Athens Institute for Education and Research

Sixth International Conference on

History: From Ancient to Modern

29-31 December 2008 & 1 January 2009

ATHENS, GREECE

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

Conference Venue: St George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel, 2 Kleomenous Street, Lycabettus, Athens.

 

Organized by:

The History Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education & Research (ATINER)

 

Members of the Scientific and Organizing Committee:

 

1.      Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, Director, ATINER & General Secretary, Greek Economic and Social Council.

2.      Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Professor, Sam Houston University, USA and Vice-President of ATINER

3.      Dr. Evangelia Aleksandru-Sarlak, Associate Professor, Isik University, Turkey.

4.      Dr. Edward Anson, Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA.

5.      Dr. Andrea Eis, Doris and Paul Travis Endowed Professor in Art and Chair, Oakland University, USA.

6.      Dr. Michael Eisman, Associate Professor, Temple University, USA.

7.      Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece and Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER.

8.      Dr. Vasileios Filios, Associate Professor, University of Ioannina, Greece and Head of the Accounting & Finance Research Unit of ATINER.

9.      Leslie Stuart Woodcock, Woodcock, L.S., Academic Member, ATINER, Visiting Professor, Department of Educational & Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Greece and University of Leeds, U.K.

10.  Dr. Cleopatra Veloutsou, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Department of Business and Management, University of Glasgow, Scotland, and Head of the Marketing Research Unit of ATINER.

11.  Dr. Ioanna Papadopoulou, Lecturer, University of Thrace, Greece.

12.  Dr. Margarita Kefalaki, Researcher, ATINER.

 

Administration:

Fani Balaska, Christos Frantzeskakis, Eirini Lentzou, Thomas Papanikos, Sylia Sakka

 

Monday, December 29th, 2008

07:30 - 08:30 Registration

08:30 - 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

  • Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Professor, Sam Houston University, USA and Vice-President of ATINER.
  • Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, Director, ATINER & General Secretary, Greek Economic and Social Council. Opening Speech: Two Old Tragedies and a Recent Farce: Crystal Night (1938), Dekemvriana (1944) and the 2008 Athens Riots

 

09:00-10:30 Session I: Aspects of Ancient History

Chair: Pappas, N., Professor, Sam Houston University, USA and Vice-President of ATINER.

  1. LaBuff, J., Ph.D. Student, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Sympoliteia and Ethnicity in Karia.
  2. Evans, J., Professor, University of Minnesota, USA. Alcohol, Sex, and Slavery in the Roman World.
  3. Mohamed, E.G., Lecturer, Art University of MINIA, Egypt. The Crisis of 48 Β.C. in Egypt.

 

10:30-12:00 Session II: Aspects of Medieval and Early Modern History

Chair: Kefalaki, M., Researcher, ATINER.

  1. Friedman, Y., Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Is Strong Leadership a Prerequisite of Peacemaking?
  2. Kremenjas-Danicic, A., President, Europe House Dubrovnik, Croatia. Some Impacts of the Song of Roland: A pan-European Tradition of the Knight Roland.
  3. Mikura, Y., Lecturer, Chuo University, Japan. Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Diego Suarez Montanes: Two Soldier-Chroniclers of the Spanish Empire.
  4. Conti, F., Ph.D. Student, Central European University, Hungary. Church and “superstitions” in Italy at the end of 15th century. Suggestions from a Research Proposal: The Case of Bernardino Busti, Franciscan Observant.

 

12:00 – 13:30 Session III: Aspects of United States History

Chair: *Lee, J., Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University, USA.

  1. Loukaitou-Sideris, A., Professor, UCLA, USA. Emptying the Sidewalks: Privileging Circulation at the Expense of Social Uses in US Sidewalks, 1880-1920.
  2. Becker, F., Ph.D. Student, Drew University, USA. Obscenity Not Only Sexual: The Trial of Cain’s Book.

 

13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH

 

14:30 – 16:30 Session IV: Aspects of Twentieth Century History

Chair: Griech-Polelle, B., Professor, Bowling Green State University, USA.

  1. *Steele, T.L., Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University, USA. Horse – Trading for Votes: United States’ Cold War Policy Regarding the China in the United Nations.
  2. Lewis, T., Assistant Professor, Winston –Salem State University, USA. CP Snow’s Mythical British Atomic Bomb.
  3. Hallberg, L., Ph.D. Student, Orebro University, Sweden. Lack of Manpower, Housing Shortage and Foreign Labour.

 

16:30 – 18:00 Session V: Aspects of Roman History

Chair: Woodcock, L.S., Academic Member, ATINER, Visiting Professor, Department of Educational & Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Greece and University of Leeds, U.K.

  1. Gallucci, R., Lecturer, University of California Santa Barbara & Uhl, M., Undergraduate Student, University of California Santa Barbara, USA. Sejanus: The Man Who Would Be Emperor?
  2. Aladar, K., Undergraduate Student, University of Debrecen, Hungary. Imperial Representation in the Western-Roman Empire.

 

20:30 - 22:30 GREEK NIGHT AND DINNER

 

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

 

09:00 – 10:30 Session VI: Aspects of Greek History

Chair: *Ahmed, Y., Professor, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates.

  1. Eisman, M., Associate Professor, Temple University, USA. Gorgoneion Tondos: Fear or Fun?
  2. Wick, D., Associate Professor, Gordon College, USA. Marketing the “Liberal Arts” in an Age of Ambition: The Metamorphosis and Survival of Plato’s “Academy” in the Last Generation of the Roman Republic.
  3. Mihova, J., Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand & Fraser, M., Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Making Sense of the Multilayered Past. An Interactive Visual Interpretation of the Athenian Acropolis and the Parthenon.
  4. Finlayson, C., Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, USA. The Synthesis and Reincarnation of Osiris and Dionysions in Greece.

 

10:30 – 12:00 Session VII: Aspects of Cultural Contacts in World History

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

  1. Marme, M., Assistant Professor, Fordham University, USA. Muted Challenges Compressed Response: The Suzhou/Shanghai Transition and the Birth of Chinese Modernity.
  2. *Ahmed, Y., Professor, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates. The Effect of the Greece Independence War on the Ottoman Egypt.
  3. Hendrix, S., Assistant Professor, Carroll University, USA. Contemplating the Stars and Comprehending Humanitas: Thomas Aquinas on Astrology and the Essence of what it is to be Human.

 

12:00 – 13:30 Session VIII: Aspects of Nineteenth Century European History

Chair: *Steele, T.L., Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University, USA.

  1. Bollini, L., Assistant Professor, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy. Deployment of Innovative Technologies in the Preservation, Condivision and Dissemination of the Historical and Documental Heritage: Dictionary of the Italian Resurgency by Michele Rosi for a Collaborative Discipline of the Historical Studies.
  2. Quest, B., Partner, Wilson Gunn, U.K. What God have Wrought, Ireland, the Hub of the World.
  3. Kinealy, C., Professor, Drew University, USA & Partner, Wilson Gunn, USA. What God Have Wrought. Ireland, the Hub of the Nineteenth-century Communications Revolution.
  4. Bartley, A., Associate Professor, Clemson University, USA. The 14th Amendment the Great Equalizer of the American People.

 

13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH

 

14:30 – 16:00 Session IX: Aspects of Twentieth Century History

Chair: Kinealy, C., Professor, Drew University, USA. Ireland.

  1. Griech-Polelle, B., Professor, Bowling Green State University, USA. The Presentation of the Spanish Civil War and the Roman Catholic Clergy in Nazi Germany.
  2. Nelis, J., Researcher, Belgian Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium. When Antiquity Becomes Sacred: Italian Fascist Romanita as Biopolitics and Myth in the Making.
  3. *Lee, J., Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University, USA. Writing Fear, Drawing Trauma: Children Narrating Violence in Imperial Japan, 1920s.

 

16:00 – 17:30 Session X: Aspects of Intellectual History

Chair: Polelle, M., Professor, University of Findlay, USA.

  1. Cooper, G., Professor, Brigham Young University, USA. Astronomy, Medicine, and Galen: The Beginnings of Empirical Science.
  2. Spencer, M., Associate Professor, Brock University, Canada. David Hume and Historical Context.
  3. Monfaredi Raz, B., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Bojnord Branch, Iran. History of Philosophy and its Chronology.

 

20:30 - 22:00 DINNER

 

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

07:50 – 14:30 Archaeological Tour around Attica

22:00 – 24:00 New Year’s Eve Gala (includes traditional Greek New Year’s Eve Dinner)

 

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

CRUISE: Departure at 7:20 a.m. Return at 8:30 p.m. (Includes Lunch on the Boat)