Culture and EU Identity Panel
Balkans Beyond Borders organizes an online panel discussion with the title “Cultural challenges of Europe nowadays and the role of cinema in building cultural identity and European consciousness – the Greek viewpoint” as part of the parallel activities of the 11th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival “Athens Edition”.
The participants of the panel will be Papadimitriou Lydia, Sevastikoglou Petros, Aivaliotis Konstantinos, Kasimati Anna and Papagiannopoulos Ilias.
The discussion will be moderated by Sideri Eleni, Assistant Professor of the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies and a member of the Laboratory of Culture, Borders and Gender of the University of Macedonia.
PARTICIPANTS
Papadimitriou Lydia
Papadimitriou Lydia
Lydia Papadimitriou is Reader (Associate Professor) in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published extensively on different aspects of Greek cinema, including (digital) film distribution, co-productions, film festivals and documentaries. She is the author of The Greek Film Musical (2006), co-editor of Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms and Identities (2011), and the Principal Editor of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture (JGMC). She has co-edited special issues for New Review of Film and Television Studies and the JGMC, and published articles in Screen, Studies of European Cinema, International Journal of Media Management, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Filmicon among others. She is the co-editor (with Ana Grgic) of Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
Sevastikoglou Petros
Sevastikoglou Petros
Petros Sevastikoglou was born in Moscow. He studied Sociology in Paris and Film Directing in the USA. Filmography long feature: «Electra», “Attractive Illusion», «Three moments», «Wind over the city». He directed numerous theatrical plays for the Greek national theatre and for private productions in Greece and abroad. He taught film directing in the postgraduate art video of the School of Fine Arts and in the film department of the Aristotle University. He teaches film acting and film directing at the School of the Greek national theatre.
Aivaliotis Konstantinos
Aivaliotis Konstantinos
Konstantinos Aivaliotis holds a PhD in visual anthropology, specializing in film festivals and their role in the education of the professionals of the film industry. He is a graduate of the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University and holds two postgraduate degrees, in the Anthropology of Education and “Sciences de l’ éducation” (France, university Rouen) and in Visual Anthropology (England, Goldsmiths College). From 2008 to 2016 he worked as a programmer at the Athens International Film Festival ‘Opening Nights’, and from 2017-2020 he served as Director of Promotion at the Greek Film Centre. Today he is the director and a founding member of ETHNOFEST organization and the titular festival.
Kasimati Anna
Kasimati Anna
Anna Kasimati holds the position of project manager for the Creative Europe Media Desk in Greece as well as the head of the Research and Programs Office at the Greek Film Center. She is responsible for the implementation, operation, monitoring, and management of approved projects under NSRF and other European funds. She has a BA in Communication Studies from Coventry University (UK), an MA in Communication Policy from City University in London. She has 15 years of experience in research and analysis in the fields of culture and audiovisual policy. She is a member of EFAD (European Film Agency Directors Association) and EFARN (European Film Agencies Research Network).
Papagiannopoulos Ilias
Papagiannopoulos Ilias
Ilias Papagiannopoulos (1970) is an Associate Professor for contemporary political philosophy at the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Piraeus. He is a former researcher at the Greek Academy for Sciences and Arts and has lectured at the universities of Innsbruck, Thessaly and Panteion University in Athens. His research interests include postfoundational political thought, post-colonial theory, political theology, Modern Greek studies and politics of memory. His most recent publication is “Freud at the Acropolis: an atopography” [Contagious archaeologies I] (Athens: Perispomeni, 2019).
MODERATOR
Sideri Eleni
Sideri Eleni
Eleni Sideri received my PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies. Her research interests cover the fields of diaspora, transnational migration, Caucasian and Black Sea ethnography, cinema and cultural policies. She has done field research in Georgia, Abkhazia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Greece. Today she works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies and she is a member of the Laboratory of Culture, Borders and Gender of the University of Macedonia.