Guest Lectures

  • Kolokytha, O. (2024, September). Music and diversity: Unconscious bias and de-biasing. Invited keynote at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber's conference of the Austrian music industry, September 5-6, Vienna, Austria.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2024, March). From vision to action: Fundraising strategies for impactful change in the cultural sector. Invited guest lecture at the Central European University Vienna Campus, Vienna, Austria.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2023, September). Between context and conflict: The role of arts and cultural management. Invited keynote at the Arts Forward. Cultural Management: Conflict and Context Arts and Cultural Management Conference, Central European University, Vienna, Austria.
  • Keynote Transmedia in trend: New uses and perspectives of cultural heritage using the example of animated opera: Invited by the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber to deliver one of the keynotes at the CIMIx- Creative Industries Meet Industry event on January 13, 2023.
  • Open lecture: Local cultural policy: Cultural heritage as enabler of local development. Open lecture as part of a four-lecture series entitled "From Cultural Heritage to Sustainable Development" organized by Hiša Podlog / Cultural residence Podlog pod Bohorjem, aiming to transfer new insights and competencies of leading European experts to the tourism and cultural operators working in the broader Kozjansko region, December 7 (online because of COVID-19 restrictions).
  • Invited to hold a keynote lecture on 20th April 2021 entitled "Arts and cultural entrepreneurship in the European area. Established practices and pandemic changes" at the International Seminar of the Department of Management of the Artistic and Technical Institute St. Petersburg on "Entrepreneurship in the arts and culture: Russian and international practices during pandemic"
  • Invited by the University of Groningen as a panel member at the opening panel discussion of the Winter School 2021 on Crisis and Creativity, 25-29 January 2021 (online because of COVID-19 restrictions).
  • Dance Days Chania in the local community and as cultural ambassador for the city and the country. Keynote speech, Dance Days Chania conference "Borders, boundaries and margins in contemporary dance", Centre of Mediterranean Architecture, Chania 21 July 2018.
  • Artists and creative personnel; creative migration and career development issues. Open lecture, Greek Society for Music Education, Thessaloniki 11 November 2017.
  • Music libraries and collections in Greece and the importance of audiovisual archives. Open round table, Greek Society for Music Education, Thessaloniki 10 November 2017.
  • The power of digital communication. Open lecture, European Dance Network Atelier "Common Ground: To Care", Limassol 5 October 2017.
  • The role and importance of festivals on a local, national and international level. An academic approach. Open lecture at the Dance Days Chania Festival, 21 July 2017.
  • Greek cultural policy and politics: the contemporary situation and its implications on governance of culture in the country. Herder Forschungsrat Conference on "Cultural Policy in Central- East and North Europe (1945 until 2015)", Marburg 27-28 October 2016 (invited by Herder Forschungsrat).
  • Cultural Institutions and the Financial Crisis: the Cultural Landscape in Contemporary Greece. Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna, 28 April 2015 (invited by the Austrian Association of Modern Greek Studies). 
  • Artistic Development of Young Professional Singers. Gender Talks Series- Institute for Cultural Management and Cultural Studies (IKM) University of Music and the Performing Arts Vienna, 25 March 2014 (invited by IKM).
  • Keynote presentation at the RESEO (European Network for Opera and Dance Education) conference Generation Y: Engaging Young Audiences in Opera and Dance. Brussels 10-12 October 2013 (invited by RESEO).


Conferences

  • Kolokytha, O., & Gmeiner, R. (2024, September). Women and leadership in the cultural heritage sector. The case of Austria. Presentation at the symposium "Women and Leadership in the Creative Industries: An interdisciplinary symposium", September 10, Bournemouth, UK (online).
  • Kolokytha, O., & Gmeiner, R. (2024, August). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on performing practices of professional artists in Austria. Presentation at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association, August 27-30, Porto, Portugal.
  • Kolokytha, O., Belinskaya, Y., & Magkou, M. (2024, August). Silencing culture: Religion, democracy and the censorship of artistic production. Presentation at the ICCPR2024 International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, August 19-23, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Kolokytha, O., & Belinskaya, Y. (2024, August). A tale of four cities: processes and conditions of legitimisation of graffiti in different urban and policy contexts. Presentation at the ICCPR2024 International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, August 19-23, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Kolokytha, O., & Magkou, M. (2024, June). An umbrella for the environment: European cultural networks as intermediaries for green transition in arts management practices. Presentation at the International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management AIMAC, June 23-26, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Holst, C., Kolokytha, O., & Belinskaya, Y. (2024, June). Co-Creating the virtual stage: Implications of collaborative digital tools on arts management practices. Presentation at the International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management AIMAC, June 23-26, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2023, September). Impacts of crises on migration of creative professionals: The case of Greek classical musicians. Presentation at the 7th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies, September 11-14, University of Vienna, Austria.
  • Kolokytha, O., Tsene, L., & Magkou, M. (2023, July). Digital activism as a means to strengthen marginalised communities and contribute to democracy: An example from the cultural sector. Presentation at the IAMCR 2023 Conference, July 9-13, Lyon, France.
  • Gmeiner, R., Henriksson, T., & Kolokytha, O. (2023, June). Impacts of digitalisation in the music industry through a global production network perspective. Presentation at the 2023 Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, June 14-17, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Kolokytha, O., & Gmeiner, R. (2023, June). Online music archives and their importance for the music sector. Presentation at the Music and the Internet Conference, June 9-10, University of Chicago, USA.
  • Belinskaya, Y., & Kolokytha, O. (2023, May). Legitimisation and authenticity in graffiti: Reconceptualising graffiti as communication and practice. Presentation to the Visul Communication Studies Division at the 73rd annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), May 25-29, Toronto, Canada.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2022, December). When life gives you media, make opera: How technology and traditional arts genres can benefit from each other. Presentation at the (online) Media, Arts and Design Conferences | Emergent Technologies in Times of Crisis, December 16.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2022, September) Reclaiming place: Cultural initiatives in Cretan villages as enablers of citizen involvement, local development and repopulation. Presentation in the panel "Cultural policy is local: (Re)making and situating the local through policy practice" as part of the ICCPR 2022 - 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, September 19-22, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Kolokytha, O., Magkou, M., & Tsene, L. (2022, September). The COVID-19 impact on the Greek cultural sector: fragmented solutions to long-lasting problems. Presentation at the ICCPR 2022 - 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, September 19-22, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Kolokytha, O., & Gmeiner, R. (2022, September). CCIs in motion: Cultural and creative industries as flowing, dynamic networks. Presentation at the Arts in Movement - The 2022 ESA RN02 Sociology of the Arts Mid-term Conference, September 14-16, Lund, Sweden.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2022, June). The financial crisis as catalyst for the emergence of new cultural diplomacy paradigms and actors. Cultural diplomacy and cultural relations: strengthening fair collaboration diversity and dialogue. University of Arts Belgrade, June 1-3, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Kolokytha, O., & Gmeiner, R. (2021, December). The contribution of music archives in Europe's cultural and creative sector. Presentation at the Fourth Conference of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, Greek Annex of IAML, December 3-4, Athens, Greece.
  • Belinskaya, Y., & Kolokytha, O. (2021, August). From vandalism to art: Developments and transformation processes in graffiti. Presentation at the 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association "Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures", August 31-September 3, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Kolokytha, O., & Magkou, M. (2021, August). Getting on like a house on fire: Theatre censorship and conditions of crisis In Greece post-2010. Presentation at the 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association "Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures", August 31-September 3, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2021, March). Resilience to transformation: Institutional malfunctions as driving forces behind professional musicians' migration, in resilience of cultural policy. Presentation at the 11th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR 2020), Doshisha University Kyoto, September 1-4, 2020 (online March 23-26, 2021 because of COVID-19 restrictions).
  • Belinskaya, Y., Kolokytha, O. (2021, March). The many faces of resilience: dynamics of artistic practices and legitimisation in graffiti, in resilience of cultural policy. Presentation at the 11th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR 2020), Doshisha University Kyoto, September 1-4, 2020 (online March 23-26, 2021 because of COVID-19 restrictions).
  • Kolokytha, O. (2021, March). Citizens at the centre: Participatory models of cultural diplomacy in urban frameworks. Presenatation at the ESA Arts 2020: 11th midterm conference of the ESA Research Network Sociology of the Arts: The social effects of arts. University of the Arts Helsinki (online March 9-12, 2021 because of COVID-19 restrictions).
  • Kolokytha, O., Rozgonyi, K., & Gmeiner, R. (2020, November). Incentives, controversies and impact of online performances of professional musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual presentation at the ENCATC Annual Congress: Cultural management and policy in a post-digital world – navigating uncertainty, November 3-11.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2020, January). The past and the future: Digitization and cultural management through the lens of memory institutions. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Cultural Management in cooperation with the working group Cultural Management Studies of the ESA: "Cultural Management, Materiality and Digitization. Sensual materiality, big data and multiple entanglements: A challenge for cultural management?", State Academy of the Arts, January 23-25, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2019, August). Cultural management as instrument of regeneration in rural areas: an example from the southern periphery of Europe. Presentation at the 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association "Europe and beyond: Boundaries, barriers and belonging", August 20-23, Manchester, UK.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2019, August). Local cultural initiatives as examples of citizen participation and local development. Presentation at the Queen Margaret University ("Situating the Local in Cultural Policy"), August 15-16, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2019, July). Contemporary dance as a tool for teaching cultural journalism. Presentation at the Dance Days Chania "Dance, the art of communication- Concept- Action- Extroversion?", July 27-28, Chania, Greece.
  • Kolokytha, O., Korbiel, I., Rozgonyi, K., Sarikakis, K. Communicating memory: audiovisual archives as formats of remembering. ECREA Communication History section preconference: Towards a Polyphony of Memory? Media, Communication and Memory in the Digital Age, Lugano, Switzerland, 31 October.
  • Kolokytha, O. Graduated response and the criminalisation of consumers, Or how the creative industries may be infringing your rights. 9th Vienna Music Business Research Days, Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien 12-14 September 2018.
  • Kolokytha, O. Cultural diplomacy initiatives in times of crises: a case study in The cultural governance of global flows: the past and future. 10th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR 2018), Talinn University 21-25 August.
  • Kolokytha, O., Rozgonyi, K., Korbiel, I., Sarikakis, K. Future Data from Audiovisual archives: Hurdles in knowledge and culture making in The cultural governance of global flows: the past and future. 10th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR 2018), Talinn University 21-25 August.
  • Kolokytha, O., Rozgonyi, K., Korbiel, I., Sarikakis, K. Public service media between institution and organisation: the case of archives of four public service broadcasters. International Communication Association (ICA) 68th Annual Conference 2018, Prague 24-28 May 2018.
  • Rozgonyi, K., Kolokytha, O., Sarikakis, K. Policy diffusion and Internet governance: reflections on copyright and privacy. International Communication Association (ICA) 68th Annual Conference 2018, Prague 24-28 May 2018.
  • Kolokytha, O. Crisis as a fertile soil for the flourishing of cultural projects. V International Research and Practical Conference on Management in Culture and Media Industries: Innovative Approaches. St. Petersburg 29 March 2018.
  • Kolokytha, O. Cultural leadership challenges in turbulent times. Examples from a meso- and macro- level. 11th Annual Conference of the Association for Arts Management, Hamburg 17-20 January 2018.
  • Sarikakis, K., Kolokytha, O., Rozgonyi, K, Korbiel, I. The Governance of cultural memory through audiovisual broadcast archives: preservation and accessibility in four European countries. FIAT/ IFTA World Conference: Living in the Digital Age; connecting Roots and cultures. Fonoteca Nacional, Mexico City 18-21 October 2017.   
  • Kolokytha, O., Rozgonyi, K., Korbiel, I, Sarikakis, K.  Archives, as repositories of cultural memory and identity, and public use: issues of availability and accessibility. (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities: 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Athens 29 August- 1 September 2017.
  • Kolokytha, O. Cultural Eurosphering and the making and breaking of Europe. Migration, Culture and Nation: The 8th Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research (NCCPR), Helsinki 23-25 August 2017.
  • Kolokytha, O. Crisis, creative migration and the governance of talent and creativity. The Industrialization of Creativity and its Limits: Value, Self-expression and the Economy of Culture in Times of Crisis, National Research University Higher School of Economics St. Petersburg, 23-24 June 2017.
  • Kolokytha, O. Language and text as communicative tools in animated opera. The IFVCR Network Conference ‘You Talkin’ to Me?’: Dialogue and Communication in Film, University of Cardiff, 5-6 June 2017.
  • Kolokytha, O., Sarikakis, K. Crisis and intervention in small places: Nonprofessional live theatre as popular communication at the borders of Europe in Interventions: Communication Research and Practice, 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference, San Diego USA 25-29 May 2017. (poster presentation)
  • Sarikakis, K., Kolokytha, O., Rozgonyi, K., Korbiel, I. The Governance of cultural memory through audiovisual broadcast archives: preservation and accessibility in four European countries in CO:OPyright. Challenges and Practices of Copyright and Licensing of Digital Cultural Heritage, University of Graz, 12-13 April 2017.
  • Sarikakis, K., Kolokytha, O., Rozgonyi, K., Korbiel, I. The struggle over Internet governance as a matter of policy diffusion: reflections on copyright and privacy in The First European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance - Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies, Paris 30- 31 March 2017.
  • Sarikakis, K., Kolokytha, O. Cultural diplomacy on the borders of Europe: the role of theatre festivals in times of turbulence at BITEF and Cultural Diplomacy: The Role of Theatre Festivals in The International Cultural Relations. Conference organized by UNESCO, University of the Arts Belgrade and BITEF, Belgrade 1-2 October 2016.
  • Sarikakis, K., Kolokytha, O., Rozgonyi, K. The case of 'content-exception' as a policy compromise between public needs and private interests. EuroCPR Conference on Content Creation and Distribution in the Digital Single Market, The Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels 14-15 March 2016.
  • Kolokytha, O. Traditional High Arts in a Contemporary Context: The Case of Animated Opera. 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Prague 25-28 August 2015.
  • Kolokytha, O. Artistic Development: Defining the Term and Discussing the Process with Regards to Young Professional Singers in 7th Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts, Wien 5-8 September 2012.
  • Kolokytha, O., Exploring the Boundaries Between Cultural Policy, Politics and Institutional Actions for Young Professional Artists. The Case of Opera an der International Conference on Cultural Policy and Research (ICCPR) Barcelona 9-12 July 2012. 
  • Kolokytha, O. The Diva Recipe: Ingredients of Superstardom in Opera in The Diva: An Interdisciplinary Conference: Liverpool Hope University (Liverpool, 5-8 July 2011). 
  • Kolokytha, O. Education or training? A guide to artistic development of young opera singers in Arts Based Educational Research Conference, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol (Bristol, July 2007).
  • Kolokytha, O. Artist- audience interactions and their contribution to artistic development in Interactions: Fifth Conference of the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, October 2006).