Prof. Slobodan Dan Paich

Conference Participation 2005 - 2022

Western and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Mediterranean Africa, Russia, Euro Asia, Central Asia, China, Taiwan and Thailand Slobodan's papers and lectures titles are in brown, venues, dates and conference titles in black.

2022

Tangible and Intangible of Becoming a Person

Cognitive and cultural significance of embodied play and cherished objects International Conference on Childhood Studies London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research 5-6 March 2022 – London/Online

Understanding Human Presence

Deconditioning needs in Contemporary Curriculum Development The Next Generation Education through New Lenses Tomorrow People – 17th Education and Development Conference [EDC2022] 5–7 of March 2022

Biology and Duration

Corporal Nexus of Intangible Experiences 7th International Conference on Spirituality and Psychology [ICSP2022] Tomorrow People Organization, 13 – 15 of March 2022

Vitality of Recognition

Cultural and Psychological Notions of Solidarity ESSA – 1st Eurasian Social Science and Art Symposium Kutbilim Journal of Social Sciences and Arts 13–15 May 2022 Antalya / Turkey

Finale

Understanding biology, Inner Values and Social Roles of Ageing across Time Ageing, Surviving and Longevity Ege University 18th International Cultural Studies Symposium May 25–27, 2022

Shared Motives

Coincidence – Transmitions – Memory – Amnesia (In)Tangible Heritage(S):Design, Culture and Technology – Past, Present, and Future University of Kent virtual conference, Canterbury, UK 15–17 June 2022

Duration in Visual and Spatial Narratives

Spatiality and Temporality London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research International Conference, Cambridge/Online 23–24 July 2022

2021

Intentional Journey and Desire to Learn

Paradigms of Learning, Social Bonding, Environmental Respect models of Visitors Skill Sets Well Being and Cultural Heritage Conference University of Catania (IT) 11-12 February 2021

Aspects of Migration

Psychological and Social richness and complexity SADAB-8th International Conference on Social Researches and Behavioral Sciences 22-24 April 2021 / Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Spring Artship Istanbul Series:

a) 4 Lectures - b) April -May 2021 Zoom Together Performance Istanbul & Bay Area - c) Forum: 10 years of halka/ Artship collaboration Artship Scholars Lectures intended for canceled 2020 conference at EGE University in Izmir Turkey

Week 1 Lives of Tales: Comparing Ancient, Contemporary and Re-emerging - Mete Ozel

Week 2 Central Asian Legend Teller's Circumstances: Altaic perspective on the general issues of storytelling - Tolga Ayıklar

Week 3 Metaphor, Mirroring and Sharing:Story as Sapient Instrument - Slobodan Dan Paich

Week 5 Performance Birds Eye View - Artship Performance with Istanbul and San Francisco collaborators

Week 6 Forum: 10 years of halka/ Artship collaboration

Inception - Emergence - Continuum

The international ESCL conference: Narrations of Origins in World Cultures and the Arts University of Torino 11-13 May 2021

Metaphor, Mirroring and Sharing

Story as Sapient Instrument Eurasian Folk and Fairy Tales: Bridging the Continents 3rd Literature and Cultural Studies Conference, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey (2020 canceled) - Asked to give zoom lecture of Key Note paper as single event for students and staff 1 May 2021

Facing The Given

Psychological, neurological needs for bonding and mirroring in the context of pandemic International Congress of Epidemic Times Vocational College of Cappadocia University, 31 May - 3 June 2021

Nurturing Engagement

Visceral and Virtual Balancing, Tourism and Extra Curricula Learning Programs 3rd International Congress Child Friendly Tourism Congress Beykoz University, Faculty of Business and Management 23-25 June 2021 Istanbul

Horizon - Imagined and Real

Genius Loci Narratives, Dimensionality of Imagination and Neuro Science of Spatial Sense (Staying with) Post-Anthropocentric landscape in and beyond Ethnology, CFP Congress Panel at SIEF 19-24 June 2021

Nature of Narrative Transmissions

Introductory Lecture for the 1st Summer School Narrative Medicine - The Story as Sapiens’ Vertical Spine Anthropology-Cultural Studies Section, University of Medicine and Pharmacy July 5 -6, 2021, Timişoara, Romania

Recognizing Motivation — Responding to Needs

Story Telling Performances Preparations and Sharing International Conference on Myths, Archetypes and Symbols: “Models and Alternatives” London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research 25-26 September 2021

Understanding Widespread Prehistoric Fecundity Symbols

12th International Symposium Group for the Cultural Studies of the Body - CORPUS Humankind And Fat, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timişoara, Romania October 27-29, 2021

Human Presence

Ways of conduct as a person —Ways of conduct as a group SADAB 10th International Conference on Social Research and Behavioral Sciences October, 29-31, 2021, Antalya/ Turkey

Conciliation: Culture Making Byproduct

Life Long Learning - Tangible/Intangible Skills Training - Mutual Care Understanding 8th Peace and Conflict Resolution Conference [PCRC2021] Tomorrow People Organization November 5th - 7th 2021— Virtual

Residues and Actualities

Interweaving of Cultural and Personal Memory London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research International Conference on Memory and the Unconscious 11-12 December 2021

2020

In Spite of Themself - Because of Themself

Women Wisdom Holders Transcending and Succumbing to Circumstances Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms: The Challenge of Social Imaginaries in Media, Art Religion and Decolonality Hosted by The Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC) University of Colorado, Boulder, January 8-11, 2020

Geometry, Architecture and Human Habitation

Experiential, Cognitive and Cultural paradigms affecting architecture Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Sanatkule 3 (Art-Tower 3) Annual Program 4/17 to 5/22 2020 - Slobodan's lecture 4/22/2020 [Postponed until 2021]

Food for the Gods Across Cultures

Ritual food offering and mythological imaginary nourishments Food and Medicine Symposium University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timişoara and Artship Foundation San Francisco 6-7-8 May 2020, Romania [Online Presentation]

Inception - Emergence - Continuum

Narrations of Origins in World Cultures and the Arts The International ESCL Conference University of Torino, 25-26-27 November 2020 [Postponed July 2021]

Management Ambiguities

Non-Governmental, Charitable, Not For Profit, Spontaneous Initiatives Uysad V. International Management And Social Sciences Conference September 17-18, Istanbul 2020 [online presentation]

Psychological and Cultural Significance Of Sound Cognition

Stories With And Without Words

The Time, The Place, The People And The Skills- Manifold Contexts Of Verbal Folklore Department "Anthropology Of Verbal Traditions" Institute Of Ethnology And Folklore Studies With Ethnographic Museum Bulgarian Academy Of Sciences, Invited Talk for the Lecture Series "Verbal Folklore – Traditions, Conditions, Tendencies" October 15, 2020, 10am, Sofia Bulgaria [online presentation]

From Aristotle’s Mimesis to Contemporary Mirror Neurons' Theories

Exploring Plurality of Continuity Instinct of Humanness as possible Cultural Unified Field Root SADAB - 6th International Conference on Social Research and Behavioral Science October 22 -23, Antalya, Turkey [online presentation]

2019

Complexity and Ambiguity of Habitation

ARCHCAIRO 8 - Building the Future Now: Rights to Better Living, Architecture & Contexts The Department of Architecture / Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, 8-10 April 2019 Istanbul from April 14 to May 29, 2019

Mythology as Need

Psychological and Communal origins of Mythic Transmissions International Symposium on Mythology 2-5 May 2019, University of Ardahan, Turkey

Nature - Culture Threshold Concepts

"Nature Vs. Culture" 17th International Cultural Studies Symposium Ege University, Faculty of Letters, İzmir, Turkey, May 8-10, 2019

Call and Response - Archeology as Witness

Human perception, imagination and doing and making abilities - Paper &

Meaningful Reconstructions

II Symposium - Archaeoacoustics and Neuroscience, - Workshop The Instituto Terra e Memória (ITM), May 31 - June 2 - 2018, Chamusca, Portugal

Circumstances, Surroundings and Durations - Ibn Sina and the Silk Road

Silk Road House 1944 University Avenue #107 Berkeley, CA July 20, 2019 5:00-7:00pm

Euclidian and Non-Euclidian Geometry, Architecture and Human Habitation

Experiential, Cognitive and Cultural paradigms affecting architecture Third International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design (ICAUD) The Department of Architecture, Epoka University, 20 – 29 October 2019 in Tirana, Albania

From Mimesis to Mirror Neurons

Exploring Plurality of Continuity Instinct on Humannessas possible Cultural Unified Field  root Humanities Forum: From Knowledge to Action The Institute of World History, The Russian Academy of Sciences, December 3-5, 2019 Moscow

Curatorial Studies

Practical, community, conceptual and symbolic aspects of exhibition making Slobodan's lecture / workshop December 21st Dynamics of the Contemporary Arts from a Curatorial Perspective Halka Sanat Projesi, from December 7th 2019 to January 25th 2020, Saturdays 2-5 PM Moderated by. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Güçhan and Dr. İpek Çankaya

2018

Inherited Wisdom Sharing and Contemporary Visitors

Ibn Sina Medical and Philosophic Thought as Fulcrum of Transmitted Knowledge From Culture to Civilization on the Silk Road CCHT'2018 - II International Congress on Cultural Heritage and Tourism 03-05, May 2018 Tashkent-Uzbekistan

Flight Pass and Ability to Return

Human - Bird Relationship - Teamwork - Mythology The Birds Evolution Paleontology, Archeozoology, Arts and Environment Centro Português de Geo-História e Pré-História at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal 2nd International Congress, May 28 - June 1, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal

Ecology of Mind and Ability to Maintain

Relevance of Inter-Dependence of Education, Cognitive Psychology and Inherited Wisdom HERITAGE 2018 – 6th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development June 12-15, 2018 University of Granada, Spain

Archaic Echoes

Personifying as Voluntary and Involuntary Process of Imagination Event title: Relics, Icons and Dreams: Images of Immanence By invitation, tandem lecture and seminar presented at the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, with Jungian Analyst, Cedrus Monte, June 21, 2018

Exploring Motivations to Build Gathering Places

Five examples of Emblematic Communal Buildings across time and traditions 1st International Symposium on Architecture - From Environment To Space, Dicle University, Faculty of Architecture, 4 - 6 October 2018, Diyarbakir, Turkey

Change as Inevitable Constant

ASGRAD Transformation Keynote Lecture for Graduate Symposium Ege University International Anglophone Studies, Faculty of Letters, İzmir, Turkey, October 22-23, 2018

2017

Overlapping Views of the Human Body

Reflections on Medical Paradigms of Galen, Ibn-Sīnā (Avicenna) and Paracelsus Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Nineteenth Annual Meeting Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - March 16th-18th

Unknown and Interpreted

Exploring the Need to Represent, Understand and Respond Mediterranean Cultures and Societies Knowledge 4-5 May 2017 University of Algarve, Portugal

Restorative Function of Opening Mythic Wound

Ancient Traditions and Contemporary Portrayal, Sharing and Releasing Narratives of Trauma Ege University 16th International Cultural Studies Symposium May 13-14, 2017 - İzmir, Turkey

Understanding and Misunderstanding

Currents of Modern thought inclusive of transcendence 2017 Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History The Rethinking of Religious Belief in the Making of Modernity The American University in Bulgaria in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, May 30 to June 1, 2017

Displacement - Replacement

Real and Internalized Geography in the Psychology of Migration Cultural Heritage In Migration - International Conference Institute of Ethnology - Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 11-18 June 2017 Sofia, Bulgaria

Body Included

Social, ritual and expressive aspects of dance Keynote Lecture for Graduate Symposium Ege University International Anglophone Studies, Faculty of Letters, İzmir, Turkey, October 22-23, 2017

Imagination as Generative Matrix of Reality Experience

Voluntary and Involuntary Processes of Cognition and Cultural Expressions, GFF 2017: Realities and World Building, University of Vienna, September 20 - 23, 2017

Confluence, Transmission, Renaming

Aspects of the Mediterranean survival, circulation and osmosis of cultural forms Cultures, Hopes and Conflicts - The Mediterranean between Land and Sea ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge – Third Annual International Conference MedWorlds – Eighth International Conference, Salerno, 26-28 September 2017

Understanding Ritual Voice in Psychological and Architectural Spaces

Chanted, Sang, Whispered and Inaudibly Uttered The Third International Multi-disciplinary Conference on The Archaeology of Sound The OTS Foundation of USA & Malta, The Instituto Terra e Memória (ITM) - The Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, 05 - 08 October 2017, Tomar, Portugal

2016

Lives and Text Oral traditions, text fragments, legible poems and personal narratives

Languages, Cultures and Gender II. International Literature and Cultural Studies Conference Ege University, İzmir, Turkey, 11-13 May 2016

Overlapping Views of Human Body
Galen - Ibn-Sīnā (Avicenna) -Paracelsus

Intangible Bodies within the Body: Memories, Feelings, and Forecasts Corpus International Group for The Cultural Studies Of The Body, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, May 26 -27, 2016, Timişoara, Romania

Archaic Sound for Our Time

Art quarter Budapest Hungary, August 26 - September 26- 2016

Halka art project

Istanbul September 29th - January 8th

Music as Defining Moment -
Tangible and Intangible Influences

10th International Symposium “Music in Society”, Sarajevo, 20-22 October 2016

Models of Continuity and Crisis of Perseverance

Contemporary Issue vis-à-vis Selected European Paradigms and Overlooked Notions The Fifth Euroacademia Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again Euroacademia Organization, Palazzo Bernardini, 11–12 November 2016, Lucca, Italy

Image and Sound as Aspects of Seljuk Medicine

Therapeutic Music as Medical and Symbolic Imagery at Divrigi Great Mosque and Hospital Turkey, Turkish Studies and Turkology Turkey Studies 16 - Interdisciplinary Conference Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul, December 2-3, 2016

2015

Intangible Coordinate of Gathering Places

Culture and Space - 15th International Cultural Studies Symposium Ege University, Faculty of Letters, May 6 - 8, 2015, İzmir, Turkey

Re-Imagining World of Ancient Shepherds

The universe of shepherds, University of Sibiu, Saliste, 18-20 September 2015, Sibiu, Romania

Paradigms of Connecting

Advancement through small spontaneous coalitions of concern people Indigenous Resources: Decolonization and Development Island Dynamics International Forum, 30 September - 4 October 2015, Nuuk, Greenland

Tangible and Intangible Influences in Ottoman Culture

International Congress on Ottoman Studies Sakarya University, 14 - 17 October 2015, Sakarya Turkey

Proclamations - Aspirations - Contradictions
Towards Cultural History of International Relations

Two Hundred Years since the Congress of Vienna: The State of International Relations as a Discipline and Alternative World Views, The 1st Kadir Has University Conference on International Relations Department of International Relations, Kadir Has University 22-24, October 2015, Istanbul

Bringing Cave Echoes and Sanctuary Resonances Home

Possible pilgrimage influences as remnants of prehistoric music in folkloric traditions Archaeology of Sound Second International Multi-disciplinary Conference The OTS Foundation, 30 Oct -1 Nov 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

My Neighbors' Children

Reflections on Possible Curriculum Design for Mutual Care Perspectives of Integration in the European Union: The Balkans 5th International Conference on European Studies (ICES'15) Epoka University, in Tirana, Albania 6 - 7 November 2015

2014

Sound Waves and Water Ways of the Mediterranean

The International Congress on Civilization – Past, Present and Future of Civilizations Medeniyet University, The Centre for Civilization Studies, January 17 - 19, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey

Bogumil Hypotheses and Open Questions

Towards a Case Study of Minority Beliefs in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages Minorities in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP Winter Workshop on “Minorities” San Francisco State University, 7 - 8 March 2014, San Francisco, USA

Simply Being There

- Reflections on forty-five years of intended or inadvertent community building projects The Art of Community-Built Work The Community Built Association (CBA), UC Davis, April 3-6, 2014, Davis, USA

Future of the Past

- History of Architectural Paradigms, Pragmatic Concerns, Social Innovations and Envisioning Narratives Periods, Movements, Outsiders ARCHHIST '14, Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, 21- 22 April 2014, Istanbul, Turkey

Reflections on Access to Water as Basic Human Right

[paper read in absentia] Between Abundance And Scarcity: Water And Societies In The Arab-Mediterranean World and The Countries Of The South Sixth international conference of the Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies, April 28 - 30, 2014, Bèja, Tunisia

Persistence of Symbols

Symbols and Models of the Mediterranean 6th International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds, Department of Humanities, University of Calabria, September 9-11, 2014, Cosenza, Italy

Pregnant Silence - Shared Stories

Emblematic, Symbolic and Non-Verbal Communications in Renaissance Culture Image Adventure University of Sibiu, September 25 - 28, 2014, Sibiu, Romania

Edges of Language

- Diachronic look at mythological imagery for non-literate and highly literate populations Myth-Making Across Boundaries- Literature and Cultural Studies Conference, Ege University, 22 - 24 October 2014, İzmir, Turkey

Approachable Elixir

- Tea as Personal and Cultural Experience Water And Body Fluids Corpus International Group For The Cultural Studies Of The Body, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, November 28 - 29 2014, Timişoara, Romania

Sending Waves Receiving Culture

Radio as a Pillar of Development of ex-Yugoslavian Musical Culture and Art, Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, 11–12 December 2014, Belgrade, Serbia

2013

Sirkeci Gar - Sirkeci Station

– Immigrant / Emigrant Memories Memory and Culture 7th biennial conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Turkey, Bilkent University, 5 - 7 September 2013, Ankara, Turkey

Ambiguity of Center and Periphery and the Middle Sea

Light Colour Line – Perceiving the Mediterranean: Conflicting narratives and ritual dynamics 5th International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds University of Bern, 9 - 11 September 2013, Bern, Switzerland

Cave’s Echoes, Archaic Polyphonic Singing and Harmony of Spheres Traditions

"The Universe of Sound" 1. History and archaeology, 2. Cultural anthropology 3.Literature and art 4. Science and technology University of Sibiu, September 19-23, 2013, Sibiu, Romania

Elusive Models of Conceiving and Influencing Perceptions of Realties

Is It Real? International Semiotic Conference Çankaya University, Faculty of Architecture, October 8 - 10, 2013, Ankara, Turkey

Informed Response – Curriculum of Care

Intended or Inadvertent Initiatives reflecting Mumford’s Ideas of Inclusive Techniques Symposium inaugurating China Lewis Mumford Research Center at the Center for Studies of Urban Culture, Shanghai Normal University, October 19-22, 2013 Shanghai, China

Movement to Another Place

Cultural Expressions of Migration as Source of Reflection Contributing to Social Theory Tower of Babel or global networks in permanent restructuring Migration between myth and reality The Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies, Fifth International Symposium, December 3 - 5, 2013, Bèja, Tunisia

2012

Future of the Past

History of Pragmatic Concerns, Social Innovations and Envisioning Narratives Planning Methodologies The Second Forum of World Urban History in China, University of Hangzhou, 6 - 8, April 2012, Hangzhou, China

Cultural Osmosis behind the Crusades

Domino Effects and Hybridization of the Mediterranean Mediterranean World 4, 29 Mayis University, 5 -7 September 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

Layers of Mythic Memory and Forgetting

The Myth as a Form of Power, Creativity and Cultural Revival 5th International Congress Of Greek Culture - Ekataios, 2012, 7 - 9 September 2012, Soufli, Greece

World, Underworld and Other World

Myth, Enigma, Reality and Archeology of two Ancient Mediterranean Cities - Pozzuoli and Cumae Mediterranean Cities Myth and/or Reality? Istituto Studi Mediterranei, Lugano Università della Svizzera Italiana, September 26-29, 2012 Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland

Simple Right to Learn

Addressing Crisis of Perseverance and Collective and Personal Mastery Education and social change: Towards a real human development VIème Congrès Mondial de la MESCE: Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education 1-2-3 October 2012, Hammamet, Tunisia

Cultural Osmosis behind the Crusades II

Threats, Risks and Crises 2nd Istanbul Human Security Conference, Coventry University, England, Middle East Technical University and Abant Izzet Baysal University at Kadir Has University, 18-19 October 2012 Istanbul, Turkey

Collecting Objects, Collecting Ideas

Infinite riches in a little room - Collecting as a Cultural Practice and Literary Theme in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance The 6th Annual International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies University in Taichung, Oct. 26-27, 2012, Taichung, Taiwan

Visible Silence

- Instead of speech or absence of speech Silent Bodies International Symposium, International Group for the Cultural Studies of the Body, November 29 – 30, 2012, Timişoara, Romania

Seed, Soil and Fruit - Teachers and Civilization Change

Reflections on the historic examples and generative patterns of cultural influences Civilizational Change: Challenges and Perspectives The African University of Adrar, 3 -5 December 2012, Adrar, Algeria

2011

Representing Intangibles

New Watersheds and Prospects of Interaction Philosophy – Philosophy of Culture – Cultural Studies The Russian Institute for Cultural Research and the Institute of Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Science April 7-9, 2011 Gosfilmofond Festival Center, Belye Stolby, Moscow, Russia

Intangible Cargo / Elusive Itineraries

Traveling Intellectuals, Experts, Advisers and Artists at Byzantine, Ottoman and Renaissance Courts Commerce, Capital and Trade Routes in the History of a Sea - Convergence of the Mediterranean, University of Salerno, September 6-9, 2011, Salerno, Italy

Viva Verdi

Rise of national opera houses as a symbol of enlightened cosmopolitanism The Risorgimento and Italian Unification in Global Perspective John Cabot University, September 23-24, 2011, Rome, Italy

Public and Private Meaning

Reflection on Programmatic Pre-Arrangements and Unpredictable Responses in the Built Environment Semiotics of Space/Spaces of Semiotics Regional European Congress of the AISV-IAVS (International Association for Visual Semiotics) - September 26th to 28th 2011 Lisbon, Portugal

Wellsprings & Sediments

Reflections on Traditional, Popular and Early Music: An Approach to the Cultural History of Emotions The Cultural History of Emotions in Pre-modernity - Emotions East and West CHEP 2011 Conference, Sabancı University and Bilkent University at Minerva Han, Karakoy, September 29- October 1, 2011 Istanbul, Turkey

Living Cultures

- Creation of safe containers for inter-cultural understanding New Challenges, New Perspectives Section: Reconstruction And Development -Culture of Peace and Justice Coventry University, Kadir Has University, Akdeniz University and Trakya University the conference Human Security: 27-28 October 2011, Istanbul, Turkey

Intangible Cargo / Elusive Itineraries

Traveling Intellectuals, Experts, Advisers and Artists at Byzantine, Ottoman and Renaissance Courts [same paper presented in Salerno in September 2011] Ludi Civitatis The Fifth International Conference Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 4-5 November, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Learning Body - Feeding Mind

Presence and role of dolls, puppets and models in children’s early body awareness Parents’ Bodies, Children’s Bodies - From Conception to Education International Group for the Cultural Studies of the Body, November 28- 29, 2011, Timişoara, Romania

Lost and Found - Music and Transmissions

Cross currents of the Mediterranean intangible heritage Roads of faith, section on Culture and Music Algerian Ministry of Culture - Abu Bakr Belkaid University -National Center for Prehistoric, Anthropological and Historical Research (CNRPAH), Tlemcen, Algeria 18-21 December, 2011

2010

Embodied / Disembodied

Experiential learning and interplay of real and imaginative in children’s lives Creative Engagements - Thinking with Children 6th Global Conference, July 2-5, 2010: Oxford, United Kingdom

Iconography of Songs

A Cross-cultural, Interdisciplinary Look at the Cantinas de Santa Maria of Alfonzo X, el Sabio The International Medieval Congress, July 12-15, 2010. Leeds, UK

Rivers of Images

- Interplay of external and internal image making The Visual Imagination: Across Boundaries 4th Annual International Conference, Asian Cultural Studies Association at Assumption University, November 1-3, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

2009

Popular Art and Patterns of Conviviality

Inner-city Tensions and Emerging Cultural Paradigms Popular Art, Architecture and Design, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, National Conference, April 8-11, 2009, New Orleans, USA

Where Olive, Lemon, and Laurel Trees Grow

A diachronic examination of cultural similarities under different names in greater Mediterranean history Cultures of Interpretation - Panel: Contact Zones—the Afro-Europa-Asia dynamic, Mediterranean Worlds Conference, Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of History, June 6-8, 2009, Famagusta, Cyprus

Shepherds and Farmers

- A Brief Survey of Cultural Similarities and Differences from Prehistory to Industrial Societies in the Caucasus The Turkic World, the Caucasus, and Iran: Civilizational Crossroads of Interactions Arya International University, Makhtumquli Feraqi Centre for Turkic Studies, July 10-12, 2009 Yerevan, Armenia

New Paradigms of performance Matrix

Child development, apprenticeship, people-specific training, lifelong learning, and re-training for performing in mature years Performing Arts Training Today International Conference, International University "Global Theatre Experience" and “ArtUniverse” Company, April 21 - 24, 2009, Bovec, Slovenia

2008

Transmigration of Music

The Significance of Itinerant Musicians in Mediterranean Cultures International Conference on Mediterranean Studies Athens Institute For Education and Research, 20-23 of March 2008, Athens, Greece

Art/Science

Problem-Solving Model as a Unifying Principle of Creativity in Art and Science Workshop on Art And Science 6th Special Focus Symposium at the 28th Annual Meeting of the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, July 24-30, 2008, Baden-Baden, Germany

More Than One kind

Diversity, Integration and Immigrant Experience and New Cultural Paradigms Pluralism, Inclusion & Citizenship: A Diversity and Recognition Project 4th Global Conference, October 31 – November 2, 2008, Salzburg, Austria.

Domain, Land, Memory

Similarities, Differences and Consequences of the Institutions of Pagan Pax Romana, Christian Byzantium Geo-Politics and Muslim Ottoman Administration for Southeastern Europe, Two Hundred Years on the Road: The Term "Balkan Peninsula" (1808-2008) December 11-12th, 2008, The round table conference, Department for History of Byzantium and the Balkans, Faculty of History, University of Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria

2007

Scenography and Genius Loci:

Re-investing Public Space with Mytho-Sculptural Elements for Performance Transliteracy—The History and Theory of [Stage Design] Scenography: interdisciplinary making and reading of images in entertainment environments, Scenography International Prague Quadrenniale Research Conference, June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

2006

2005

Magna Graecia/Tarantella

The Public Festival: A Diachronic Glimpse at Its Socio-economic and Political Role, International Congress on Greek Civilization, the Hellenic Open University and the Democritus University of Thrace, November 2005, Soufli, Greece