11th Annual International Conference on History From Ancient to Modern 29 - 31 July & 1 August 2013, Athens, Greece

Athens Institute for Education and Research
Arts and Humanities Research Division
History Research Unit

11th Annual International Conference on History: From Ancient to Modern
29 - 31 July & 1 August 2013, Athens, Greece

PROGRAM
Conference Venue: St George Lycabettus, 2 Kleomenous Street, 10675 Kolonaki, Athens, Greece.


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Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER.
Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Professor, Sam Houston University, USA and Vice-President of ATINER.
Dr. George Poulos, Vice-President of Research, ATINER & Emeritus Professor, University of South Africa, South Africa.
Dr. David Philip Wick, Associate Professor, Gordon College, USA.
Dr. Michael Eisman, Associate Professor, Temple University, USA.
Dr. Jayoung Che, Research Professor, Institute for the Mediterranean Studies, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Pusan, Republic of Korea (S. Korea)
Dr. Timothy Howe, Associate Professor of History and Ancient Studies, Saint Olaf College, USA.
Dr. Evangelia Aleksandru-Sarlak, Associate Professor, Isik University, Turkey.
Dr. Edward Anson, Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA.
Dr. Stephen Andrew Arbury, Professor of Art History, Radford University, USA.
Dr. Michael B. Bishku, Professor, Augusta State University, USA.
Dr. Celine Dauverd, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
Dr. Angela Davis, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick, U.K.
Ms. Andrea Eis, Doris and Paul Travis Endowed Professor in Art and Chair, Oakland University, USA.
Dr. Calin-Valentin Florea, Assistant Professor, Dimitrie Cantemir University, Romania.
Dr. Sara Estrella Gil-Ramos, Art & History Department, New Jersey City University, USA.

Dr. Ido Israelowich, Lecturer, University of Warwick, U.K.
Dr. Martin C.J. Miller, Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State College, USA.
Dr. Alice Mocanescu, Independent Scholar, Greece.
Dr. Shoucri Rachad Mounir, Professor, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada.
Dr. Steven Oberhelman, Professor, University of Texas A&M, USA.
Dr. Michael Paraskos, Provost, Cornaro Institute, Cyprus.
Dr. Nicholas N. Patricios, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami, USA.
Mr. Philip Petroff, Ph.D. Student, State University for the Humanities, Russia.
Dr. Ilknur Tas, Assistant Professor, Hitit University, Turkey.
Dr. Huiling Teo, Member, Women In The Arts, Singapore.
Dr. Frederick F. Travis, Provost and Professor, Seton Hall University, USA.
Mr. Chris Webb, Instructor, Northern Illinois University, USA.
Dr. Baruch Whitehead, Associate Professor of Music Education/World Music, Ithaca College School of Music, USA.
Dr. Suoqiang Yang, Associate Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
Ms. Lila Skountridaki, Researcher, ATINER & Ph.D. Student, University of Strathclyde, U.K.
Mr. Vasilis Charalampopoulos, Researcher, ATINER & Ph.D. Student, University of Stirling, U.K.
Administration
Fani Balaska, Stavroula Kiritsi, Eirini Lentzou, Konstantinos Manolidis, Katerina Maraki & Celia Sakka.
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C O N F E R E N C E

P R O G R A M

(The time for each session includes at least 10 minutes coffee break)

Monday 29 July 2013
08:00 - 08:30 Registration
08:30-9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Dr. George Poulos, Vice-President of Research, ATINER & Emeritus Professor, University of South Africa, South Africa.
• Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER.
• Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President of Academics, ATINER & Professor, Sam Houston State University, USA.
09:00-10:30 Session I: Rome
Chair: Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President of Academics, ATINER & Professor, Sam Houston State University, USA.
1. *David Wick, Professor, Gordon College, USA. Julius Caesar as Jekyll and Hyde: An Exploratory Look at the Moments after the Rubicon.
2. Andres Cid, Principal Head of Graduate Program in History and Social Sciences & Researcher in Roman History & Associate Professor in the University of Mar, Chile.
The Implementation of the Roman Principate: Between Human and Divine
3. Carlos Galvao-Sobrinho, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. Urban Change and Plebeian Identity in Rome in the Principate.
4. *Michael M. Eisman, Associate Professor, Temple University, USA. Liturgy and the Ancient Synagogue at Beth Alpha (Israel).
10:30-12:00 Session II: Southeastern Europe
Chair: *David Wick, Professor, Gordon College, USA.

1. *Sybil Thornton, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, USA. Vreme Na Nasilie and the Sacred Myth of the Founding of the Nation.
2. Juljana Krisafi, Journalist, Anchorwoman, PhD Student, European University of Tirana, Albania. Albania and the Sino Soviet Split.
3. Ledion Krisafi, PhD Student, European University of Tirana, Albania. The Idea of a Balkan Federation after the Second World War between Albania, Yugoslavia and
Bulgaria.
12:00-13:30 Session III: The Construction of Childhood: A Comparison of American and British Experience
Chair: *Sybil Thornton, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, USA.
1. *Burton Peretti, Professor, Western Connecticut State University, USA. Translating Child Welfare: British and US Motifs and Charlie Chaplin’s Films.
2. *Susan L. Tananbaum, Associate Professor, Bowdoin College, USA & Martha May, Professor, Western Connecticut State University, USA. Rescue Work: Catholic Care
in Britain, 1880s-1930s.
3. Martha May, Professor, Western Connecticut State University, USA. Maternal Dominance in the Lives of Sons: A Case Study of Three Generations of Roosevelts.

13:30-14:30 Lunch

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14:30-16:00 Session IV: Late Ottoman History

Chair: *Susan L. Tananbaum, Associate Professor, Bowdoin College, USA

1. Nicholas Doumanis, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia. Intercommunality: Greeks, Turks, and everyday coexistence in Late Ottoman
Anatolia before 1912.
2. Basak Akgul, PhD Student, Bogazici University, Turkey. Social Mobilization and the Formation of National Identity: The Travels of Ottoman Intellectuals to Villages in
Anatolia (1912-1918).
3. Sidika Sen, Researcher, Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey. The Myth of the First Young Turk Congress as a Milestone for the Late Ottoman Political Life.
16:00-17:30 Session V: Consequences of Conflict in Africa, Asia & Europe
Chair: *Burton Peretti, Professor, Western Connecticut State University, USA.
1. Gary Baines, Associate Professor, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Who Writes History? Reconfiguring the Victors, the Vanquished and the Victims in
Post-Conflict Societies.
2. Karubaki Datta, Associate Professor, Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University, India. Human Flows, Trade and Security: The Changing Role of the
Chumbi Valley in the Himalayan Region.
3. Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, Lecturer, University of Oulu, Finland. Wonder how Such Lovely Women can Produce Such Brutes of Sons – Japanese Women and Family
Introduced to the First US Occupation Soldiers Sent to Japan.
4. Alberto De la Penia, Associate Lecturer, University of Burgos, Spain. Las Arcas De Limosna Y Misecordia” Of The Count Of Haro: A Precedent Of Micro Credits At The
End Of The Middle Ages.
17:30-19:30 Session VI: Roundtable discussion on the Teaching of History in a Global Setting
Chair: Nicholas Pappas, Professor, Sam Houston University, USA and Vice-President of ATINER.
1. Deborah Gray White, Professor, Rutgers University, USA.
2. David Wick, Professor, Gordon College, USA.
3. Burton Peretti, Professor, Western Connecticut State University, USA.
4. Maria Huidobro Salazar, Director, Andres Bello University, Chile.
5. Andres Cid, Principal Head of Graduate Program in History and Social Sciences & Researcher in Roman History & Associate Professor in the University of Mar, Chile.
6. Gary Baines, Associate Professor, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
7. Nicholas Doumanis, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia.
8. Karubaki Datta, Associate Professor, Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University, India.
21:00–23:00 Greek Night and Dinner (Details during registration)

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Tuesday 30 July 2013
8:30-10:00 Session VII: Ancient History
Chair: Nicoleta Calina, Associate Professor, University of Craiova, Romania
1. Ozlem Sir Gavaz, Assistant Professor, Hitit University, Turkey. A New Contribution to Historical Hittite Geography: Of the Location of an Important Cult Centre Katapa.
2. Lazaro Mancilla, PhD Student, Central European University, USA. Seeking the Place: Landscape and Spiritual Experience in the Eastern Mediterranean.

10:00-11:30 Session VIII: Intellectual History
Chair: *Ilksoy Aslim, Lecturer, Vice Chairperson of the International Relations Department, Near East University, Cyprus.
1. Nicoleta Calina, Associate Professor, University of Craiova, Romania & Loredana Maria Grozoiu, Researcher, Romanian Academy, “C.S. Nicolaescu-Plopsor”, Romania.
On Francesco Guicciardini’s Thought.
2. Maria Huidobro Salazar, Director, Andres Bello University, Chile. Classical Tradition in the Rhetoric of the Independence of Chili.
3. Sona Grigoryan, PhD Student, Central European University, Hungary. Anti-Christian Polemics of Ibn Taymiyyah.
4. Jayoung Che, Assistant Professor, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, South Korea. The Political and Social Conflict between Orthodox Christianity (Constantinople
and Rome) and the Eastern Monophysitism.
11:30-13:00 Session IX: Identity in History - Society, Culture & Education
Chair: *Michael M. Eisman, Associate Professor, Temple University, USA.
1. Deborah Gray White, Professor, Rutgers University, USA. From New Negro to Post-Black: Modernity and Post-Modernity in African American Life and History.
2. Vasily Markhinin, Associate Professor, Surgut State University, Russia. Russian Philosophical Tradition in the Modern Time: Genesis and Relations to Native and
Western Culture.
3. Bokhee Kim, Professor, Andong National University, Korea. A Study on the Mythical Characteristics and the Human Ideal of Courtship Athletic.
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session X: Animals and the Legacy of Human Exceptionalism: From Ancient to Modern
Chair: Moshe Gat, Professor, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
1. Stephen Newmyer, Professor, Duquesne University, USA. Man Alone of Animals?' Ancient and Modern Views on Emotions in Animals.
2. Joyce Salisbury, Professor, University of Wisconsin, USA. Medieval Philosophers Contemplate Heavenly Human Exceptionalism.
3. Marc Lucht, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Education Coordinator for the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention, USA. Kant,
Schopenhauer, and the Implications of Human Exceptionalism.
4. Gary Steiner, Professor, Bucknell University, USA. The Nature and Limits of the Postmodern Challenge to Human Exceptionalism.

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15:30-17:00 Session XI: Near East & North Africa
Chair: Jayoung Che, Assistant Professor, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, South Korea.

1. Moshe Gat, Professor, Bar Ilan University, Israel. Military Power and Policy: On Israeli Policy between 1967-1973.
2. James Fichter, Associate Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Suez Passage to India: Egyptian Railroads and Anglo-French Imperial Rivalry, 1860-1869.
3. *Ilksoy Aslim, Lecturer, Vice Chairperson of the International Relations Department, Near East University, Cyprus. Greece and Turkey: Friends or Enemies.
17:30-20:30 Urban Walk (Details during registration)
21:00-22:00 Dinner (Details during registration)
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Cruise: (Details during registration)
Thursday 1 August 2013
Delphi Visit: (Details during registration)

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