Join us Nov 4-7 for our first international hybrid nomadic symposium “Decolonizing Hellas: Imperial Pasts, Contested Presents, Emancipated Futures, 1821-2021.”
The initiative dëcoloиıze hellάş invites you to its first international hybrid nomadic symposium “Decolonizing Hellas: Imperial Pasts, Contested Presents, Emancipated Futures, 1821-2021.”
Decolonizing Hellas: Imperial Past, Contested Presents, Emancipated Future 1821-2021 brings together activists, artists, journalists and scholars to reflect on colonial museum practices, the relations between race, colonialism and state building, political identity-building processes, the de-colonization of Cyprus, the relationship between colonialism and capitalism at sea and maritime cosmopolitanism, epistemicide and cosmopolitics, decolonial feminist methodologies, among many other topics.
Through various ways – panels, dialogues and interviews, workshops, assemblies, walking anti-tours, artistic events – we aspire to engage with a broad audience and reflect on our imperial largely silenced pasts, our troubled times marked by capitalist exploitation, racial and gender violence, xenophobia and white supremacy nostalgia and open pathways to more inhabitable and inclusive futures.
Keynote speakers:
Dušan I. Bjelić, Julian Go, Mahmood Mamdani, Gina Athena Ulysse, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Ann Stoler
Online and in situ – at PLYFA Industrial Park, Koritsas 39 in Votanikos, Athens, from 4 to 7 November 2021.
You can find the program for the symposium, here: https://decolonizehellas.org/
Notes:
– All discussions and talks will be available on live stream in our YouTube channel (click here).
– Due to public health restrictions related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, only a limited number of people will be able to enter the venue, on a first-come-first-served basis.
The dëcoloиıze hellάş collective:
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos (American University of Beirut)
Despina Lalaki (The City University of New York – CUNY)
Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Sissie Theodosiou (University of Ioannina)
Fotini Tsibiridou (University of Macedonia)
With the support of the:
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – Office in Greece
