Black Sea Cities: State Practices, Co-Existence and Migration

Abstracts submitted to date:

Neal Ascherson (Writer and journalist)
Abkhazia

Tunç Aybak (International Relations, Middlesex University, London)
Diogenes’ Lantern: Searching for a Regional Cosmopolitanism in the Black Sea Region

Voutira Eftihia (Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia)
Repatriation to where? The failed repatriation project of the exiled Greeks from Kokand to Symferopol, Crimea

Martin Demant Frederiksen (Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Treacherous horizons: Hope and confinement among youth on the Georgian Black Sea coast

Caroline Humphrey (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Maritime movement and sailors' attachments

Yael Navaro-Yashin (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Vocal Dwellings: Materiality, Commensurability, and the Eloquence of the Built Environment in Istanbul

Andreas Notaras (Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Athens, Greece)
An autochthonous Diaspora: The Pontic Greeks of Gelendzhik (Provisional title)

Ilay Romain Ors (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey)
Notes from the Diaspora of the City: Three modes of urban cosmopolitanism or How to write about Istanbul in Athens

Marina Sapritsky (Anthropology, LSE)
Turbulent waters of the Black Sea:  the aftermath of Jewish migration in Odessa

Vera Skvirskaya (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
The many faces of Turkish Odessa

Deniz Yükseker (Sociology Department, Koç University, Turkey)
Laleli, Istanbul as a Borderland in the Transnational Shuttle Trade Network

Discussants

Andrew Barry (Oxford University Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford)

Mathijs Pelkmans (Department of Anthropology, LSE, UK)

Wendy Pullan (Department of Architecture, Cambridge)

Melanie Sully (Vice President, Institute for Parliamentarism and Democracy Questions, Vienna)

Lale Yalcin-Heckmann (Department of Anthropology, Max Planck, Halle, Germany)


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