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Ioannis Bekiaris & Alexis Mavros

The Green Line is a VR short film documenting areas of the UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus, some unseen by the public since 1963. The Green Line immerses viewers into one of the most restricted places on the planet, in an effort to raise international awareness for the current political situation in Cyprus, a nation divided since 1974.

The Green Line team was granted access into the Cyprus Buffer Zone in January 2016. Escorted by UN convoy, the team filmed what remains of the abandoned villages of Selemani, Varisheia, and the abandoned Nicosia International Airport.

Friday, September 4, 10:00-11:30, Room 2

Chair: Yiannis Papadakis

1. Spencer Cook Lingua Cypria: Archives, Ethnography, and Power in Multilingual Cyprus
2. Elena Vasiliou Beyond the Pains of Imprisonment: Pleasure, Punishment, and the Cypriot Archive
3. Alexis Karkotis From Cyprus to Panama: The Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca and Reflections on the Ethnographic Method in a Digitalized World
4. Elena Ioannidou Negotiations, ruptures, and everyday alliances in multilingual communities in Karpasia: When “enemies” share the same language.

Friday, September 4, 10:00-11:30, Room 3

Chair: Christakis Peristianis

1. Spyros Spyrou Reclaiming curiosity and wonder in research: Experimenting with slow, open-ended ethnographic practice
2. Yorgos Prodromou Who Names (Non)Violence? Critical Memory Practices in Contemporary Cyprus
3. Leandros Fischer Rethinking British military bases in Cyprus: The case of Akrotiri village after the drone strike
4. Despina Psara Conscientious objectors across the divide: An interactive workshop mapping political subjectivities and experiences

Friday, September 4, 12:00-13:30, Room 2

Chair: Melek Kaptanoğlu

1. Christakis Peristianis Of Dead Zones and Dying Crops: Farming and its Transformation(s) in the Cyprus Buffer Zone (1974-2026)
2. Andriana Lagoudes Conflict Temporalities in Cyprus: A case study of Bunkers
3. Nilay Afet Seyranoğlu The Hyphenated Body: Embodied Encounters, Identity and the Third Space of Cyprus
4. Andreas Kleanthous Of ghostly donkeys and [im]material divisions: Tracing the haunting presence of Cypriot identity through the UN controlled Buffer Zone

Friday, September 4, 12:00-13:30, Room 3

Chair: Ellada Evangelou

1. Antonis Hadjikyriacou Genealogies of ethnographic research on the linopambadji (linopambaci): The private papers of Roland Michell
2. Ioulita Toumazi The contested meanings of Don McCullin’s Cyprus photographs: From the Newspaper to the Gallery
3. Cindy Chehab “The Afterlife of Fragmented Archives: Cultural Erasure, Speculative Archival Practice, and Counter-Memory
4. Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert Tracing Angels’ Men”: Reactivating an anthropometric photographic archive

Friday, September 4, 14:00-15:00, Room 2

The CASA Lifetime Contribution Award recognises an anthropologist whose body of work has made a sustained and significant contribution to the discipline in and from Cyprus.

The recipient of the inaugural CASA Lifetime Contribution Award is Vassos Argyrou. From his early ethnographic work on modernity and magic in Cyprus to his later critiques of anthropological reason and the politics of environmentalism, Argyrou has consistently refused easy answers, producing a body of work that is theoretically rigorous, ambitious, and productively unsettling for the discipline as a whole.

Friday, September 4, 15:00-16:30, Room 2

Chair: Georgina Christou

1. Pafsanias Karathanasis The prolonged in-between state as a political condition: Applying the anthropological concept of liminality to the analysis and understanding of the persistent “Cyprus Problem”
2. Gavriella Thoma Street Art and Social Change, a perspective of Holloway’s theory of cracks, cases in Cyprus and Chile
3. Ernesta Karosaitė Rethinking “Bicommunal”: Visions of Coexistence Among Youth Peace Activists in Cyprus
4. Melek Kaptanoğlu Peace anthropology or anthropology of peace? Reflections from an ethnographic perspective on peacebuilding
5. Elena Agathokleous Practices of Embodied Memory: Counter-mapping in the Tourkomahallas of Limassol

Friday, September 4, 15:00-16:30, Room 3

Chair: Panos Achniotis

1. Marina Kokkinou Nicosia/6: six artifacts of the city
2. Loizos Kapsalis Building Identity: Greek nationalism and the landscape of the Phaneromeni Square in Nicosia (1920-1931)
3. Nandia Dedeletakis From Drilled Potential to Exhausted Potential: Aphrodite, Luxury Real Estate and Limassol’s Seafront
4. Evi Eftychiou Making Modernity: Tourism, Development and the Cultural Production of Landscapes in Postcolonial Cyprus

Friday, September 4, 17:00-19:00, Xydadiko

Curation: Andreas Anastasiades

1. Before the Waiting Room, Yiannis Christidis, 2020 (10′)
2. Every Sunday, Keti Papadima, 2020 (24′)
3. Crazy Old Ladies, Christiana Pyrishi, 2012 (21′)
4. The Sweethearts and the Dragon, Phanos Kyriakou, 2011 (11′)
5. A Breather on the Pavement of Strangers, Cindy Chehab, 2025 (17′)
6. Edat, Rahme Veziroglu, 2018 (11′)

Friday, September 4, 19:00-20:00, Xydadiko

The first evening of the conference marks the official launch of the Cyprus Association of Social Anthropologists with a public conversation bringing together anthropologists across generations to reflect on what anthropology in and from Cyprus has been, what it is today, and where it might go.

Panelists: Yiannis Papadakis, Rebecca Bryant, Melek Kaptanoğlu & Panos Achniotis

Moderator: Theodoros Kouros

Saturday, September 5, 8:30-9:30, Meeting place Cafe Nero at Molos

Yiannis Papadakis

Short talk (Limassol and the sea) followed by a relaxed swim.

The beach has showers and changing rooms.

Rebecca Bryant

Saturday, September 5, 10:00-11:00, Room 2

Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. Her work has focused on ethnic conflict and displacement, border practices, post-conflict reconciliation, and contested sovereignty on both sides of the Cyprus Green Line, as well as in Turkey, with temporality running as a thread throughout, from the politics of the past and historical reconciliation to the temporal condition of citizens of unrecognised states.

Saturday, September 5, 11:30-13:00, Room 2

Chair: Nihal Soğancı

1. Vanda Batista Words that Travel, Fruits that Unite: The Sweet Orange as Shared Heritage Across Cyprus’s Communities
2. Sophie Fetokaki φρούτα ονείρων · dream fruit: exploring the cultivation and preparation of louvi (black eyed beans) through encounters between anthropology and artistic research
3. Katerina Sergidou Decolonisations of Southern feminist communities “with an accent”, from Andalusia to Cyprus: Ethnograph-ing the Vecinas, Primas, Flamencas, Carnavaleras, Koumeres, Kores
4. Chara Constantinou Thinking with Clay Beside the Conflict: Ceramic Encounters and Anthropological Method in Cyprus

Saturday, September 5, 11:30-13:00, Room 3

Chair: Selin Genc

1. Khalil Betz-Heinemann, Andreas Kleanthous and Antonis Pastellopoulos Making Sense of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Cyprus
2. Penelope Vasquez Hadjilyra Institutionalizing care; Can schoolyards cool the city and its civic relations?
3. Maria Hadjimichael and Rena Filippou Planning In Absentia: Readings of Blue Justice in the context of Displacement and Conflict
4. Maria Ladommatou A Political Ecology of Pentakomo in Cyprus: Ecological Justice Perspectives on Ecosystem Management

Saturday, September 5, 13:30-15:00, Room 2

Chair: Stavros Karayanni

1. Aliosha Bielenberg Thinking About Music and Tradition in Cyprus
2. Ellada Evangelou Comrades, Nationalists, and Refugees: exploring indigeneity of theatre in Cyprus, 1920-1950
3. Selin Genc, Andreas PASHIAS, Dr. Dimitris Venizelos, Rahme Veziroğlu and Melina Philippou Of Monumental – Conversation with a Sculpture / Conversation with a Sculptor
4. Aigli Pittaka and Dance Group-22 International Women Rhythms of Resilience or “Sex on the Beach” Weekly

Saturday, September 5, 13:30-15:00, Room 3

Chair: Spyros Spyrou

1. Andreas Marcou Border Negotiations in an Urban No-Man’s-Land: Imagining Freedom and Queer Possibility in the Cyprus Buffer Zone
2. Vasiliki Polykarpou Borders of Belonging: Anti-Migration and Anti-Gender Politics in Contemporary Cyprus
3. Nihal Soğancı Cezadayım [I am in penalty]: Fines, Time, and the Everyday Life of Migrant Il/legality
4. Claudia Mosca Identitarian Flows

Saturday, September 5, 15:00-15:30, Room 2

Saturday, September 5, 15:30-17:00, Room 2