Open Eleusis

THE TEAM

Michalis Kastanidis

Michalis Kastanidis is a filmmaker. He has studied Documentary Production, Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic Documentary at the University of Barcelona. He has worked in many film and TV productions as cameraman and editor. His films have received awards, participated in international festivals, and have often been utilized as an educational tool in higher educational institutions in Greece and abroad. In recent years, he has been delivering film courses to children and young people, and the creations of his students have been awarded at the Olympia festival and other festivals abroad. He is a founding member of the production company Fabula Productions KOIN.S.E.P.

Ρεγγίνα Μαντανίκα

Regina Mantanika is a social anthropologist and sociologist. Her research and teaching interests revolve around the mobility and settlement of migrants, the evolution of institutions, social geography, and industrial history and culture. She did her PhD at the University Paris 7 Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité and postdoctoral research at the Department of Sociology, University of Crete. Since 2021, she has been a lecturer at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki.

Ηώ Χαβιαρά

Io Haviara is a visual artist and social anthropologist. Her research interests revolve around visual culture, history, humour, politics and ethnic identities. She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology of Panteion University. She has participated with artworks and documentaries in international exhibitions and festivals. In 2021, she received an award under the ARTWORKS Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artists Support Programme. She has published articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and edited volumes. She has received grants from the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) and the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK) for her research.

Δανάη Καρυδάκη

Danae Karydaki is a modern historian interested in social history, gender history, institutional history, oral history, and the history of the psy-sciences in post-war Greece. She has served in research and teaching positions at Birkbeck, University of London, the University of Thessaly, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and the Research Centre for the Humanities. She has received awards and fellowships towards her research from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), the Onassis Foundation, the Latsis Foundation, and the Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK. She is the author of the monograph History and Psychoanalysis in the Columbus Centre: The Meaning of Evil (Routledge, 2024) and has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals and edited volumes. Additionally, she edited the volume Leros in the Spotlight and on the Margin: History, Politics, Psychiatry (Psifides, 2020). She is a founding member of the Greek Association of Historians and works also in secondary education.

PARTNERS

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS

Χαρά Κούκη

Hara Kouki is assistant professor (Social Inequalities and Social Discrimination) at the Department of Sociology, University of Crete. She has worked at the Hellenic Open University, the European University of Florence, and the Universities of Newcastle and Durham. Her research and teaching address issues related to social movements, migration and techno-social infrastructure, solidarity and community care.

Μιχάλης Σωτηρόπουλος

Michael Sotiropoulos is a historian of modern Europe with a focus on the history of the Mediterranean and the Greek world. He has worked at the Universities of London, Athens, Princeton and the Centre for Research in the Humanities. He is currently working at the British School of Athens, and from October 2024 he will be teaching at the University of Edinburgh.

SPECIAL ADVISER

Κώστας Λυκίδης

Kostas Lykidis is a resident of Elefsina, a mathematician, a collector, and a researcher Elefsina's local history. Materials from his collections has been showcased in exhibitions related to the theme of industry such as "People and Factories" (2016), "MADE IN GREECE" (2017), and "Raw Museum" (2022).

Mystery 32 OPEN ELEUSIS - One documentary, many stories
A production of the 2023 European Capital of Culture Elefsis.
The project is implemented in collaboration with the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH).
The project "Mystery 32 Open Eleusis" is implemented in the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan Greece 2.0 with funding from the European Union-NextGenerationEU.

Project funding