Processing Citizenship has moved. Or better, it now encompasses Europe, in full line with its scientific goal: how is European order being enacted?

Indeed, part of PC has remained in the Netherlands, at the University of Twente, while the new part of the team is being built at the University of Bologna.

This solution will allow the Project to benefit from and contribute to the best that the European Research Area can offer: cutting edge knowledge in innovation policy and information science, on the one hand, and trans-disciplinary excellence in the humanities and social sciences, on the other.

While retaining a PhD position and a visiting professorship at the Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STePS) of the University of Twente, PC is engaging at all levels of research and teaching at the Philosophy and Communication Department at the University of Bologna.

The inaugural lecture here is to be held on December 10 at 14.30, Mondolfo room, via Zamboni 38, Bologna. The lecture is organised by the International Center for History of Science (CIS) and SeRiC – the colloquia initiative of the Philosophy and Communication Department.

We very much look forward to welcoming you and celebrating PC’ s new start!

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The seminar will see the participation of Bernd Kasparek and Melina Antonakaki.

Bernd Kasparek is a mathematician and cultural anthropologist, working in the fields of Europeanisation, Migration and border studies. In 2016, he was part of the “Transit Migration 2” research team, an ad-hoc research into the de- and restabilisation of the European border regime between Turkey, Greece, Serbia and Hungary. He is currently working as a researcher in the Horizon2020 funded research project RESPOND. He is a member of the german-language Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies (kritnet), member of the board of the journal Movements, and member of the board of the research association bordermonitoring.eu.

Melina Antonakaki (MA; Dipl. Biol.) works as a research associate at MCTS-TUM. For the last six years Melina has been an activist and researcher of two highly problematic fields: (1) the question of border crossings as an “epidemiological concern” of the EU and (2) the attempted industrialization of the weird – one could say – queer biology of regeneration. The body vulnerable and the body automaton could work here as conceptual gatherings for her agents, who usually inhabit less-than-human identities, yet in more-than-human politics. It is those encounters and the study of usually off-bounds spaces that is central to Melina’s methodographic sensibility, which is characterised by a commitment to things that do not matter.

What: PC seminar series with Bernd Kasparek and Melina Antonakaki

When: On March 1st , 10:00 – 12:00

Where: Ravelijn, RA 1315, University of Twente, Enschede (NL)

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The seminar will see the participation of two amazing, expert lecturers, Katerina Rozakou and Martina Tazzioli.

Katerina Rozakou is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include political anthropology, humanitarianism, volunteerism, the state, bureaucracy and migration. She has done extensive fieldwork on the solidarity with the refugees movement in Greece (2002-2007) and in the last years (2014-2016) she did fieldwork in Athens and Lesvos on the treatment of irregular migrants by state and non-states agents. Her monograph, Out of “love” and “solidarity”: Voluntary work with refugees in early 21st century Greece will appear in February 2018 (in Greek, English translation in preparation). Katerina’s lecture will focus on how the lived experiences of people governing irregular migration help us understand broader processes regarding sovereign power and the state.

Martina Tazzioli is a lecturer in geography at Swansea University (UK). She is author of Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (2014), co-author with Glenda Garelli of Tunisia as a Revolutionized Space of Migration (2017), and co-editor of Foucault and the History of Our Present (2015). She is co-founder of the journal Materiali Foucaultiani. Martina’s presentation will focus on the financialisation of refugee humanitarianism in Greece, bringing attention to the Cash Assistance Programme.

Martina Tazzioli

What: PC seminar series with K. Rozakou and M. Tazzioli

When: On February 1st , 10:00 – 12:00

Where: Ravelijn, RA 1315, University of Twente, Enschede (NL)

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