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Rethreading the Mediterranean: Disquieting Art and Migrant Democracy

Maurizio Albahari
February 22, 2018
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., Room 120, Columbus, OH 43201

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Add to Calendar 2018-02-22 15:30:00 2018-02-22 17:00:00 Rethreading the Mediterranean: Disquieting Art and Migrant Democracy Maurizio Albahari is associate professor of anthropology and a concurrent associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs. Albahari is a social-cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., U.C. Irvine) who explores the tension between human existence and structures of power. He is the author of Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World's Deadliest Border, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press as part of its series in Human Rights (2015). Albahari has published extensively on the humanitarian, socio-cultural, legal, and geopolitical components of the ongoing refugee "crisis," as well as on forms of civic engagement and migrant integration. His current research traces modalities of participatory citizenship and trans-Mediterranean mobilization emerging in the everyday life of maritime spaces, as well as of changing cities in Italy and in the region. It seeks to capture, ethnographically and conceptually, emerging practices of engaged citizenship that might be maritime, urban, and local, but not parochial; coherently political, but not institutionalized; transnational, but not national in the first place.Albahari's research has appeared in Anthropology Today, Anthropological Quarterly, Anthropology News, Social Research, InTraformazione, and the Journal on Migration and Human Security. He also has written for media outlets including History News Network, openDemocracy, Diritti Globali, Mobilizing Ideas, Perspektif, Fox News, and CNN. For full details and to register for this event, please see the Events Calendar of the Mershon Center. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., Room 120, Columbus, OH 43201 Department of French and Italian frit@osu.edu America/New_York public

Maurizio Albahari is associate professor of anthropology and a concurrent associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs. Albahari is a social-cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., U.C. Irvine) who explores the tension between human existence and structures of power. He is the author of Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World's Deadliest Border, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press as part of its series in Human Rights (2015). 

Albahari has published extensively on the humanitarian, socio-cultural, legal, and geopolitical components of the ongoing refugee "crisis," as well as on forms of civic engagement and migrant integration. His current research traces modalities of participatory citizenship and trans-Mediterranean mobilization emerging in the everyday life of maritime spaces, as well as of changing cities in Italy and in the region. It seeks to capture, ethnographically and conceptually, emerging practices of engaged citizenship that might be maritime, urban, and local, but not parochial; coherently political, but not institutionalized; transnational, but not national in the first place.

Albahari's research has appeared in Anthropology Today, Anthropological Quarterly, Anthropology News, Social Research, InTraformazione, and the Journal on Migration and Human Security. He also has written for media outlets including History News Network, openDemocracy, Diritti Globali, Mobilizing Ideas, Perspektif, Fox News, and CNN. 

For full details and to register for this event, please see the Events Calendar of the Mershon Center.