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Forthcoming in 2019:  
  • Publication: “Bodies of the Present / Theories of the Future: Contemporary Dance and Dance Studies in Greece during the crisis.”, commissioned by Susan Manning, Janice Ross and Rebecca Schneider for inclusion in the anthology The Future of Dance Studies.
  • Publication: "Emerging Frameworks for Engaging Precarity and ‘Otherness’ in Greek Contemporary Dance Performances". Dance Research Journal (DRJ) Special Issue on Precarity and Dance.
​Teaching:
  • Dancing Gender: Embodiment, Politics & Feminist Theory (Dance 168). Online class         Dance Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison,USA
  • Political and Cultural Perspectives in Dance Studies (Dance 268). Online class          Dance Department, University  of Wisconsin, Madison,USA
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2018
July             Conference Presentation: Improvisation as a Tool for Cross-Cultural Dialogue: 
                    Engaging Precarity and Refugee Experiences through Dance.
Dance Days Chania 8 
                    Festival: Conference on “Borders, boundaries and margins in contemporary dance”.
                    Center of Mediterranean Architecture, Crete, Greece. 

                    Invited Talk: 
Χορογραφώντας την Ελληνική Ταυτότητα στον
                    20o 
αιώνα: Οριενταλισμός και Ρωμιοσύνη στην Εξέλιξη του Παραδοσιακού και       
                    Σύγχρονου Χορού στην Ελλάδα (Choreographing Greek Identity in the 20th   
                    Century: Orientalism and Romiosyni in the Development of Folk and 
                    Contemporary Dance in Greece).
Center for Asia Minor Studies, Athens, Greece. 

March        Conference Presentation / Performance: 
Made in (Dis)Place(ment): Arts and       
                    Sciences of Migration.
International Conference for Europeanists – Council for 
                    European Studies. Chicago IL, USA 

January      Guest Lecture / Workshop: Greek Dance and /in the National Project. Lawrence 
​                    University, Appleton Wisconsin.


2017
November Conference Presentation: The Greek Body in Crisis: Negotiating National Identity     
                     and History through Contemporary Dance. 
 MGSA (Modern Greek Studies   
                     Association) Symposium. 2-5 November, Atlantic City. 


October    Conference Presentation: Local Confines and Digital Freedom: The International
                    Circulations of Refugee Bodies. 
CORD/SDHS Conference. 19-22 October, Ohio State                      University.


June           Publication: Fragments of the European Refugee Crisis: Performing Displacement                           and the Re-Shaping of Greek Identity. TDR (The Drama Review, 2017) Issue 234

                    Workshop Participation: The Mellon School of Theatre and Performance Research     
                    2017 session: "Research, Pedagogy, Activism" at Harvard University, sponsored by the
                    Andrew F.  Mellon Foundation. (June 5-16, 2017)


May            Publication: “Moving in Solidarity: Thinking Through the Physicality of Recent
                    Protests.”
  The Dancer-Citizen – Issue 4, Spring 2017. Co-authored with Meghan      
                    Quinlan


March        Invited Talk / Performance: What's Left: Stories of Movement and      
                     Migration 
Performance and Discussion in collaboration with Priya Srinivasan and  
                     Hannah Schwadron. Stanford Colloquium on Dance Studies.


February    Publication: Rethinking Fragile Landscapes: Precarious Aesthetics and  
                      Methodologies in  Athenian Dance Performances”
, RiDE (Research in Drama
                      Education)
 Special Issue 22:1 Precariousness and the Performances of Welfare

                      
                     Service:
Lead Proceedings Editor for the CORD/SDHS 2016 Joint          
                     Conference Proceedings 

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January       Teaching: Political and Cultural Approaches to Dance (Dance 268). Online class.                             Dance Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. 

2016
December   Award: EI (Education Innovation) Small Grant for implementing online courses:
                       University of Wisconsin Madison, USA

November  Questioning the Colonialist Power Dynamics of Immigrant      
                      Performances in Greece. 
Conference Paper Presentation. CORD/SDHS 2016    
                      Conference in Pomona College, CA, USA

September Teaching: Political and Cultural Approaches to Dance (Dance 268). Online class -                           Pilot Launch. Dance Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. 

June               Futures of Dance Studies - Mellon Summer Seminar on Publication,    
                       Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

April              Service: Lead Proceedings Editor for the CORD/SDHS 2015 Joint Conference      
                       Proceedings (August 2015-April 2016)

March          What's Left. Performance. Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW). Culver                              Center of the Arts, Riverside CA, USA
                    
                       Art Making between Indigeneity and Migration. Paper Presentation. Moving        
                      Matters  Traveling Workshop (MMTW)
.  Center for Ideas and Society - University of                        California, Riverside, USA

January       Teaching: World Dance Cultures (Dance 165). Dance Department, University of 
                      Wisconsin - Madison, USA. 

2015
December  Dramaturgy Consultant at Syndram Dance Company for the production “This life is                       based on true events”. Athens, Greece

September From Public Protests to Staging the Public. Conference Paper                        
                      Presentation. ASAP/7 Arts and the Public. Clemson University Greenville S.C., USA

                      Bodies of Silence and Resilience: Writing Marginality. Congress on Research in                              Dance Conference Proceedings, 2015, pp 174-181 

July              Histories and Memories of Fear Multimedia Installation Project in collaboration with                       Priya Srinivasan. Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW). Tipographia Gallery                       Bucharest, Romania

June             Opening keynote plenary panel The State of Dance Studies in Greece: Practice as                             Theory and Precarity as Methodology: Performing the Greek Body in                                                 Crisis SDHS/CORD Conference Athens, Greece. 

                     Completion of Doctoral Degree in Critical Dance Studies. University of California, 
                     Riverside USA.

May             Outstanding Teaching Award for the academic year 2014-15. Department of        
                     Critical Dance Studies and Graduate Division of the University of California,            
                     Riverside.

April           Conference Presentation: Tra/Re-versing Borders: Immigrant Performances as a                             Site of Advocacy. Dance Under Construction (DUC) Graduate Student Conference                            University of California, Riverside, USA

2014
November   Invited Talk: Balancing “On the Seesaw”: Performing Greekness during the crisis.                          Department of Dance Colloquium – New Research in Dance Studies. University of                          California, Riverside, USA

                       Conference Presentation: Bodies of Silence and Resilience: Writing Marginality.                             Writing Dancing / Dancing Writing CORD/SDHS annual conference. University of                          Iowa, USA

July                Dissertation Year Fellowship: Graduate Division – University of California,                                        Riverside, USA (Summer 2014, Fall 2014)

June               Conference Presentation: The Greek Body in Crisis: From the Protests to the                                    Contemporary Dance Stages. ATINER (Athens Institute of Education and Research)                        Conference on Visual and Performing Arts. Athens, Greece
                            
                       Mellon Dance Studies Summer Seminar Fellow: Dance Studies in/and the                                        Humanities, Stanford University, USA

                       Performance: Gestural Landscapes  Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW).                          Objects in/of Migration. Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands

May               Publication: “Appropriations of Hellenism: A Reconsideration of Early Twentieth-                        Century American Physical Culture Practices”, CHOROS International Dance                                  Journal, 3 (Spring 2014), pp. 50–68.

2013
November   Service: Conference Proceedings co-editor: CORD/SDHS November 2013    
                       annual Conference Mission Inn, Riverside CA, USA.

                       Service: Graduate student organizing committee member: CORD/SDHS 2013 joint 
                       conference, Mission Inn, Riverside CA, USA. (On-site volunteer, graduate   
                       coffee social coordinator)

October       Showing of works in progress: Gestural Landscapes Moving Matters Workshop.    
                      University of California, Riverside, USA

September   Gluck Fellowship of the Arts: Gluck Fellows Program – University of California, 
                        Riverside, USA 

June-July      Research Assistant  Department of Dance – University of 
                       California, Riverside, USA. Online course development strategies, training new TAs 
                       in the UC Online course platform. 

May               Performance: Gestural Landscapes Moving Matters Workshop. Culver Center of     
                       the Arts , Riverside, USA

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