Penelope Papailias
Penelope Papailias (@penel_p) teaches social anthropology at the University of Thessaly and also runs the Social Anthropology Lab. She is the author of Genres of Recollection: Archival Poetics and Modern Greece (2005), an ethnography of popular historical production in contemporary Greek society. More recently, she has co-authored an online, open-access textbook, entitled Digital Ethnography (2015). She is the author of numerous articles on the cultural politics and media technologies of witnessing, focusing on topics such as affective publics, social grief, cultural memory, the database as cultural form, visuality, violence and necropolitics in the context of event virtualization, networked connectivity and database aesthetics
Petros Petridis
Petros Petridis holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Greek Research Center for the Humanities. His main interests focus on the ethnographic research of digital culture. Specifically, his interests are in digital economies, file sharing and intellectual property rights, algorithmic cultures, gamification, fan cultures and the politics of knowledge in technosocialities such as Peer to Peer networks and Massively Multiplayer Online Games.
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Mitsos Bilalis
Mitsos Bilalis is an Assistant Professor of Theory and Technology of Historical Information at the University of Thessaly, Department of History, Archaeology, Social Anthropology (Volos, Greece). He studied History at the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens and University of Sofia “Sv. Kliment Ohridski”. He has published on theory of History, contemporary visual culture, social history of information and historical culture in the digital domain.
Eirini Avramopoulou
Eirini Avramopoulou has been recently elected as an assistant professor of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. She received a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (2012). Her research interests include anthropology of human rights, social movements and activism; feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to subjectivity, biopolitics and affect; displacement, memory and trauma. She is the author of Porno-graphics and Porno-tactics: Desire, Affect and Representation in Pornography, (co-edited with Irene Peano, 2016, Punctum Books), and Το Συν-αίσθημα στο Πολιτικό: Υποκειμενικότητες, Εξουσίες και Ανισότητες στο Σύγχρονο Κόσμο (Affect in the Political: Subjectivities, Power and Inequalities in the Modern World), 2018, Nisos: Athens. Currently, she is an A.G. Leventis Fellow at the British School at Athens and teaches at the Hellenic Open University.
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Daniel Karpowitz
Daniel Karpowitz is Director of Policy & National Programs at the Bard Prison Initiative and Lecturer in Law and the Humanities at Bard College. He had served as a teacher and academic director of BPI since 2001, and now directs and is a co-founder of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison, which helps launch and grow new college-in-prison programs across the U.S. Current projects include programs at Yale College and the Milwaukee Area Technical College. He has been a Soros Justice Fellow at the Open Society Institute, a Fellow at the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Fulbright Fellow in Nepal. Karpowitz holds a J.D. with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a Public Interest Law Fellow. Prior to joining BPI he worked on alternatives to incarceration in the District Attorney's office in Philadelphia, on residential red-lining in Chicago, and race-based insurance underwriting in New York. He earned a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied European history and Irish literature. His book, College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration, was published by Rutgers in 2017.
Anna Karakatsouli is Associate Professor at the Theatre Studies Department of the University of Athens. She studied European History and Culture in Athens, Strasbourg and Paris. She has been an Expert Associate in the project of the new edition of the History of Humankind by UNESCO (Paris) and Vice-director at the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation (Athens). Her research interests include intellectual history, history of colonialism and history of the book. In her most recent publication gives a transnational approach of the Philhellenes who took part as freedom fighters in the Greek War of Independence. She has also published a study on Greek book history focusing on Hestia booksellers and publishers from 1885 to 2010. She is member of the Administrative Committee of the National Scholarships Foundation (IKY) and past member of the Committee for the State Literary Awards (2011-2015). Editor and translator of several scholarly books, she speaks English, French, German and Russian.
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Laura Kunreuther
Laura Kunreuther (B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., University of Michigan) is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Anthropology at Bard College. Dr. Kunreuther's first book, Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu (Berkeley), traces the relation between public speech and personal interiority during a moment of democraticization in Nepal. She is currently engaged in two projects that both explore sound, listening, and political subjectivity. The first centers on the use of sound for political and artistic protest; the second centers on the role of interpreters deployed in field missions of the UN. At Bard College, Prof. Kunreuther is affiliated with the Experimental Humanities program, Human Rights, Asian Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies programs.
Leandros Kyriakopoulos
Leandros Kyriakopoulos is a fellow of the Research Center for the Humanities, Athens, Greece, and a lecturer in the department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University. His academic concerns include the study of aesthetics, new media and visual culture. Specifically, his areas of interests are the cultures of entertainment and consumption, urban nomadism and cosmopolitanism, politics of place, affects and the senses, new technologies and subjectivity.
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