Evangelos Gr.Avdikos

Evangelos Gr. AVDIKOS

Professor of Folkoristics

University of Thessaly

Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology

382 21 Volos, Greece

Telef- fax +30 24210 74858

e-mail: avdikos@uth.gr

blog: http://www.evangelosavdikos.blogspot.com/

 A. Bithplace: Preveza, a town of Western Greece, while originating in Syrrako, Ioannina.

  

B.

      1. 1975:Graduation  from the University of Ioannina ( Classics) .   

      2. 1991: Preveza 1945- 1990. Aspects of the change of a countryside town, thesis at the University of Ioannina,Greece/Department  of History and Archaeology/Sector of Folklore

     3. 1992: Lecturer of Greek Folkltales,  Democritus University of Thrace, Greece/ Department  Of Pre-School Education.

     4.2000: Associate Professor of Folklore, University of Thessaly, Greece/ Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology

     5. 2004: Professor of Folklore, University of Thessaly, Greece/ Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology.

C. Teaching courses :

  1. Folk / popular culture and Identities

  2. Rituals

  3. Introduction to the Social Anthropology

  4. Introduction to the Folklore and  Anthropology of City

  5. The supernatural in the folk / popular culture

  6. Time and social representations

  7. Youth Subcultures

  8. Introduction to the folk / popular studies

  9. Material Culture: The Cycle of Olive tree and Oil

 10. Ethnographies of Thrace

11. Popular Cultures and Borders

D. Post-graduate courses

 1. Rituals

 2. Supernatural and Social Practices

E. Research interests are:

 1.cultural identities

 2.narratives,

 3.oral history and memory,

 4.supernatural.

 5.cultural identities

F.Conducted research projects

  1.Memories of refugees of Greek origin from the Democracies of the Ex- Soviet Union.

  2. Education and Folktales.

  3. Petrota and Malko Gradishte villages at the Greek-bulgarian borders.Memory and Borderline

  4. Locality and otherness in Evros, Greece

  5. Space and History in Sesklo of Magnesia, Greece

  5. Rom Children and their integration into the education.

G. Recent Conferences

   1. Folk/popular Cultures and Borders in Balkans(June 2008, Volos, Greece)

   2. Folkore Studies in Greece and Turkey. A Different Approach(June 2010, Volos, Greece).

   3.Participations  in the conferences of the International Oral History Society (1998, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,  2000, Istanbul, Turkey), in the conferences of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (a.1998, Göttingen, Germany. B.2009, Athens, Greece), and  in American Oral History Association Annual Meeting (1999, Anchorage-Alaska).

H.Fellowships:

 1.University of Essex/Department of Sociology/Professor of Oral History Paul Thompson, 1996-1997,

 2.University College London/Department of Anthropology(Professor Charles Stewart), 2003-2004.

 3.University of Pennsylvania(Professor Dan Ben-Amos) and Ohio State University(The Center for Folklore Studies, Asssoc. Professor Dorothy Noyes),USA,  2008-2009, spring semester.

I.Erasmus-Socrates Networks

  1.University  of Glamorgan in the Wales

  2. University of Hull (England)

  3.University of Turin (Italy)

  4.University of Tartu (Estonia)

  5.University College Dublin

  6. Trakya University, Turkey

Publications

A. Books

       1. 1991. Preveza 1945-1990. Aspects of Transition in a  Town (Πρέβεζα 1945-.Όψεις της μεταβολής μιας επαρχιακής πόλης). Municipality of Preveza.

       2. 1993.Regional Identity in the  Interwar Period( 1920-1940). The case of Epirotism (Η ταυτότητα της περιφέρειας στο Μεσοπόλεμο. Το παράδειγμα του Ηπειρωτισμού). Athens: Kardamitsa Publications.

      3. 1994.The Folktale. Theoretical Approaches (Το λαϊκό παραμύθι. Θεωρητικές προσεγγίσεις) . Athens: Odysseas Publications.

      4. 1996:Childhood in the Traditional and in the Modern Society (Το παιδί στην παραδοσιακή και τη σύγχρονη κοινωνία). Athens :Ellinika Grammata Publications.

       5. 1997.Folk Speech Serving Divine Wisdom: Basil the Great, On the beginning of the Proverbs (Λαϊκός λόγος διακονών Θεία Σοφία: Μεγάλου Βασιλείου ,Εις την αρχήν των παροιμιών). Athens :Ellinika Grammata Publications.

       6. 1998.From Maritsa to Evros. Cultural Convergences and Divergences in  Evros (Από τη Μαρίτσα στον Έβρο. Πολιτισμικές συγκλίσεις και αποκλίσεις σε μια παρέβρια περιοχή) . Alexandroupoli: Municipality of Tyhero.

      7. 1999.Once upon a Time…but…it May also Happen now. Education as a Space for Taining New Generation Storytellers (Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό…αλλά…μπορεί να γίνει και τώρα. Η εκπαίδευση ως χώρος διαμόρφωσης παραμυθάδων) . Athens: Ellinika Grammata Publications.

     8. 2001.Stories on Prosperity and Decline at Lefkimi of Evros (=Χάλασε το χωριό μας Χάλασε. Ιστορίες περί ακμής και πτώσης στη Λευκίμη Έβρου). Alexandroupoli: Polykendro of the Municipality of Tyhero Publications ,.

    9. 2007.Thrace and the Others. Tracing the Limits of Cultural and Historical Memory(Η Θράκη και οι  άλλοι. Ιχνηλατώντας τα πολιτισμικά όρια και την ιστορική μνήμη). Athens: Odysseas Publications.

10. 2009.Introduction to the Folklore/Popular Studies(Εισαγωγή στις Σπουδές του Λαϊκού Πολιτισμού. Λ            αογραφίες, Λαϊκοί Πολιτισμοί, Ταυτότητες). Athens: Kritiki Publications.

11. 2010.From the       Matchmaker to the  Agencies. Tradition and Μodernity in Urban Areas(Από την προξενήτρα στα Γραφεία Συνοικεσίων. Παραδοσιακότητα και Νεωτερικότητα στον Αστικό Χώρο). Athens: Pedio Publications.

B. Articles

1. 1998. The Role of Religious Practices and the Sense of Origin in the Shaping of Identity: The Example of Greek Minority in the Democracies of the Ex-Soviet Union. In  the Xth International Oral History Conference “Oral History Challenges for the 21^st Century Proceedings (14-18 June, Rio de Janeiro). v. I, pp.236-245, Rio de Janeiro: International Oral History Association and Associação Brasileira de História Oral.

2..Grecian Riddle-jokes: Formalistic and Functional Features of a New Minor Form. Folklore (Estonia) 10 (1999):108-225.

3. Ethnic and Cultural  Cohesion and Contrasts in the Folktales of Thrace: the Case of Erotic Iniquity (Εθνολογικές και πολιτισμικές συνάφειες και αντιθέσεις στα δημοτικά τραγούδια της Θράκης: το παράδειγμα της ερωτικής ανομίας ). Ethnologia 8 (2000): 109-127.

4. Time and Social Organization in the Greek Nomads (Χρόνος και κοινωνική οργάνωση στους νομάδες του ελληνικού χώρου). Archaeology and Arts 76 (2000): 35-41.

5.2000. Going to the Field through Local Authorities”, in the volume: “Crossroads of History: Experience, Memory, Orality. In XIth International Oral History Conference Proceedings(June 15-19, 2000), v.I, pp. 392-395. Istanbul: International Oral History Association/Department of History at Boğaziçi University.

4. Transforming Hidden Words Into Narratives. The Interviewer Between Silence and Narration at the Greek –Bulgarian Border. Archivio Anthropologico Mediterraneο (Pallermo)3-4 (2000-2001): 151-55.

6.  “The Ghost of Portitsa”: The Social Function of the Supernatural and the Rural-urban Pole (Το φάντασμα της Πορτίτσας”: Η κοινωνική λειτουργία του υπερφυσικού και το αγροτο-αστικό δίπολο ). Ethnologia  9 (2002) :167-189.

7. 2002. ‘If the Goat Jumps over the Enclosure, It will Find enough to Eat’. Living in

Avantos Street

,  beyond the line (΄Το κατσίκι αν πηδήσει το μαντρί, θα βρει να φάει πολύ’. Ζώντας στην οδό Άβαντος ,στο χωρό εκείθεν της γραμμής). In  The Roma in Greece, eds M. Papapavlou-El. D. Kopassi-Oikonomea pp.185-229. Athens : Hellenic Society of Ethnology.

8 . 2002. Globalization and Folk Culture in the 21^st Century.  ‘Thitia’. A Tribute to Professor M.G.Meraklis, ed. Minas Alexiadis(Παγκοσμιοποίηση και λαϊκός πολιτισμός στον 21^ο αι.», στον τόμο: Θητεία. Τιμητικό αφιέρωμα στον καθηγητή Μ.Γ.Μερακλή), pp. 111-123..  Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – University of Ioannina.

9. 2003. Karpathos as a Folkloristic and Anthropological paradigm.. In Karpathos and Folklore. 2^nd International Conference. Proceedings (Η Κάρπαθος ως λαογραφικό και ανθρωπολογικό παράδειγμα, στον τόμο : Κάρπαθος και Λαογραφία. Β΄ Διεθνές Συνέδριο Καρπαθιακής Λαογραφίας,Κάρπαθος, 26-29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2001), ed. Minas Alexiadis, pp.71-86. Athens: Cultural Center of Karpathos.
10.2011."May the Devil Take Your Head and Brain": The Curses of Karpathos, Greece, Social Counterstructures, and the Management of Social Relations. Journal of American Folklore,124( 492) :88-117.