigel Vincent. She holds an MA in Linguistics from University College London (UCL) (1998). She also holds a BA in French Philology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1997), part of which was spent under the Erasmus scheme at the University of Lisbon (1997) studying Portuguese and Romance linguistics with Prof. Ana Maria Martins.

Her main areas of research are comparative and diachronic syntax of the Romance languages, in particular 13th Century Spanish, as well as dialectal Spanish; and dialectal Greek, especially Pontic Greek. The areas in which she carries out research are: the relationship between syntactic change and acquisition, language contact, micro-variation and change, heritage languages and change, and phylogenies.

Her research has been funded thrice by British Academy and several times by the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme 2014; in 2019 she won a competitive CAPES grant at the UFB in Salvador, Brazil for Romance syntax; research buyout from ISWOC at Oslo (2012) for Old Ibero-Romance syntax; and a CRASSH fellowship (2008) for a project on Old Romance word order.

She has published many papers in Glossa, Lingua, Diachronica, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, among others, and her book on Word Order in Old Ibero-Romance (with Prof. Montserrat Batllori) will appear by CUP in 2022. For her research on Romeyka she was awarded the Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellowship in Hellenic Studies by Princeton University in Spring 2011; a Research Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University in Winter 2015; and the Chaire internationale 2020 du Labex EFL. Her work on Romeyka has featured in national and international media (the Today programme in BBC Radio 4, The Independent, Der Spiegel, Sabah, etc.). She uses this research and the resulting publicity to educate on bilingualism, promote linguistic self-esteem, especially for female speakers in remote areas of Turkey.

Prof. Sitaridou welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to her interests.

Romeyka field-working: Syntactic Investigations of an Endangered Language Embedded under an Anthropological Approach.

The workshop comprises theory and extensive methodology in the analysis of Anthropological contexts, that is, from the ethnographic through to the analytical and writing stages, with reference to specific anthropological contexts.

Anthropological Excursion

Dimitsana Village

Date: September 5, 2020

Time: 6:00 – to – 18:00

Location

Dimitsana, Greece

Schedule
- Meet driver/guide at 6:00 a.m. departure.
- Towards the Corinth canal and make a quick 10 min stop to see the canal.
- Visiting the Water-Power Museum
- Visiting the amazing Prodromou & Emialon monasteries, Lousios river/gorge and the remainings of ancient Gortys, one of them requires an easy 15 min hike/walk.
- Short walks through the narrow stone build roads of the villages.
- At lunch time, enjoy authentic Greek culinary.
- Departure

Description

The Monastery of Prodromos is built on the root of a cliff on the left side of the ravine Lussius, near the villages of Stemnitsa and Dimitsana (Map D3) (D7 Route). The landscape is impressive and reminds Meteora and the Great Cave.

The church of St. John the Baptist is aisled vaulted basilica and is decorated with remarkable frescoes. Murals are outside the temple magnetizing look every visitor.

This monastery as a priory monastery was probably in the mid 16th century. but since the 12th century. flourished in many hermitages district importantly that of John the Baptist. During the Turkish occupation (16th c.) These retreats are united forming the monastery. Since the beginning of the establishment was stavropegic.

During the revolution of 1821, the monastery became a refuge and hospital for the fighters. In 1834 the monastery was dissolved due to a decree dissolving the monasteries, which are below 7 monks. But 1838 repopulated the monastery and became a great physical and spiritual.

Today the monastery operates a painting workshop and sewing holy garments and there is a remarkable collection of about 1000 books. The monastery of Prodromos, continuing the old traditions, a religious and cultural center of the region.

The number of visitors who flock each year is huge, because apart from spiritual exaltation, offering the monastery is built in a landscape of indescribable beauty, on towering rocks in lush vegetation and below sound the hum of waters of river Lucius.

Its possession are old documents, sigillia Patriarchs, purchases and donations bonds, while the code of the monastery is located in the Library of Dimitsana. The monastery is normally supplied with water and supplied with electricity. From 1976 to 1982 he worked School for oligogrammatous Priests and Monks from which graduated 45.

Unfortunately when the monastery was dissolved in 1834, arrived state step and 16 trucks Animals took valuable movable property of the monastery and the relics of St. Athanasius Christianoupoleos.

Fortunately, the monks managed to preserve 87 bonds dating from 1616 to 1831.

10:30 AM:	Sources of Bilingualism and Code-Switching in Small Children Ewelina Suwada (Tischner European University, Poland)
11:00 AM:	Diglossic Code-switching Between Standard Arabic and Najdi Arabic in Religious discourse Majedah Alaiyed (Qassim University, Saudi Arabia)
11:30 AM:	How different are these 3 universities? Catalan-using pressure perceived by Chinese graduate students in Barcelona Ruochen Ning (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

10:30 AM:	Singing Fado in Contemporary Lisbon: Questions of Boundedness Olga Kakosimou (Department of Musical Studies, National University of Athens, Greece)
11:00 AM:	The impact of language on rooting the nation's identity in the age of globalization Bouchiba Barka (University of Bechar, Algeria)

10:30 AM:	Choosing not to Choose: Linguistic Choice and Ideology in Barcelonese Social Movements Grace Reynolds (University of Virginia, U.S.)
11:00 AM:	Language – New Physics and The Problem of Inexplicability Meera Chakravorty (Jain University, India)

10:30 AM:	Urban Peripheries in Europe and the Construction of New Semantic Spaces Cinzia Colaiuda (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
11:00 AM:	Language of the historic enemy in education: Implications to language policy development for rapprochement across the divide in Cyprus Afet Guney (University of Exeter, U.K.)
11:30 AM:	Representations of refugees, traffickers and locals in Greek literature in the period of the European migrant crisis Christina Linardaki (Advanced Media Institute, U.S.) Marie Lavrentiadou (Advanced Media Institute, U.S.)

10:30 AM:	The Relationship between Socialization and Cultural Convergence among Youth Vahid Hojjatinikoo (University of Tehran, Iran)
11:00 AM:	Ethnic restaurants as sites of cultural transfer: On Czechs’ adoption of Vietnamese in Prague Marián Sloboda (Charles University, Czechia)

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The GLOCAL COMELA - The Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology: Seeking to redefine the way we view Mediterranean and European Language and Society.

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Nik. Kazantzaki 79,
157 72 Athens, Greece

E: glocal@soas.ac.uk

10:30 AM:	National Identity and A Social Approach to Language: Evidence from Egypt Reem Bassiouney (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
11:00 AM:	Meshamdutho and Meshumad le-Teavon: Motivation of Evil Doers in Syriac and Hebrew Terminological-Conceptual Traditions Avraham Yoskovich (University of Haifa, Israel)
11:30 AM:	To be Updated Michael Hadzantonis (Independent Scholar )

10:30 AM:	Walking on Wilton Drive: A Linguistic Landscape Analysis of a Homonormative Space Heiko Motschenbacher (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen)
11:00 AM:	Unbinding Turner Syndrome Identities Kamila Ciepiela (Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz, Poland)
11:30 AM:	Relocating a Torn Identity and Asserting the Right of the Oppressed to be Heard and Liberated in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf Md Abu Shahid Abdullah (East West University, Bangladesh)

1:30 PM:	Is English replacing Spanish at universities in Spain? Andrew Samuel Walsh (Comillas Pontifical University Madrid, Spain)
2:00 PM:	Using Folk Constructions/Phrases In Mass Media Language Rudnev Viacheslav (Russian Academy of sciences, Russia)
2:30 PM:	Using Folk Constructions/Phrases In Mass Media Language Rudnev Viacheslav (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

1:30 PM:	An Intercultural and Interlinguistic Analysis of Proverbs Kyriaki Koukouraki (King’s College London, U.K.)
2:00 PM:	Similarities in the choice of literature to translate Biljana Müller (University of Delhi, Delhi, India)
2:30 PM:	A Re-interpretation of Rock Art in California and Europe through a Look at Traditional Californian and Australian Basket Imagery Jessica Marshall (Cañada College, America)

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Ioanna Sitaridou Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics, Co-Director for the Cambridge Centre of Greek Studies. Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Linguistics and Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics PIB and YA, Queens’ College

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Ioanna Sitaridou
Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics, Co-Director for the Cambridge Centre of Greek Studies. Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Linguistics and Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics PIB and YA, Queens’ College

Dimitris Dalakoglou
Social Anthropology Department, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands