4th International Conference on History: From Ancient to Modern

December 28-31, 2006

ATHENS, GREECE

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

Conference Venue: National Archaeological Museum, 44 Patission Avenue - 106 82 Athens, Tel.: +30-210-8217717

 

Thursday, December 28th, 2006 

7:30-8:15 Registration National Archaeological Museum of Athens (44 Patission Street)

8:15 - 8:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Welcome: Nicholas C. J. Pappas, Head, History Research Unit, ATINER and Professor of History, Sam Houston State University, USA.

Opening Speech: Gregory T. Papanikos, Director, ATINER & General Secretary of the Greek Economic and Social Council.  The Use of History as a Tool of Policy-Making. 

8:30 - 10:00 Session 1: The Legacy of the Ancient World in Modern Times

Chair: Pappas, N.C.J., Head of History Research Unit, ATINER, and Professor, Sam Houston State University, USA.

 

1.     Hopwood, K., Lecturer, University of Wales, U.K. New Athens, New Rome.

2.     Upton, C., Lecturer, Newman College of Higher Education, UK. Mourning Penelope: A Death in 18th-Century England.

3.     Akture, Z., Assistant Professor, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey. Roman Period Transformations in Ancient Theatres in Modern Greece.

 

10:00 – 11:30 Session 2: Ancient Greece

Chair: Woodcock, L.S., Academic Member, ATINER and University of Leeds, U.K.

1.     Bozia, E., Ph.D. Student, University of Florida, USA. Was The Athenian Empire Despotism?

2.     Brown Haas, J., Professor, Utah Valley State College, USA. The Athenian Democracy: An Analysis of Contemporary Sources.

3.     Kellogg, D., Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College, USA. Local Identities in Classical Athens.

4.     Gallucci, R., Lecturer, University of California, USA & Dawkins, P., Student, University of California, USA. Homer and the Greek Bronze Age.

 

 

11:30 – 12:30 Session 3: Recreation and Sports in the Ancient World

Chair: Wick, D., Associate Professor, Gordon College, USA.

 

1.     Dvorjetski, E., Professor, Oxford Brookes University, UK. Leisure-Time Activities in Roman Palestine and Provincia Arabia: Historical-Archaeological Analysis.

2.     Evans, J., Professor, University of Minnesota, USA. Crossing the Great Divide: Inns, Taverns and the Transgression of Class Boundaries in the Roman World.

3.     Kyle, D.G., Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, USA. Ancient Olympia, Egypt and Herodotus: Cultural Discourse on Athletics.

 

12:30 – 14:00 Session 4: The Crafts of Ancient Greece

Chair: Wick, D., Associate Professor, Gordon College, USA.

1.     Perivoliotis-Chryssovergis, M-C., Associate Professor, TEI of Athens, Greece. The Historic Significance of Ancient Greek Cloth.

2.     Goldman, R., Ph.D. Student, City University of New York, USA. Cultural Constructions of Colored Clothing in Classical and Hellenistic Greece.

3.     Ecker, K., Graduate Student, Temple University, USA. The Origin of Chalcidian Ware.

4.     Eisman, M., Associate Professor, Temple University, USA. Nikosthenes and Chalcis.

 

 

14:00 – 15:00: LUNCH (Place: Rozalia Tavern, 58 Valtetsiou str., Exarcheia Square, tel. 210 3302933)

 

 

 

15:00 – 16:30 Session 5: Themes on Ancient Greece and Rome

Chair: Eisman, M., Associate Professor, Temple University, USA

 

1.     Basic, R., Associate Professor, The University of Oklahoma, USA. Notes on the Treasury of the Siphnians at Delphi and the Etruscan Sanctuary of Poggio Civitate near Murlo.

2.     Wick, D., Associate Professor, Gordon College, USA. Marketplace Reborn from Ashes: The Economy of Athens Transformed to Thrive in the Roman World.

3.      Lake, S., Graduate Student, Fordham University, USA. The Second Problem in Livy 4:20.5-11: The Dedication of the Spolia Opima.

4.     Burton, P., Lecturer, University of Tasmania, Australia. Ancient International Law? The Roman Deditio (Surrender) Ritual.

5.     Prevas, J., Professor, Eckerd College, USA. Alexander the Great: Was He Really Great?

 

 

16:30 – 18:00 Session 6: Aspects of Contemporary History I

Chair: Weinberg, D., Professor, Wayne State University, USA.

1.     Travis, F., Professor & Provost, Seton Hall University, USA. President Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the Movement for Women’s Rights.

2.     von Bawey, P., Professor, American University of Paris, France. Berlin Wall: Destruction and Preservation.

3.     Gat, M., Head, Bar Ilan University, Israel. Britain and the Occupied Territories after the 1967 War.

4.     Kaufman, V., Associate Professor, Francis Marion University, USA. No Settlement in Sight: Jimmy Carter’s Effort to Resolve the Cyprus Dispute.

5.     Mildner, V., Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia. History of Neurolinguistics: From the Beginnings to the Present.

 

18:00 – 19:30 Session 7: Aspects of Contemporary History II

Chair: Katsas, G., Associate Professor, The American College of Greece, Greece.

 

1.     Overman, E., Assistant Professor, Jackson State University, USA and . Crump, A., Assistant Professors, Jackson State University, USA. A 21st Century Value Study of the Global Past.

2.     Karras, G., Professor, University of Illinois, USA. Globalization in History.

3.     Vamvakas, P., Assistant Professor, Emmanuel College, USA. Back to the Future: The Resurgence of National identity in Unified Europe.

4.     Pelzer, J., Professor and Chair, GRCS (Los Angeles), USA. The Holocaust-Memorial in Berlin and the German Political Culture of Memory after 1989.

5.      Murphy, M., Associate Professor, Emmanuel College, USA. Defining European Anti-Semitism Today.

 

20:30 – 22:30: GREEK NIGHT (Place: Rembetadiko MISIRLOU, 58 Valtetsiou str., Exarcheia Square, tel. 210 3302933)

 

 

Friday, December 29th, 2006 

 

08:00 – 09:30 Session 8: Cultural Trends in the Old World--East and West

Chair: Alexandru-Sarlak, E., Associate Professor, Isık University, Turkey.

1.     Miller, M., Assistant Editor, The Ancient World Society, USA. Ashoka, Greek Education and the Greeks in NW India.

2.     Leupp, G., Professor, Tufts University, USA. Buddhist Memes in the Late Roman Empire.

3.     Lee, Y.T., Lecturer, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong. The Curriculum of Ren (Love) in the Teaching of Confucius. (Friday, 29th December 2006)

4.     LaFleur, R.A., Associate Professor, Beloit College, USA. Writing Towards Death: Historiography and Urgency in the Writings of Two Chinese Historians.

 

09:30 – 10:30 Session 9: Culture and Arts

Chair: Miller, M., Assistant Editor, The Ancient World Society, USA.

1.         Price, S., Lecturer, De Montfort University, UK. Alignment, Utterance and Agency: The Delphic Oracle and Speech-Act Theory.

2.         Cullum, M., Assistant Professor, Abilene Christian University, USA. Good Grief:  Augustine of Hippo Redeems Regret.

3.         Gokdag, E., Assistant Professor, Anadolu University, Turkey. Orientalist Shakespeare.

 

10:30 – 11:30 Session 10: The Media, Gender, Canada and History

Chair: Gokdag, E., Assistant Professor, Anadolu University, Turkey.

1.     Anderson, M., Associate Professor, University of Regina, Canada. Pressing Advantages: Canada’s Mainstream Media and Colonialism.

2.     Robertson, C., Assistant Professor, University of Regina, Canada. Colonialism’s Noble Savage: Grey Owl and the Canadian Press.

3.     Pappas, N. and Shadle, R., Professors, Sam Houston State University, USA.  The Image of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the American Motion Picture Serial.

4.     de Groot, J. Lecturer, University of York, Canada. Diversity and pattern in gender history; a comparative approach

 

11:30 – 13:00 Session 11: National Identity and History

Chair: Stephens, J., Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia, USA.

1.     Martin, L., Professor, Emmanuel College and Associate WCFIA Harvard University, USA. The Turkish-Kurdish National Identity Dilemma.

2.     Grewal, J., Associate Professor, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates. Sikh History in Memory: Narrating and Managing Identity’s.

3.     Bardakjian, K., Professor, University of Michigan, USA. Identity and Nationhood: Aspects of Armenian thought and Movements in the 18th century and their Subsequent Impact.

4.     Ellis, R., Researcher, University of Sydney, Australia. Australia First – Race and Nation in Interwar Australian Fascism.

 

13:00 – 14:00: LUNCH (Place: Rozalia Tavern, 58 Valtetsiou str., Exarcheia Square, tel. 210 3302933)

 

14:00 – 15:30 Session 12: The Mediterranean in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Chair: Bardakjian, K., Professor, University of Michigan, USA.

1.     Ortega, S., Assistant Professor, Simmons College, USA. Shaping Legal Decisions: Power across Borders in the Early Modern Mediterranean.

2.     Mikura, Y., Ph.D. Student, The University of Tokyo, Japan. Charles V and Suleiman the Magnificent in Coetaneous Spanish Historiography.

3.     Jurkovic, M., Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Turkovic, T., Teaching Assistant, University of Zagreb, Croatia & Marakovic, N., Teaching Assistant, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Transition of Towns Between Antiquity and Middle Ages in Croatia.

4.     Stephens, J., Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia, USA. Babylas as Martyr and Model: John Chrysostom's Understanding of the Christian Empire. (Friday, 29th December 2006)

 

15:30 – 17:00 Session 13: Aspects of the Mediterranean and Near East in the Modern Era

Chair: Pappas, N.C.J., Head of History Research Unit, ATINER, and Professor, Sam Houston State University, USA.

1.     Alexandru-Sarlak, E., Associate Professor, Isık University, Turkey. A Silent Space In The Midst Of City Chaos: Architecture and Art at Sisli Metamorphosis Greek Orthodox Cemetery.

2.     Boras, D., Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Croatian Dictionary Heritage and Croatian European Identity.

3.     Joseph, S., Assistant Professor, Shippensburg University, USA. Forging the Moral and Intellectual Case for Imperialism:  British Traveller’s in 18th and 19th Century Greece.

4.     Apostolides, A., Ph.D. Student, London School of Economics, UK & Apostolides, C., Chairman, EMS Economic Management, UK. Introducing Cyprus in the Economic Debate: The Resilience of Cypriot Agriculture in the 20th Century 1921-2000.

 

17:00 – 18:30 Session 14: The Military and Literature in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Chair: Filios, V., Associate Professor, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece.

1.     Anson, E., Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA. A Commander Doesn’t Need Brains, Just a Good Loud Voice.

2.     Banks, J., Ph.D. Student, The University of Chicago, USA. Constantine IX’S Iberian Army.

3.     Bretherton, G., Associate Professor, Montclair State University, USA. Nora Blake meets The Widow of Ephesus: The Satyricon as a source for "In The Shadow of The Glen"? (Friday 29th of December).

 

 

19:00 – 20:30: DINNER (Place: Union Restaurant, Hellenic American University (Top Floor), Faculty Lunch, 5 Didotou & Massalias str., tel. 210 3680013)

 

Saturday, December 30th, 2006 

 

07:00 – 20:30: Cruise to Aegean islands (Bus Departure from the Park Hotel, 10 Alexandras Street, tel. 210 8894500 Return to the Park Hotel).

 

 

Sunday, December 31st, 2006 

 

Archaeological tour and lunch in a Greek Tavern

8:30: Bus Departure from Park Hotel, 10 Alexandras Street, tel. 210 8894500

10:00: Visit the Archaeological Site & the Museum of Elefsina

11:30: Visit the Cities of Megara, Alepochori, Psatha and Porto Germano

12:30: Lunch at Villia Village

14:30: Visit the City of Theva

16:00 Return to Athens

 

21:30 – 24:00: Gala Dinner-NEW YEAR’S EVE

Place: STAMATOPOULOS TAVERN, 26 Lissiou str., Plaka, Tel.: 210 3228722