April 12, 2019
All Day
Pomerene 260
We are happy to announce that Professor Leila Hudson of the University of Arizona will give a lecture as part of OSU's Global Mediterranean activities.
Abstract: Fleeing from the Syrian war through transit and resettlement countries from Lebanon to Turkey to Greece, the Balkans and Germany, refugees created fluid, emergent, ephemeral “post-structural structures” for pooling and exchanging resources, especially information, as they moved through a range of landscapes. This presentation, based on an ethnography of five middle aged sisters’ trajectories away from their homes in Damascus between 2012 and 2017, investigates how the exigencies of their flight, especially their perilous crossing of the Aegean, challenged their understanding of arborescent, patriarchal kinship and used new cell phone based technologies to scaffold their journeys towards Europe.
