One-day Conferences

Online one-day conference: “Social bonds and political tensions on disability”, organised by the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Panteion University, April 15, 2021.	Website	Program
One-day conference: “Scenes of Reconciliation: Borders and the Language of Gender”, co-organized by the Laboratory for Anthropological Research (Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences), the Centre for Gender Studies (Department of Social Policy, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) and the Culture- Borders-Gender Lab (Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia). Panteion University, March 9, 2018.	Website	Program
One-day conference: “Uneasy Photography: The Politics of Images in a Time of Crisis”, organised by the Research Group Photodemos (University College of London) with the support of the Laboratory for Anthropological Research and the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Panteion University, December 20, 2017.	Poster	Program
One-day conference: “Social Anthropology and the Challenges of Contemporary World: Conference in Honour of Dimitra Gefou-Madianou”, organized by the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Panteion University, March 10, 2017.	Poster	Program

The Department’s objectives

Our aim is to offer students specialized knowledge and scientific methodologies for the study of contemporary social and cultural phenomena. The Department’s study programs – at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels – focus on the themes of kinship ideologies and technologies, contemporary nationalisms, migration and population movements, otherness and education, social suffering and biopolitics, religious rituals and religious movements, space and urban planning, labor and precarity, economy and culture, “commons” and alternative economy, material culture, the state and political institutions, citizenship, humanitarianism and civil society, gender and sexuality, arts, popular and visual culture, language and public discourse, technology and digital culture, the politics of health/illness and disability, social movements and rights.

Career prospects

The Department of Social Anthropology equips students with the knowledge and scientific/research skills required for systematic and comparative ethnographic analysis, a well-founded epistemological and socially sensitive approach and understanding of social, cultural, and political phenomena, innovative thinking and perspective, familiarity with new technologies and digital culture.