2024 CUL PRO

9th Annual International Symposium on Culture and Civilization
Program (Athens Local Time)

10-13 June 2024
9 Chalkokondili Street, 10677 Athens, Greece

(Note 1: the program is organized along time slots and not according to common theme)
(Note 2: at the end of each session questions and discussions will follow)

Monday 10 June 2024

08.30-09.15
Registration

09:15-10:00
Opening and Welcoming Remarks:

  • Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER.
10:00-11:30 Session 1
Session 1a
Moderator: David Philip Wick, Director, Arts, Humanities and Education Division, ATINER & Retired Professor of History, Gordon College, USA.		 Session 1b
Moderator: Hal Weary, Assistant Professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA.
  1. Ning Chia, Professor Emerita, Central College, USA.
    Title: Seal Impressions on the 1689 and 1860 Sino-Russian Treaties Material Culture on Diplomatic Culture.
  2. Ausra Vasiliauskiene, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.
    Title: The System of Stucco Decoration in the 17th Century Churches: Lithuanian Case.
  3. Sarah Lisette Chiesa, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, USA.
    Title: Being in our own Time.
  4. Alberto Bucciero, Researcher, Institute of Heritage Science – CNR, Italy.
    Francesco Valentino Taurino, Technologist, Institute of Heritage Science – CNR, Italy.
    Title: Conservation and Monitoring Cultural Assets through a Wireless Sensor Network IoT Platform.
  1. Martina Zschocke, Professor, Zittau Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
    Title: The Influence of Different Contexts and Contextual Changes on Creativity.
  2. Ayse Collins, Associate Professor, Bilkent University, Türkiye.
    Semih Yilmaz, Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, Türkiye.
    Title: Artistic Leisure Space as a Social Inclusion Path: Case of Seniors’ Art Experience in Türkiye.
  3. Raymond Kwong, Instructor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
    Ada Lo, Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
    Title: Developing Competencies of Global Citizenship through International Service-Learning Experiences.

 

11:30-13:00 Session 2
Session 2a
Moderator: Ning Chia, Professor Emerita, Central College, USA.		 Session 2b
Moderator: Ferika Ozer Sari, Associate Professor, Yaşar University, Türkiye.
  1. Jean Francois Desrosby, Dean, School of Music, University of Sherbrooke, Canada.
    Title: Biomechanical Optimization for Musical Creation on the Classical Guitar.
  2. Reyhan Polat, Research Assistant, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Türkiye.
    Yiğit Çırak, Researcher, Koç University, Türkiye.
    Title: A Feminist Approach through Interactive Technologies to Ithacan Penelope, to whom the Triad of Weaving, Woman, and Loyalty is Attributed.
  3. Maria Mirakhmedova, Independent Researcher, University of Calgary, Canada.
    Title: Understanding Music through the Concepts of Time and Space.
  1. Peter Baur, Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
    Title: Exploring the Role of Arts and Culture as a Mechanism to Integrate Economies.
  2. Danne Ojeda, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
    Title: “ONE AND THREE BOOKS” RNA-Textual Definitions for the Visualisation and Narrative Development for an Exhibition Interaction and Display.
  3. Arianna Visconti, Associate Professor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.
    Title: Preventing Cultural Losses: Regulating the Market in Artworks and Antiquities to Reduce Cultural Property Laundering and Cultural Property Trafficking.

 

 

13:00-14:30 Session 3
Session 3a
Moderator: Eliza Gardiner, Professor, Vancouver Island University, Canada.		 Session 3b
Moderator: Peter Baur, Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
  1. Oliver Thorndike, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
    Title: Exploring Transformative Experiences through Mystic-Type Encounters in Art and Psychedelics: Ego-Dissolution, Autobiographical Insights, and Philosophical Implications Case Study Robert Musil’s “Die Amsel”.
  2. Rachel Yvonne Cruz, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.
    Title: Reclaiming the Narrative: Women’s and Femme (Non-Conforming) Voices in Afro-Latin and Indigenous Music.
  1. Hal Weary, Assistant Professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA.
    Title: Artistry, Industry, Technology, & Pedagogy: A Model for Educating 21st Century Musicians.
  2. JoAnn Thomas, Music Education Program Director, Providence College, USA.
    Title: Choice Meets Academic Emotions.
  3. Maria-Irini Avgoulas, Casual Academic, School of Health, Medical & Applied Sciences, CQUniversity Australia and Cultural Counselling and Consultancy, Australia.
    Rebecca Fanany, Senior Lecturer, CQUniversity, Australia.
    Title: The Orthodox Religion an Art of Strength, Resilience, and Explanation in Times of Crisis.
  4. Anna Gudjonsdottir, Artist – Teacher, Member of the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists & The Association of Teachers in Upper Secondary Schools, Technical College Reykjavik, Iceland.
    Title: Dexiosis.

14:30-15:30 Lunch

15:30-17:30 Session 4
Moderator: Rachel Yvonne Cruz, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.
  1. Monika Karwaszewska, Professor, Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, Poland.
    Beata Oryl, Assistant Professor, Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, Poland.
    Title: Baltic Impression – Immersive Technology Performance.
  2. Mark Konewko, Professor, University Carillonneur & Director of Chorus, Marquette University, USA.
    Title: Relationship and Interaction: A Model for the 21st Century Populace in the Organ Work “Dieu Parmi Nous” of Olivier Messiaen.
  3. Alexia Georgakopoulos, Professor, Nova Southeastern University, USA.
    Title: Power of Film and Social Media for Conflict Transformation in Ukraine and Around the Globe    .
  4. Eric Handman, Associate Professor, University of Utah, USA.
    Title: “Daedalus Dreams” – Human-Drone Interactivity in Performance.
  5. Zerrin Agabigum Martin, PhD Candidate, University of Florida, USA.
    Title: The Supremes and The Ronettes: Issues of Feminine Archetypes and Femininity; Musical Group Identity Informed by Race and Gender Roles of the 1960s.
  6. Gregory Garvey, Professor, Quinnipiac University, USA.
    Title: Terms of Service: Coming to Terms with AI Generated Art in the Classroom.

20:00-21:30
Dinner

Tuesday 11 June 2024

09:00-10:30 Session 5
Moderator: Oliver Thorndike, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
  1. David Philip Wick, Professor (Retired), Gordon College, USA.
    Title: A Bit Adrift in Space and Time, But Still Speaking the Lessons that Resonate – A Glimpse or Two at the Classical Athenian Theater’s Survival and Translation into the World of Rome.
  2. Carl Sage, Assistant Professor, Fort Hays State University, USA.
    Title: Child Soldiers of Verona: The Antiauthoritarian Antiwar Subtext of Romeo and Juliet.
  3. Tamara Yasmin Quick, Project Coordinator, Dramaturg, Research Associate, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
    Title: Liminoide Interaction Spaces in Contemporary Theatermusicking (in the German Speaking Area).
  4. Eliza Gardiner, Professor, Vancouver Island University, Canada.
    Title: Inclusive Theatre Collective (Hooray!): An Alternative Performing Arts Program at VIU.

 

10:30-12:00 Session 6
Moderator: Elena Rovenko, Researcher, ACCRA Laboratory, Strasbourg University, France.
  1. Konstantin Zenkin, Vice-Rector, Professor, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia.
    Title: Aesthetic Deconstruction of R. Wagner’s Mythological Time in the Operas of R. Strauss.
  2. Nataliia Ryzhkova, PhD Student, Leipzig University, Germany.
    Title: Vincent d’Indy’s View of French Wagnerism in Opera.
  3. Khristina Jishkariani, Master of Musicology, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia.
    Title: Wagner’s Music as an Element of the Semantic and Musical Structure of Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalous and L’Age d’Or.
  4. Noah Fang, Lecturer, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China.
    Title: Wandering Between Loss and Gain: A Cross-disciplinary Exploration of the Opera Paradise Interrupted.

 

12:00-13:30 Session 7
Moderator: Konstantin Zenkin, Vice-Rector, Professor, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia.
  1. Stacie Rossow, Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University, USA.
    Title: Defining the Irish Choral Nationalists: The Composers and their Music.
  2. Young Ran, Associate Professor, Sichuan Conservatory of Music, China.
    Title: The Alienation Effect of Socially Engaged Behavioral Images.
  3. Serena Massimo, Adjunct Professor, University of Ferrara, Italy.
    Title: The Dance Between Us. The Emerge of Dance from a State of “Suspension” Between Gravity, Pathicity, and “Atmospheric Resonance”.
  4. Elena Rovenko, Researcher, ACCRA Laboratory, Strasbourg University, France.
    Title: On the Question of Intertextuality in Ivan Mosjoukine’s Film Le Brasier Ardent (1923).

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Session 8
Moderator: Evangelia Kasimati, Head, Tourism, Leisure & Recreation Unit, ATINER.
  1. Anne Gere, Professor, University of Michigan, USA.
    Title: Civilization and Culture from the Indigenous Perspective.
  2. Huizhe Zhang, Associate Professor, Communication University of China, China.
    Cao Xiaotong, Graduate Student, Communication University of China, China.
    Zhang Haoyu, Graduate Student, Communication University of China, China.
    Title: From Class to Place: A Scholarly Examination of an Art Collective’s Social Practices and a New Strategy of Participatory Culture.
  3. Caroline Martins, PhD Student, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain.
    Title: Tourists as Contemporary Pilgrims? Engagements and Representations of Byzantine Art and Culture in the Global Visitor Market.
  4. Antonio C. Cuyler, Professor, University of Michigan, USA.
    Title: Cultural Tourism, Economics, & Caste: Choosing among Approaches to Explore the Impacts on the U. S. Creative Economy.

 

17:30-20:30 Session 9
Old and New-An Educational Urban Walk
The urban walk ticket is not included as part of your registration fee. It includes transportation costs and the cost to enter the Parthenon and the other monuments on the Acropolis Hill. The urban walk tour includes the broader area of Athens. Among other sites, it includes: Zappion, Syntagma Square, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Ancient Roman Agora and on Acropolis Hill: the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, and the Parthenon. The program of the tour may be adjusted, if there is a need beyond our control. This is a private event organized by ATINER exclusively for the conference participants.

20:30-22:30
Athenian Early Evening Symposium (includes in order of appearance: continuous academic discussions, dinner, wine/water, music)

Wednesday 12 June 2024
An Educational Visit to Selected Islands
or Mycenae Visit

Thursday 13 June 2024
Visiting the Oracle of Delphi

Friday 14 June May 2024
Visiting the Ancient Corinth and Cape Sounion



 


Conference Venue: 9 Chalkokondili Street, 10677 Athens, Greece


 


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