23 November 2023: Eirini Papadaki participates in ‘Society Unsensored: Love & Marriage’ event
Eirini Papadaki participated in an event about marriage as an institution at the Onassis Stegi.
Eirini Papadaki participated in an event about marriage as an institution at the Onassis Stegi.
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…


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…

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,…

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…

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…

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.