Associate Professor (Anthropology of performance)
Sector: Ethnomusicology and Cultural Anthropology
Tel. : +30 210 7277884
email: vlalioti[at]music.uoa[dot]gr
Room: 928
Studies
1997-2002: University of Durham- UK, Anthropology Department, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. Thesis title: “Social memory and ethnic identity: ancient Greek drama performances as commemorative ceremonies”.
1992-1993: University of Durham-UK, Anthropology Department, Master of Arts in Social Anthropology.
1987-1992: University of Crete, School of Philosophy, BA in History and Archaeology (Sector: Archaeology and History of Art).
Academic Career
2024-today: Associate Professor (Anthropology of performance), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Music Studies.
2018-2024: Tenured Assistant Professor (Anthropology of performance), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Music Studies.
2015-2018: Assistant Professor (Anthropology of performance), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Music Studies.
2009-2015: Lecturer (Anthropology of performance), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Music Studies.
2007-2009: Adjunct Lecturer, (Π.Δ. 407/80), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Music Studies.
2002-2005: Member of the Academic Research Staff. Hellenic Open University, School of Humanities, Undergraduate Course (Studies in Greek Civilization).
Research Interests
She has conducted ethnographic research in Athens, Crete, Thrace, Volos, San Jose (Costa Rica) and her research interests include: performing arts (theatre, music, performance art), popular culture, politics of memory, digital performance, anthropology and posthumanism.
Courses
1. Cultural and music anthropology I
2. Cultural and music anthropology II
3. Performance and digital technologies
4. Ethnographic approaches to the performing arts
Books (in Greek)
2024. In the traces of human nature. Digital performance and posthumanism. Athens: Nissos.
2022 (Ed.). Digital technologies and arts. Thessaloniki: Ropi
2016. ‘The soundtrack of our life’: Contemporary issues in the study of popular music. Athens: Papazisis.
2010. ‘...because it's in our blood’. From ancient drama to flamenco: Bringing anthropology back to the field of experience. Athens: Kritiki. (co-author).
Representative Publications
2022. San Junipero’. Digital virtuality and the nostalgia of paradise. In Despina Katapoti (ed.), Black Mirror. The black mirror of digitality. Athens: Kastaniotis (co-author: Manolis Patiniotis, pp. 351-366).
2020. “Performance as shared mindfulness”. The Journal of Performance and Mindfulness, 2(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.5920/pam.683
2018. Digital performance and poshumanist anthropology. The Greek Review of Social Research, 150: 37-76. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/grsr.17954
2018. Humans and machines: a posthumanist approach to the electronic/dance music performances in Athens. In Giannis Kolovos and Nicolas Christakis (eds.), Rock is dead…long live rock. Texts on contemporary musical trends and subcultures. Athens: Aprovleptes Ekdosis (pp.174-213).
2013. Music as performance: anthropological perspectives. Ethnologia, 15: 205-226.
2013. ‘Stay in Synch!’ Performing cosmopolitanism in an Athens festival. Dancecoult. Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 5(2): 131-151. dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/view/370/394
2009. Ancient Greek theatres as visual images of Greekness. In D. Picard and M. Robinson (Eds.), The framed world: tourism, tourists and photography. Ashgate (pp. 63-78).
2005. Photographing the ‘Other’: immigrants and new images of the Greek ethnic ‘Self’. Visual Anthropology, 18(5): 439-456.
2002. Social memory and ancient Greek theatres. History and Anthropology, 13(3): 147-157.
2002. Social memory and ethnic identity: ancient Greek drama performances as commemorative ceremonies. History and Anthropology, 13 (2): 113-137.
Personal Site
https://uoa.academia.edu/VLalioti
