This East Meets West seminar features Dr. Maria Småberg (Lund University), who will hold an article presentation, "Humanitarian handicrafts as (dis)empowerment of women ‘left behind’. A Swedish help to self-help project in the Northern Greek village Vlasti,1963 –1988".

Seminar Series “East Meets West” aims to analyze phenomena of contemporary history (19th-20th century and beyond) that problematize any kind of encounters, border crossings, cooperations, conflicts and entanglements between the East and the West in Europe and beyond. Come and cross borders and boundaries with us!