GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING AND DIGITAL ARTS, SCHOOL OF ARTS (S.o.A.), UNIVERSITY OF THE PELOPONNESE
Head of the Department
Kotzamani Marina – Associate Professor (DTS), Head of DPDA
Marina Kotzamani is an Associate Professor of Theater and the Chair of the department of Performing and Digital Arts at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece. She is a researcher with a strong interest in combining theory with artistic practice. Her theoretical work focuses on 20th century and contemporary performance analysis and reception and she has published in internationally acclaimed journals including PAJ (MIT press), Theater/Yale School of Drama and Theatre Journal . She has done extensive work on the appropriation of cultural heritage, researching modern and contemporary interpretation of Greek drama, with an emphasis on women and gender, popular theater , political theater and site specific work. Indicatively, her publications have ranged from Lysistrata on the Soviet stage and on Broadway to Lysistrata on Arab stages, as well as Xenakis’s site specific and intermedial Mycenae Polytopon. Kotzamani taught full time for several years at the Classics Department of Columbia University and has also collaborated as a dramaturg with professional companies in New York City including CSC and La Mama. At Columbia she presented The Weaver and the Web, a collaborative arts project on gender inspired by the Delphi Festivals, happening on the internet (2003). She has also been curating visual art exhibitions.
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Deputy Head of the Department
Tselikas Nikolaos – Professor (DIT), Deputy Head DPDA
Dr. Nikolaos D. Tselikas is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese. He received both his Dipl.-Ing. Degree and his PhD Degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1999 and 2004, respectively. During 1999 – 2004 he was a research associate in the Intelligent Communications and Broadband Networks (ICBNet) Laboratory of NTUA. During 2004 – 2008 he was a senior post-doctoral researcher in the same Laboratory in NTUA. From 2006 to 2009 he was also a Visiting Lecturer, from 2009 to 2013 he was a Lecturer, from 2013 to 2018 he was an Assistant Professor and from 2018 to 2023 he was an Acossiate Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese (UoP). He has participated in several European and National research projects regarding network services and applications. His research interests include the research areas of creation and provision of telecommunications services in fixed and mobile networks, mobile applications, software and middleware technologies, open APIs, web technologies etc. He has collaborated in software design and development topics with big players in the telecom and informatics industry as well as with national and international universities and academic institutions. Dr. Nikolaos D. Tselikas has published over 100 papers in the pre-mentioned areas in international Journals, Conferences and Book Chapters and his work has received more than 1000 (non-self) citations. His book “C: From Theory to Practice” is proposed as the main textbook for C-programming course in about 50 Departments of Greek Universities and Technical Institutions. Since 2014, the book has been translated in English and it is available by CRC Press, while it is the proposed textbook in several Universities worldwide. He is member of several Technical Committees in international conferences and a reviewer in numerous international journals. He is a member of the IEEE and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE DEPT OF PERFORMING AND DIGITAL ARTS consists of the following members (in alphabetical order)
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ACADEMIC STAFF
Efklidis Alexandros – Assistant Professor, Representative Member at S.o.A. * (2022-2023)
El Raheb Katerina – Assistant Professor, Representative Member at S.o.A. * (2022-2023)
Giotaki Georgia (Gina) – Assistant Professor
Kotzamani Marina – Associate Professor (DTS), Head of DPDA
Psarras Bill – Assistant Professor, Representative Member at S.o.A. * (2022-2023)
Roinioti Elina – Assistant Professor
Stourna Athina – Assistant Professor
Theodoropoulos Anastasios – Assistant Professor
Tselikas Nikolaos – Professor (DIT), Deputy Head DPDA
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SPECIAL RESEARCH & TEACHING PERSONNEL REPRESENTATIVE
Vassilopoulos Nikos – SRTP member
SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL REPRESENTATIVE
Thanou Chara – SSP member
SECRETARY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Papageorgiou Sotiria (2024 – now ). – former: Kiriakopoulou Sofia (2021-2024)
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FORMER INITIAL MEMBERS OF THE TEMPORARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF DPDA (2019-2022)
- Kotzamani Marina – Associate Professor (DTS), Head of DPDA
- Nikolaos Tselikas – Professor (DIT), Deputy Head DPDA
- George Lepouras – Professor (DIT), Vice Rector
- Asterios Tsiaras – Professor (DTS)
- Angeliki Spiropoulou – Professor (DTS), Deputy Dean of School of Arts