2023 HIS PRO

1. David Philip Wick, Retired Professor of History, Gordon College, USA.
   Title: It Seemed Like Such a Good Idea at the Time … – Expected and Unexpected Consequences when Athens & Other Major Greek City States Leveraged Philip V to Draw Rome into the Eastern Mediterranean.
2. Jeffrey Lerner, Professor, Wake Forest University, USA.
   Title: Klearchos and the Delphic Maxims of Ai Khanoum (Northeast Afghanistan).
3. William Davis, Professor, Colorado College, USA.
   Title: Friedrich Holderlin, Waiting for the Greek Gods.
4. Mohar Daschaudhuri, Associate Professor, University of Calcutta, India.
   Title: The Uncanny in Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge and in Linda Lê’s Autres jeux avec le feu (Other games with Fire).

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1. Steven Oberhelman, Professor of Classics, Holder of the George Sumey Jr Endowed Professorship of Liberal Arts, and Interim Dean, Texas A&M University, USA.
   Title: Nineteenth-Century Plant-Based Medical Healing Manuals in Northern Greece.
2. Gunnar Hallstrom, Retired Professor, Abo Akademi University, Finland.
   Title: Athens in 2nd Century Christian Apologetics.
3. Ana Paula Figueiredo Pinto, Assistant Professor, Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal.
   Title: Imagery of Childhood from the Homeric Poems.
4. Ana Rita Figueira, Researcher, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
   Title: Achilles and Ajax: The Board Game as Μίμησις ἐρωτική.

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1. Sabine Loucif, Professor, Hofstra University, USA.
   Title: The Story of a Nobel Prize: The Trajectory of Annie Ernaux from Rural Normandy to Stockholm.
2. Aleksandra Tryniecka, Adjunct Professor, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland.
   Title: Finding Hope in the Future: Redeeming Generations of Women in Anthony Trollope’s “Castle Richmond” (1860) and “Lady Anna” (1873).
3. Tetiana Reheshuk, PhD Student, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Ukraine.
   Title: Allusions to the Indo-European epic tradition in the Chinese folk tale “Shy Flower” (“含羞草花语与传说故事”).
4. Siim Sõkkal, PhD Student, University of Tartu, Estonia.
   Title: Epicurean Philosophy and Political Instability in the Late Roman Republic.

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1. Lea Baratz, Lecturer, Achva Academic College, Israel.
   Title: The ´Red Color’ that Cracks Children’s Souls – A Look at Israeli Children’s Books on Life in the Gaza Strip.
2. Andrew Sidle, English Teacher, St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School, USA.
   Title: Kate Chopin, Emerson, and the American Patriarchy: Criticism in Three Acts.
3. Riccardo Bonotto, PhD Student, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France.
   Title: Non-Muslim Minorities in the Modern Afghanistan’s Economy.
4. Maria Jose Lopes, Assistant Professor, Catholic University of Portugal , Portugal.
   Title: A New Take on the Wrath of The Aeacids in a 21st Century Portuguese Rewriting of Trojan Women.
5. Liping Sun, PhD Student, Southeast University, China.
   Title: A Study on the Mechanism of Conservation and Utilization of Modern Architectural Heritage in Qingdao — Based on Multi-Party Interactions among Government, Enterprises, and the Public.

Discussion

1. Sujatha Napanda Cheeyanna, Assistant Professor, Karnataka State Open University, India.
   Title: Royal Women Patronage to Temple Architecture.
2. İlksoy Aslım, Lecturer, Cyprus Science University, Cyprus.
   Title: The Role of the United States to the Formation of the Violence in Cyprus During the 20th Century.
3. Attila Simon, PhD Student, University of Debrecen, Hungary.
   Title: Bull in the House – An Attempt to Interpret a Motif of Mithras Symbolism.
4. Keilah Gerber, PhD Student, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
   Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza, Independent Researcher, Brazil.
   Title: Translation and Memory from the Cremation Ovens in Poland to Freedom in Greece and the US: Τhe Journey and the Manuscripts of Marcel Nadjary.
5. Jonathan Needham, Professor, Penn State University, USA.
   Title: The Power of Myth and an Ancient Meta-poetic Theme Presented in Ugo Foscolo’s The Graces.
6. Simonetta Milli Konewko, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA.
   Title: Brutal Madness: A Gender Crisis.

Discussion

1. Ranko Kozic, Associate Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
   Title: Symbol, Enigma and the Legend of Socrates in Dio Chrysostom’s Olympic Discourse.
2. Eka Dughashvili, Associate Professor, St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of Georgia, Georgia.
   Title: Old Georgian Translations of Byzantine Literature: Translation Method and Cultural Orientation towards the Intellectual Process of Byzantium.
3. Ceylan Kosker Bevington, Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, Turkiye.
   Title: Victorian Sapphic Tradition.
4. Sally Hanna, Independent Scholar, Egypt.
   Title: Healing Wounds in Joy Harjo’s Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings and An American Sunrise.
5. Fatima Salem Al-Aqili, Professor, Benghazi University, Libya.
   Title: A Reading about the Motives of the Greek Conflict with the Libyans on the Coast of Syrtis “Nassamonis as a Model”.

Discussion

1. Leena Eilittä, Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland.
   Title: Global and Local in Viennese Modernist Literature.
2. James Kirkland, Professor, East Carolina University, USA.
   Title: Poe’s Parasomniacs: The Confluence of Folklore, Medicine, and Literature.
3. Stefania Acciaioli, Lecturer, University of Cologne, Germany.
   Title: Perhaps that a Very Distant Eye Could Unravel a Secret Script from this Splintered Work….”: M. Haushofer’s Prose.
4. Marta Licata, Scientific Technician, University of Insubria, Italy.
   Title: Women and Death. Bioarchaeology Reveals the Condition of Women in the Medieval and Post Medieval Ages.\

Discussion

1. Annette Vowinckel, Head of Research Department, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
   Title: “Lost Places.” The Allure of Modern Ruins, Abandoned Sites and Urban Exploration in Historical Perspective.
2. Jack Hanrahan-Shirley, PhD Student, Macquarie University, Australia & University of Vienna, Austria.
   Title: Tractus Errores Graecorum: Polemics of the Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople Against the Greeks.
3. Peter Malisse, PhD Student, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
   Title: Hesiodic Reception as Tradition Formation: Myth and Reality in Plutarch.

Discussion

1. Nemanja Vujčić, Associate Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
   Title: Large Scale Slave Revolts in Ancient Greece: An Issue of Absence or an Absence of Issue?
2. Michal Moshe, Senior Teacher, Ariel University, Israel.
   Title: The Birth of Public Space during Iron Age.
3. Hiromasa Matsukura, PhD Student, Kyushu University, Japan.
   Title: Self-Representation of the Ottomans: Diplomatic Practices in the Age of Süleyman.

Discussion

1. Evangelia Sarlak, Professor, Işık University, Turkiye.
   Ruhiye Onurel, Assistant Professor, Beykent University, Turkiye.
   Title: Stylistic Analysis of the Holy Icons from Saint George Church In Yenikoy, Istanbul.
2. Monika Szczot, Associate Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
   Title: Between Tradition and Innovation. Old Polish Menippean Satires and their Ancient Genological Patterns.
3. Paola Partenza, Associate Professor, “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University, Italy.
   Title: Becoming a Subject. The Example of the Late Victorian Novelist F. H. Burnett.
4. Dina Eiduka, Research Assistant, University of Latvia, Latvia.
   Title: An Echo of Antiquity in Latvian Literature: The Case of Mythological Motives in R. Blaumanis Novella “Raudupiete”.
5. Elizabeth Dahab, Professor, California State University, USA.
   Title: Poetics of Prison Narratives: The Case of Soha Bechara.

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