Scientific Committee
*The names appear in alphabetic order.
Chryssanthi Avlami
Assistant Professor Panteion University
Chryssanthi Avlami is Assistant Professor of History at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens and member of the Centre Louis Gernet, CNRS/EHESS, Paris. She has studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA History and Archaeology) and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (MSc and PhD). She has been Mary O’Seeger Fellow at Princeton University (1999), AHRB fellow and Marie Curie Fellow at Oxford University (2000-2004), Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Studies (2005), CNRS Research Fellow at the Centre Louis Gernet (2006-2008). She has published L’Antiquité grecque à la française. Modes d’appropriation de la Grèce au XIXe siècle (Septentrion, Lille 2000); L’Antiquité grecque au XIXe siècle : un exemplum contesté? (Ch. Avlami, ed., Paris, L’Harmattan, 2000); Ηistoriographie de l’Antiquité et Transferts culturels: les histoires anciennes dans l’Europe des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (Ch. Αvlami, J.Alvar, M. Romero eds. Rodopi series, Amsterdam 2010); Libertà liberale contro libertà antica. Francia e Inghilterra, 1752-1856, in I Greci. Storia, Cultura, Arte, Società (S. Settis, dir, Turin, Einaudi 2002), Civilisation versus civitas ? La cité grecque à l’épreuve de la civilisation in Civilisations. Retour sur les mots et les idées, (Ch. Avlami and O.Remaud eds.), Revue de Synthèse, vol.129, 2008. She is coordinating the european research program Bibliotheca Academica Translationum http://bat.ehess.fr/
Alexandros Baltzis
Associate Professor School of Journalism & Mass Communications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Alexandros Baltzis (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Sociology of the Arts and Mass Communication (School of Journalism & Mass Communications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and a tutor at the Hellenic Open University (postgraduate programme “Cultural Organizations Management”). He has also been a visiting professor abroad (Université Paris VIII) and taught at the University of Sofia and the Democritus University of Thrace. He is the author of 61 publications in three languages and editor of the Greek edition of John Walker’s Art in the Age of Mass Media (University Studio Press, 2010). He has presented papers at 39 international and local conferences and participated in 22 international and local research projects. He participates in several academic societies and networks (ESA, ECREA, IMS and others). His research interests include the production and consumption of culture, the impact of globalization on the cultural industries, cultural management, and cultural communication (more information at: https://baltzis.webpages.auth.gr/).
Andromache Gazi
Assistant Professor Panteion University
Andromache Gazi is Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University, Athens. Prior to entering academia, she worked extensively as a museum consultant. She has lectured and published extensively on museum issues, and is the co-author of three books. Her recent research focuses on memory and oral history in museums, and museum text. She holds a B.A. in Archaeology from the University of Thessaloniki, an M.Phil. in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester.
Kostas Katsapis
Historian
Kostas Katsapis was born in Athens (1973). He studied history at the Ionian University (BA and MA) and he took his PhD from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens) in 2006. From 2007 he teaches European Civilization at the Hellenic Open University (EAP) and History of the Youth at the Postgraduate Program of the Department of Political Science and History.
His researches focus on contemporary social and cultural history, mainly on the history of the youth, the social history of the immigrants and the history of the everyday life. As a result of his research, Kostas Katsapis has written many articles (over thirty) and two books:
1) Sounds and reverberations. A social history of the rock and roll phenomenon in postwar Greek society, 1956 – 1967, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 2006, pp. 460 and
2) “Young people as a problem”. Modern youth, Tradition and counterculture in postwar Greece, 1964 – 1974, Aprovleptes Ekdoseis, Athens 2013, pp. 608.
Dorothea Konteletzidou
Art Historian, Phd in Theory of Art
Dorothea Konteletzidou completed her basic studies in History of Art at the Strasbourg University of France, Faculty of Humanitarian Studies. She specified in Contemporary Art, more in particular in American Painter: Cy Twomply. Accordingly, she obtained PHD in Theory of Art, in Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, School of Fine Arts, Faculty of Visual and Applied Arts.
During the years 1979-1989 she lived in France. She worked in Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg. In 1991 she became a member of AICA-HELLAS. In 2001 she elected as a regular member of AICA-HELLAS’s Administrative Council, as well as a regular member in Administrative Council of ‘Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki’. In 2013 she became a member in Greek Art Historians Association. Since 1990 she teaches in First and Third Degree Education. She also gives Art Theory lessons at the branch of St-Etienne Fine Art School (France), in Thessaloniki, in ‘Psychology-Art School’ and other several Visual Arts Laboratories.
During the academic year 2016-17 she has been teaching in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Western Macedonia.
She gave a number of Lectures in various Visual Art Schools and participated in congresses and symposiums. Since 1985 she has been writing articles in Art and Literature magazines (daily, monthly as well as e-magazines) like: ‘Ch(n)aria’, ‘Eikastika’, ‘ARTI’, ‘Sima’, ‘Endefktirio’, ‘Nea tis Texnis’, ‘Thessalonikeon Polis’. She organized and curated a substantial number of solo and group shows in Museum of Modern Art in Nice, France, in Bourges and in French Institute in Thessaloniki, Greece. She was a Member of Visual Arts Committee in: ‘Action Field Kodra’ in Thessaloniki, Athina by Art, (Athens), 14th Biennale for young Artists of Mediterranean, European Countries, ‘Athens-Paris -Berlin-Athens’ congress, Greek Art Historians Association, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. She published monographs for Giorgos Tsakiris and Giorgos Zogolopoulos. In 2014 she published the book ‘Idea as material, material as idea’, Greek Artists in Paris 1960 – 1980’. Ed. Epikentro. In 2017 is expected to be published her new book ‘ Greekness – Globalization’. Ed. Saixpirikon. Since 1989, she lives and works in Thessaloniki and Athens.
Christina Koulouri
Professor in Modern and Contemporary History at Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences
Christina Koulouri, born in Athens, is Professor in Modern and Contemporary History at Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences (Athens, Greece), Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences and Director of the Research Centre for Modern History (KENI). She studied at the University of Athens, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Paris I - Panthéon - Sorbonne where she also received her PhD. She participated as an expert of the Council of Europe and representative of Greece at the pan-European research working group of the project «Learning and Teaching 20th Century European history» (Council of Europe, 1997-2001). Since 1999, she is the chair of the History Education Committee of the Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (CDRSEE) and general coordinator of the Joint History Project (JHP). She is research fellow at the UMR-IRICE : Unité Mixte de Recherche IRICE (Identités, Relations Internationales et Civilisations en Europe), Paris I & CNRS, Paris. She was historical advisor to historical documentaries like “Silent Balkans” (on the Balkan Wars) and “War and Peace in The Balkans”, on the First World War (ΑΝΕΜΟΝ, funded by Goethe Institute). Lecturer at many international conferences in Greece, Western and Southeast Europe, USA, Japan and China, she is also member of the editorial board of refereed academic journals and academic societies. She is author of several books and articles on the teaching of history, the history of historiography, school textbooks, national identity, national holidays and the history of sports and the Olympic Games. Some of her books are: Dimensions idéologiques de l'historicité en Grèce (1834-1914). Les manuels scolaires d'histoire et de géographie, Frankfurt : Studien zur Geschichte Südosteuropas 7, 1991; The faces of Capodistria. The first Greek Governor and modern Greek ideology, 1831-1996, Athens 1996 (in Greek); Sport et société bourgeoise. Les associations sportives en Grèce 1870-1922, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2000; Athens, Olympic City, 1896-1906, Athens: International Olympic Academy, 2004 (editor and introduction).
Martha Michailidou
Assistant Professor Panteion University
Martha Micailidou did her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Philosophy (BSc Joint Honours, Sociology and Philosophy) at City University, London and her postgraduate degrees in media and communication studies (MA Media and Communications, PhD Sociology / Media and Communications) at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has taught at the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College and the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete and has collaborated as a researcher on various projects with the Greek National Centre for Social Research. She has participated in ten, international and national, research projects funded by the EU. Her research and teaching interests include multimethodological approaches to media and cultural research, emergent and digital methods, the empirical and methodological consequences of the transition from analog to digital media, gender and media, and the creative industries.
Panayiota Mini
Associate Professor in Film History, Department of Philology of the University of Crete
Panayiota Mini is Assistant Professor in Film History at the Department of Philology of the University of Crete, Greece. She holds two MAs in film studies (University of Crete, 1993; University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995) and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002). Her Ph.D. dissertation concerns Vsevolod Pudovkin’s silent cinema. She has published essays on Soviet cinema (on Pudovkin, Kozintsev, propaganda in Soviet films) and on a wide range of issues related to Greek cinema, including ideology, aesthetics, and Nikos Kazantzakis’ scenarios. Her monograph The Filmic Form of Pain and of Aching Recollection: Takis Kanellopoulos’s Modernism is in press by the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (ΜΙΕΤ).
Vassilis Nitsiakos
Professor at University of Ioannina
Vassilis Nitsiakos studied Modern Greek (University of Ioannina), Folk life Studies (University of Leeds, England) and Social Anthropology (University of Cambridge, England). He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He is currently Professor at the University of Ioannina, Department of History and Archaeology. His main research interest are: Economic, social and cultural transformations in modern Greece, the cultural construction of space and time, myth and ritual, tradition and modernity, ethnicity and nationalism, emigration, cultural ecology, theory and method in social sciences and the humanities. His most recent research projects are in the fields of migration, borders and identities and cultural ecology. Currently he has been engaged in the THALIS research project Conservation through religion. The sacred forests of Epirus. His books On the border. Transborder mobility, ethnic groups and boundaries on the Albanian-Greek frontier, LIT, 2010, and Peklari. Social Economy in a Greek Village, LIT, 2016 are included in the publication series of the Border Crossings Network.
Maria Paradeisi
Assistant Professor Panteion University
Maria Paradeisi is Assistant Professor at Panteion University of Athens, in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture. She teaches undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Cinema, History of World Cinema, Film Analysis, and courses in the graduate MA program on Cultural Studies (Film Theory). She was a member of the scientific committee of the project "Gender Studies in Political and Social Science (2002-2007)" and she has participated in the research project Ge.M.I.C (Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interaction), 2008-2011, financed by the European Union. She has studied Law, Political Sciences and Cinema (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Paris X, Paris VII). She holds a Doctorate Degree in Political Sciences (1984) (thesis title: Women’ s Representations in Hollywood Cinema). She has also worked for Greek radio, television and cinema from 1985 to1989 and has directed films for Greek television.
Maria Paradeisi is author of the book Cinematic Narration and Delinquency in the Greek Cinema (1994-2004), Athens, Greece, 2006. Typothito Press. She has written the 7th chapter “Maria, Irene and Olga à la recherche du temps perdu” in Flavia Laviosa (ed.) Women Filmmaking in the Mediterranean, Macmillan Palgrave, L.A, and “Gender, Migration and Cinema in Greece” in the collective volume Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions, Nissos September 2013. She has also published numerous articles on Greek cinema and women’s cinema in Greek and English language journals. Her last publication is the collective book, Maria Paraseisi, Aphrodite Nikolaidou (ed.), From the early to the Contemporary Greek Cinema. Questions of Methodology, Theory, History, Gutenberg, February 2017
Penelope Petsini
Born in Bucharest, 1973. Studied Photography in Athens and UK (University of London, Goldsmiths College –MA in Image and Communication; University of Derby –Phd) sponsored by the State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.). She is a Doctor of Philosophy in Arts and Humanities, specialized in photography. Her research interests, both in terms of theory and practice, focus on photography and its relation to personal and collective memory, history and politics. She has exhibited and published extensively both in Greece and internationally. She curated a series of photography and visual art exhibitions, the most recent being “Another Life: Human Flows / Unknown Odysseys” (Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 5-11/2016) and “Sites of Memory” (Benaki Museum, Athens, 6-7/2016). Recent publications include Sites of Memory: Photography, Collective Memory and History (Athens: Hellenic Center of Photography & NEON Foundation, 2016) and the collective reader Censorship in Greece (Athens: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2016) co-edited with Dimitris Christopoulos.
She has had affiliated appointments as lecturer of photography theory and contemporary art since 2004 (Department of Photography & Audiovisual Arts, TEI of Athens; School of Architecture, University of Patras). She has also lectured at the photography courses of Life-Long Education Program, Department of Visual and Applied Arts, University of Western Macedonia (2012-16) as well as those of the Athens School of Fine Art.
Sophia Polichronidou
PhD Candidate University of Edinburgh
Sofia Polychronidou is a graduate in Theatre Studies from the University of Athens and a PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh (PhD European Theatre). Her thesis follows the development of the Russian directors during the early 20th century. In particular, she focuses on the theatre of Vs. Meyerhold and K. Stanislavski at the period when the Soviet art moves from Russian Avant Guard to Socialist Realism. This research reflects the researcher's general interest in the interaction between society / theatre, both historically and contemporaneously. The themes of her papers in the so far congresses include the aesthetics of the Soviet animation in the first years after the October Revolution as well as a socio-theatrical approach of other present-day theatrical phenomena. In addition, she has taught in the Department of Social and Political Studies of University of Edinburgh "Playwriting", as a method of perception, elaboration and wider understanding of philosophical and theoretical concepts, in the framework of an experimental program for the integration of innovative teaching methods in the university. As a dramaturg, she remains an active member of the theatrical scene, aiming at the inseparable of theory and practice.
Yannis Skarpelos
Associate Professor Panteion University
Yannis Skarpelos studied Sociology and is teaching at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture since 1996. He is founder and director of the New Media Lab, associate Director of the MA program in Cultural Administration, and Director of the Drama Center. Since 2014 he is Head of the Department of Communication, Media and Culture. He is also member of the Board of International Visual Sociology Association, and member of the Hellenic Semiotic Society.
Has taught at the graduate programs “Media Psychology” (Panteion University) and “Cultural Units’ Management” (Hellenic Open University).
Has published the books: Terra Virtualis: The Construction of Cyberspece (1999), Historical Memory and Greekness in Comic Books (2000), and Image and Society: From Social Photography to Visual Sociology (2012). Has also published several papers in journals and conferences.
Markos Tsetsos
Professor of Music Aesthetics at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Markos Tsetsos is Professor of Music Aesthetics at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Music Studies. He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Athens (1999) and a MA in orchestra conducting from the State Conservatoire “Rimsky-Korsakov” of St. Petersburg, Russia (1993). He is member of the scientific board of the journals Mousikologia and Axiologika, member of the International Helmuth Plessner Gesellschaft, founding member of the Greek Musicological Society, collaborator of the State Scholarship Foundation and of the music encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG). Main publications (books): Music in Modern Philosophy (2012); Nationalism and Populism in Greek Music (2011); Will and Sound. The Metaphysics of Music in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy (2004); Elements and Environments of Music. A Philosophical Introduction in Musicology (2012); Greek Music. Essays of Ideological and Institutional Critique (2013); Basic Methods of Orchestration (2006); Hegel’s Aesthetics of Music (annotated translation, 2002); Hanslick’s On the Musically Beautiful (annotated translation, 2003).