Slavic Studies Conference in Thessaloniki (Greece)

[Αλέκα Ιωαννίδου]

Dear all, please find below the program of an international slavic studies 
Conference which will take place end of this month in Thessaloniki, Greece 
(University of Macedonia)
Alexandra Ioannidou





University of macedonia

department for balkan, slavic and oriental studies

29/9-1/10/2006

First Interdisciplinary Slavic Studies Conference

Slavic Studies after the EU-Enlargement: Challenges and Prospects

conference Program





29/9/2006





10.00-10.30 a.m.:        Opening of the Conference

Greeting speeches



PANEL 1

“SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND PEOPLES IN THE EU”

Chair: Klaus STEINKE





10. 45              Lew ZYBATOW (Innsbruck): EUROComSlav: Slavic 
Intercomprehension.



11.05               Υannis KAKRIDIS (Bern): Linguistic Regionalization in 
the South Slavic Area: Parallels from Modern Greek.



11.30 - 12.00               Discussion

12.00-12.30                 Coffee Break



12.30               Dieter STERN (Berlin): What kind of Pidgin is Taimyr 
Pidgin Russian?



12.50               Biljana SIKIMIC (Belgrade): Rethinking “enclave”.



13.10               Vemund Aarbake (Thessaloniki), Myth and fantasy in the 
Greek discourse on the domestic Slav vernacular.







13.30 – 14.00                                      Discussion

14.30 – 16.00                                      Lunch







PANEL 2

HISTORICAL ISSUES

First Session, Chair: Klaus STEINKE



16.00               Ekaterina BOLTUNOVA (Moscow): Research on Russia: New 
Perspectives.



16.20               Eleni OIKONOMOU (Thessaloniki): Russian Orthodox Church: 
A post-cold War Paradigm.



16.40 -17.10    Discussion

17.10-18.00     Coffee Break



Second Session. “Perceptions of Slavs in Greece” Chair: Alexandra IOANNIDOU



18.00               Spyros MARKETOS (Thessaloniki): Greek Fascism: The Case 
of Sotirios Gotzamanis.



18.20               Tasos KOSTOPOULOS (Ioannina), Naming the Other: from 
'Greek Bulgarians' to 'Local Macedonians'.



18.40               Raymondos ALVANOS (Kastoria), Conflicting perceptions of 
the Slavic Dialects in Greek Macedonia in the Twentieth Century.





19.00-19.30                 Discussion

20.30                           Dinner





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PANEL 3

NEW SLAVIC MIGRATIONS

Chair: Eftyhia VOUTIRA





10.00               Krystyna ROMANISZYN (Warsaw) Europe and the European 
Union – the Representation of Polish and Czech citizens in the Light of 
In-Depth Interviews.



10.20               Natalya KOSMARSKAYA (Moscow): If not Diaspora, than 
what? Redefining Russian Speakers’ Status in the Post-Soviet States.



10.40-11.10                 Discussion

11.00-11.30                 Coffee-Break



11.30               Ulf BRUNNBAUER (Berlin): Transterritorial Societies: 
Modern Yugoslav Migrations (19th-20th centuries).





11.50               Kira KAURINKOSKI (Aix en Provence/Athens): Gendered 
Migration Patterns and Experiences of Ukrainian Immigrants in Greece



12.10-12.30                 Discussion

13.30                           Lunch





PANEL 4

LITERATURE AND ART (1)

Chair: Yannis KAKRIDIS





17.00               Sylvia SASSE (Berlin): Geopoetics. Andruchovyc, Sid, 
Karahasan





17.20               Mirjam GOLLER (Berlin): Last Exit Man? New 
Anthropological Aspects in Literary Interpretation.



17.40               Maria TSANTSANOGLOU (Thessaloniki): “Pravda” about Art 
and Art about “Pravda”.



18.00-18.30                 Discussion

18.30-19.00                 Coffee-Break



19.00                           Syrago TSIARA (Thessaloniki): Reconsidering 
Socialist Realism.



19.20                           Aleksandra OBUKHOVA (Moscow): How “NOMA” 
became “NOMA”: The Moscow School of Conceptualism, 1986-1990..



19.40-20.10                 Discussion

21.00                           Dinner







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PANEL 5

ART (2)

Chair: Maria Tsantsanoglou



10.00               Yota MINI (Rethymnon): “Chess-Fever” by Vsevolod 
Pudovkin.



10.20               Stavros ALIFRAGKIS (Cambridge): Constructing the Image 
of the Ideal Socialist City: Dziga Vertov and the Cinema of the Russian 
Avant-Garde

10.40               Katerina MAVROMICHALI (Thessaloniki): Art into 
Production: Role and Function of the Revolutionary Ceramics from the George 
Costakis Collection.



11.00-11.30     Discussion

11.30-12.00     Coffee-Break



12.00-14.30     ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: The Future of Slavic Studies in 
Europe



Introductory speeches to the discussion:

Klaus STEINKE (Erlangen): On the Importance of the Slavic Languages in 
Europε after 1989.

Alexandra IOANNIDOU (Thessaloniki): Slavic Studies and the “Idea of the 
University”.

Christian VOSS (Berlin): Slavic studies as methodological avant-garde: 
Research on linguistic hybridity.





15.00               Lunch

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