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4th International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 19-20 May 2022, LUISS University, Rome, Italy
Organisers: International Centre for Studies on Arts and Humanities (ICSAH), LUISS University, Pontificia Università Salesiana
40 speaker from various fields with a keen interest in increasing the understanding of the role of human mobility in the construction of cultural identities presented their research and exchanged ideas on a process that concerns all of us. The conference gathered academics from 15 countries representing universities, research centres and museums, as well as young scholars, independent researchers and graduate students.
Event Schedule
19 May 2022
08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00-10.00 Welcome speeches
1st Session CHAIR: Umberto Mondini
10.00-10.20 Alia Soliman, New York University Abu Dhabi: “Memories of the Migrant: Visual Expressions of Nostalgia in Sadik al Alfraji’s Art”.
10.20-10.40 Prof. Anna Tylusinska-Kowalska, Università di Varsavia: Niccolò Tommaseo, esule volontario a Parigi: qualche riflessione sullo sdoppiamento esistenziale che trova specchio nella scrittura autobiografica del Poeta (Diario intimo e Memorie poetiche).
10.40-11.10 Coffee break
11.10-11.30 Prof. Fazıl Kayıkçı. Yıldız Technical University: Neo-Malthusian Population Theory and Migration in Europe.
11.30-11.50 Dr. Fatma Çoban Kayıkçı, Yıldız Technical University: Socioeconomic Integration of Migrants in Turkey.
11.50-12.10 Prof. Nikolai Endres, Western Kentucky University: Sex and Sharia in Amsterdam: Migration, Inspiration, Transformation.
12.10-12.30 Dr. Kresimir Vukovic, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: Mobility in Ancient Italic Traditions: mobile groups of men and the wolves of Rome.
12.30-12.50 Dr. Christakis Christofi, University of Cyprus: Mobilité humaine et identité culturelle dans Iphigénie en Tauride de Goethe
12.50-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
2nd Session CHAIR: Marios Kamenou
14.30-14.50 Prof. Mara Matta, Sapienza Università di Roma: War and Migrations.
14.50-15.10 Prof. Luca Salvatelli, Centro Studi S. Rosa da Viterbo: Le Antiquitates anniane e la presunta migrazione di Noè/Giano nella Tuscia.
15.10-15.30 Prof. Marco Galdi, Università di Salerno: Migrazioni e futuro dell’identità nazionale.
15.30-15.50 Prof. Alfredo Coppa, Sapienza Università di Roma. Tutte le strade portano a Roma: anche etnie anatoliche, iraniane e delle steppe ucraine nel profilo genetico degli antenati della Città Eterna.
15.50-16.10 Col. Paolo Sottocorona. Serv. Meteorologoco Aeronautica Militare.La7: Cambiamento Climatico e Migrazioni.
16.10-16.30 Dr. Daniela Bucomino, Università di Milano: Le migrazioni minorili verso la Colonia del Capo nel contesto della New Poor Law del 1834. 16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-17.20 Vincenzo Toscano, Università di Milano: I migranti nel Magistero della Chiesa. Storie e vicende di un’attenzione plurisecolare.
17.20-17.40 Allison Ruman, Columbia University. The Transcultural Community of the Republic of Letters
17.40-18.00 Dr. Hartmut G. Ziche, University of French Guiana: Soldiers and migrants: barbarian warlords and non-combatants in late antiquity. 18.00-18.20 Dr. Kerasia A. Stratiki, Open University of Greece, Open University of Cyprus. Mobilité humaine et identité locale: Oedipe: de Thèbes à Athènes.
18.20-18.40 Dr. Gudrun Filipska, Lancaster University of the Arts UK. Proxmity and distance, new affinities and possibilities for artist's travel cultures in a post-covid world: Developing positions of solidarity and kinship with other mobile bodies.
18.40-19.00 Dr. Raika Khorshidian, University of Duisburg-Essen. Marcos Grigorian: An Armenian Immigrant Who Shifted the Paradigm of Modern Art in Iran
19.00-19.20 Prof. Elena Bouleti, Panteion University Athens, Cypriot migrants and refugees to Greece, Turkey, and Great Britain in the 60s and the 70s.The special characteristics of the migratory “cycles” of Cypriot Diaspora.
19.20-19.40 Prof. Natalia Anna Michna, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków: Deterritorialization as the Foundation of Female Identity: Feminist Aspects of Migration in the Works of Olga Tokarczuk
20.00- Conference Dinner
20 May 2022
3rd Session CHAIR: Francesca Ceci
08.30-08.50 Marios Kamenou, University of Graz: The dynamics of appropriation in the ancient world: the immigration of the Celts in the East.
08.50-09.10 Dr. Francesca Ceci, Musei Capitolini: Migrazioni di ritorno: esodi, sopravvissuti e missioni ai confini del mondo nella monetazione antica e moderna.
09.10-09.30 Prof. Margherita Cecchelli, Sapienza, Roma: Una forma di migrazione? Pellegrinaggi a Roma tra Tarda antichità e Altomedioevo”.
09.30-09.50 Dr. Valentina Limina: Università di Pisa: Demigratio, Exilium, Relegatio. Miti e realtà nella ‘mobilità privata’ dei secoli I a.C.-I d.C. 09.50-10.10 Dr. Antonella Piscitello: Università di Palermo: Tanos: gli italiani del Sud.
10.10-10.30 Dr. Annarita Martini, Società Italiana di Storia delle Religioni: Migrazione e conservazione dell’identità attraverso il sentimento e la pratica religiosa: Mitra un dio per tutto l’impero. 10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.20 Prof. Francesca Pandimiglio, MI-MIUR: L’apoteosi del potere nei mari della condottiera Artemisia I di Alicarnasso e le migrazioni delle flotte nel suo tempo.
11.20-11.40 Dr. Alexandra Nestorvic. Museo Nazionale Ptuj, Slovenia: Europa, Semitic ancestor of the Europeans.
11.40-12.20 Dr. Aleksandra Krauze-Kołodziej, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin: Both the East and the West – The Influences of Latin and Byzantine Tradition on the Example of the Basilica Santa Maria Assunta on Torcello Island.
12.20-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
4th Session CHAIR: Sandrine Prévot
14.00-14.20 Marta Roels, Università di Varsavia: Elia Kazan, a famous American stranger: some reflections on the identity crisis experienced in the director’s autobiographical writing and picture ("The Arrangement").
14.20-14.40 Prof. Jerzy Miziolek: Università di Varsavia: Ritratto di un emigrante.
14.40-15.00 Prof. Ofélia R. Nikolova, Valdosta State University, USA: Displacement, Love, and the Pursuit of Identity in Several Works of Marguerite Duras.
15.00-15.20 Prof. Francis Vincent, Università Pontificia Salesiana: Dravidian Migration and Tamil Culture in the Conglomeration of Indian Heritage. 15.20-15.40 Prof. Maria Angelillo, Università di Milano. La Diaspora Indiana: limiti e prospettive.
15.40-16.00 Dr. Verena Perko, Regional Museum Kranj, University of Ljubljana: Queen Barbara of Cili and spreading of humanism in holly roman empire: Statue of unknown Empress from façade OF princely palace in Celje (Slovenia) 16.00-16.20 Dr. Antonios Fragkakis, University of Strasbourg: The western version and transformation of traditional Chinese medicine.
16.20-16.50 Coffee break
16.50-17.10 Dr. Iefke van Kampen, Museo dell’Agro Veientano: Formello alla metà del XVI secolo: tracce di migrazioni in una piccola comunità della Tuscia.
17.10-17.30 Dr. Chrysovalantis Steiakakis: University of Cyprus: The mobility of Greek artists during the Dictatorship (1967-1974). Their contribution to the formation of the modern Greek cultural identity against the dominant nationalistic aesthetic ideology.
17.30-17.50 Prof. Francesca Maria Corrao, Luiss University. Il contributo delle migrazioni allo scambio culturale e allo sviluppo delle arti.
17.50-18.10 Prof. João Nunes, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Slaves’ mobility in Brazil in the 18th century: aspects of tolerance in the catechization/integration process and religious consequences.
18.10-18.40 Final Discussion
18.40-19.00 Dr. Sandrine Prévot, Prof. Umberto Mondini, ICSAH: Conclusive remarks.
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Women who made history
3rd International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 4-7 June 2019, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
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.
Event Schedule
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).
The victim as a cultural expression
2nd International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 5-8 June 2018, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Organisers: International Centre for Studies on Arts and Humanities (ICSAH), Dante Alighieri Society Nicosia, University of Cyprus
The 2nd International Conference on Arts and Humanities, entitled "The victim as a cultural expression: Representation, Perception, Symbolism", aimed to explore the various aspects of victim manifestation in literature, art, history and philosophy in order to offer a multidisciplinary interpretation of the conceptions, meanings and symbolisms behind this figure in different cultural and disciplinary contexts.
ICSAH and fellows
1st International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 23-25 June 2017, Alexander College, Larnaca, Cyprus,
Organisers: International Centre for Studies on Arts and Humanities (ICSAH), Dante Alighieri Society Nicosia, Alexander College Larnaca and Cornaro Art Institute.
The 1st International Conference on Arts and Humanities aimed to spread knowledge and bring together researchers and young scholars to exchange their experience related to various disciplines of the Arts and Humanities, such as Anthropology, Literature, Philosophy, History, History of Religions and Archaeology. The event was followed by an Art Exhibition. Selected papers were published in the Conference Proceedings.
Event Schedule
Friday 23rd June
09.00: Opening speech by Umberto Mondini.
Historical Section
09.30: Prof. Theodoros Mavrojannis, University of Cyprus
«Il testamento regio di Cirene in favore di Roma nel 155 a.C. e la posizione di Cipro nel regno dei Tolomei». (It.)
10.00: Marios Kamenou, Phd Candidate, University of Graz
«Il Culto Aniconico di Afrodite nell’antica Cipro». (It.)
10.30: Alina Dimitrova, Phd Candidate, University of Cyprus
« Kourotrophic iconography in ancient Cyprus »
Oriental Section
11.00: Prof. Sandrine Prévot, Université Paris X Nanterre
«Pastoral Nomadism in India: an adaptation to Indian modernity.» (En.)
11.30: Umberto Mondini, Pontificia Università Salesiana Roma
«Pabuji: a Nomadic God.» (En.)
12.00: Dr. Francesca Rosati Mantovani, PhD Candidate, University of Leiden
''Islam in China. Muslim Women, ethnicity and the Islamic law in Linxia''. (En.)
12.30: Dr. Elena Musumeci, Sapienza Università di Roma
«Il Cambiamento tra gli Akha del sudest Asiatico.» (It.)
02.30 pm: Dr. Anita Agostini, Phd Candidate Chiang Mai University Thailand
«Genealogy of a Mission: The Case of the Eastern Burma Mission.» (En., in videoconference from Thailand)
02.45 pm: Sivia Berini, Sapienza Università di Roma
«La Medicina Tradizionale dei Mocovì del Chaco Argentino.» (It., in videoconference from Rome).
03.00 pm: Prof. Giuseppina Semola, Dante Alighieri Society
«Tre figure femminili Cipriote nella Letteratura Italiana.» (It.)
03.20 pm: Rowena Burlenghi, Language Center of the University of Cyprus
«La letteratura di viaggio a Cipro, il caso Baker.» (It.)
03.45 pm: BOOK LAUNCH
Dr. Francesca Rosati Mantovani: L’Islam in Cina, L’Asino d’Oro Edizioni. Roma 2017. (In Italian)
04.15 pm: Capt. Antonio Chialastri: La Vita del Pilota di Linea dopo Germanwings. IBN Roma 2017. (In Italian)
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