Professor at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication and Vice-Rector of the University of the Aegean.
Subject: The processing of the olive fruit and the evolution of olive oil production from the 19th to the 20th century
CURRICULUM VITAE – DIMITRIS PAPAGEORGIOU
Dimitris Papageorgiou is affiliated with the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean, University Hill, Mitilini, 81100, Lesvos, Greece. Contact information: Tel. +30 22510 36632 (office), +30 6977787283 (mobile), E-mail: dpap@aegean.gr
. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of the Aegean (1987–1995) and an M.S. in Biology from the University of Athens (1977–1982).
His research interests include Performance Studies, Cultural Theory and Digital Culture, hermeneutical approaches to identity, culture and community within specific historical, economic and social contexts, symbolic interaction and cultural practices shaping identities with emphasis on youth subcultures, Systemic Theory and Communicative Systems, and Multimedia, ICT technologies and the representation of cultural content such as digital platforms, applications, exhibitions and installations, as well as social media.
His administrative experience includes serving as Vice-Rector of the University of the Aegean (2018–2022); President of the Board of the Teriade Museum (2016–2019); Director of the MSc Program of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication (2008–2012, 2014–2017); elected President of the Department (2008–2011); elected Vice-President of the Research Unit of the University of the Aegean (2008–2010); elected representative of the Department in the Research Unit Board (2005–2010); and coordinator of the team that designed the educational program “Digital Cultural Products Design,” which defines a main orientation of the MSc program “Cultural Informatics and Communication” (2004–present). He has also served as President of the Board of the Public Library of Mytilene (2003–2007), Director of the Lab of Sound, Image and Cultural Representation (2000–present), and a member of the scientific team led by S. Dascalopoulou that proposed the establishment of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication (1999–2000).
His selected documentary film work includes “Janus’ Legacy. Refugee Passage to Europe” (2016), co-created with A. Spathis, documenting the 2015 refugee flow in Greece. The film won first prize at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (2017).
His selected books include Cultural Industries (Kritiki, 2005), edited with Vernicos, Dascalopoulos, Bantimaroudis and Bubaris, and Cultural Representation (Kritiki, 2006), edited with Bubaris and Myrivili.
His selected chapters in books include: “Liquid borders as practices: the case of the Greek island of Lesvos (19th–21st centuries)” in Multiculturalismes and identites en Europe (Academia, 2012); “Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Musical Culture of Lemnos and Northern Aegean” in Musical Crossroads of the Aegean: Lemnos (Ion, 2007); “Field Research on the Run: One More for the Road” in The Shadow Side of Fieldwork (Blackwell Publishing, 2007); “Cultural Representation: Problems and Perspectives” in Cultural Representation (Kritiki, 2006); and “Portrayals and Representations: performances of culture and cultural spectacles” in Cultural Industries (Kritiki, 2005).
His selected journal articles include: “ICT and systemic time squeeze: the uncoordinated temporalities of globalization,” Time & Society (SAGE, 2013); “The Expansion of ICT: A New Framework of Inclusion and Exclusion from the Global Realm,” International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory (2013); “On the Entropy of Social Systems: A Revision of the Concepts of Entropy and Energy in the Social Context,” Systems Research and Behavioral Science (2011); “Greek employers’ attitudes toward hiring people with disabilities in the workforce,” Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research (2007); and “Social Life Experiences of People with Mobility Problems: A Qualitative Study in Lesvos and Chios,” Social Perspectives (2005).
His selected conference presentations include “Solidarity movements in Lesvos and the case of refugees: A philosophic view about the current social context” at Crisis and the Social Sciences: New Challenges and Perspectives (2016); “Traces, Trademarks and Legacies among two ‘inimical’ localities on the Aegean coast: the question of ‘lost’ Cosmopolitanism in constructing local identities,” presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal (2011); and “Return at Fatherland. Processes of integration of Pontic women in Greek urban environment,” presented at the Conference on Globalization of the Economy and Migrant Networks in the Mediterranean (1998).