The lecture presents recent fieldwork in the Greek towns of Philadelphia, Lancaster, and Harrisburg and in the villages of the Peloponnese, Phocis and Epeiros. By placing all of its archaeological resources into the idealized Classical period, the Greek diaspora has not yet fully embraced its own archaeological potential as a vehicle of self-understanding. With the progressive passing of lived memories, archaeology must make increasingly important contributions in reconstructing the immigrant lifeworld of a century ago. Both spaces of this shared transformation were abandoned in the 1960s through urbanization, deindustrialization, suburbanization, white flight, and urban renewal. Both spaces played a central role in each country’s socio-economic modernization in the 1900s-1920s. Greek migration to the United States maintained two separate domestic environments, the Greek towns in urban America and the remittance villages in rural Greece. Speaker: Kostis Kourelis, Associate Professor of Art History, Franklin & Marshall College I will explore how the attention to such assemblages can not only help us understand what some scholars have described as the new Global Apartheid, but more positively, allow us to imagine a decolonial present and future.ġ7th Annual Pallas Lecture: Excavating Home: Archaeologies of the Greek American Experience Objects, spaces, buildings and landscapes are essential components in the formation of border assemblages, together with border crossers, volunteers, as well as border guards and security apparatuses. In this talk, I will report on some of the findings of this project, showing how a sustained and detailed attention to the materiality and temporality of the phenomenon, to the sensorial, affective, and temporal properties of things, can offer insights that elude other kinds of research. Summary: Since 2016, I have been carrying out an archaeological ethnography project on contemporary migration, focusing on the border island of Lesvos. Speaker: Yannis Hamilakis, Professor, Brown University Participants: Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University) and Vassilis Lambropoulos, with Artemis Leontis and Will Stroebel (University of Michigan)ġ8th Annual Pallas Lecture: Archaeologies of Contemporary Migration: Border Assemblages, Global Apartheid, and the Decolonial Potential A Conversation on the Bicentennial Celebrations of the Greek Revolution of 1821
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