KHAS ERC Performance and Politics Webinars: Christina Banalopoulou

Presentation: The Performative Politics of Greek Debt

Speaker Christina Banalopoulou

Moderator: Arzu Ünal

Date: Monday, September 12, 2022, 19.30 Istanbul (GMT +3) / 12.30 New York / 17.30 London / 18.30 Central European Time

Please register for the webinar in advance!

Zoom kayıt linki: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85873492151?pwd=a0FDU3lOdDRITU8vYjlXRDB5cjJyQT09

Zoom Meeting ID: 858 7349 2151

Password: stgabject

The language of the meeting is English.

The field of finance in general, and debt policy in particular, is built on performance and theatricality. This talk will shed light on the illusions that construct the “Greek Debt” as a perpetual repayment failure that cannot be separated from the post-colonial interests of Greece’s Western creditors. This “performative misfire” of Greek debt is legitimized by the staging of Greece’s structural dependence on the West as “independence” – a spectacle often sustained by narratives that frame Greece as the “birthplace” of Western civilization and a direct and ongoing extension of Ancient Greece. The talk will explore the connections between these notions of “performative failure” and finance capital’s unfulfilled promise to decouple itself from industry and production.

Christina Banalopoulou received her PhD in Performance Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently the director of education at the Center for Kinesthetic Education in New York City and a fellow at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies. Banalopoulou’s work explores the connections between the somatic and the political. Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Philosophical Economics, Rethinking Marxism and Performance Philosophy. Most recently, in collaboration with the Institute of Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno, Greece, she co-authored “Performing Mediterraneanism in the Southern US: An Ethnography of Mediterranean Solidarity in Chapel Hill, North Carolina” in collaboration with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno, Greece. She organizes performance workshops for public and institutional spaces internationally.

This webinar series and the research project “Staging National Abjection” are sponsored by the European Research Commission Starting Fund (ERC-2019-StG, Grant No: 852216).

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