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SUMMARY:Circular Movements: Migratory Citizenships in Anticolonial Athens 
  - Dr Tom Western (University College London)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:This seminar remaps geographies of citizenship in Athens. It t
 hinks the city in circles and circulations\, tracing how people creatively
  contest the racialised logics of borders and citizenship regimes\, reimag
 ining questions of being and belonging in the city. The paper is structure
 d in three movements. The talk focuses\, first\, on how movements move –
  how activisms travel\, circulate\, migrate\; how citizenship struggles sh
 uttle from place to place\; how resistances resonate across relational geo
 graphies. Multiple social movements from Eastern Mediterranean cities gath
 er and converge in Athens today\, generating a feedback loop around the se
 a. The second movement thinks with poets – from Greece and from the Cari
 bbean – who write about Athens in circular movements\, as the city echoe
 s across anticolonial trajectories. The third movement foregrounds dance a
 nd the ways that youth activists combine Greek and Arabic dances into anti
 -border choreographies. These dances share the shape of the open circle\, 
 which becomes a space of belonging – a choreography of citizenship. Thro
 ugh these movements\, the city becomes a testing ground of activisms\, a s
 ong of solidarities\, an amplifier of demands\, an anticolonial Athens. An
 d the seminar seeks to reimagine citizenship through movement\, as movemen
 t\, as a movement.\n\nNo need to book for in-person attendance. "Register 
 here to receive zoom access details":https://wolfson-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/web
 inar/register/WN_teJ2xN4ES-uP50Ft5iTzbQ\n\n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Chancellor's Centre\, Wolfson College
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