Maria Pinelopi ChatzicharalampousI was born in Athens in 1995. I have obtained a Bachelor in History from the University of Thessaly in the faculty of History Archaeology and Social Anthropology. My particular interests amongst others are in Contemporary History, British Imperial and Commonwealth History, Social History, Guerrilla Warfare, Postcolonial Studies and Cyprus Studies.
Joy Al-NemriI am a rising Senior at Bard College pursuing a degree in Anthropology and Middle East Studies. I am proficient in Modern Standard Arabic and fluent in the Shami colloquial dialect. My main research interests include: journalism, knowledge production, technopolitics, whiteness and colorism. I am independently conducting ethnographic research in Greece that seeks to better understand how Western journalists are covering the migrant crisis, which I will present at the 2017 annual American Anthropological Association conference and weave into my undergraduate thesis. I also have experience leading a variety of projects, such as a student-led volunteering initiative in a Greek refugee camp, a written and print publication at Bard College and Al-Quds Bard, and campus wide activism related to Palestine. Aside from school, I volunteer as an Emergency Medical Technician-Basic, tutor Writing and Arabic, and perform spoken word poetry and Dabke (a Palestinian folk dance).
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Alexandros PapageorgiouAs an effort to make amends to myself for the traumatic mistake of having chosen Economics as my graduate studies, I later studied Social Sciences, specializing in Anthropology. I did two MSc, the first one in Paris, at the Paris 5 – René Descartes University, and the second one in Volos, at the University of Thessaly. I am now a PhD candidate at IAKA, the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly. I am interested in how knowledge is produced, managed and distributed in cooperative networks, locally and translocally.
Panagiota PaspaliI have graduated the department of History, Archeology and Social Anthropology of University of Thessaly in 2016. I am generally interested in History and Social Anthropology, especially the epistemological convergences between these two fields, in accordance with cultural and feminist theory. During my undergraduate studies I was working on the subjects of migrant subjectivity, issues of identity’s social construction, theories of body and corporeality and digital ethnography. In my senior thesis, I discussed the issue of human trafficking, within its genealogy in institutional rhetoric and the feminist approaches and, the counter-trafficking NGOs’ public discourse in the western world. My current research interests are about the politics of humanitarianism and humanitarian action in Europe, particularly in Greece, and also media activism related to gender and migration
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Niki Soumpassis Niki Soumpassis studied Germanistik at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens focusing on comparative literature and Romanticism. After that, relevant work experience included alternative DaF teaching through creative play and freelance translations. In 2017 she graduated from the interdisciplinary MA program „Gender, Society, Politics“ from Pantion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. Main interests circulate but are not limited to feminist and queer theory. She is currently interested in researching more about narratives and tactics of resistance in contemporary Athens and intersections of art, politics, social and urban change.
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Nicholas-George SykasI was born in 1993 in Thessaloniki, Greece. I received my high school diploma from Anatolia College of Thessaloniki and immediately after, in 2011, I commenced my university studies in the department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology. After acquainting myself with all three disciplines, I chose to follow my heart and Social Anthropology during my 3rd and 4th year. I graduated in 2016 having gained a substantial amount of experience in ethnographic research, digital anthropology and contemporary trends in anthropological research. Having completed my BA in University of Thessaly, I decided to do my MA there as well, in order to take advantage of the interdisciplinary course. The three semesters of my MA have been an incredibly valuable academic experience and a first class opportunity for me to work more intensively with instructors that I greatly appreciate and have taught me all I currently know.
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Georgia TsiantaΙ have studied Architecture and I am a post graduate student in Social Anthropology at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly. During the last twelve years I have been living in Volos while working in National Bank of Greece. Due to these multiple and diverse fields involved in, my special interests lie in economic anthropology and particularly in the transformation of work nowadays. My research work is a multi_sited ethnography negotiating the financialization of everyday life and the notion of affective labor, grounded on the practice of betting as an emerging occupation within the framework of casino and digital capitalism.
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Miray CakirogluMiray Cakiroglu graduated from Bogazici University, Istanbul in 2010 with a BA degree in Western Languages and Literatures and a double major in Philosophy. She also completed her MA in Critical and Cultural Studies in 2014 at the same university with her thesis titled “Reconstructing the City and the Urban Citizen through the ‘Istanbul Courses’”. She worked as a research assistant at Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Arts and Cultural Management for three years. She is currently working towards an MA degree in Near Eastern Studies at New York University. Her research interests include modern Turkey, anthropology of the Middle East, urban studies, materiality, ruination and heritage. She is also the author of a poetry book titled Taslarin Sesi Kesildi, which was published in 2014.
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Maria PantsidouAfter completing my first set of studies in the UK, which included a BA (Hons) in English Literature, an MA in Translation and a Diploma in Interpreting, I worked as a teacher and an interpreter for over 10 years in Greece. I am currently undertaking my second round of studies, this time at the University of Malta, conducting research for the English Department as a postgraduate student. My thesis focuses on physical pain in Literature and Culture.
My research interests include literary theory, biopolitics, posthumanism, disability and queer theory, gender studies, and medical humanities. After I finish my postgraduate work, I intend to continue my research as a PhD candidate within a Cultural Anthropology Department. |
Michail VrogkistinosMichail Vrogkistinos has graduated from the History and Archaeology Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2005). He has worked in the music industry for a decade as a booking agent and promoter of promising, mainly, underground music artists from Europe, USA, Latin America, Asia, Australia. He is currently a postgraduate student of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology in the University of Thessaly. His special interests centre on the Politics of Death and Colonialism particularly, on the Weaponization of Life and Franz Fanon theory of Violence. He is keen on expanding his knowledge and enhancing his theoretical background on these two fields as well as in Philosophy and Social Anthropology.
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Melina KalfantiBorn in 1993, I have received a Bachelor's in Communication, Media and Culture studies, and a Master's in Gender, Society and Politics, both from Panteion University. I work as a freelance journalist and I am currently trying to extend my research interests and find what excites me most among them. My main interests are the questions of representation, freedom, political action, posthumanism, and everything Donna Haraway ever did. I spend more time with dogs than with humans, and I hope to work in documentary filmmaking.
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Debbie “Nnenna” OnuohaDebbie “Nnenna” Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian with a passion for words and moving images. She is primarily interested in combining artistic practice, academic study and activism/social change in various projects within her home countries. She is currently an MA student of Documentary Film Directing at DocNomads. She previously completed her MPhil in World History at the University of Cambridge, and her BA at Harvard University in History, Literature, and Anthropology.
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Stavros KaranikasBorn in 1979, I studied the Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where I also got my MSc in Legal Theory, Legal Methodology and Political Science. A lawyer by profession, I currently am a post graduate student in History at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly. My academic interests include modern history, postcolonial studies and biopolitics. Being a first semester student, I chose to participate in Pelion Summer Lab in order to further explore the academic fields of History and Social Anthropology and their interaction in today's political context.
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Marilena GatsiouBorn in Larissa (Greece) in 1992. I have completed my bachelor studies at the department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly, majoring in Social Anthropology. Currently, I live on Lesvos island and I am enrolled in the “Gender, Culture and Society” master’s program in the University of Aegean. My thesis focuses on queer temporalities in contrast with the concept of “successful aging” in Western societies. During my undergraduate studies, I got involved with ethnographic film production which I find very fulfilling. I am a proud cat admirer.
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Stephane DartiailhStephane Dartiailh graduated from Université Lumière Lyon 2 (history) and Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis (ethnology). He studied cultural action at Université du Québec at Montréal where he was also member of artistic group Collectif Dia. He practises photography and digital média. He is project manager in a group of researchers bettween École Normale Supérieure Lyon and French National Library and Information Science School whose research topic is a political criticism of the internet. He will participate in December at anthropology conference "Shifting States" with a panel entitled "Intimate government and Anthropocene", its main current research topic.
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Effrosyni RantouDuring my B.A. (Panteion University, Athens) and my M.A. (The New School, New York) in Social Anthropology my research focus was on different aspects of migration and borders in Greece, humanitarian aid as a state of exception and alternative forms of citizenship. Currently, in my PhD (York University, Toronto) research I am focusing on subterranean politics, vertical and horizontal material dynamics and formation of political subjectivities. Particularly, I am interested in tracking the cross-scale relations between the disconnected subterranean politics with the politics and notions of everyday life by looking at the ways mines and other subterranean sites operate as vibrant political borders and maps through which systems of power redistribute sociopolitical tensions at local, national and international levels.
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Eleni TsatsaroniI have received my Bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology from the History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology department of University of Thessaly and I am currently a postgraduate student in the same department. During my MA studies, my academic interests and my research experience have been focused on the field of representation and the power of visualization with the digital field and through pop culture. I have also been interested in how academic knowledge can be produced and communicated by the use of new technologies and digital means.
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