Working Groups – Discussion panels (WG-DP)
Athens Conference 2025 hosts working groups-discussion panels where invited practitioners, theorists, teachers and other experts with experience in the relevant fields will discuss issues related to Conference topics.
Each group will have 2 hours and will be moderated by a Coordinator.
Critical commentators will also be appointed.
Participants are expected to contribute in the discussion.
The discussion in Working Groups aims to give the opportunity to participants (academics, artists, educators and educational or cultural policy designers) to comment and contribute with views-proposals from the field of theory, research and the arts, so that there is meaningful dialogue and exchange of views and "good practice".
The Working Groups/Discussion panels take place "in parallel" (in the same time zone) in different rooms.
Places in eack Working Group are LIMITED.Those who have already completed their registration to the Conference can (if they wish) register for a Working Group.
SATURDAY 22/3/2025 16.00-18.00
1. "Visible and invisible gender based discrimination in the educational environment: Exploring the gender dimension of inclusion"
Language Greek
Coordinators: Nadia Kati, teacher, theatre pedagogue, adult educator, Greece & Hara Tsoukala, teacher, theatre pedagogue, Greece
Guests:
Virginia Xythali, Psychologist, Holistic Gender and Sexuality Educator, member of the Bloom|Sexuality Education for Everyone Project, Greece
Elena Skarpidou, Sex Education Trainer, Head of Colorful School Education Sector, member of Intersex Greece
Christina Krithari, theatrologist, director, actress, coordinator of the project Without Pattern/ Sans Patron (TENet-Gr)
Kleonike Yannakopoulou, clinical Psychologist and Systemic Psychotherapist, board member of Proud Parents Greece
Commentators: Betty Giannouli, Department of Early Childhood Education, Athens University & Dimitris Mavreas, teacher, theatre pedagogue, Greece
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2. "Shaping public attitudes towards refugees: the role of media narratives (disinformation, conspiracy theories, hate speech) and the role of performing arts"
Language: English
Coordinator
Guests
Commentators
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3. “Identities, interculturalism and performativity: challenges, contradictions, reflections”
Language: Greek
Coordinator
Guests
Commentators
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4. “Issues of theatrical representation of the otherness: the case of Roma people”
Language: English
Coordinators: Eleni Tsetsekou, Head of the Council of Europe - Roma and Travelers Division & Christina Zoniou, theatre researcher - practitioner, Teaching Staff at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of the Peloponnese Greece.
Guests
Franziska Frakas, Romani-Hungarian actress and theatre maker, Hungary
Christoph Leucht, sociologist, co-founder of Kuringa Space for Theatre of the Oppressed, Germany
Aktina Stathaki, theatre researcher- director, Greece
Comentators: Anna Tsichli, Teaching Staff at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of the Peloponnese Greece.
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5. “Disabilities and performing arts”
Language: English
Coordinator
Guests
Commentators
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SUNDAY 23/3/2025, 09.30-11.30
6. “Dogmatisms, Religious fundamentalism, politics and performing arts”
Language: English
Coordinator: Angelos Vallianatos PhD in Theology Athens University, school advisor, trainer for The European Wergeland Centre (EWC), Greece
Guests
Freyssinet Bruno artistic director of Transplanisphere, partner in the Theatre Makes Politics Erasmus+ project, France,
Ferah Burgul-Adıgüzel Assoc. Prof. Gazi University Gazi Faculty of Education, Turkey
Lutz Pickardt, director, theatre pedagogue BuT, coordinator of the Theatre Makes Politics Erasmus+ project, Germany
Marios Koukounaras-Liagis, Assoc. Prof. Athens University Faculty of Theology, Greece
Sanjoy Ganguly, artistic director of the Jana Sanskriti Center for Theatre of the Oppressed, West Bengal, India
Commentators
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7. “Inclusive education & refugees”
Language: Greek
Coordinator
Guests
Commentators
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8. “Theatre Education in prisons: limits, challenges, perspectives”
Language: Greek
Coordinator
Guests
Commentators
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9. “Towards an arts-based school: Challenges and experiences for the inclusion of Roma children”
Language: Greek
Coordinator: Katerina Kosti, Greek Language and Literature teacher and Drama teacher, Teaching and Laboratory Staff, Department of Theatre Studies, University of the Peloponnese, Greece
Guests:
Matina Vavouli, Primary Education Teacher, Director of the 7th Primary School of Aspropyrgos Greece
Anastasia Chatzistefanou-Vafea, Director of Schedia Center for Artistic and Pedagogical Training, Greece
Konstantinos Paiteris, President of the Hellenic Roma Association of Mediators and Associates, Greece
Commentators: Avra Avdi, Greek Language and Literature teacher and Drama teacher, Greece
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