The Department of Social Anthropology welcomes all the Erasmus students of the Fall Semester and invites them to present themselves in the classes during the week 9th--13th October 2023. As compulsory attendance is required and the number of students in most classes is limited, no students will be accepted after October 16th.

 

 

Undergraduate Courses for International Students

 

A. Undergraduate courses offered in English by the Department of Social Anthropology

        Tutorials in English (open only to international students):

        Winter Semester

          file extension binCritical Discourse Analysis (520230), Prof. Salomi Boukala (Tuesday, 12:00-14:00, Room Γ6 New Building).

This course aims to familiarise students with the range of theories in Critical Discourse Studies by introducing them to fundamental concepts and approaches involved in the study of the links between language and society. It also intends to provide practical analytical skills and methodologies for analysing spoken, written and visual texts of different genres. In particular, this course will focus on different methods and issues in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Social Anthropology. CDA is broadly concerned with the way that language and other semiotic modalities reflect, legitimate and instantiate power and inequality in social relations. In this course, students are introduced to various methodological approaches to CDA which draw on and apply a range of theoretical frameworks including social anthropology, argumentation theory, cognitive linguistics, conversational analysis, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and ethnographic approaches. A variety of discourses articulated in talk, text and image and operating across a range of social and political fields of action are considered, including (social) media discourse, nationalist discourse, political discourse. Throughout the course, students will be introduced to and encouraged to engage with a number of theoretical and methodological debates currently ongoing in Critical Discourse Studies.


          file extension binIdentity, Alterity and Multiculturalism (520207), Prof. Andreas Notaras (Monday, 12:00-14:00, Room Γ6 New Building).

The course is divided into two, internally interrelated, sections. The first section focuses on a critical presentation and analysis of the concepts of 'community' and 'identity'. Community is being discussed both in its historical dimension and in comparison with the concept of "society," as well as in its modern, pluralist conceptualisations. In this first section we also examine 'identity' as a process of social construction and we discuss its inherent polarities, namely 'similarity and difference', 'collective and individual', ascription and self-ascription. Reference is also being made to the constitution of the 'subject' and its multiple facets (gender, ethnic, ideological, class, etc.). The second part of the course focuses on some major aspects of the modern globalization process (mass migration, permeability of national borders, increased role of transnational capital and organizations) and particularly on the proliferation of identities and the politics of identity and difference. We also examine what we could call the "paradox of multiculturalism" and the difficult balance between equality and difference, universalism and particularism, liberalism and communitarianism with some reference to approaches that attempt to creatively overcome these long standing binary oppositions.

 

          file extension binAnthropology of Dance (520242), Dr. Natalia Koutsougera (Thursday, 12:00-14:00, Room Γ6 New Building).

The course constitutes an overview of studies related to the dance phenomenon through the disciplines and realms of the anthropology of dance, dance ethnology and dance studies. It provides an introduction to the theoretical movements and researches which have diachronically and transculturally been implicated with dance and the structured systems of dance movement (ethnochorological and anthropological approaches, cultural studies, dance studies, dance theory). With a peripheral emphasis put on performance studies, it moves to the anthropological, post-colonial and feminist perspectives on dance elaborating dance ethnographic sites and accounts in Western and non-Western societies touching upon issues of localization, globalization and internationalization of dance. Most of all, it emphasizes anthropological perspectives on dance and its relationship with the notion of culture. Under this prism and through a deconstructive and antiessentialist lens, it explores dance genres from around the globe which resonate with art dance and theatrical-stage dance (e.g. contemporary dance, classical ballet, chorotheatrical performance) as well as different social dance scenes and performances (night club dancing, hip hop and street dance and competition ballroom dances such as voguing, waacking, salsa, flamenco, tango, even drag performance).

Secondly, the course reflects on different categories regarding the issue of dance such as “ethnic”, “urban”, “social”, “traditional”, “popular”, “global”, “street”, “art”, “cinematic”, “theater” dance. Some of the main axes revolve around issues of power through dance performance, gendered dimensions, qualities and performativities in dance (queerities, femininities and masculinities), dancing sexualities and intersectionalities. The course delves into issues of socio-cultural constructions, bodies, embodiments, aesthetics, affects and kinesthetics, as well as issues of political identities (ethnic, national, class-based, age-based), resistance, social change, therapy and agency through dance. What is more, it touches upon issues of commercialization of dance, public and private space. The course refers to methodological issues and self-reflexivity regarding dance research and ethnography as well as multimodal techniques in capturing dance cultures. Dance scholars and practitioners from Greece and abroad will be invited in the class. Finally, the course will be interlarded with dance documentaries, video dance and telematic dance projects and will include exercises of dance research encompassing fieldwork, essays and audiovisual works.

 

Spring Semester

  file extension binDigital Anthropology (520236), Prof. Petros Petridis

This course focuses on the anthropological and ethnographic study of digital cultures. Ιt aims to familiarize the students with a wide range of theories, methodologies, and social practices that emerge in the context of various technoscapes. Specifically, the course will explore analytical concepts including virtuality, digital embodiment, construction of communities and social networks, space and time, digital economies, digital labor, internet visual cultures, gamification, and algorithmic cultures. During the seminars, we will discuss ethnographies of digital cultures and will focus on methodological issues, as well as, on new forms of ethnographic representation. Furthermore, we will explore methodologies and theoretical approaches that emerge from the intersection of anthropology and other disciplines, such as philosophy, literary criticism, and new media theory.


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Environment - Infrastructure - Development: Anthropological Perspectives (520245), Prof. Elena Mamoulaki.

The course focuses on different aspects of the multi-level relationship between environment, its perception and management, infrastructures, in their material and symbolic dimension, and development in terms of its political and imaginative project. The aim of the courser is the cultivation of a critical view as well as research interest in these issues from an anthropological point of view.

Indicative topics:

  • Perception, interpretation and management of the environment
  • Climate change and ecological activism.
  • "Development" discourses and policies: (neo)colonialism and social inequalities
  • Infrastructure and/as care
  • Anthropology and the Anthropocene
  • Intersectionality and development.

 

file extension binAnthropologie et psychanalyse (520244), Dr. Katerina Melissinou.

Dans le cours, nous examinerons les champs de rencontre entre l'anthropologie et la théorie et la pratique psychanalytiques, à partir de l'histoire de la relation entre l'anthropologie notamment européene et la psychanalyse, ainsi que la mise en distance de longue date entre elles. A travers une lecture du texte freudien et de certaines de ses ramifications anthropologiques, nous étudierons l'articulation entre l'inconscient et la culture telle qu'exprimée spécifiquement dans Totem et tabou. Sur cette base, nous explorerons les relations entre les travaux de Lévi-Strauss sur l'alliance et les considérations de Freud sur « l'horreur de l'inceste ». Enfin, nous engagerons une analyse critique des travaux à la frontière entre l'anthropologie et la psychanalyse (Malinowski, Roheim, etc.), pour ré-aborder le concept anthropologique de « terrain » en l'examinant dans ses dimensions transférentielles. À travers des textes théoriques et des ethnographies, nous examinerons la centralité de l'expérience de recherche de terrain et comparerons les deux états, celui de l'analyste et celui de l'anthropologue, en fonction du type d'entreprise dans laquelle ils s'engagent. Explorer la nature de cette entreprise et les enjeux épistémologiques qu'elle soulève conduit à reconsidérer la contribution que la psychanalyse peut apporter à la compréhension de la recherche de terrain ainsi qu'à la compréhension anthropologique de la culture.

 

Each tutorial:

  • is based on individual or group tutoring by a staff member
  • has a maximum capacity of 8 students, with priority given to incoming anthropology students
  • requires compulsory attendance
  • has a final essay requirement or a written/oral exam
  • is worth 7.5 ECTS

 

B. Undergraduate courses offered in Greek by the Department of Social Anthropology

Greek-speaking international students are welcome to attend any compulsory and/or elective course offered by our Department.

Each course:

  • has 13 lectures
  • has a student evaluation method based on a final written/oral exam or an essay
  • is worth 5 or 6 ECTS for elective and compulsory courses, respectively, for undergraduate students.

The list of courses is available at:

http://anthropology.panteion.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=432&Itemid=884&lang=el

 

C. Courses offered in English and/or French by other Departments at Panteion

In addition, International Students may select courses in English and/or French offered by any other Department at Panteion University. (List of courses and info: https://erasmus.panteion.gr/index.php/courses-selection).

Postgraduate Courses for International Students 

 

A. Postgraduate courses offered in English by the Department of Social Anthropology


       Winter Semester


       file extension bin The Department of Social Anthropology jointly with the Department of Political Science and History offers, in English, the postgraduate course:

Global Transformations and the Balkans (18th-21st centuries): Historical and Anthropological Perspectives (11M256/52M029), A. Lyberatos, A. Hadjikyriacou, A. Angelidou, D. Kofti

The course aims to present and examine pivotal questions about past and present transformations in SEE from a history and anthropology perspective. Departing in the 18th century and reaching the early 21st century, we will discuss key aspects of the political, economic, social and cultural change in Balkan societies and approach critically the ways in which they have been conceptualized and theorized in the social sciences and the humanities. We will critically discuss concepts related to the ‘Balkans’, ‘backwardness’, ‘modernization’, 'transition', 'socialism' and 'post-socialism' and explore new research approaching the above-mentioned transformations in a non- essentialist, comparative and transnational fashion which seeks to promote the inscription of the region and its study into global frameworks and discussions.

The course:

  • requires compulsory attendance
  • has a final essay requirement
  • is worth 10 ECTS.

 

B. Postgraduate courses offered in Greek by the Department of Social Anthropology

Greek-speaking international students are welcome to attend any postgraduate elective course offered by our Department.

Each course:

  • has 13 lectures
  • requires an essay for student evaluation
  • is worth 10 ECTS.

 

C. Courses offered in English and/or French by other Departments at Panteion University

International Students may select courses in English and/or French offered by any other Department at Panteion University (List of courses and info: https://erasmus.panteion.gr/index.php/courses-selection).

 

D. Undergraduate courses offered by the Department of Social Anthropology (also open to interested postgraduate students)

All undergraduate compulsory and elective courses offered by the Department of Social Anthropology and referred to in the general section on undergraduate courses above, are available to International Postgraduate Students.

E. Field research

Postgraduate students are also welcome to undertake fieldwork and research activities, supervised by members of our staff. At the end of their fieldwork and before leaving Greece, postgraduate students must submit a final research report to their faculty supervisor at Panteion.

PhD Fieldwork and Research Activities for International Students

 

We do not offer any PhD level courses (although all undergraduate and postgraduate courses are also open to interested PhD students).

PhD students are welcome to undertake fieldwork and research activities, supervised by members of our staff. At the end of their fieldwork and before leaving Greece, PhD students must submit a final research report to their faculty supervisor at Panteion.

 

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