Dr. Eleni Sideri

EDUCATION
School of Oriental &African Studies/ Univ. of London 2002-2006

Ph. D. in Social Anthropology
Thesis Title: The Greeks of the former Republic of Georgia: memories and practices of diaspora

• School of Oriental &African Studies/ Univ. of London 2001-2002

MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1998-2000

MA in the Sciences of Language and Communication
Specialization: Sociolinguistics

• School of Oriental &African Studies/ Univ. of London 1996-1997

MA in Social Anthropology

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1991-1995

Degree of French Literature& Linguistics

GRANTS

• School of Oriental & African Studies |
  Fieldwork grant 2003-2004

• Ministries of Education Georgia&Greece |
  Inter-state Scholarship Greece/ Georgia 2003-2004

• International Centre for Black Sea Studies |
  Stipend for the attendance of a six day symposium on The wider Black Sea Area in Perspective 1-6/07/2008

• COST, Action IS0803: Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe 's eastern peripheries |
  Stipend for the attendance of the Working Group Meeting in Manchester 15-16/05/2009

• COST, Action IS0803: Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe 's eastern peripheries peripheries |
  Stipend for the attendance of the Workshop in Belfast 19-20/11/2009

• COST, Action IS0803: Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe 's eastern peripheries peripheries |
  Stipend for the attendance of the Working Group Meeting in Sofia, 14-15/05/2010

• COST, Action IS0803: Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe 's eastern peripheries peripheries |
  Stipend for the attendance of the Working Group Meeting in Herzliya 5-6/10/2010

CONFERENCES(SELECTION)

• 14-17/11/2006, Institute of Migration Policy, Multi-disciplinary conference on migration in Greece: experiences-policies-perspectives | Athens
• ii.15-17/12/2006, Biographical Perspectives on European Societies Saint Petersburg, Research Network of the European Sociological Association and The Centre for Independent Social Research. Biographical Research on Post-Soviet Space
• iii. 8-10/3-2007, G(l)ocal Media in Transition. The case of South-Eastern Europe 1990-2007 Skopje, New York University-Skopje,
• 21-22/04/2007, 28th Meeting of Linguistics |Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Greek Philology, Dept.of Linguistics, Subject: Language and Society,
• vi. 24-27/05/2007, Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in South Eastern Europe Timisoara, Association of South Eastern Europe Anthropology (ASEA )
• vii. 18-21/06/2008, Cultures in Transit Liverpool, Liverpool Hope University& Jean Moulin University
• x. 15-16/05/2009 COST, Action IS0803: Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe 's eastern peripheries, Working Group : Documents, Techniques and Technologies Manchester , University of Manchester
• xii. 19-20/11/2009 COST, Action IS0803: Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe 's eastern peripheries, Working Group: Time: Pasts and futures. Hidden Histories, Promised Lands Belfast, Queen’ University
• xiii.14-15/05/2010 COST, Action IS0803: Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe 's eastern peripheries, Working Group Meeting: Roots and Webs: Transformations of Relations through Crossing, Travel and Translation Sofia, Ethnographic Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• xix. 5-6/10/2010 COST, Action IS0803: Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe 's eastern peripheries peripheries. Working Group Meeting: Time: Pasts and futures The Path Dependence of Borders' Making and Breaking Herzliya , Interdisciplinary Centre of Hersliya (Israel)

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
BOOKS

• L. Shedletsky& Joan E. Aitken (eds) (2010) Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction: Experiences and Outcomes, IGI-GLOBAL, Maine, CHAPTER B-LOG ON SOCIAL CHANGE AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM: THE CASE OF A GREEK UNIVERSITY CLASS, p.p.123-140
• H. Briel (ed). (2009) G(l)ocal Media in Transition. The case of South-Eastern Europe 1990-2007. Skopje: Blesok, 73-87 CHAPTER: FROM IMAGINING THE NATION TO IMAGINING THE DIASPORA: TRANSNATIONALISM AND DIASPORIC GREEK MEDIA
• Studies in Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Dept. of Linguistics, 2008 School of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy 28th Language& Society. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, April 21-22-2007, Thessaloniki: Institute of New-Hellenic Studies , p.p.378-391 CHAPTER:ΝΑRRATING THE HOMELAND: THE DOUBLE ARTICULATION OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE WITH THE NATION AND DIASPORA
• G. Papageorgiou (ed) 2007, Gendering transformations/Έμφυλοι Μετασχηματισμοί. Proceedings, Rethymnon: University of Crete, pp.98-109 CHAPTER: CROSSING THE B-ORDERS: FROM GEORGIA TO GREECE. FEMALE MIGRATION

JOURNALS

• International Black Sea University Scientific Journal, 2009 1(3), 97-112 (published July 2010) PEARLS ARE A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND: NOSTALFIA AND ITS DISCONTENTS IN THE LIFE-STORIES OF TWO GEORGIA WOMEN
• Transtext(e)sTranscultures 跨文本跨文化 Journal of Global Cultural Studies, 2008:4, 32-47 Lyon, Institut d'Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculturelles (IETT) ΤΗΕ DIASPORA OF THE TERM DIASPORA. A WORKING PAPER OF A DEFINITION”
• Re-public, March 2007 “PAST STRATEGIES AND PRESENT EXIGENCIES: TIME AND SOCIAL NETWORKS IN MODERN TBILISI”
• Anthropology Matters, vol. 8(1) June 2006, IN QUEST OF EASTERN EUROPE: TROUBLING ENCOUNTERS IN THE POST-COLD WAR FIELD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2010-2011 Adjunct Faculty, School of Humanities, International Hellenic University, Cultural Studies of the Black Sea
• 2009 Peer-reviewer/evaluator for the Georgian Research Grant for the year 2009, Rustaveli Foundation
• 2006-2010 Adjunct Faculty, University of Thessaly, Dept of History, Archaeology& Social Anthropology
• 2005- 2007, New York University- Skopje, Faculty of Communication
• 27/9-10/12/2004, Teaching Assistant-School of Oriental &African Studies, Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology

Languages
Greek, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Georgian, Portuguese

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