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“Storytelling, Philosophy, and Reception.” Episode 20, with Nikolas Papadimitriou. Interview by Bettina Joy de Guzman (series creator).

Director of Canellopoulos Museum at Athens, Nikolas Papadimitriou, talks about the relevance of ancient and traditional craftswork (metalwork, weaving, painting) in a lively, modern society.

Nikolas Papadimitriou was born in Athens in 1968. He graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens in 1993. He did MA studies in Greek Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, UK, and received his PhD in Ancient History and Archaeology from the same university in 1999.

In 2000 he received the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies by the Institute of Classical Studies, London, for his doctoral thesis.
The period 1999-2000 he gave lectures on the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of Greece at the University of Birmingham.

In 2002-2003 he worked as a consultant on cultural affairs at the Hellenic Ministry of the Aegean.

In 2003, he began working at the Museum of Cycladic Art as a Curator of Antiquities (Cycladic Collection and Collection of Ancient Greek Art), and Head of Documentation. He has curated the permanent exhibition Ancient Greek Art – A History in Images (at the 2nd floor of the museum), temporary exhibitions (e.g. “The relations of Greece with the Balkans in the Neolithic period”, “Inside ancient workshops…together we recreate”) and the presentation of museum collections at the website www.cycladic.gr and international portals (e.g. Europeana, Google Art Project). He has edited museum publications (e.g. “Museum of Cycladic Art – Brief Guide”, “How were they made? Materials and manufacturing techniques of ancient artefacts”, “Cyprus Seminar – Lectures 2014-15”), and organized several public seminars (e.g. “Memory and Society” - 2014, “Cyprus Seminar” - 2014-15, “Society and the past: perceptions of antiquity in modern Greece” - 2015, “Archaeology and Psychoanalysis” – 2016-17), as well as a large program of educational activities in Aegean islands (“The past in the present – Antiquity as a creative source of inspiration” - 2016). Currently, he is co-directing (with Dr Katia Manteli) the international research project “The technology of Early Cycladic marble”.

In 2011 he was a Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, and in 2017 a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.

The period 2011-12 he worked at the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, as a co-curator (with Dr D. Pilides) of the exhibition "Ancient Cyprus - Cultures in Dialogue", which was presented at Brussels on the occasion of Cyprus’ Presidency in the European Union.

He has taught post-graduate courses on “The Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean” at the University of the Aegean, and on “The Archaeology of Transitions” at the University of Athens, and participated on research projects about prehistoric sites in Attica (Marathon, Laurion), prehistoric Argos and the technology of Mycenaean gold. In 2015 he co-organized the international conference “Athens and Attica in prehistory” (prehistoricattica.org).

He is currently Director at Canellopoulos Museum in Athens.

About the series: www.bettinajoydeguzman.com

Hello, my name is Bettina Joy de Guzman.
Welcome to this documentary series, Storytelling, Philosophy, and Reception. I’m a Classicist, a mythologist, an educator, and a musician. I perform all over the world, singing Ancient Greek and Latin poetry while playing my replica Ancient Greek lyra, making this beautiful literature and mythology accessible to the public.

Join me in my travels as I talk with various authors and academics about their passions and research, and listen to how and why they tell their stories.