Our #otheranthrpolitics international workshop in Volos looks like it’s going to be a blast! Here’s the programme of all the talks and round tables:
MONDAY 15 APRIL
Morning Session
10:30 – 11:00 Welcome coffee
11:00 – 11:10 Introductory comments: Aimilia Voulvouli & Alexandros Kioupkiolis
11:10 – 11:40 Ida Susser (CUNY): Commoning in Paris and Barcelona: the challenges of transformative politics
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion
12:00 -12:30 Round Table
- Antonio Vesco (AUTH): Circuits and short circuits of law: The political dispute around the construction of legal instruments for the application of the commons in Italy
- Manuela Zechner (AUTH): Childcare commons beyond the private-public binary: it takes a Poble-Sec to raise a child
- Hara Kouki (University of Durham, Hellenic Open University, Open Lab Athens): From Claims-based Protests to Solidarity Initiatives: Tracing Transformations of Collective Action in Athens, 2010-2017
12:30 – 13:00 Discussion
Afternoon Session
16:00 -16:30 Vassilis Bellis (Development Agency of Karditsa): The Collaborative Ecosystem of Karditsa
16:30 – 17:00 Kaiti Velessiotou (Women’s Centre of Karditsa): Application of an out of settlement pilot action for Roma Women by the Women’s Centre of Karditsa
17:00 – 17:30 Discussion
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 – 18:20 Round Table
- Yeoryios Stamboulis (University of Thessaly): Commons or Clubs? Ideas from the world of knowledge
- Alexandros Papageorgiou (University of Thessaly): Knowledge brokers in cooperative networks: becoming actors in the production of hope
18:20 – 19:00 Discussion
TUESDAY 16 APRIL
Morning Session
11:00 – 11:30 Valeria Siniscalchi (EHESS): Mobilisations, activism and economic alternatives
11:30 – 12:00 Discussion
12:00 – 12:30 Roundtable
- Helen Panagiotpoulos (CUNY): Money as Unifying? Spheres of Exchange in the Single Currency
- Alexandros Kioupkiolis (AUTH) and Paolo Dini (LSE): The alter-politics of complementary currencies: The case of Sardex
- Stefani Giaka (University of Thessaly): Commons and collective action: deliberating over two ongoing case studies in Greece
12:30 – 13:00 Discussion
Afternoon Session
16:00 – 16:30 Vassilis Chryssos (Sarantaporo.gr): Sarantaporo.gr: a community aspect of wireless networking technology
16:30 – 17:00 Discussion
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 – 18:00 Roundtable
- Aimilia Voulvouli (AUTH): Tying the node: community – politics and their connection gifts
- George Dafermos (AUTH): Digital Commons and Peer Production: Exploring their transformative potential
- Paschalis Arvanitidis (University of Thessaly): ‘The commons’ as an institution: the perspective of the Original Institutional Economics
18:00 – 18:30 Discussion
18:30 – 19:00 Closing Discussion