Board
Panos Achniotis – Treasurer
Panos Achniotis (Nicosia, 1992) holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester. His doctoral research revolves around political contestation in the everyday, neighbourhood-making, memory and spatial transformation in Barcelona. Beyond the PhD, he researched sovereignty and pro-independence mobilisation in Catalunya and collaborated as a research associate on youth transitions to work at the University of Cyprus. His work appears in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Panos also engages with filmmaking and visual methods and his films have screened in international festivals.
Andreas Anastasiades – Member
Andreas Anastasiades is a researcher and independent documentary filmmaker. He holds a BA in Political Science and History and an MA in Culture and Documentary Film Production. His films have been screened at several international festivals, exhibitions, and academic seminars, and he has contributed to projects supporting the inscription of elements of intangible cultural heritage on UNESCO’s Representative List for Greece. In 2025, he participated as co-director and editor, representing the Cypriot delegation at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. He currently works at Ethnofest – Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, where he works as Programmer, Head of Film Traffic, Coordinator of Narrating the Fieldwork, while facilitating audiovisual production courses.
Georgina Christou – Secretary
Georgina Christou has held postdoctoral and teaching positions at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship), the University of Cyprus and the University of Sussex. Her research interests mainly focus on social movements, gentrification, urban struggles, ethnic conflict, and youth activism in Greece, Cyprus and the broader Mediterranean region. In her doctoral work she focused on antiauthoritarian youth movements, public space and political participation, and in her postdoctoral work she extended her research to gentrification and social movements on the right to stay put. She has published widely on these themes in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.
Melek Kaptanoğlu – Member
Melek is a social anthropologist and PhD candidate from Queen’s University Belfast anthropology department. She is currently working as a Teaching Assistant at QUB. She has an undergraduate degree in folklore department from Ankara University and a master’s degree in cultural studies and media from Hacettepe University. Melek is working on peacebuilding, conflict, performance anthropology, visual anthropology, and Cyprus studies. She is a facilitator/guide from the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) and a board member of Hands Across the Divide (HAD). She is also interested in theatre as an amateur actor.
Theodoros Kouros – President
Theodoros is a lecturer at the Cyprus University of Technology, where he directs the ethnographic research lab. His research interests lie in the construction of space and place, citizenship, ethnic and national identities, critical media studies, and migration. He has conducted long-term ethnographic research on the islands of Lesbos and Samos (Greece), along the Greek-Albanian border (Epirus, Gjirokastër and Korçë) and in Limassol, Cyprus. He has published a monograph, titled “Tactical Citizenships: Encounters with Everyday State in the Republic of Cyprus” (Berghahn), and several peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited volumes.
