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EASA TALLINN CONFERENCE, 2014
Panel P005 Networking, collaboration
and intimacy in the Mediterraneans
Convenors:
Jutta Lauth Bacas (Academy of Athens)
Young and advanced scholars presented their research on social practices of networking, cooperation and
resistance in cases like the Italian feminist movement, Greek’s resistance to water privatization in the
aftermath of the economic crisis and the ‚Open Theatre’ as political action in Athens.
Network business meeting at EASA TALLINN CONFERENCE, 2014
In memory of
William Kavanagh
During the 13th EASA Biennial Conference, MedNet also organized a Network Meeting, which was dedicated to the
memory of its co-convenor, the late William Kavanagh (CEU University Madrid). After the unexpected passing of
William Kavanagh on 29th of April 2014, an acknowledgement of his work and academic commitment was presented in
Tallinn. William Kavanagh was a leading figure in the network since its very beginning, to which he contributed
with his knowledge, humour and personal warmth. His death is a great loss for the Mediterraneanist Network of
EASA and for the discipline as a whole.
The convenors of MedNet would also like to announce the recent publication by Berghahn of their collected volume
on the transformations at Europe's borders, which came out of a MedNet panel at a previous EASA conference.
Jutta Lauth Bacas, William Kavanagh (eds) 2013: BORDER ENCOUNTERS
New York, Oxford: Berghahn. www.berghahnbooks.com http://berghahnbooks.com/blog/good-borders-make-good-neighbors
