TOGETHER BUT APART: ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH AT TIMES OF A PANDEMIC

Possibilities and impossibilities of doing fieldwork through the prism of "social distancing."

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 9 May

17:00 – 19:00

 

Pafsanias Karathanasis

“Kypreoi” (Greek Cypriots) and “Kalamarades” (mainland Greeks): An ethnographic exploration of the contemporary relations between Greece and Cyprus.

 

Maria Paschalidou

Performative aspects of political loss: Lethal censorships, haunting memories

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Short CV:

Pafsanias Karathanasis has a bachelor in social anthropology (Panteio University), an MA in Material and Visual Culture (University College London) and a PhD in Social and  Anthropology (University of the Aegean). His main research interests include anthropology of space and place, visual culture, political anthropology and migration studies. Since 2016 he is the academic coordinator of the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival-Ethnofest and between 2017-2018 he has worked as the coordinator of the Observatory of the Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Aegean. Between 2019-2020 he was a fellow of the Aikaterini Laskarides foundation in the department of Modern Greek Studies of the university of Amsterdam, since early 2020 has been a post-doctoral researcher, and a fellow of the National Scholarships Foundation-IKY, in the Department of Social Anthropology in Panteio University, and he is a member of the board of the Association of Social Anthropologists Greece-ΣΚΑΕ.

Maria Paschalidou is a visual artist, photographer and researcher. She focuses on the expanded uses of photography, video as post-production and the performativity of the lens-based media using participatory practices and installations. She holds a PhD in Lens-based Media (De Montfort University, UK) and an MFA in Photography (Columbia College Chicago, USA). She also studied Economics (BA, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki) and as a Fellow of the State Scholarship Foundation (2019-2021) she completed her postdoctoral research in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology (Panteion University, Athens). Her artwork has been presented in Europe, USA, Canada, Russia, Australia and Asia and published in international exhibition catalogues and book editions. Since 2021, she is as an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts and Moving Image at the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries; School of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Thessaly, Volos).