A discussion focused on maritime Hellas and cosmopolitics at sea.
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“Anti-Periplus – Of Other ships” is a pilot anti-tour project by dëcoloиıze hellάş that aims to showcase the “unconventional” seas, focusing on ships on strike, ships in solidarity, ships with political role, ships that carry pirates or migrants. It also aims to creatively deconstruct the cartographic representation as a postcolonial technology that inscribes borders and controls the flows and lives at sea.
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Capitalism At Sea: Containments and Contents is a film examining the processes of the sea and its fundamental contradiction between the borders which define its boundaries and the flow of capital which consistently attempts to render it invisible.
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Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at University of Columbia, interviewed by FLOATS navigator Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos (American University of Beirut).
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FILM: Sea Whistles
The Floating Laboratory of Action and Theory at Sea (FLOATS) was launched on July 2018 on the island of Lesvos, Greece. Over three days, more than 20 academics, artists and activists re-oriented their work and thoughts towards the Big Blue. The theme of this first meeting was “Utopias at Sea”.
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Two Day Conference at the American University of Beirut. Moderated by Dr. Marwa Elshakry (Columbia University) with Dr. Yaser Abunnasr (American University of Beirut), Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos (American University of Beirut), and Jina Talj (Activist with Diaries of the Ocean)
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Sea-related student research project for the graduate course "Research Methods", Prof. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Spring 2016 AUB.
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Abir Saksouk-Sasso talks to the "Sea & Society" class at American University of Beirut about her work with Dictaphone Beirut and her approach to research and knowledge production. The following lecture was filmed by Jacob Borden, a student at the American University of Beirut.
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