Fwd: Symposium to celebrate the work and honour Professor Ari Sitas(Saturday 22 April) & Public lecture on Monday 24th April

[Nicos Trimikliniotis]

Symposium to celebrate the work and honour Professor Ari Sitas

Home for Cooperation, 22 April 2017

9.30 -10.00    INTRODUCTION: ‘Ari Sitas - Academic, Public Intellectual, Poet and Artist: Connecting Cyprus, South Africa, India, global sociology, education, literature and music’.

10.00-11.00   Prospects for Reconciliation in a deviant world, Ari Sitas & Comments/Responses/Discussion  

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

11. 15-1.00 Sitas and ‘Third spacing’:  Reconciliation in Cyprus, Africa & Europe

Sitas and African Sociology, Faisal Garba

Sitas and Reconciliation in Cyprus, Charis Psaltis

Third spaces, queer zones and postcolonialism, Stavros Karayiannis

1.00-2.00 Lunch break

2.00-3.30    Sitas: Education, Theory, Art and Music

Sitas - founder and initiator: From Global Studies towards Southern Global Studies, Ercüment Celik

Mutinous Sitas - Thousand Molecules spinning: The strike is over/ the dead must return to work. [Theorising Spaces for labour, struggles, culture, deviance, reconciliation], Nicos Trimikliniotis

Sitas "Theoretical parables" - universally comprehensible, communally accessible, arrogantly local Wiebke Keim

But do we really play the same cello? From The Flight of the Gwala Gwala Bird to Insurrections, Sumangala Damodaran

3.30-3.50 Coffee break

3.50. 5.30   Sitas, Deviance and the Windmills

 Sitas, Deviance and the study of sex work, Amrita Pante

When prisoners bring their knowledge to the academic world and to the judicial power, Gaëtan Cliquennois

Soviet Intelligentsia and debates around it, Meri Yeranosyan

Defiance as Survival in a Cairo Heritage Site, Dalia Wahdan