
Dr Lydia Papadimitriou
Liverpool Screen School
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: L.Papadimitriou@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 4857
Lydia Papadimitriou is Reader (Associate Professor) in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published extensively on different aspects of Greek cinema, and is currently researching on film festivals, distribution, documentary, and Balkan cinema. She has authored 'The Greek Film Musical' (2006), co-edited 'Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms and Identities' (2011), and is the Principal Editor of the 'Journal of Greek Media and Culture'. She has published numerous articles in books and journals, including New Review of Film and Television Studies (NRFTS), Filmicon, Studies in European Cinema and Screen.
Languages
French
Greek, Modern (1453-)
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Degrees
1997, University of Kent, UK, PhD in Film Studies
Highlighted publications
Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y, Aitaki G. 2022. Locating and Localising Media Industry Studies: The case of Greece McDonald P. The Routledge Companion to Media Industries :107-116 Routledge. London 978-0-367-22526-1 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2020. Digital Film and Television Distribution in Greece: Between Crisis and Opportunity Macek J, Stepan P, Szczepanik P, Zahradka P. The Online Circulation of Audiovisual Content from the Small Market Perspective :181-197 Springer. New York 978-3-030-44850-9 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y, Aitaki G. 2020. Greek Screen Industries: From Political Economy to Media Industry Studies Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 6 :155-178 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L, Grgic A. 2020. Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits Papadimitriou L, Grgic A. Edinburgh University Press
Papadimitriou L, Grgic A. 2020. Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits Papadimitriou L, Grgic A. Edinburgh University Press
Papadimitriou L. 2018. Film Distribution in Greece: Formal and Informal Networks of Circulation since the Financial Crisis Screen, 59 :484-505 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. 2018. Greek Cinema as European Cinema: Co-productions, Eurimages and the Europeanisation of Greek Cinema Studies in European Cinema, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. 2017. Transitions in the Periphery: Funding Film Production in Greece since the Financial Crisis International Journal on Media Management, 19 :164-181 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. 2016. The Hindered Drive toward Internationalisation: Thessaloniki (International) Film Festival New Review of Film and Television Studies, 14 :93-111 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Book review
Papadimitriou L. 2024. Dimitris Papanikolaou, Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2021. Pp. xvi + 268. 27 illustrations., Hardback and Ebook £90.00, Paperback £19.99 Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 42 :130-132 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. 2015. Daniela Berghahn, Far-Flung Families in Film: the Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013, 224 pp. Screen (Oxford), 56 :295-298 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2015. Review of Vangelis Calotychos (2013) The Balkan Prospect: Identity, Culture and Politics in Greece after 1989, New York: Palgrave Macmillan Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 1 :165-168 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 1998. The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: a Cinema of Contemplation/The Last Modernist: the Films of Theo Angelopoulos. Screen (Oxford), 39 :210-218
Papadimitriou L. Toby Lee (2022) The Public Life of Cinema: Conflict and Collectivity in Austerity Greece (Book Review) Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 40 :251-253 DOI Publisher Url
Chapters
Papadimitriou L. 2023. A revolutionary cinematic heroine: Irene Papas in Bouboulina (Andritsos, 1959) Kalogeropoulos-Householder A. Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821 Lexington Books 978-1-66691-765-9
Papadimitriou L. 2022. Tourism, Cinema and the Branding of Greece Nikolaidou A, Papanikolaou D. Motherland I see you: The 20th century of Greek cinema :69-73 Nefeli/Hellenic Film Academy. Athens 978-960-504-326-1
Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y, Aitaki G. 2022. Locating and Localising Media Industry Studies: The case of Greece McDonald P. The Routledge Companion to Media Industries :107-116 Routledge. London 978-0-367-22526-1 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2020. The dignity of domestic work: The film At Home and its precursors in Greek cinema [in Greek] Mini P. Domestic work in Greek cinema, theatre and the visual arts Papazisis
Papadimitriou L, Grgić A. 2020. INTRODUCTION Contemporary Balkan Cinema :1-17 Edinburgh University Press DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L, Grgić A. 2020. Introduction Contemporary Balkan Cinema :1-17 Edinburgh University Press 9781474458436 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2020. Digital Film and Television Distribution in Greece: Between Crisis and Opportunity Macek J, Stepan P, Szczepanik P, Zahradka P. The Online Circulation of Audiovisual Content from the Small Market Perspective :181-197 Springer. New York 978-3-030-44850-9 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2019. European Co-productions and Greek cinema since the crisis: ‘Extroversion’ as survival Hammett-Jamart J, Mitric P, Novrup-Redvall E. European Film and Television Co-production: Policy and Practice Palgrave Macmillan. London 978-3-319-97157-5 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2017. Cinema at the Edges of the European Union: New Dynamics in the South and the East Stone R, Cooke P, Marlow-Mann A, Dennison S. Routledge. London
Papadimitriou L. 2017. Cinema at the edges of the European Union The Routledge Companion to World Cinema :181-191 Routledge DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2017. The Economy and Ecology of Greek Cinema since the Crisis: Production, Circulation, Reception Tziovas D. Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity :135-157 I.B.Tauris 9781784538453
Tzioumakis Y, Papadimitriou L. 2016. 11. HAVING ITS CAKE AND EATING IT TOO: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ‘INDIE’ CINEMA AND MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING REFRAMED Indie Reframed :188-203 Edinburgh University Press DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y. 2016. Having its Cake and Eating it Too: Contemporary American 'Indie' Cinema and 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' Reframed Badley L, Perkins C, Schreiber M. Indie Reframed: Women's Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema :188-203 Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh 978147440392 4
Papadimitriou L. 2016. Politics and Independence: Documentary in Greece during the Crisis Tzioumakis Y, Molloy C. The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics :469-480 Routledge 978-0415717397 DOI
Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y. 2015. 'My Big Fat Life in Ruins': Marketing "Greekness" and the Contemporary US Indepedent Film Mingant N, Tirtaine C, Augros J. Film Marketing into the Twenty-First Century :36-46 BFI Palgrave. London 978-1844578382 Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2015. In the Shadow of the Studios, the State and the Multiplexes: Independent Filmmaking in Greece The Meaning of Independence: Independent Filmmaking around the Globe University of Toronto Press. Toronto 9781442626836 Publisher Url
Tzioumakis Y, Papadimitriou L. 2015. ‘My Big Fat Life in Ruins’ British Film Institute 9781844578382 DOI Publisher Url
Tzioumakis Y, Papadimitriou L. 2015. My Big Fat Life in Ruins Film Marketing into the Twenty-First Century :36-46 British Film Institute 9781844578382 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2014. The Power of the Local: Greek Documentaries in the 2000s Small Cinemas in Global Markets: Genres, Identities, Narratives Lexington Books: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 9780739196526 Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2014. In the Shadow of the Studios, the State and the Multiplexes: Independent Filmmaking in Greece Erickson M, Baltruschat D. The Meaning of Independence: Independent Filmmaking around the Globe University of Toronto Press
Papadimitriou L. 2013. Greek Cinema and the Balkans: Connections, Divergences and Escapes Tutui M. Escape from the Balkans
Mundy J, Conway K, Ascheid A, Shaw L, Sánchez Alarcón I, Marlow-Mann A, Papadimitriou L, Taylor R. 2012. PART I: EUROPE The International Film Musical :13-118 Edinburgh University Press DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2012. Greece Creemur C, Mokdad L. The International Film Musical Edinburgh University Press 9780748634774 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2011. Music, Dance and Cultural Identity in the Greek Film Musical Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities :147-166 Intellect/ University of Chicago Press. Bristol 9781841504339 Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y. 2011. Introduction Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y. Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities :9-14 Intellect/ University of Chicago Press 9781841504339 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2009. Stars of the 1960s Greek musical: Rena Vlahopoulou and Aliki Vougiouklaki Soila T. Stellar encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema :205-214 John Libbey & Co Ltd 9780861966790
Papadimitriou L. 2004. Greek war film as melodrama: women, female stars and the nation as victim Tasker Y. Action and adventure cinema :297-308 Routledge. London and New York 9780415235075 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2000. More than a Pale imitation: Narrative, music and Dance in two Greek film musicals from the 1960s Marshall B, Stilwell RJ. Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond :117-124 Intellect Ltd 9781841500034
Papadimitriou L. Co-productions and Cultural Value: The Case of Balkan Cinema Sideri E. Cultural Neighborhoods and Coproductions in South East Europe and Beyond :15-30 University of Macedonia Press. Thessaloniki 978-618-5196-58-5 Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y. Having its cake and eating it too: Contemporary American Indie and My Big Fat Greek Wedding Reframed Schreiber M, Badley L, Perkins C. Indie Reframed: Women Filmmakers and Contemporary American Cinema Edinburgh University Press
Papadimitriou L. Arts and Culture in Modern Greece: National Narratives, Popular Practices and Transnational Trajectories’ Katsikas S. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek History Oxford University Press. Oxford
Report
Papadimitriou LYDIA. 2022. Public Film Funding at a Crossroads - Appendix: Greece and Cyprus Public Film Funding at a Crossroads - Appendix: Greece and Cyprus Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. Netflix in Greece https://www.global-internet-tv.com/netflix-country-reports/greece/
Journal article
Grgic A, Papadimitriou L, Parvulescu C. 2021. Balkan Film at the 2021 Thessaloniki International Film Festival Studies in Eastern European Cinema, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. 2021. Women of the Revolution in Greek Cinema: Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous [in Greek] Delveroudi ELIZA-ANNA. Χάρτης [in Greek], 35 Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y, Aitaki G. 2020. Greek Screen Industries: From Political Economy to Media Industry Studies Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 6 :155-178 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papargyriou E, Papadimitriou L. 2020. Special section: ‘Cultural responses to lockdown’ Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 6 :287 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L, Grgić A. 2020. INTRODUCTION Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits, :1-17
Papadimitriou L. 2018. Film Distribution in Greece: Formal and Informal Networks of Circulation since the Financial Crisis Screen, 59 :484-505 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. 2018. Greek Cinema as European Cinema: Co-productions, Eurimages and the Europeanisation of Greek Cinema Studies in European Cinema, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. 2017. Transitions in the Periphery: Funding Film Production in Greece since the Financial Crisis International Journal on Media Management, 19 :164-181 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. 2016. The Hindered Drive toward Internationalisation: Thessaloniki (International) Film Festival New Review of Film and Television Studies, 14 :93-111 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. 2014. Locating Contemporary Greek Film Cultures: Past, Present, Future and the Crisis Filmicon, :1-19
Papadimitriou L. 2011. The National and the Transnational in Contemporary Greek Cinema The New Review of Film and Television Studies, 9 :493-512 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2009. Greek Film Studies today: In search of Identity Kampos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, 17 :49-78
Papadimitriou L. 2000. Traveling on screen: Tourism and the Greek film musical JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES, 18 :95-104 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 1998. Andrew Horton, The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: a Cinema of Contemplation; Andrew Horton, The Last Modernist: the Films of Theo Angelopoulos Screen, 39 :210-218 DOI Publisher Url
Conference publication
Papadimitriou L. 2020. Politics and Balkan Cinema: (Re)conceptualising a Field of Study Petsa V, Rozakis D, Lalagianni V. European Cinema: Political and Cultural Perspectives., Centre D'Etude st de Recherche sur les Litteratures et les Oralites du Monde Cinema, History and Politics Publisher Url Public Url
Papadimitriou L. 2015. Heroines of the 1821 Revolution in Greek cinema: 'Bouboulina' (1959) and 'Manto Mavrogenous' (1971) Tutui M. Balkan Heroes and Anti-Heroes
Papadimitriou L. 2014. Satire, Sex and Politics: Nikos Perakis’ Loufa kai Parallagi Films Balkan Comedy :60-65
Books (authored)
Papadimitriou L, Grgic A. 2020. Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits Papadimitriou L, Grgic A. Edinburgh University Press
Papadimitriou L, Grgic A. 2020. Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits Papadimitriou L, Grgic A. Edinburgh University Press
Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y. 2011. Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities Intellect / University of Chicago Press 9781841504339 Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2006. The Greek film musical: A Critical and Cultural History McFarland & Co Inc Pub 9780786421404 Publisher Url
Other
Papadimitriou L, Durden M. 2018. “Messages in the Streams of History: A Dialogue with the sculptor Theodoros” Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 4 :107-128 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2018. EUFA and Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University Alphaville : Journal of Film and Screen Media, :173-176 Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2017. Frame vs Context Festivalists, Author Url Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2017. Documentary Chronicles. Dialogue (with Vitaly Mansky). Author Url Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2017. The Berlinale Side of Hope Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2016. Continuity and Change Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L, Calotychos V, Tzioumakis Y. 2016. On Solidarity, Collaboration and Independence: Athina Rachel Tsangari discusses her films and Greek cinema with Vangelis Calotychos, Lydia Papadimitriou and Yannis Tzioumakis. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 2 :237-253 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2016. Sheffield Among Doc/Fests Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2016. 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Balkan Survey Section. DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L, Ruoff JK. 2016. Film Festivals: Origins and Trajectories Papadimitriou L, Ruoff JK. The New Review of Film and Television Studies, 14 :1-4 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2015. On Colonialism, Access and Form: A Discussion with Hubert Sauper Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2015. Past and Present in the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Pure Movies, Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2015. Greek Media and Culture at a New Juncture Papadimitriou L, Kolocotroni V, Tzioumakis Y. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 1 :3-7 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2015. Weathering the Crisis: The Sixteenth Thessaloniki Documentary Festival :169-176 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2015. Breaking the Ice: Queues, Premieres and Awards in the 65th Berlinale Filmicon, Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2014. Leanness and Resilience: 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Filmicon, Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2014. Politics, Hipness and Aspiration: The 21st Sheffield Doc/Fest comes of age
Papadimitriou L. 2014. Resisting Differently: Maria Kallimani, leading actor of At Home, interviewed by Lydia Papadimitriou in Karlovy Vary Filmicon, Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2014. Checkpoint Karlovy Vary 2014 Sight and Sound,
Papadimitriou L. 2014. Celebrating Independence: 54th Thessaloniki International Film Festival DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2013. Reaching Audiences: The 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Senses of Cinema,
Papadimitriou L. 2013. Thessaloniki: Straitened Circumstances Sight and Sound, :23
Papadimitriou L. 2012. Navigating through Contemporary Greek Culture Eleftheriotis D, Papanikolaou D, Papadimitriou L. Interactions: studies in communication and culture, 2 :123-127 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L, Tzioumakis Y. 2011. Introduction to edited collection "Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities" Tzioumakis Y, Papadimitriou L. :9-14 DOI Publisher Url
Papadimitriou L. 2007. A 'touch of spice' CINEASTE, 32 :56-56 Author Url
Editorial/letter to the editor
Papadimitriou L, Calotychos V, Tzioumakis Y. 2016. Revisiting Contemporary Greek Film Cultures: Weird Wave and Beyond Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 2 :127-131 DOI Publisher Url
Other invited event:
Thessaloniki, University of Macedonia, Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, Title: Co-productions and Cultural Value: The case of Balkan Cinema, Keynote: 4th CGCC conference on "Cultural Neighbourhoods and Co-productions in South East Europe and Beyond". 2020
University of Peloponese, Corith, Invited speaker, International Workshop 'Cinema, History, Politics'. 2019
University of Birmingham, Part of the seminar series of the Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies department at the University of Birmingham, Greek Cinema as European Cinema: co-productions, film festivals and the Weird Wave. 2018
Université de Paris 3, Keynote talk during 'journee d'etudes' at the University of Paris, La Grèce dans la tourmente cinématographique: quels regards politiques par temps de crise?. 2017
University of Belgrade, Serbia, The paper will offer a conceptual (re)mapping of the term ‘Balkan cinema’ with reference to film history, contemporary film production, distribution and reception, as well as future prospects. For Dusan Makavejev the project of Balkan cinema has been about ‘connecting a disconnected space’ (Iordanova, 2006:1), a space consisting of different languages, religions, nations that has nonetheless a lot of cultural and historical similarities. Paradoxically, perhaps, it was the explosive disconnectedness of the 1990s that brought Balkan cinema into conceptual existence, through the international visibility of a number of films from the region, and the consequent emergence of Balkan cinema as a field of academic inquiry. Twenty years later, the assumed stability that accession to the European Union promised to bring is marred by new geopolitical and existential challenges for Europe. In the new post-communist and crisis-ridden realities of ‘South Eastern Europe’, the ‘Balkan’ brand risks becoming further reduced to politically incorrect Orientalist stereotypes, and/or unhelpful attachments to self-deprecation. By focusing mostly on recent developments in Balkan cinema, its regional and international circulation, and its academic study, the paper will explore the usefulness of the term in creating a collective – but not reductive – identity for the cinemas of the region., In Search of Balkan Cinema: Approaches, Uses, Prospects. 2017
University of Salford, Talk for staff and post-graduate students, Greek cinema since the crisis: Economy, Ecology, Industry. 2017
University of Oxford, Pivoting around Syllas Tzoumerkas’ A Blast (2014), a film set in crisis-ridden Greece and focusing on a young mother’s radical break with her past, the talk explores the state of Greek cinema since the advent of the financial crisis in 2010. Drawing on industry data and interviews with filmmakers, distributors and cinema owners, as well as on selected film-textual examples, it utilizes the concepts of ‘economy’ and ‘ecology’ to map out the landscape of Greek cinema since the crisis. In so doing it combines quantitative and qualitative analysis, and presents both a macro and a micro analysis of the effects of the cultural politics of austerity on the production, circulation and reception of Greek films., A Blast and other crises: Tracing the economy and ecology of recent Greek cinema. 2017
University of Crete, Invited speaker at symposium at the University of Crete on Domestic Workers in Greek art, society and history: Myths and reality. Title: “Dignifying domestic work: Muted confrontations in Karanikolas’ At Home (2014)”, 'Domestic Workers in Greek art, society and history: Myths and reality' Symposium. 2016
Cetate, Romania, Invited speaker and Symposium Chair at Divan Film Festival Symposium Cetate, Romania, and the 5C Project on “The Balkan City”., Divan Film Festival: Symposium: The Balkan City. 2016
Thessaloniki, Greece, Regularly invited since 2012, Thessaloniki International Film Festival. 2015
Cetate, Romania, Invited as chair and symposium convenor, Divan Film Festival: Symposium: Roads and Crossroads. 2015
University of Birmingham, Invited speaker at “Greece in Crisis: Culture and the Politics of Austerity”, University of Birmingham (part of The Cultural Politics of the Greek Crisis AHRC-funded network). Topic: “The Economy and Ecology of post-crisis Greek cinema: Between production, circulation and reception”, “Greece in Crisis: Culture and the Politics of Austerity” Symposium. 2015
University of Liverpool, Invited speaker at the “Independent Film (and) Women” Symposium, University of Liverpool. Topic: “Giving a Voice to Greek American Women: Nia Vardalos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Contemporary US indie cinema” (with Yannis Tzioumakis), “Independent Film (and) Women” Symposium. 2015
University of Liverpool, Invited speaker at the Provoke Seminar Series, Liverpool School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, on “Analysing Space in the Moving Image”, Provoke Seminar Series. 2015
Cetate, Romania, Invited speaker, Divan Film Festival: Symposium: Balkan Heroes and Anti-Heroes. 2014
Birkbeck College, London, Invited speaker at symposium, Birkbeck College: Theo Angelopoulos: Cinema as History and History as Cinema. 2014
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, Invited to participate at workshop, University of Sussex: Chronicles of Crisis: Public Culture, Austerity and Documentary in Greece. 2014
Cetate, Romania, Participation at the symposium as invited speaker, Divan Film Festival: Symposium: Balkan Comedy. 2013
Hellenic Centre, London, Keynote Address, Keynote: Contemporary Greek Film Cultures 2013 Conference. 2013
Cetate, Romania, Paper: Is it all Greek to you? Typical and Untypical films from Greece, Divan Film Festival. Symposium: Escape from the Balkans. 2012
Kings' College, London, Presentation of one hour paper on contemporary Greek cinema, Kings' College London, Centre of Hellenic Studies Seminar. 2010
University of St Andrews, One hour research paper on the national and the transnational in contemporary Greek cinema, University of St Andrews, Centre of Film Studies. 2010
University of Cambridge, Research paper on Greek film studies today, University of Cambridge, Modern Greek lecture series. 2008
Conference organisation:
Co-organiser and Chair, 1st Interdisciplinary Symposium 'Cities in Balance' - 'Memory and Oblivion in Public Space'. 2019
Member of Programme Committee, 6th Conference of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies, https://easychair.org/cfp/MGS2018. 2018
Member of the Programme Committee, Third International Conference on Balkan Cinema: The Great War(s): Our Story, http://filmiconjournal.com/conference/2018/call-for-papers. 2018
Member of Programme Committee, Contemporary Greek Cinema Cultures Conference 2015 Seattle, Washington, US (May 2015), http://filmiconjournal.com/blog/post/45/contemporary-greek-film-cultures-goes-to-america. 2015
Established in 2010, the Liverpool Film Seminar is a series of talks jointly organised between LJMU's Department of Film Studies (Lydia Papadimitriou) and the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool (Yannis Tzioumakis)., Liverpool Film Seminar, https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/microsites/liverpool-film-seminar. 2010
co-organiser with Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool), Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities. 2008
External PGR examinations performed:
PhD, Edge Hill University, The Roma Between the Self and the Other: Representations of the Roma in Yugoslavian and Serbian Narrative Film. 2019
PhD, University of Southampton, Transnational Bulgarian Cinema - Pieces of the Past, Present and Future. 2015
PhD, Queen Mary, University of London, Family, Nation and the Medium under Attack: Queer Time and Space in Contemporary Greek Cinema. 2015
PhD, University of Glasgow, Towards an Inclusive Discourse: Representation of Albanian Immigrants in Greek Cinema. 2015
PhD, University of Glasgow, Towards the Creation of “Quality” Greek National cinema in the 1960s. 2009
Teaching qualification:
PostGraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP). 2016
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). 2013
External collaboration:
Member of committee for the selection of films to be funded for production and development, Greek Film Centre. 2016
Organiser and presenter of a season of three films from the Balkans, followed by discussion with the public (October 2015), FACT, Liverpool: Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Cultural Identity and Memory, https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/film-studies-feature-at-fact-this-october. 2015
Best Critic Jury Member, AltcineAction Online Film Festival for Balkan Filmmakers, http://www.altcineaction.com/. 2012
A network for research on Netflix and other internet-distributed TV services, Global Internet TV Research Consortium, https://global-internet-tv.com/.
Fellowships:
Onassis Foundation, Onassis Foundation: Scholarship for Foreigners (Onassis International Fellow 2014-15), http://www.onassis.org/en/scholarships-foreigners.php. 2015
Editorial boards:
Member of the Editorial Board, Modern Greek Studies Online, http://www.moderngreek.org.uk/journal/content/editorial-board. 2014
Principal Editor, Journal of Greek Media and Culture (Principal Editor), http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=237/. 2013
Co-editor with Dimitris Eleftheriotis (Glasgow) and Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford) of special issue on 'Contemporary Greek Culture', November 2012, Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 3.2 Special issue on 'Contemporary Greek Culture'. 2012
Member of the Advisory Board, Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies, http://filmiconjournal.com/journal. 2012
Membership of professional bodies:
HEA, Fellow of Higher Education Academy. 2012
British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), Member of BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies), http://www.baftss.org/.
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), Member of NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies), http://necs.org/.
Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean (FEDEORA)., Member of FEDEORA (Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean), http://www.fedeora.eu/.
Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), Member of MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association), http://www.meccsa.org.uk/.
Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA), Member of MGSA (Modern Greek Studies Association), http://www.mgsa.org/.
Society of Media and Cinema Studies (SCMS), Member of SCMS (Society of Media and Cinema Studies), http://www.cmstudies.org/.
Society of Modern Greek Studies (SMGS), Member of SMGS (Society of Modern Greek Studies), http://www.moderngreek.org.uk/.
Media Coverage:
The Film Programme, BBC Radio 4, 12 June 2014, interviewed on Greek cinema (opens in a new tab)