Organization    Offered Courses      Summer Practice Program  

List of courses

Program of studies

List of courses

ACADEMIC UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM  2011-2012

 The courses of the first cycle of studies (1st to 4th semesters) correspond to 5 ects.

 The courses of the second cycle (5th to 8th semesters) correspond to 6 ects.

 1^st  Semester

  SECOND CYCLE OF STUDIES

Description of Courses 2011 - 2012

Introduction to Social Anthropology I

Code no. SA-100

 E. Plexousaki

  COURSE DESCRIPTION: In the first part of the Introduction to Social Anthropology we explore the basic concepts of the discipline, its history within Greece and abroad, and its relation to other social sciences and humanities. We will proceed to a presentation of the most important theoretical approaches to the study of societies and their differences, as well as a detailed account of the methodological particularities of social anthropology in terms of research, interpretation and writing. Based on ethnographic examples with emphasis on kinship, family, marriage, gender and age,   the students will be acquainted with various ways in which members of different societies perceive and classify the world around them.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: To present first year students with the subject of social anthropology and the research methods employed in the study of societies. Focusing on cultural variation and difference, to demonstrate how our own understandings of the world are culturally constructed. To explain how social anthropology approaches human societies and introduce basic issues in anthropological interpretation and research.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures and class discussions, ethnographic films

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Final exam, short assignments.

Introduction to Social Anthropology II

Code no. SA-101

E. Petridou

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The second part of our Introduction to Social Anthropology commences with the exploration of the unfolding relations between the natural environment and the various forms of socio-economic structure (eco-anthropology). Following that, we examine a variety of forms of production, distribution and consumption as well as the economy of the gift and the market (economical anthropology). In a third unit, we undertake the study of different modes of political organization, the structures of social stratification and inequality, as well as the relevant forms of justice and social regulation (political anthropology). The next thematic unit is related to symbolic thought and action: religious systems, witchcraft practices, rituals, world-theories and cosmologies (symbolic anthropology, anthropology of religion).

AIMS OF THE COURSE: To acquaint first-year students with the basic theoretical and methodological concepts of the most fundamental sectors of social anthropology via specific and lucid ethnographic case studies.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, ethnographic films.

PREREQUISITES: None.

Cognitive Anthropology

Code no. SA-105

T. Paradellis

Ethnography of Non-Western Societies

Code no. SA-110

A. Tsekenis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is articulated in four units. In the first one, students are presented with the first contacts between the Native-Americans in South Americas and the Europeans (navigators, missionaries, explorers). The aim of this unit is to foreground the relevance of the cultural gaze: how Europeans (Spanish and Portuguese) encountered Native-Americans in central and southern America and the Antipodes, and how the savages saw white Europeans. In the course of this unit, there is an extensive examination of Claude Lévi-Strauss s Tristes tropiques. In the second unit, we approach the issue of ethnography by defining the disciplinary objectives and by sketching out the importance of fieldwork and participant observation in anthropological research. Throughout the course, there is constant emphasis on the close ties between ethnographic method and theory (functionalism, structural functionalism and participant observation). Moreover, we examine the relationship between the observer and the observed. We also present the three prevalent anthropological schools (American, British, and French) and especially the way each one of them has developed the discipline of ethnography. The third unit centers on the ethnographies of non-western societies, whereby we elaborate on the issue of diversity through the presentation of specific ethnographic case studies (primarily of the Native-Americans of central Brazil and the Bamileké people of central Cameroon). The fourth unit explores the phenomenon of exchange with case studies from Melanesia, Polynesia and North-Western America (Mauss), and the relations between society and the natural environment in specific traditional societies (Eskimos, Australian Aborigines and the Nuer people of western Sudan). [C]

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The intention of this course is: 1) to present cultural diversity with a clear focus on case studies of non-western societies (mainly peoples in Central and South America, Polynesia, Melanesia, and West Africa); 2) to introduce issues concerning ethnographic practicethat is how one observes, studies and describes a society as well as the correlation of ethnography with anthropological theory.

TEACHING METHODS: Film screenings, lectures.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Mid-term exam (30%) and final exam (70%).

Greek Ethnography

Code no. SA-112

A. Papataxiarchis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course examines the contribution of social anthropology to the study of the Greek cultural identity and its political applications. Moreover, we examine the social relations and related mentalities being formed in both urban and rural spaces in Greece, while we place emphasis on conceptual negotiations, i.e. domestic unit and family, kinship and gender, religion and political affairs. Finally, this course looks into those approaches which combine anthropology and history in the study of modern Greece.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: To offer a thorough view of contemporary anthropological theory, from both the historical perspective and that perspective offered in contemporary ethnographic texts, where the diverse conceptual paradigms of anthropological thought may be applied.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, class discussions.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Final written exam.

Immigration and Racism: Anthropological Approaches

Code no SA-119

P. Topali

COURSE DESCRIPTION: An introductory course to the issues of immigration and racism in contemporary society. It examines political and scientific uses of the concept of �race� in relation to the phenomenon of racism in Germany, United States, South Africa and Modern Greece. Furthermore, it explores forms of present day racism and the ways in which these interpolate the concept of �culture� in the context of migration politics: How the image of the immigrant is embedded in discriminatory discourses within varied cultural contexts. Finally, it focuses on modern Greece studying varied cases of immigrant groups.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: To familiarize the students with theories regarding the issues of racism and migration, �race� and ethnicity.

TEACHING METHOD : Lectures, presentation of assigned papers

PREREQUISITES: None

GRADING: Written Exams, mid-term examination, optional assigned papers.    

ECTS:5,5

Anthropology of Kinship

Code no. SA-120

V. Kantsa

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Although kinship has been a privileged field of anthropological study and research for about a century, its significance has come in for a lot of controversy during the last decades of the 20^th century, while recently there is a renewed and growing interest in its study. Along the lines of this course, we attempt to acquaint students with the most fundamental anthropological theories of kinship and to grasp some of its basic notions. More specifically, we examine the theory of unilinear descent and the theory of affinity, both of which construe kinship as an holistic manner of social construction, and we also look into the concepts of descent, affinity, incest, exogamy, dowry, family settlement and family household. We also probe into the theory of practice, the symbolic approach, and those feminist perspectives which propose the complementary study of kinship and social gender, that is those theoretical approaches which have questioned older anthropological theories over kinship, while, at the same time, paving the way for the emergence of recent disseminations of kinship as a matter of choice rather than a natural factor.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The primary goal of this course is to introduce and acquaint students with the basic terms, concepts and methodologies of the anthropology of kinship, but also to comprehend and critically respond to the basic anthropological approaches with regard to kinship.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, student presentations, ethnographic film screenings.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Written exam, one paper.

Anthropology of Science

Code no. SA-129

V. Kantsa

Anthropology of Religion

Code no. SA-130

T. Paradellis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The first part of this course examines the historical origins, formations and transformations of religious concepts, witchcraft and science in western thought, and their influences on anthropological discourse. We present the sociological, functional and symbolic approaches to religion and witchcraft. Finally, we explore the various religious transmutations of social protest (messianic trends, millenarianism, ecstatic worship, spiritual possession, etc) through references to various ethnographic case studies of other cultures. The second part of this course is devoted to the paradigm of Islam. We explicate the historical and political dynamics, the dogmas and the ethical and socio-political dimensions of the Islamic religion. Particular stress is placed on forms of popular worship, in esoteric Islam (Sufism) and to the multiplicity of Islamic traditions. [C]

AIMS OF THE COURSE: To immerse students into the basic sociological and anthropological theories of religious phenomena with Islam being our central case study.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures and ethnographic film screenings.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Final written exam.

Anthropology of Symbols and Ritual

Code no SA-132

T. Paradellis

      Fieldwork and Participant Observation in Social Anthropology

     Code no. SA-139

      P. Topali

     COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The course commences with a presentation of the principles of fieldwork, which is the main method of research in Social Anthropology. Emphasis is placed on the variety of definitions and uses of participant observation within the context of different theoretical paradigms in Social Anthropology (functionalism, interpretive anthropology). The focus will be on the following areas:

- How is the researcher integrated into the field of study while at the same time (s)he has to distance his/herself from personal involvement with persons, situations and the object of study?

-How are description data kept separate in fieldwork notes from the researcher's own opinions and interpretations?

-During the process of observation, in what ways does the presence of the researcher in the field and his/her relation to the informants have any effect on the results of the research?

-What is the role of reflexivity during research?

Students get accustomed to the above issues through group exercises in participant observation.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: Students are acquainted with the research method of participant observation and the role of the researcher as observer.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, class discussions, group exercises on how ethnographic material is produced, recorded and analyzed.

PREREQUISITES: None

ASSESSMENT: Class presentations and written assignments.

History of Social Anthropology

Code no SA-140

P.Topali

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course presents the prevalent theories and trends in social anthropology from the 19^th century until the 1970s assuming a critical angle. Thus, students are allowed a complete view of the historical tendencies in contemporary social anthropology, while, at the same time, they can comprehend the origins and characteristics of the discipline's three ''national schools'' (British, French, and American). Our focus is centered on some basic notions, such as evolution, culture, civilization, function, procedure and structure. The issue that is persistently under scrutiny concerns the uses of history and the approach of cultural and social variation. [C]

AIMS OF THE COURSE: To accustom students with the subject matter and methods of social anthropology as they have been historically formulated; furthermore, to allow students to comprehend that anthropological thinking has received the influence of-and has exerted influence on-philosophical schools of thought and political beliefs that have dominated different historical eras.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, class discussions and ethnographic film screenings.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Final written exam.

Anthropological Theory

Code no SA-141

K. Yannakopoulos

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Critical presentation of the most central anthropological theories (functionalism, structuralism, structural-functionalism, Marxism, hermeneutics). We draw particular attention upon the original research-theoretical work by numerous anthropologists, and we pinpoint their methodological differences and similarities through a comparative study of such a body of work. Contemporary concerns in anthropological theory (the anthropology of ''experience,'' ''the experiencing body'' and ''integration / assimilation'') as well as the recent re-examination of ethnographic practice constitute the core of this course. This is an elective course offered during the second cycle of studies. [O]

AIMS OF THE COURSE: To familiarize students with the basic notions developing in the realm of empirical research of the social sciences, including social anthropology. To acknowledge the fact that any so-called theory is neither culturally nor politically ''neutral,'' nor irrelevant to the so-called ''practice''.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, class discussions.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Open-book final written exam.

Anthropology of Material Culture

Code no. SA-143

E. Petridou

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course offers a general introduction to material culture studies and a presentation of different theoretical approaches. It aims at highlighting the way goods contribute to the formation and study of culture. Following a critical approach to the modernist separation between people and things, things are considered to be an expression of ideas containing multiple meanings, and are approached as a means of communication and demarcation of social boundaries, as a medium for the negotiation of social relations and relations of power. Examples for the study of material culture are derived from the area of museum representation and cultural heritage as well as from products of technology and other goods of mass production (clothes, toys and other).

TEACHING METHODS: lectures, audio-visual presentations, class discussion

PREREQUISITES: None

ASSESSMENT: optional assignments, final written exam

Economic Anthropology

Code no. SA-150

V.Galani- Moutafi

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The first part of this course focuses on the development of Economic Anthropology (theories and movements), as well as on the basic approaches to the notion of ''economy.'' We proceed with a critical presentation of the most prominent anthropological theories on primitive economy and, more precisely, on exchange, gift and production modes/relations. We also examine various prevalent viewpoints first over the symbolic and ethical aspects of money, and second over the differences between western and primitive monetary systems. The second part of this course includes units which aim at an examination of the following topics: theories/concepts of modernization, development and universal systems, approaches to the processes of socio-economic transformation, and analytical vantage points on the issue of labor and social gender.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: To acquaint students with the way anthropology handles various theoretical and research issues concurrent with economic relations, practices and beliefs, from both a methodological and an analytical perspective. More specifically, to comprehend that ethnographic research interprets the peculiarities of isolated economic practices, behaviors and perspectives through their social and cultural contextualization.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, class discussions, exercises.

PREREQUISITES: None

GRADING: Written exams at the completion of the course and optional assigned paper.

Anthropology of Tourism

Code no SA-153

V. Galani - Moutafi

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The following axes constitute the core of this course: conceptual approaches to tourism and the category �tourist� (structural analyses, classification schemes and the approach to tourism as a process). Analytical perspectives of the tourist idiom, tourist representations and cross-culturalism, intersubjective tourist encounters; the issue of development and the procedures to socio-economic transformation, which are experienced by local host-communities; the handling of legacy, perspectives of �tradition,� nature, the past and �authenticity� (alternative forms of tourism), and the reconstitution of cultural identity; tourist involvement/interaction in ethnic �realities� (ideologies, relations, beliefs); issues of politics and tourist planning, as well as the concern over the conceptualization of culture from different vantage points as they have been encoded since the foundation and application of the field in question.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: To familiarize students with the anthropological approach to tourism from a methodological and an analytical perspective; more precisely, to comprehend that the anthropological/ethnographic approach can indeed illuminate the particularities of local communities through the viewing glass of the interconnections of the field with a global economic, social, and cultural reality�that of tourism.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, class discussions, exercises.

CLASS REQUIREMENTS: None.

ASSESSMENT: Paper and/or final written exam.

Anthropology of Sound

Code no. SA-191

 P. Panopoulos

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The fairly recent anthropological interest on sound and hearing derives from multiple sources, the anthropology of music, the anthropology of the senses, cultural studies, as well as some recent historical studies which focus on the cultural construction of perception and the metaphorical uses of sound and the senses. We will focus on the cultural dimensions of sound and hearing in the societies of the tropical rainforest, in modern and post-modern Europe and the United States of America, in contemporary practices like the use of personal stereos and mobile phones. Furthermore, we will study the relations and differentiations between projects in the anthropology of sound, on the one hand, and projects in some contemporary artistic expressions concentrating on sound (sound art), on the other.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: Introduction to a fairly new field of anthropological interest and specialization on issues of the anthropology of music and the anthropology of the senses.

 TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, class discussions, presentations of audio material, oral

 presentations of short papers by students.

 PREREQUISITES: Anthropology of Music.

 ASSESSMENT: Oral presentations, paper (optional), final written exam.

Anthropology of Music

Code no. SA-192

P. Panopoulos

COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this course, we examine the ways the anthropological perspective has been applied to the study of music. We consider the social and symbolic aspects of music in culture and music as culture. We approach music not as an autonomous artistic form of sound organisation, but as a social and cultural phenomenon, focusing on the multiplicity of the symbolic meanings of musical performances in various societies, as well as in different contexts of a single society. AIMS OF THE COURSE: Through the analysis of the multiple uses of music in differnet cultures, we will explain why the anthropological syudy of music is not any more a discipline based on a particular �object� of study (that is, music in �other� cultures), but rather a wider theoretical perspetive, which reconstructs the way we consider music in general.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, presentations of audio material.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Paper (optional), final written exam.

Introduction to History

Code no. H-200

H. Exertzoglou

The course aims at introducing the subject of History and the ways it is taught at the Department of Social Anthropology and History. Students are presented with some of the central issues in History, such as its material (archives, sources, historiography) and the way it is approached, as well as basic concepts, such as historicity and temporality. Other topics presented during the course include social memory and historical culture, and the way History connects to the past and the present. Finally, attention is given to the links between History and other social sciences, particularly Social Anthropology.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: to present the complexity of the historical approach and the use of History for understanding the ways contemporary societies make sense of themselves.

TEACHING METHOD: Lectures, audio-visual material, presentations of student assignments

ASSESSMENT: Mid-term exam, papers, final exam.

Oral History

Code no. H-208

P. Hantzaroula

COURSE DESCRIPTION/AIMS: The course is an introduction to the methodology of oral history. It deals with questions such as: Is oral history a different kind of history? What kind of documents are the oral sources? Why oral history constitutes a challenge for the historian of the recent past? Which aspects of human history are illuminated by oral sources? Furthermore, the course aims at introducing students to the practice of oral history, and to the planning of interviews and their interpretation. The content of the course includes:            1. The relationship between oral and written sources

2. Interviewing and interpreting oral testimonies  

3. Use of interviews in historical writing

4. Memory as a source of identity (gender, religious, sexual, class, etc.)

5. The politics of narrating the past (memory, silence, trauma)

6. Putting the subject back into history

TEACHING METHOD : Lectures

ASSESSMENT: Written examination at the end of the semester

History of Landscape

Code no H-212

P. Doukellis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The cornerstone of this course is the position that human topographies can indeed be conceived of as historical proof of human societies, which in their turn function as formative and appropriating agents over landscape. Every landscape can be construed as a mosaic on which one may trace evidence of past communities, which inhabited the specific space, modified it at will and adapted it to their needs. In this context, the object of the history of landscape is akin to that of human geography or historical geography. At the same time though, it is a distinct field of study mainly due to observant-interpolation: it is common knowledge that the concept of landscape includes both the observed space and the observer's viewing agency.

This course addresses issues of historicity of the landscape (methods, sources, research tools) and issues of landscape as encoded by writers and painters of various eras. [E]

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Compulsory attendance of seminars. Students are assessed on the basis of their participation in class and the adequacy of the paper they are to develop during the semester. No final written exam.

Introduction to the Social and Cultural History of Byzantium

Code no H-214

Y. Smarnakis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course is an introduction to the study of the Byzantine society and culture. The initial lectures will address the borders, populations, languages and the political history of the Byzantium. The Byzantine concept of ''empire'', the organization of the administration and the army are the next issues that will be examined. Certain basic characteristics of Byzantine economy and society, such as organization of production, social stratification, the life in the cities and countryside will also be analyzed. The final lectures will concern the Byzantine worldviews and identities, the education and the heretics.

PREREQUISITES: None

ASSESSMENT: Final written examination.

War and Society in Byzantium

Code no. H-217

Y. Smarnakis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: During the last years, there is particular historiographical interest in the army in the Byzantine Empire and its relations with the state and the society. The course offers an insight to the Byzantine society in times of war. Apart from issues concerning the formation, the equipment, the tactics or the political role of the armies, we will attempt to understand the Byzantine concepts about war and peace within the broader social and cultural context of the era. Special issues that will be analyzed are the Byzantine theories of war, the social status of the soldiers and the making of subjectivity in the everyday life in barracks or during campaigns.

PREREQUISITES: Introduction to the Social and Cultural History of Byzantium.  ASSESSMENT: Optional mid-term written exam, final written exam.

War and Society in Byzantium

Code no. H-218

G. Plakotos

COURSE DESCRIPTION: this is an introductory course designed to provide a broad survey of European developments from the fifth to the eighteenth centuries. The course examines major themes in political history (such as the medieval kingdoms, the rise of communes or the territorial state), in social and economic history (including the medieval tripartite social model, feudal organization, urban life, elite and subordinate classes, manorial structures, the gradual transition to capitalism with proto-industrialization and the impact of the colonial system). Particular attention is paid to cultural history (medieval Christianity, the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation movements) and the formation of social, religious and gender identities.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: familiarization with the history of pre-modern European societies and the relevant historiography.

TEACHING METHODS: lectures, use of visual and written sources.

PREREQUISITES: none.

ASSESSMENT: final written exam.

Contemporary Greek History

Code no. H-220

S. Karavas

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course consists of four chapters, examining the following topics: a) The process by which the Greek State integrated and organised its territories in the first half of the twentieth century. Population redistribution, in combination with local and social traits that came to the forefront. Mechanisms for homogenisation and their limitations. b) The rhetoric of the ''Great Idea'' and its various versions. Greek ''national ambitions'': achievements and impasses. The economic and cultural dimension of the Great Idea following 1922. c) The resistance phenomenon and the ideological influence of the Greek Civil War. The State, the power apparatus operating on the fringes of legality and Parliamentary Democracy in post Civil War Greece. Acceptance of the Dictatorship and the process of being rid of culpability in 1974. d) Emigration/immigration policies and economic development. Post-war restructuring of social stratification and the new conditions of class conflict.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: This course is offered in the second cycle of studies and its aim is to present and examine basic themes in contemporary Greek history. Throughout the course students will familiarise themselves with the relevant reference tools and work using original source materials from that period.

TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lectures, presentation of audiovisual materials, handouts.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Final written exam, optional papers whose grades will be taken into account in the overall grade.

State and Society in Modern Greece (19^th-early 20^th cc.)

Code no H-221

Y. Yannitsiotis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course examines issues connected with the constitution of contemporary Greek society, beginning with the founding of the Greek state up until the Asia Minor catastrophe. Special attention is drawn, first, to the widening of the role of the state and institutional organization in the formation of a coherent and homogenized national community, and second to specific issues such as the creation of national and political institutions, the educational system, transport policy, and internal security policy, the constitution of justice and political support of small property. A special unit is dedicated to Greek foreign politics and the negotiation of the ''Great Idea.'' [C]

AIMS OF THE COURSE: This course aspires to a critical presentation of Modern Greek History. Moreover, it aims at a preliminary contact of the students with specific texts on Modern Greek History, which are presented in a series of tutorials during class.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures supported by visual material and texts handed out in class. Seminars during which students present texts from a contemporary bibliographic list.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Mid-term exam and final exam.

Tolerance, Persecution and Otherness in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Code no. H-222

G. Plakotos

COURSE DESCRIPTION: drawing on the historiographical debates about the medieval persecuting society and the early modern processes of social discipline, confessionalization and acculturation, the module examines both the place of minorities and other marginal groups and the process of exclusion / inclusion, and the criminalization of difference and dissent. The emergence of disciplinary apparatuses and the process of othering are viewed in the light of wider changes that pre-modern West European societies experienced, such as the growth of the state and the transition to capitalism.

AIMS OF THE COURSE:

- a deeper understanding of pre-modern European social practices and norms through the construction of Otherness.

- familiarity with the relevant historiographical debates.

- an appreciation of the possibilities and the limitations of primary sources created in the realms of officialdom.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, use of visual and written sources.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: final written exam, optional presentation and assignment.

Economy and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe

Code no. H-224

G. Plakotos

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century the European economy witnessed a series of structural changes in the rural world, the urban settings and its relations with the non-European world. Most historical schools have viewed these changes as the disparate but gradual transition to capitalism and the formation of world economy under the hegemony of certain European states. The course examines the economic structures and practices, the changes they underwent and the economic geographies of Europe, the emergence of new social classes and the role of certain European regions in the formation of world economic systems. In the milieu of medieval traditions and renovations the material culture of European societies underwent significant changes too.  By viewing the material world as a form of communication, the course examines its reconceptualization and its intersection with social and economic relations.

AIMS OF THE COURSE:

- familiarization and deeper understanding of preindustrial Europe's economic and social history and multifaceted material culture.

- study of European history from the perspective of economy.

- knowledge of historiography.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, use of visual and written source.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: final written exam, optional presentation and assignment.

The Balkan Slavs, 15^th-18^th cc.

Code no. H-232

E. Gara

COURSE DESCRIPTION: After the consolidation of Ottoman rule in the Balkans, which brought about the dissolution of medieval Slavic kingdoms, almost all southern Slavs were incorporated in one state, the Ottoman Empire. These populations became part of a unified cultural space and followed a common historic course, which differed substantially from the fates of the Slavic peoples under Venetian or Habsburg rule. Furthermore, widespread conversion to Islam effected the cultural differentiation of a substantial part of southern Slavs in Ottoman territories already in the 16th century. On the other hand, Habsburg colonization policy resulted in creating a singular space of cultural osmosis between Slavs from the Habsburg and the Ottoman Empires along the so-called ''military frontier'' in the 18th century. The history, society and culture of Slavic-speaking populations in the Ottoman Balkans and in the Habsburg ''military frontier'', from the conquest of Bosnia in 1463 until the Serbian revolt in 1804, forms the subject matter of this course.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the history, society and culture of the Balkan Slavs in the early modern times.

PREREQUISITES: None  

TEACHING METHODS: A combination of lectures and seminar with active student participation, use of visual and textual material. 

ASSESSMENT: Class assignments (20%), two short essays (900-1200 words) (15% and 20% respectively), a final paper (3000-600 words) (45%).

Islam and Christianity in the Early Modern Times

Code no. H-233

E. Gara

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The consolidation of the Ottoman state created the ground for the subordination of the Balkans and a large part of Central Europe to the rule of a Muslim dynasty; at the same time it set the conditions for the formation of large Muslim communities in European territory. The course investigates the manifold encounters between Muslim and Christian European communities in the Early Modern times, which were characterized not only by conflict and antagonism but also by cooperation and interaction. The study of the contacts between the Christian states of Europe and the Muslim Ottoman Empire, as well as between Christian and Muslim populations, both within and without the Ottoman realm, brings out the plurality of historical experience and confronts stereotypes treating Islam and Christianity as timeless entities in eternal conflict.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The course aims to enable students read into the issue of Muslim - Christian encounters in Europe in the Early Modern period, a time that witnessed both the emergence of the concept of Europe and the formation of indigenous Muslim communities in the Balkans.

TEACHING METHODS: A combination of lectures and seminar with active student participation, use of visual and textual material.           

PREREQUISITES: None

ASSESSMENT: Class assignments (20%), two short essays (900-1200 words) (15% and 20% respectively), a final paper (3000-3600 words) (45%).

History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1839

Code no H-235

E. Gara

COURSE DESCRIPTION: In the late 13th century, at a time when Asia Minor was splintered off into small principalities, there emerged near the Byzantine border a tiny Muslim emirate under the leadership of Osman bey. Contrary to the other principalities of the time, Osman's realm expanded and was transformed into a multiethnic state, the Ottoman Empire, which dominated the Balkans, Asia Minor and the Middle East for five centuries. The course deals with the political, social and economic history of the Ottoman domains from the consolidation of the Ottoman Emirate in the early 14th century until the beginning of the Tanzimat reforms in 1839, which initiated the transformation of the Ottoman Empire in a modern state.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the history of the Ottoman state and its populations in the late medieval and early modern times.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, class discussions, use of visual and textual material. 

PREREQUISITES: None

ASSESSMENT: Mid-term exam (30%), final written exam (70%).

Nations and Nationalisms in the Balkans (19th-20th cc.)

Code no H-236

H. Exertzoglou

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course examines the problem of the rise of the nationalism  n in the Balkans during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The approach is comparative and encompasses all the cases of the Balkan national states (Greece, Serbia/Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Albania). The course examines specific issues connected with the rise of nationalism and the emergence of the national states in the Balkan and is divided in three units.  Unit one discusses the controversial relation between religion and nationalism in the Balkans, as well as the relationship between national and other forms of a social identity. The second unit examines the rise of national movements and the outbreak of national revolutions and the formation of the national Balkan states. The third unit explores nationalist conflicts in the  Balkans, and the last unit examines the issue of the cultural construction of a national identity.

AIMS OF THE COURSE. By means of discussions on the aforementioned units, students will be able to understand critically the history and impact of nationalism in the making of the modern Balkans..

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures supported by the projection of slides, visual material and texts handed out in class.

PREREQUISITES:None.

ASSESSMENT: Mid-term exam, final exam.

History of the Ancient World I: Systems of Government and Political History in  

 Ancient Greece

Code no. H-241

V. Anastasiadis

History of the Ancient World II: the History of Rome from the 3^rd c. BC to the 1^st c AD

Code no. H-242

P. Doukellis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The objective of this course is to introduce the chief issues of Roman history spanning from the 3^rd cent. B.C. to the 1^st cent. A.D. Special attention is given to the study of a small anthology of sources (philological, inscriptional and archaeological) illustrating some of those issues. The course aims at a thorough presentation of the specific historical era and the immersion of students in the techniques and methods of source analysis. [C]

AIMS OF THE COURSE: To familiarize students with Roman history and to draw them into the study and historical interpretation of the historical facts of that era.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Final written exam, optional paper.

History of the Ancient World IV: Political Ideas during the First Years of the Roman Empire

Code no. H-245

P. Doukellis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course aims to a) give more depth to thematic topics presented in the course 'History of the Ancient World II' and b) extend chronologically the course towards the second and third century AD. The themes presented include: ideas regarding kingship, the state and the Law of Ciceron, the Stoics and the Epicurians, as well as social and political views of Roman jurists (2^nd-3^rd cc). The course is based on an anthology of texts.

PREREQUISITES: History of the Ancient World II.

ASSESSMENT: Composition of a paper is encouraged. Final written exam.

Byzantium and the West (11^th � 15^th cc)

Code no. H-256

Y. Smarnakis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The relations of Byzantium and the West from the 11^th to the 15^th century are studied in this course. A special emphasis is given to the crusades. The different points of view that various contemporary scholars have expressed on this issue are analyzed and interpreted. During the course, we mainly focus on the images of the other that the Byzantines and the crusaders construct. For the period between the 13^th and the 15^th centuries, we also examine the commercial relations with the Italian cities and the place of the Byzantine economy in the emerging international market of the Eastern Mediterranean. Other issues addressed are the Byzantine efforts to unite the Churches and the opposed social interests of the unionists and the anti-unionists. Finally, we study the cultural contacts with the West and the interaction of Byzantines and westerners in the area of the Aegean.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Optional mid-term written examination, final written examination.

Kinship, Μarriage, Family in the Ottoman-Greek World  (18th-19th cc.)

Code no H-258

M. Stamatoyannopoulou

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The course concerns ways in which domestic space is structured and organized in the shifting context of the Greek-Ottoman world of the 18th and 19th centuries. The focus is on the composition of the domestic unit and its function as a unit of production, consumption and  taxation. Emphasis is placed on kinship and the importance of kinship networks, on the relation between a small scale community with the wider area, on the function of marital markets and strategies, on rules and practices for the transfer of goods.

The course also includes an investigation a) of the regulatory framework of religious and secular law concerning family and marital issues, and b) of ways in which institutions set limits or allow practices of exclusion, and become transformed under the pressure of a changing environment.

AIMS OF THE COURSE:  To acquire an understanding of the importance of family and kinship relations in the society under examination. Also, to understand how family, marriage and kinship can be approached ethnographically and historically.

PREREQUISITES: None

ASSESSMENT: Written or oral final exam, written essays only for those students who attend the lectures regularly.

Europe and the �Peoples without History�

Code no.H-265

M. Stamatoyannopoulou

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course explores the hegemonic constitution of Europe in the 16th century through the history of the Spanish domination on a considerable part of the American continent. The course consists of three central themes: the first thematic unit explores the Mediterranean-European course towards '1492', i.e. the European 'extension' of the 15th and 16th centuries, mapping the embarkation of the European navy and the commercial world to the Atlantic and the conditions that made exploration expeditions possible, with emphasis on the Mediterranean world and the Iberian monarchies. The second theme concerns the impact of the Spanish conquest of America on local populations in the 16th century as well as on the immigrants, i.e. the new status quo imposed by the conquerors and the forms of social, economic and cultural hegemony. The third theme of the course concerns the presentation of the legal-philosophical-theological context in the 16th century that was used to legitimize or criticize the Spanish conquest and occupation in Central and South America, i.e. the moral aspect of the conquest and the political issue of legitimizing the actions of the conquerors.  Finally, the course explores ways that 'peoples without history' are integrated into the economic and political constitutive principles of the European world and the framework of legitimacy of the European conquest.

AIMS OF THE COURSE:

Students will learn about the beginnings of the historical process that linked the non-European world with Europe and determined the forms of hegemony and legitimacy of the European conquest on the 'rest' of the planet.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Written final exam, optional assignments and their presentation in each of the three thematic units (up to 60% of total mark).

Contemporary European History (late 18^th to early 20^th cc.)

Code no. H-267

S. Karavas

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course examines the following thematic units: Industrial Revolution-French Revolution-Europe after 1815 and the revolutionary movements - Urbanization and Industrialization in the 19^th century-The creation of nation states-The triumph and crisis of European capitalism (1870-1914). Special emphasis is given on the two revolutions (industrial and French) that changed the form of Europe and crucially defined the European course. Every unit is preceded by a brief introduction and chronological presentation of landmark facts as points of reference, followed by the analysis of the influential factors on the courses and mechanisms which are characteristic of new historical realities.[C]

AIMS OF THE COURSE: This is a compulsory course offered during the first semester of studies, and it aims at familiarizing students with the major issues in contemporary European History.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures supported by visual material and photocopies.

PREREQUISITES: None

ASSESSMENT: Mid-term exam and final written exam.

Gender and Work in Modern and Contemporary European History

Code no. H-272

P. Hantzaroula

The course aims at inserting the analytical category of gender into the history of labour and class relations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European societies. It explores the new notion of labour that emerged in the nineteenth century and the presence of women in irregular, low status, and poorly paid employment. Content of the course:

1. Women and Industrialization

2. Patterns of female employment

3. Gender in the formation of class

4. Women's agricultural labour

5. Skill, technology and the gender division of labour

6. The introduction of labour legislation

TEACHING METHOD : Lectures

ASSESSMENT:  Written examination at the end of the semester

Introduction to Linguistics

Code no. L-300

C. Canakis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to linguistics, the study of natural language, from both a formal and a functional perspective. It covers the basic principles of linguistic theory, putting emphasis on the levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics). As the course addresses the basic theoretical needs of students in the social sciences, it also examines the socio-functional aspect of language (pragmatics, sociolinguistics), ultimately aiming at connecting the study of language as a cognitive phenomenon to the study of a language as a specific communicative code, i.e., as a kind of socially positioned reality and experience.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The course aims at familiarizing students with the general principles of (structural and generative) linguistics and, more specifically, a) with the formal study of all levels of linguistic analysis and b) with explorations of the functional aspect of language.

TEACHING METHODS: Lecturing, discussion, exercises.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Exercises, midterm, final written examination.

Sociolinguistics

Code no. L-311

C. Canakis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to linguistics, the study of natural language, from both a formal and a functional perspective. It covers the basic principles of linguistic theory, putting emphasis on the levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics). As the course addresses the basic theoretical needs of students in the social sciences, it also examines the socio-functional aspect of language (pragmatics, sociolinguistics), ultimately aiming at connecting the study of language as a cognitive phenomenon to the study of a language as a specific communicative code, i.e., as a kind of socially positioned reality and experience.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The course aims at familiarizing students with the general principles of (structural and generative) linguistics and, more specifically, a) with the formal study of all levels of linguistic analysis and b) with explorations of the functional aspect of language.

TEACHING METHODS: Lecturing, discussion, exercises.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Exercises, midterm, final written examination.

Principles of Political Economy

Code no. EC-400

C. Bellas

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The centerpiece of the course is the discussion of the relationship between the Market and the State under the light of modern economic theory. There is an initial analysis of rudimentary concepts such as choice, opportunity cost, aggregate production and growth, the standard of living, money and exchange. On the microeconomic side, we introduce the free market model followed by the cases of �market failure� (externalities, public goods, monopoly, inequality and poverty). This leads to the examination of state intervention in the market (direct and indirect taxation, taxes, subsidies, tariffs and market regulation) and of its autonomous role as producer of public goods and provider of transfer payments. On the macroeconomic side, simple versions of the two rival models (Keynesian and Monetarist) are presented; their implications on the effects of fiscal and monetary policy on economic aggregates such as GDP, unemployment, the price level, the balance of payments., etc are examined.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: To enrich the understanding and critical assessment of the workings of contemporary economic systems.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures supported by hand-outs uploaded in the internet (program VISTA) .

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Optional mid-term exam, final written exam.

History of Economic Thought

Code no. EC-402

C. Bellas

COURSE DESCRIPTION: We explore economic thinking from the second half of the 18th century to date. Our point of departure�following a brief reference to naturalists and Mercantilism�is Adam Smith�s contribution to economic thinking. We also analyze the work of the 19th century classic economists (Ricardo, Malthus, Mill) but also that of utopian socialists. We follow with a presentation of Marxist Theory of the nature and dynamics of capitalism. Then we explore the emergence of the neo-classical theory and the reaction to it by thinkers such as Veblen and Hobson. Keynes� contribution to the formulation of post-war ideas on the role of the nation in economy and the reaction to keynesism with the re-appearance of the quantitative theory complete our thematic spectrum. [E]

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The basic aim of the course is to comprehend the historicity of economic theories, by which we mean students� understanding of economic theories as dependent on the historical time in which they are generated.

Concurrently, our attention is primarily on the relationship separate theories hold  with the historical phase during which they were encoded, as well as on their effect in the formation of ideological movements.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures aided by handouts.

 PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Optional mid-term exam, final written exam.

Theory of Economic Development

Code no EC-404

C. Bellas

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course aims at examining the problems faced by less developed economies assuming a theoretical standpoint. We analyze the concept of economic development as well as the consequences of the dual economic structure and the surplus of labor force in the process of development. We examine the issue of selecting the degree of capital intensity in the process towards capital accumulation and the political dilemmas ensuing from this very choice. We also analyze the issue of international economic relations unfolding between the less developed countries with the developed world and the problem of over-debit in the Third World. Finally, with reference to the problem of Third World countries, we attempt the clarification of concepts such as poverty, inequality in income distribution and economic prosperity.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: This is an elective course which is not offered every academic year. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the bibliography relating to the issues presented in class and to allow students to comprehend and elaborate on the relevant issues orally and in writing.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: The composition of a paper, class participation, and a final written exam.

English I, II, III, IV

Code nos FL-01/02/03/04

Aspects of the 'Person' in Africa and Melanesia

Code no Pr/S- 001

E. Tsekenis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course is intended to discuss the concepts of �personhood�, �self� and �individual� as historically and culturally defined concepts rather than innate/connate categories. First, it aspires to show how these categories are related to each other and to conceptualizations of �society�. It examines how various anthropologists have treated issues like the distinction between �person� and �individual�;  �personnage� and �self�.

The second unit is dedicated to the study of some key-texts dealing with the above categories in both sub-Saharan Africa and Melanesia. We will underline the differences between an �African person� and a �Melanesian person� arguing that whereas the former has been studied mainly through the analytical categories of gender and exchange, the latter has been studied through religious beliefs and social/cultural representations. In the second part of the unit we will stress the similarities between sub-Saharan and Melanesian personhood by challenging their strict distinction.

Anthropologists studying notions of �personhood�, �self� and �individual� (and the relation of these notions to ideas of �society�) came to grips with crucial epistemological questions such as: is the �individual� a specifically western invention? How can one make use of the us/them distinction � an inevitable feature of the anthropological enterprise � in the cross-cultural study of personhood? The third unit will try to present some answers given by anthropologists to the above questions.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: to familiarize students with �personhood� as an analytical category of social/cultural anthropology through the discussion of anthropological texts.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures and class discussions

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: class presentations, final paper.

History of the Ancient World III: Topics of Ancient Greek Historiography and Critique of the Sources                           

Code no. Pr/S-004          

V.Anastasiadis

Sources for the History of the Ottoman Balkans

Code no. Pr/S-020

E. Gara

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The seminar examines the various types of sources that historians of the Ottoman Balkans have in their disposal, for the period from the appearance of the Ottomans in the Balkans until the era of the Tanzimat reforms. The main types of Ottoman and non-Ottoman sources will be examined, with particular emphasis on archival sources, and their possibilities and limitations will be explored.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The aim of this seminar is to familiarize students with the main sources for the history of the Ottoman Balkans and to help them develop a critical approach to the use of sources. A further aim is to teach students how to write an original thesis.

PREREQUISITES: History of the Ottoman Empire (1300-1839)

TEACHING METHODS: Seminar with active student participation.

ASSESSMENT: Participation and activity at the weekly meetings (30%); final written thesis of 4000-5000 words (70%).

Immigration and Minorities    

Code no. Pr/S-022                 

P. Topali

COURSE DESCRIPTION: An applied course in which the student will be called to further study contemporary forms of racism and immigration mainly through the composition and presentation of assigned papers as well as field researches.  LEARNING OUTCOMES: To familiarize the student with bibliographic research, paper composition and methods of field research in migrant populations.METHOD OF TEACHING: Seminary courses, in which the student will study, compose and present papers related to migrant groups.

PREREQUISITES: Immigration and Minorities: Anthropological Approaches or/and Immigration and Racism: Anthropological Approaches

GRADING: Participation in the course, assigned papers and presentations. 

Anthropology of Music

Code no Pr/S-024

P. Panopoulos

COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this seminar, students will practice on bibliographical and field research in the anthropology of music. The seminar is a research complement to the course �Anthropology of Music� (3rd Semester, see course description).

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The aim of the seminar is the introduction of students to bibliographical research, field research and writing of an academic paper on issues related to recent developments in the anthropology of music.

TEACHING METHODS: All students will have to prepare and conduct a research project, based on bibliographical or field research. The progress of all the projects will be presented and discussed every week. Additional: Lectures, presentations of audio material.

PREREQUISITES: Anthropology of Music.

ASSESSMENT: Oral presentations, paper.

Historical Demography                                               

Code no. Pr/S-026

S. Karavas

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will focus on three thematic chapters examined in parallel. The topic of the first chapter is the object and techniques of Historical Demography (Social history, demography and the ''creation'' of Historical Demography - Practical application of techniques).

The second chapter will examine the history of the population (Evolution of the global population from the Palaeolithic era to this day - Theories regarding population and demographic policies).  Finally the topics of the third chapter include demographic analysis - urban demography - analysis of demographic conduct, from the 16th to the 19th century - formation of the urban population and the waves of migration from the 18th to the twentieth century. Greek historiography.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: The purpose of the course is to achieve a greater understanding of the techniques and methods of historical demography and to develop student skills in this field.

TEACHING METHODOLOGY: Lectures and exercises undertaken during the course.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: Student presence and course participation. Written papers undertaken throughout the term.

Rules and Practices of the Transfer of Goods in the Ottoman-Greek World, 18th-19th cc.

Code no Pr/S-028

M. Stamatoyannopoulou

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The seminar aims at familiarizing students with the theoretical issues that emerge from the bibliography and the available corpus of records.

TEACHING METHOD: Weekly meetings, lectures by the instructor, participation and presentations by the students.

PREREQUISITES: Kinship, Marriage and Family in the Ottoman-Greek World, Anthropology of KinshipASSESSMENT: Compulsory participation and presentation of assignments, written final essay based on material from archives.

Historiography of Byzantium                         

Code no. Pr/S-030

Y. Smarnakis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is about the historiography of the Byzantine Empire and concerns the creation of the scientific field of the ''Byzantine Studies'' during the 19^th century in Europe and in Greece. We outline the major historiographical trends from this era until today and we analyze the most important debates that have taken place within the field of the ''Byzantine Studies'', such as the ''Greek'' character of Byzantium, the Slavic settlements, the problem of the ''Byzantine feudalism'' and the analogies with the western Middle Ages, the crusades etc.

PREREQUISITES: Introduction to the Social and Cultural History of Byzantium.  

Pragmatics                                                    

  Code no. Pr/S-034                 

  C. Canakis

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course aims at the examination of an exciting area of linguistic meaning: non-formal meaning, often also called speaker meaning, contextual meaning, or social meaning. We will begin with an overview of the debate over the semantics � pragmatics �divide� showing that pragmatics as a level of analysis is primarily the consequence of a theoretical position which bases and establishes the analysis on linguistic meaning on truth conditions. However, since the bulk of linguistic meaning is not amenable to a truth-conditional analysis, what remains is a fairly large and variegated area. Thus, our goal will be to explore several historically well-established areas within pragmatics showing that there are non-formal, contextual factors which affect language use and might, in turn, become conventionalized (part of the grammar) given time. We will deal primarily with four major issues: i) speech acts, ii) implicatures, iii) deixis, and iv) presupposition attempting to make reference to intercultural communication where possible.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: To introduce students to the study of language in use and the principles of communication which may transcend formal grammatical rules while still exhibiting remarkable regularity.

TEACHING METHODS: Lectures, class discussions, in-class practice.

PREREQUISITES: None. But it is strongly advisable that students have taken and passed Introduction to Linguistics.

ASSESSMENT: Biweekly assignments.

Transformation of Athens in the 20th c.

Code no. Pr/S-035

Y. Yannitsiotis

Rebellion and Revolution in Medieval and Early Modern Europe                                                   

Code no. Pr/S-038                

G. Plakotos

COURSE DESCRIPTION: From the late Middle Ages until the late seventeenth century European societies experienced a series of protest and resistance from small-scale food and tax riots to large-scale rebellions and revolutions (including the Revolt of the Ciompi in Florence, the Uprising of the English peasants in 1381, the German Peasants� War, the Dutch War of Independence and the English Civil War). The course examines the background from which rebellions and revolutions sprang, their composition, their demands and the alternative social order they envisioned. From a wider perspective, rebellions and revolutions are viewed in the light of wider changes that pre-modern West European societies experienced, such as the impact of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation movements, the growth of the state and the transition to capitalism.  

AIMS OF THE COURSE:

- students should demonstrate their skills in conducting bibliographical research, assessing historical information and writing a piece of assessed work.

- familiarity with historiography.

- the study of a specific theme in depth through which a deeper understanding of early modern European society can be gained.

- students will be introduced to relevant primary sources.

TEACHING METHODS: short lectures, students� presentations, discussion.

PREREQUISITES: None.

ASSESSMENT: attendance at seminar, active participation in discussion, seminar presentations, assessed essay.

    Th Concept 'Economic Welfare'

    Code no Pr/S-040 

         Ch. Bellas  

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Seminar. The concept of economic welfare has its origin in classical economic thought of the 18th and 19th centuries. It is in the 20th century, however, that welfare economics became a sub-discipline of economics that communicates with political science and interacts with modern philosophical theories.

During the first four weeks the lecturer presents a theoretical scheme of studying various welfare theories such as utilitarianism, paretianism, �new� welfare economics, Arrow�s impossibility theorem and the escape routes sought after in order to overcome the alleged impasse this theorem created. This leads naturally to the distinction between �welfaristic� theories about equality and to �non welfaristic� ones such as Rawls�s theory of justice, Sen�s �capabilities� approach, the revival of Marx�s vision of the socialist society and Nozick�s neo-liberal theory of the �minimal� state.

In the remaining weeks every student presents a written assignment on a topic based on selected bibliography. Each presentation is followed by extensive class discussion.

PREREQUISITES: None. It is however strongly advisable that students have taken and passed EC-400.

ASSESSMENT: Student participation in class discussion, paper presentation, and the final version of the written assignment constitute the three elements of the evaluation.

Crime and Punishment in Medieval and early Modern Europe

Code no. Pr/S-041

G. Plakotos

COURSE DESCRIPTION: the transition from the medieval to the early modern period marks the increasing institutionalization of violence and administration of justice with the centralization of power, the emergence of new judicial bodies and the state’s monopoly to violence. This course examines the cultural, social and political justification of punishment, the criminalization of certain acts and forms of behaviour that hitherto did not fall under the jurisdiction of criminal justice, the formation of criminal discourses and practices and the representation of law and crime.

AIMS OF THE COURSE: - historicization of punishment and crime.

- students should demonstrate their skills in conducting bibliographical research, assessing historical information and writing a piece of assessed work.

- familiarity with historiography.

- the study of a specific theme in depth through which a deeper understanding of medieval early modern European society can be gained.

- students will be introduced to relevant primary sources.

TEACHING METHODS: short lectures, students’ presentations, discussion.

PREREQUISITES: None. However, completion of the “Tolerance, Persecution and Otherness in Medieval and Early Modern Europe” course is advantageous and it is recommended.

       Autobiography

       Pr/S-042

       H. Exertzoglou                     

      �Hospitality� and Cultural Differentiation    

       Pr/S-043

       E. Papataxiarchis                  

      Memory, History, Representation in Europe of the 2nd World War

      Pr/S-044

      P. Hantzaroula