Doctoral studies

During the academic year 2021-22, the DCCMI has created a Program of Doctoral Studies. The program has been motivated by the strong interest manifested by several scholars from related fields in pursuing their doctoral studies in the Department due to its unique character.

For the launch of the Program of Doctoral Studies, the Department has established a Doctoral Studies Regulation and a Postdoctoral Research Regulation in accordance with the current legislation and the provisions of the general Postgraduate Studies Regulation of the University of Thessaly. According to the Regulation, it is possible to pursue interdepartmental and inter-institutional programs of doctoral studies in collaboration with foreign institutions.

The following doctoral researches are carried out at the DCCMI:

“Immersive Technologies for the Enhancement of Cultural Heritage”
PhD Candidate: Hippocrates Manoudakis, Supervising Professor: Ioulia Pentazou
“Contemporary Art Exhibitions as a Platform for the Queer Gaze: Subjectivity and Intergenerational Legacies of Collective Trauma in Contemporary Art”
PhD Candidate: Asterios Touvlatzis, Supervising Professor: Sotiris Bahtsetzis
“THE DRAMATURGY OF CHARISMA*TICS – Artificial Intelligence Storytelling and Neurodiversity in Extended Realities”
PhD Candidate: Dimitra Thomaidou, Supervising Professor: Sotiris Bahtsetzis
“New styles of folk iconography in the era of liquid modernity: a case study of the Aetolia-Acarnania and Phocis regions”
PhD Candidate: Athanasios Kokkinos, Supervising Professor: Maria Paschalidou
“Graffiti & Collective Memory in the Digital Era: The Participatory Archive as Exhibition Practice in Public Space”
PhD Candidate: Konstantinos Diamantis, Supervising Professor: Konstantinos Kalantzis
“Environmental crisis, artistic practices and media ecologies: ethnography and artistic research ‘in nature’”
PhD Candidate: Georgios Samantas, Supervising Professor: Maria Paschalidou
“The Conception of the soul and the Imperative of Autonomy: Freud, Castoriadis and Psychanalysis as a Counter-Attack of Romanticism against Western Rationalism”
PhD Candidate: Georgios Ktenas, Supervising Professor: Dimitra Papachristou
“Art as Agonistic Intervention in Public Space: Political Practices and Visual Art Examples in Greece from the Metapolitefsi to the Present”
PhD Candidate: Foteini Chatzimichail, Supervising Professor: Elpida Karaba

The following post-doctoral researches are carried out at the DCCMI:

“Presence, Art and the Dynamics of Youth Cultural Groups in the Center of Thessaloniki, 1991–2021: Postproduction and Reflection through Actions in Public Spaces and Exhibition Environments”
Postdoctoral Candidate: Orestis Pangalos, Supervising Professor: Maria Paschalidou