Images of migration at the southern border. Geography & Communication for Social Change - MIGRIMAGE_GR2022

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES - Department of Geography & Department of Cultural Technology and Communication
4 Jul 2022 to 28 Jul 2022
Lesvos

1. Communication for Social Change (5 online seminars with 3 hour classes per day from 4 to 10 July, in English);
2. Border active research and (cyber)activism (2 online seminars & 2 on site workshops, 3 and 4 hours each from 11 to 17 July, in Greek);
3. Human Geographies and fundamental rights (3 on site lectures, 3 hours each, from 18 to 20 July, in Greek);
4. Methodologies of Participatory video (3 on site lectures and 5 workshops, 3 hours each, from 18 to 24 July, in Greek);
5. Language & Audiovisual Techniques for journalists and film makers for social change video (2 on site lectures and 2 workshops, 3 hours each, from 18 to 24 July, in Greek)

Summer School University of the Aegean | Programme

Summer School Mediterranean Borders and Communication Studies within the itinerary of Geography and Communication for Social Change. 

The itinerary is organised by the University of the Aegean and will be held for three (3) weeks, from 4 to 24 July 2022. Within this itinerary, five (5) modules of academic seminars and workshops will take place; the first will offer theoretical frameworks and analysis of tools and the latter will offer experiential practice of tools, within subjects related to the contents of the School. Module 1 will be online and its contents will be taught in English to encourage the presence of international students; Module 2 will be half online and onsite and will be taught in Greek and Modules 3-5 will be onsite in Mytilene, Lesvos and taught in Greek. 10 ECTS will be recognised and a diploma will be provided.

A detailed description of the seminars and their dates is given below.

Programme

 

  1. Communication for Social Change 

Location: Online seminars in English, Zoom Meeting

Zoom Link: https://aegean-gr.zoom.us/j/95298188188?pwd=TC9IdzNER1c2dVNoQTVlVi9IcDFZUT09

Meeting ID: 952 9818 8188

Passcode: 796903

Organizers: Despina Catapoti, Despina Andriopoulou, Polina Nikolaou

 

Monday, 4 July 2022, 6pm-9pm (Greece local time)

Speaker: Athina Karatzogianni 

Communication, networked cultures and sociopolitical change

 

Tuesday, 5 July 2022, 6pm-9pm (Greece local time)

Speaker: Korina Patelli 

Social inequality, gender issues, human rights, environmental change in a networked world (part I)

 

Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 6pm-9pm (Greece local time)

Speaker: Christina Thomopoulou, panel discussion

Social inequality, gender issues, human rights, environmental change in a networked world (partII)

Speaker: Giorgos Konstantinou, Activist Art

 

Thursday, 7 July 2022, 6pm-9pm (Greece local time)

Speaker: Panagiotis Sotiris

Digital media and populism. Modes of cross-class media activism (working class, middle class, subaltern media actions)

 

Friday, 8 July 2022, 3pm-6pm (Greece local time)

Speaker:  Themistoclis Pantazakos, panel discussion. 

Civil society and alternative media organizations. Social media, citizen journalism, activist media, participatory media and specialized broadcast media: examples and case studies from Greece.

 

Friday, 8 July 2022, 6pm-9pm (Greece local time)

Speaker: Giorgos Souvlis 

The historical context of contemporary forms of media activism (in relation to 20th century movements, parties and struggles). Examples from Greece and beyond

 

II.           Border active research and (cyber)activism 

Location: online and onsite seminars in Greek

 

Tuesday, 12 July 2022, online 10 am – 1 pm (Greece local time)

  Speakers: Nayia Tselepi, Orestis Pangalos

Introduction to border studies and research, qualitative research methods (active and participatory observation), participatory and radical geographies and cartographies, representations, mind maps and (collective) mapping methodologies.

 

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Meeting ID: 818 1327 8899
Passcode: 027697

 

Wednesday, 13 July 2022, online 10 am – 1 pm (Greece local time)

Speakers: Nayia Tselepi, Orestis Pangalos

Border (cyber) activism and the concept of social change: presenting different solidarity and activism groups at local, national, European level as well as emergent border communities.

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Thursday, 14 July 2022, on site meeting at Mosaik in Mytilene, 5pm-9pm (Greece local time) https://g.page/LesvosSolidarity-Mosaik?share 

Coordination-Speakers: Nayia Tselepi, Orestis Pangalos

Visit: Experiential walk in Mytilene ‘hotspots’; from Sapfous square, the port; to Pano Skala and Kalamari tower; from Mosaik ‘humade’ wall to the city walls with graffiti. Parallel lecture: New social movements, cracks and struggles for social change (theory), Examples of new social movements, Autonomies and struggles for social change. Cracks in capitalism. 

Parallel lecture-discussion with Christi Petropoulou (Mosaik): New social movements, cracks and struggles for social change. Examples from Lesbos.

 

 Friday, 15 July 2022, on site meeting at Sapphos Square (small bus), 5pm-9pm (Greece local time) 

 

Collective Mapping workshop ‘our own border assemblage’; the procedure of creating a collective representation of the border and the active presence on it. 

 

 

 

III.            Human Geographies and fundamental rights & Methodologies of Participatory Video & Language & Audiovisual Techniques for journalists and film makers for social change video

Location: on site and online  in Greek

 

Monday 18/7, on site, 15.00-18.00, Postgraduate Aula TPTE (underground of Restaurant), Department of Cultural Technology and Communication
Speaker: Ioannis Skopeteas

Introduction to documentary film - Research methods

 

Monday 18/7, on site, 18.00-21.00, Amphitheater of Geography
Speaker- Discussion: Christy Petropoulou

Post-colonial and anti-colonial approaches to geographical studies. Epistemologies of the South.

 

Tuesday 19/7, on site, 09.00-15.00
Field Research

 

Tuesday 19/7, on site, 15.00-18.00, Postgraduate Aula TPTE (underground of Restaurant), Department of Cultural Technology and Communication 
Speaker: Ioannis Skopeteas

Scriptwriting and Intro to Camera

 

Tuesday 19/7, on site, 18.00-21.00 Amphitheater of Geography 

Speaker- Discussion: Christy Petropoulou

The concept of borders and the inequal development, Geopolitics, migrations.

 

Wednesday 20/7, on site, 09.00-15.00
Field research

 

Wednesday 20/7, on site, 15.00-18.00, Postgraduate Aula TPTE (underground of Restaurant), Department of Cultural Technology and Communication
Speaker: Alexandros Spathis  
Intro to Documentary editing

 

Wednesday 20/7, on site, 18.00-21.00 Amphitheater of Geography 

Speaker- Discussion: Christy Petropoulou

The right to the city, Autonomy of migration and solidarity spaces with refugees. 

 

Thursday 21/7, on site, 09.00-15.00
Field research

Thursday 21/7, on site, 15.00-18.00, Postgraduate Aula TPTE (underground of Restaurant), Department of Cultural Technology and Communication

Speaker: Ioannis Skopeteas
Camerawork and documentary direction

Thursday 21/7, on site, 18.00-21.00, Postgraduate Aula TPTE (underground of Restaurant), Department of Cultural Technology and Communication
Speaker: Alexandros Spathis  
Introduction to video editing

 

Friday 22/7, on site, 09.00-15.00, Postgraduate Aula TPTE (underground of Restaurant), Department of Cultural Technology and Communication
Speaker: Ioannis Skopeteas

Documentary editing and direction

Friday 22/7, on site, 15.00-21.00, Postgraduate Aula TPTE (underground of Restaurant), Department of Cultural Technology and Communication
Speaker: Alexandros Spathis  
Documentary editing and direction

 

Saturday 23/7, 09.00-15.00, Postgraduate Aula TPTE (underground of Restaurant), Department of Cultural Technology and Communication
Speaker: Ioannis Skopeteas

Documentary editing and direction

 

Saturday 23/7, 15.00-21.00, Postgraduate Aula TPTE (underground of Restaurant), Department of Cultural Technology and Communication
Speaker: Alexandros Spathis  
Documentary editing and direction

 

 

In addition to enrolling in the Summer School of the University of the Aegean, we encourage you to follow sessions of the two other Summer Schools, ONLINE and in ENGLISH, offered by the University of Granada (Spain) and the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). You can register for one or more of the following sessions optionally and free of charge. 

Students who follow these sessions will receive a Certificate of Attendance from each University. 

The online sessions in English are:

UGR.Thursday 26/5/22 (17,00-19,30h). Border Cultures (II): Key concepts for the development of educational projects in border contexts.

UGR. Thursday 9/6/22 (17,00-19,30h). Collaborative Cultures in the Digital Age (II): Case studies of collaborative transmedia cultural projects in migratory and cross-border contexts

UGR. Wednesday 15/6/22 (17,00-19,30h). Transmedia narratives and social activism (I): What are transmedia narratives? Definition and discussion of the concept of transmedia narratives in relation to dominant narrative practices. Story, storyworlds and transmediality. Intermediality versus transmediality. Typology of transmedia narratives.

UGR. Thursday 16/6/22 (17,00-19,30h). Transmedia narratives and social activism (II): Transmedia activism: study and analysis of successful transmedia projects to raise awareness of the migration crisis.

UGR. Wednesday 23/6/22 (17,00-19,30h). Cyberactivism: Cyborg Theory and Hacker Cultures. The smartphone as the"black box"of the border population (I): Definition of the main theories on cyberculture, cyborg and hacker culture and activism.

UNISALENTO. Wednesday 31/08/22 (5 hours): The geopolitical scenarios of migration in Southern Europe/ How to deal with European and national institutions on the issue of migration.

UNISALENTO. Thursday 1/9/22 (2,5 hours): What is citizen journalism?

UNISALENTO. Monday 5/9/22 (2 hours class+ 3 hours workshop): How to use blogs and social networks.

UNISALENTO. Tuesday 6/9/22 (2 hours class+ 3 hours workshop): How to use citizen journalism platforms.

UNISALENTO. Wednesday 7/9/22 (2 hours class+ 3 hours workshop): How to use smart phone