Literature and Art Narratives under Lockdown: Speakers

Maria Angelidaki has studied Philosophy in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Psychology in the University of Crete. She has an MA in Literature and a PhD in Education. She has worked as a literature teacher in state secondary schools and she is currently the director of the Vocational Institute of Galatsi. Her research interests concern the fields of Art Education and Art Therapy.

Pavlos Nikolakopoulos was born in 1973 in Athens, Greece. He has attained a BFA Degree in painting from the Athens School of Fine Arts (1996). Lives and works in Athens. He has participated in numerous shows, such as: LIBRES, Centre D’Art Contemporain Yverdon-Les-Bain (CH, 2019), Oblique, Operation Room-Amerikan Hastanesi, Istanbul, (TR, 2018), PIIGS, An Alternative Geography of Curating, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in collaboration with NEON organization, Turin (IT, 2016); Apparent Void, Analix Forever, Geneva (CH, 2016); Massage the History, Historical testimonies and artistic practice, Contemporary Greek Art Institute (GR, 2016); Neighbours, Istanbul Modern (TR, 2014); A Rock and A Hard Place, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale (GR, 2011); Aftermath, 25th Alexandria Biennial, Egypt (EG, 2009); Personal-Political, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece (GR, 2009); Heterotopias, 1st Biennale of Thessaloniki, Greece (GR, 2007)

Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos has been a Lecturer at the Department of American Culture and Literature at Ankara University since 2015. He completed his PhD on “The Use of Violence in Contemporary American Cinema” at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2014. His research mostly, but not exclusively, focuses on gender, representation of violence and issues of identity.

Geli Mademli is a doctoral candidate at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, researching the notion of crisis in different manifestations of Greek film heritage. She works as the publications coordinator at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and is a member of the programming team of Syros International Film Festival.

Amalia Kondoyanni was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Linguistics at the Department of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy and Theatre at the School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her doctorate from the School of Drama of the AUTh. She coordinates the Literary & International Relations Office of the National Theatre of Northern Greece since 2006 and is responsible for co-funded projects. She is a member of the Committee of the Greek Playwrights’ State Awards, since 2010. She is a lecturer of dramaturgy and theatre theory at the Drama School of the NTNG, since 2007. Has cooperated as dramaturg in several theatre performances in Greece and abroad. For more information click here.

Martha Bouziouri is a director, a social anthropologist and artistic director of the International Network of Documentary Theatre. She has co-founded the production company PLAYS2PLACE, and is in charge of its theatrical and cross-media productions. Lately she focuses on documentary theatre. Her performances (Belle, Équipe, Green Line, Rooms with a Point of View, Amarynthos, Traces, Case Farmakonisi or the Right of Water) result from an extensive ethnographic research, are based on real events and contemporary socio-political issues that explore the affinities between the theatrical and cinematographic documentary as well as the link between research-art-intervention. She has presented her work in Greece and abroad (Athens  Festival and Epidaurus Festival, Dimitria, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, National Theatre, Οnassis Youth Festival, Athens Biennale, Warsaw Biennale, Wiesbaden Biennale, Spielart Festival, Razem Pamoja Foundation, Chantiers d’ Europe – Theâtre de la Ville,)  In 2018,  she designed the workshop  From the Field to the Stage: Approaching the Self and the Other in the Documentary Theatre which has been invited among others by the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in collaboration with the Greek Film Center, the Warsaw Biennale in collaboration with the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, the American University of Beirut and the Panhellenic Network for Theatre in Education. Martha Bouziouri is a member of the Directors Lab Mediterranean and artist-in-residence of CENTQUATRE (2019) and Cité internationale des arts (2020) in Paris, given her next theatrical-cinematographic project which deals with radicalization and terrorism.

Vasiliki Misiou holds a PhD in Literary Translation and she is currently an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Translation and Intercultural Studies at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. As a professional translator, she has collaborated with several institutions and publishing houses. Her research interests revolve around literary translation, gender and translation, feminist approaches to literature and translation, as well as translation and semiotics.

Dionisis Marinos was born in 1971 in Athens. He is a journalist and literary critic. He teaches creative writing. He was a member of the working group for the creation of the lending department of the National Library and he was a member of the Committee for the National Literary Awards (translated literature).