Schedule

Welcoming Remarks

Massimo Ciavolella (Italian, UCLA) CMRS Director

Sharon E. J. Gerstel (Art History, UCLA), Conference Organizer

Evgenia Beniatoglou, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles

SESSION I - Chair: Sarah Morris (Classics, UCLA)

Yannis Hamilakis (Archaeology and Modern Greek, Brown University)
“The Village as Chronotope: Multi-temporality, Sensorial Experience, and the Longue Durée”

Lin Foxhall (Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester; Ancient History & Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool)
“The Village Beyond the Village: Communities in Rural Landscapes in Ancient Greek Countrysides”

Break

KEYNOTE LECTURE - Intro: Laurie Hart (Anthropology, UCLA)

Michael Herzfeld (Anthropology, Harvard University)
“Seeing Like a Village: The Persistence of Rurality and the Pursuit of Modernity in Greece”

Coffee

SESSION II - Chair: Sharon Gerstel (Art History, UCLA)

Fotini Kondyli (Art History, University of Virginia)
“Knowing One’s Landscape: Place, Movement and Local Identity in the Late Byzantine Village”

Athanasios K. Vionis (History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus)
“The Byzantine Village−Community in Greece and Cyprus: Form, Evolution, and Identity”

Break

SESSION III - Chair: Simos Zenios (Classics, UCLA)

Anastasia Karakasidou (Anthropology, Wellesley Cllege)
“Χωριο μου, χωριουδακι μου: Displaced Nostalgia in Contemporary Greece”

Konstantinos Kalantzis (Anthropology, University College London)
“Picturing the Imaginable: Photography, Displacement and Nostalgia in the Highland Cretan ‘Village’”

Lunch Break

SESSION IV - Chair: John Papadopoulos (Classics, UCLA)

Kostis Kourelis (Art & Art History, Franklin and Marshall College)
“Materialities that Bind: An Archaeology of Greek American Habitats”

Documentary Films

Introduced by Aristotle Katopodis (Artistic Director, Los Angeles Greek Film Festival)

“The Little Palace of Aoria”
Vassilis Panagiotakopoulos, Director and Producer

“Blessings and Vows”
Katerina Zacharia, Director and Producer (Classics and Archaeology, Loyola Marymount University)

Closing Remarks