Biennial Conference EASA 2008 Experiencing diversity and mutuality
East looks West and West looks East - mutual constructions of
anthropology
095 Workshop, August 28-29th, 2008 (Thursday and Friday)
Location: R2; starts 28th August, 2008 at 14:00.
Convenors: Michael Stewart, Frances Pine
Our panel examines the way eastern European anthropologists have used their local histories,
including their experience of 'socialism' to inform their work outside their own region and the
influences western anthropologists have brought to bear on their work in eastern Europe. We
shopfront the work of the youngest generation of doctoral students working in these fields ringing contrasts and parallels from more senior scholars invited as discussants. The
organisers of this panel coordinate a Marie Curie network promoting anthropological research
in the region but have drawn in a broader set of researchers.
28th August, 2008
Session 1. At home and abroad
Discussant: Vintila Mihailescu
Alina-Ioana Branda - On " At Home Anthropology". "Indigenous" Perspectives.
Aliki Angelidou - Pathways of anthropology in South Eastern Europe: an ethnographic
approach of the discipline and its disciples in Bulgaria and Greece.
Maja Veselic - East looks East: Slovenian and Chinese (Post)Socialisms Compared.
Session 2. Circulating practices
Discussant: Haldes Haukanes
Larissa Vetters - Making sense of ideologies and practices of local democracy circulating
between East and West: Fieldwork in a local community office in BosniaHerzegovina.
Joanna Zalewska - Third Age as an ideology and as an analytical category. How the concept
can be applicable in Polish anthropology?
Lydie Fialova - What We Missed - Institutions and Community Care in Psychiatry (Czech
Republic)
Biennial Conference EASA 2008 Experiencing diversity and mutuality
29th August, 2008
Session 3. Circulating and migrating persons
Discussants: Victoria Goddard, Susana Narodski
Olena Fedyuk - Death in the life of Ukrainian migrants to Italy.
Michal Sipos - Multiple Temporalities of Chechen Refugees in Lublin (Eastern Poland).
Ida Harboe Knudsen - Effects of Legal Changes in Lithuanian Countryside after the Entrance
to the EU.
Yulia Guzhvenko - Post-colonial processes in Kazakhstan and India: comparative
characteristic of Russian and British colonial policy.
Session 4. General reflections and discussion
Open session. Discussants: Michał Buchowski, Juraj Buzalka, Vintila Mihailescu, Haldes
Haukanes, Victoria Goddard, Susana Narodski.