SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1983-2007

BOOKS

The Last Word Women, Death and Divination in Inner Mani. The University of Chicago Press , 1991. (Research funded by the Foundations: Woodrow Wilson & Wenner-Gren). Victor Turner award, 1992.

The Senses Still Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity.
The University of Chicago Press , 1996. (Orig. hardcover Westview Press, 1994).

Identities in Pain. Co-editor with Jonas Fryckman, et al. Sweden: Nordic Academic Press, 1998.

Ritual, Power and the Body Historical Perspectives on the Representation of Greek Women. New York: Pella Publishing Co.(Greek Studies), 1993.

The Last Word in the Ends of Europe. Αthens: Livani Publishing Organization, 1994 (4th edition 1999). Adopted by the Greek Ministry of Education for library distribution, 1999. Honorary Plaque by Municipality of Oitylon, Mani / Nomarchy of Laconia, 2000.

The Senses Still. Athens: Livani Publishing Organization, 1997.

Crossing the Body Culture, History and Gender in Greece. Athens: Livani Publishing Organization, 1977.

Come to Eros poetry. Αthens: Livani Publishing Organization, 1999.

ARTICLES - PRESENTATIONS
& CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

"Cross-Cultural Problems in a Literacy-ESL Curriculum" . Invited lecture. Dept. of Linguistics, Queens College, CUNY, May 10, 1983.

"The Eye of the Other: Watching Death in Rural Greece". Journal of Modern Hellenism , vol.1, 1984.

Review: "The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village" by M. Herzfeld. American Anthropologist , 88(4), 1986.

"Introduction to Modern Greek Ideology and Folklore" (Welcoming Remarks to Alki Kyriakidou-Nestoros). Journal of Modern Hellenism, #3, 1986. Invited welcoming speaker for anthropologist and folklorist K-Nestoros. Annual C. Paparrigopoulos Lecture, Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Queens College, New York.

"Women, Divination and the Cultural Construction of Death in the S. Peloponnese", for the panel "Women in the Creation and Transmission of Culture". Invited speaker and chair. Third International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, University of Dublin, Ireland.

"Women and Death: Cultural Power and Ritual Process in Inner Mani". Canadian Woman Studies (a York University Publication), vol.8,#2,1987.

"Greek and Greek-American Women in Voice and Text". Society for the Anthropology of Europe Bulletin (American Anthropological Association), vol.3, #2, 1989. Invited multimedia conference, The Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies at New York University. Conference chair and organizer: C. Nadia Seremetakis. April 1989.

Presentation at the invited panel "Theorizing Europe: Anthropological Modernities." Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings, Washington DC,1989.

"The Ethics of Antiphony: The Social Construction of Pain, Gender and Power in the Southern Peloponnese." Ethos—Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, vol. 18, #4, 1990.

"Feminism and Women’s Identities—case study Greece." Invited speaker and chair, Fourth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. New York, Hunter College, 1990.

"The Senses in Other Modernities," presentation at the panel "The Anthropology of the Senses and European Modernity", organizer and chair: C. Nadia Seremetakis, Society for the Anthropology of Europe , American Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings, Chicago, 1991.

Review, "The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project" by Susan Buck-Morss. Society for the Anthropology of Europe Bulletin (American Anthropological Association), vol.6, #1, 1992.

"The Memory of the Senses: Historical Perception, Commensal Exchange and Modernity." Visual Anthropology Review, vol.9, #2, 1993.

Review, "Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece" by Loizos and Papataxiarhis, eds. American Ethnologist, Spring 1993.

"Gender Studies or Women’s Studies: Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues, Research Agendas and Directions" Australian Feminist Studies (a University of Adelaide publication), summer 1994.

"Greek Albanian Border-Conflict and Cultures". Presentation at the invited panel "Receptions of Violence: Reactive After-Texts, After-Images and the Post-Ethnographic Site", co-organizer C.Nadia Seremetakis. Ethnological Society and Society for Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings, Atlanta, 1994.

"The Memory of the Senses: Historical Perception, Commensal Exchange and Modernity". Visualizing Theory: Selections from VAR 1990-1994, Lucien Taylor, editor. New York: Routledge, 1994.

"AIDS & Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Prevention in Border Areas—the case of Greece". Summary Report, World Health Organization (W.H.O). Presentation at the " Workshop on HIV/AIDS/STD Prevention in Border Areas—Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Russia, Italy." Participated as: Official Representative, Ministry of Health. International Meeting on AIDS Prevention, World Health Organization, Athens, October 1994.

"Women and the Pathogenic on the Border." Invited presentation at the international conference "Gendered Violence: Physical Aggression, Social Domination, Bodily Processes and Cultural Reconstruction." The Institute for Applied Social Research, University of Zagreb and Center for Slavic and East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Zagreb, 1995. Sponsored by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX).

"Politicizing Experience: Critical Reflections on Subjectivity and Locality". Discussant at the 2-part panel "Politicizing Experience: Critical Reflections on Bodies and Histories, Subjectivity and Locality." American Ethnological Society and Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings, Washington DC, 1995.

"In Search of the Barbarians: Borders in Pain." American Anthropologist, vol.38, #3,1996.

"Memories of the Aftermath: Political Violence, Post-traumatic Stress and Cultural Transition to Democracy". In Croatian and English. ZENE I POLITIKA MIRA. Centar za zenske stydije. Ζagreb, 1997.

"Durations of Pains: A Genealogy of Pain". Identities in Pain, J.Frykman, N.Seremetakis, eds. Sweden: Nordic Academic Press, 1998.

"In Search of the Barbarians: Borders in Pain". Identities in Pain, J.Frykman, N.Seremetakis, eds. Sweden: Nordic Academic Press, 1998.

"The Other City of Silence: Disaster and the Petrified Bodies of History." In German and English. Re-Membering the Body. G. Brandstetter & H. Volckers, eds. Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival 2000). Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000. Invited guest- observer of the International Vienna Festival 2000.

"Toxic Beauties: Medicine, Information and Body Consumption in Transnational Europe". Social Text : Journal of Cultural and Political Analysis, 68, vol.19, no.3, Fall 2001.

"The Senses and Media as Material Culture-- Fieldwork Approaches." Invited lecture, International Visitor 2002, Dept. of Culture and Communication, New York University, November 21, 2002.

"Archeology of Feeling:The Materiality of Memory." Invited Keynote lecture, in workshop "Embodied Histories: Bodies, Senses, Memories in Archaeology and Anthropology", Dept. of Archaeology, University of Southampton, 24-25 January, 2003.

“Phoning Divination: Evil Eye, Divination and the Networked Body”. Invited presentation at the International Seminar on  "Media Technologies, Sensory Experience, and the Making of Religious Subjects". University of Amsterdam, March 30th to April 1st, 2006.

“The Antiphony of the Senses”. Invited opening speech in the “Symposium on Practice-based Research”, Media Ethnography: Transcultural Research Practice, Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology. Dublin, March 29-31, 2007.

"Structuralism, Universalism and Peasant Particularities". Social Sciences Review, #51,1983. Greek National Center for Social Research. Athens.

"Women and Men of Antiquity and Us." In newspaper To Vhima (weekend edition), December 16, 1990.

"Perception and Material Culture in Modernity". Anthropotheoria, # 5-6, 1993. Patras.

Gender Studies or Women’s Studies: Theoretical and Paedagogical Issues, Research Goals and Agendas. Nea Kinoniologhia: Hellenic Sociological Review, # 19, 1994. Athens. Keynote speech at the UNESCO International Seminar on "Gender Studies in the Year 2000", Athens, June 1993.

"Mass Media and Academic Violence or About Rumor: The Anthropological Interpretation." Dhiavazo, # 339, July 1994.

"The Last Word in Greece and Beyond". In The Last Word in the Ends of Europe, C. Nadia Seremetakis. Athens: Livani Publishing Organization, 1994.

"Visible Risk: HIV/AIDS and the Cultural Construction of the Body". Invited speech at the "Educational Seminar on AIDS Prevention". National School of Public Health, Athens, 1996.

"Earthquake: Popular Memory and the Poetics of Fragments". Public speech at the multimedia conference-public event "The City Remembers: Kalamata 10 Years After the Earthquake". Kalamata (S. Peloponnese),1996. The Department of Cultural Studies, Director: C.Nadia Seremetakis. Organization for Cultural Development, Municipality of Kalamata.

"Fieldwork as Performance".
In Dromena: Modern Means and Techniques of Recording Them. Center of Dromena, Acts of A’ International Scientific Congress, National Cultural Network of Cities, Municipality of Komotini (Nothern Greece), Ministry of Culture, Oct. 1997. (Invited speech, A’ International Scientific Congress, Komotini,1996).

"Antiphony". Poem. Opening Greeting to the “Α’ Public Conference-- Μani Through the Centuries", Municipality of Areopoli (Laconia) & University of Athens (Dept. of Physical Anthropology). Areopoli, 1997. Published in the book The Man of Mt.Taenaron:Anthropological Quests in Inner Mani, by Th. Pitsios. Athens: Ellinika Ghrammata Press, 2000.

"History and Material Culture in Messinia, S.Peloponnese". Opening speech, multimedia conference-public event on the history and material culture in Messinia, Κalamata, March 14-26, 1997. In the context of a three-year program on cultural development ,"Excavating Time", Director: C. Nadia Seremetakis, Department of Cultural Studies. Organization for Cultural Development / Municipality of Kalamata and Ministry of Culture.

"Philosophical and Poetic Journeys in Space and Time". Opening speech in multimedia conference-public event, Kalamata, Feb. 17-19,1997. In the context of a three-year program on cultural development, "Excavating Time", Director: C. Nadia Seremetakis, Department of Cultural Studies. Organization for Cultural Development / Municipality of Kalamata, Nomarchy of Messinia and Ministry of Culture.

"Intellectual Rights of Diaspora Greeks". In TA NEA, Daily newspaper, May 27, 1998.

"European Politics and the 23d March, Day of Independence". Opening speech at the public conference on the relation between Greek Revolution and European Politics. Kalamata, March 1998. In the context of a three-year program on cultural development, "Excavating Time", Director: C. Nadia Seremetakis, Department of Cultural Studies. Organization for Cultural Development / Municipality of Kalamata and Ministry of Culture.

"Culture, Paedeia and Development in Messinia". Special edition "Archaeology and Museums", Eptakyklos: Journal of Archaeological and Philological Studies, #2, Sept.1998-Jan.1999, Athens. Invited speech at the colloquium Messinia in Greek and Global Economy", Nomarchy of Messinia and PanMessinian Federation of USA & Canada. Kalamata, 1997.

"The Epoch of the Ladies in Greece". Opening speech at the symposium-public multimedia event "In Search of a protoFeminist: Maria Bassakari of Kalamata". Research, script of accompanying video, organization: C.Nadia Seremetakis. In the context of a three-year program on cultural development, "Excavating Time", Director: C. Nadia Seremetakis, Department of Cultural Studies. Organization for Cultural Development / Municipality of Kalamata and Ministry of Culture.

"The Memory of The Senses—Marks of the Transitory". Revmata , #4, Aug-Sept.1999. Reprinted also in Eptakyklos, #14, Dec.’99-Feb.2000.

“Olive Tree: A Historical and Cultural Harvest.” Invited presentation, Conference on “The Olive Tree and the Oil: From Antiquity to the Present”, October 1-2, 1999, organized by The Academy of Athens/ Center for Research of Greek Folklore, Musee de l’Olivier/Nyons-France, Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados/Barcelone-Spain, and Greek Museum of Olive Tree/Crete-Greece.

"Our St. Valentina". In TA NEA, Daily newspaper, special weekend edition , Feb. 19-20,2000.

"The Petrified Bodies of Vienna: Culture and European Politics". In TA NEA, Daily newspaper, special weekend edition, March 11-12, 2000.

"National Elections and the Peach of History". In TA NEA, Daily newspaper, special weekend edition, April 22-23, 2000.

"The Poesis of Dialogue: Contributions of Mani to European Culture". Invited public lecture by National Tourist Organization & Nomarchy of Laconia and The Melina Merkouri Foundation. Day of Culture in Europe 2000: "Freedom of Expression and Dialogue." Gythion, May 5-6, 2000.

"The Dyros Battle in Greek Independence—Women’s History". Invited public speech on the national commemoration of 1821 Independence and the role of the women of Mani, Nomarchy of Laconia and Municipality of Oitylon (Mani). Dyros, June 2000.

"Maniat Lament: Women’s Discourse". Three-page article. In TA NEA, Daily newspaper, special weekend edition, July 8-9, 2000.

"Women in Public Life or in History?". In TA NEA, Daily newspaper, special weekend edition, Sept. 9-10, 2000.

"The Philosophy of Performance" Book Review article, Aeshylus: Mythical Theater, Political Voice by J.Chiolis. In TA NEA, Daily newspaper, special weekend edition, April 30, 2000.

"Greek Internet: Information of Interests or Knowledge?". In TA NEA, Daily newspaper, special weekend edition, Nov. 18-19, 2000.

"Carnival Change". In TA NEA, Daily newspaper, special weekend edition, February 17, 2001.

“Dreaming and Ethnography in Mani ". In Archaeologia & Technae, #80, Athens, September 2001.

"Tremors". In Eptakyklos: Journal of Cultural Studies, forthcoming.

"Eros & Thanatos". Inaugurate Lecture, Greek-Scandinavian Conference on "Sexualities and Society" under the auspices of the Academy of Athens, University of Athens, University of Stockholm. Athens, October 4-6, 2001.

“On the Branches of Memory”. Ode to the olive Tree (in Greek & English). Academy of Athens - Hellenic Folklore Research Center and General Secretarial for the Olympic Games, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2004.

“Carnival Times”, 2005. In Nea Kinoniologhia: Hellenic Sociological Review, #41, summer 2005, Athens: Papazissis Publishers.

“Medicine, Aesthetics and the Body” Invited presentation, Benaki Museum, July 19, 2005. Philosophical Dialogues on “Culture in Greece Today”, Benaki Museum and Centre for Cultural Studies, Athens, May-December 2005.

“Antiphony, Ritual and the Construction of Truth” Invited presentation at the International Symposium on Theatre and Ritual, Thebes: Sept.10-11, 2005, Centre of Classical Drama—Panteion University, and Municipality of Thebes.

“Carnival Times”.  In Greek. Nea Koinoniologhia:  Hellenic Sociological Review, #41, summer 2005, Athens: Papazissis Publishers.

“Toxic Beauties: Medicine, Media and Body Consumption in Transnational Europe.” With commentary by Margaret Lock “The Body in its Contemporary Version: Commentary on Seremetakis’s Toxic Beauties”.  In Greek.  Nea Koinoniologhia: Hellenic Sociological Review, #42, Winter 2005-6,  Athens:  Papazissis Publishers.

“Intellectual Rights and Diaspora Greeks” (reprinted). Nea Politiki, monthly journal of political analysis, #7, April 2006, Athens.

Presentation and translation of “Abu Ghraib: Ceremonies of Nostalgia by Allen Feldman».  In Greek. Nea Koinoniologhia: Hellenic Sociological Review, #41,  Summer 2005,  Athens:  Papazissis Publishers.

“Antiphony, Ritual and the Construction of Truth.”  Invited presentation at the International Symposium on Theatre and Ritual, Thebes: Sept.10-11, 2005.  Centre of Classical Drama—Panteion University, & Municipality of Thebes.

“Toxic Beauties: Medicine, Media and Body Consumption in Transnational Europe,”  with commentary by Margaret Lock “The Body in its Contemporary Version: Comments on Toxic Beauties by C.Nadia Seremetakis». In Greek.  Nea Koinoniologhia: Hellenic Sociological Review, #42, Winter 2005-6, Athens:  Papazissis Publishers.

"The Female Body in Diaspora", selected poems from Perpetua, book of poetry by Olga Broumas, Copper Canyon Press, 1989. In Crossing the Body, C. Nadia Seremetakis, Athens: Livani Publishing Organization, 1997.

Abu Ghraib: Ceremonies of Nostalgia, by Allen Feldman. In Nea Kinoniologhia: Hellenic Sociological Review, #41, Summer 2005, Athens: Papazissis Publishers.