2026 BYZ PRO

1. Margaret Venzke, Associate Professor, Stetson University, USA.
   Title: The Ottoman Farm-Tax System Reconsidered in Light of the Conquered Syrian Lands in the 16^th Century.
2. Debby Sneed, Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach, USA.
   Title: Disability Exemptions for Ancient Greek Military Service.
3. Andrew Erwin, Senior Academic Director of Adelphi International & Adjunct Professor, Adelphi University, USA.
   Title: Democracy and Higher Education in Classical Athens: Reflections on the Future of a Historical Antagonism.
4. Elanij Swart, Lecturer, University of South Africa, South Africa.
   Title: Water Manipulation as a Show of Power: The Case of Herod the Great.

1. Adam Miyashiro, Professor, Stockton University, USA.
   Title: The Global Alexander Romance: A Trans-Cultural Text Network.
2. Bernard Odendaal, Extraordinary Professor, North-West University, South Africa.
   Title: Manifestations of Sensory Perception in Some Poems included in two Digital Byderhand Installations at Worcester, South Africa.
3. Anush Sedrakyan, Chair of Foreign Literature, Yerevan State University, Armenia.
   Title: The Principles of Pagan and Christian Values.
4. Claudiu-Liviu Onisoara, PhD Student, University of Craiova, Romania.
   Title: The King’s Sleep in the Book of Esther. Insomnia as a Turning Point in Ancient Texts.

1. Nil Nadire Geliskan, Research Fellow, İzmir Institute of Technology, Türkiye.
   Title: Understanding the Built Environment in the İzmir Palimpsest: Architecture and Settlement In İzmir from the Perspective of Architecture Students.
2. Daniel Varga, Archaeologist, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel.
   Title: A Villa and a Hiding Underground System from the Late Second Temple Period in the Judean Lowlands.
3. Dov Tamarkin, Researcher, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
   Title: Echoes of Harmony: The Golden Ratio in the Design of Greek and Roman Theatres.
4. Julian Degraft-Johnson, Student, Prairie View A&M University, USA.
   William Batson, Professor/Director, CURES, Prairie View A&M University, USA.
   Title: Reconstructing History: A 3D Visualization of a Roman Bath.

1. Magdalen Ki, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
   Title: Poe and the Criminal Mind.
2. Sanja Grakalic Plenkovic, Assistant Professor & Head Librarian, Polytechnic of Rijeka, Croatia.
   Title: Between Aestheticism and Fairy-Tale Poetics: A Comparative View of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić and Oscar Wilde.
3. Darius Branche, Teaching Assistant & Instructor, Duquesne University, USA.
   Title: Roots and Skeletons: Interpreting Cesaire Beyond the Dichotomy.
4. Orly Kayam, Language & Rhetoric Expert, Levinsky-Wingate Academic Center, Israel.
   Title: The Rhetoric of Language Teaching.

1. David Philip Wick, Retired Professor of History, Gordon College, USA.
   Title: A Tale of Two Science Schools in the Ancient Aegean: How the Characters (and Focus) of the Epicurean Schools in Athens and on Rhodes Diverged in the Late Roman Republic.
2. Roy Domenico, Professor, The University of Scranton, USA.
   Title: Getting the Popes’ Goat: Roger Peyrefitte from Paris to Athens to Rome.
3. Edward Bormashenko, Professor, Ariel University, Israel.
   Title: History and Time Evolution of the Symmetry of Alphabet Symbols and Its Quantification: Study in the Archaeology of Symmetry.
4. Aaron Plattner, Independent Researcher, University of Graz, Austria/Greece.
   Title: To Be or Not to Be: The (Apparently) Lost Arcadian Cities in Strabo’s Geography and Pausanias’ Description of Greece.
5. Kathleen Ann O’Donnell, Independent Researcher, British School at Athens, Greece.
   Title: How Was Celtic Resistance Poetry in English Used in the Nineteenth Century in the Balkans and Anatolia to Save Europe from Future Wars?

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1. Eleni Kontogianni, PhD Candidate, University of Strasbourg, France.
   Title: Medea the Barbarian, the Stranger, the Foreigner, and the Friend. Euripides’ Medea in the Light of the Peloponnesian War.
2. Ranko Kozic, Professor (Retired), University of Belgrade, Serbia.
   Title: Aelian’s Historical Miscellany: Amateurish Journalism or a Primary Source for the History of Ideas?
3. Alison Lee Naidoo, Lecturer, University of South Africa, South Africa.
   Title: Ancient Greece and Modern Africa: Homeric Marriage and Funerary Customs in an African Context.
4. Fahad Al-Otaibi, Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
   Title: Some Greek Deities Worshipped in Ancient Arabia.
5. Ori Z Soltes, Teaching Professor, Georgetown University, USA.
   Title: The Casting and Recasting of Reality: From Mythos to Historia to History and Myth.

1. Claudine Dauphin, Research Fellow, Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS), Jordan.
   Title: Wheat and Wine: Wadi Agriculture and Viticulture in the “Garden of the Lord” at Byzantine and Umayyad Kastron Mefa’a (Umm Ar-Rasas) and its “Satellites” on the Edge of the Jordanian Desert.
2. Asli Varol, Independent Researcher, Türkiye.
   Title: Byzantine Court Diplomacy: Strategic Communication for Imperial Image.
3. Seyed Salam Fathi, PhD Candidate, University of Catania, Italy.
   Title: The Transmutation of Kufic Script in the Mediterranean: Artistic Appropriation and Norman Legitimacy (10^th–15^th Centuries).
4. Ekaterina Tolmacheva, PhD Student, Russian State Pedagogical University (Herzen University), Russia.
   Title: Concept of the Supreme Power of Byzantium and Features of Its Reception by the Princes of Russia.

1. Nesrine Chahine, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, USA.
   Title: The Social Novel and Egyptian Literary Magazines.
2. Vjollca Dibra Ibrahimi, Dean of the Faculty of Philology, University “Ukshin Hoti” Prizren, Kosovo.
   Title: Avenging and Virtuous Women in Ancient Greek Literature.
3. Iyas Nasser, Lecturer, Hebrew University, Israel.
   Title: The Assertive Female Voice in Maysūn bint Baḥdal’s (d. c. 700) Poetry.
4. Stephanie de Villiers, Academic Programme Designer, Red & Yellow Creative School of Business, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
   Title: When the Power Shifts: Illegal Immigration, Gender Dynamics, and Mental Illness in Mira T. Lee’s Everything Here Is Beautiful.

1. Eliezer Tauber, Full Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
   Title: The Origins of Social Darwinism in the Arab East.
2. Xiaoli Qin, Professor, Fudan University, China.
   Title: Cultural Interaction and Influence during the Erligang Period: An Analysis Based on Decorative Ritual Artifacts.
3. Safwan Alnaddaf, Assistant Professor, Damascus University, Syria.
   Title: The Two Wings of Civilization: A Critical Reading of the Disjunction between the Natural and Human Sciences.
4. Juan Pablo Quintero Guzman, Curator-Archaeologist, Museo del Oro, Banco de la República, Colombia.
   Title: Archaeological Style and Cultural Unity: Rethinking the Identity of Archaeological Regions in Colombia.

1. William Davis, Professor, Colorado College, USA.
   Title: Lord Byron and the Greek War of Independence.
2. Michelle Faubert, Professor, University of Manitoba, Canada.
   Title: John Ferriar, Romantic Psychology, and Abolitionist Drama.
3. Christina Weiler, Director in Residence, Junior Year in Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
   Title: The Sea and the Mine as Metaphysical Environments in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Die Bergwerke zu Falun” (“The Mines of Falun,” 1819).
4. Joseph Rockelmann, German Language & Literature Teacher, Bavarian International School, Germany.
   Title: Childhood Trauma in Ludwig Tieck’s “Der blonde Eckbert” (1797).
5. Filip Bukowski, PhD Student, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
   Title: Folk Songs as an Integral Element of Polish Traditional Culture.