Argyro Nicolaou Joins CHRA for 2025–26 Academic Year
Photo by Grace Crummett
The Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce the appointment of scholar and filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou as Visiting Faculty for the 2025–26 academic year. She was previously a resident research and teaching fellow at CHRA in 2023–24.
As part of her current appointment, Nicolaou will co-teach the thesis seminar sequence in the MA Program with CHRA co-founder and Fisher Center Director Gideon Lester in the fall and with CHRA Artist-in-Residence Oscar Gardea in the spring. The course is designed to facilitate the development of the second-year students’ thesis projects, from the initial proposal stage through final submission and presentation in the MA Thesis Exhibition. She will also offer a graduate elective course in the spring based on her academic research and artistic practice.
Nicolaou is currently developing her first feature film, Excavators, based on her research on the experience of internal displacement in her home country of Cyprus. Her live documentary performance, UNSETTLED, developed at CHRA, was presented at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and will be shown at The Cyprus House in London in December 2025. Nicolaou is also at work completing her manuscript, “Europe and the Cultural Politics of Mediterranean Migration,” where she explores how artistic and literary representations of migration in the Mediterranean challenge the concept of Fortress Europe and can form the basis of a decolonized cultural politics for the region.
For more information on Nicolaou, read her bio here.
Post Date: 09-19-2025
As part of her current appointment, Nicolaou will co-teach the thesis seminar sequence in the MA Program with CHRA co-founder and Fisher Center Director Gideon Lester in the fall and with CHRA Artist-in-Residence Oscar Gardea in the spring. The course is designed to facilitate the development of the second-year students’ thesis projects, from the initial proposal stage through final submission and presentation in the MA Thesis Exhibition. She will also offer a graduate elective course in the spring based on her academic research and artistic practice.
Nicolaou is currently developing her first feature film, Excavators, based on her research on the experience of internal displacement in her home country of Cyprus. Her live documentary performance, UNSETTLED, developed at CHRA, was presented at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and will be shown at The Cyprus House in London in December 2025. Nicolaou is also at work completing her manuscript, “Europe and the Cultural Politics of Mediterranean Migration,” where she explores how artistic and literary representations of migration in the Mediterranean challenge the concept of Fortress Europe and can form the basis of a decolonized cultural politics for the region.
For more information on Nicolaou, read her bio here.
Post Date: 09-19-2025
