The workshop is sponsored by: the Department of International Politics (City St George's, University of London); the Violence and Society Centre (City St George's, University of London); the Centre for Hellenic Studies (King’s College London); the Lausanne Project and Modern Greek Studies Association.
Thursday 7 November 2024
12:00 - 13:00
Registration and light lunch
13:00 - 13:15
Welcome from Georgios Giannakopoulos and Alexandria (Andri) Innes
13:15 - 15:00
Panel 1: Memory, Identity and Emotions
Chair: Gonda Van Steen (King’s College London)
This panel will establish some of the theoretical and conceptual foundations that inform our practice as researchers, and that explore the respective and interrelated roles of ideology, emotions, identities, and memory that saturate knowledge of the Cyprus conflict and the ‘Green Line’ border. The research papers explore everyday violence as it plays out in the present in relation to the past, the role of nationalism and the affective ties to nation, the role of memory in preserving violent affects, and in memorializing and reproducing violence and trauma.
- Nihal Soganci (Panteion University) and Ahmad Sultan (Cyprus International University): Collaging border performativity and affect in northern Cyprus post 2003
- Efrosyni Panayiotou (University College Dublin): Nationalism, Enosis, and Violence in Cyprus: A focus on Memory, Identity and Emotions
- Beyza Kiziltepe (McMaster University): Between Two Worlds of Remembering and Forgetting: Politicization of Memory Among Turkish Cypriot Families
15:00 - 15:30
Tea and coffee break
15:30 - 17:15
Panel 2: Migration, Diaspora and Religious Dialogue
Chair: Alexandria Innes (City St George’s University of London)
The papers on this panel explore the experiences of refugees displaced by the partition and the years preceding it, with some focus on the spectre of violence motivating displacement. Violence appears in the form of separating families, friends and communities, and the violent rupture of lives suddenly changed. The research also considers how diasporas are affected by violence, reproduce and perpetuate violent affects, and surveys the place of religion in post-partition reconciliation initiatives.
- Kalliopi Geronymaki (University of Florence): Humanitarian Stories of the Partition: Diplomacy of Relief Operations During the First Turkish Invasion of Cyprus (20 July – 14 August 1974)
- Giorgos Charalambous (European University Institute): Cypriot Diaspora: An Overview of Organizations and Associations of Cypriot migrants in the UK Before and After 1974
- Vedran Obucina (Centre for Interreligious Dialogue, Croatia): Interreligious Dialogue in Cyprus
18:30 - 21:00
Britain, Cyprus and the fall of the Greek junta panel event at the LSE and reception for the workshop participants
Friday 8 November 2024
09:45 - 10:15
Pastries, tea and coffee, networking
10:15 - 10:30
Welcome back, overview of the day
10:30 - 12:00
Panel 3: Materiality, Landscapes, and Resources
Chair: Georgios Giannakopoulos (City St George's, University of London)
This panel moves towards materiality, in the archaeological landscape, in water resources, and in the integrated street-level architecture of the border. These papers collectively look at how landscape and resources have been or can be used to represent violence, counter violence, and practice peace.
- Ersin Hussein (Swansea University) and Giorgos Papantoniou (Trinity College Dublin): Navigating identity and belonging, trauma and loss. Reflections on the power of collaboration and how cultural heritage studies can contribute to healing
- Ibrahim Ince (Oxford University): Shifts in Visibility: Experiencing the Borderscape from the Coffeehouses in Zahra Street, Nicosia
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 15:00
Panel 4: Politics of Partition, Politics of Peace: Successes and Failures
Chair: Alice Mesnard (City St George’s, University of London)
This panel reviews the history of peace-seeking, peace-keeping and the roadblocks that have stood in the way of these processes. Contextualising Cyprus in decolonisation practices, and considering in particular colonial politics in Cyprus, these papers explore the international political ambience during the time period of partition and the preceding years.
- Ilia Xypolia (University of Aberdeen): Guaranteeing the Imperial Interests: Britain, Cyprus, and the treaty of Guarantee
- Paolo Soave (University of Bologna): U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cyprus Crisis: Greek-Turkish Confrontation and Cold War
- Konstantina Maragkou (Newcastle University): The British Press and the Partition of Cyprus
- Charalambos Stamelos (European University Cyprus): What is the logic of the solutions proposed by the international community and why have they failed
15:00 - 15:30
Tea and coffee break
15:30 - 16:45
Panel 5 (online): Partition: Historical Legacy, Trauma, and Challenges
Chair: Ladan Hashemi (City St George's, University of London)
This panel offers two topical online presentations that explore partition, conflict and peace in Cyprus. While taking different thematic approaches, and offering very different practical and theoretical interventions, they each contribute to, challenge, and explore some of the theories, themes and topics that have been discussed throughout the workshop.
- Ezgican Ozdemir Kelly (Central European University): Water Politics and the Partition of Cyprus: Historical Legacies and Future Challenges in a Semi-Arid Climate
- Gökçe Ergin Cemel (Yildiz Technical University): Chosen Traumas and Large Group Identities: The Case of Cyprus
- Elena Bouleti (Panteion University): Cypriot refugeehood in Britain: the case of Greek and Turkish Cypriot refugees in Great Britain before and after the 1974 invasion
16:45 - 17:30
Concluding Roundtable Discussion: Next Steps
Georgios and Andri will lead the discussion to review paper groupings, and consider publication plans for the work presented at the roundtable. We will also discuss further plans to disseminate findings and discussion points generated by the roundtable more broadly.
18:00 onwards
Pizza and drinks at the Dame Alice Owen Pub (EC1V 4PA)
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