Online lecture by Tina Stavrinaki, Lecturer at the University of Cyprus Law School and Member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Title: ‘Racial profiling as a form of institutionalised racism’. Anthropological Research Laboratory (ARL), Panteion University, 6 October 2021.

Public lecture-discussion by Andrew Irving, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology & Department of Anthropology, University of Manchester and Christopher Wright, Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths University. Title: ‘Beyond Text?’ Anthropological Research Laboratory (ARL), Panteion University, 8 May 2019.

Public lecture by Dimitris Vardoulakis, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney. Title: ‘Neo-Epicureanism or Materialism Today’. Panteion University, 4 June 2018.

Public lecture-seminar by Janet Carsten, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK and Irini Papadakis, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Title: ‘A global anthropology of transforming marriage’. Panteion University, 15 May 2018.

Public lecture by Jenny Butler, Professor of Religious Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Title: ‘Contemporary paganism in Ireland’. (In the framework of the Erasmus+/International Mobility Programme). Panteion University, April 2018.

Public lecture by John Holloway, Professor of Sociology at the Benemerita University, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico. Title: ‘Requiem for a dream: Hope and despair today’. (In the framework of the Erasmus+/International Mobility Programme). Panteion University, 25 April 2018.

Public lecture by Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology at University College London. Title: ‘Event and Code: Political Photography after the End of Photography’. Organised in collaboration with the Anthropological Research Laboratory (ARL). Panteion University, 21 December 2017.

Public lecture by Lidia Guzy, Professor of Religious Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Title: ‘Indigenous and marginalised worldviews and the importance to do research in this domain’. (In the framework of the Erasmus+/International Mobility Programme). Panteion University, 23 November 2017.

Public lecture by Dame Marylin Strathern, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Title: ‘World beginnings: A perspective from a forgotten place’. Panteion University, 25 October 2017.

Public lecture by Dimitris Vardoulakis, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney and Director of the Department of Philosophy. Title: ‘Agonistic democracy or sovereignty: The views of Nicole Loraux and Carl Schmitt’. Panteion University, 6 June 2017.

Public lecture by Dorothea Olkowski, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA. Title: ‘Serious Fun? Deleuze’s Treatise on Nomadology’. Panteion University, 30 May 2017.

Public lecture by Naran Bilik, Professor of Social Anthropology at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Title: ‘Unblocking the Blockage between Earth and Heaven: Shamanism as Cultural Intimacy in China". (In the framework of the Erasmus+/International Mobility Programme). Panteion University, 27 April 2017.

Public lecture: “They take our land, they take our lives: The Struggle of Indigenous People in the Brazilian Amazon”, speaker Ladio Veron, representative of the Assembly of Guarani-Kaiowá People. Organized by the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, co-ordinator Diana Riboli. Panteion University, March 29, 2017.

Public lecture by Meltem Ahiska, Professor of Sociology at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Title: ‘Monumentalisation and the “banal” chronotopes of nationalism in Turkey’. Panteion University, 22 March 2017.

Public lecture by Renée Hirschon, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean. Title: ‘Time and Modernity: the process of secularisation in contemporary Greece’. (In the framework of the Onassis Foreigners Fellowships Program). Panteion University, 2016.

Public lecture by Professor of Social Anthropology Naran Bilik, Professor of Social Anthropology Pan Tianshu and Dr. Meiyin Zhang, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Title: ‘The social sciences in China’. (In the framework of the Erasmus+/International Mobility Programme). Panteion University, 24 February 2016.

Public lecture by Amanda Third, Associate Professor at the University of Western Sydney and Research Program Leader at the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre. Title: ‘Abjecting whiteness: The 1960s protest “movement”, radical feminism, and the politics of genocide’ (Co-organised with the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Gender, Society, Politics. Panteion University, 9 June 2015.

Public lecture by Dimitris Vardoulakis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney. Title: ‘Sovereignty without Exception? Authority and Crisis’. (Co-organised with the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Western Australia). Panteion University, 24 May 2013.

Public lecture by Osman Mohamed Osman Ali, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. Title: ‘The emergence and development of social anthropology in Sudan’. Panteion University, 17 May 2013.

Public lecture by Allen Feldman, Professor of Anthropology at NYU Steinhardt University, USA. Title: ‘The disappearing enemy and archival war: Violence and terror as dead memory’. Panteion University, 17 March 2010.

Public lecture by Judith Butler, Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley, USA. Title: ‘From performativity to precarity’. (Co-organised with the Graduate Programme ‘Political Science and Sociology’ of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration - NKUA and the Gender Studies Laboratory of the Department of Social Policy at Panteion. Panteion University, 17 December 2009.

Public lecture by Adam Kuper, Professor of Social Anthropology at Brunel University, UK. Title: ‘Cooperation and competition: Gifts and markets’. Panteion University, 14 January 2009.

Public lecture by Adam Kuper, Professor of Social Anthropology at Brunel University, UK. Title: ‘Changing the subject - about cousin marriage in Victorian England, among other things’. Panteion University, 13 January 2009.

Public lecture by Douglas Johnson, Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK. Title: ‘Prospects of peace in the Southern Sudan’. Panteion University, 20 May 2009.

Public Lecture by Wendy James, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK. Title: ‘The ceremonial animal’. Panteion University, 27 May 2009.

Workshop/Master Class by David Massey: “Under the Radar: A Journey in the Politics of Visibility in the South Hebron Hills, Palestine”, organized by the Laboratory for Anthropological Research and the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Organiser: Eirini Avramopoulou.  Panteion University, December 3, 2019.

Workshop: “Critical Theory in Dark times and the challenge of social emancipation”, co-organized by the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and Benemerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. Panteion University, May 10, 2019.

International Workshop: “The Moral Dimensions of Economic Life: Cross-Regional Perspectives”, co-organised by the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (University of Oxford), the School of Politics and International Studies (University of Leeds, the Department of Social Anthropology (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences), and the Anthropology of Economy Network (European Association of Social Anthropologists. St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, March 22, 2019.

Workshop: “Shamanism and Eco-Cosmology. A Cross-Cultural Perspective”, co-organised by the Department of Social Anthropology and the Laboratory for Anthropological Research, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences; the Marginalised & Endangered Worldviews Study Centre, University of Cork (Ireland), the Department of Asian and North African Africa Studies, University Ca’ Foscari (Italy), Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe, University of Heidelberg, and ISARS (International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism). Panteion University, April 27-28, 2017.

International Workshop: “Learning from Documenta”, co-organised by the Department of Social Anthropology (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences), The Athens School of Fine Arts and Twixt Lab. Panteion University, June 2,  2016.

Workshop: “Crisis: An Anthropological Approach”, organized by the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Panteion University, May 18-21, 2011.

Roundtable and Screenings: “Contested Gentrification in Times of Change: From Social Economy to Aggressive Urban Development”, co-organised by Ethnofest and the Laboratory for Anthropological Research (Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences). Panteion University, December 9, 2019.

Roundtable: “The Politics of Art Making”, co-organised by the Laboratory for Anthropological Research (Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) and the Learning from Documenta Project. The Athens School of Fine Arts (Auditorium of the New Library), 256 Peiraios Str., March 9, 2017.

Roundtable: “The Politics of Learning”, co-organised by the Laboratory for Anthropological Research (Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) and the Learning from Documenta Project. Panteion University, February 16, 2017.

Roundtable: “The Politics of Curating”, co-organised by the Laboratory for Anthropological Research (Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) and the Learning from Documenta Project. Panteion University, January 12, 2017.

Roundtable: “The Politics of Culture: Greece-Germany”, co-organised by the Laboratory for Anthropological Research (Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) and the Learning from Documenta Project. Panteion University, December 22, 2016.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Antigones: Bodies of Resistance in the Contemporary World
PI: Elena Tzelepi (University of Thessaly)

Queer Politics / Public Memory
PIs: Athena Athanasiou (Panteion University) & Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford)