Transitory Lives, Force Migration Symposium, 3 – 5 June 2016

Panteion University,  Athens. [Auditorium: Karagiorga II]

 

FRIDAY 3 June

14.15 – 14.30  Registration

14.30 – 15.30  Transitory Lives: Forced Migration time and again (Giorgos Tsimouris; Response by E3 Pirea)

15.30 – 16.00  The politics of invisibility and irregularity in the deportation   regime (Katerina Rozakou)

16.00 – 16.30  Assisting Refugees – Lessons Learnt (Maria Nakasian – MetAction)

16.30 – 17.00  Coffee – Networking

17.00 – 17.30  Assisting Refugees – The solidarian perspective (Sotiris Alexopoulos – Panpeiraiki Protovoulia)

17.30 – 18.45  Roundtable Discussion (Chair & Comment by Heath Cabot)

 

SATURDAY 4 JUNE

09.15. 09.30  Welcome – Coffee

09.30 – 09.45  Welcome Address: Athena Athanasiou

09.45 – 10.15  UNHCR: Children and Refugees

10.15 – 11.15  Transitory Lives: Preliminary Findings (Elisabeth Kirtsoglou; Response by E3 Pirea, D. Skleparis – ELIAMEP)

11.15 – 11.45  Coffee – Networking

11.45 – 13.15  From NGOs to Solidarity: Refugees, Neoliberalism, and the Specter of the Welfare State in Austerity Greece (Heath Cabot)

Compassionationalism, refugeewatching,   refugeewashing: A Response on the biopolitics of solidarity (Dimitris Papanikolaou)

13.15 – 14.00  Lunch – Networking

14.00 – 14.30 Migrants, Refugees and the Media: The discourse of the Extreme Centre on Repression as Moderation. (Augustine Zenakos – UNFOLLOW)

Μετανάστες, πρόσφυγες και ΜΜΕ: Ο λόγος του Ακραίου Κέντρου και η καταστολή ως μετριοπάθεια (Αυγουστίνος Ζενάκος – UNFOLLOW)

14.30 – 15.15  Echoes from Lesvos (Giorgos Tyrikos Ergas)

15.15 – 16.00  The long journey (E3 Pirea)

16.00 – 16.30  Coffee – Networking

16.30 – 18.00  Round-Table Discussion

18.00 – 19.30  The construction of ‘otherness in times of crisis: Refugees   through the lens of the past and the present (Daphne Basta, Maria Koumianaki, Christina Ouzounidou – HUMANITY IN ACTION)

“Mikra Asia” : A documentary by Vaggelis Serntaris. Comment: Kostas Kolovos, Giorgos Tsimouris.

 

SUNDAY 5 JUNE

09.30 – 10.30  Keynote: Michel Agier

10.30 – 12.00  Post-Lesvos, or Stuck in Transit (Barbara Papadopoulou)

12.00 – 13.30  A Challenging Field (Maria Kenti-Kranidioti)

13.30 – 13. 45  Ending Remarks: G. Tsimouris – E. Kirtsoglou