Check details and register here. You can watch the event on our YouTube channel, here. Susan Robertson “Just Educational Futures” Thomas Piketty and colleagues (Piketty 2020; Gethin, Martinez-Toledano and Piketty 2021), amongst others, point to what appears a paradox; that in many Western societies, a significant rise in the level of social inequalities over the […]
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8th Seminar: Aristotle Kallis “The banality of fascism”
Little over a hundred years ago the word ‘fascism’ was meaningless. Only a few ‘dense’ years later it had graduated into a formidable trope, first in Italy and very soon across an ever-expanding range of countries. Superlatives have accompanied historical accounts of fascism ever since its appearance in crisis-ridden post-WW1 Italy. Surely something as extreme, […]
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5th Seminar: Olga Lafazani, “The significance of the insignificant. Borders, migration, everyday life”
The aim of the paper is to reflect on how borders proliferate in everyday life, not only through laws, institutions or policing practices, but also through deeds, words, and feelings. Rather than analyse migration and borders by focusing only on the borderzones, this paper attempts to capture the multiple relations that connect the camp to […]
4th Seminar: Vassilis Lambropoulos
The world has been undergoing unprecedented transformations over the past two decades. Historical time has accelerated and thickened at the same time as a result of political, social, and economic challenges which led to new configurations of power on the global and local levels. The question “what is to be done?” seems more pressing than […]
3rd Seminar: Elisa Giustinianovich, Alejandra Salinas Inostroza, Viviana Soledad Delgado Riquelme
“Constitutional developments in Chile” Social movements erupted during the last decades against the cracks of the Chilean model; they have developed and gained experience in the heat of anti-neoliberal and popular struggles. The 2019 social revolt forced the opening of a constitutional process. Social movements decided to get involved in the institutional field with the […]
2nd seminar: Seraphim Seferiades – Loukia Kotronaki
You can watch the seminar live here. Seraphim Seferiades “Why calling the Far Right (and the Left) ‘populist’ is a bad idea, and why it is done” ‘Concepts’, wrote Cambridge physicist George Thomson (1856-1940), ‘are ideas which receive names. They determine the questions one asks, and the answers one gets’. Scholars create words (conceptualize) to […]
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What do you know about TTIP?
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, in collaboration with the Nicos Poulantzas Institute, organized on June 10th & 11th a 2-days information meeting in Athens. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive free trade and investment treaty currently being negotiated – in secret – between the European Union and the USA. But why is […]
Coping strategies of neo-Nazism in schools
In 2012 the threat of neo-Nazism in Greece has increased dramatically. With a presence in parliament and public life, his followers are trying in every way to loudly declare their presence at every opportunity and in every area of social life – including, in schools. The seminar on “Coping strategies of neo-Nazism in schools” wants […]
Immigration policy in Greece and Europe in times of crisis
Because of the displacement of the escape routes in the Mediterranean, Greece is currently one of the most important transit countries for migrants and refugees bound for the EU. The number of immigrants and undocumented refugees in Greece is too big. In this exhorted inflammatory statements from the ranks of the neo-fascist party Golden Dawn, […]
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