(29 and 30/05/2026) Conference entitled: "Dramaturgy / Directing: Communication, Interaction, Conflict". This two-day event – the first part of a larger conference exploring the complex relationship between dramaturgy, directing and performance – is dedicated to the official launch of the Department's now institutionalised Streams: Theatre Studies and Interdisciplinary Research, and Theatre and Scenic Arts Directing. Faculty members will discuss with dramaturgs and/or directors, searching for the specific ways in which dramaturgy – in the sense of processing pre-existing material to form a performative event – and directing, as practices and processes, interact to provide the conditions for artistic expression and creation. Participants: Argyris Theos (director of photography and lighting designer), Tasos Koukoutas (dance theorist and dramaturg), Yiannis Leontaris (director and DTS professor), Alexandros Mistriotis (dramaturg and director), Roubini Moschochoriti (director and artistic director of the Municipal and Regional Theatre [DIPETHE] of Roumeli), Konstantinos Dellas (director and researcher), Elena Novakovic (dramaturg and dance researcher), Vassilis Noulas / Kostas Tzimoulis (Nova Melancholia / VASKOS). Coordination: Antonia Vasilakou, Asi Dimitroulopoulou, Christina Zoniou, Yiannis Leontaris, Thanasis Blesios, Natasa Siouzouli, Ioanna Tzartzani and DTS students. Principal Investigator: N. Siouzouli, Assistant Professor.

 

(21/01 to 06/02/2026) Winter Semester Artistic Course Presentations of the "Theatre and Scenic Arts Directing" stream. The presentations focus on stage creation and highlight the artistic work of the students through directorial proposals, acting and embodied theatrical compositions, set and costume design approaches, as well as choreographical practices. Instructors in charge: Ch. Zoniou, Y. Leontaris, A. Vasilakou, I. Tzartzani, A. Dimitroulopoulou, Ch. Kostea.

(11/06/2026) One-day Conference entitled: "Femicides-Femichoreographies: from grim reality to denulatory creativity". At the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Nafplio Branch. The conference aims to inform and raise awareness among the public, to foster a substantial exchange of views and reflections on the tragic reality of gender-based violence and femicides in Greece and worldwide, as well as to highlight ways and means for their prevention. Structured around Scientific Presentations, Artistic Workshops, a Round Table, a Testimony from a relative of a femicide victim, and a Staged Reading of the play Madwoman (Pense-bête) by the Belgian French-speaking dramaturg and activist Céline Delbecq, who will attend the event, the conference aspires to raise key concerns about femicides in the past and in the modern era. It will focus on those factors that can contribute to their avoidance and complete eradication, while also demonstrating how this grim reality often functions as denulatory creativity within the fields of Letters and the Arts.

Organisation, Curation, Coordination and Implementation of the Conference: Dr Christina A. Oikonomopoulou, Special Teaching Staff Member, DTS, UniPel.

 

 

 

(14 and 15/05/2026) Stage performance of Paul Claudel's play Break of Noon (Partage de midi) as part of the undergraduate thesis entitled "Symbolism, love and religiosity in Paul Claudel's Break of Noon", by student Aristi Chatzipanagioti. Supervising Faculty: Ch. Oikonomopoulou, A. Vasilakou.

(21 and 22/04/2026) Three-day event of theatre pedagogy activities. On the occasion of the visit of Dr Angela Chatzipanteli, Assistant Professor at the School of Education of the University of Nicosia with a specialisation in Drama in Education, and in cooperation with Dr Katerina Kosti, Lab Teaching Staff member of the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of the Peloponnese, two Masterclasses were held for the Department's students. The activities were open to the general public and the educational community.