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Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. Published 6 articles in journals. Has 5 section(s) of books. Organized 1 event(s). Participated in 2 event(s). Participates and/or participated as Researcher in 1 project(s). In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Afro-Cuban religion; counterpoint; divination; perspective; sacrifice; mediation; Anthropology; Death; Rituals; Mourning; Transnationalism; Palo Monte; spirits of the dead; matter; human substances; bones; agency; transformations; effects; personhood; vitality; .
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos

Citation names

  • Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A314-2DD9-5F41
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8043-6207

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Greek (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2006/09 - 2011/09
Concluded
 Social Anthropology (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Social Anthropology
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"“The Island of Crossed Destinies: human and other-than-human perspectives in Afro-Cuban divination.” " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Pass without revisions
2005/09 - 2006/09
Concluded
 MSc (by Research) in Social Anthropology (Master)
Major in Social Anthropology
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"“In Search of Cosmological and Ontological Aspects of the Afro-Cuban Religions: evoking the past and the future in present-day Cuba.” " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Distinction
2003/09 - 2004/09
Concluded
 MSc in Social Anthropology (Master)
Major in Social Anthropology
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"“A Visit in the City: wandering between and wondering about an anthropology in and of the city.” " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Distinction
1997/09 - 2002/09
Concluded
 Sociology (Bachelor)
Major in Sociology
Panepistemio Kretes, Greece
"“The notion of ideology in Karl Marx’s work The German Ideology.” " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 First class
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28 Religion, Spirituality and Wellbeing: A Comparative Approach of Transreligiosity and Crisis in Southern Europe
2022.01229.PTDC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/02/01 - 2021/02/01 Symmetric and collaborative ethnographies: A theoretical, methodological and pedagogical proposition throuhg three experimental ethnograpies.
CSO2017-82774-P
Researcher
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Ongoing
2006/09/01 - 2011/09/01 “The Island of Crossed Destinies: human and other-than-human perspectives in Afro-Cuban divination.”
N/A
PhD Student Fellow
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/05/01 - 2027/04/30 There is no title for this project, only a reference number (see below)
EMC21-00043
Principal investigator
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
 Junta de Andalucía
Ongoing
2018/09 - 2024/09 Afro-Cuban religiosity in and beyond Cuba
UID/ANT/04038/2019
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2012/02 - 2018/07 'Crossing paths: the instantiation of destiny in Afro-Cuban religions and Cuban socialism' and Speaking of crisis: divination in circulation between different contexts of crisis
SFRH/BPD/76656/2011
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Roussou, Eugenia; Anastasios PANAGIOTOPOULOS. "Encountering other worlds through transreligiosity: a comparative account of healing, embodiment and transformation in the field". edited by Emily Pierini; Alberto Groisman; Diana Espírito Santo. New York, United States: Berghahn, 2023.
    Accepted
  2. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Broken words". In Tools of oracular articulacy in Afro-Cuban divination, edited by Santo, {Diana Esp{\'i, 90-108. Berghahn Books, 2021.
  3. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Biographies and necrographies in exchange". In from the self to the other, edited by Anastasios Panagiotopoulos; {Esp{\'i, 63-81. Berghahn Books, 2019.
  4. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Introduction". edited by Anastasios PANAGIOTOPOULOS; { Esp{\'i, 1-14. Berghahn Books, 2019.
  5. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Death that moves". In A theoretical approach to death and the possible implications in transnational settings, edited by Havik, {Philip J., 36-54. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
  6. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. "A secular religion within an atheist state". In The case of afro-cuban religiosity and the cuban state, 39-65. 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-43726-2_3
  7. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. "A Morte em Movimento". In uma abordagem teórica sobre a morte e suas possíveis implicações em contextos transnacionais. 2016.
  8. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Ikú lobi ocha: the dead give birth to the deities". 37-55. Sean Kingston Publishing, 2015.
  9. Diana Espírito Santo; Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Inventive traditions: a short introduction to Afro-Cuban religiosity". 1-36. Sean Kingston Publishing, 2015.
Book review
  1. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Death in the early 21st century". 26, 3 (2020): 679-680. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/ae50f8f2-9eb2-4071-909c-f7d5cec9ffbf.
    10.1111/1467-9655.13340
  2. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. "The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make". 11, (2020): 217-218. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/religion-and-society/11/1/arrs110115.xml.
    Published
  3. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M., 2015, Electric Santería, Nova Iorque, Columbia University Press [review]". 7, (2016): 146-147. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/02dbec01-6a4c-4a1d-93a0-c44dec73e7db.
  4. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Philippe Descola, 2013, Beyond Nature and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)". 6, (2015): 185-186. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/0b23f7d4-d263-4eed-8f18-ce59790f52ff.
  5. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Book review of Fedele, Anna and Ruy Llera Blanes (eds.). 2011. Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices: anthropological reflections. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books". 17, 3 (2013): 653-655. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/331d47a7-ed84-4ec5-a591-d1ffa9ed21cc.
  6. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Book review of Ochoa, Todd Ramón. Society of the Dead: Quita Manaquita and Palo praise in Cuba. Berkeley: University of California Press". 3, 1 (2013): 232-233. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/798bf2ec-d341-4071-b581-de238dc980c3.
Edited book
  1. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. Articulate Necrographies. 2019.
  2. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. Beyond tradition, beyond invention. 2015.
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. "Santería". , 2018.
Journal article
  1. Anastasios PANAGIOTOPOULOS; Roussou, Eugenia. "We have always been transreligious: an introduction to transreligiosity". Social Compass 69 (2023):
    In press
  2. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios; Roussou, Eugenia. "We have always been transreligious: An introduction to transreligiosity". Social Compass (2022): 003776862211037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00377686221103713.
    10.1177/00377686221103713
  3. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios; Anastasios PANAGIOTOPOULOS. "Transreligious Shamanism(s): An Introduction". Shaman 30 1&2 (2022): 5-20.
    Published
  4. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Possessed by a slave, not slavery". Suomen Antropologi 45 4 (2021): 3-22. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/a773b259-33aa-4dc7-b176-aaa18fd81ff2.
    10.30676/JFAS.V45I4.101278
  5. Manuela Canton-Delgado; Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Pentecostal exorcism and Afro-Cuban endorcism". Social Compass (2021): 1-18. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/15ec7d35-836b-4e04-b78e-623148397e97.
    10.1177/00377686211043715
  6. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. "Afro-Cuban counterpoint". Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2019):
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12388
  7. Panagiotopoulos, A.; Espirito Santo, D.. "Afro-Cuban Counterpoint: Religious and Political Encompassments". Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 24 3 (2019): 727-745. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85060689383&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1111/jlca.12388
  8. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Food-for-words". HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8 3 (2018): 474-487. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/9b9aa807-780b-433b-9717-9c5ed77c0291.
    10.1086/700980
  9. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Everyday moral economies: food, politics and scale in Cuba". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23 3 (2017): 631-632. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/b1b9e000-af59-4409-ac0a-d0bad9c6fd13.
    10.1111/1467-9655.12662
  10. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. "When biographies cross necrographies". Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (2017):
    10.1080/00141844.2015.1120763
  11. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. "Review of Stephan Palmié, The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013)". Social Anthropology 22 1 (2014): 136-137. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/0608eae8-d22c-4025-9a2b-422c19e3a275.
    10.1111/1469-8676.12065_14
  12. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos; Diana Espírito Santo; Katerina Kerestetzi. "Human Substances and Ontological Transformations in the African-inspired Ritual Complex of Palo Monte in Cuba". Critical African Studies 5 3 (2013): 195-219. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/019531f6-9a84-4765-b716-e2f4ff5901f2.
    10.1080/21681392.2013.837285
Journal issue
  1. Roussou, Eugenia; Anastasios PANAGIOTOPOULOS. "Transreligious shamanisms: exploring contemporary spiritual practices and healing". Shaman (2022):
    Under revision

Other

Other output
  1. The island of crossed destinies. 2011. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. https://puredev.unl.pt/portal/en/publications/the-island-of-crossed-destinies(bc314f63-a36b-4956-9958-55c9a4ac5c85).html.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/07/24 The ‘Transreligious’ Confluences and Coincidences of Afro-Cuban Religiosity and the Anthropologist’s Personal ‘Crisis’ New Anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe
European Association of Social Anthropologistis (EASA) 16th Biennal international conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/02/20 The Anthropological Imagination of Slavery through Afro-Cuban Spirit Possession Departmental seminar
Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/07/15 Guest lecturer at Summerschool (13th-17th July 2019), course convenors: Dr. Anna Fedele, Dr. Kim Knibbe and Dr. Méadhbh McIvor, lecture title: “Afro-Cuban religiosity, the politics of race and the historical imagination of slavery”. “Religion in the Public Domain”
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/03/15 Intimité et qualité de vie Seminaire Cuba Recherché
Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amerique Latine, Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Ameriques (Paris, France)
2019/02/27 Guest lecturer at Master’s cours, lecturer: Prof. Manuela Cantón. “Religious Diversity and Interculturalism”
Universidad de Sevilla (Seville, Spain)
2019/02/14 Afro-Cuban spirits as ethnographic interlocutors Research seminar series (no 3)
Universidad de Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain)
2018/09/07 Cruces de caminos: la religiosidad Afro-Cubana como utopía del presente Encuentros, Diálogos y Relatos desde los Sures
Universidad de Granada (Granada, Spain)
2018/08/15 The second diaspora of race: Afro-Cuban religiosity beyond some historical facts European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 15th conference, 14th - 17th August 2018, conference title: “Staying, Moving, Settling”
University of Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)
2016/05/29 Spirit possession of what? Oracular exchange in Afro-Cuban religiosity XXXIV international congress
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) (New York, United States)
2016/04/04 Race-politics in Afro-Cuban religions: why it should not always matter Research seminar series
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/10/13 Dialectical tensions in Afro-Cuban divination and the politics of race Sacred Landscapes and Conflict Transformation: History, Space, Place and Power in Shamanism
International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS) (Delphi, Greece)
2015/03/06 Guest lecturer at Masters course, lecturer: Prof. Manuela Cantón, academic year 2014-2015 (second semester). “Religious Diversity and Interculturalism”
Universidad de Sevilla (Seville, Spain)
2015/02/24 Guest lecturer at BA course “Methods II”, lecturer: Prof. Manuela Cantón, academic year 2014-2015 (second semester). “Methods II”
Universidad de Sevilla (Seville, Spain)
2015/02/02 Vivir con los signos de los orichas: el papel de los mitos afro-cubanos en la sociedad cubana Luso-African-Brazilian congress, XII CONLAB (1st - 5th of February 2015), organized by the International Association of Social and Human Sciences in Portuguese Language (AICSHLP)
International Association of Social and Human Sciences in Portuguese Language (AICSHLP) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/01/26 When biographies cross necrographies: die-lectical metaphors, articulacy and the flow of affinity among the living and the dead in Cuba Research seminar series
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2014/11/12 Guest lecturer at BA course, lecturer: Prof. Manuela Cantón. “Methods I”
Universidad de Sevilla (Seville, Spain)
2014/06/22 Biographies and necrographies at the crossroads: the articulation of affinity between the living and the dead in Cuba ASA – 'Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth' decennial conference (19-22 June 2014), conference title: 'Anthropology and Enlightenment'
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2014/05/12 A Secular Religion Within an Atheist State: relations of mutual encompassment between Afro-Cuban religiosity and Cuban socialist politics EASR- 'European Association for the Study of Religions' conference (11-15 May 2014), conference title: 'Religion and Pluralities of Knowledge'
University of Croningen (Croningen, Netherlands)
2014/04/02 Guest lecturer at BA course “Anthropology of Violence”, Department of Sociology, lecturer: Ass. Prof. Diana Riboli, title of lecture: “The various expressions and dimensions of violence in Afro-Cuban religiosity”. “Anthropology of Violence”
Panteion University (Athens, Greece)
2014/03/17 'Biographies and necrographies at crossroads: divination and communication with the dead in Havana, Cuba Anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches of the senses and emotions
Greek Society for Ethnology (Athens, Greece)
2014/03/14 Death that moves: a theoretical approach to death and the possible affordances of it in transnational settings', conveners: Clara Saraiva, Irene Rodrigues, Simone Frangella, Max Ramos, keynote speakers: Eric Gable and Maurice Bloch, 14th of March 2014, FCSH/Universidade Nova de conference title: 'Death on the move: managing narratives and constraints in transnational settings'
FCSH Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/02/05 Cuban counterpoint: the mutual ontological encompassments of Afro-Cuban religion and Revolution Research seminar series
University College London (London, United Kingdom)
2013/11/13 Discussant at workshop. Workshop organizers: David Picard, Diana Espírito Santo, Dennis Zuev and Tamas Regi. The Magic of Self
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/10/21 Cuban counterpoint: the mutual ontological encompassment of Afro-Cuban religion and Revolution', 21st October 2013, FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Research seminar series
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/09/10 Discussant at panel in APA conference, panel title: 'Anthropology's obsession with neo-liberalism', panel conveners: Dr. David Picard and Dr. Erin Taylor. Anthropology in Counterpoint
Portuguese Anthropological Association (Vilar Real, Portugal)
2013/09/09 Cooking the Cuban stew: the various facets of 'syncretism' in Afro-Cuban religiosity Anthropology in Counterpoint
Portuguese Anthropological Association (Vilar Real, Portugal)
2013/05/28 Points of View are not just Visions: Afro-Cuban divination and the crossing of paths I Know What I Saw: debating ethnographies of sight and visibility in the Anthropology of Religion
London School of Economics (London, United Kingdom)
2012/08/21 Guest lecturer at the Summerschool “Religion in the Public Domain” (20th-24th August 2012), course convenors: Dr. Ruy Blanes, Dr. Kim Knibbe, Dr. Ramon Sarró and Dr. Erin Wilson, lecture title: “The relationship between religious and political ideologies in the public space in Cuba”. “Religion in the Public Domain”
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/07/13 …and did it my way: religious idiosyncrasy and imagination in the multiple ritual landscape of Cuba Uncertainty and Disquiet
European Association of Social Anthropologists (Paris, France)
2012/06/07 Sweating the other’s sweat & attracted by bones: humans substances spirits cannot let go Cutting Edges and Retrospectives
Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2011/04/20 Ikú lobi ocha: the notion of ‘giving birth’ in Afro-Cuban divination Creativity, improvisation and innovation in Afro-Cuban religions
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011/04/19 The ‘alien’, the nfumbi and the ‘affine’: a glance at the various ‘paths’ of the dead People Make Places: ways of feeling the world
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011/01/14 Discussant at the workshop Sacrifice: the other side
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2010/10/16 Guest lecturer at the honours’ course “Ritual and Religion”, Department of Social Anthropology, lecturer: Dr. Richard Baxstrom. “Ritual and Religion”
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2010/10/06 Guest lecturer at the MSc (by research)/PhD (first year) course “Advanced Issues in Social Anthropology”, Department of Social Anthropology, lecturer: Dr. Jacob Copeman. “Advanced Issues in Social Anthropology”
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2009/12/10 Taking the Afro-Cuban camino: the encompassment of (mis)fortune by destiny Relations of power in Afro-Cuban religiosity and discourse
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2009/11/24 Guest lecturer at the honours’ course “Ritual and Religion”, Department of Social Anthropology, lecturer: Dr. Richard Baxstrom. “Ritual and Religion”
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2009/04/07 Bringing down Orula: objects that speak for themselves Anthropological and archaeological imaginations: past, present and future
Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (Bristol, United Kingdom)
2009/03/28 Lecture given at workshop at the Department of Sociology. Workshop tile: ‘Conditions of the production of anthropological discourse’ (my translation), for the purposes of the postgraduate course ‘Research methods in Sociology II: qualitative methods’, convenor: Prof. Maria Giannisopoulou, paper title: ‘Anthropological fieldwork as an already cultivated field’, 28th March 2009, Rethymno, Crete, Greece. Conditions of the production of anthropological discourse’
University of Crete (Rethymno, Greece)
2008/10/04 Guest lecturer at the MSc (by research)/PhD (first year) course “Advanced Issues in Social Anthropology”, Department of Social Anthropology, lecturer: Dr. Laura Jefrey. “Advanced Issues in Social Anthropology”
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/11/23 - Current Co-organization of the film exhibition “El Muerto Hace el Santo” (de Belén Maldonado López, University of Seville, Spain), “Anthropology of Religion” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) of the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA). (2022/11/23)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2022/10/28 - Current Co-organization of the roundtable “Ayahuasca and its Legal Challenges: A Debate” (presenters: Evgenia Fotiou, José Alberto V. Simões and Ana Sofia Machado Ferreira), “Anthropology of Religion” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) of the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), Lisbon, Portugal, 28/10/2022. (2022/10/28)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2022/09/09 - Current Co-organization of the panel “Challenges, Uncertainties and Resistancies in Contemporary Religion and Spirituality” (P031 – 09/09/2022), at the 8th Congress of the Portuguese Association (APA). Panel organizers: Eugenia Roussou and Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. Congress title: “The New 20s: Challenges, Uncertainties and Resistancies”. Evora, Portugal, 06/09/2022 – 09/09/2022. (2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2022/06/22 - Current Organization of the monthly departmental (online) seminar of the thematic line: “Anthropology of Religion” (” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) of the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA). Title of seminar: WebiNAR#9: “A Cidadania Portuguesa para Descendentes de Judeus Sefarditas” (by Marina Pignatelli, CRIA-ISCTE and ISCSP-UL). (2022/06/22)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2022/05/30 - Current Organization of and and chairing at the monthly departmental (online) seminar of the thematic line: “Anthropology of Religion” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) of the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA). Title of seminar: WebiNAR#8: “Trance-formative Therapeutic Itineraries in the Vale do Amanhecer” (by Emily Pierini, Sapienza University of Rome). (2022/05/30)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2022/04/06 - Current Organization of and chairing at the monthly departmental (online) seminar of the thematic line: “Anthropology of Religion” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) of the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA). Title of seminar: WebiNAR#7 “The Unperceived Mosque: Heritage Paradoxes and (In)security in Banaras” (by Vera Lazzaretti, CRIA-ISCTE). (2022/04/06)
Seminar
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2022/02/09 - Current Organization of and chairing at the monthly departmental (online) seminar of the thematic line: ¿Anthropology of Religion¿ (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) of the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA). Title of seminar: WebiNAR#6 ¿Conversões/reversões ao Islão no Brasil e em Portugal¿ (Conversions/Reversions in Islam in Brazil and Portugal) (by Vera Marques, CRIA-NOVA FCSH). (2022/02/09)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/12/09 - Current Organization of and chairing at the monthly departmental (online) seminar of the thematic line: “Anthropology of Religion” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) (2021/12/09)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/11/30 - Current Organization of and chairing at online roundtable ¿What is New about Neo-Shamanisms?¿, organized by the thematic line: ¿Anthropology of Religion¿ (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) (2021/11/30)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/06/29 - Current Organization of and chairing at the academic colloquium “Exploring Sacred Landscapes: Religio-Spiritual Challenges, Environmental Challenges”, organized by the thematic line: “Anthropology of Religion” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) (2021/06/29)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/05/25 - Current Organization of the monthly departmental (online) seminar of the thematic line: “Anthropology of Religion” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) (2021/05/25)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/04/21 - Current Organization of and chairing at the monthly departmental (online) seminar of the thematic line: “Anthropology of Religion” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião) (2021/04/21)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/03/17 - Current Organization of the monthly departmental (online) seminar of the thematic line: “Anthropology of Religion” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião). (2021/03/17)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2019/06/06 - 2019/06/06 Panel co-organizer (with Eugenia Roussou) at the 7th Congress of the Portguese Anthropological Association (APA), titled: “Anthropology of Religion in the Contemporary World: Contemplating upon the new challenges in the study of religiosity, spirituality and the sacred”. (2019/06/05 - 2019/06/07)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2012/07/10 - 2012/07/13 Panel co-organized at the EASA - 'European Association of Social Anthropologists - conference, conference title: ‘Uncertainty and Disquiet’, panel title: ‘Trickster anthropology: theorizing ontological ambiguity, transgression and transformation’, panel convenors: Dr. Diana Espírito Santo and Dr. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, 11th July 2101, Paris, France. (2012/07/11 - 2012/07/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universite Paris-Nanterre Centre de Droit International de Nanterre, France

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/09/09 - Current Co-presentation at the the panel “Challenges, Uncertainties and Resistancies in Contemporary Religion and Spirituality” (P031 – 09/09/2022), at the 8th Congress of the Portuguese Association (APA). Panel organizers: Eugenia Roussou and Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. Title of paper: “Transreligiosity as an Analytic Tool to Study the Elasticity of Contemporary Religiosity”. Presenters: Eugenia Roussou and Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. Congress title: “The New 20s: Challenges, Uncertainties and Resistancies”. Evora, Portugal, 06/09/2022 – 09/09/2022.
Conference
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2022/07/25 - Current Co-organization and lecture at the summer school “Religion in the Public Domain” organized by ISCTE, University of Croningen and Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião (NAR), Lisbon, Portugal, 22/07/2022 – 26/07/2022. Title of lecture: “When the Ethnographic Context Transforms Itself: Afro-Cuban Religiosity, from Cuba to Europe”. Lisbon, Portugal, 25/07/2022
Other
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2022/03/16 - Current Organization of and discussant at online book launch: “Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The Evil Eye in Greece” (by Eugenia Roussou, 2021, Bloomsbury).
Other
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/12/02 - Current Presentation at online roundtable. Title of presentation: “O espaço ‘secular’ entre a religiosidade contemporânea e a sociedade"
Round table
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2021/11/09 - Current Organization of the monthly departmental (online) seminar of the thematic line: “Anthropology of Religion” (Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião)
Seminar
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/11/04 - Current Paper presented at international online conference organized by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 4th and 5th of November, 2021
Conference
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
2021/06/22 - Current Panel convenor, chair, and discussant at the international conference of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), 19-24 of June 2021. Conference title: “Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression”. Panel title: “Symmetrical and Experimental Ethnographies: The Dialectics Between Observer and Observed”
Conference
 Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression
Helsingin yliopisto Folkloristiikka, Finland
2016/05/27 - 2016/05/30 Discussant at panel titled: 'What spirit possession “does”: the production of cosmology and change in Afro-Latin religions'.
Conference
 Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
2014/06/19 - 2014/06/22 Panel co-organized at ASA – 'Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth' decennial conference
Conference
 Anthropology and Enlightenment
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/10/17 La Puerta Estrecha: Participación Radical, Conversión y Análisis en una Autoetnografía Mistagógica
(Thesis) Arguer
 Luis Muñoz Villalón (PhD)
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
2019/11/22 “Antropología de las Comunidades Utópicas: Perspectiva Comparada de Proyectos Alternativos para un Planeta Finito”
(Thesis) Arguer
 Javier León (PhD)
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
2018/12/20 “Modelos de Expresividad, Funciones Sociales y Políticas y Significaciones de la Semana Santa de Huelva en el Franquismo y la Segunda Restauración Borbónica”
(Thesis) Arguer
 José Carlos Mancha (PhD)
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
2018/10/31 “Los más gitanos del mundo: Trans-nacionalismo etno-religioso, lideragzo y política en la Iglesia Filadelfia”
(Thesis) Arguer
 Javier Jiménez Royo (PhD)
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
2014/05/28 “¿Dioses Ajenos? La Regla de Osha en Canarias: De la creatividad a la integración”
(Thesis) Arguer
 Grecy Pérez Amores (PhD)
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023/05/01 - Current Member of the departmental Research Group: “Cultural and Social Transformations in Andalusia and America” (SICA - SEJ177), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Seville, Spain. (https://investigacion.us.es/sisius/grupo/SEJ177)
2023/01/01 - Current Member of the network: HEAL: Network for the Ethnography of Healing. (https://www.healnetwork.eu/members1 )
2015/01/01 - Current “International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism” (ISARS)

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020/06/01 - Current Religion and Society: Advances in Research (2150-9298 ) Berghahn journals
2015/01/01 - Current Shaman (1216-7827) International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism
Distinctions

Other distinction

2011 Masters´degree distinction
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2005 Masters´degree distinction
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom