INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

REVISITING THE POLITICAL:

ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH

ON GREEK SOCIETY

Mytilene, 8-11 November 2007

Τhe Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean is celebrating  its twenty years of operation. In honor of this anniversary, we are organizing an international symposium entitled “Revisiting the Political: Anthropological and Historical Research on Greek Society”.  The symposium will take place in Mytilene on 8th-11th November 2007.

The symposium aims to highlight the research activity of Greek and foreign anthropologists and historians engaged in the study of Greek society during the last twenty years. In particular, we are interested in approaching this research through certain key thematic axes related to the conceptualization of politics, state – society relations, political practices and relationships, the politics of identities and other basic dimensions of the political in Greek society. With respect to Greek historiography, as well, we will seek to assess new or emerging trends over the past twenty years in the historical analysis of politics and to encourage a dialogue between the traditions of historiography and anthropology.