Refugees’ Solidarity City

Conference Presentations

  1. Kyriazidou, I. (2024). Instances of care and carelessness for refugees: reconsidering the concept of hospitality in urban Greece. Interdisciplinary Conference: Performing Care and Carelessness, February 14-16, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand + hybrid.
  2. Tsavdaroglou, C. (2023). Solidarity urban commons vs resilient cities. Newcomers’ right to the city in Athens and Thessaloniki. International Conference on Humanitarian Crisis Management (KRISIS 2023), International Hellenic University, October 14-15, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  3. Tsavdaroglou, C. and Hatziprokopiou P.(2023). Decolonising urban atmospheres. Migrants’ commoning solidarities in Thessaloniki. Conference: Atmospheric Borders, Australian Critical Border Studies, October 4-6, Virtual.
  4. Tsavdaroglou, C. (2023). Hostile vs solidarity cities to newcomers. The refugees’ right to the city in Athens, Mytilene and Thessaloniki. Conference: Solidarity and Support in a Post-Welfare Era, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, September 14-15, Skopje, North Macedonia.
  5. Giannopoulou, C. (2023). Criminalizing Solidarity in Lesvos Island, Greece. State and local practices. Seminar on the Border, April 21-24, Podlasie, Gruszki, Polland.

Invited Lectures in conferences, summer schools, postgraduate and undergraduate courses

  1. Tsavdaroglou, C. (2024). Critical approaches on resilience and invention of urban commons. The case of refugees’ accommodation in Athens and Thessaloniki. Lecture in in postgraduate course: Socio-spatial Dimensions of Resilience, Master’s degree in Urban Planning for Sustainable and Resilient Development School of Spatial Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, April 2, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  2. Tsavdaroglou, C. (2023). Decolonize the camp. Affective and solidarity geographies of invisible common spaces. Lecture in undergraduate course: Urban Space and Migration Flows, School of Spatial Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, December 13, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  3. Tsavdaroglou, C. (2023). Post-democratic governance in refugee camps versus newcomers’ architectural housing commons in Athens and Thessaloniki. Lecture in Migration, Displacement and Belonging research theme, Coventry University, October 3, Coventry, UK.
  4. Tsavdaroglou, C. (2023). Hostile vs solidarity cities. The newcomers’ right to move and right to stay in Balkan geographies. Lecture in ENLIGHT Summer School “EU border regime(s) and the shrinking spaces of solidarity”, September 19-22, Göttingen, Germany.

Journal Articles (peer review)

  1. Tsavdaroglou, C., Giannopoulou, C., Frangopoulos, Y., Hatziprokopiou, P., Kyriazidou, I. and Valiantzas, Z. (2024). Bye bye Moria: Escape commons vs policies of military campization. Ethnic and Racial Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2399729
  2. Tsavdaroglou, C. (2024). Homeless migrants’ commoning practices. “Our House” solidarity project in Athens’ Omonoia square. European Journal of Geography, 15(1), 54-63. https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.c.tsa.15.1.054.063