LECTURES & PUBLICATIONS

2022 The Action of Resistance of the Disabled during the years of Occupation, Book reading from the rare book by Frixos Theofanides “Disabled people, the pioneers of freedom”, in collaboration with The Disabled Artists Movement: Zero Tolerance and the Municipal Movement “OPEN CITY”, Technopolis, Athens
2022 Culture, a weapon of mass humanity, Talk at the Culture Assembly of the European Forum of the Left, Green and Progressive, with the support of the European Left and the European Parliament, Serafio City of Athens
2022 Talk on Maria Callas, invited by the Maria Callas Greek Society and the OXY Editions, Acropolis Musuem
2022 In the Shadow and in the Light, by Persa Zikaki, Book Presentation, Athens, Patras
2021 The Pandemic’s Impact on Violence and Harassment Against Women (Women’s Web March, Democrats’ Abroad Greece, USA)
2021 Women of Passion, Women of Greece (Hassan Al Meniei Center for Theatrical Research and Cultural Exchange, Morocco)
2020 The Tragedy of Carmen (Pre-show lectures, The Florentine Opera, Marcus Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, USA)
2019 Artivism Drives Democracy: The Artists as Leaders for the Change of Society (European Parliament, Brussels)
2016 Theatre in Europe: Cultural and Political Context (invited as the President of the Hellenic Centre of the International Theatre Institute by the German Centre of the ITI for discussion on Eastern and South Eastern Europe at ITI Berlin)
2016 Culture and Equal Participation in Education and in Art (on Education and Human Rights, City of Athens Cultural Centre)
2016 Developing a Humanist Society (on cultural education, representing the Hellenic Theatre Studies’ Association, Athens)
2015 A Dying Art? The Future of Opera, Battle of Ideas, Institute of Ideas, (Barbican Centre, London)
2015 Aesthetics and Politics, Keynote speaker (Culture Center Pavillon, Hannover, Germany)
2014 Mondernism, Avant-Garde, Humanism: The Case of Igor Stavinsky (Artville, Athens)
2014 Opera: Are we all invited? (The Battle of Ideas International Satellite Event, organized by the Institute of Ideas in London, Hellenic American Union)
2014 Culture and the Arts as elements of a new model of development: European standards and national choices (Free Thinking Zone, Athens, May)
2013 Choreographing in America (The Hellenic Association of American Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
2012 A Life of A Runaway Slave: An Ongoing Immigration [based on Henze’s opera El Cimarron] – (2nd International Conference of the Hellenic Theater Studies Association, Athens) – member of the Organizing Committee
2011 Reflections of Violence in Art (5th National Conference for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Hellenic American Union)
2010 The Researcher as Artist, the Artist as Researcher or the Artist-Researcher from Research to Art (Department of Theater Studies, University of Athens, 20th anniversary)
2005 Staging Mendelssohn’s Antigone (Mendelssohn in the Long Nineteenth Century, Trinity College, Dublin)
2004 Romanticism and Ancient Greece: Mendelssohn-Sophocles, A Musical Approach to Greek Drama (XII International Meeting for Ancient Greek Drama, Delphi) – publication, European Cultural Delphi Centre, 2005
2003 Minding Music: Music Understanding and the Aesthetics of Music (2nd International Workshop, Highlights in Basic and Clinical Neuroendocrinology: Music and the Brain, Athens)
2003 The Death of Elektra: Influences of Psychology in Hofmannsthal-Strauss’ Opera Elektra (British Psychoanalytic Society: Culture and the Unconscious, July-London and, Hellenic Psychiatric Association: XVII International Congress of Psychopathology of Expression and Art-Therapy, October-Athens) – publication
2001 Mendelssohn’s Antigone: The Relation of Music and Text in the Context of Hegel’s Aesthetic Theory (Symposium of Greek Drama, London – Oxford, Organizer and responsible for the publication of the proceedings of the Symposium of Greek Drama on the Internet)