Open Lecture, “On Honor: The Palimpsest of Patriarchal Colonialism in Greece, the Balkans, and the Caucasus.”

Title of Open Lecture:

“On Honor: The Palimpsest of Patriarchal Colonialism in Greece, the Balkans, and the Caucasus”

Fotini Tsibiridou is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Macedonia (Department of Balkan, Slavic and Eastern Studies, Director of the Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB). She studied French Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a PhD in Ethnology-Anthropology from EHESS-Paris. She conducts field ethnographic research in Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East. She writes and publishes on issues related to minorities, gender, culture, politics, and activist movements. She is a member of the decolomze hellä§ collective.

Recent publications on issues of gender, patriarchy, and feminist critique:

• Tsibiridou, F. 2023. “The Lament of Euthalia: Refugeeism as Postcolonial, Cultural, and Minority Archive, Before and After 1922: A Brief Ethno-Top-Bio-Graphy.” Issue #14· 1922-23: On Which Stone, In Which Soil. Marginalia. Notes in the Margin, https://marginalia.gr/arthro/to- moiroloi-tis-eythalias/
• Tsibiridou, F., 2022. “On Honor and Palimpsest Patriarchal Coloniality in Greece, the Western Balkans, and the Caucasus. Anthropological Comparative Accounts from a Post-Ottoman Decolonial Perspective,” Genealogy, p. 73. doi:10.3390/genealogy6030073
• Tsibiridou, F. 2022. “Dialectics of Patriarchy, Male Dominance, and Sexism. Teaching about Gendered Bodies, Feminist and Postcolonial Critique in Area Studies Programs,” in M.G. Varvounis, K. Katsadoros, A.G. Kapanias (eds.) People, Gender, Identities, Cultures. Folklore and Gender Approaches. Honorary Volume for Maria Gkasouka. Athens: Goni Publications, pp. 467-485.
• Tsibiridou, F. 2021. “Genealogies of the Kurdish Women’s Movement: Auto-Ethnography and Stories of Creative Feminist Empowerment,” Preface to Handan Qaglayan, Women in the Kurdish Movement. Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses. Athens: RedMarks, pp. 20-27.
• Tsibiridou, F. 2020. “I Killed Scheherazade”: Paradoxical Intimacies, Ethnography, and Everyday Life After the “Our Own East”, in F. Tsibiridou (ed.) Ethnography and Everyday Life in the ‘Our Own East’. Athens: Kritiki, pp. 11-46 (Introduction).
• Tsibiridou, F. 2019. “Ethnography from the Center of a Global City: Feminist Critique and Art, Women’s Memories, Vulnerable Bodies, and Cosmopolitanism,” Marginalia, Vol. 5, Special Issue Women’s Pens, Stories of (In)visibility, https://marginalia.gr/arthro/ethnografia-apo-to-kentro-mias- pagkosmias-polis-feministiki-kritiki-kai-techni-gynaikeies-mnimes-eyalota-somata-kai-kosmopolitiki/?fbclid=lwAR3h9vDzm6mezeQxQLSs-sgYVXdZnzfniLeuoWNUJcP-vY41odcoBJ1 IFO
• Tsibiridou, F. 2018. “Patriarchy as Captivity in the Post-Soviet Era: Vodka Masculinity on Screen and Angry Feminists on Camera,” FeministiqA/Εετηίηίεΐίηά, Issue 1, http:// feministiqa.net/?fbclid=lwAR01Xb5HTL5P-yxagacopmt1YH3Enii6F0wNpgwh9Qf-stxC4C7LdBRp7Zg