We’re back! Πάλι μαζί!
The Pelion Summer Lab for Cultural Theory and Experimental Humanities (PSL) is an initiative of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece, and the non-profit organization Cosmopolitik: Network for Social Research and Public Action. We are pleased that this year's summer lab will be held in conjunction with a Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Workshop and the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN).
The aim of this 10-day program is to convene an interdisciplinary group of graduate students, researchers, academics, artists and cultural producers from fields such as anthropology, history, sociology, interdisciplinary arts, philosophy, gender studies, literature and cultural and new media studies for a period of intensive exchange and exploration regarding the pressing problems and questions of our worlds.
This will be the 4th iteration of the Pelion Summer Lab, following a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. So far, we have conducted three successful summer labs -Democracy & Dissent in 2017; Liminal Lives & Para-Sites in 2018; Data & Power in 2019- attracting stellar faculty and participants from Greece and around the world and developing enduring networks of collaboration and friendship. You can find details about the “works and days” at each PSL in our Archive and, more informally, through our Facebook page.
We are -cautiously- thrilled at the prospect of returning to the spectacular stone-built mountain village Makrinitsa and the Pelion peninsula in June 2022 to share with you a set of problematics we have been thinking about and researching for several years. The gruelling experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed us and how we think about our multifarious relations with others (including centrally the non-human), our politics and our passions, our heavy pasts and uncertain futures.
We hope you will be able to join us in Makrinitsa this summer, whether for the lab itself, the cohort’s public experiment or online during our periodic live feeds.
We believe that the theme of After/Lives perfectly captures the open-endedness of this moment: the unfulfilled mourning, the exhaustion, the restlessness, the ellipse between the “no longer” and the “not yet”, the very stakes of our collaboration.
The Pelion Summer Lab for Cultural Theory and Experimental Humanities (PSL) is an initiative of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece, and the non-profit organization Cosmopolitik: Network for Social Research and Public Action. We are pleased that this year's summer lab will be held in conjunction with a Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Workshop and the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN).
The aim of this 10-day program is to convene an interdisciplinary group of graduate students, researchers, academics, artists and cultural producers from fields such as anthropology, history, sociology, interdisciplinary arts, philosophy, gender studies, literature and cultural and new media studies for a period of intensive exchange and exploration regarding the pressing problems and questions of our worlds.
This will be the 4th iteration of the Pelion Summer Lab, following a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. So far, we have conducted three successful summer labs -Democracy & Dissent in 2017; Liminal Lives & Para-Sites in 2018; Data & Power in 2019- attracting stellar faculty and participants from Greece and around the world and developing enduring networks of collaboration and friendship. You can find details about the “works and days” at each PSL in our Archive and, more informally, through our Facebook page.
We are -cautiously- thrilled at the prospect of returning to the spectacular stone-built mountain village Makrinitsa and the Pelion peninsula in June 2022 to share with you a set of problematics we have been thinking about and researching for several years. The gruelling experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed us and how we think about our multifarious relations with others (including centrally the non-human), our politics and our passions, our heavy pasts and uncertain futures.
We hope you will be able to join us in Makrinitsa this summer, whether for the lab itself, the cohort’s public experiment or online during our periodic live feeds.
We believe that the theme of After/Lives perfectly captures the open-endedness of this moment: the unfulfilled mourning, the exhaustion, the restlessness, the ellipse between the “no longer” and the “not yet”, the very stakes of our collaboration.
THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Penelope Papailias, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Director of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly
Pantelis Probonas, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly
George Mantzios, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Eftychia Vardouli, M.A. Cultural Management
Penelope Papailias, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Director of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly
Pantelis Probonas, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly
George Mantzios, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Eftychia Vardouli, M.A. Cultural Management
