CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
The History
Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research
(ATINER) will organize its 8th Annual International
Conference on History in Athens, Greece on 28-31 of December 2010. The
conference will be held in downtown Athens, within walking distance of the
Acropolis (Parthenon) and other historical sites of Athens.
Papers (in English)
from all areas of history are welcome. Special sessions will be organized in
the following areas: Ancient Greek and Roman History, Cultural History, History
of Religion, Arts History, Economic History, Political and Social History,
Sports History (History of Olympic Games), History of Sciences, History of
Philosophy, Intellectual History, Modern American History, Latin American
History, African History, Asian History, European History, Personalities in
Philosophy and History, Interactions of Civilizations (East-West &
North-South), Historiography, Historic Preservation and the Future of
Historical Studies. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of one paper,
chair a session or observer. The conference website is http://www.atiner.gr/docs/History.htm. Selected
papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings. The
previous conferences produced a number of books. Visit our site http://www.atiner.gr/docs/HISTORY_PUBLICATIONS.htm
for titles, table of contents and order form.
The
registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, conference
material and 2 lunches. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for
a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, planned
tours to historical sites and nearby islands will be organized. A special
evening is organized with live Greek music and dinner, a gala dinner will be
held under the Acropolis to celebrate NEW YEAR’S EVE. During the tour, we will visit, among other sites: Hadrian’s Arch, the
Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Panathenaic Stadium
where the first Olympic Games of the modern era were held in 1896, and on
Acropolis: the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike,
the Erectheion and finally “the harmony between
material and spirit”, the monument that “puts order in the mind”, the
Parthenon.
Please submit a 300-word abstract
via email only by September 20th, 2010 to the following
address: Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Professor of
History, Sam Houston State University, USA and Vice-President of ATINER.
The Athens Institute for Education
and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic
organization with the mission to become a forum, where academics and
researchers - from all over the world - could meet in Athens and exchange ideas
on their research and discuss the future developments of their discipline.
Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 100 international conferences and
has published over 80 books.
Academically, the Institute consists of four research divisions
and nineteen research
units. Each research unit organizes at least an annual conference and
undertakes various small and large research projects.
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