Cultures, Migrations, Borders - MigBord2013

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES - Department of Social Anthropology and History
3 Jul 2013 to 14 Jul 2013
Lesvos

 

TUE 2

Αrrival

 

WED 3

09.00-9.30

Summer School Introduction

09.30-12.30

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

18.00-21.00

Borders and persons:
Unmixing and fixing in the post-Ottoman southern Balkans
(J. Cowan)

THU 4

9.30-12.30

Visible/invisible borders:
Ethnographic reflections on materiality, ontology
and politics of borders
(R. Dimova)

17.30-20.30

Visible/Invisible borders:
Borders and representation
(L. Myrivili)

21.30

Welcome Dinner

FRI 5

6.30

FIELDTRIP I: Border Crossing to Ayvalik

SAT 6

9.30-12.30

Borders, bodies and relative location in the Aegean:
Exploring the interface between
political and social border dynamics
(S. Green)

18.00-21.00

Public event in Plomari:
Spaces of public sociality
and host-guest interactions
(in Greek)

 

SUN 7

9.30-12.30

Controlled population mobility and biometrics
(S. Trubeta)

17.00-21.00

FIELDTRIP II:
Politics of memory and museum representation
(E. Petridou)
The Museum of Refugee Memory at Skala Loutron


 

MON 8

9.30-12.30

Asylum seekers in Israel:
How fearism shapes the construction of categories
and the political treatment of non-Jewish subjects

(B. Kalir)

18.00-21.00

Ph.D. Seminar I

TUE 9

9.30-12.30

‘Illegal’ traveller
(S. Khosravi)

18.00-21.00

Project Introduction:
Ethnographic research on the assistance
to asylum seekers/ refugees/immigrants

(K. Rozakou & E. Plexousaki)

WED 10

9.30

FIELDTRIP III: Receiving the Newcomer at the Greek border

1.       The detention center at Pagani
(I. Pistikos)

Receiving migrants and refugees in Lesvos
2.        Sholio Defteris Efkerias” (Second Chance School)
Assisting asylum seekers at the Greek border
(UNHCR)

3.        Horio Tou Oloi Mazi” (Village of All Together): 
Citizens’ solidarity at the border

 

THU 11

10.00

Visit from asylum seekers
hosted at Villa Azadi

18.00-21.00

Migration,' hospitality' and the negotiation of difference
in contemporary
Greek society
(E. Papataxiarchis)

FRI 12

9.30-12.30

Humanitarian aid and refugee management
(K. Rozakou)

18.00-21.00

Ph.D. Seminar II/ Project preparation

SAT 13

9.30-12.30

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

18.00-21.00

Project presentations

SUN 14

Departure

 

 

Receiving migrants and refugees at the Greek border: Fieldwork on Lesvos. The detention center at Pagani (E. Pistikos)