Stories about Things in Motion in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond

Programme

9.00 – 9.30| Introduction

9.30 – 11.30 | Wandering Artefacts

Moderator : Angelos Dalachanis

From Iberia via Florence ? An “Hispano-Moresque” Dish at the Great Meteoron Monastery

Nikolaos Vryzidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki )

Retracing History(ies) : An Ethiopian Artwork in Greece

Mirka Palioura (Ionian University)

Of Cycladic Figurines and Ghosts. Tales from the Aegean Sea

Stelios Lekakis (Newcastle University)

When 191 Egyptian Antiquities Travelled from the Nile to Samos

Artemis Papatheodorou (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

An Iznik Tile, Greek Collectors, and the Appreciation of “Asia Minor” Pottery

Mina Moraitou (Benaki Museum)

From Mosque to Mosque, from Mosque to Museum : Moving Minbars during Restoration

Dina Bakhoum (IFAO & CEDEJ, Cairo)

From Pavillion to Church, from Paris to Athens : The Translocation of World’s Fair Architecture

Mercedes Volait (CNRS / InVisu)

From Ancient Drinking Vessel to Modern Olympic Trophy : The Semiotic Metamorphosis of the “Spyridon Louis/Ioannis Lambros” Cup

Christina Mitsopoulou (University of Thessaly)

11.30 – 12.00 | Coffee break

12.00 – 13.30 | Embodying Memories and Identities

Moderator : Mercedes Volait

A Rusty Key in a File : Archives, Materiality and the Holocaust in the Dodecanese

Alexis Rappas (Koç University)

The Journey of a Hanukkah Lamp)

Odette Varon Vassard (Institute of International Relations (IDIS)

The Samovars of Russian Roma Travelling the World in the Early 20th Century

Adèle Sutre (Institut Convergence Migrations

The American Trunk and the Return Journey of Greek Emigrants in the Early 20th Century

Giota Tourgeli (Panteion University)

Gilles de Rapper (École française d’Athènes)

From the Albanian Alps to Minoan Crete : The Long Journey of Xhubleta

13.30 – 15.00 | Lunch break

15.00 – 16.30 | Papers in Motion

Moderator : Alexis Rappas

Paper Trails : A Transimperial Legal Quest for the Franco Family’s Citizenship in the 19th Century

Antonis Nassis (EHESS & University of Crete)

Houses Left Behind, Pictures Taken : Memories and Legacies of the Lausanne Treaty

Eleni Kyramargiou (National Hellenic Research Foundation)

War and Peace. The Diary of Elpida Thrassou Castanaki, Cairo-Paris-Athens-Antibes, 1933-1963

Vivi Hatzigeorgiou (ELIA / MIET)

The Suez Civil Status Registers : Navigating Imaginary and Real Motions

Angelos Dalachanis (CNRS / IHMC)

Crossing Borders, Crossing Eras : An Archival Box in Transit

Kostis Karpozilos (Independent researcher)

16.30 – 17.00 | Coffee break

17.00 - 18.00 | Matters of Consumption

Moderator : Angelos Dalachanis

Souroti 1916. A Bottle of « Sour Water » that Became a Greek Commercial Success on a French Model

Emmanuelle Cronier (University of Picardy – Jules Verne)

Dairy in Mobility : The Translocation and the Changing Meanings of Yoghurt

Ilay Romain Örs (American College of Greece - Deree College)

Crafting Pasta, Building Identities : The Role of Pasta Machines in Shaping Italian Communities in Early 20th Century Tunisia and Egypt

Abel Solans (Sciences Po, Paris)

Across the Mediterranean and Outside the Law : A Case of Narcotics Trafficking in the Eastern Mediterranean During WWII

Kostis Gkotsinas (National Hellenic Research Foundation)

18.00 | Discussion

Moderators : Mercedes Volait, Alexis Rappas, Angelos Dalachanis