Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology with an emphasis on Greek traditional music
Sector: Ethnomusicology and Cultural Anthropology
Telephone: +30 210 7277581
Office: 928
Email: elkallim[at]music.uoa[dot]gr
Website: https://en-uoa-gr.academia.edu/EleniKallimopoulou
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Department of Music, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2006.
Master of Music (MMus) in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2001.
Diploma in Law, Law School, Faculty of Law, Political and Economic Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1996.
Academic employment
2024-. Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology with an emphasis on Greek traditional music, Department of Music Studies, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
2022-2024. Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology with an emphasis on Greek traditional music (Tenure track), Department of Music Studies, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
2019-2022. Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology with an emphasis on Greek traditional music (Tenure track), Department of Music Science and Art, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of Macedonia.
2015-2019. Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology with an emphasis on Greek traditional music, Department of Music Science and Art, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of Macedonia.
2009-2015. Lecturer in Ethnomusicology with an emphasis on Greek traditional music, Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia.
2006-2007. Teaching Fellow in the Music of the Islamic Middle East, Department of Music, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Research interests
Musical performance and ethnography, Popular music, Artistic labour, Nationalism, public folklore and the politics of culture, Oral history, Auditory culture and urban space, Epistemology and methodology of research, Applied ethnomusicology, Critical pedagogy.
Courses taught
Seminar Ι: Research methodology – Μ184
Musical identity in the modern world – Μ313
Seminar ΙΙ: Methodology of writing – Μ185
Ethnomusicology and auditory culture – Μ314
Research projects
2024. Synavgeia: Greek Orthodox (Romioi) Composers of Istanbul, funded by the Ministry of Culture (Greece) under the program for the promotion and safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Host institution: Labyrinth Musical Workshop. Academic research and authorship of accompanying texts. https://grecco.labyrinthmusic.gr/en/home-en/
2019-2022. Intercommunal musical geographies of late Ottoman Istanbul, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “First Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment grant” (Project Number: 2203). Coordinator: Panagiotis C. Poulos. Research Team Member.
2019. University of Macedonia, Research Committee – Research grant under the basic research support programme. Fieldwork for the research project “From the Global ‘Music Village’ to the ‘Musical Home’: Tourism, Education, and affective communitas in the age of global flows.”
2017-2020. Histories, spaces and heritages at the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State, funded by the French School at Athens - École française d’Athènes. Coordinators: Elias Kolovos and Panagiotis C. Poulos. Research Team Member. https://otheritages.efa.gr/
2012. Learning Culture through City Soundscapes – An Educational Tool, funded by John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation – Scientific Projects 2012. Coordinator. http://sonor-cities.edu.gr/
Selected publications
Books
Kallimopoulou, E. 2009. Paradosiaka: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece. London: Routledge.
Edited volumes
Kallimopoulou, E., and P. C. Poulos, eds. 2024. Popular Music of the Greek World. Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Press (e-book).
Boeschoten, R. van, V. Dalkavoukis and E. Kallimopoulou, eds. 2021. Oral History and Counter-Archives: Voices, Images, Places. Greek Oral History Association (e-book, http://epi.uth.gr/dimosiefseis/). (In Greek)
Theodosiou, A. and E. Kallimopoulou, eds. 2020. Music Communities in 21st-century Greece: Sonic Glances in the Field. Athens: Pedio. (In Greek)
Kallimopoulou, E. and A. Balandina, eds. 2014. Introduction to Ethnomusicology. Athens: Asini Publishing. (In Greek)
Journal articles
Kallimopoulou, E. 2021-23. Greek Printed Music Collections: Music Sociality and Music Typography in late-Ottoman Istanbul. Mousikos Logos 5. ISSN: 1108-6963.
Kallimopoulou, E. 2021. Under one Dome? Rituals of Transition in Ottoman/Greek Thessaloniki. Histories, Spaces and Heritages at the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State, edited by Elias Kolovos and Panagiotis C. Poulos, special issue of Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Moderne et Contemporain 4: 55-86. https://doi.org/10.4000/bchmc.813
Kallimopoulou, E. 2021. Musical Ethnography and Transformative Learning in the Greek University. Teaching and Learning Anthropology and Ethnography in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, edited by Ioannis Manos, special issue of Teaching Anthropology 10(2): 150-162. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i2.571
Kallimopoulou, E., and K. Kornetis. 2017. ‘Magical Liturgy’: A History of Sound at the Kyttaro Music Club, 1970-1974. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 35(2): 481-512.
Kallimopoulou, E., and P. C. Poulos. 2015. Exchangeable Buildings, Silent Legacies: The Temporary Settlement of Asia Minor Refugees and the Mosques of Thessaloniki, 1922-1925. Bulletin of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies Bulletin 19: 241-270. (In Greek)
Kallimopoulou, Ε. 2009. Ethnomusicology and its Greek Meanings: Practices, Discourses and Pedagogies in the University. Ethnomusicology in the Academy, edited by Simone Krüger, special issue of The World of Music 51(3): 109-135.
Kallimopoulou, E. και F. Spinetti. 2008. An Analysis of the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam: Aspects of Melody and Form in the Segah Suite. Analysing East Asian Music. Patterns of Rhythm and Melody, edited by Simon Mills, special issue of Mousiké. International Journal of Ethnomusicological Studies 4(II/2): 113-144.
Book chapters
Kallimopoulou, E. 2024. ‘A Charming Cocktail of Music and Dance’:Greek Television and the Affective Politics of Popular Music under the Colonels. In Popular Music of the Greek World, edited by Eleni Kallimopoulou and Panagiotis C. Poulos, 149-72. Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Press. (e-book)
Kallimopoulou, E., και P. C. Poulos. Introduction. In Popular Music of the Greek World, edited by Eleni Kallimopoulou and Panagiotis C. Poulos, 1-20. Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Press. (e-book)
Kallimopoulou, Ε. 2021. The Image as a Counter-archive: Introduction. In Oral History and Counter-Archives: Voices, Images, Places, edited by R. van Boeschoten, V. Dalkavoukis and E. Kallimopoulou, 134-144. Greek Oral History Association (e-book, http://epi.uth.gr/dimosiefseis/). (In Greek)
Theodosiou, A. and E. Kallimopoulou. 2020. Music Workshops, Participatory Music Tourism and Transnational Communities of Practice. In Musical Communities in Greece in the 21st century: Ethnographic Perspectives, edited by Aspasia Theodosiou and Eleni Kallimopoulou, 99-132. Athens: Pedio. (In Greek)
Theodosiou, A. and E. Kallimopoulou. 2020. Introduction. In Musical Communities in Greece in the 21st century: Ethnographic Perspectives, edited by Aspasia Theodosiou and Eleni Kallimopoulou, 13-65. Athens: Pedio. (In Greek)
Kallimopoulou, E., K. Kornetis, and P. C. Poulos. 2020. From the Call to Prayer to the Silences of the Museum: Salonica’s Soundscapes in Transition. In Thessaloniki: A City in Transition, 1912-2012, edited by Dimitris Keridis and John Brady Kiesling, 227-242. London: Routledge.
Kallimopoulou, Eleni. 2017. Measuring Intervals between European and ‘Eastern’ Musics in the 1920s: The Curious Case of the Panharmonion or ‘Greek Organ’. In Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright, edited by Rachel Harris and Martin Stokes, 146-170. London and New York: Routledge.
Kallimopoulou, E. 2016. ‘Listen, Watch, Keep Quiet’: Sensory history and oral testimony in refugee Thessaloniki. In Memory Narrates the City... Oral History and the Memory of Urban Space, edited by Riki van Boeschoten et al, 151-168. Athens: Plethron. (In Greek)
Kallimopoulou, E., K. Kornetis, and P. C. Poulos. 2015. From the Call to Prayer to the Silences of the Museum: Salonica’s Soundscapes in Transition. In Thessaloniki: A City in Transition, 1912-2012, edited by Dimitris Keridis, 316-331. Thessaloniki: Epikentro. (In Greek)
Kallimopoulou, E. and A. Balandina. 2014. Introduction. In Introduction to Ethnomusicology, edited by Eleni Kallimopoulou and Alexandra Balandina, 9-58. Athens: Asini Publishing. (In Greek)
Kallimopoulou, E. 2011. Locating the ‘Mediterranean’ in Music: The Medi-Terra Music Festival. In Contested Mediterranean Spaces: Ethnographic Essays in Honour of Charles Tilly, edited by Maria Kousis, Tom Selwyn, and David Clark, 55-73. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
