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SUMMARY:Aesthetics of Crisis: Political Street Art and Graffiti in Athens\, 2013-2023
DESCRIPTION:Aesthetics of Crisis: Political Street Art and Graffiti in Athens\, 2013-2023 \nLecture by Julia Tulke\, Assistant Professor\, Emory University \nSaturday\, October 14\, 2023\n3:00 p.m.\n314 Royce Hall\nReception to follow \nThis talk recapitulates the first ten years of Aesthetics of Crisis\, a longitudinal research project that has documented and examined political street art and graffiti in Athens since 2013\, generating an archive of nearly 7000 photographs. Initially probing the walls of the city as an artifact of and site of performative response to the Greek debt crisis\, the project has since adopted the notion of political street art as a “barometer” and method capable of rendering visible shifting currents of crisis and contestation. Over the course of a decade\, the project has traced and contextualized street-level responses to the 2015 austerity referendum\, the growing visibility of feminist and queer protest and expression since the mid-2010s\, the emergence anti-Airbnb and anti-gentrification graffiti since 2019\, reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and first lockdowns of 2020 and\, most recently\, the turn to graffiti removal as an aspirational performance of post-crisis. By weaving together ethnographic and documentary sensibilities attuned to the complex material and affective realities of everyday life\, Aesthetics of Crisis offers a polyphonic counterpoint to the narrow and often fetishizing representation of the “crisis city” Athens through uncritical celebrations of “crisis creativity” and the attendant assertion that “Athens is the new Berlin.” \nJulia Tulke is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University. She earned her Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Located at the intersections of urban studies\, visual culture\, and anthropology\, Tulke’s research centers on the visual and spatial politics of crisis\, with a particular focus on the material and symbolic terrain of the “crisis city\,” for which Athens has served as her central case study. Her work in and on the city through the past decade includes research and writing on political street art and graffiti\, artist-run spaces\, queer and feminist protest\, and the poetics of ruination. This work has appeared in the journals City: analysis of urban trends\, culture\, theory\, policy\, action and Forum Kritische Archäologie\, as well as the edited volumes The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication and Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity\, among other places. Julia’s longitudinal research project Aesthetics of Crisis won the 2022 Prosser Award for Visual Methodologies from the International Visual Sociology Association. https://juliatulke.com/ \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nIn case you missed the lecture\, the recording is available below:\n \nGefyra (Bridge) is a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Gefyra’s mission is to connect students\, faculty\, and communities along the West Coast of North America with Greek scholars\, artists\, and other creators\, so that they can together explore expansive and imaginative approaches to Greek culture and knowledge production. The program additionally supports academic conferences and cultural projects that bridge the West Coast and Greece. \nParking Information: \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 302 Charles E Young Dr N\, Westwood\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Parking Structure 5  is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave. (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \n\n\n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Royce Hall\,” then “Julia Tulke Lecture” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\n\n\n\n\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 5\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).\n\n\n\n\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\n\n\n\n\nAccessible parking: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/aestheticsofcrisis/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Gefyra,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Envisioning the Greek Landscape: From Thera to Climate Change Conference
DESCRIPTION:Envisioning the Greek Landscape: From Thera to Climate Change Conference \nOrganized by Professor Katerina Lagos\, California State University\, Sacramento and Professor James Horncastle\, Simon Fraser University \nOctober 19\, 2023 – October 21\, 2023\nAthens\, Greece\nKostis Palamas building (University of Athens)\, and Cotsen Hall (Gennadius Library) \nSince ancient times\, people residing in the Mediterranean have encountered and confronted climatic challenges\, including volcanic eruptions\, tsunamis\, fires\, and drought. Over the millennia\, the Greek people have dealt with the health\, demographic\, and economic consequences of environmental change\, offering a variety of solutions. \nToday\, governments around the world are developing new technologies and policies to mitigate the environmental impact of contemporary society. Drawing lessons from the long Greek experience\, this conference will explore the following: \n\nClimate challenges and resilience: fires\, drought\, poor agricultural production\, and how people faced these challenges since antiquity\nStewards or exploiters of the land: in what way has the environment been perceived by various societies\, institutions\, and rulers.\nLand use and external influences: modernized technology versus traditional forms of domestic usage.\n\nThe Envisioning the Greek Landscape conference is breaking new ground by exploring the Greek environment through an interdisciplinary and diachronic lens. Academics from different scholarly disciplines and historical periods will address the themes outlined above\, examining how the peoples inhabiting Greece\, broadly conceived\, have responded to these issues. Additionally\, the conference will conclude with a policy roundtable so that both academics and policymakers can discuss some of the important issues raised in the scholarly panels. In this manner\, the scholars will be extending their influence beyond academic circles. The conference organizers strongly believe that understanding past environmental challenges and experiences can influence or shape contemporary policymaking. Often\, earlier historical solutions to environmental challenges can inspire for more ecologically friendly solutions in the present. \nThe panels will examine topics such as disease\, drought\, forest fires\, earthquakes\, and balancing human existence to the surrounding environment. The panels will begin with the ancient period\, and then progress to Byzantium\, the Ottoman era\, the modern Greek state\, and then conclude with recent developments. Additionally\, institutions such the Orthodox Church\, political and economic elites\, both domestic and foreign\, will be analyzed vis-à-vis their perceived role toward the environment. \nFinally\, one of the fundamental goals of the conference is to stimulate a new exchange of ideas regarding the Greek environment. With that in mind\, the organizers of the conference intend to publish a selection of the presentation papers as an edited volume. This will disseminate the ideas of the conference to a wider audience – both popular and academic – and help foster greater interest in the environment: past\, present\, and future. \nAthens Environment Conference Program \n This event is open to the public to learn more\, click here: www.hellenicoutreach.org \nWatch the policy panel livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/sINBNuwBNcg?si=utBql4HjZ2OlJ9yb \nSpeakers:  \n\nIosif Botetzagias (University of the Aegean)\nJohn Chryssavgis (Ecumenical Patriarchate)\nJim Crow (University of Edinburgh\, UK)\nAndreas Doulfis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)\nÖnder Eren Akgül (Kadir Has University\, Turkey)\nKaterina Gardikas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)\nSharon Gerstel (UCLA\, USA)\nCharis Gerosideris (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University\, Saudi Arabia)\nAthanassios Grammenos (University of Piraeus)\nChris Gratien (University of Virginia\, USA)\nJames Horncastle (Simon Fraser University\, Canada)\nStefania Kalogeraki (University of Crete)\nAndreas Kakridis (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences\, Athens)\nStefania Kalogeraki (University of Crete)\nAnastasia Karakasidou (Wellesley University\, USA)\nThanasis Kizos (University of the Aegean)\nStathis Klonaris (Agricultural University of Athens)\nMaria Kousis (University of Crete)\nNikos Lazaridis (Sacramento State University\, USA)\nKaterina Lagos (Sacramento State University\, USA)\nGeorgios Liakopoulos (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology\, Germany)\nAngelos Loukakis (National Centre of Social Research\, Athens)\nFaidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou (University of Crete)\nAndreas Papandreou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)\nMaria Paschou (University of Crete)\nSocrates Petmezas (University of Crete)\nRuben Post (University of St. Andrews\, UK)\nNiki Tsironi (National Hellenic Research Foundation\, Athens)\nNikos Tsivikis (Institute of Mediterranean Studies\, Crete)\nGeorge L. Vlachos (EIE\, National Institute of Research\, Athens)\nCristiano Vignola (Sapienza University\, Italy)\nJustine Walter (International University of Applied Sciences\, Germany)\nSam White (University of Helsinki\, Finland)\nBonna Westcoat (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)\n\nThis event is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/environmentconference/
LOCATION:University of Athens
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Modern Greece,Symposium
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