Cécile BayardI am a student in anthropology in Master degree, and the editor of the website anthropoline.fr. In 2017/2018, I had a fieldwork on the practice of origami (the art of paper folding), in Lyon (France). It emerged questions about creation processes and the mathematics of origami, and origami as a pedagogical tool in the teaching of mathematics. For about 6 months, I’m working with the association Imagineo (imagineo.org), that experiments a new ascendant pedagogy. At the same time I’m working on my Master’s Thesis ; I have great interest in kolam (a type of drawing with mathematical rationality), based in Tamil Nadu (India).
Marilena DrymiotiBorn in Nicosia, Cyprus, I started studying Law in 2011 at the University of Sheffield. From the second year onwards, I chose to follow various classes related with Criminology where I discovered my interest in exploring the social, cultural and political dimension of phenomena and attitudes that are regarded as deviating from a current society’s ‘norm’. After the completion of my bachelors I moved to Utrecht, the Netherlands, in order to start a masters in Global Criminology where I was introduced to the schools of Critical and Cultural Criminology. At the moment, I am conducting my PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I am mostly experienced and trained in ‘studying-up’, following a top-down approach in my research. However, I am particularly interested in experimental methods thus, delighted to be part of this year’s summer lab.
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Guillermo Collado WilkinsGuillermo Collado Wilkins is considering giving into the matrix and, to weigh the odds, he studies the intersection of the the political, the cultural and the nerdy. Money and technology are his main preoccupations; specifically, their material embeddedness and narrative power. In his search for civic technologies that promote cooperation, economic alterity and technopolitics are weaved together with questions of scale, ethics or transhumanism.
You will find him jumping or climbing around and, most likely, he will not give into the matrix until he’s certain there are silicon trees to climb in it. 
Ismini GatouI was born in Athens, where I currently live. In the past, I received a Bachelor's in Media and Communication (University of Athens), a MA in Media and Culture (Panteion University) and a MSc in Cultural Informatics (University of the Aegean). Currently I conduct a PhD research at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication (University of the Aegean), on a fellowship of the State Scholarships Foundation. My focus is on the multiple ways we relate-to and with-in public space, how this relation is represented (or not) and what exceeds representation. Moreover, I examine the role(s) that locative media could play in the formation and expression of this ongoing relationality -when used as a creative research tool- in between private-public, moving ‘bodies’, affects and materialities. My fieldwork is centered in the neighborhood of America Square, in the center of Athens.
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Barbara GiovanelliBarbara is interested in imaginaries of the future in the context of power. She currently works as a Policy Officer on Digital Ethics in an EU institution in Brussels, where it is her task to refresh our thinking of privacy in data-driven times. Barbara holds a MA in Human Rights and Democratisation from EIUC Venice and KU Leuven and a BA in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Vienna. She wrote about the human rights movement’s claim to universality in a diverse world and also did research on the social effects of sexual violence and torture.
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Antonios KoukouladakisAt the time of writing I will be finishing my undergraduate studies in Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. I have taken part in the Border Crossings Network student conferences; in Sarajevo (2015) and Zagreb (2016) as a presenter, and in Veliko Tarnovo (2017) as an attendee:
In 2015 my colleagues and I presented our research, titled "LGBTQI+ Communities of Athens: Ways of Organization and Resistance Against the Surge of Neo-Fascism and Conservatism in Mid-Crisis Greece" for which we conducted field study with participant observation. In 2016 my colleagues and I presented our research, titled "Movement of Urban Reclamation in Greece: A study through a comparative historical and anthropological lens", which was based more heavily on bibliography. I have also attended several weekly seminars offered by the Anthropology Department of Panteion, on topics including migration, cultural pluralism, and conflict. |
Eirini LazaridouMy research focuses on the investigation of different approaches for mathematics education for young students using different sources, such as previous knowledge, tradition, culture, nature, real life problems, manual work. I am particularly interested in analyzing how different kinds of “environments” -natural, man-made - influence children’s perceptions and their mathematical way of thinking. More specifically, my phd research ‘Creative pedagogical experimentations with mathematics in the early years: Discussing alter-pedagogies through the theory of commons’ approaches collective reorganizations that involve experimentation with alternative worldviews, economies and pedagogies.
I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Thessaly in Greece. I finished my Master studies in Postgraduate Program “Educational Sciences: Educational Material and Pedagogical Toys, Master of Arts in Education” at the University of Thessaly in 2018 and my degree in Department of Early Childhood Education at the same university in 2013. |
Mariana ManousopoulouMy name is Mariana Manousopoulou and I was born and raised in Athens. Last year I graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration (specialization Political Analysis). My academic interests develop around Sociology and Cultural Anthropology. My thesis focused on witchcraft accusations in Early Modern England in correlation with the rurals communities. During my studies I have attended seminars about gender and oral history. Currently, I am part of an ongoing anthropological research about the women-sellers in the local flea market in my neighborhood, Pagrati.
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Alexandros Papageorgiou
As 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.
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Panagiota Pozoglou
My name is Panagiota Pozoglou and I was born in Greece. I have a BA degree in History- Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly. The main field of my studies is History. Especially, I took part in seminars as regards Contemporary History, Industrial Era and History of Technology. Also, I participated in many anthropological courses, such as Anthropology of Death, Digital Culture, Anthropology and Game e.t.c.
This period, I am preparing for a MA in History, in England. I am going to start the course in September 2019. I am interested in a variety of academic issues and fields, as Public History, migration, digital culture and social changes. |
Nanuka Iashvili
I am a recent graduate of Economics, Politics, and Social Thought degree at Bard College Berlin. During my studies in Berlin, I took part in a year-long exchange program in New York City at the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA). Through BGIA, I was also interning at a high-school early-college in NYC. In the final year of my bachelor’s degree, I worked on a research project concerning the cultural memory of the two protests that took place in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and explored the ways in which they are portrayed in the contemporary Georgian history textbooks.
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Nicholas SmithI’m an Anthropologist and PhD student at the University of Toronto, excited to be joining the Pelion Summer Lab. My research draws on the literature of media studies and political anthropology and is currently taking shape on the topics of human movement in/through Greece. I have an interest in experimental ethnography and am an active member of the U of T’s “Body Online” project, a research collective in digital ethnography with whom I have co-organized a panel discussion for the upcoming AAA conference in Vancouver this fall.
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George Smyrnaios
George is an undergraduate of European civilization at Hellenic open university. He is 25 years old plays drums, RPGs, reads and runs around Athens. His academic interests varies from political philosophy, ethics,anthropogeography, to the interaction between society and technology and the ways identities form in the digital era. He has participated in Erasmus plus project and in seminars concerning digital humanities. In his free time he attends courses at the department of history and philosophy of science and watches e courses.
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Eftychia VardouliMy name is Eftychia Vardouli and my academic background is in Cultural Studies, Economic Science, Web Development and Visual Ethnography. I work as cultural manager in various fields such as film production, museum administration, festival production and recently as a researcher for the Technical University of Crete. My interests are on the convergence of the social sciences,culture,art and digital technologies.
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İlker ÇaylaÍlker Çayla is an assistant professor of Sociology at İstanbul Okan University. He received an MA. in Political Science from Bilkent University and a Ph.D in Cultural Anthropology from Hacettepe University. His research and writing focuses on ethnic identities and citizenship;literary and cultural theory; transnational mobility and migration; politics of representation; memory studies and oral history. analyzing contemporary cultural dynamics in Turkey and around the world.
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Tiara Roxanne
Dr. Tiara Roxanne is a scholar, practitioner, and poet based in Berlin. Her research and theoretical essays investigate the relationship between the Indigenous Body and AI. As a practitioner, her mediums include clay and textiles which are rooted in her work as an artist and writer. Moreover, she writes poetry which has been widely published and has been featured in New Delta Review, continent, and The Monster Issue of Gesture: A Literary Journal. She received the Zora Neale Hurston Award from Naropa University in 2013. And under the supervision of Catherine Malabou, Tiara completed her dissertation, "Recovering Indigeneity: Territorial Dehiscence and Digital Immanence" in June 2019. She is currently a Researcher at DeZIM-Institut in Berlin, Germany.
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Jacob Henry Leveton
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I have started out on the technical side as a software engineer. The 'soft' in software denoting intriguing indetermenencies, got me interested in studying social aspects of technology at the STS department of Edinburgh University. However, my fascination with sound, music and the proliferation of new technology aimed at producing it, won me over. This got ultimately distilled into setting up an audio production company working for over a decade on records, film and documentaries (www.stereotype.gr). Social sciences won me back eventually. I completed the History and Social Anthropology masters at the University of the Aegean in 2019. There, on the island of Lesvos, I conducted research on the collective and individual perceptions of local inhabitants regarding the different phases of the island as a defied border. My current aim is to combine elements of the above in a new research project.
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Jacob Henry Leveton is Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. A scholar of visual culture, critical theory, and ecology, Leveton aims to mobilize research on artistic constructions of community to imagine more democratic, resilient, and sustainable futures. His essays on William Blake, the politics of surveillance, and cultures of nonviolence have appeared in William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Princeton, 2017) and Essays in Romanticism (October 2018). His research in Greece this summer engages data sets of extinction and archaeologies of the more-than-human at Akrotiri as potential images of conceptual criticality for the Anthropocene.
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Kelly Mulvaney |
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I translate and do editorial work as part of transversal texts (transversal.at), and I study anthropology in Chicago. The research that brings me to this lab considers the coming together of computer machines and money systems in cryptocurrencies and distributed record technologies, and the socialities emerging with such technology in various contexts.
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