This document lists over 50 keynote lectures and conference presentations given by Sozita Goudouna from 2006 to 2014 at various international conferences. The presentations covered topics related to Samuel Beckett, theatricality, education, philosophy, objects, Beirut, and more. Many focused on Goudouna's concepts of perceptual ecologies, territorial assemblage, solitary place, locus solus, and intermediality. The conferences took place in numerous countries across Europe and in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Chile, and Lebanon.

1. Sozita Goudouna!
!Selected Keynotes and Lectures at International Conferences!
!!Goudouna, S. Beckett’s Breath, Beckett and Company: A Centenary Conference on Samuel Beckett and the
Arts, organized by Tate Modern, London Consortium, the LCACE, Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, University of
London, October, 2006.!
!Goudouna, S. Theatricality and Representation, Real Things: Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the
Present, International Conference organized by the Department of English and Related Literature,
University of York and Co-Sponsored by the University of Sussex, July, 2007.!
!Goudouna, S. Critical Intersections: Education and the Expanding Site of Art Practice, International
Conference Arts in Society, held in conjunction with the DOCUMENTA 12 Exhibition, University of Kassel,
Germany, August, 2007.!
!Goudouna, S. Philosophy and Theatricality, International Conference on Theory and Theatricality,
Department of Philosophy, Topika Conference, University of Athens, Kithira, September, 2007.!
!Goudouna, S. Objecthood: from Deepest Stasis to Duration, Objects of Engagement Conference, Royal
Holloway University of London, 12 June, 2008.!
!Goudouna, S. The Ideological Thrust Beneath The Pavement, ‘Theatricality and Writing/Culture, 1968-2008’
Conference IPP, Alte Mensa / Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, July, 2008.!
!Goudouna, S. Mediated Breath, Third International Conference on The Arts in Society, Birmingham
Institute of Art and Design, United Kingdom, 28-31 July, 2008.!
Goudouna, S. Critical Intersections: Education and the Expanding Site of Art Practice, One Voice
International Conference and Forum for Educators, San Francisco, CA, United States, 5-9 July, 2008.!
!Goudouna, S. Locus Solus, Fourth International Conference on The Arts in Society, in conjunction with the
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 28-31 July, 2009. !
!Goudouna, S. Solitary Place, The 15th PSI #15 (Performance Studies International), Conference
MISPERFORMANCE: Misfiring, Misfitting, Misreading, Centre for Drama Art in collaboration with the Faculty
of Architecture and the Academy of Drama Arts (Dramaturgy Department) of the University of Zagreb,!
Croatia, June, 2009.!
!Goudouna, S. ‘Locus Solus’ at The 10th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society Europe,
University of Porto, Portugal, July, 2009.!
!Goudouna, S. Solitary Place, TaPRA Theatre & Performance Research Association Conference at the
University of Plymouth, the New Technologies for the Theatre and Performance Working Group,
September, 2009.!
!Goudouna, S. Intermediality in a Solitary Place, Blending the Media. Art in the Theatre/ Theatre in the Arts
Conference Gdansk Shakespearean Theatre, the University of Gdansk and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute,
1-5 August, 2009.!
!Goudouna, S. Spaces within Spaces, Conference: Scenography Expanding 1: On Spectatorship, February
25 – 27, 2010 New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. As part of Intersection: Intimacy and Spectacle, a
project of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and is organized in cooperation!
with the New Theatre Institute of Latvia; the Irish Theatre Institute; the Victoria and Albert Museum
(GB) among others.!
!Goudouna, S. Textual Mappings, Seminar co-organised by S. Goudouna and the University of Thessaly,
Department of Architecture, March, 2010.!
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2. Goudouna, S. Performance as Event and its Technologies of Representation. Irish Society for Theatre
Research Annual Conference at the School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College Dublin, 23-24 April,
2010.!
!Goudouna, S. Back to the Beckett Text, Samuel Beckett International Conference at the University of
Gdansk, Poland, 12th-14th May, 2010.!
!Goudouna, S. Textual Mappings, Seminar co-organised by S. Goudouna and the University of Patras,
Department of Architecture, May, 2010.!
!Goudouna, S. Personhood vs Objecthood, Fifth International Conference on The Arts in Society, University
of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, alongside the 17th Biennale of Sydney, The Beauty of Distance:
Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age. Australia, 22-25 July, 2010.!
!Goudouna, S. Versions of Exhaustion. IFTR - FIRT: World Congress: Cultures of Modernity, Ludwig-
Maximilians Universitat, Munich, July 26th-31st , 2010.!
!Goudouna, S. Solitary Place. DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts
Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity, Brunel University, 4-8 September,
2010, London.!
!Goudouna, S. Personhood and the Allure of the Object, 1st Global Conference – Performance: Visual
Aspects of Performance Practice, Prague, Czech Republic, 11th - 13th November , 2010.!
!Goudouna, S. Eleventh Plateau: Perceptual Ecologies Territorial Assemblage, Sixth International Conference
on the Arts in Society. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany, 9-11
May, 2011.!
!Goudouna, S. Eleventh Plateau: The Environmental Turn, PQ 2011 Architecture section, “Now / Next:
Performance Space at the Crossroads.” Prague Quadrennial of Performance Space and Design (PQ
2011)16-26 June, 2011.!
!Goudouna, S. Art as a Paradigm for Scientific Research, Topika Conference, University of Athens, Zante,
June 2011.!
!Goudouna, S. Eleventh Plateau: The Environmental Turn, IFTR International Federation for Theatre
Research Conference, Osaka University Japan, July, 2011.!
Goudouna, S. Eleventh Plateau: Perceptual Ecologies Territorial Assemblage, The TaPRA Theatre &
Performance Research Association Conference, University of Kingston, 8-10 September, 2011.!
!Goudouna, S. Eleventh Plateau: Perceptual Ecologies Territorial Assemblage, International Amber
Conference, Amber'11 Art & Technology Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, 10-13 November 2011.!
!Goudouna, S. Presentation at PSi Regional Research Cluster, Athens, Greece, 22-27 November, 2011.!
!Goudouna, S. Devised Nature: Transitive Sites and The Incursion of Performance, Devised Dramaturgy: a
Shared Space Symposium for the Makers April 20 / 21, 2012 at Archa Theatre, Prague. Organized by
Prague Quadrennial / Arts and Theatre Institute in cooperation with Archa Theatre and AMU/KALD DAMU
with Alfred ve dvore theatre, Four Days in Motion festival, Dance Zone magazine and HAMU.!
!Goudouna, S. Roussel, hier, Aujourd’hui. Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle, June, 2013.!
!Goudouna, S. Perceptual Ecologies Territorial Assemblage, Performance Studies international PSI#18,
performance :: culture :: industry, University of Leeds, UK, 27 June - 1 July, 2012.!
!Goudouna, S. UN/INHABITED: The Delos Solace, Seventh International Conference on the Arts in Society,
Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, 23-25 July, 2012.!
!Goudouna, S. UN/INHABITED: Media as Environments and the Delos Solace, FIRT/IFTR Mediating
Performance: Scène, Média and Médiation, Annual Conference Santiago 2012, CHILE, July 22-28, 2012.!

3. !Goudouna, S. (Keynote Speaker), Contemporary Cultural Production : Presentation of Three Innovative
Projects by “ Out of The Box Intermedia.” Unit of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Practice of the
Ionian University, 3 December 2012.!
!Goudouna, S. (Keynote Speaker) Contemporary Greek Art: Passive Resistance or Uncertain Activism.
Greece / Precarious/ Europe. Culture and Crisis Conference. The Hellenic Centre London, 16 February
2013.!
!Goudouna, S. (Keynote Speaker), Presentation of Out of The Box Intermedia (Art & Crisis Series), Art-
Athina International Art Fair, Talk Programme, May 2013.!
Goudouna, S. (Keynote Speaker) Presentation of SEA BONDS Residency Programme, Art-Athina
International Art Fair, Talk Programme, May 2013.!
!Goudouna, S. Contemporary Greek Art: Passive Resistance or Uncertain Activism. 8th International
Conference on the Arts in Society, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. 24-26 June, 2013.!
!Goudouna, S. Breathing Chronotopes. PSI#19 Performance Studies International Conference 19, June
26-30, Stanford University USA, 2013.!
!Goudouna, S. Intermedial Breath. Conference of the International Society for Intermedial Studies,
“Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age,” 24-26 October, 2013 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.!
!Goudouna, S. Performance Philosophy and Its Politics : The Case of Embros Theatre Occupation.
Performance Philosophy School of Athens, Athens, Greece, 15-16 March 2014.!
!Goudouna, S. Devised & Mediated Nature: Transitive Public Terrains and The Incursion of Media Ecology at
Media, Politics, Performance: The Role of Intermedial Theatre in the Public Sphere. Intermediality Group of
the International Federation for Theatre Research, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, 5-6 May, 2014.!
!Goudouna, S. Mat Chivers' Reflector: The establishment and rupture of Chiasmatic Space and Corporeal
Spatiality. Bodies In Between. Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media, 29-31
MAY 2014. Department of Cinematography and Media, Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babes-Bolyai
University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.!
!Goudouna, S. Mat Chivers' Reflector: The establishment and rupture of Chiasmatic Space and Corporeal
Spatiality. Ninth International Conference on the Arts in Society. "The Lives of Art". Sapienza University of
Rome, Rome, Italy 25-27 June 2014.!
!Goudouna, S. Contemporary Greek Art : Avant-garde versus “Niche-garde”. PSi #20 Avant-garde, Tradition,
Community. Shanghai Theatre Academy in Shanghai, 4-8 July 2014.!
!Goudouna, S. The Establishment and Rupture of Chiasmatic Space and Corporeal Spatiality. DRHA 2014
Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts. University of Greenwich, 31/8-3/9/2014.!
!Goudouna, S. Traces of Truth and Circles of Deceit: Beirut Entangled, Beirut: Bodies in Public. 9th –11th
October, 2014. University of Beirut (Beirut, Lebanon).!
!Goudouna, S. Marina Abramovic's Seven Deaths: Antiquity as a Performing Space. International Conference
Dramatic Architectures. Places of Drama - Drama for Places. Porto, ESAP 3/11/2014. Organization: CEAA |
Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP), Porto, Portugal. !
!Goudouna, S. Jan Kott Our Contemporary: Contexts, Legacies, New Perspectives An international one-day
conference, Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames, Thursday 19 February 2015.!
!Goudouna, S. Defying The Boundaries Between Staging and Displaying, University of Reading 10-11 April
2015. Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), The University of Reading, alongside project partners,
the University of Chester and the Victoria and Albert Museum. !
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4. Goudouna. Sozita. From West to Near-East : Inscribing & Erasing Democratic Traces. SDHS/CORD Annual
Conference 2015 in Athens, Greece Cut & Paste: Dance Advocacy in the Age of Austerity. June 4-7, 2015,
Hellenic Cosmos in Athens, Greece. !
!Goudouna. S. The Realistic Institution of an Open Assembly. IFTR 2015, University of Hyderabad, India,
July, 2015.!
!Goudouna, S. Tracing Democratic Roots from Europe to the Near-East, PSI#21/2015 FLUID STATES: IN-
flux, IN-stability, INsensitivity: The Struggle of Performance in the Arab World, Byblos/Beirut, Lebanon,
American University Campus, 3-5 December 2015. !
!Goudouna, S. Lecture at The Dark Precursor: International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research
(DARE 2015) Orpheus Institute in Ghent (Belgium) 9-11 November 2015!
!Godouna. S. Lecture at the Ecology and/of/in Performance session ASTR Conference in Portland, Oregon
(Nov. 5-8, 2015)