Brownbag Lunch: Evangelos Avdikos

Memory and Identity on the Greek-Bulgarian Border

Professor Evangelos Avdikos is Head of the Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly. He will visit OSU from March 4th to April 7th, 2009. Professor Avdikos directs a program with a strong profile in oral history and has published studies of rural change and regional identity in Greece as well as on the memories of ethnic Greek refugees from the former Soviet Union. In addition, he works on the uses of traditional narrative in education and on the cultural integration of Roma children in Greek schools.