Abstract submitted to the OFA Symposium Dependencies by Design: Cyprus, Big Tech and the Contest Over Digital Sovereignty in Education This presentation critically examines Cyprus’s evolving digital diplomacy, focusing on recent collaborations with U.S.-based Big Tech firms such as Oracle and NVIDIA and their proposed involvement in the island’s education sector. Through this case study, […]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10kG5brO2CiPLOpQfIF0feb-8URuk-hdeivXub34DxCc/edit?usp=sharing
by Chrystalleni Loizidou also published on ellak.org.cy, the Cyprus Mail and syndicated here, and here. For policymakers unfamiliar with this space: FLOSS and digital sovereignty are not fringe concerns—they are the building blocks of a more secure, autonomous, and transparent public infrastructure. This report outlines how a small island community is contributing to a much-needed […]
Abstract: The thesis uses a number of commemorative works to delve into questions aroundspatial politics, memory and its institutionalisation, as well as political communication inCyprus, at distinct historical moments in the twentieth century and to this day. It tells thestories of monuments which, when this project began, all stood a few meters away fromeach other […]
Our spell for coming together (entitled: Connective practices in community-integrated arts, nature- and tradition-based learning and care, across the divisions of Cyprus –screenshot below) was published in the astonishing Artistic Connectivity Unfolding issue of the Artistic Research Caralogue. This is derivative of a forthcoming book chapter in Deep Commons, edited by Matt York and Marina Sitrin. […]
I stepped into Sylvia and Miltos’ retreat with the worst of the world and all kinds of worries weighing down on me, until I woke up to the realisation that, there, in fact, everything felt right. My mind was racing, but my heart and my body knew it was safe. The land of Miltos, who […]
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