Lectures & Publications



2009 | Music and Greek Drama (Archaeological Museum of Piraeus)

2009 | Experimental Stage of the Greek National Opera: For These Who Never Knew, For Those Who Never Understood, For The Ones Who Were There (Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall) – in press

2008 | Directing early Weill: The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken (Director’s Note) – publication, Program, Greek National Opera

2008 | Waxworks in motion: From the Score to the Stage (Centre of Theatre Semiotics & Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens)

2006 | Opera and Greek Drama (Music Forum, Hellenic American University, Athens)

2006 | A Survey of Aesthetics through the Arts: The Metamorphosis of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Metamorphosis (Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry, Belgrade)

2006 | Waxworks: Charlie Chaplin in Contemporary Opera (Director’s Note) – publication, Program, Greek National Opera

2005 | Alternative Directing Approaches of Ancient Greek Tragedy: Sophocles' Antigone as a Music-Drama (1st International Conference of the Hellenic Theater Studies Association, Athens) – publication

2005 | Staging Mendelssohn’s Antigone (Mendelssohn in the Long Nineteenth Century, Trinity College, Dublin)

2005 | El Cimarrón – publication, Program, Greek National Opera

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 | The Tragicomic in Friedrich Durrenmatt – publication, Meli Theatre

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)

1999 | On Self and Personal Identity. Discussion of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals (Philosophy Department, University College London)

1999 | On the Notion of the Aesthetic Attitude: A consideration of the positions of Jerome Stolnitz and George Dickie (Philosophy Department, Birkbeck College, University of London)

1999 | Discussion of the Notion of Representation in Photography, Painting and Film (Philosophy Department, Birkbeck College, University of London)

1998 | The Downfall Of Communism and the Political Evolutions after 1989, as reflected in Contemporary British Drama (Department of Drama, Theater and Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London)

1998 | Alternative Directing Approaches of Ancient Greek Drama in the Contemporary World (Department of Drama, Theater and Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London)

1997 | Well-made Plays: The Socio-political Impacts on French 18th century Theatre (Department of Drama, Theater and Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London)

1996 | Bertolt Brecht: The Epic Theatre and the Marxist Influence (Department of Drama, Theater and Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London)

1995 | Freud: Art and Psychoanalysis, The Application of Psychoanalysis to Characters of Classical Literature (Department of Drama, Theater and Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London)

1993 | Greek Art and Europe (Heracleion, Crete) – publication, Hellenic Educational Society (Honorary representative of the 1st Arsakio Lyceum to the conference, Editor of the conference proceedings)