Organisers: International Centre for Studies on Arts and Humanities (ICSAH), Dante Alighieri Society Nicosia, University of Nicosia
The conference gathered 45 speakers from all around the world (the USA, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Cyprus, France, Italy, Armenia, Romania, Croatia, India, Ukraine and Israel) to discuss the role of prominent women in literature, art, history and philosophy in order to emphasize the figure of the woman in different cultural and disciplinary contexts.. The event is designed as the first from a series of conferences focused on women and more broadly gender research.
4 June 2019
09.00. Registration.
09.30: Welcome speeches
10.00: Dr. Anna Natkanska, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland: “Tu che sei stata me”. Analisi di alcuni esempi della poesia italiana femminista. (In Italian)
10.30: Prof. Anna Tylusińska-Kowalska, University of Warszawa: “Dalla Bielorussia alla Siberia: vita breve e opera politica e sociale di grande umanità di Maria Bohuszewicz (1865-1887), cofondatrice e leader del “Wielki Proletariat”, la prima Internazionale polacca”. (In Italian).
11.00: Coffee Break.
11.15: Prof. Margherita Verdirame, Università di Catania: “Una protagonista del femminismo novecentesco italiano: Sibilla Aleramo”. (In Italian).
11.45: Dr. Oksana Gula, Ukrainian Research Institute (URIAARK): “Valeria O'Connor-Vilinska: life as a memory”. (In English).
12.15: Prof. Margherita Cecchelli, Sapienza Università di Roma: Gli interventi di Elena, Vestina e Galla Patricia per la “costruzione” della Roma cristiana”. (In Italian).
12.45 Lunch Break.
14.30: Prof. Francesca Pandimiglio, ISS Midossi, MIUR: “La figura della donna artista dall’antichità al XXI secolo”. (In Italian).
15.00: Dr. Francesca Ceci, Musei Capitolini and Dr. Annarita Martini, Independent Researcher, “Fondare città, maledire città: le monete e la tripla vita di Didone, tra Fenicia, Cartagine e Roma”. (In Italian).
15.30: Dr. Sabina Antonini: Monumenta Orientalia: “La vie des femmes qui ont vécu dans l’ancienne Arabie du Sud – la célèbre Arabia Felix – entre le ixesiècle avant J.-C. et le ive siècle après, sur le territoire du Yémen d’aujourd’hui”. (In French)
16.00: Dr. Maria Paola Del Moro, Museo dei Fori Imperiali and Dr. Daniela Tabò, Musei Capitolini: “Le trame del potere: la filatura e la tessitura come simboli di rango femminile”. (In Italian).
16.30. Dr. Valentina Limina, Università di Pisa: “Women, families, and strategies of power: the case of the gens Caecina” (centuries 1st-6th AD). (In English)
17.00: Dr. Monica Ricciardi, Collaboratrice Musei Vaticani, Roma: “Il pellegrinaggio di Egeria. Un ponte tra l’Occidente e l’Oriente”. (In Italian)
17.30: Dr. Sandrine Prevot, ICSAH, CEIAS, Paris, France and Prof. Umberto Mondini, ICSAH: “Bharat Mata, l’image de la femme idéale et l’idéologie patriarcale”. (In French)
5 June 2019
09.00: Welcome by the Rector Prof. Philippos Pouyioutas, H E the Ambassador of Italy Dr Andrea Cavallari, and Dr Christodoulos Hadjichristodoulou of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
09.30: Prof. Mario Mastrangelo, Università Tor Vergata, Roma: “I Premi Nobel al Femminile: Un’Analisi Statistica”. (In Italian). 10,00: Prof. Franco Salvatori and Prof. Alessadro Ricci, Università di Tor Vergata, Roma: “Agli albori della globalizzazione: donne pirata e viaggiatrici che scoprirono il mondo”. (In Italian).
10,30: Prof. Paolo Giuntarelli, Università di Tor Vergata, Roma: “Esserci per Cambiare il Mondo: Tina Anselmi”. (In Italian).
11,00: Coffee Break.
11,15: Prof. Florinda Nardi, Università di Tor Vergata, Roma: “Donna, moglie, madre, attrice, poetessa, accademica: Isabella Andreini e le origini della Commedia dell’Arte”. (In Italian).
11,45: Prof. Cristiano Luciani, Università di Tor Vergata, Roma: Η μορφή της γυναίκας στη λογοτεχνία της Κρήτης και της Κύπρου κατά το 15ο μέχρι το 17ο αιώνα. (In Greek).
12,15: Dr. Alessandra Cerrito, Sovraintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, Roma: “Il Laterano nella Tarda Antichità: Un’Area a Vocazione Femminile?”. (In Italian).
12,45: Lunch Break.
14,30: Dr. Christoffer Dahl, Swedish at University of Kristianstad: “Selma Lagerlöf in literature textbooks: Voices and Legitimations”. (In English).
15,00: Dr. Chrysovalantis Steiakakis, Open University of Cyprus: “Salome as the representation of the femme fatale icon in the art of the European Symbolism: An iconographical, sociological, psychoanalytical approach”. (In English).
15,30: Dr. Ida Ograjšek Gorenjak, University of Zagreb, Croatia: “Women journalists in interwar Yugoslavia”. (In English).
16.00: Dr. Frank Shapiro, Independent Researcher, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: “A Case for a Woman Pope”. (In English).
16,30: Dr. Dana Radler, Bucharest University of Economic Studies: “Olympian Gods and Mortals: Eurydice and Orpheus in Ion D. Sirbu’s Farwell, Europe!” (In English).
17,00: Giulia Moretti Cursi, Università di Tor Vergata, Roma: “L’arte del mostrare “lo intrinsico con lo estrinsico”: l’esaltazione delle virtù femminili nei disegni di Pirro Ligorio nell’inedito Ms. LONDON Coll. Del Duca Roberto Ferretti 216”. (In Italian).
17,30: : Dr. Nisreen T. Yousef, Middle East University, Jordan: “Depictions of Arab and Muslim Women in Shadow of the Swords”. (In English).
6 June 2019
09.00: Prof. Berest Valeriia, NCCA-ROSIZO, Moscow, Russia: “Coming to Terms With Myth: A Personal Story of Alisa Poret”. (In English).
09.30: Dr. Ana Batinić, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia: “Marija Kumičić – a Croatian authoress and cultural worker“. (In English).
10.00: Dr. Brygida Pudełko, University of Opole, Opole, Poland: “Woman’s rebellion against social inequality in H.G. Wells’s Ann Veronica”. (In English).
10.30: Aureo Lustosa Guerios, Università di Padova: “Epidemics and Gender: the representation of Tuberculosis, Syphilis and Cholera as female in the 19th century literature”. (In English).
11.00: Coffee Break.
11.15: Antonella Piscitello, Università di Palermo: “Le donne che hanno fatto la Sicilia”. (In Italian).
11.45: Anna Hunanyan, Sapienza Università di Roma: “Lady Anna: Keran-Queen of Cilician Armenia and her Patriotic Actions towards the Country”. (In English).
12.45: Lunch Break.
14,30: Dr. Teodora Narcisa Giurgiu, University of Bucharest: “Art (Re)Presenting History: Anna and the King”. (In English).
15.00: Dr Dhiraj Kumar, Ambedkar University Delhi, India: “Caste of Women – An inquiry into the differences in inter-caste marriages in a Adivasi Samaj and Other”. (In English).
15,30: Prof. Maria Angelillo, Università di Milano: “Gulabo Sapera: Gulabo Sapera and the creation of Kalbeliya dance”. (In English).
16.00: Prof. Preciado Valtierra Daniel Anselmo, Universidad Anáhuac México, Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum: “Hildegard von Bingen: knowledge that becomes transmission”. (In English).
16.30: Dr Eirini Kampriani, University of Cyprus, “Women writing through the looking glass; On the power and potential of disease autoethnography”(In English). 17.00: Cheng Gezhi, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Le parcours du personnage féminin dans la réception du théâtre occidental en Chine au début du XXesiècle. (En Français).
17.30: Abel Anderson J Okoro and Dr. Emmanuel A. Eneh, National Open University of Nigeria: “Inspirational Impact Values Of A Hero/Shero: “Helen Keller”Who Redefined Deaf And Blind By Giving Meaning To Many Lives As Role Model”. (In English).
18,00: Dr. Consuelo Ballarino, Sapienza Università di Roma: “Caterina Cornaro, L’Ultima Regina di Cipro”. (In Italian).
7 June 2019
09.00: Soham Das & Bhagyashree Bagchi, Presidency University, Kolkata: “India: Who’s in Control?: Question of Agency of Women in Higher Politic”. (In English).
09.30: Prof. Rossitza Ivanova, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA and Prof. Tanya Darvenova, University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria: “In Plain Sight: Women, Representation and Advertising”. (In English).
10.00: Dr. Rossie Artemis, University of Nicosia: “Reading Love with Murdoch: Philosophy and Literature in the Work of Iris Murdoch”. (In English).
10.30: Dr. Ofélia Nikolova, Valdosta State University, Georgia, USA: “The Making of Marguerite Duras, a Visionary of Love and Loss in French Literary History”. (In English).
11.00: Coffee Break.
11.15: Dr. Elena Stoican, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies: “Women in transition: from (post)communist Romania to the United States”. (In English).
11.45: Dr. Dominika Czakon, Jagiellonian University, Poland: “The Polish Mother - woman who made history. The perpetuation of the figure in Polish art and culture”. (In English).
12.15: Dr. Leszek Sosnowski, Jagiellonian University, Poland: “Izydora Dambska: The Socrates of Cracow”. (In English).
12.45: Dr. Natalia Anna Michna, Jagiellonian University, Poland: “A Feminist in a Patriarchal Academic Institution: The Life and Philosophy of the Polish Aesthetician Maria Gołaszewska (1926‒2015)”. (In English).