Penelope PapailiasPenelope Papailias teaches anthropology at the University of Thessaly, where she also directs the Laboratory of Social Anthropology. She writes on the politics of cultural memory, historical culture and witnessing, visuality and violence, public death and networked mourning from postcolonial, anti-racist and feminist perspectives. She is particularly interested in exploring the possibilities of digital technologies in pedagogy and in expanding the agenda of experimental humanities. Her latest collaboration is dëcoloиıze hellάş: a call for re-viewing the place of modern Greece in relation to geographies and genealogies of European colonialism.
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.
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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.
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Alexandros PapageorgiouAlexandros Papageorgiou (PSL cohort 2017 & 2019) is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the IAKA department of the University of Thessaly, conducting research on contemporary processes of grassroots knowledge transfer across cultural and institutional contexts. Specifically, he is studying how ideas and practices of cooperation that have been applied in different localities are being introduced, translated and (re)produced in Greece today. He is also interested in experimenting with non-textual ways of academic knowledge production and dissemination, hence his participation in the ongoing research project ‘Anthrobombing: Narrative experimentations for the design of a public anthropology platform’.
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George Mantzios
George Mantzios (PSL cohort 2018) 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.
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