• Mary Leontsini

    photo4LeontsiniBasic Information:

    Title: Professor
    Area of Specialization:

    Gender Theories

    Contact details:

    Phone No: 210 3688047
    Fax: 210 3688510
    E-mail: aparous@ecd.uoa.gr

    Personal site:

     

    Office hours: Wednesday 16.00 – 18.00
    Contact address: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
    Department of Early Childhood Education Navarinou 13A, 10680 Athens

     

    Academic information

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    Education
    • 1991 Doctorat en Sciences du Langage, Sociology of Literature, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France (under the joint supervision of Jacques Leenhardt & Marie-Elisabeth Handman).
    • 1988 Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (DEA) Sciences du Langage, Sociology of Literature, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Supervisors: Jacques Leenhardt, Louis Marin.
    • 1987 B. A. in French & Greek Studies, Dept. of French Studies, University of Athens, Greece.
    Research interests
    Gender, Sexualities, Cultural / Artistic Practices,  Digital Sociability, Reception Theories, Artistic Professions, Immigration.
    Courses and Seminars
    Undergraduate

    • Εισαγωγή στην Κοινωνιολογία (σε συνεργασία με την Α. Βασιλοπούλου)
    • Introduction to Sociology (in collaboration with A. Vassilopoulou).
    • Gender and Cultural Practices
    • Gender Theories
    • Gender, Body, Otherness.

    Graduate

    Gender and Social Capital
    Selected Publications

    BOOKS

    • Le genre à l’ œuvre, three volumes, (editor, in collaboration with (Melody Jan-Ré)  Marie Buscatto, Margaret Maruani, Bruno Péquignot, Hyacinthe Ravet, Paris, L’Harmattan
    • 2010 (editor, introduction), Gender and Social Capital, Kritiki Publishing, Athens, Greece.
    • 2008 (in collaboration with Jean-Marc Leveratto), Internet et la sociabilité littéraire, ΒΡΙ-Centre Georges Pompidou, Collection Etudes et Recherche, Paris.
    • 2004 Translation in Greek, Commentary and Postface of Madame de Staël, De Ιa littérature, Athens, Exandas Publisher.
    • 2001 Greek editor of Denys CUCHE, La notion de culture en sciences sociales, Athens, Typothito.
    • 2000 (editor, introduction), Aspects of Reading, Athens, Nissos, Collection of essays on the sociological aspects of reading by de Singly, Passeron, Iser, Culler, Petit, Evans, Holland (editing and Introduction).

    EDITORIAL WORK,  PAPERS, REPORTS

    • 2011 Guest editor (in collaboration with Marie Buscatto) of the Special Issue of Sociologie de l’Art OPuS 17 Nouvelle série “Les pratiques artistiques au prisme des stéréotypes de genre / Artistic Practices in the Light of Gender Stereotypes”, Paris : L’Harmattan.

    • 2011 Guest editor (in collaboration with Marie Buscatto) of the Special Issue of Sociologie de l’Art OPuS 18 Nouvelle série “La reconnaissance artistique à l’épreuve des stéréotypes de genre / Artistic Recognition Challenged by Gender Stereotypes”, Paris : L’Harmattan.

    • 2010 Migrant Women’s Organizations in Athens and Multicultural Democracy: Gender, Social Capital, and Social Cohesion. Report to Latsis Foundation (Research held under the auspices of the Department of Early Childhood Education of the University of Athens and funded by John S. Latsis, Public Benefit Foundation). Research Report.

    • 2005  (in collaboration with Jean-Marc Leveratto) “Internet et sociabilité littéraire : le cas de critiqueslibres.com”, Sociologie de l’Art, OPuS 7, nouvelle série, pp. 63-89.

     

    Additional Information

    2001- present: referee for scholarly journals: Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Sociologie de Ι‘Art, Sociologie et Sociétés, SociologieS, Lapsus, Greek Review of Social Research.2009 – present: Member of the Editorial Board of Book series «Terrains des Sciences Sociales», Seismo Publishing, Zurich   www.editions-seismo.ch2007-present: Board member of the Joint Master’s in Education and Human Rights, organized by the Department of Early Childhood Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Institute of Education of the University of London.2007-present Board member of the Joint Master’s in Political Science and Sociology, jointly organized by the Department of Early Childhood Education and the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.2007-2008 Board Member of the Adult Education Program of the Department of Early Childhood Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.2001-2002 Deputy Member of the University of Crete Senate. Representative of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

    2001-2004 Board Member of the Master’s Program in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Crete.

    2005 – 2007 Elected Member of the Board of the RN 2 Sociology of the Arts, European Sociological Association.

    2004 – 2012  Elected Chair of the Comité de Recherche 18 « Sociologie des Arts » of the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF).

    2002 – 2004 Member of the Advisory Board of the Greek Council for Children’s and Adolescents’ Libraries, Athens.

    1999 – present,  Member of the Groupe de Recherche (GdR), Œuvres, Publics, Sociétés, (OPuS), Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France.

    1998-2004 Member of the International Board La Création Sociale, Grenoble, France.

     

    SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS

     

    2003 Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, awarded by the French Republic.

    1991-92  French Government Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Research.

    1988-1990 French Government Fellowship for PhD Research