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EFA- 10/04/2025- #SemMod Associational life as public sociality

10/04/2025- 18.00 EEST

What is a Voluntary Association? Rethinking Associational Life from Southeastern Europe: Concepts, Archives and Perspectives
Seminar #2

Associational life as public sociality: Α research project, a database, a case study

Efi Avdela University of Crete
Despo Kritsotaki Academy of Athens
Dimitra Lampropoulou University of Athens

In collaboration with the CETOBaC, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Modern Greek History Research Center of the Academy of Athens

https://www.efa.gr/events/semmod-10-4-25/

Programme 2025

Hybrid seminar

École française d’Athènes, Didotou 6

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This seminar engages with the concept of “public sociality”, which encompasses different forms of collective public action, both formal and informal. Based on the research conducted within the project “Forms of public sociality in 20th-century urban Greece: associations, networks of social intervention and collective subjectivities”, the seminar highlights the main theoretical and methodological aspects of “public sociality”, presents the associations’ database created within the aforementioned project, and delves into a more specific paradigm, the case of Greek mental health related associations from the 1950s to the 1980s. With this tripartite structure we intend to flesh out the notion of public sociality and discuss the concepts, sources and methodologies we can use to examine collective identities and action in the 20th century. Among the main themes of the seminar are the meanings of collective subjectivity as envisioned by the subjects themselves and the agents they interacted with; the conceptualisation and transformation of the boundaries between private and public and state and non-state; and the political dimensions of voluntary action.

Seminar – What is a Voluntary Association? Rethinking Associational Life from Southeastern Europe: Concepts, Archives and Perspectives Seminar #2 – 10/04/2025

 

What is a Voluntary Association? Rethinking Associational Life from Southeastern Europe: Concepts, Archives and Perspectives 

Seminar #2 – Associational life as public sociality: A research project, a database, a case study
This hybrid seminar explores the notion of “public sociality,” referring to diverse forms of collective public action—both formal and informal. Drawing from the research project Forms of public sociality in 20th-century urban Greece: associations, networks of social intervention and collective subjectivities, the session presents three core components: a theoretical and methodological reflection on the concept of public sociality; an overview of the associations’ database developed through the project; and an in-depth case study focusing on mental health-related associations in Greece from the 1950s to the 1980s.Themes addressed include the conceptualisation of collective subjectivity, the negotiation of public/private and state/non-state boundaries, and the political dimensions of voluntary action.

Speakers:
Efi Avdela (University of Crete)
Despo Kritsotaki (Academy of Athens)
Dimitra Lampropoulou (University of Athens)

In collaboration with:
CETOBaC, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and the Modern Greek History Research Center of the Academy of Athens

Schedule: 10 April 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: École française d’Athènes, Didotou 6, Athens (Hybrid – in-person and online)
Additional Information:
For more information: https://www.efa.gr/events/semmod-10-4-25/

Séminaire – Voluntary Associations and Social Movements in 20th-Century Yugoslavia

 

What is a Voluntary Association? Rethinking Associational Life from Southeastern Europe: Concepts, Archives and Perspectives
Seminar #1

jeudi 20 mars 2025    
18:00-EET
École française d’Athènes
Didotou 6, Athens, 10680

Beyond Dichotomies: Voluntary Associations and Social Movements in 20th-Century Yugoslavia

Fabio Giomi CNRS, CETOBaC
Melvin Bernard EHESS, CETOBaC
Jovana Papovic EHESS, CETOBaC
Ana Otasevic EHESS, CETOBaC
Lucie Raskin INALCO, CREE

In collaboration with the CETOBaC and the Modern Greek History Research Center of the Academy of Athens

#SemMod
Programme 2025

Abstract

This seminar aims to revisit the research conducted over the past ten years within the CETOBaC Balkans cluster on voluntary associations and social movements. Particular attention will be given to the seminar For a History of Social Movements in Southeastern Europe (19th-20th Century), led for four years at EHESS by Fabio Giomi and Nathalie Clayer, as well as to several publications involving members of the group: Fabio Giomi, Stefano Petrungaro (eds.), Voluntary Associations in Yugoslavia, 1918-1941, European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire, Special Issue, 26, 1, 2019; Fabio Giomi, Célia Keren, and Morgane Labbé (eds.), Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe: Productive Entanglements, Routledge, London, 2022; and Fabio Giomi, Lukas Posselt (eds.), Qu’est-ce qu’une association ? Pratiques volontaires, pratiques documentaires, 1870-1960, 20-21. Revue d’histoire, forthcoming. Building on these works, the seminar organizers will seek to demonstrate, through their respective case studies, how research on Southeastern Europe can contribute to destabilizing several dichotomies that continue to shape global historiography on voluntary associations—such as public-private, East-West, and liberal-illiberal divides.

About the seminar cycle

This seminar cycle aims to bring together a network of scholars at different career stages and institutional affiliations who share a common interest in two key aspects: first, the study of voluntary associations; and second, a regional focus on Southeastern Europe, with particular attention to Greece and the (post-)Yugoslav region in the 20th and 21st centuries. Despite Southeastern Europe’s reputation for being less inclined toward civic engagement, recent research—including our own—has highlighted the central role of voluntary associations (udruženje/удружење or društvo/друштво in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian and σύλλογοι or εθελοντικές οργανώσεις in Greek) in shaping social and political life since their emergence in the 19th century. Given the region’s profound socio-political transformations throughout the 20th century—ranging from imperial rule to nation-state formation, from liberal democracy to right-wing dictatorship and to “real socialism”—this project seeks to integrate Southeastern Europe into the global history of associations.
Over the course of three sessions, members of this research network will present recently published and ongoing research on the trajectories of volunteering and associational engagement. We will explore how individuals and groups navigated and shaped these networks over time, focussing on the lived experiences of association members and the interplay between personal agency, institutional structures, and broader social transformations. This seminar cycle aims to foster a dialogue on the key research questions driving participants’ work, the concepts they mobilize, and the sources available for studying associational life.

Séminaire de master et de recherche  CREE – HISTOIRE, POLITIQUE ET CULTURE EN EUROPE MÉDIANE

HISTOIRE, POLITIQUE ET CULTURE EN EUROPE MÉDIANE

INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris

Au 2e semestre : mardi 17h00-19h00salle 5.10

(avec possibilité de suivre en visioconférence)

Coordination : Étienne Boisserie et Andreas Guidi

Contacts : etienne.boisserie@inalco.fr ; andreas.guidi@inalco.fr

Thème de l’année 2024-2025 :

CHANGEMENTS DE RÉGIME

Ce séminaire collectif offre une perspective multidisciplinaire (histoire, histoire culturelle, sciences politiques, géographie, sociologie) sur un thème transrégional choisi pour l’année. Sans prérequis de langue, il est ouvert à tous. Il peut être choisi par les étudiants de master (UE2 ou UE4) ou de doctorat de l’INALCO, ainsi que par des étudiants d’autres établissements, dans le cadre de conventions avec l’INALCO, ou en mineure de master ou de doctorat, et permet de valider 4 ECTS par semestre.

1ère Séance

4 février

16h00-19h00, Salle R.J.24 – BULAC

 (65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013)

Borut Klabjan (Centre de la science et de la recherche, Koper, ERC Open Borders)

Who’s Next? Regime Changes in the Adriatic Twentieth Century 

Ivan Jeličić (Université de Rijeka)

The not so Incredible Story of Nono Jojo. What can Biographies tell us on State and Regime Changes in the Upper Adriatic?

Séances à venir

11 février

Béatrice von Hirschhausen (UMR Géographie-Cités, Paris et Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)

Rupture post-socialiste, régions historiques et régimes d’historicités en Europe médiane

18 février 

Anne Madelain (INALCO, CREE) et Daria Petushkova (INALCO, CREE / EHESS, CESSP)

Le champ éditorial à l’épreuve des changements de régimes post-1989. Les cas russe et post-yougoslave

4 mars

Stefano Petrungaro (Université Ca’ Foscari Venise)

Mass Graves and Exhumations in Eastern Europe

18 mars

Rok Stergar (Université de Ljubljana)

A Multinational or a ‘Multinationalizing’ State? The Habsburg Empire as an Incubator of Nations

25 mars 

Séance méthodologique – La rédaction du mémoire

1er avril

Séance méthodologique – Lire et écrire un compte rendu

8 avril

Ivana Spasić (Université de Belgrade)

Sociology in Serbia’s Postsocialist Transformation: An Agent of Change?

29 avril

Séance consacrée aux exposés des étudiant.e.s