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Hagia Sophia as Symbol and Hostage of Actual Politics
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Alexey LidovAyşe ÇağlarClemena Antonova
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
On 10 July 2020, by a decree of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the basilica of Hagia Sophia – the central monument of the Byzantine Empire and the entire Orthodox world – was turned from a museum into a mosque. The conversion attracted worldwide attention and the leaders of the US, the EU and Russia, as well as most international institutions, appealed to Erdoğan not to go ahead with the plan. However, all the warnings were ignored and the first festive Muslim service was held on 24 July, with the country’s leadership in attendance. In this talk, various aspects of the conversion of Hagia Sophia, including political, religious, cultural and art-historical issues of this most significant event, were discussed.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
On 10 July 2020, by a decree of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the basilica of Hagia Sophia – the central monument of the Byzantine Empire and the entire Orthodox world – was turned from a museum into a mosque. The conversion attracted worldwide attention and the leaders of the US, the EU and Russia, as well as most international institutions, appealed to Erdoğan not to go ahead with the plan. However, all the warnings were ignored and the first festive Muslim service was held on 24 July, with the country’s leadership in attendance. In this talk, various aspects of the conversion of Hagia Sophia, including political, religious, cultural and art-historical issues of this most significant event, were discussed.
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Homo Itinerans
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Lecture
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Alessandro MonsuttiAyşe ÇağlarShalini Randeria
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Series: Lecture
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Series: Lecture
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Migration, Borders and Technologies – An Introduction to Techno-Borderscapes
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarGiorgia Donà
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Refugee Sponsorship: Will Civil Society Keep Stepping Up?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarJennifer Hyndman
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Innovative Methods of Research in Migration & Refugee Studies
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Panels and Discussions
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Ayşe ÇağlarSandro Mezzadra, Giorgio Grappi, Lydia Potts
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Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarSandro Mezzadra, Giorgio Grappi, Lydia Potts
Series: Panels and Discussions
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Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarSandro Mezzadra, Giorgio Grappi, Lydia Potts
Series: Panels and Discussions
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The Coloniality of Migration
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarPrem Kumar Rajaram
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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“We Are All Refugees”: Informal Settlements and Camps as Converging Spaces of Global Displacements
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarFaranak Miraftab
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Forced Migration, the Antinomies of Mobility, and the Autonomy of Asylum
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarNicholas de Genova
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Rather than seeing the ever more devious reaction formations of border policing and militarization, migrant detention, immigration enforcement, and deportation by state powers as if these were purely a matter of control, it is instructive to situate this economy of power in relation to the primacy, autonomy, and subjectivity of human mobility on a global (transnational, intercontinental, cross- border, postcolonial) scale. This is true, I contend, as much for refugees as for those who come to be derisively designated to be mere “migrants.” If we start from the human freedom of movement and recognize the various tactics of bordering as reaction formations, then the various tactics of border policing and forms of migration governance can be seen to introduce interruptions that temporarily immobilize and decelerate human cross-border mobilities with the aim of subjecting them to processes of surveillance and adjudication. Indeed, it is this dialectic that reconstitutes these mobilities as something that comes to be apprehensible, alternately, as “migration,” or “asylum-seeking,” or the “forced migration” of “refugees” in flight from persecution or violence – which is to say, as one or another variety of target and object of government. Yet, even under the most restricted circumstances and under considerable constraint, these human mobilities exude a substantial degree of autonomous subjectivity whereby migrants and refugees struggle to appropriate mobility. Even against the considerable forces aligned to immobilize their mobility projects, or to subject them to the stringent and exclusionary rules and constrictions of asylum, the subjective autonomy of human mobility remains an incorrigible force.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Rather than seeing the ever more devious reaction formations of border policing and militarization, migrant detention, immigration enforcement, and deportation by state powers as if these were purely a matter of control, it is instructive to situate this economy of power in relation to the primacy, autonomy, and subjectivity of human mobility on a global (transnational, intercontinental, cross- border, postcolonial) scale. This is true, I contend, as much for refugees as for those who come to be derisively designated to be mere “migrants.” If we start from the human freedom of movement and recognize the various tactics of bordering as reaction formations, then the various tactics of border policing and forms of migration governance can be seen to introduce interruptions that temporarily immobilize and decelerate human cross-border mobilities with the aim of subjecting them to processes of surveillance and adjudication. Indeed, it is this dialectic that reconstitutes these mobilities as something that comes to be apprehensible, alternately, as “migration,” or “asylum-seeking,” or the “forced migration” of “refugees” in flight from persecution or violence – which is to say, as one or another variety of target and object of government. Yet, even under the most restricted circumstances and under considerable constraint, these human mobilities exude a substantial degree of autonomous subjectivity whereby migrants and refugees struggle to appropriate mobility. Even against the considerable forces aligned to immobilize their mobility projects, or to subject them to the stringent and exclusionary rules and constrictions of asylum, the subjective autonomy of human mobility remains an incorrigible force.
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Fluid Zones of Hegemony
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarEzgican Özdemir
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Alien Logic
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Lecture
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Ayşe ÇağlarMartin BurckhardtTimothy Snyder
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Series: Lecture
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Series: Lecture
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