Event overview
Anthropologist Evthymios Papataxiarchis is our guest, part of the Anthropology Departmental Seminars series on Collaborations and the Contemporary Research Milieu.
In the course of 2015, Skala Sykamnias, a fishing village and tourist idyll on the northern coast of Lesbos, became the informal gate into Europe for more than 200.000 refugees.
Suddenly my ‘historical fieldwork site’ was traversed from different directions by massive flows of people and things in what has been termed as 'the refugee crisis'. My talk is about the local impact of this event. I became witness to a great variety of actors enacting what are often dissonant ideals and strategies, to several theatres of operation and reception ‘structures’, both frontline and back stage, and to debates - over the authenticity of 'disinterested' motives, the nature of ‘solidarity’ and the role of the NGOs – that revolve around humanitarian action in the region. I am particularly interested in what seems to be a ‘generative moment’ full of contradictions. The local community is falling apart whilst to the incoming it represents freedom. It is becoming a mini theatre of conflicts that echoes wider debates on the political future of Europe.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 Mar 2016 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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