The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of people around the world. Guests and caregivers at the “Athens Nursing Home” tell us about life during the time of the pandemic as well as their lives before the nursing home.
Credits
Scientific Supervisor: Aigli Chatzouli
Research: Irini Papadaki
Direction/ Photography/ Editing: Silas Michalakas
Aigli Chatjouli
Aigli Chatjouli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean, specializing in Medical Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of the Aegean in 2009. Her undergraduate studies were in Molecular-Cell Biology (King’s College London, B.Sc., 1996). In 1997, she completed her postgraduate studies in Human Biology (University of Oxford, M.Sc.). Her research interests include the intersection of biology and anthropology, the normative dynamics of (bio)difference, the (a)continuities around the understanding of nature, the nature/culture dichotomy, the cultural construction of health and illness, health politics, and the interrelation between health and the environment. She has conducted research on Thalassemia in Greece, infertility, and assisted reproduction. As the scientific coordinator of the research project BIO-AGE, “The Biocultural Experience of Aging During the Covid-19 Pandemic,” she conducted research on the multiple dimensions of the aging experience during the pandemic. Selected publications: Chatjouli, A., 2023 (edit.). Third Age, Vulnerability, and Care Relations in the Pandemic Age: Anthropological Reflections on the Experience of Ageing. Athens: Alexandreia; Chatjouli, A., Daskalaki, I., and V. Kantsa, 2015. Out of Body, Out of Home: Assisted Reproduction, Gender, and Family in Greece. Athens: Alexandreia; Chatjouli, A., 2012. Thalassemic Lives: Biological Difference, Normality, and Bioculturality. An Anthropological Approach. Athens: Patakis.
Eirini Papadaki
Eirini Papadaki is a social anthropologist and an assistant professor at the School of History and Archaeology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research and publications focus on the politics of adoption, parenthood, and marriage in contemporary Greece. Her research interests include the anthropology of kinship, gender, sexuality, bureaucracy, the state, intimacy, and care. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the universities of Edinburgh, Bremen, and the Aegean. Her writings have been published in international academic journals and collective volumes. She is the author of the book Politics of Kinship: Adoption in Contemporary Greece (Alexandria, 2021) and has co-edited (with Janet Carsten, Hsiao-Chiao Chiu, Siobhan Magee, and Koreen Reece) the book Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense (UCL Press, 2021).
Silas Michalakas
Silas Michalakas obtained his MA in Visual Anthropology at the Goldsmiths College, University of London, while he also holds a MSc in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and a BA in Archaeology. He has worked in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and as a freelance documentary filmmaker, researcher and producer. Several of his works have been used to support the inscription of intangible cultural heritage elements to the representative list of UNESCO, while others have been exhibited in museums of modern history and fine arts. He was the productions and educational activities manager in the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest from 2017-2024.