On July 21st, between 8.00 a.m.-13.40 p.m. EST/ 15.00 p.m. – 20.40 p.m. Greek time, you are invited to attend the Heritage Panels Event. During this event, panel speakers will participate in 5 virtual discussions, lasting for one hour each, one for each panel. The panelists will summarize the main points of their presentations, then engage with participants by replying to their questions, which can be submitted on chat. There will be a moderator facilitating and guiding the discussion. We would like to kindly ask those attending them to keep their cameras and microphones turned off to ensure the smooth running of the panels. However, they will be able to interact with the panelists by sending their questions through chat. 

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We ask that you watch the videos below BEFORE the panel discussions on July 21st. 

PANEL ONE: DIFFICULT HERITAGE

(21 July:  8.00 – 9.00 a.m. EST/ 15.00 – 16.00 p.m. Greece)

"Commemorations and Material Remains of 20th Century Political Exile in the Aegean Archipelago: A Heritage in the Making?"

• Katerina Anagnostaki, PhD candidate, University of Crete, Greece
• Elena Mamoulaki, Postdoc Researcher, University of Patras, Greece
• Nota Pantzou, Assistant Professor, University of Patras, Greece

"Heritage, Identity and Liminality: A Transition Phase in the Life of an Asylum Seeker at the Refugee Camp, based on an Interpreter’s Experience."

• Eugenia Mavrommati, M.A. in Folklore Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

"Signs of the Past, Means to the Future: The Heritagization of Ottoman-era constructions in Greece between Ideology and Financialization"

• Marilena Pateraki, PhD candidate in Geography and History at the University Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne and the University of Crete, Greece

"The Ritual and Symbols of the Early Engagement of Roma Children in the Argolid, Greece, as aspects of ‘difficult heritage'"

• Eleni Tsirikou, M.A. in Folklore Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

PANEL TWO: HERITAGE IN EDUCATION

(21 July: 9.15 – 10.15 a.m. EST/ 16.10 – 17.10 p.m. Greece)

"Researching and Managing Children’s Play Cultures as Forms of Local Cultural Heritage."

• Cleo Gougoulis, Assistant Professor of Folk and Popular Culture, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Patras, Greece

"Cultural heritage as a field of research in school activities: Design, implementation and evaluation of an educational program for the case of “Naxos Citrus” Liqueur as a cultural heritage element"

• Rea Kakampoura, Associate Professor of Folklore, University of Athens, Greece

• Maria Vamvakopoulou, M.A. in Folklore and Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

"The books of the immigrants: Creating and transmitting heritage through Greek American publications at the beginning of the 20th century."

• Maria Kaliambou, Senior Lector at the Hellenic Studies Program, Yale University, United States

"Renewing National History: Inclusivity as a theme and as a call for audiences with disadvantages."

• Philippos Mazarakis-Ainian, Senior Curator, National History Museum, Athens-Greece, Vice-Chair, ICOM Greece, Vice-chair, International Association of Museums of History (IAMH), Greece

PANEL THREE: HERITAGE IN PUBLIC LIFE

(21 July: 10.30 – 11.30 a.m. EST/ 17.20 – 18.20 p.m. Greece)

"Living Heritage and Public Policies in Greece: Oscillating between decentralization and non-regulation."

• Villy Fotopoulou, Director of Modern Cultural Heritage Directorate, General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports, Greece

"The Museum Inside Me: An online socio-cultural connector in times of physical isolation."

• Marlen Mouliou, Assistant Professor of Museology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, representing The Museum Inside Me team: Maria Christina Efstratiou, Yannis Koukmas, Marlen Mouliou

"Delos island: The cultural biography and cultural management of an “archaeological” site as a ‘tourist’ attraction. An anthropological perspective."

• Despoina Nazou, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of History and Archeology, University of Crete, Greece

"Promoting cultural heritage through innovative modern products: The past as a cradle of tomorrow’s sustainable development."

• Olga Tsakiridi, Researcher, National Center for Social Research, Greece

PANEL FOUR: ARCHIVAL HERITAGE

(21 July: 11.45 a.m. – 12.45 p.m. EST/ 18.30 – 19.30 p.m. Greece)

"Managing folklore and ethnographic archives in interaction with the public"

• Evangelos Karamanes, Research Director, Acting Director of the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens, Greece

"Archives at the Service of Communities and Artists"

• Anna L. Wood, President, Association for Cultural Equity (ACE)/ Alan Lomax Archive, New York

"Folklore/ethnographic archives beyond the age of cultural heritage: The future of archives and the agency of heritage"

• Ioannis Karachristos, Research Staff Member, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens, Greece

• Paris Potiropoulos, Research Staff Member, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens, Greece

"The archival heritage of the “V. Papantoniou” Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation: Origin, use and perspectives"

• Kassiani Plati, PhD Candidate, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

PANEL FIVE: GREEK DIASPORA HERITAGE

(21 July: 13.00 p.m. – 14.00 p.m. EST/ 19.40 – 20.40 p.m. Greece)

"Reflections on the intercultural convergence between Greek and indigenous Australians."

• George Kanarakis, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Charles Sturt University, Australia

"Creating heritage together: Transnational relations with a global orientation in Greek ethno-regional diasporas"

• Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou, Assistant Professor, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

"Transmitting the Greek heritage language in the cosmopolitanization era: The example of Greek ethnic schools in Australia."

• Eugenia Arvanitis, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras, Greece

“Heritage as Healing: Saturated Selves and Suffering Others-Storied Trauma, Social Pain and the Cultural Arena in a Quest for Humanity”

• Anastasia Christou, Associate Professor of Sociology, member of the Social Policy Research Centre and founding member of the FemGenSex research network, Middlesex University, England

"The anthropologist as curator: Using an exhibition as a method to explore issues of memory and identity in a Greek diaspora community in Egypt"

• Eirini Chrysocheri, Ph.D. in Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths University, London

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