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Hana Shepherd is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Princeton University. She is primarily interested in the mechanisms involved in the maintenance of group-based inequalities, and how cognitive and cultural sociology, social networks and complex systems theory, sociology of knowledge and data, and sociology of organizations can contribute to an understanding of those mechanisms.
Eleni Sideri has received her PhD in Social Anthropology from SOAS, UK. Her research was on the diasporic communities of Greeks living in Georgia and Abkhazia. She now works at New York Univ. Skopje at the dept of Communication and the dept. of Social Anthropology of the. of Thessaly. Her academic interests include diasporas and transnationalism, history and memory, gender and migration, and the post-Soviet democracies.
Thomas Siomos (www.vardaris.gr) is a journalist specializing in political communication and documentary. He writes the weekly column “Gone with Vardaris” for the Greek daily, Eleftherotypia. He has presented a number of TV programs in the Greek national television focusing on the question of innovation in the fields of politics and technology.
Elizabeth Stark is a board member of the international student organization Freeculture.org and the founder of Harvard Free Culture. A third year student at Harvard Law School, Elizabeth works for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society on such projects as Open Access and Digital Media. She is an Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law Technology, a Teaching Fellow in Cyberlaw and Electronic Music, and a researcher on the Future of the Internet.
Prodromos Tsiavos is the legal project lead for the Creative Commons –England and Wales (CC-EW) project and a partner at the Open Business Modes project. He is a post doctorate researcher in the Innovation Centre of Oslo University. Prodromos has worked for the European Commission and Oxford University. He has collaborated with the Greek Intellectual Property Organisation and the European Public Law Centre. Prodromos is currently teaching Techno-legal perspectives on Information Systems at the London School of Economics and is an advisor of the Lithuanian administration on behalf of the European Commission on issues of IPR enforcement.
Irina Velicu is a PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant in the Political Science Department of the University of Hawaii. She has a MA degree in International Studies from the University of Warwick – United Kingdom and BA in Political Science from the University of Bucharest – Romania. Her research interests revolve around the issues of globalization, critical social movements and Eastern Europe and her dissertation topic focuses on forms of resistance to corporate neo-liberal globalization in Eastern Europe.
Raphael Vella is an artist from Malta. He obtained a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts London (Camberwell College of Arts) in 2006, and is currently Art Co-ordinator within the Department of Arts and Languages in Education, Faculty of Education, at the University of Malta, where he teaches Contemporary Art Methodology, Theory and Practice.
He has held several solo exhibitions in Malta, New Zealand, the USA and the UK. Group shows include Blitz at the Birgu War Shelter (2005), Escape at the Old Prisons in Rabat, Gozo (2003), the Calpe Festival in Gibraltar (2002) and Űber in Paceville (2001). In 2003, he published a limited edition artist’s book called BOOK, which was acquired by the Tate Library, Chelsea College of Art and Design and other institutions in the UK. In 2004, he represented Malta in Den Haag Sculptuur in Holland. In 2007, he represented his country once again in the Arrivals series organized by Modern art Oxford in the UK.
Mark Wagstaff is a third year MPhil student in the School of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, London. His thesis is on Revolution, Myth and the Origins of Fascism, and aims to analyse the development of fascism in the history of ideas, and the relationship between the social preconditions for fascism and the antecedents which the fascists claimed. Mark has spoken at a number of conferences, including the ECPR Graduate Conference in 2006; ‘Identities’ at the University of Warwick; and the recent symposium ‘Memory Work and the Blurring of Genre Boundaries’ at Nottingham Trent University. He also writes fiction, a discipline which he thinks is not so far removed from political theory.
Alexios Zavras, PhD, has been an Open Source enthusiast and evangelist since before the term Open Source was established. He is currently working as an independent IT consultant based in Greece, after having collaborated for years with a number of private companies and academic institutions. He has studied Computer Science in Greece and the United States.