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Seeking Refuge: lessons from Europe's migration crisis

30 September 2019
6.00pm – 8.00pm AEST
UNSW Law Theatre G02
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The talk will focus on the European migration crisis; exploring the idea of the so-called "externalization" of migration control, its compatibility with the international law, its political sustainability as well as potential alternatives.

Please note this event is not catered.

Speaker details are below.

For further information, please contact Efrosini Deligianni: e.deligianni@unsw.edu.au

 

Speakers
Dimitris Christopoulos sitting at table speaking to crowd in front of a laptop

Dimitris Christopoulos

Dimitris Christopoulos is a Greek academic (Professor at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University in Athens), writer and activist. He has been elected P resident of the International Federation for Human Rights in 2016. FIDH Vice President in 2013 after having chaired the board of the Hellenic League for Human Rights for eight years (2003-2011). Christopoulos has studied law in Greece, political science in France, legal theory in Belgium and holds a French PhD in Public Law. He has taught as visiting Professor and has provided lectures in different universities in Europe and the US. His academic publications and books reflect par excellence his interventions as a public intellectual in the field of human rights, migration, minorities and citizenship. Christopoulos is frequently interviewed by international or Greek media, writes regularly in the Greek and to a lesser extend to the international press.            

Kostis Karpozilos sitting and looking slightly to the left

Kostis Karpozilos

Kostis Karpozilos is a historian and the director of the Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI). He has earned a degree in Modern Greek Literature at the University of Thessaloniki (2002), completed an M.A. in Historical Research at the University of Sheffield (2003) and a PhD in History at the University of Crete (2010). His thesis focused on revolutionary diasporas in the United States and the trajectory of Greek-American radicalism in the 20th century. He is the scriptwriter of the documentary Greek-American Radicals: the Untold Story (2013), the author of a book on the Cretan socialist intellectual Stavros Kallergis (Benaki Museum, 2013), and of Red America: Greek Immigrants and the Quest for a New World, 1900-1950 (Crete University Press, 2017). His latest book (co-authored with Dimitris Christopoulos) concerned the Macedonian Question (10+1 questions and answers on the Macedonian Question, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2018). Kostis was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, Princeton University and University of Oxford and has taught at the University of the Peloponnese, at Sciences Po and at Columbia University before joining College Year in Athens. He has written extensively on the Greek crisis, the European Left and the limits of political imagination in the post-1989 world and currently he is working on an international history of the Greek Left.