Eirini Papadaki participated in an event about marriage as an institution at the Onassis Stegi. https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/society-uncensored-love-marriage
Eirini Papadaki presented a paper titled ‘Ordinary lives: marriage, time, and affective histories in Greece’.
Prof Janet Carsten co-organised with Prof Julia Pauli from the University of Hamburg a Triple Panel Session on ‘The Hope of Marriage: Transforming Intimate Worlds and Social Futures’ with 15 participants, including 2 members of the AGATM team, Janet Carsten and Eirini Papadaki.
About the Talk: This talk will focus on themes from Professor Carsten’s current research on experiences of marriage in Penang. It will also include reflections on her earlier work in a Malay village in the 1980s, and research on the interface between medical and popular understandings of blood carried out in hospital clinical pathology labs and
30 May 2022: Janet Carsten gives talk at the Penang Institute Read More »
Janet Carsten, Eirini Papadaki, Koreen Reece, and Siobhan Magee presented papers along with University of Bayreuth scholars Tabea Haberlein, Fulera Issaka-Toure, and Najoum Alhassane, and the University of Hamburg’s Julia Pauli. Discussants for the papers were Susan Reynolds-Whyte, Ammara Maqsood, Susan McKinnon, Asha Abeyesekera, Perveez Mody, and Erdmute Alber. On the Thursday evening, there was
5-6 May 2022: Marriage: Entanglements and Detachments Workshop in Bayreuth Read More »
Janet Carsten, Eirini Papadaki, and Siobhan Magee delivered short papers based on their chapters in AGATM’s edited book (UCL Press, 2021). The event was chaired by Maya Mayblin, with comments from Resto Cruz. Social Anthropology Research Seminar, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.
8 April 2022: Book launch – ‘Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense’ Read More »
Dimitris Glystras, Silas Michalakas, and Eirini Papadaki’s film Family Time shows the reflections and everyday lives of an Athenian married couple, their children, and their friends. This discussion over Zoom (with Eirini Papadaki, Silas Michalakas, Janet Carsten, and Siobhan Magee) focused on the challenges and opportunities involved in making a film about intimate lives.
26 March 2021: RAI Film Festival screening and roundtable discussion of ‘Family Time’ Read More »
The presentations drew together projects from our AGATM research on marriage in Botswana, Virginia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Greece, as well as a further project in Pakistan. Panelists suggested how, rather than merely responding to political change, marriage creates social change.
