Deadline for abstract submissions: March 18th, 2018.

Culture, Borders, Gender LAB and ΜΑ Program in “History, Anthropology and Culture in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe” of the Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. In collaboration with the Teaching Anthropology (TA) – A Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the EASA Teaching Anthropology Network, and the Border Crossings Network

When we teach anthropology and ethnography in the countries of Eastern and SE Europe, we try to make our students familiar with the study of otherness and introduce them to alternative ways of understanding social phenomena. Yet, we deal with perceptions of cultural difference shaped by notions of cultural homogeneity.

At the same time, current political, social, cultural and economic phenomena affect and transform the lives of the people living in this part of the world. The necessity of dealing with these issues has intensified the demands for academic knowledge production, increasingly through joint and multi-disciplinary research.

If sociocultural anthropology, as well as ethnology and folklore, are to be seen as considerably useful tools for understanding the contemporary context, they not only have to adjust their research strategies and analytical concepts to the current sociopolitical conditions but also to reconsider the boundaries between science, society and the academia. This implies, among other issues, re-thinking and refining the practices of teaching and learning.

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