Penelope Papailias
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Penelope Papailias grew up in New York City, the child of a Greek immigrant father, studied English literature at Harvard and cultural anthropology at the University of Michigan, before migrating (back?) as an adult to her father’s homeland, where she is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Thessaly. 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 (2005) and Digital Ethnography (2015, in Greek). Co-founder and director of the PSL and member of the steering committee of the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, she is committed to reimagining (anthropological) pedagogy and research through experimentation with multimodal genres (data-stories). She is also a founding member of the initiative dëcoloиıze hellάş, which calls for the urgent re-viewing of the place of modern Greece in relation to geographies and genealogies of European colonialism.
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Pantelis Probonas
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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.
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George Mantzios
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George Mantzios holds a PhD in social-cultural anthropology from the University of Toronto. His doctoral research investigated the political aesthetics of historical redress in Athens, Greece, through a series of speculative engagements with the defacement and ruination of iconic public monuments and infrastructure. Since 2017, George has been involved with the PSL, first as a participant before transitioning into a coordinating role in the design and implementation of PSL 3 & 4.
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Alexandros Papageorgiou
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Alexandros Papageorgiou holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Thessaly - Department of History, Archeology and Social Anthropology (IAKA). His doctoral dissertation explored modern day politics of knowledge, specifically "projects" as a technology of governance and subjectification in EU policies for research. Alexandros is interested in contemporary conditions of anthropological labor and knowledge production, and in anthropology’s position and role in public debate. This was the focus of the research project "Anthrobombing: Narrative Experimentations for the Design of a Public Anthropology Platform" (2020-2022) that he carried out together with Alexandra Siotou and Penelope Papailias. He was a member of PSL 1 (2017) & 3 (2019) cohorts.
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Penny Paspali
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Penny Paspali is a Ph.D. candidate of Social Anthropology in University of Thessaly and a researcher for the Greek department of the European Observatory on Femicides. She is currently writing her doctoral thesis about digital grassroots feminisms based on the ethnography she was conducting the last three years. Her research interests are focused on digital anthropology and anthropology of social movements, as well as ecological matters of care and survivance. She holds a BA in History and an MA in Gender Studies and she was a cohort member of PSLs 1 (2017) & 4 (2022).
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TOM WESTERN |
Tom Western is a writer, researcher, and artist. His work builds creative geographies that seek to imagine futures beyond the colonial past and present. Tom works primarily in Athens, where he’s involved in various forms of creative and collaborative research and movement building. He is currently finishing his first book – titled Circular Movements – about Athens and the Mediterranean, written in circles and circulations, gathering imaginations of the city and the sea, and mapping ways out of the linear histories and geographies of empire. Tom regularly produces spatial art-research pieces that seek to make new maps of Athens and its Mediterranean relations, gathered together on the site Undercartographies. He is based at UCL as a Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography.
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Dimitra Morosou
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Dimitra Morosou is a graduate of Social Anthropology from the University of Thessaly. In her bachelor's thesis she examined the reason why white femininities and masculinities wear braids/dreadlocks, within which the emerging patterns indicate how gender perfomativity is entangled with political narratives, but also with racial dimensions. She is member of the dëcoloиıze hellάş student network. She was student intern in PSL 5.
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