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3rd Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 31st of March 2010 and 1-3 April 2010, Athens, Greece.

 

Conference Venue: St George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel, 2 Kleomenous Street, Kolonaki, Athens.

Organized by: ATINEP A.E. (atinerae@atiner.gr)

Administration personnel: Fani Balaska, Stavroula Kiritsi, Eirini Lentzou, Katerina Maraki, Sylia Sakka.

 

Academic and Organization Committee:

·              Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER.

·              Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER & Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece.

·              Dr. Angelos Tsaklanganos, Professor, University of Nicosia, Cyprus & Emeritus Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

·              Dr. Panagiotis Petratos, Head, Computer Research Unit, ATINER & Associate Professor, California State University, Stanislaus, USA.

·              Dr. Cleopatra Veloutsou, Head, Marketing Research Unit, ATINER & Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Department of Business and Management, University of Glasgow, Scotland.

·              Dr. John Vlachogiannis, Deputy Head, Environment & Agriculture Research Unit, ATINER.

·              Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Professor, Sam Houston University, USA and Vice-President of ATINER

·              Dr. Ioannis Stivachtis, Head, Politics & International Affairs Research Unit, ATINER & Director, International Studies Program Virginia Tech - Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA.

·              Dr. Ioanna Papadopoulou, Academic Member, ATINER & Lecturer, University of Thrace, Greece.

·              Dr. Mateo Rossi, Academic Member, ATINER & Professor, Sannio University, Italy.

·              Dr. Evangelia Aleksandru Sarlak, Academic Member, ATINER & Associate Professor, Isik University, Turkey.

·              Dr. Margarita Kefalaki, Researcher, ATINER & Instructor, ΑΤΕΙ Athens.

·              Christos Frantzeskakis, Researcher, ATINER.

 

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

(The time for each session includes at least 10 minutes coffee break)

 

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

08:00 - 08:30 Registration

08:30 - 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, Director, ATINER.

Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER & Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece.

 

09:00 - 10:30 Session I: Ancient Mediterranean

Chair: Katsas, G.A., Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER & Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece.

1.      Bin Seray, H., Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University, UAE. Trade, Commodities and the Palmyrenes between the Mediterranean World and the Arabian Gulf Region: From the 1st Century B.C. to the 2nd Century A.D.

2.      Tek, A.T., Associate Professor, Anadolu University, Turkey. Annona: Grain Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean in Roman Imperial Period.

3.      Pala. E., Post-Doc., University of Cagliari, Italy. Between Ritual and Offering. Meaning and Use of Attic Pottery on the Athenian Acropolis.

4.      Iliev, J., Ph.D. Student, “St. Clement of Ohrid” Sofia University, Bulgaria. Rhodope Mountains and the Thracian Campaigns of the Macedonian King Philip II (359 – 336 BC).

5.      Che, J., Professor, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea. Eleusis and Athens: The flexibility of Political Structure and Regional Links in the Ancient Greek Polis.

 

10:30 - 12:30 Session II: History

Chair: Che, J., Professor, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea.

1.       Buzard, J., Professor & Head of the Literature Department, MIT, USA. Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons of Cyprus.

2.       Oransay, A., Assistant Professor, Anadolu University, Turkey. Lycia and the Roman Army (The Military Activities of the Roman Army in the Eastern Mediterranean in the view of Asia Minor's Southern Shore).

3.       Evans, J., Professor, University of Minnesota, USA. Female Sexuality and Prostitution in Early Christianity.

4.       Papuccular, H., Ph.D. Student, Bogazici University, Turkey. Italian Mare Nostrum Policy and the Formulation of the Interwar Turkish Foreign Policy in Response.

5.       Akincilar, N., Research Assistant, Okan University, Turkey. Military Interventions in Greece and Turkey.

6.       Soykal Alanyali, F., Associate Professor, Anadolu University, Turkey. The Birth in the Cult Life in the Light of Terracotta Votive Figurine in Ephesus.

7.       Alanyali, H.S., Associate Professor, Anadolu University, Turkey. he Roman Pantheon of Side.

 

 

12:30 - 14:00 Session III: Economics & Business

Chair: Petratos, P., Head, Computer Research Unit, ATINER & Associate Professor, California State University, Stanislaus, USA

1.      Winckler, O., Professor, University of Haifa, Israel. The Impact of the World Economic Recession on Rentier Economies: The Case of the GCC Countries.

2.      Depeyrot, G., Professor, Centre of Research History, CNRS/EHESS, France. Monetary History, Economic, Trade.

3.      Akkoyunlu Wigley, A., Associate Professor, Hacettepe University, Turkey. Static Resource Allocation Effects of Customs Union with European Union on Turkish Manufacturing Industry.

4.      Al-Mejren, A., Associate Professor, Kuwait University, Kuwait. EU-GCC Energy Cooperation between Reality and Possibility.

5.      Santoro, F., Researcher, University Ca’ Foscari, Italy, Soriani, S., Researcher, University Ca’ Foscari, Italy & Zanetto, G., Researcher, University Ca’ Foscari, Italy. Measuring the Effectiveness of International Cooperation in the Mediterranean: The Case of Map Pap/Rac.

6.      Alrawi, K., Director, MBA Programme, Al-Ain University of Science and Technology, UAE. Outsourcing: Pros and Cons for International Business and Strategy Implementation.

 

14:00 - 15:00 Lunch

 

15:00 – 16:30 Session IV: Politics

Chair: Tsaklanganos, A., Professor, University of Nicosia, Cyprus & Emeritus Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

1.      Delanoe, I., Professor, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France. The Impact of the Russian speaking Israeli Citizens on the Present Russian Israeli Relationships.

2.      Bayeh, J., Lecturer & Coordinator of Political Science, Haigazian University, Lebanon. Redressing The Imbalance: Lebanon's Dependency on Its Regional and International Environment.

3.      Yaman, D., Ph.D. Student, University of Otago, New Zealand. Turkey Seeks U.S. Support against the Soviet Union, 1945-1948.

4.      Nugent, E., Master Student, Georgetown University, USA. Hizbullah at the Voting Booth: Pragmatism in Lebanese Domestic Politics.

 

16:30 – 18:00 Session V: Development

Chair: Vlachogiannis, J., Deputy Head, Environment & Agriculture Research Unit, ATINER.

1.      Ben-Meir, Y., Assistant Professor, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Regionalization of Morocco with the Western Sahara: Approaches and Implications.

2.      Florio, R., Assistant Professor, Regis College, USA. Cultural Memory in a Mediterranean Village: The Sea is not your Friend.

 

 

20:30 - 22:30 GREEK NIGHT AND DINNER (Details during registration) 

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

 

09:00 - 10:30 Session VI: Society and Culture

Chair: Rubarth, S., Associate Professor, Rollins College, USA.

1.       Oymen Dikmen, G., Assistant Professor, Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey. Marketing the City of İstanbul as the European Capital of Culture 2010. (Thursday, April 1st, 2010)

2.       Getz, S., Lecturer, Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel. Higher Education Preferences in Israel: Center and Periphery Compared.

3.       Cayli, B., Ph.D. Student, University of Camerino, Italy. The Fight of the Civil Society Against Italian Mafia.

4.       Varriale, R., Researcher, Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies, Italian National Council of Research, Italy. The Mediterranean Underground Identity.

 

10:30 - 12:00 Session VII: The Ottoman Mediterranean World and Society

Chair: Depeyrot, G., Professor, Centre of Research History, CNRS/EHESS, France

1.       Ergul, E., Assistant Professor, Izmir University, Turkey & Saf, O., Ph.D. Student, Izmir University, Turkey. Ottoman House Types within the Context of Transformation in Family Type of 19th Century.

2.       Kassab, E.S., Lecturer, Lebanese American University, Lebanese. Post-Ottoman Greeks, Turks and Arabs on Culture, Identity and Enlightenment.

3.       Schuller, T., Lecturer, University of Bonn, Germany. Europe’s Relations to Christian Minorities of the Ottoman Empire – seen through Egyptian Muslim Eyes.

 

12:00 - 13:30 Session VIII: Philosophy

Chair: Schuller, T., Lecturer, University of Bonn, Germany.

1.       Rubarth, S., Associate Professor, Rollins College, USA. Nature and Masculinity in Ancient Stoicism. (Thursday, 1st of April, 2010)

2.       Stankiewicz, P., Ph.D. Student, University of Warsaw, Poland. Stoicism - Philosophy of Escapism or of the Social Commitment?

 

13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH

 

16:00 - 19:00 Urban Walk (Details during registration)

 

20:00 - 21:30 Dinner (Details during registration)

 

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Cruise: Departure at 07:15 Return at 20:30 (Details during registration)

 

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Delphi Visit: Departure at 08:00 Return at 19:00 (Details during registration) 

 

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