International Symposium Crossing Borders: Music and Sound in Times of War and Displacement

Mon Nov 24 2025 at 10:00 am to 07:00 pm

École Française d'Athènes | Athens

ERC MUTE - Soundscapes of Trauma
Publisher/HostERC MUTE - Soundscapes of Trauma
International Symposium Crossing Borders: Music and Sound in Times of War and Displacement
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PROGRAM
10:00 10:30 Coffee

10:30 11:30 Welcome & Introduction
Nikolaos Papazarkadas, NHRF/EIE
Gilles de Rapper, École française d’Athènes
Anna Papaeti, NHRF/EIE
Louisa Martin-Chevalier, Sorbonne University/CEFRES
Mateusz Chmurski, Sorbonne University/CEFRES
Denis Laborde, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Hyacinthe Ravet, Sorbonne University

11:30 13:00 Session 1
Chair & Discussant: Evanthia Patsiaoura, Aristotle University
Eckehard Pistrick, Gustav Mahler Private University
'Visions of Sonic Dwelling – Tactics of Creative Subversion in the German Asylum Context'
Ioannis Christidis, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
'Musical Acts of Citizenship among Syrian Migrants in Europe'

13:00 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 15:30 Session 2
Chair & Discussant: Louisa Martin-Chevalier, Sorbonne University/CEFRES
Denis Laborde, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
'Singing in the Ruins in the Village of Sloboda-Koukharska: The Living Project of Kyiv's Yvan Honchar Museum'
Vassiliki Mavroidakou-Castellana, Centre des Monuments Nationaux / École française d’Athènes
'“No one sings here”: Practices of Resistance and Survival through Music in Florina (Greece)'

15:30 17:30 Session 3
Chair & Discussant: Evi Nakou, University of Thessaly
Kareem Alkabbani, Syrian and Greek Youth Forum
'Asyrmatos: Audio-Mapping Athens'
Nelli Kambouri, NHRF / Panteion University
'Memories of War, Conflict and Community in the Music Practices of Migrant Women from Ukraine'
Eva Matsigkou, NHRF / Aristotle University
'Radio Melissa: Collaborative Listening and Storytelling with Migrant Women'

17:30 18:00 Coffee Break

18:00 19:00 Session 4
Radio Melissa Launch
In Conversation: Representatives of Melissa Network with Nelli Kambouri
Performance
Melissa Choir led by Aggeliki Toubanaki

This event has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 101002720, PI: Anna Papaeti)
Co-organized by
National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
École française d’Athènes (EFA)
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Institut de recherche en musicologie (IReMus)
Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES)
Organized in the context of the research projects ERC MUTE (NHRF, IHR) and UkFeMM (CNRS, IReMus)
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École Française d'Athènes, Διδότου 6, 106 80 Αθήνα, Ελλάδα, Athens, Greece

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