Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Maria Athanasekou is an Art Historian, a graduate of the Athens School of Philosophy with postgraduate studies in Art History at the University of London, and a PhD from the School of Architecture and Engineering of the National Technical University of Greece. She teaches at the Hellenic Open University and Frederick University. She has taught at the Department of Early Childhood Education (TEAPI), UOA, at the School of Philosophy, Department of History and Archaeology, UOA, the University of the Aegean, the University of Western Macedonia, ATEI of Thessaloniki and other universities. She is a member of the European research group COST Action as the representative of Greece in the action “Perinatal Mental Health and Birth-Related Trauma” (DEVoTION) CA18211.

She lectures on Art History topics in various institutions and participates with papers in international conferences. Her work has been published in scientific journals, and she has written chapters in books. Additionally, her books have been published in both print and electronic formats. Her scientific interests are various, and she always combines them with a focus on art, therapy and education. She has further training in Art Therapy, Children Drawing, Digital Education, Special Education, Psychology, Neuropsychology, etc., and is a certified adult educator.

Her approach to art is interdisciplinary as she borrows from sister sciences, aspiring to create a relationship between students/trainees and art. She loves to communicate through images and believes that art has great power and stories to tell us.  Many, if not all, concern us or will concern us at some point in our lives as our existential field expands.