From 8 to 13 July 2026, the Department of Communication and Internet Studies and the Department of Fine Arts at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) brought together students and scholars from across Europe for a week-long Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) in Media Anthropology and Film Practices, the first of its kind at CUT.
Limassol as a Field Site
The programme used Limassol itself as a living laboratory. Participants explored the city's coastline, markets, and neighborhoods through ethnographic walks, fieldwork exercises, and documentary filming, learning to read the city not merely as backdrop, but as inscribed space.
The BIP brought together a faculty of researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of anthropology, filmmaking, fine and visual arts, technology, and everyday practice. Key contributors included Athina Peglidou and Penelope Papailias from Greece, Jaime Quilles Campos and Roberto Oliver Sanchez Garcia from Spain, Yiannis Papadakis, Rahme Veziroğlu, Markos Souropetsis, Theodoros Kouros, Yiannis Christidis and Selin Genç from Cyprus, whose work on anthropology, socially engaged art, participatory storytelling, podcasting, filmmaking and the politics of the image shaped the programme's critical orientation.
Thinking Through the Camera
The programme was designed around a central question: what does it mean to think anthropologically through film? Sessions moved between theory and practice - from seminars on ethics of representation and the politics of the gaze, to hands-on workshops in documentary filmmaking, field recording, and visual storytelling.
The BIP provided participants with the tools to work with images and sound the way an anthropologist works with words: carefully, reflexively, and always in relation to the people participating. The visual works that the students produced were exhibited in Xydadiko, in Limassol on the last day of the programme at a public event.
European Collaboration
The programme was delivered as part of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme framework, bringing together students and faculty from partner universities across Europe. The programme brought together students and academics from Greece (University of Thessaly and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Spain (Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche), Romania (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca), and Cyprus (CUT). Yiannis Christidis and Theodoros Kouros from the Department of Fine Arts and the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, respectively, coordinated the programme.
The BIP is part of a growing portfolio of international programme at CUT that connect applied research, fieldwork, and creative practice, positioning the university as a regional hub for critical media and anthropological inquiry.
Dr. Christiana Nicolaou Represents Cyprus University of Technology at the 7th PNAE Congress in Paris
From 8 to 13 July 2026, the Department of Communication and Internet Studies and the Department of Fine Arts at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) brought together students and scholars from across Europe for a week-long Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) in Media Anthropology and Film Practices, the first of its kind at CUT.
Limassol as a Field Site
The programme used Limassol itself as a living laboratory. Participants explored the city's coastline, markets, and neighborhoods through ethnographic walks, fieldwork exercises, and documentary filming, learning to read the city not merely as backdrop, but as inscribed space.
The BIP brought together a faculty of researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of anthropology, filmmaking, fine and visual arts, technology, and everyday practice. Key contributors included Athina Peglidou and Penelope Papailias from Greece, Jaime Quilles Campos and Roberto Oliver Sanchez Garcia from Spain, Yiannis Papadakis, Rahme Veziroğlu, Markos Souropetsis, Theodoros Kouros, Yiannis Christidis and Selin Genç from Cyprus, whose work on anthropology, socially engaged art, participatory storytelling, podcasting, filmmaking and the politics of the image shaped the programme's critical orientation.
Thinking Through the Camera
The programme was designed around a central question: what does it mean to think anthropologically through film? Sessions moved between theory and practice - from seminars on ethics of representation and the politics of the gaze, to hands-on workshops in documentary filmmaking, field recording, and visual storytelling.
The BIP provided participants with the tools to work with images and sound the way an anthropologist works with words: carefully, reflexively, and always in relation to the people participating. The visual works that the students produced were exhibited in Xydadiko, in Limassol on the last day of the programme at a public event.
European Collaboration
The programme was delivered as part of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme framework, bringing together students and faculty from partner universities across Europe. The programme brought together students and academics from Greece (University of Thessaly and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Spain (Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche), Romania (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca), and Cyprus (CUT). Yiannis Christidis and Theodoros Kouros from the Department of Fine Arts and the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, respectively, coordinated the programme.
The BIP is part of a growing portfolio of international programme at CUT that connect applied research, fieldwork, and creative practice, positioning the university as a regional hub for critical media and anthropological inquiry.
