TOGETHER BUT APART: ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH AT TIMES OF A PANDEMIC
Together but apart:
Anthropological research at times of a pandemic
We think through possibilities and impossibilities of doing fieldwork through the prism of "social distancing." We exchange research experiences and critically reconsider concepts such as "connection", "distance", "encounter", "fieldwork", "participant observation". We reflect on how differences in terms of geographical, class, gender and race intersect with the social experience of "crisis" and "normalcy".
Wednesday 12 May 2021
Panagiotis Antoniadis
"The invisible informant": digital ethnographic encounters beyond the visual economy
Savvas Triantafyllidis
"It's like we are considered second-class citizens": Anthropological perceptions on homexual fatherhood in Greece.
Alkisti Efthymiou
Intimacies in crisis: Identities and aesthetico-political demands between feminism and queer/cuir in contemporary Chilean cinema
Wednesday 19 May 2021
Nefeli Roumelioti
Psychologies “for refugees”. Thoughts concerning a medical humanitarian assistance program in Athens.
Christina Tigka
ERASMUS+ as a field of solidarity
Bessy Polykarpou
Political coalitions for possible better worlds: violence, solidarity and gender resistance in contemporary Athens.
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Short CV:
Panagiotis Antoniadis has studied Law, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, while his Ph.D. thesis on which he is currently working under the supervision of Prof. Athena Athanasiou is provisionally titled "Sex as an ethicopolitical encounter: psycho-bio-politics of intimacy and the pedagogy of desire in the post-HIV/AIDS Greek queerscapes."
Alkisti Efthymiou is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University (Athens, Greece). Closely engaging with works of queer/feminist film, her thesis focuses on the cultural politics of love and the critical state of intimacy under late capitalism. She holds a BA in Media and Cultural Studies and MA in Gender, Society and Politics, both from Panteion University, as well as an MA in Museum Studies from University College London. She has given talks and performative lectures in collaboration with various institutions across Europe, including the Greek Film Archive, ZHdK, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Vienna Art Academy, University of Göthenburg, Goethe-Institut Athen, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, and others. Her most recent publications include papers in journals such as feministiqá, Identities, and the Journal for Greek Media and Culture. Her research work (2019–2022) is supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) and the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT). She has also received support (2018–2019) for her doctoral studies from NEON Organization for Culture and Development.
Bessy Polykarpou is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. In 2017 she graduated from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During her/their undergraduate studies, she participated in the Erasmus Mobility Program, attending courses at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paul Valéry - Montpellier III. In 2019 she received her master’s degree on "Political Science and Sociology" from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In January 2021, she began her doctoral dissertation at the Department of Social Anthropology of Panteion University, under the supervision of Professor Athena Athanassiou, entitled "Political coalitions for possible better worlds: violence, solidarity and gender resistance in contemporary Athens."
Nefeli Roumelioti holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and has been working for many years as a psychologist in multiple refugee support structures. In 2018 she concluded postgraduate studies in "Social and Cultural Anthropology" at Panteion University and she is currently a PhD candidate at the same University. Focused on the broader field of refugee studies, she is interested in the topics that lie at the intersection of the disciplines of social anthropology and psychology or/and psychoanalysis.
Christina Tigka is currently a Phd candidate in Panteion University and an IKY scholar. She has studied Architecture and Social Anthropology with a continuous interest in cultural exchanges and cosmopolitanism. Her latest research interrogates the soft, positive and profitable aspects of post-democratic EU governance.
Savvas Triantafyllidis is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology in Panteion University of Social and Political Studies. In 2012 he graduated from the Department of History and Ethnology of Democritus University of Thrace at the discipline of Ethnology. In 2014 he obtained a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Department of Social Anthropology, where, in 2015 he started his doctoral studies under the supervision of Associate Professor Eirini Tountasaki. His dissertation is titled “‘Tracing homosexual fatherhood’: Anthropological Approaches on Male Homosexual Relatedness in Modern Greece” and has been funded by the “Onassis Foundation” since 2016. His research interests deal with Kinship, Gender, and the Greek ethnography. He has presented his work in various workshops and conferences in Greece and abroad. He is a member of EASA and a founding member of the “Association of Social Anthropologists Greece” (SKAE).
