(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 3 June 2024
08.30-09.15
Registration
09:15-09:45
Opening and Welcoming Remarks:
- Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER.
09:45-11:30 Session 1
Moderator: Aleksandra Tryniecka, Deputy Head, Literature Unit, ATINER & Adjunct Professor Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Poland.
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- William Davis, Professor, Colorado College, USA.
Title: Schelling, Hegel, and the Marbles of Aegina.
- Nicholas Meihuizen, Extraordinary Professor, North-West University, South Africa.
Title: Some Thoughts on Humour in Yeatsian Style.
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11:30-13:00 Session 2
Moderator: William Davis, Deputy Head, Literature Unit, ATINER & Professor, The Colorado College, USA. |
- James Kirkland, Professor, East Carolina University, USA.
Title: From “Little Red Riding Hood” to “The Company of Wolves” and Beyond: Representations of the Werewolf in Folklore, Fiction, and Popular Culture.
- Elizabeth Dahab, Professor, California State University, Long Beach, USA.
Title: The Rebirth of Ganesh in Nobel Prize Laureate VS Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur.
- Aleksandra Tryniecka, Assistant Professor, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland.
Title: Is Marrying Ernest a Bad Idea? Women’s Desire and Men’s Self-Image in Oscar Wilde’s the Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
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13:00-14:30 Session 3
Moderator: Elizabeth Dahab, Professor, California State University, Long Beach, USA.
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- Wei-cheng Chu, Associate Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Title: Queering Solitude in Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man.
- Anisha Saxena, Assistant Professor, SUNY Cortland, USA.
Title: Group of Lovers or RApe: Narratives of Sexual Assault from Premodent South Asia Literature.
- Murat Gokmen, Lecturer & Dean of Research, Düzce University, Türkiye., MA student in Quds Studies (in English) & Ankara Social Sciences University,Türkiye., MA student in Turkish Language Teaching Studies (in Turkish) & Düzce University Türkiye, MSc student in International Relations and Diplomacy (in English) & Leiden University, Netherland.
Title: Challenging Gender Norms: A Critical Analysis of the Witch’s Role in Rapunzel retold by Mary Hoffman.
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14:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-17:00 Session 4
Moderator: Sotiria Rita Koutsopetrou-Møler, PhD Candidate, University of Agder, Norway. |
- Agata Czapiewska, PhD Student, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland.
Title: Vilnius Theater “Reduta” with Przybyszewski on Stage – A Study of Polish – Vilnius Experimental Theater.
- Justinus Pieper, Scientific Researcher, Technical Vocational Didactics (TVD), University of Siegen, Germany.
Title: The Classical World Revisited: Some Benefits for Today and Tomorrow.
- Evangelia Şarlak, Professor, Işık Üniversity, Türkiye.
Ruhiye Onurel, Lecturer, Istanbul Beykent University, Türkiye.
Title: Integration of Icon Symbolism in Contemporary Turkish Art and Stylistic Experiences.
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20:30-22:30
Athenian Early Evening Symposium (includes in order of appearance: continuous academic discussions, dinner, wine/water, music)
Tuesday 4 June 2024
09:00-10:30 Session 5
Moderator: Moshe Gat, Professor Emeritus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. |
- Steven Oberhelman, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and George Sumey Professor of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, USA.
Title: Byzantine and Postbyzantine Laic Texts: Navigating the Public and Private Spheres.
- Irma Karaulashvili, Associate Professor, Ilia State University, Georgia.
Title: Ruler-Apostle Chosen by God in the Byzantine and Georgian Narratives on the Christianization of Georgia/Karthli.
- Monika Szczot, Associate Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Title: Between Imitation and Emulation. The Ancient Symposium in Polish Literature – An Attempt to Describe the Cultural Phenomenon on Selected Literary Examples.
- Manhal Frayh, Associate Professor, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia.
Title: The Impossibility of the American Dream in John Steinbeck’s of Mice and Men.
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10:30-12:00 Session 6
Moderator: Murat Gokmen, Lecturer & Dean of Research, Düzce University, Türkiye., MA student in Quds Studies (in English) & Ankara Social Sciences University,Türkiye., MA student in Turkish Language Teaching Studies (in Turkish) & Düzce University Türkiye, MSc student in International Relations and Diplomacy (in English) & Leiden University, Netherland. |
- Houliang Chen, Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
Title: A Troubling, Permanent Alien Presence: Representation of Chinese Immigrants in Charles Kingsley’s at Last: A Christmas in The West Indies.
- John T. P. Lai, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Title: Abyss and Anxiety: Cross-Cultural Reception of The I Ching in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle.
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12:00-13:30 Session 7
Moderator: Nicholas Meihuizen, Extraordinary Professor, North-West University, South Africa. |
- Liu Lin, Professor, Shandong University, China.
Title: The Odes’ Recitation in Zuozhuan and Reader-Response Criticism.
- Shokhan Fatah, Permanent Teaching Staff, Charmo University, Iraq.
Title: A Linguistic-Stylistic Analysis of Maya Angelou’s “Our Grandmothers”.
- Simonetta Milli Konewko, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
Title: Grazia Deledda and her Sardinian Cultural Identity.
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13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Session 8
Moderator: Arnaud Nanta, Professor, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. |
- Junchang Yang, Professor, Institute of Culture and Heritage, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.
Title: Technological Study of Ancient Gilded Copper Granulations During The Sui and Tang Periods (6th-10th Century).
- Yan Liu, Associate Professor, Institute of Culture and Heritage, China.
Title: Early Granulated Gold Ornaments in Xinjiang: A Case Study on the Baiyanghe Excavations (4th-3rd C. BCE) in the Southern Junggar Basin.
- Huan Yang, Associate Professor, Institute of Culture and Heritage, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.
Title: A Study on Lost Wax Casting in China from the Casting Method of the Bronze Chariots Unearthed from the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang Di.
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17:00-20:00 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. |
20:30-22:00
Dinner
Wednesday 5 June 2024
An Educational Visit to Selected Islands
or Mycenae Visit
Thursday 6 June 2024
Visiting the Oracle of Delphi
Friday 7 June May 2024
Visiting the Ancient Corinth and Cape Sounion
