C. Nadia Seremetakis
Professor of Anthropology and awarded/translated author. Her books and articles, written in both English and Greek, are based on long term fieldworks in rural and urban Greece as well as other parts of the world. They have been translated in various languages and have been taught in the Humanities, Cultural Studies and Fine Arts for more than 20 years.
Born in Greece, she studied and taught in New York where she lived for two decades, also taught in Greece for a decade, and her lectures continue worldwide to this day.
Her extra-academic positions and activities include designing and organization of public participatory multimedia/multidisciplinary educational events on regional cultural development.
Today she divides her life between Europe and America.
International Presence
Invited Lectures / Talks
UNA EUROPA (alliance of 11 leading European Universities) Post-Doctoral School in POLAND Jagiellonian University, Winter 2025
University of Nottingham, UK Department of Classics and Archaeology Invited lecture, April 2025
University of California (Santa Cruz) The Humanities Institute
Open Lecture, April 2023
Προσκεκλημένο Σεμινάριο
New York University Dept. of Performance Studies Open Lecture, Dec. 2017
Glasgow University, Scotland Anthropology Network Webminars Lecture, May 2020
International Presence
Books and Articles
International Presence
Books and articles Translated and Reprinted
“…What can be lost is not the senses but the memory of the senses…”
“…The focus on the borders of the everyday allows one to see macro-transformations in-the-making….”
The book published in Turkish by LIVERA Publishing. Τranslator Zeynep Demirkol. Μay 2026
Published in Polish. Εtnografia #4, 2018-19. Translators Κ. Kubersk and K. Pietrowiak.
Reprinted and presented in The Design Culture Reader, Ben Highmore, ed. Νew York/London: Routledge 2009.
Reprinted and presented (under the title The Breast of Aphrodite) in The Taste Culture Reader. Carolyn Korsmeyer, ed. Oxford: Berg, 2007, and Bloomsbury 2016.
Reprinted and presented in the encyclopedia Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources. David Howes, ed. Bloomsbury, 2018
Reprinted (under the title The Memory of the Senses: Historical Perception, Commensal Exchange and Modernity), in Visualizing Theory: Selections from VAR 1990 – 1994, Lucien Taylor ed. New York: Routledge, 1994
Reprinted in Greek (under the title Η Μνήμη των Αισθήσεων – Σημάδια του Εφήμερου) in the journal Revmata vol. 4, Aug-Sept. 1999
The Other City of Silence: Disaster and the Petrified Bodies of History.
Translated into German, in Re-Membering the Body. G. Brandstetter & H. Volckers, eds. Wiener Festwochen (Vienna festival 2000). Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000.
Memories of the Aftermath: Political Violence, Post-traumatic Stress and Cultural Transition to Democracy.
Translated in Croatian, in ZENE I POLITIKA MIRA. Centar za zenske stydije. Zagreb, 1997
Presence in Greece
C. Nadia Seremetakis (Κ. Νάντια Σερεμετάκη) has a long presence in Greek academic and cultural life, with book, article and media publications, long term field researches in urban and rural areas, university teaching, and cutting edge design & organization of multimedia public educational events.
For a detailed presentation of her activities see BIOGRAPHY
Το ξύπνημα των αισθήσεων είναι το ξύπνημα της ικανότητας για μνήμη, για απτή μνήμη. Το να είσαι ξύπνιος σημαίνει να θυμάσαι, και θυμάται κανείς μέσα από τις αισθήσεις, μέσω της ουσίας.
Along her journey
Publications
Lectures
Countries
Videos
Public and media presence
Selected interviews, public discussions, lectures
from the official Youtube channel
in Greece and abroad
