1.  THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF MIGRATION AND BORDERS

Migration as controlled population mobility (S. Trubeta)

Surveillance and biometrics (S. Trubeta)

Formal and informal migrations in the post-Ottoman area in the 20th c. (J. Cowan)

Methodological issues in ethnographic research on borders and migration (E. Plexousaki)

Refugee memory as museum narrative  (E. Petridou)

Sites, localities, distance and transfers from the viewpoint of a micro-society:

Ethnographic research on transfers  (A. Bakalaki)

Commodities, globalization and border crossings (T. Bampilis)

2. INSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE MIGRATORY CONDITION

Asylum and migration policies in Greece and the EU  (E. Petrakou)

Legal borders and the borders of legality: national belonging and deportation

regimes (B. Kalir)

3. PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: IMMIGRANT GROUPS, REFUGEES AND HOST COMMUNITIES

Visible/Invisible Borders: Ethnographic Reflections on Materiality, Ontology and

Politics of Borders (R. Dimova)

On the construction of borders and their relative meaning in everyday life (L. Myrivili)                                                                                                         

Life/Survival strategies of migrants and refugees with special reference to particular

Asian and African groups (B. Kalir)

Borders, Bodies and Relative Location in the Aegean: in the Aegean: exploring the

interface between political and social border dynamics (S. Green)

Cultural and social aspects of interacting  with the 'other' (V. Moutafi)

Amoral nationalism and natural eyesight: The Dutch and their aliens (F. Lindo)

4. CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS ACROSS BORDERS AND INTERACTIONS OF HOST/IMMIGRANT ON THE BORDER

Welcoming the host: Immigrant homemaking and nested hospitality (F. Lindo)

Migration,' hospitality' and the negotiation of difference in contemporary

Greek society (E. Papataxiarchis)

Humanitarian aid and refugee management (Κ.Rozakou)

Receiving migrants and refugees at the Greek border: fieldwork on Lesbos, the detention centre at Pagani. (E. Pistikos)

PROGRAMME

THU 28

arrival

FRI 29

9.30 -11.30

Migration as controlled population mobility (S. Trubeta)

12.00-13.30

Surveillance and biometrics (S. Trubeta)

Formal and informal migrations in the post-Ottoman

17.30-20.30

area in the 20th c. (J. Cowan)

21.00

Welcome Dinner

SAT 30

9.30 -12.30

Sites, localities, distance and transfers from the 

viewpoint of a micro-society:

ethnographic research on transfers (A. Bakalaki)

13.00

Walk in Plomari – Visit at the ouzo distillery Varvagianni

Commodities, globalization and border crossings

18.00-21.00

(T. Bampilis)

SUN 1

9.30-12.30

Asylum and migration policies in Greece and the EU 

(E. Petrakou)

13.30

Vrana Oil Press Museum

Legal borders and the borders of legality:

18.00-21.00

 national belonging and deportation regimes (B. Kalir)

MON 2

9.30 -11.30

Visible/Invisible Borders: Ethnographic Reflections on

Materiality, Ontology and Politics of Borders (R. Dimova)

12.00-13.30

On the construction of borders and their relative

18.00-21.00

meaning in everyday life (L. Myrivili)

TUE 3

09.00-12.00

Life/Survival strategies of migrants and refugees

with special reference to particular Asian and African

groups (B. Kalir)

13.00

FIELDTRIP

Former refugee and migrant detention centre at Pagani

14.00-15.00 

Receiving migrants and refugees at the Greek border:

fieldwork on Lesbos. The centre at Pagani. (E. Pistikos)

Skala Loutron

Museum of refugee memory

Refugee memory as museum narrative  (E. Petridou)

WED 4

9.30 -11.30

Borders, Bodies and Relative Location in the Aegean:

 exploring the interface between political

12.00-13.30

and social border dynamics (S. Green)

18.00-21.00

Preparation for the fieldtrip and the project  Methodological issues in ethnographic research

on borders and migration (S. Green & E.Plexousaki) 

THU 5

06.30

FIELDTRIP: Border Crossing to Ayvalik

FRI 6

9.30 -11.30

Amoral nationalism and natural eyesight:

 The Dutch and their aliens (F.Lindo)

12.00-14.00

Cultural and social aspects of interacting

with the 'other' (V. Moutafi)

18.00-21.00

Project preparation/

Ph.D. seminar Ι

SAT 7

9.30 -12.30

Humanitarian aid and refugee management

(K. Rozakou)

13.30

FIELDTRIP: Refugee reception center at Agiasos

and joint activities in Mytilini (E.Plexousaki)

Mytilini: walk in the city

SUN 8

9.30 -11.30

Migration,' hospitality' and the negotiation of difference

in contemporary Greek society (E. Papataxiarchis)

12.00-13.30

18.00-21.00

project preparation/

Ph.D. seminar ΙΙ

MON 9

9.30-12.30

Welcoming the host: Immigrant homemaking

and nested hospitality (F. Lindo) 

18.00

project presentations and evaluation

TUE 10

departure