2025-26

The image of the Turk in Modern Greek Fiction (19th-20th century)

The course will reflect upon gender as an analytical category in social anthropology. Gender identities reveal gender asymmetries and as such can be used as a means to explore the position of men and women in any given social formation. The first lectures deal with women’s position in pre-modern and modern societies. Thus we will discuss women’s rights and the vote in western cultures, although we will also examine “exotic” and “remote” societies that present interesting examples of matrilineality and matrilocality.

During the first part of the course, lasting three weeks, the students are introduced, first, to the scholars and their work who have dealt with the history of modern Hellenism from the beginning of the historiography of the Greek nation to the present, second, to the most important scholarly institutions in which the subject is studied and promoted, third, to the academic journals, conferences and symposia that have dealt with the study of the history of modern Hellenism and, fourth, to the types of direct and indirect sources employed by scholars who deal with the subject.

Σκοπός του μαθήματος είναι η εξοικείωση των φοιτητών και των φοιτητριώνμε τις σύγχρονες μεθοδολογικές προσεγγίσεις της λαογραφίας στον τρόπο έρευνας και μελέτης του ενδύματος, παραδοσιακού και σύγχρονου. Αναλύονται οι λόγοι για τους οποίους το παραδοσιακό ένδυμα απασχόλησε αρχικά τους εκπροσώπους της εξωακαδημαϊκής λαογραφίας. Αναδεικνύεται η συμβολή της «Σχολής των Ιωαννίνων» στην αναγνώριση του ενδύματος ως αυτόνομου πεδίου επιστημονικής μελέτης στην Ελλάδα.

: Social psychology forms perhaps the most basic branch of psychology. It cannot be taught in just one semester and so all university departments in Greece where the subject is taught it is taught over at least two semesters. The course covers half of the basic subject matter of social psychology. It covers the topics concerning explanations for human behavior at an interpersonal and intergroup level.