Dr. Ioannis Karachristos is a Senior Researcher, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre Academy of Athens. He studied history at the Universities of Athens and Vienna. He taught courses on Modern Greek History, European History, Historical Anthropology, Public History and the History of Childhood in Greek and Austrian universities. Between 1993 and 2008 he participated as a researcher in numerous scientific projects in Greece as well as abroad and since 2009 he has been working as a researcher (currently as a senior researcher) at the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre of the Academy of Athens. He is the author of the book Heirat, Verwandtschaft und Eigentumsübertragungen auf der griechischen Insel Syros 1750-1820: „Jetzt, wo mein Kind bereit ist in die Welt einzutreten‟, Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2021.
Within the broader framework of digital humanities and digital folkloristics he undertook initiatives aiming at the digital transformation of the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre Archive and the formation of specialized databases/repositories, such as the “Archive of Popular Legends – Digital Repository”.
His research interests comprise Historical Ethnography, Oral History, Public History, Local History, History of the Family, Digital Humanities, Digital Folkloristics and digital cultural resource management, migration, memory, identities, popular religious practices, communal organization during the Ottoman rule and settlement of Asia Minor refugees in Greece.
https://kentrolaografias.academia.edu/YannisKarachristos

Paraskevas Potiropoulos is a Senior Researcher at the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre of the Academy of Athens. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in education as an elementary school teacher, he studied Pedagogics, Philosophy, and Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He received a master’s Degree in Social Anthropology and Folklore at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a Ph.D. in Folklore from the University of Ioannina, Greece.
He is both National Coordinator and National Representative for Greece in DARIAH EU (European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities).
His research interests and publications, except for his engagement in the Digital Humanities, have been focused on identity politics, the symbolic construction of place, and the transformation of space, the refugees, and border regions. His academic interests include material culture, local identity, the methodology and epistemology of ethnographic research, and the role of archives and local museums in the agency of heritage.
He has published the book: Nea Michaniona: From the “Lost Homelands” to Present homeland, Thessaloniki 2003 (in Greek). He is co-editor of the collective books: Cultural Heritages, New Readings – Critical Approaches, Athens 2022 (in Greek), Folklore and Anthropology: Contribution to the dialogue (co-edited by Vassilis Nitsiakos), Athens 2018 (in Greek), and Smyrna: The Development of a Metropolis of the Eastern Mediterranean (17th c. – 1922). Acts of the International Scientific Conference (co-edited by Ioannis Karachristos), [in Greek], Athens 2016, etc. Also, he participates in editing the publications of the Folklore Center of the Academy of Athens. He is a staff member of “Konitsa International Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans”- Border Crossings Network.
https://kentrolaografias.academia.edu/ParisPotiropoulos
https://www.academyofathens.gr/en/researchers/potiropoulos

The Modern and Contemporary Studies Seminar is a moment of exchange gathering guest speakers and researchers from the programs of the modern and contemporary section, to present their work in connection with the structuring themes of the EFA and the research agenda of the section, as well as with current research on the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. As a meeting point for researchers from different backgrounds, the seminar aims to promote the research carried out at the EFA in modern and contemporary history, anthropology, geography, sociology and art history (and others), but also to disseminate to the School’s community other research carried out by several institutions in the area.
For 2022, centenary of the Greek army’s retreat from Asia Minor, the seminar will be in part dedicated to issues pertaining to what has be called “the Asia Minor catastrophe”, the exchange of populations and the conflict’s memories.