An initiative of TRANSIT MIGRATION
www.transitmigration.org

organised by Manuela Bojadzijev & Regina Römhild
in cooperation with Athanasios Marvakis, Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymno/Greece, Research Group on Exclusion and Dominance Structures, www.eled.auth.gr/reds



transnational europe I focuses on the formation of a new Europe of borders and migrations. This focus implies a shift in perspective: What is usually considered the periphery of the European Union – its southern and eastern fringes – has become a centre of transnational mobility, a hotspot for the movements of migration and Europe's attempts to control it. The former regions of recruited emigration to the North and West have now become zones of global immigration and transit. On the geopolitical map of western hegemony, Europe is becoming bigger: by enlarging and empowering its border regime in the South and the East. On the map of migration tactics and imagination, however, Europe is down-sized and de-centred by becoming a province of global pathways expressing and demanding freedom.

transnational europe I invites researchers, activists, and artists to explore and discuss the formation and the non-/representation of this new Europe as it emerges from the dynamic interplay of borders and migration movements. What does – and could – Europe look like from such perspective?

Tentative Schedule

Thursday, 21.10.

School of Social Sciences, University of Crete, Rethymno

16:00 – 17:00 Welcome reception
17:00 – 18.30 Greetings
Kostantinos Lavdas, Vice Chancellor of the University (invited)
Athanasios Marvakis, Dep. of Psychology, Rethymno
Opening Remarks
Regina Römhild, TRANSIT MIGRATION, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Frankfurt
Keynote
Georgios Tsiakalos, Dep. of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Nikos Poulantzas Society, Athens
19:00 Film Presentation
Zelimir Zilnik, Film maker, Novi Sad
Followed by dinner with all participants

Friday, 22.10.
School of Social Sciences, University of Crete, Gallos Campus at Rethymno
10:00 – 10:30 Border regimes – Migration regimes
Introduction
Team TRANSIT MIGRATION
10.30 – 13:00 Materials: Reports from the borders I
Chair
Sabine Hess, TRANSIT MIGRATION
Presentations
Dimitris Parsanoglou, EHESS, Paris
Ahmet Icduygu, Dep. of International Relations, Koc University, Istanbul
Ruba Salih, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna
Helmut Dietrich, Research Centre for Migration and Refuge, Berlin
Nicholas Bell, European Civic Forum
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Materials: Reports from the borders II
Chair
Rutvica Andrijasevic, TRANSIT MIGRATION
Presentations
Miltos Pavlou, KEMO – Research Centre for Minority Groups, Athens
Andrej Kurnik, Dep. of Political Sciences, University of Ljubljana
Bruno Riccio, University of Bologna
Bridget Anderson, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 19.00 Mapping Europe
Introduction and chair
Marion von Osten, TRANSIT MIGRATION, Institute for the Theory of Design and Art, Zurich
Presentations
William Walters, Dep. of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa
Olivier Clochard, Migrinter, University of Poitiers
Labor k3000, Zurich
An Architektur, Berlin
20:00 Dinner (location to be announced)


Saturday, 23.10.

School of Social Sciences, University of Crete, Gallos Campus at Rethymno
10:00 – 12:00 Europe & Citizenship
Introduction and chair
Manuela Bojadzijev, TRANSIT MIGRATION
Presentations
Enrica Rigo, Naples
Alain Tarrius, Migrinter, University of Poitiers; CNRS/EHESS, Paris
Asha Varadharajan, Queen’s University, Toronto
12:00 – 13:00 Break
13:00 – 15:00 Autonomy of Migration
Introduction and chair
Serhat Karakayali, TRANSIT MIGRATION
Presentations
Yann Moulier Boutang, Université de Technologie de Compiègne et Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris
Sandro Mezzadra, Dep. of Political Sciences, University of Bologna
Dana Diminescu, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris

15:00 – 20:00 Optional activities to be announced
20:00 Barbecue and party at Steki Metanaston, migrants’ centre, Rethymno

Sunday, 24.10.

Steki Metanaston, Migrants’ Centre, Rethymno
10:30 – 15:00 (including break)
Forms and Strategies of Counter-/Self-Organization
Introduction and chair
Efthimia Panagiotidis & Vassilis Tsianos, TRANSIT MIGRATION
Presentations
Diktyo (Greece)
Tavola di Migranti (Italy)
no border (Germany)
Coordination national de Sans Papiers (France)
Kanak Attak/Society for Legalisation (Germany)
GISTI (France)
Physicians for Human Rights (Israel)
Malaga Social Forum (Spain)
Steki Metanaston (Greece)

Final Discussion
Working in/against the border regime: prospects/restrictions/pitfalls
Critique of symposium – perspectives
Transeuropean research network: perspectives
Followed by a final meeting for lunch at the sea

TRANSIT MIGRATION Video/Textlounge
Friday/Saturday 22./23.10., University of Crete, Rethymno

With films and materiales by Nevin Aladag, Berka Bas, Esra Esren, Brigitta Kuster et al.
All participants are asked to bring along and lend us own or other books/articles/materials and films of interest for the video/textlounge !




funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany [Kulturstiftung des Bundes]

Registration and Accomodation
Get yourself registered at symposium (at) transitmigration.org
Registration implies free admission to the symposium and information supply.

Symposium Locations
School of Social Sciences, University of Crete, Gallos Campus at Rethymno [www.uoc.gr]
Steki Metanaston, migrants’ centre, downtown Rethymno
Hotel Olympic, 42 Moatsou Street, Rethymno

How to get to Rethymno
The next airports are Heraklion or Chania. From there, you can get to Rethymno individually by bus or taxi. More comfortable (and free of charge) is our shuttle service from/to the airport. To make use of that service, please communicate your dates of arrival and departure to symposium (at) transitmigration.org

Where to stay in Rethymno

Hotel Olympic serves as the main base for symposium accommodation. Located at the centre of the town, it attracts with reasonable prices, a small swimming pool and a rubber plant shaded terrace next to the lively Moatsou street. Around the corner, the bus is leaving for the University campus. 5-10 min. walk to the sea.
The hotel offers reduced prices for those who book as participants of the symposium transnational europe I. These prices also apply to days spent in advance or after the symposium. Single room: 27 Euro, Double: 34 Euro, Triple: 42 Euro
42 Moatsou str., Tel.: +30 – 28310 – 24761-64, Fax: +30 – 28310 – 24900, email: lentzaki (at) hol.gr (please note „transnational europe symposium reservation“ as subject)

Hotel Mythos, a restored 16th century manor house situated in the old town, offers Venetian-style comfort in studios and suites for 2-4 persons with prices ranging from 100 to 130 Euro. 12 Karaoli Dimitriou, Tel.: +30–28310–53917, Fax: +30–28310–-51036

Olga’s Pension, backpackers’ Inn in the old town with very small, simple rooms and a picturesque roof terrace, very reasonable prices. 57 Souliou (Platanos), Tel.: +30–28310–53206 or –28665, Fax: +30–28310–29851

Youth Hostal, Tombazi str. (old town), 8 Euro/night. +30–28310–22848

For more hotels and general tourist information on Rethymno and Crete check www.rethymnon.gr








TRANSIT MIGRATION
is a collaborative project of researchers, artists, cultural producers, film makers, political and media activists working on the current dynamics of a new Europe emerging from transnational migration movements across the borders of the EU. The project generates artistic productions, empirical research, intellectual networking and debate. The results from that collaborative work will be presented and discussed at two international symposiums: transnational europe I. migration across southern/eastern borders, October 21 – 24, 2004, Rethymno (Crete/Greece) and transnational europe II. germany, europe, and global migration movements, October 2005, Cologne (Germany). Furthermore, the results will contribute to the exhibition of in Cologne, 2005, which is designed and realized with Koelnischer Kunstverein and DOMIT e.V. The project is hosted by the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Frankfurt and the Institute for Theory of Art and Design (HGK Zurich).

TRANSIT MIGRATION
is realized by and with: An Architektur (Berlin), Al Abdani Quaida (Athens), Rutvica Andrijasevic (Berlin), Manuela Bojadzijev (Frankfurt), Sun-Ju Choi (Cologne), Nikola Duric (Hamburg), Harun Farocki (Berlin), FFM - Research Centre for Migration and Refuge (Berlin), Charambolos Ganotis (Berlin), Sabine Hess (Frankfurt), Ebru Karaca (Frankfurt a. M), Serhat Karakayali (Frankfurt a.M.), Gülsün Karamustafa (Istanbul), Astrid Kusser (Hamburg), Brigitta Kuster (Berlin), Labor k3000 (Zurich), Ramona Lenz (Frankfurt), Marcin Michalski (Hamburg), Efthimia Panagiotidis (Hamburg), Dont Rhine/ Ultra Red (Los Angeles), Vassilis Tsianos (Frankfurt), Zelimir Zilnik (Novi Sad), et al.
Artistic direction: Marion von Osten, Institute for Theory of Design and Art (Zurich), Scientific direction: Regina Römhild, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Frankfurt, Coordination: Sophie Goltz, Institute for Theory of Design and Art (Zurich) and Sabine Hess, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Frankfurt.

www.transitmigration.org

TRANSIT MIGRATION is part of the , an enterprise initiated by the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany (www.kulturstiftung-bund.de ) in cooperation with Koelnischer Kunstverein.