Publications

2022

Christidis, Ioannis. 2022. "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, edited by Gabriele Anderl, Linda Erker, and Christoph Reinprecht, 177–91. Bielefeld: transcript. https://www.transcript-publishing.com/media/pdf/35/8f/68/oa9783839459270.pdf
 

2021

Christidis, Ioannis. 2021. "Adelaida Reyes: Pioneer in the Field of Music and Forced Migration. A Review of Her Theoretical and Methodological Contribution." In: Music & Minorities 1. https://doi.org/10.52411/mm.2021.6

Christidis, Ioannis. 2021. "Symposium Transkulturalität_mdw 2021. Contesting Border Regimes – Sounds and Images." mdw-Magazin 2021(3): 80–82. Accessed October 12, 2021. https://www.mdw.ac.at/magazin/index.php/2021/09/29/contestingborderregimes/?lang=en

Christidis, Ioannis. 2021. "2020's MMRC Lecture and an Interview with Social Anthropologist Dawn Chatty." mdw-Magazin 2021(1): 68–71. Accessed June 2, 2021. https://www.mdw.ac.at/magazin/index.php/2021/02/24/mmrc-lecture-2020-und-ein-interview-mit-dawn-chatty/?lang=en

Christidis, Ioannis. 2021. "Hurriya, Azadi, Freedom now!" – Resonating the Syrian uprising, singing displacement, dancing against the European border regime in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2016. Podcast, Episode 1, https://www.musicandminorities.org/forschung/projekte/music-in-the-experience-of-forced-migration/podcast/
 

2020

Christidis, Ioannis. 2020. "Bye-Bye … Refugee Camps! Lives Shattered, Songs Unheard". mdw-Magazin 2020(4): 66–68. Accessed June 2, 2021. https://www.mdw.ac.at/magazin/index.php/2020/11/25/bye-bye-fluechtlingslager/?lang=en

Christidis, Ioannis. 2020. CD Review of The Songs We Still Remember, Basma Jabr & Orwa Saleh. In "Klangheimaten: Musik und Minderheiten," ed. Initiative Minderheiten, special issue, Stimme 117(4): 29. Accessed June 2, 2021. https://stimme.minderheiten.at/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/01/stimme_117_web_s29.pdf

Christidis, Ioannis. 2020."'Hurriya, Azadi, Freedom now!' An ethnomusicological report on the events of Thessaloniki, Greece 2016." On-line article. Accessed June 2, 2021. https://www.musicandminorities.org/research/projects/music-in-the-experience-of-forced-migration/initial-research-findings/#1

Christidis, Ioannis. 2020. "Interview mit Marie-Thérèse Kiriaky, Koordinatorin der Arab-Austrian Women’s Organization: Musik hat die Gabe, Menschen zu verbinden!". In "Klangheimaten: Musik und Minderheiten," ed. Initiative Minderheiten, special issue, Stimme 117(4): 23–24. Accessed June 2, 2021. https://stimme.minderheiten.at/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/01/stimme_117_web_23-25.pdf

Christidis, Ioannis. 2020. "Wir, die Fremden! Musik im Kontext von Flucht – Ismails Geschichte." In "Klangheimaten: Musik und Minderheiten," ed. Initiative Minderheiten, special issue, Stimme 117(4): 11–13. Accessed June 2, 2021. https://stimme.minderheiten.at/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/01/stimme_117_web_11-13.pdf

 

Paper presentations at conferences

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
    

Media Presence

2020

Ioannis Christidis, "Music in the Experience of Forced Migration," interview by Bianca Ludewig, Eigenklang, radio broadcast, September 28, 2020, accessed June 25, 2021, https://cba.fro.at/466826