Cultures, Migrations, Borders - MigBord2014

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES - Department of Social Anthropology and History
7 Jul 2014 to 19 Jul 2014
Lesvos

 

 

MON 7

 

Αrrival

 

 

 

TUE 8

09.00-11.00

Local border histories and global asymmetries: intimate, material and symbolic violence (Laurie Kain Hart - Marica Rombou-Levidi)

12.00-14.00

Local border histories and global asymmetries: intimate, material and symbolic violence (Laurie Kain Hart - Marica Rombou-Levidi)

20.00

Welcome Reception

 

 

 

WED 9

9.00-11.00

Borders and representations
 (L. Myrivili)

12.00-14.00

Project Introduction

20.00

Film screening

 

 

 

THU 10

6.30

FIELDTRIP I:
Border Crossing to Ayvalik

(L. Myrivili, M. Rombou-Levidi, L.K. Hart)

 

 

 

FRI 11

 

Free day

19.30

Film screening

 

 

 

SAT 12

9.00-11.00

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

16.00-20.00

FIELDTRIP II:The Museum of Refugee Memory at Skala Loutron (J. Cowan)

 

 

 

SUN 13

9.00-11.00

The Jewish State of Anxiety: Between moral obligation and fearism in the treatment of African asylum seekers in Israel
 (B. Kalir)

17.30-20.30

Ph.D. Seminar I

 

 

 

MON 14

9.00-12.00

Migration, "hospitality" and the negotiation of difference in contemporary Greece
 (E. Papataxiarchis)

18.00-20.00

Migrants and agency
 (P. Topali)

20.00

Film screening

 

 

 

TUE 15

9.00

FIELDTRIP III:
Receiving the newcomer at the Greek border
(Mytilini) (K. Rozakou, P. Topali)

Presentations by T. Demeli, I. Pistikos and K. Polychroni

 

 

 

WED 16

10.00- 13.00

Ph.D. Seminar II

 

Free afternoon

 

 

 

THU 17

9.00-11.00

Medical assistance at the border: A discussion with practitioners (Dr. A. Veizis-Doctors Without Borders, Dr. N. Kampani-President of Plomari Municipal Community)

12.00-14.00

Humanitarian aid and refugee management (K. Rozakou)

 

Free afternoon

 

 

 

FRI 18

9.00-11.00

Welcoming the host: Immigrant homemaking 
and nested hospitality 


(F. Lindo)

12.00-15.00

Project Presentations

 

 

 

SAT 19

 

Departure

 

 

 

The Jewish State of Anxiety: Between moral obligation and fearism in the treatment of African asylum seekers in Israel