July 2019
Portraits of research moments
The second leg of my fieldwork has now been completed as I look back and reflect on the summer time of my research in Lesvos and Athens....
June 4, 2019
Graduate Seminar at Panteion University, on Theory- Praxis- Politics: ‘ the specific way of presenting your research process was inspiring in terms of the mesh of basic concepts and methodological tools’ the organizer wrote to me amongst others after the seminar.
June 5, 2019: Back to Lesvos, feels strange but familiar this time ...
June 6, 2019
Opening ceremony of the conference on ‘Social Sciences Today’ at the Municipal Theatre of Mytilini. There is a multicultural chorus with songs from all over the world at the end of the ceremony and in it I can see Warda, one of my interviewees, singing. Her friend Erika, who I also interviewed, is also in the audience. I talk to them after the end of the ceremony. Warda is happy, as she has got asylum, Erika is still waiting, but they are both beautiful and look serene.
June 7, 2019
First full day of the conference and my paper is at 2pm, just after lunch. This time the topic is on methodologies:
June 10, 2019
Coffee with Linda in the same café that she was the translator of an interview. I am so happy to see her again.
June 11, 2019
Last full day in Mytilini and I had arranged to visit the UNHCR office. The meeting is called off at the last moment. This is a day of tragedy for Lesvos, 7 people were drowned including 2 children:
Seven asylum seekers have reportedly drowned while trying to reach the Greek island of Lesvos from Turkey's shores after their boat sank while carrying more than 60 people. According to reports, Greece's coast guard was alerted ataround 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning to a boat in distress off the island's coast and arrived in time to save 57 passengers. Seven people had already drowned before help could reach them, however, with reports saying that two of the victims were children. Five rescue vessels and one helicopter are still searching the area for more possible victims, as the survivors were being questioned at Mytilini port to ascertain exactly how many passengers were on board the boat when it set sail from nearby Turkey.
June 19, 2019
Guest speaker of the ‘Feminist No Borders’ summer short course. My intervention was on
‘Feminist Pedagogies of Listening’
Feminist pedagogies of listening in.pdf