Organizers

Penelope Papailias

Penelope Papailias (@penel_p) teaches anthropology at the University of Thessaly, where she also directs the Laboratory of Social Anthropology. She has written extensively on cultural memory, historical culture and witnessing, focusing on the intersection of technology and culture in critical media events, affective networks, spectacles of public death, social mourning and performative memorialization. Her books include Genres of Recollection: Archival Poetics and Modern Greece (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Digital Ethnography (2015, in Greek). She is on the editorial board of the Greek feminist journal φεμινιστιqά/feministiqa (http://feministiqa.net/). This summer she is also organizing the conference Data-stories: New Media Aesthetics and Rhetorics for Critical Digital Ethnography

Christina Mitsopoulou

Christina Mitsopoulou, Archaeologist (Sorbonne Paris IV), PhD in Classical Archaeology (University of Athens) and Licensed Cultural Tour Guide (Athens), is Laboratory Teaching Staff at the University of Thessaly. She assists the PSL on an organizational level.

Petros Petridis

Petros Petridis holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology and currently teaches as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Thessaly. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Greek Research Center for the Humanities. His main interests focus on the ethnographic research of digital culture; specifically, 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.

Pantelis Probonas

Pantelis Probonas (@pprobonas) is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly. He is working on a multi-sited ethnography about the politics of death and the disposal of refugees' dead bodies at the EU frontier. Theoretically, he is mostly interested in the body, politics of life and death, medical anthropology, borders and borderlands.

Constantinos Diamantis

Constantinos Diamantis is currently a postgraduate student of Visual & Media Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universitaet Berlin. He is the Program Coordinator and Film Committee member of Athens Ethnographic Film Festival and the Coordinator of Data-Stories Conference, the 1st Greek academic Confestival [conference & festival] on Digital Storytelling. He has been a key partner of Refugee Observatory of the University of the Aegean and worked closely for three years as a researcher and location manager with the director Nathalie Borgers for the documentary "The Remains".

George Mantzios

George Mantzios is a PhD Candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Building on yearlong ethnographic fieldwork in Athens in 2017– primarily at Ellinikon, an abandoned national airport turned temporary refugee camp– George’s PhD research develops an experimental engagement with anthropologies of austerity and historicity in Greece informed by a political aesthetics of montage. Anachronistically drawing together disparate documentary materials, archival formations, literary genres, and visual images pertaining to the airport’s many repressed, forgotten, and/or fabular histories and futurities, he attempts to (re)present the disjointedness of historicist narrations of modern arrival, providing a lens through which to see the present in Greece negatively: by way of the places, figures, and temporalities that were negated so that the geographies of the present could take on their consecrated shape.