TOMORROW: Final Program of Symposium to honour, and celebrate the work of Professor Ari Sitas

[Nicos Trimikliniotis]

Symposium to honour, and celebrate the work of Professor Ari Sitas

22 April 2017, Home for Cooperation, Nicosia

 

9.30 -11.00    INTRODUCTION: ‘Ari Sitas - Academic, Public Intellectual, Poet and Artist: Connecting Cyprus, South Africa, India, global sociology, education, literature and music’.

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

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

Sitas and Cypriotism in the world System, Andreas Panayiotou 

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

Prospects for Reconciliation in a deviant world Ari Sitas

1.00-2.00 Lunch break

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

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

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

Defiant Sitas and Loose women: A challenge for Social Scientists, Amrita Pante

4.00. 5.30   Ari Sitas Response

Rough Music: Poetry by Ari Sitas & others