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Anna Papaeti

Anna Papaeti holds a PhD from King’s College London. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Sound and the Ethics of Witnessing (ERC MUTE) at the Institute of Historical Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. She writes about the nexus of music, sound, and historical trauma, as well as the intersections of history, politics, ethics, and aesthetics. She held two Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowships at the University of Goettingen (FP7, 2011–2014) and at Panteion University, Athens (2017–2019, Horizon 2020) respectively. Her research has also been supported by DAAD (UK), Onassis Foundation, and the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH), Athens. She co-edited two special issues on music torture and music in detention (2013), and one listening as witnessing (2025), as well as the volume The 1969 ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for Human Rights with Kornetis et al (Bloomsbury 2024). She is the founder and chair of the Study Group Music and Violence of the International Musicological Association, as well as founder and editor of Witnessing: A Journal of Critical Humanities and Socially Engaged Arts. Since 2024 she has been a member of the Executive Administrative Board of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Athens. She is also a practitioner, working in sound and textual forms.