Potiropoulos Paraskevas

BORN: August 16, 1967, Nikaia - Piraeus (Greece)

EDUCATION:

University of Ioannina Ph. Dissertation in Folklore  1999-2007 “Cultural identities in Pindus Mountain” PhD, University of Ioannina, 2007.
Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki M.Phil. in Folklore and Social Anthropology  1991-1998 “From the “Lost Homelands” to Present home: Nea Mixaniona - Thessaloniki”.M Phil. Dissertation, University of Thessaloniki 1998
Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki  1987-1991 BA in Philosophy, Psychology and Pedagogic
Ralleios Pedagogic Academy of Pireaus  1985-1987 BA in Pedagogic

Publications

BOOKS

Nέα Mηχανιώνα: Aπό τις “χαμένες πατρίδες” στην πατρίδα του Σήμερα (Nea Mixaniona: From the “Lost Homelands” to Present homeland), University Studio Press, Thessaloniki 2003.

ARTICLES

1. «Ο πολυτοπικός χαρακτήρας της βλάχικης κοινότητας. Το παράδειγμα της Κρανιάς Ασπροποτάμου» (Krania – Aspropotamos: The multi-locale dimension of a Vlach community), 9th Conference of Vlachs History and Folklore, Trikala 2008, pp. 204 – 217.

2. «Πρακτικές διαχείρισης της πολιτισμικής κληρονομιάς στα Άνω Πεδινά Ζαγορίου» (Management practices of cultural heritage in Ano Pedina-Zagori), in D. Rokos (ed.) The integrated development of Epirus, Volume II, Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Center (M.I.R.C.) of the N.T.U.A., Livanis ed., Athens 2007, pp. 373-394.

3. «Χοροί και χώροι. Συμβολικές διαστάσεις της τοπικής ταυτότητας στην Κρανιά Τρικάλων», (Dances and places. Symbolic dimensions of local identity in Krania – Trikala), in K. Panopoulou (ed.), 3ο Συνέδριο Λαϊκού Πολιτισμού: Χορός πολιτισμικές ταυτότητες στα Βαλκάνια (3rd Folklore Conference: Dance and Cultural identities in Balkans), Serres 2006, pp. 227-239.

4. «Νέα Μηχανιώνα Θεσσαλονίκης. Προσφυγική συνείδηση και συλλογική ταυτότητα» (Nea Mixaniona – Thessaloniki Prefecture: Refugee consciousness and collective identity) in Ch. Chatzitaki-Kapsomenou (ed.), Ελληνικός παραδοσιακός πολιτισμός: Λαογραφία και Ιστορία. Συνέδριο στη μνήμη της Άλκης Κυριακίδου-Νέστορος, Paratiritis ed., Thessaloniki 2001, pp. 262-272.

5. «H φωτογραφία ως μαρτυρία» (Photograph as evidence), Περίαπτο, vol. 2, 2000, pp. 18-28.

6.  «H Oργάνωση του Xώρου στο Περιβόλι της Πίνδου» (Organization of Land in Perivoli – Pindus Mountain), in V. Nitsiakos (ed.) «Tο Περιβόλι της Πίνδου: Aναζητώντας την Kοινότητα του σήμερα, Iχνηλατώντας την Kοινωνία του χθες», Trikala 1995, pp. 59-99.

Research activities

Summer 1998: Participation in the Ethnographic research programme of University of Ioannina, Sector of Folklore, in Plikati Ioannina, Greece. Supervisor: Professor V. Nitsiakos, University of Ioannina.

Summer 1992: Participation in the Ethnographic research programme “European Environment Campus” of Mediterranean Environment Centre and University of Ioannina in Ano Pedina, Zagori, Greece. Supervisor: Professor V. Nitsiakos, University of Ioannina.

Summer 1991: Participation in the “1st Cultural Meeting” in Perivoli, Grevenna, Greece. Study of spatial, social, economical and political organisation in a mountainous, cattle-breading community. Supervisors: Professor V. Nitsiakos, University of Ioannina.

Scholarships

2002-2006: State Scholarships Foundation.

Professional activities

2009: Researcher, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens.

2005 – 2008: Research Associate of the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre of the Academy of Athens.

1997 - 2005: Teacher, Elementary School, Hellenic Ministry of National Education.

1995-1996: Employment as researcher in the Ethnographic research programme of Municipality of Veria, Greece, Supervisor: Dr. Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou.

1993-1995: Employment as researcher in the Ethnographic research programme of Municipality of Edessa, Greece. Supervisor: Dr. Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou.

1992-1993: Employment as researcher in the Ethnographic research programme of Municipality of Nea Mixaniona, Thessaloniki, Greece. Supervisor: Dr. Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou.