Dr. Gazmend Kapllani - Being Greek and Albanian: The "No Man's Land" of a Double Identity...

"Dr. Gazmend Kapllani - Being Greek and Albanian: The "No Man's Land" of a Double Identity in the Balkans"

Through his work as a journalist and author, Dr. Gazmend Kapllani has been an advocate for human rights, fairness, and diversity. His writing -- which also includes book chapters, journal articles and poetry -- reveals Greece's growing social turmoil, a hornet's nest of economic crisis, political disillusionment, and an influx of migrants and refugees from South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. As Kapka Kassabova writes in the Guardian, "Kapllani brings borders closer to home and ruffles our notions of 21st-century Europe and the price some pay to live in it." By exploring deep-rooted preconceptions about movement and migration in Europe and beyond, Kapllani alerts his readers to the multiple borders -- both physical and psychological -- that divide today's supposedly open and inter-connected world.

Co-sponsored by the Southeastern Europe Study Group, Center for European Studies, and the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe on November 9th, 2011. For more information on the Kokkalis Program, please visit http://www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis.

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• Harvard Kennedy School
• Albania
• Greece
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[pdhima]

Very good lecture. Congratulations.