Programme

UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY

 

International Summer School “Cultures, Migrations, Borders”

Observatory of Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Aegean

 

A Virtual Workshop 

MIGRATIONS AND BORDERS IN THE AGE OF THE PANDEMIC

20 – 21 November 2020 | Zoom Platform

 

PROGRAMME

 

FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 19.00 - 21.20*

TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOUT BORDERS AND MIGRATIONS

 IN CHALLENGING TIMES: A CRITICAL ACCOUNT

 

19.00 - 20.00 First Round Table 

Chair: Effie PLEXOUSAKI and Elia PETRIDOU 

Evthymios PAPATAXIARCHIS | At the “Frontline”: A Critical Reflection on Teaching the “European Refugee Crisis” Where and When It Happens 

Barak KALIR | Some Reflections on Eight Years of Teaching in the Summer School "Cultures, Migrations and Borders"

Sarah GREEN | The Relocation of the “Cultures, Migrations and Borders” Summer School: How Events Shifted the Ground Beneath our Feet

Marica ROMBOU-LEVIDI | Lecturing about Other Borders and Other Temporalities 

 

20.00 - 20.20 Break 

 

20.20 - 21.20 Second Round Table 

Chair: Flip LINDO 

Katerina ROZAKOU | What Kind of Summer School? Refugees, Spectacle and Engagement

Heath CABOT | Claiming and Unlearning Expertise and the Temporalities of Border Knowledges

Laurie KAIN HART | From Segmentary Opposition to Racial and Carceral Capitalism: Reflections on Culture and Political Economy in Border Theory

Jane COWAN | The Continuing Importance of Thinking Historically about Border Regimes

 

SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER | 19.00 - 21.40 **

IRREGULAR TRAVELLERS IN THE PANDEMIC

 

19.00 - 20.00 Third Round Table

Chair: Laurie KAIN HART

Shahram KHOSRAVI | Smuggling in the Age of the Covid-19

Hans LUCHT | Sanitary Cordons and the Pathologisation of Migration

Effie VOUTIRA | Refugees Wearing Masks under Conditions of Covid 19 at the Borders of Europe

Michel AGIER | The Borders of the Pandemics against Epistemological Nationalism

20.00 - 20.20 Break

RACIALISATIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS

 

20.20 - 21.40 Fourth Round Table

Chair: Heath CABOT

Jean BEAMAN | The Outsider Within: Ethnographic Research on Race across Borders

Ruben ANDERSSON | Epidemiological Borders: When the Cure Becomes the Disease

Sevasti TRUBETA | Medicalised Borders and Racism in the Era of Humanitarianism

Jason DE LEON | Hostile Terrain 94: Memorializing Migrant Death in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona

Alexandra BOUNIA | Challenges of Addressing Migration in Museums during the Pandemic

 

* The round tables of the FIRST DAY will be open to LECTURERS and EX-STUDENTS who have taught and participated in the International Postgraduate Summer School “Cultures, Migrations, Borders.” An email of invitation will be sent to all previous Summer School participants. 

** The round tables of the SECOND DAY will be open to the PUBLIC. In order to attend the second day, please fill in the online registration form below. After registering you will receive a Zoom link. 

Register here: https://aegean-gr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4G-E35F_RIa56tt1D4JYRg

 

Time Zones

Eastern European Time 

Greenwich Mean Time – 2 Η

Eastern Standard Time - 7 H

Pacific Standard Time  – 10 Η

 

List of Speakers 

 

Michel Agier, Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales 

Ruben Andersson, Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Jean Beaman, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Alexandra Bounia, Professor, University of the Aegean

Heath Cabot, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Jane Cowan, Professor, University of Sussex

Jason De Leon, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Sarah Green, Professor, University of Helsinki

Laurie Kain Hart, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the Center of European and Russian Studies

Barak Kalir, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam 

Shahram Khosravi, Professor, Stockholm University

Flip Lindo, Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Amsterdam

Hans Lucht, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies 

Evthymios Papataxiarchis, Professor, University of the Aegean

Elia Petridou, Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean

Effie Plexousaki, Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean

Marica Rombou-Levidi, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Aegean 

Katerina Rozakou, Assistant Professor, Panteion University

Sevasti Trubeta, Assistant Professor, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences

Effie Voutira, Professor, University of Macedonia 

 

Scientific Committees

International Postgraduate Summer School “Cultures, Migrations, Borders”

Observatory of Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Aegean

 

Organizing Committee

Persefoni Kerentzi | PhD Student, National Kapodistrian University of Athens

Constantinos Diamantis | MA, Free University of Berlin

Maria Demertzi | MSc, Panteion University

 

Co-sponsored by  

Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh 

Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA