Participation in the Fifteenth Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean October

In the context of the XV Biennale de la Méditerranée, Symβiosis offered a Painting Workshop during October 2011

The workshop examined the ways migrants’ and minorities’ artistic creations were inspired by their experience of migration and/or discrimination, and how such experiences could, in turn, facilitate, and allow for migrants to contribute to practices as dynamic social actors (educators, students), and not solely as objects of instruction or research.

The workshop also explored the potential of migrants in building bridges and facilitating the encounters between different populations sharing the same neighbourhood. In particular, it highlighted popular and creative arts as a vehicle of fostering communication and dialogue between different groups sharing the same culture and neighbourhood.

Series of lectures: Our ‘Distant’ Neighbours

Becoming a minority in the Greek-Bulgarian context: Historical minorities and contemporary migrants

On 14 December 2012, the Department for Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia, Symβiosis, the Minority Groups Research Center, and the Consulate General of Bulgaria, organized a workshop that aimed to change the meaning of the concept ‘minority'. It unpacked the process of minorizization in the contemporary Greek-Bulgarian context and considered [...]

African cities, post colonialism, memory and migration: the case of Alexandra in South Africa

As part of the Our 'Distant' Neighbours lecture series, historian Noor Nieftagodien (the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) delivered a lecture entitled African cities, postcolonialism, memory and migration: the case of Alexandra in South Africa, which was organised by the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia on March 8, [...]

Other Activities

SOCIAL INCLUSION

ASAP: Accessing services, Sharing Approaches and Practices

PROJECTS

‘Hygieia’ Project