Lectures and Talks

2026 AIA/Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California after my presentation on Queer Sisterhood in Classical Tragedy

Selection

1) “Queer Sisterhood in Aeschylos’ Hiketidai in the 2026 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting for Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco – 08.01.2026

2) Guest Lecture “Race, Ancient Greek Drama, and the discipline of Classics” for Linguistics 180: Language, Race, and Ethnicity in the Linguistics Department, UCSB. – 01.17.2025 –

2) The Data of Disappearance: A Comparative Study of Missing Migrants in Greece and Mexico, in the 2025 Global Digital Humanities, Michigan State University – 04.07.2025 –

2025 Global Digital Humanities Conference at Michigan State University

3) Presentation and Moderation of A Trojan Woman Film Screening and Discussion with the director Luc Walpoth, Dr. Olga Faccani and Dr. Michael Morgan on classics, social justice, and carceral pedagogy at UCSB, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) – 02.18.2025 –

4) Cognitive Geographies of Catastrophe Narratives: Georeferenced Interview Transcriptions as Language Resource for Models of Forced Displacement with Lorel Lab, in the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics–COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE (online)

5) The Walking Dead Oedipus: Unlivability, Death, and Metatheatre in Oedipus at Colonus in the Sleep and Death in the Ancient World Conference, New York University (NYU)

6) Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women: Women’s Immigration and Political Identity as a visiting researcher of the University of Crete, Research Center (UCRC) in the Classical Studies Lab (in-person and online event in Greek) – 09.22.2022 –

7) The modern Greek Novel of Vasilis Gouroyannis, Sacrilegious Flight: A site of Reflection? In the hybrid Conference Center & Periphery in the Classics: Theory, Practice and Turning Points of the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW), November 11-13th , 2021, Columbia University (online)

8) Cultural Crossroads between Greece and Turkey: Cultures mirroring one another,guest lectureship for the English language Seminar of Istanbul Technical University, Turkey (Instructor Esma Kot, online)

9) The Tragedy of Displacement: ancient performances – contemporary echoes in the 4th Annual Theater and Dance Graduate Research Symposium: TRL + ALT + DEL: Shifting Environments in Performance, University of California, Santa Barbara (online)

10) UCSB Emerging Migration Scholars Symposium, In dialogue with an ancient Greek tragedy of Immigration: Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women, University of California, Santa Barbara (in-person)

11) Hades Onstage? Rite of Passage and Liminality in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, Research Seminar SS 2017, Dpt. for Classical Philology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

12) The modern (Greek) sons of Odysseus: A contemporary displacement, Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW), Oxford University

13) Eleos and Hypocrisis: The Performance of Pity in the Ancient Greek Forensic Oratory in the Conference “A theatre of Justice; Aspects of performance in Greco-Roman oratory and rhetoric”, University College of London (UCL)

2024 Classics Dpt of New York University Conference on Sleep, Death, and Liminality in the ancient Meditterean Literature