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Panayotis Panopoulos
Panayotis Panopoulos is assistant professor of anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece. His research interests concern the anthropology of music, sound, senses and performance. His ethnographic publications (in international journals, e.g. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Ethnologie Française, and in edited volumes) concern the symbolism of sound and hearing in modern Greece, the study of local cultural associations and the role of musical performances in the symbolic construction of place. He has also conducted research on the culture of the Deaf Community in Greece and he is collaborating in projects with contemporary artists. ‘Voice-o-graph’, a project of arts-based ethnography with visual artist Panos Charalambous, was presented at documenta 14, Athens/Kassel in 2017. He has taught at the Democretian University of Thrace, the University of Crete and Panteion University, Athens. He has been a Research Visiting Scholar at Princeton University (2002–03, 2012) and the University of California, Berkeley (2009). He has also taught as invited lecturer at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (2012) and at the University of Cologne (2018). He is a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists and the Greek Society for Acoustic Ecology.
Contact: Department of Social Anthropology and History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Aegean, University Hill, Administration Bldg., 81 100 Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece.