Athens Meeting, 29-30 November 2013

PARTICIPANTS

Athina Athanassiou
Nikos Bellavilas
Polina Brettou
Costis Chatzimichalis
Hernán Cuevas
Giorgio Grappi
Pavlos Hatzopoulos
Ursula Huws
Nelli Kambouri
Mithilesh Kumar
Illias Marmaras
Sandro Mezzadra
Brett Neilson
Dimitris Parsanoglou
Thanasis Priftis
Ned Rossiter
Ranabir Samaddar
Dina Vaiou
William Walters

SCHEDULE

Friday 29 November

9.00 – meet in lobby of Exarchion Hotel (for those staying there)

10.00 – 13.00 Introductions and Project Discussion
Brett Neilson and Nelli Kambouri
Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Logistical Operations in Athens
Nikos Bellavilas, COSCO’s presence in Piraeus in the context of anti-privatization struggles
Dimitris Parsanoglou, The intensification of precarity in Greece

13.30 – 15.00 Lunch

15.00 – 18.00 Meeting-Discussion
Ursula Huws, Global Value Chains of Labour
William Walters, Flight of the Deported
Sandro Mezzadra, Logistics, Finance, Extraction

18.00 – 19.00 Coffee

19.00 – 21.00 Open Event (@Occupied Theater Embros – http://www.embros.gr) – Dissecting the Logistical City
Ned Rossiter
Ranabir Samaddar

 

Saturday 30 November

9.00 – meet in lobby of Exarchion Hotel (for those staying there). Mini bus departs from hotel.

9.30 – 14.00 Visit to Piraeus and end of intermodal train line

14.00 – 16.00 Lunch

16.00 – 18.00 Platform Planning (2014)

 

VENUE LOCATION

Centre for Gender Studies, Panteion University, 136 Syggrou Ave, Athens