Phone: + 44 (0) 28 9097 3300
E-mail: b.karatsioli@qub.ac.uk
Office: Room 19.0G.003, 19 University Square

Received a PhD in Social Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in 2009 and held the position of temporary lecturer in the post-graduate programme of the Institute d’Etudes Européennes at the University Paris-8. I propose to develop in the Institute two research programmes: The first, related to my PhD thesis, now a forthcoming book in English, Living with the Enemy: Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in Greek and Turkish Cypriot Cohabitations” deals with conflict transformation on the border. The second, “The Right to the City, the Right to the State: Social Justice in War and Peace” examines the relation between conflict transformation and social justice in “conflict and peace zones”. Some of my fieldwork involves research on the Occupy movement in New York, Belfast and Cyprus.

 CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

• Right to the City, Right to the State: Rethinking Social Justice in Peace and Conflict, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 2012.

• The “Local” in Global Understandings of War and Peacemaking, PACSA and PRIO Cyprus (co-organized with Olga Demetriou), Nicosia, September 2011.

•  Making Places, Tracing Boundaries in the Translocal City, AAA session (co-organized with A-C.Trémon, University of Lausanne), November 2011.

• Conflicts on the Move, session (co-organized with Nerina Weiss (University of Oslo) and Erella Grassiani (VU University Amsterdam) AAA meeting, November 2010.

• Anthropology of Categories in Peace and Conflict (co-organized with R.Penitsch (Max Planck Institute –Halle), EASA meeting, August 2010.

• Etat et Transnatiolalité (co-organiser), EHESS, Paris, May 2005.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• The Right to the City, the Right to the State: Social Justice in War and Peace in Cyprus and beyond : conference introduction, presented, The Right to the City the Right to the State, Nicosia, September 2012.

• The Cyprus conflict: A Remake of cities – Places and Spaces in Nicosia and London,  American Anthropological Association meeting, Montreal, November 2011.

• From Coexistence to Cohabitation: A Methodological Displacement towards the Study of Relations, presented at Shared Spaces and their Dissolution, Cyprus, October 2011.

• D'une comparaison à l'autre: faire de l'ethnographie comparative là où le conflit et la paix sont en jeu, invited paper at the Annual Conference of the Association Française d’éthnologie et d’anthropologie, Septembre 2011.

• Le conflit, grand « urbaniste » des villes divisées : négociations de la frontière à Londres et à Nicosie, presented at Ville, frontières et interstices, EHESS, May 2011.

• “Peace on earth!” Moving from the Paradigm of Peace to the Realities of Conflict, presented at AAA meeting, November 2010

• Gaining Heritage on Conflict's or Peace's side: The Case of the Cyprus Border, presented at PRIO Annual conference, Nicosia, November 2010.

• The Nation: A Category for Peace or Only for Conflict, presented at EASA meeting, Maynooth, Ireland, August 2010.

• Escalate for Peace: How to Render a Local Entente into a Global Peace Solution (The Case of Cyprus), presented at Second Bi-annual Pacsa Meeting, Continuities and Ruptures between Conflict, Post-conflict and Peace, Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Austria 9-11 October 2009.

 PUBLICATIONS

 REFEREED ARTICLES

2012, “Les drones: nouveau medium de guerre, nouvel objet de lutte?”, Multitudes 51, December.

2010, Escalating for Peace in Cyprus: Roads to Peace through Scales of Conflict, in Michael Lidauer and Thomas Roither (eds.), Peace, Conflict and Identity. Social anthropological Explorations on the Continuities and Ruptures between Conflict, Post-conflict and Peace, Safran 07, Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Austria, pp. 39-49.

2005, Formes de violence entre Chypriotes grecs et turcs en cohabitation, CEMOTI 37, pp. 143-176.

BOOK CHAPTERS

2013, “From Coexistence to Cohabitation: A Methodological Displacement Towards the Study of Relations” in Bryant, R. (eds), Shared Spaces and their Dissolution: Practices of Coexistence in the Post-Ottoman Sphere, University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming.

2009, S'unir dans le conflit, se diviser dans sa résolution: faire confiance à l'ennemi proche? in Alain Bertho, Conflit et confiance, Presses universitaires de Vincennes, Paris, pp. 135-156.

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

• Board member of PACSA (Peace and Conflict Studies in Social Anthropology) since 2009.

• Discussant, “Futures in the Making,” Conference Workshop Precarious Prospects – Youth, Conflict and Potentials Research Centre for Peace, Copenhagen, 20-21 January 2011.