Invited Lectures
LECTURES / TALKS / PRESENTATIONS
Multisensory turn or about inheriting the uninheritable
Inaugural Lecture. UNA EUROPA – Alliance of 11 European Universities – Graduate School Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
December 3, 2025
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Burning Memory: On Greek Death, Politics and the Everyday
Lecture. University of Nottingham, UK, Department of Classics and Archaeology. Webinars 2025
April 3, 2025
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Tales of the Field
Seminar. University KU LEUVEN, Belgium, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. December 5, 2023
A Journey Through Border Spaces of the Everyday
Lecture. University of California (Santa Cruz), Center for Cultural Studies, Co-sponsor Department of Anthropology.
April 5, 2023
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Anthropology From the Borders of the Inside
2022 Inaugural Anthropology Lecture. 2022 Inaugural Academic Lecture
University KU LEUVEN, Belgium
September 27, 2022
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POSTER
Our Historical and Cultural Others
Opening Remarks at the International Forum of Spartan Studies: Ancient Sparta in the 21st Century. University of Nottingham & Municipality of Sparta, Sparta, June 8–11, 2023
Language and Body: The Cultural Heritage of the Women of Mani. Public Talk for the General Public. Organized by: Association of Maniots Everywhere / Cultural Association of Mani / Cultural Development Association of Verga / Cultural Association of Mikri Mantineia. June 20, 2022, Cultural Centre of Kalamata.
Anthropological Data in the Formation of Language and Culture in Mani
Talk. University of Athens (NKUA), Medical School / Homoioi of Mani / Municipality of Eastern Mani. October 2, 2021.
Conference Programme
Ethnographic Field and Anthropological Writing–Yesterday and Today
Lecture. University of Macedonia, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies & Laboratory for the Study of Culture, Borders and Gender. April 2, 2021 Image 1
On Sensory Memory
Open Lecture and Seminar.
University of California (Santa Cruz), The Humanities Institute. January 28–29, 2021 Image 1 – Image 2 – Image 3
Wounded Cities: Physical Disaster and a Public Ethnography of the Uninheritable
Lecture. GLASGOW University, Anthropology Network Webinars, May 22, 2020
Theatrocracy and Memory in Austerity Times
Lecture. New York University-Performance Studies, Leading Scholars Lecture Series 2017, December 5, 2017
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Discussant-Evaluator in the two-part session Categories of Remembrance and Forgetting: Itineraries and Sanctuaries (part II). Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 116th Annual Meetings,
November 29–December 3, 2017, Washington DC.
Sensory Antidotes in the Era of Crisis: The Symposium Taste and Memory.
Presentation στη συνεδρία Categories of Remembrance and Forgetting: Itineraries and Sanctuaries (part II). Οργάνωση: Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 116th Annual Meetings,
29/10- 3/11, 2017, Washington DC.
Dialoguing with the Other: Performing Ethnography in Greece
Lecture, “Honoured Professor 2015” – Visual Anthropology Summer School on “Visual Ethnography of the Urban Landscape”, Athens, July 4–24, 2015. Leiden University, Ethnographic Film Festival (Ethnofest), and the Dutch Institute at Athens.
Democratic Death: Transcending the Cartographic Order of the City.
Presentation at the Workshop “Democracy and the City”. European Association of Teachers (Association Européenne des Enseignants-AEDE). Panteion University, Department of International Relations & European Educational Programmes, April 24, 2015.
Archaeology of Feeling: Death and the Materiality of Memory
Open Lecture at the Dutch Institute–Netherlands Institute at Athens, March 30, 2015. Athens, Archaeological
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Discussant-Evaluator of the 11-member session “The Evidence of Death: Necrographic Accounts on Death Perspectives”.
Annual Conference, Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA), 2014: Anthropology and Enlightenment. Edinburgh, England, June 19–22, 2014.
The Silent Detournement: ‘Flexible Graves’ in the City of the Living.
Presentation at the Session “The Evidence of Death: Necrographic Accounts on Death Perspectives.” Organized by: A. Panagiotopoulos & Diana Espirito Santo (Universitade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal). Annual Conference, Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA), 2014: Anthropology and Enlightenment. Edinburgh, England, June 19–22, 2014.
Everyday Culture–Taste and Memory
Keynote Addresses. National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 2013.
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Discussant-Evaluator of the session “Forging Intersubjectivities”,
Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings, Montreal, Canada, November 16, 2011
Greek Pains: Subjectivity, Material Experience and Communication in Modernity
Presentation. ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS CHAIR CONFERENCE: “Colonizing the Greek Mind? The Reception of Western
Psychotherapeutics in Greece.” DEREE – The American College of Greece, Athens, May 2011.
Eros and Thanatos in the Era of Gluttony
Inaugural Public Lecture.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (A. Sawer seminar on Embodied Values: Bringing the Senses Back to the Environment),
University of Edinburgh, November 12, 2010
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Book Presentation,
The History of the Heart by Professor Ole Martin Hoystad, under the auspices of the Norwegian Embassy and the Norwegian Institute, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, November 10, 2010.
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Cultural Memory in Diaspora
Lecture. Organizers: The Program in Modern Greek Studies and The Department of Anthropology,
University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, April 8, 2010.
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Border Echoes
Presentation – 10th Annual Conference, “Soundscapes of the Spirit: Cosmology and Sound Art from the Black to the Aral Seas”. Organizers: Russian, East European and Eurasian Center (REEEC) and School of Music, University of Illinois and Department of Music, University of Minnesota. April 8–10, 2010.
Poetry, Sound and Body: The Dialogic Performance of Mani – Yesterday and Today
Open Lecture. Kardamyli High School. May 6, 2010.
Environment and History, Place and Memory
Open Lecture. People’s University of Feres. Feres, February 8, 2009.
The Role of the Greek Diaspora in the Contemporary World
Open Lecture. PanMacedonian Studies Center. New York, USA, December 11, 2009.
Feeling, Materiality and the Environment
Lecture. Organizers: Department of Anthropology and Department of Environmental Studies, Adelphi University, New York, USA, December 7, 2009.
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Discussant-Evaluator of the session Reimagining Bodies and Embodying Value in a Neoliberal Age.
Organizers: George Paul Mieu & Fred Ketchum (University of Chicago). Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, USA, December 5, 2009.
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The Body in the Age of Diaspora
Presentation. XIV International Meeting of Ancient Drama “Stranger – Metic”. European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Ministry of Culture. Delphi: July 3–11, 2009.
Moderator of Roundtable Discussion on the topic Reculturalizing Europe: From Cultural Managements to Performing Ethnography. Organized by: Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, USA, December 5, 2009.
The Poetics of Dialogue: Mani’s Contribution to Contemporary Europe
Lecture within the framework of the lecture series European and Greek Culture, Open People’s University of the Municipality of Chania (ALP).
Chania, May 20, 2009.
Chair of the session “Philosophy and Death”,
Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), University of Nottingham, England, and the Ministry of Culture. Sparta, April 23–25, 2009.
Memory and Material Culture—The Experience of Messenia
Invited Talk.
Scientific Workshop: 40 Years Since the Earthquakes in Kalamata. 7th Experimental Junior High School of Kalamata, March 6, 2026
Chair of the session “Byzantine Eschatology”,
Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), University of Nottingham, England, and the Ministry of Culture. Sparta, April 23–25, 2009.
Antiphony, Ritual and the Construction of Truth
Presentation at the International Conference Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese, Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, England, and the Ministry of Culture. Sparta, April 23–25, 2009.
The Anthropological Approach to the Mani Laments
Talk at the Theatre Studies Department of Kardamyli High School, within the framework of the Cultural Programme The Mani Laments. Kardamyli, April 10, 2009.
Book Presentation at an open event for the book Facing the Venetian Castle by Sokratis Kougeas.
DIPETHE Kalamata, November 30, 2008, Panhellenic Association of Women of Mani.
The Ethics of Antiphony: Women’s Discourse in Ancient and Contemporary Greece
Presentation at the XIII International Meeting of Ancient Drama: Women in Ancient Drama. European Cultural Centre of Delphi – Ministry of Culture. Delphi, July 2007.
The Antiphony of the Senses
Keynote Address at the Symposium/Seminar Media Ethnography: Transcultural Research Practice. Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology. Dublin, March 29–31, 2007.
Phoning Divination: Evil Eye, Divination and the Networked Body
Presentation at the international meeting Media Technologies, Sensory Experience, and the Making of Religious Subjects.
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, March 30–April 1, 2006.
Antiphony, Ritual and the Construction of Truth
Talk at the International Symposium: Theatre and Ritual, September 10–12, 2005. Centre for Classical Drama, Panteion University and the Municipality of Thebes.
Medicine, Art and the Body
Talk at the Benaki Museum, July 19, 2005. Philosophical Café on the theme Culture in Greece Today. Benaki Museum & Centre for Cultural Studies, May–December 2005.
Book Presentation at an open event for the book The Woman-Lady of Messenian Mani by Sokratis Kougeas.
Kalamata, October 24, 2004, Panhellenic Association of Women of Mani.
Archaeology of Feeling: The Materiality of Memory
Keynote Address at the symposium Embodied Histories: Bodies, Senses, Memories in Archaeology and Anthropology. School of Archaeology, University of Southampton, England (Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK), January 24–25, 2003.
The Senses and Media as Material Culture – Fieldwork Approaches
Lecture Series as Le Boff Fellow 2002, at the School of Culture and Communication, New York University, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University, November 21, 2002.
Eros and Death
Keynote Address. Greek-Scandinavian Conference “Sexualities and Society”, under the auspices of: Academy of Athens, University of Athens and Stockholm University. Athens: October 4–6, 2001.
The Battle of Dyros, the Battle of the Maniot Woman
Delivery of the ceremonial address for the national anniversary of the Battle of Dyros (1826). Organized by: Prefectural Administration of Laconia and the Municipality of Oitylo, Mani. Dyros, June 25, 2000.
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The Poetry of Dialogue: Contributions of Mani to Contemporary Europe
Public Talk. Organized by: GNTO Laconia, Prefectural Administration of Laconia and the Melina Mercouri Foundation. Within the framework of the European Day of Culture 2000: “Freedom of Expression and Dialogue.” Gytheio, May 2000.
Olive: A Historical and Cultural Harvest – Research on the Olive Mills of Messenia
Talk at the interdisciplinary conference “The Olive and Olive Oil: From Antiquity to the Present Day.” October 1–2, 1999, Athens Academy Hall. Organizers: Academy of Athens / Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Musée de l’Olivier / Nyons, France, Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados / Barcelona, Spain, and the Greek Olive Museum, Crete.
The Age of the Ladies
Talk at the symposium – public event “In the Footsteps of a Lady – Maria Basakari of Kalamata.” February 28, 1999. Research, text for the accompanying documentary, organization: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Within the framework of the cultural programme “Excavating Time”. Discourse Sector, DEPAK.
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March 23, 1821 and European Politics,
Talk at the symposium of the same name, Kalamata, March 1998. Within the framework of the cultural programme “Excavating Time”. Discourse Sector, DEPAK.
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Book Presentation at a public event for the book Shadows in the Peristyle by Giorgos Papachristou,
Kalamata, April 24, 1998.
Philosophical-Poetic Journeys in Space and Time
Talk at the multimedia conference of the same name, Kalamata, February 17–19, 1997. Within the framework of the cultural programme “Excavating Time”.
Discourse Sector, DEPAK & Prefectural Administration of Messenia.
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History and Material Culture in Messenia
Talk at the multimedia conference of the same name, Kalamata, March 14–26, 1997. Within the framework of the cultural programme “Excavating Time”. Discourse Sector, DEPAK.
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Response
Metrical Greeting at the “1st Symposium, Mani Through the Ages”, Municipality of Areopoli & University of Athens – Anthropological Museum of the Medical School. Areopoli, 1997.
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Earthquake: Folk Memory and the Poetics of Fragments
Talk at the conference “The City Remembers: Kalamata 10 Years Later – The Earthquakes of ’86”. Kalamata, November 1996. Within the framework of the cultural programme “Excavating Time”. Discourse Sector, DEPAK.
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Visible Risk: HIV/AIDS and the Cultural Dimension of the Body
Talk at the “Educational Seminar on AIDS”, National School of Public Health, January 1996.
Politicizing Experience: Critical Reflections on Subjectivity and Locality
Talk – Commentary on the papers presented in the session “Politicizing Experience: Critical Reflections on Bodies and Histories, Subjectivity and Locality”. Under the auspices of the American Ethnological Society and the Society for Medical Anthropology, at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 1995.
Women and the Pathogenic on the Border
Presentation at the University of Zagreb, international conference “Gendered Violence: Physical Aggression, Social Domination, Bodily Processes and Cultural Reconstruction.” Organized by: The Institute for Applied Social Research, University of Zagreb, and Center for Slavic and East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Zagreb, 1995.
AIDS & Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Prevention in Border Areas – The Case of Greece
Talk – participation as representative of the Greek Ministry of Health, “Workshop on HIV/AIDS/STD Prevention in Border Areas” – with representatives from Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Russia, Albania, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. International Meeting on AIDS Prevention, World Health Organization (WHO), Athens: October 1994.
Greek-Albanian Border – Conflict and Cultures
Presentation in the session “Receptions of Violence: Reactive After-Texts, After-Images and the Post-Ethnographic Site”. Co-organizer: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Ethnological Society and Society for Humanistic Anthropology, at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, 1994.
The Senses in Other Modernities
Talk in the session “The Anthropology of the Senses and European Modernity”. Organizer and Chair: C. Nadia Seremetakis, Society for the Anthropology of Europe, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1991.
Feminism and Women’s Identities – Case Study: Greece
Talk in the session of the same name. Chair: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Fourth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Hunter College, New York, 1990.
Religious and Medical Colonization of Death in Southern Greece
Presentation in the session “Theorizing Europe: Anthropological Modernities.” Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, 1989.
Greek and Greek-American Women in Voice and Text
Keynote Address at the conference of the same name. New York University, Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies, April 1989.
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Women, Divination and the Cultural Construction of Death in the S. Peloponnese
Presentation in the session “Women in the Creation and Transmission of Culture”. Chair: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Third International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, University of Dublin, Ireland, 1987.
Cross – Cultural Problems in a Literacy – ESL Curriculum
Lecture. Department of Linguistics, Queens College, City University of New York, May 10, 1983.
