DEMETRIOU Eleni

Contact details

eleni.demetriou@etu.univ-amu.fr

Functions

2018-2025 Doctoral student in sociology, under the direction of Sylvia GIREL and Constance DE GOURCY.

Title: " Indivisible objects for irreparable debts The creation of a symbolic economy through the reclassification of 'monumental values'".

Subjects: funerary heritage, objects-persons, moral reparation, statutory promotion, public-communal boundary.

2023-2024 Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant, ALLSH Faculty, Department of Sociology, AMU.

2019-2022 LAMES and MESOPOLHIS doctoral student representative on the Laboratory Council.

2018-2020 Recipient of scientific grants from the École française d'Athènes to conduct two field surveys.

2018-2022 Doctoral grant from Aix-Marseille University, ED 355 "Espaces, Cultures, Sociétés", Classic quota.

Areas of research

Sociology of arts and culture. Processes of requalification/disqualification (modern funerary sculpture, neoclassical architecture); artistic consecration; symbolic and enrichment economies.

Sociology of development. Moral reparation; statutory promotion; public/common boundary.

Sociology of knowledge. Categorisation and revision of historical knowledge; border objects; assemblages.

Survey methodology and theories. International comparisons and case studies; building up and analysing heterogeneous corpora; image production and analysis; sociological metatheory.

Scientific coordinator, programme manager

Research networks

  • 2025 RC20 member Comparative Sociology of the International Sociological Association (ISA).
  • 2024-2025 Programme member Social sciences and graphic and sound methods Innovative methods at the crossroads of research and teaching, in collaboration with Monika SALZBRUNN (University of Lausanne) and Maïté MASKENS (ULB).
  • 2024 Member of the MRSEI scientific network PAGENS : Emerging ages and life courses: From Suds aux Nordssupported by the French National Research Agency.
  • 2021-2022         CARGO - Sensitive figures on the Mediterranean crossingResearch and creation programme, In charge of managing the hypothesis booklet dedicated to promoting research (with Maria Elena BUSLACCHI). Organised by Mésopolhis UMR 7064.
  • 2019-2023 European project TWINNING, Member of the consortium of young researchers : https://sfaxforward.eu/about-sfax-forward
  • 2019 RT10 member " Sociology of knowledge "by the Association Française de Sociologie (AFS).
  • 2018-2019 Project member MonuMED "Monumentalisation and urban space in the Balkans and the Mediterranean", Organised by LabexMed.

Organisation of scientific events

  • 2021-2022 " Fourth Balkan Studies Meeting "International conference organised by UMR TELEMME, Member of the organising committeeMUCEM, Marseille.
  • sept 2021 " Doctoriales "Journées doctorales du Mésopolhis, Member of the organisation teamMMSH, Aix-en-Provence.
  • 19 March 2021 " Arts and culture "Socialisation, education, culture" seminar session at Mésopolhis (with Aude SIGNOLES).
  • 2019-2020 " Thesis projects "LAMES doctoral seminar (with Alice Pavie).
  • 2018-2020 " 60th anniversary of the Sociology Department at Aix-Marseille University ", Member of the organising committee.
  • April 2019 " Cultures and territories: Circulation of knowledge and receptive experiences "Poster presentation day, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix-en-Provence (with Matthieu DEMORY).
  • 2018-2019 " Alterities and resistance to the test of gender in the Mediterranean ", International Colloquium, Member of the scientific committee of doctoral∙es and post-doctoral∙es. Organised by: LAMES, TELEMME.
  • Nov. 2018 " Introduction to cartographic thinking "LAMES doctoral seminar, Speaker: Yoann DOIGNON (PUD-AMU).

Productions

Articles

  • nov. 2020 Introduction - Reflexivity in and through research "Thematic issue of the International Review of Sociology and Social Sciences Esprit Critique (with Matthieu Demory and Alice Pavie).

Book chapters

  • forthcoming             Culture, both showcase and screen? with Freyermouth, A. and Buslacchi, M. E., In Aldrin, P., Freyermouth, A., Mattina, C., Nonjon, M. & Olive, M. (Eds.), Sociology of Aix-en-Provence. Collection "Repères", La Découverte.
  • forthcoming             Public or common goods? Cemeteries' heritagization and uncertainty regarding the treatments of (s)elected funerary artefacts. In Rugg, J. & Ocón, D. (Eds.), Critical perspectives on funeral heritage: memory, tourism and sustainability. Collection « Heritage Matters », Boydell and Brewer’s.
  • May 2025              From Paris to Athens, rethinking the reception of the sensory based on crossingsin De Gourcy, C., Belguidoum, S., Buslacchi, M. E., Demetriou, E. (Eds.), The Mediterranean through and through: Tales and sensitive figures of mobility. Presses Universitaires de Provence.

Editing a magazine issue

  • nov. 2020 Reflexivity in and through research "Thematic issue of the International Review of Sociology and Social Sciences Esprit Critique (with Eliabel Agard, Lyna Benaissa, Matthieu Demory, Arthur Imbert, Benoit Lebouc, Emily Lopez Puyol, Alice Pavie).

Project management

  • May 2025              Crossing the Mediterranean. Récits et figures sensibles de la mobilité, Presses Universitaires de Provence (with Saïd Belguidoum, Maria Elena Buslacchi, Constance De Gourcy).

Communications

  • 12 July 2025       Civic Merit As a Symbolic Boundary Affecting the Distribution of Monumental Value5th Forum of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Session "Boundaries in Process-oriented Social Research"RC20 Comparative sociology (Host Committe), RC33 Logic and Methodology in Sociology, RC56 Historical sociology.
  • 8 Jul 2025 Atelier Ferry - Crossing the Mediterranean between nostalgia and absence, JE Thinking nostalgia and absence in exile. Interdisciplinary perspectivesMarseille (remote, with Constance De Gourcy, Maria Elena Buslacchi and Léna Haziza).
  • 7 July 2025         An Application of the Model of the 'Differentiation' on the Analysis of the Requalification of Sculptural Styles5th Forum of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Session "New Theoretical Perspectives for a Contemporary Sociology of Arts"RC37 Sociology of Arts.
  • 28 Feb 2024          When the living relinquish the dead. Sequences of the disqualification of an artefact bearing a contested heritage. Axis seminar Socialisation, Education, Culture Mesopolhis, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence.
  • 4 July 2023           Cargo : Sensible figures of crossings, 20th IMISCOE conference MIGRATION AND INEQUALITIES, Warsaw (remote participation, with Maria Elena Busclacchi).
  • 2 June 2022           Reading an artistic journey in the "European space : comparable singularities?Axis Study Day Socialisation, Education, Culture Mesopolhis, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence.
  • 2022 " Characterising "remarkable" funerary monuments : what place for aesthetic values ?"Patrimoines en représentations seminar, Centre Norbert Elias, Université d'Avignon.
  • June 2021". Inclusive language and the construction of sociological categories "doctoral seminar session Thesis projects MESOPOLHIS, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence (with Arthur IMBERT, LEST UMR 7317).
  • Dec. 2019            "A category and its absence from heritage policy making: the case of 'funerary heritage'. "Symposium Cemeteries in a comparative perspectiveOrganised by Yiannis Papadakis (University of Cyprus) and Trine Stauning Willert (Det Græske Institut/L'Institut Grec in Denmark).
  • August 2019". Les temps des patrimonialisations. Genesis and itineraries of the 'funerary heritage' category ", Congress of the French Sociology AssociationRT 10 "Sociology of knowledge".
  • August 2019". Observing heritage. The emergence of new forms of categorical activity ", Congress of the French Sociology AssociationRT 23: Work, activity, technique.
  • June 2019". From art to heritage. A socio-historical enigma "Study Day Institutionalising the past: the political and social life of collections, archives and museums in the contemporary Mediterranean. Organised by : LabexMed, French School of Athens.
  • May 2019            "Investigating heritage : the stages in the construction of the comparison framework".Journée doctorale du LAMES, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix-en-Provence.
  • Nov. 2018           "Gender and notability : the place of women in heritage cemeteries".GEFEM / Jeudis du genre d'AMU seminar on "History and Sociology: crossroads on the place of women in the socio-political arena". TELEMME, LAMES, GIS Genre. MMSH, Aix-en-Provence.

Communications discussions

  • 4 Dec 2020 " Fascist heritage? Public action and controversy surrounding policies to heritage rationalist architecture in Benito Mussolini's home province "Discussion of Stéphanie DECHEZELLES' presentation at the Mediterranean Sociology Laboratory General Seminar, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence.

Posters

  • June 2019". The heritage enigma from a comparative perspective "Journée Scientifique de l'Ecole Doctorale 355 Espaces, Cultures, Sociétés, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence.
  • April 2019 " The making of cultural practices: the heritage of cemeteries and museum games "Poster Presentation Day Cultures and territories: Circulation of knowledge and receptive experiencesMMSH, Aix-en-Provence (with Nicolas Doduik).

Short films

  • Dec. 2020 Traces of a life in motion "a contribution to the collaborative film produced by CORMED: School of Gender Research. Organised by : Aix-Marseille Université-GENDERMED-MMSH, MUCEM, University of Galatasaray, University of Sousse.
  • nov. 2017 " Bel Horizon ", workshop "Filming urban transformations in the Mediterranean ". Co-ordination: Hélène Veiga Gomes, Jeff Daniel Silva. Organised by: Festival Image de ville, Centre Norbert Elias, Labex Med, Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie (produced with Lucille Guiraud and Valentin Faraut).

Scientific mediation and promotion of research

  • 2021-2022         CARGO - Sensitive figures on the Mediterranean crossingResearch and Creation Programme, responsible for managing the hypothesis booklet dedicated to the promotion of research. Organised by Mésopolhis UMR 7064.
  • Dec. 2019            Participation in the 15th European Researchers' Night "Enter the investigation", Marseille.
  • Dec. 2018           Discussion of films on urban transformationpublic meeting Artistically inhabiting the city. (Bel) Horizon: crossroads and perspectives". Organised by : Boulègue TV and Les Têtes de l'Art, Marseille.

List of publications on HAL

Presentation at a conference

Eleni Demetriou, Arthur Imbert. Inclusive language and the construction of sociological categories. Chantiers de thèse, Centre Méditterranéen de Sociologie, de Science politique et d'Histoire, Jun 2021, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨halshs-03547439⟩

Eleni Demetriou. A category and its absence from heritage policy making: the case of 'funerary heritage'. Cemeteries in a Comparative Perspective, Yiannis Papadakis (University of Cyprus); Trine Stauning Willert (Det Græske Institut/The Greek Institute in Denmark), Dec 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark. ⟨hal-02511178⟩

Eleni Demetriou. Observing heritage. On the emergence of new forms of categorical activity. Classer, Déclasser, Reclasser, Association Française de Sociologie, Aug 2019, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-02401924⟩

Eleni Demetriou. The times of patrimonialisation. Genesis and itineraries of the category of "funerary heritage". Classer, Déclasser, Reclasser, Association Française de Sociologie, Aug 2019, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-02401931⟩

Eleni Demetriou. From art to heritage. A socio-historical enigma. Institutionalising the past: the political and social life of collections, archives and museums in the contemporary Mediterranean, Aix-Marseille University; LabexMed; Ecole Française d'Athènes, Jun 2019, Athens, Greece. ⟨hal-02401899⟩

Eleni Demetriou. Investigating patrimonialisations: stages in the construction of the comparative framework. LAMES Doctoral Day, May 2019, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-02401993⟩

Eleni Demetriou. Gender and notability: the place of women in heritage cemeteries. GEFEM seminar / Jeudis du genre d'AMU: Histoire et Sociologie : regards croisés sur la place des femmes dans l'espace socio-politique, TELEMME; LAMES; GIS Genre, Nov 2018, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-01987473⟩

Eleni Demetriou, Matthieu Demory, Alice Pavie, Camille Noûs. Reflexivity in and through research. Esprit Critique : Revue Internationale de Sociologie et de Sciences sociales, 30 (1), pp.473, 2020. ⟨halshs-03003991⟩

Article in a magazine

Eleni Demetriou, Matthieu Demory, Alice Pavie. Introduction - Reflexivity in and through research. Esprit Critique : Revue Internationale de Sociologie et de Sciences sociales, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Pays-de-la-Loire, 2020, 30 (1), pp.5-12. ⟨halshs-03003622⟩

Conference poster

Eleni Demetriou, Nicolas Doduik. The making of cultural practices. Patrimonialisation of cemeteries and museum games. Session Culture et Territoire, May 2019, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-02135892⟩

Student thesis

Eleni Demetriou. Putting heritage on the map and making it commonplace: a socio-history of the category of 'funerary heritage' through the case of the Saint-Pierre cemetery. Sociology. 2018. ⟨dumas-01892367⟩