From Home to Homelands ? Moving Papers and Possessions from Modern Egypt

09:00 - 09:15 | Introduction

Angelos Dalachanis (CNRS-IHMC) & Mercedes Volait (CNRS-InVisu)

09:15 - 10:30 | Institutional and Private Papers

Chair : Mercedes Volait

A Hundred Years of Greek Presence in Egypt, 1843-1942 : the Archives of the Greek Communities at the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive/MIET

Mathilde Pyrli (ELIA-MIET)

Greek Historical Archives of the Eastern Mediterranean (ELIAM) : Preserving Memory through Digitization

Eirini Chryssocheri (ELIAM), Angelos Dalachanis (CNRS-IHMC) & Alexander Kitroeff (Haverford College)

10:30 - 11:45 | Dispersing Cosmopolitanism(s)

Chair : Alexander Kitroeff

Archives and Artefacts : The Post-Dispersal Politics of Jewish Egyptian Material Memory

Alon Tam (Ben Gurion University)

Vernacular Cosmopolitans : Archives of Italian Subalternity in Colonial Egypt (1861-1936)

Francesca Biancani (University of Bologna)

11:45 - 12:00 | Coffee break

12:00 - 13:15 | Households and Families

Chair : Angelos Dalachanis

Moving Home : Unpacking the Role of Domestic Material Culture in the Migration Process

Eirini Chryssocheri (ELIAM)

From Family Papers to an Archive of Family Collections of the Greeks of Egypt

Alexander Kitroeff (Haverford College)

13:15 - 15:00 | Lunch break

15:00 - 16:15 | Community Life between Egypt and Greece

Chair : Eirini Chryssocheri

The Image of the Greeks in Egypt : Communal Life through Photography

Vassiliki Hatzigeorgiou (ELIA-MIET & Mathilde Pyrli ELIA-MIET)

Diasporic Heritage in Plural : The Greek Egyptian Associations in Athens and Their Objects from “Home”

Eftychia Mylona (Leiden University & Iraklitos Souyioultzoglou Panteion University)

16:15 - 17:30 | Transferring Antiquities

Chair : Mercedes Volait

Between Coptic and Byzantine Art : Egyptian Objects in Antonis Benakis’s Byzantine Collection

Anastasia Drandaki (National and Capodistrian University of Athens)

Collections of Egyptian Antiquities in Greek Public Museums and Private Collections : How Were They Acquired, When and By Whom ?

Vassilis Chryssikopoulos (The Acropolis Museum & Anna Lekka Ministry of Culture)

17:30 - 18:00 | Discussion