In this seminar anthropologist Neni Panourgiá (Columbia University) draws on 20 years of ethnographic material from the island of Leros to think about confinement. In dialogue with fellow anthropologist Elizabeth Davis (Princeton University), Panourgiá aims “to think of the sovereign power that actualizes this confinement, but also to think of the micro-contexts that make its socio-ecologies possible; to look at the decrees, the plans, the architects, but also to give the necessary space to the utterances of the actors of the everyday to breathe; to create a text that brings the sensory, the political, the social onto the same plane of meaning, and look for their complicities and their antagonisms.”

This seminar is co-sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies. Click here to register and receive the materials and link for the workshop. If attending in person, please consult the announcements board in the Faculty House lobby for the seminar location. 

Respondent: Elizabeth Davis (Princeton University)

Image: Graffiti of Woman in Italian Sentry, Leros, 1927, Neni Panourgiá