Education:
-PhD, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & National Technical University of Athens, 2014;
-MA, European Studies of Society, Science and Technology (STS) International Master Program in European Studies of Society, Science and Technology (ESST), 2008;
-MSc, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & National Technical University of Athens, 2004;
-BSc, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Department of Methodology, History and Theory of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2000.
Research Projects:
-Affiliate Researcher in the EU research program Risk Change (General Secretariat for Research and Innovation 2021–2022, EU Creative Europe 2016–2020), 2018-2022.
-Affiliate Researcher in the research program Inventing Europe: European Digital Museum for Science and Technology, a continuation of the Inventing Europe research project, 2014-2017.
-International Expert – Associate Research Team Member, member of the research team of the international program EUROCORES Inventing Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the Present, specifically within the sub-project Software for Europe: Constructing Europe through Software (Soft-EU), 2007-2011.
Publications:
-Lekkas, T., & Tympas, A. “Global Machines and Local Magazines in 1980s Greece: The Exemplary Case of the Pixel Magazine”, WiderScreen 23 (2-3), 2020. http://widerscreen.fi/numerot/2020-2-3/global-machines-and-local-magazines-in-1980s-greece-the-exemplary-case-of-the-pixel-magazine/
-Lekkas, T., & Tympas, A. “’A club for all the Greeks’: Home Micros Computer Clubs between Magazines and Stores”. In Das Web als politische Herausforderung: historische Perspektiven / Enjeux politiques du web: approches historiques, Geschichte und Informatik / Histoire et Informatique 20, edited by N. Chachereu, C. Sibille, E. Natale, V. Atanasiu, 103-125. Zürich: Chronos Verlag, May 2019.
-Lekkas, T. “Computer Technology Periodicals and the Circulation of Knowledge about the Personal Computer in 1980s Greece”. In Special Issue: History of Technology in Greece, from the Early 19th to 21st Century, edited by S. Arapostathis & A. Tympas, History of Technology 33, 229-251. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
-Lekkas, T. “Legal Pirates Ltd: Home Computing Cultures in Early 1980s Greece.” In Hacking Europe: From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes, edited by Gerard Alberts, and Ruth Oldenziel, 73-103. New York: Springer, 2014.
-Lekkas, T. “Software Piracy: Not Necessarily Evil or its Role in Software Development in Greece.” In Knowledge Management and Intellectual Property, edited by S. Arapostathis, & G. Dutfield, 85-106. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013.
-Tympas, A., Konsta, H., Lekkas, T., & Karas, S. “Constructing Gender and Computing in Advertising Images: Feminine and Masculine Technology Parts.” In Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing. Hoboken, edited by T. J. Misa, 187-210. N.J.: Wiley, 2010.
-Tympas, A., Tsaglioti, F., & Lekkas, T. “Universal machines vs. national languages: Computerization as production of new localities”. In Proceedings of Technologies of Globalization, edited by R. Anderl et al., 223-234. Darmstadt: TU Darmstadt 2008.
-Tympas, A., & Lekkas, T. “Certainties and Doubts in World Fair Comparisons of Computing Artifacts”. In Proceedings of the XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium “East and West. The Common European Heritage,” edited by E. Wyka, M. Kluza, A. K. Zawada, 295-300. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Museum, 2006.
Conferences:
-Lekkas, T., & Tympas, A. “The national and the universal in computing technology: The case of the Greek Gigatronics computer”, Session Challenging Northern-Western Computer Firms: Southern Socialisms and their Computer Visions, Tensions of Europe Digital Workshop Festival’ (28 June – 2 July 2021) https://shtwebinars.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ToE_History-of-Computing-AI-etc.-in-the-European-South_29-June-2021_Final-Programme_CEST.pdf
-Λέκκας, Θ. «Δευτερογενείς και πρωτογενείς πηγές για την ιστορία της υπολογιστικής τεχνολογίας στην Ελλάδα», Ημερίδα στην Ιστορία της Υπολογιστικής Τεχνολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής (ΠΑΔΑ), Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, ΕΚΠΑ – Τμήμα Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, ΠΑΔΑ – Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων και Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών, ΠΑΔΑ, Αθήνα, 19 Μαρτίου 2019.
-Lekkas, T., & Tympas, A. “The Utopian Eighties of the Home Computer: Subcultural Communities Redefining Computing Technology. The Greek Experience”, International Exploratory Workshop Home Computer Subcultures and Society Before the Internet Age, Department of History, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 24-25 March 2017.
-Λέκκας, Θ.“Η διάδοση της πληροφορικής στην ελληνική κοινωνία της δεκαετίας του ‘80”, Διημερίδα Τεχνοεπιστημονικός μετασχηματισμός στην Ελλάδα της δεκαετίας του 1980: Πολιτικές Συγκροτήσεων, Συγκρούσεων και Ανασχέσεων, GR80s / Η Ελλάδα του Ογδόντα στην Τεχνόπολη, Ιnnovathens, Εργαστήριο Βιομηχανικής και Ενεργειακής Οικονομίας (ΕΜΠ), Τμήμα Μεθοδολογίας, Ιστορίας και Θεωρίας της Επιστήμης (ΕΚΠΑ), Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης (ΕΚΠΑ), Αθήνα, 18 Φεβρουαρίου 2017.
-Lekkas, T. “Copying Software in the 1980s: an illegal practice or an aspect of computer use?”, Workshop Intellectual Property: From History to Policy and Entrepreneurial Concerns, Department of Philosophy and History of Science (UoA), Foundation for the History of Technology (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), National Documentation Centre (Greece), Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit (NTUA), 11-12 February, Athens, Greece, 2014.
-Λέκκας, Θ. “Πέρα από το ιδεολόγημα περί καθολικού υπολογιστή: Πτυχές της ιστορίας κοινοτήτων προσαρμογής λογισμικού στην Ελλάδα”, Πρόγραμμα Μορφωτικών Εκδηλώσεων: ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΗΣ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ, B΄ ΚΥΚΛΟΣ, 06/12/2011 – 31/01/2012, Άβαξ – Πλευρές της ιστορίας των υπολογιστών στην Ελλάδα, Έκθεση, Επιστημονικές παρουσιάσεις και εκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα. Hephaestus-Hellenic Philosophy, History and Environmental Science Teaching Under Scrutiny (7ο Πρόγραμμα Πλαίσιο της Ε.Ε., RegPot-2008-1), με την ευθύνη του Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών και του Εργαστηρίου Διδακτικής & Επιστημολογίας Φυσικών Επιστημών και Εκπαιδευτικής Τεχνολογίας του Παιδαγωγικού Τμήματος Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών. Αθήνα, Τρίτη 20 Δεκεμβρίου 2011.
-Lekkas, T. “Home microcomputing in Greece during the 1980s”, History of Software, European Styles Workshop, The Netherlands, Leiden, 2010.
-Lekkas, T.”Software piracy: Not something necessarily evil – or its role in the software development in Greece”, Managing Knowledge in the Techno-Sciences, 1850-2000 International Conference, Leeds, U.K., 2010.
-Tzokas S., Vlantoni, K., Konsta, H., & Lekkas, T. “A Collective Experiment in Historical Research on the Public Image of Technology”, 4th Tensions of Europe Plenary Conference & Closing ESF Inventing Europe Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2010.
-Tympas, A., Tsaglioti, F., Lekkas, T. “Universal machines vs. national languages: Computerization as production of new localities”, Technologies of Globalization International Conference, Darmstadt, 2008.
-Tympas A., Lekkas, T., & Vlantoni, K. “National-international tensions in the history of software localization: A case of permanent crisis in non-anglophone computer use in Europe” in SOFT-EU 2nd Workshop at Grenoble, January 21-24, 2008.
-Lekkas, T. “Has software development softened rigid European borders?” Third Plenary Conference of the Tensions of Europe Network and the Launch of Inventing Europe: ESF EUROCORES Programme, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2007.