Publications
2023
Christidis, Ioannis. “Music in the Experience of Forced Migration from Syria to the European Borderland - Two Case Studies.” PhD Thesis, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
2022
Christidis, Ioannis. “Singing and Dancing for Freedom of Movement: Enacting Citizenship and Resisting Forced Confinement in ‘Hotspot’ Refugee Camps in Thessaloniki, Greece 2016.” In Internment Refugee Camps - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 1st ed., edited by Gabriele Anderl, Linda Erker, and Christoph Reinprecht, vol. 192. Transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459270-013
2021
Christidis, Ioannis. “Adelaida Reyes: Pioneer in the Field of Music and Forced Migration.” Music & Minorities 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.52411/mm.2021.6
Presentations at conferences
2025
Norman, Sally Jane; David Hebert; David Johnson, Ioannis Christidis and Gene Lai. “Empowering Voices: Musical Responses to Social, Political, and Environmental Challenges Faced by Displaced and Minority Groups (Case-Studies From Europe, Southeast Asia, and Oceania” Online paper presentation within a panel at the 48th World Conference for the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, Wellington, New Zealand, January 2025. https://easychair.org/smart-program/ICTMD2025/program.html
2024
Christidis, Ioannis. “Political Listening to EU Refugee Camps.” Paper presented at the 39th European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM), Zagreb, Croatia, September 2025. https://esemzagreb2024.wordpress.com/ioannis-christidis/
2023
Christidis, Ioannis. “Echoes of the 2011 Syrian Uprising in Europe – Music and Political Belonging among Syrian Forced Migrants in Greece and Austria.” Paper presented at the Conference “Music, Migration, Belonging/s in 21st-Century Europe” in Vienna, Austria, November 2023. https://www.mdw.ac.at/musicandminorities/events/music-migration-belongings/abstracts-bios/christidis/
Christidis, Ioannis. “Remembrance, Inter-Community Solidarity and Active Citizenship – Syrian Politically Charged Music in Europe.” Paper presented online at the 47th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), Legon, Ghana, July 2023. https://www.ictmusic.org/sites/default/files/documents/world conferences/books of abstracts/abstracts 2023ictm world conference.pdf
2022
Hemetek, Ursula, Ioannis Christidis and Marko Kölbl. Roundtable: "Participatory Research in Ethnomusicological Refugee Studies. Critical Inquiries." at the XXXVII European Seminar in Ethnomusicology in Graz, Austria, September 2022. https://ethnomusikologie.kug.ac.at/fileadmin/03_Microsites/01_Kuenstlerisch_wissenschaftliche_Einheiten/01_Institute/Institut_13_Ethnomusikologie/Veranstaltung/ESEM_2022_Program_full_version.pdf.
Christidis, Ioannis. "Digital Media, Mobile Technologies, and Music among Syrian Refugees in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2016." Paper presented at the 21st Quinquennial Congress of the IMS (International Musicological Society), Athens, Greece, August 2022. https://convin.gr/assets/files/misc/IMS2022AB.pdf
Christidis, Ioannis. "Syrian Dabke in Vienna – Examining the Relationship between Popular Music and Social Class among Syrian Migrants in Vienna." Paper presented at the 46th ICTM World Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, and online, July 2022. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KnCc9_afJYg_Q7MnRFlYzJfaxaJDCOOC/view
2021
Christidis, Ioannis. "Musical Performances of Forced Migrants from Syria as a Participatory Experience for Performing Citizenship on the Thresholds of Europe." Paper presented at the ICTM Study Group Symposium Music and Minorities in Uppsala, Sweden, and online, October 2021. https://www.isof.se/pa-gang/evenemang/arkiv-evenemang/2021-10-18-symposium-of-the-ictm-study-group-on-music-and--minorities
Christidis, Ioannis. "Singing in the Face of Disaster: Music-making by Refugees as Act of Resistance Against their Forced Confinement in Degrading EU-sponsored Camps in Greece." Paper presented at the International Online Conference "In/visibility of Flight" of the Refugee Outreach and Research Network (ROR-n), online, June 2021. https://de.scribd.com/embeds/511839534/content?access_key=key-jCUl4X0XfJuPrNernUyS&jsapi=true&xdm_e=http://www.ror-n.org&xdm_c=default13&xdm_p=1
Christidis, Ioannis. "Challenging Europeanity: Syrian Refugees, Musical Acts of Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism from Below." Paper presented at Symposium Transkulturalität 2021 "Contesting Border Regimes – Sounds and Images", online, May 2021. https://www.mdw.ac.at/upload/MDWeb/ive/downloads/Book_of_Abstracts_Contesting_Border_Regimes.pdf
2020
Christidis, Ioannis. "Singing and Dancing for Freedom of Movement - Resisting Forced Confinement in 'Hotspot' Camps in Thessaloniki, Greece 2016." Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for Exile Research, öge: Internment Camps, online, December 2020. https://exilforschung.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Abstract_Christidis_final.pdf
Christidis, Ioannis. "Musical Performances of Forced Migrants from Syria as a Participatory Experience for performing citizenship on the thresholds of Europe." Paper presented at the 13. Jahrestagung des Österreichischen Nationalkomitees im ICTM 2020, online, November 2020. https://ethnomusikologie.kug.ac.at/fileadmin/03_Microsites/01_Kuenstlerisch_wissenschaftliche_Einheiten/01_Institute/Institut_13_Ethnomusikologie/01_Institut/ICTM_OEsterreich/Tagung_2020/ICTMO__-JTG.2020.pdf
Christidis, Ioannis. "Presentation of the Project: Music in the Experience of Forced Migration from Syria to the European Borderland." Paper presented in the Roundtable "Minorities Emerging. Towards Ethnomusicological Refugee Studies" at the International SEM Conference 2020, online, October 2020. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ethnomusicology.org/resource/resmgr/2020_annual_meeting/program_book_sem_2020_1