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1 Name: Eleana Yalouri, Teaching Position: Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Material Culture Institution: Dept of Social Anthropology Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences 136, Syngrou Ave , Athens, Greece Curriculum Vitae Eleana Yalouri is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. She has a BA in Archaeology (University of Crete, Greece) an MPhil in Museum studies (University of Cambridge), a PhD in Social Anthropology (University College London), and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Princeton, USA. She has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, London and a lecturer at the Dept of Anthropology of University College London. Her research interests include theories of Material Culture, cultural heritage and the politics of remembering and forgetting, theories of space and the social construction of landscape, and anthropology and contemporary art; anthropology and archaeology. Her book The Acropolis. Global Fame, Local Claim (Berg 2001) discusses the modern life of the Athenian Acropolis, and the ways in which modern Greeks deal with the national and international features of their ancient classical heritage. Her edited volume Υλικός Πολιτισμός. Η Ανθρωπολογία στη Χώρα των Πραγμάτων [Material Culture. Anthropology in Thingland] (Alexandria 2012) offers a systematic review of theories and ethnographies on key fields of Material Culture. Her current research projects involve collaborations with visual artists and art historians exploring the borders between contemporary art and fields of inquiry dealing with the material culture of the past or present, such as archaeology and anthropology. Publications I. Book-Monograph

2 2001. The Acropolis. Global Fame, Local Claim. Berg Publishers: London and New York. II. Edited Volume Υλικός Πολιτισμός: Η Ανθρωπολογία στη Χώρα των Πραγμάτων. (Material Culture: Anthropology in the Thingland). Athens: Αλεξάνδρεια. III. Chapters in edited volumes (in press). «Παρόν και παρελθόν: Ανθρωπολογία και Αρχαιολογία. Παράλληλες σχέσεις» [The Present and the past: Anthropology and Archaeology. Parallel Relationships]. In Ν. Papadimitriou and Α. Anagnostopoulos (eds.). Kοινωνία και Παρελθόν: Προσλήψεις της αρχαιότητας στη σύγχρονη Ελλάδα [Society and the Past: Receptions of Antiquity in Contemporary Greece]. Athens: Kastaniotis. (in press) (co-author E. Rikou). Contemporary Art and Difficult Heritage. Three case studies from Athens. In E. Solomon (ed.). Contested Antiquity. Indiana University Press Η (απο)κρυφη υλικότητα των λέξεων [The cryptic materiality of words]. In P. Panopoulos & E. Rikou (eds.) Φωνές/Fonés. Αthens: Nisos «Μatter Matters Matter. Developments in Material Culture Studies since the 1980s». In Τ. Bampilis και P. ter Keurs (eds.) Social Matter(s): Recent Approaches to Materiality. Berlin: LIT Verlag. (co-author E. Rikou). Of roots and cultures. In K. Stafylakis (ed.) The Other Designs: Historical Authenticity as Artistic Project. Athens. 2014a. The present past. Classical antiquity and modern Greece. In Y. Aesopos, (ed.) Τοurism Landscapes: Remaking Greece. Athens: YΠEKA. 2014b. In the spirit of matter: Reconnecting to antiquity in the Greek present. In D. Tziovas (ed.) Re-imagining the Past. Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014c. H φλόγα, το φως, τα πυρά και τα πυροτεχνήματα: Σημασιολογικές μεταμορφώσεις της Ολυμπιακής φλόγας του (The flame, the light, the fire and the fireworks. Transformations of the 2004 Olympic Flame s Meanings ). In Ε. Πλεξουσάκη

3 (ed.) Μεταμορφώσεις του Εθνικισμού. Επιτελέσεις της Συλλογικής Ταυτότητας στην Ελλάδα. Athens: Αλεξάνδρεια. 2012, Εισαγωγή ( Introduction ). Ιn Ε. Γιαλούρη (ed.) Υλικός Πολιτισμός: Η Ανθρωπολογία στη Χώρα των Πραγμάτων. (Material Culture: Anthropology in the Thingland). Athens: Αλεξάνδρεια. 2011, Fanning the Flame: Transformations of the 2004 Olympic Flame. In E. Fournaraki and Z. Papakonstantinou (eds) Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece. Routledge (republication in a book of Yalouri 2010a). 2010c, Η δυναμική των μνημείων: Αναζητήσεις στο πεδίο της μνήμης και της λήθης (The dynamics of monuments. Explorations in the field of memory and forgetting). In Κ. Γιαννακόπουλος και Γ. Γιαννιτσιώτης (eds.), Αμφισβητούμενοι χώροι. Χωρικές προσεγγίσεις του πολιτισμού. (Contested Places, Spatial Approaches to Culture). Athens: Αλεξάνδρεια. 2010d, Between the Local and the Global: The Athenian Acropolis as Both National and World Monument. In A. Stroulia and S. Buck Sutton (eds.) Archaeology in Situ: Sites, Archaeology and Communities in Greece. Lanham, Boulder, Toronto, Plymouth: Lexington Books When the New World meets the Ancient. American and Greek experiences of the 1896 revival of the Olympic Games. In Ch. Koulouri (ed.) Athens, Olympic City Athens: International Olympic Committee, (the volume has been published in Greek and English) Πήλινα σφαιρίδια από την Ελεύθερνα. In A. Καλπαξής κ.ά. Ελεύθερνα Τομέας ΙΙ: 2. Ένα ελληνιστικό σπίτι (Σπίτι Α) στη Θέση Νησί. Ρέθυμνο: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης (Terracotta balls from Eleftherna. In A. Kalpaxis et al. (eds) Eleftherna II: 2. A Hellenistic House. Rethymno: Crete University Press). IV. Articles in journals

4 2016. "The Metaphysics of the Greek Crisis": Visual Art and Anthropology at the Crossroads. Uncertain Visions: Crisis, Ambiguity and Visual Culture in Greece. Special issue of Visual Anthropology Review 32(1) edited by K. Kalantzis, (cο-author: E. Rikou) "Το έργο τέχνης ως πονοσυλλέκτης" [The work of art as a paincollecotr]. Σύγχρονα Θέματα : a. Fanning the Flame: Transformations of the 2004 Olympic Flame, International Journal of the History of Sport, 27 (12): (co-author: Y. Hamilakis) Sacralising the past. Cults of archaeology in modern Greece. Archaeological Dialogues 6 (2): (co-author: Y. Hamilakis) Antiquities as symbolic capital in modern Greek society. Antiquity 70: Ο επoικισμός της πόλης του Λονδίνου: Μια διαφορετική μουσειολογική πρόταση. 51, (The Peopling of London: 15,000 Years of Immigration from Abroad: A different museological approach. Αρχαιολογία 51: 59-63) Προβλήματα επαγγελματικής αποκατάστασης αποφοίτων αρχαιολογίας στην Ελλάδα, Αρχαιολογία 46, (Employment prospects for archaeology graduates in Greece. Αρχαιολογία 46: 45-46). V. Conference Proceedings 2009, National experiences of international sports: The summer of 2004 in Athens. In the Proceedings of the 47 th International Session for Young Participants of the International Olympic Academy, Athens: International Olympic Academy, International Olympic Committee Η κοινωνικο-πολιτική σημασία του τοπίου. Η περίπτωση της Ακρόπολης των Αθηνών. Η Περίπτωση της Αθήνας. (The socio-political meaning of landscape; the case of the Acropolis at Athens). In the proceedings of the conference Αρχιτεκτονική και Πολεοδομία από την Αρχαιότητα έως Σήμερα. Η Περίπτωση της Αθήνας ( Architecture and Town Planning from Antiquity until Today. The Case of Athens). Athens: Arsenidis.

5 1994. Πειραματικές και εθνοαρχαιολογικές προσεγγίσεις στη μεταποίηση των δημητριακών κατά τη Νεολιθική περίοδο και την πρώιμη Εποχή Χαλκού. Αποφλοίωση και άλεσμα (Experimental and ethnoarchaeological approaches of the transformation of cereals in the Neolithic and the Bronze age: De-husking and grinding. In The Proceedings of the Conference Ο Άρτος ημών. Από το αλεύρι στο ψωμί. ( Our Bread. From Wheat to Bread ). Athens: ETBA, VI. Book Reviews «Από την Αναπαράσταση στην Παρουσία ; Αναζητήσεις σε μια Αρχαιολογία των Αισθήσεων και μια Αισθητηριακή Αρχαιολογία» [From Representation to Presence ; Explorations in an Archaeology of the Senses and a Sensorial Archaeology]. Book Review of Y. Hamilakis Archaeology and the Senses. Human Experience, Memory and Affect. Η Αυγή 21 June Aνθρωπολογία και σύγχρονη τέχνη [ Anthropology and contemporary art ]. Σύγχρονα Θέματα : Book review of the edited volume E. Ρίκου (ed.) Ανθρωπολογία και Σύγχρονη Τέχνη. Athens: Αλεξάνδρεια. 2010b. Προς νέα πεδία συνάντησης με την ετερότητα ( Towards new fields of encounter with othernes ). Η Αυγή 4 July, Book review of Σ. Σταυρίδης, Μετέωροι Χώροι της Ετερότητας. Athens: Αλεξάνδρεια. Videos 2014 (in collaboration with the visual artist Nina Pappa). The Metaphysics of the Greek Crisis (first screened in the conference Imagi(ni)ng Crisis: Materialities of Seeing and Representing in the Greek Critical Conjuncture, British School of Athens). or (in collaboration with the visual artist Panos Sklavenitis). Acropolis Rocks (first screened in the 2013 Athens Biennale)

6 Teaching 2011 present: Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Courses taught: Anthropology and Material Culture (third and fourth year undergraduate students). Anthropology and Archaeology (third and fourth year undergraduate students). Anthropology and Art (third and fourth year undergraduate students). Anthropology of Space, Place and Landscape (third and fourth year undergraduate students). Anthropology and Material Culture (MA students) : Full-time lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion Univerity of Social and Political Sciences. Courses taught: Anthropology and Material Culture (third and fourth year undergraduate students). Anthropology and Archaeology (third and fourth year undergraduate students). Anthropology and Art (third and fourth year undergraduate students). Anthropology of Europe (third and fourth year undergraduate students). Anthropology of Space, Place and Landscape (third and fourth year undergraduate students). A History of Anthropological Thought (first year undergraduate students). Introduction to Cultural Geography (first year undergraduate students). Anthropology and Material Culture (MA students). Cultural Heritage, Monuments and the Politics of Memory and Forgetting (MA students) : Full-time one-year lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University College London. Courses taught: Critical Issues in Social Anthropology (MSC students)

7 Theory and Method in History and Anthropology (second and third year undergraduate students of History, Anthropology and Modern European Studies) Introduction to Social Anthropology (first year undergraduate students) : Full-time one-year lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University College London. Courses taught: Mediterranean Anthropology (second and third-year undergraduate students) Critical Issues in Social Anthropology (MSC students) Theory and Method in History and Anthropology (second and third year undergraduate students of History, Anthropology and Modern European Studies) Introduction to Social Anthropology (first year undergraduate students) (first term): Teaching assistant for the lectures on Introduction to Material Culture, Department of Anthropology, University College London : Visiting Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at the School of Cognitive Science, University of Westminster, London for the course Introduction to Cultural Anthropology : Postgraduate teaching assistant for the lectures on Material Culture and Social, Department of Anthropology, University College London. Throughout these years I have participated in the advisory committees of several MA and PhD dissertations. Honours and Prizes Academic Year : Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Anthropological Sciences, University of Malta. February-September 2011: Honorary Research Fellowship at the Department of Social Anthropology, University College London.

8 September 2005-December 2008: Honorary Research Fellowship at the Department of Social Anthropology, University College London (February 1-June 30): Ted and Elaine Athanassiades Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University. 2000: Award from the Radcliffe-Brown Trust Fund of the Royal Anthropological Institute for the completion of the PhD writing up. 1995: The Hellenic Foundation grant. 1995: The Graduate School of UCL grant for fieldwork expenses in Athens : Levendis Foundation grant for the MPhil in Museum Studies at the University of Cambridge. Spring Term 1990: Erasmus Scholarship at the University of Saarbrücken, Germany : Louis-Robert Award for the best project of the Academic year at the department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete. Reviewer in Journals Journal of Material Culture Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Journal of Modern Greek Studies Ηistorein History and Anthropology European Journal of Archaeology Membership in international academic associations and networks American Anthropological Association (AAA) USA Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) USA European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Royal Anthropological Institute, UK EastBordNet (Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe s eastern peripheries).

9 Participation in conference committees 2 nd June 2016 (in collaboration with E. Rikou) Organization of the opening public event of the international research project Learning from documenta. The Athens Arts Observatory. Athens, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. January Organization of the workshop Anthropology, Archaeology and Contemporary Art as part of the Archaeological Dialogues 2015 conference in Athens. January Member of the organizing committee of the conference Antiquity, Archaeology and Greekness in 20 th century Greece. Athens, Benaki Museum. October Member of the organizing committee of the First Panhellenic Conference of Archaeology Students, University of Crete, Rethymno. Researh Projects Organizer (in collaboration with E. Rikou) of the research project Learning from documenta. The Athens Arts Observatory. ( October 5 th -November 30 th Member of the curating committee for the workshop Value which took place in the Biennale AB4 Agora of Athens. Member of the art and research group Voices consisting of visual artists, social scientists. EastBordNet, Remaking Eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe s eastern peripheries. Academic year : Member of the research group with the research project Athens, Place of Olympic Games ( ) organized by the International Olympic Committee under the supervision of Prof. Ch. Koulouri. Academic year : member of the Archaeological Research Project of the University of Sydney in Kato Fana, Chios. September 1993: Participation in the organization of the exhibition The Peopling of London: 15,000 years of Immigration from abroad at the Dept. of Early History and Collections of the Museum of London.

10 Participation in the following archaeological excavations between 1986 and 1991: - Ancient Elis, Peloponnese, Greece: September Director: Prof. N. Yalouris. - Ancient Elis, Peloponnese, Greece: September Director: Prof. N. Yalouris. - Ancient Eleftherna, Crete, Greece: August Director: Prof. A. Kalpaxis. - Ancient Eleftherna, Crete, Greece: August Director: Prof. A. Kalpaxis. - Ancient Eleftherna, Crete, Greece: August Director: Prof. A. Kalpaxis. - Hellenistic Rhodes, Greece: February Director: Prof. N. Stambolidis. - Hellenistic Rhodes, Greece: February Director: Prof. N. Stambolidis. - Arras, France: July Director: Dr. A. Jacques. Invited Lectures (selectively) February 2016 at the British School at Athens. Title of the talk: Heritage on the Borders of Archaeology, Anthropology and Contemporary Art. September 2015 at the Department of Art History, the Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Willamette University, Salem Oregon. Title of the talk: The Present Acropolis. Classical Antiquity in modern-day Athens. May 2015 at the Museum of Cycladic Art and the Irish Institute at Athens. Title of the talk: Archaeology, Anthropology and Contemporary Art. May 2014 at the Museum of Cycladic Art. Title of the talk: Memories and Monuments, The Life and Action of Antiquity in the Present. April 2014 at ICOMOS. Title of the talk: Monuments in the Politics of Memory and Forgetting. January 2015 at the department of Anthropological Sciences of the University of Malta. Title of the talk: Possessions. Classical Antiquities in Contemporary Athens. June 2011 at the Netherlands Institute at Athens. Title of the talk: Things, Objects, Artefacts, Stuff. Why do matter matters matter? February 2011 at the École Française d Athènes. Title of the talk: Where Archaeology and Anthropology meet: The life and agency of antiquity in the present.

11 January 2011 at the Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens. Title of talk: Τhe brilliant shadows of antiquity in Athens. August 2007 at the Beijin Sport University. Title of talk: The Spirit of the Games: Local Metamorphoses of International Values. July 2007 at the 47 th International Session for Young Participants, International Olympic Academy, Ancient Olympia Greece. Title of talk: National Experiences of International Sports: The Summer of 2004 in Athens. December 2005 at the Dept of Anthropology, University of Kent: When the Greek ball crossed the line: National euphoria on the stage of international sport. March 2003: Invited lecture, Department of Archaeology, University of Buffalo and Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY: The Acropolis at Athens. The modern life of an ancient monument. March Invited lecture at the Dept of Anthropology, University of Harvard, Cambridge USA: Re-visiting the Acropolis. Sacred or Secular place? Other Academic Activities I have been invited to give talks in various universities and have participated in numerous academic symposia, conferences and workshops with paper presentations in Greece and abroad.