Kalliopi Amygdalou
Principal Investigator of the research project HOMEACROSS at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens
Dr Kalliopi Amygdalou is an architectural historian and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Asia Minor Studies. Since the beginning of 2021, she has been Principal Investigator of the research project HOMEACROSS – “Space, Memory and the Legacy of the 1923 Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey” at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens.
A five-year research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2020), HOMEACROSS explores the spatial and architectural imprint of the exchange of populations in Ionia and Attica, two regions that welcomed a large number of refugees. The project brings together archival research, fieldwork, as well as GIS technology for the gathering, analysis, and visualization of data. Kalliopi Amygdalou and her team will map the spaces and places of displacement and refugee resettlement in cities and the countryside, studying new, re-used and abandoned buildings. A seven-member team, it consists of Greek and Turkish architects, archaeologists, historians and political scientists.
