Past Conferences 2003

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The Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities is an interdisciplinary conference that seeks to bring together scholars in different areas of the arts and humanities including Byzantine Studies. The conference is sponsored by the University of Hawaii - West Oahu. The call for papers deadline is August 21, 2002. Submission guidelines may be found on our website. The conference is January 12-15, 2003 at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Hawaii International Conferences on Arts and Humanities
P.O. Box 75036
Honolulu, HI 96836
Telephone: 808-223-1748 Fax: 808-947-2420
web address: www.hichumanities.org
e-mail address: humanities@hichumanities.org

The 7th annual Symposium On Mediterranean Archaeology is taking place at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (February 21st-23rd 2003).

SOMA provides a forum for the discussion of Mediterranean archaeological research conducted at postgraduate level, attracting researchers from within the UK, Europe and beyond. People from a wide range of archaeological and related backgrounds are encouraged to participate.

Our aim is to attempt a Pan-Mediterranean approach, by breaking down many of the traditional intellectual boundaries existing in Mediterranean Archaeology on a spatial and temporal scale. We welcome papers covering a diverse range of topics based on theoretical and scientific approaches in archaeology, and interrelated disciplines. The preliminary themes include:

· Cultural transmission and social change
· Trade, exchange and economy
· Ethnicity and cultural identity
· Approaches to death and burial
· Religion and ritual
· Archaeology of age and gender
· Archaeological landscapes and spatial analysis
· Diet and demography
· Materials and technology
· Archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological studies
· Art and iconography
· Archaeology and textual sources
· The archaeology of empires
· Cultural heritage, management of archaeological sites, and museum studies

Papers take the form of 15-minute presentations and participants are invited to submit a 150-200 word abstract including basic geographical, chronological and methodological details (see website for more details). We also intend to continue conducting workshops, which were well received at SOMA 2002, so please contact us if you have a workshop theme already in mind.

The ABSTRACT DEADLINE is 6th December 2002, but please submit as early as possible, to enable us to establish our main themes.

E-mail abstracts to: soma_ucl_2003@yahoo.co.uk

To register NOW for SOMA 2003, please visit our website and print out an application form: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnais/

We look forward to hearing from you soon and seeing you in London in February,
Yours,
Camilla Briault, Jack Green, Anthi Kaldelis and Anna Stellatou (SOMA organising committee)

SOMA 2003
Institute of Archaeology, University College London,
31-34 Gordon Square,
London WC1H 0PY, United Kingdom

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During the weekend of 28 February to 2 March 2003 the Friends of Mount Athos in association with the Cambridge Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies will be holding an international conference at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, on the theme 'Mount Athos the Sacred Bridge: The Spirituality of the Holy Mountain'. 

Speakers will include Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia, Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi Monastery, Fr Nikolaos Hadzinikolaou of Simonopetra Monastery, Fr Nikolaos Sakharov of Tolleshunt Knights, Essex, Fr Alexander Golitzin of Marquette University, USA, and Professor Andrew Louth of the University of Durham.

The cost for full board and lodging is £140.

The British Academy Black Sea Initiative (BABSI) is a new programme of research in the Black Sea region sponsored by the British Academy and co-ordinated by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.

www.biaa.ac.uk/babsi/

Programme
Friday 14 March
Evening: dinner + introductory presentation by the BABSI Management Committee

Saturday15 March
Session 1: 10-12 Geographical environment and ecology of the Black Sea
12-1.30 Lunch
Session 2: 1.30-3.30 Settlement on the coast and in the hinterland
3.30-4.00 Tea break
Session 3: 4-6 Trade and communication within the Black Sea
6.30 Bar and dinner.

Sunday 16 March
10 - 11.30 Plenary synthesis: BABSI - prospects, projects and plans.

Participation
We hope that researchers from post-graduate level from across the arts, humanities and social sciences will wish to participate.

Instead of asking for papers, we invite participants to submit a 1 or 2-page summary of the results of their own research and BABSI-related undertakings, so that these can be integrated into the discussions, and ask them to come prepared to contribute to the three main discussion sessions from their own perspective and in the light of their own research.

If you wish to participate, or require further information, please email Gina Coulthard at biaa@britac.ac.uk.
Please note that numbers may be limited, so please respond promptly should you wish to participate.

Practicalities
Date: 14-16 March 2003
Location: University of Manchester
Cost: There is no charge for participation in the meeting
Food: Dinner on Friday, lunch and dinner on Saturday will be provided
Accommodation: Not provided. Details of hotels are available on request

The fifth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conference will be held on the campus of the University of California,Santa Barbara from 3 p.m.Thursday,March 20 to approximately 3 p.m.Sunday,March 23,2003.A conference program is currently being prepared and will be available via email by mid-October,2002.A total of 37 papers have been accepted for presentation,on topics ranging from literature to archaeology.In addition, there will be three keynote speakers:Jill Harries (St.Andrews University), "Violence,Victims and the Roman Legal Tradition"; Walter Pohl (University
of Vienna),"Perceptions of Barbarian Violence"; Brent Shaw (University of Pennsylvania),"Who Were the Circumcellions?"

For conference program, see www.sc.edu/ltantsoc

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22-23 March 2003
LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY 2003:
THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF LATE ANTIQUITY
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

This session will systematically consider the social and political archaeology of late antiquity, from the archaeology of the imperial court to that of the middle class and the poor. It will include expert syntheses and presentations of current fieldwork, dealing with new projects in the Balkans.

SATURDAY 23rd MARCH
**The archaeology of the imperial court
10.45-11.25 Dr Jonathon Bardill (Newcastle) Constantinian monuments and imperial ideology in the East Roman capital
11.25-12.05 Prof. Alessandra Ricci (Salerno) Within their own walls, inside and outside the city walls: homes and lifestyles of the elite in Byzantine Constantinople

**The archaeology of the middle classes
13.30-14.10 Dr Simon Ellis (Toronto) The middle class in late antiquity: approaches and archaeological problems.
14.10-14.50 Dr Enrico Zanini (Siena) Artisans and shop-keepers in the early Byzantine city

**The archaeology of the poor
15.40-16.20 Dr Paul Van Ossel (Paris) The rural poor in the late antique West: methodology and practical results
16.20-17.00 Dr Steve Roskams (York) The urban poor: finding the marginalised
17.20-18.00 Dr Vusjadin Ivanisevic (Belgrade) The plain and ordinary at Justiniana Prima: the new excavations of a residential quarter

**Current fieldwork in the Balkans
20.00-20.30 Adam Gutteridge (Cambridge) Building on the past: recent research on Durres in late antiquity and beyond
20.30-21.00 Dr Will Bowden (UEA) Butrint: a late antique town and its hinterland

SUNDAY 24th MARCH
**Social integration / social disintegration
10.00-10.40 Prof John Haldon (Birmingham) Conflict, integration and social transformation in the 6th-8th c. East
10.40-11.20 Julia Hilner (Manchester) New approaches to patronage and property: gift-giving and land-holding in early medieval Rome

**The archaeology of the bishop
11.50-12.30 Dr Luke Lavan (Ankara) From forum to cathedral: the transfer of social and political life
12.30-13.00 Yuri Marano (Padova) 'Domus in qua episcopus manebat': episcopal residences in northern Italy during Late Antiquity
13.00-13.30 Dr Haim Goldfus (Ben Gurion) Urban monasteries of late antique Palestine

**Roman ethnicity on the German frontier: texts and archaeology in conflict?
14.45-15.25 Dr Peter Heather (Oxford) Frontier provincials and the Roman state c.375-500: the testimony of the texts.
15.25-16.05 Dr Ellen Swift (Canterbury) Constructing Roman identities in late antiquity: an archaeological perspective

For details, including an application form see:
www.lateantiquearchaeology.com
Price: £30 admission (£10 student/unwaged). Meal prices: Sat lunch £5.50,
Sun lunch £5.50, Sat pm dinner £17. Accommodation in Trinity College: £28
per night. Other accommodation is on our website. Cheques in sterling
payable to "Late Antique Archaeology". Payment in cash for overseas
visitors, by special arrangement. To book a place send your reservation
including details of meals with payment to: Lukas A Schachner, St John's
College, Oxford OX1 3JP, England lukas.schachner@sjc.ox.ac.uk. The next
session of Late Antique Archaeology is at Padova in May.

29-31 March 2003
The 37th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
'EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY' (Luke 12:19)
Production, consumption and celebration of food and wine in Byzantium
University of Birmingham

Production, consumption and celebration of food and wine in Byzantium is the theme of the 37th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, to be held 29-31 March 2002 at the University of Birmingham, under the auspices of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies (Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity).

4-5 April 2003
Encounters with Islam. The Medieval Mediterranean Experience:
Art, Culture, and Material Culture
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, Plym Auditorium

The medieval Mediterranean was a theater of encounter and cultural interchange between East and West, between religiously, ethnically, and linguistically diverse societies. By examining the artistic production and material culture at points of intersection, the symposium addresses the complexities of ideological discourse as reflected in the language of visual expression.

Symposium Program:

Friday morning 4 April 2003, 9:30 a.m.
Stephen Jaeger (UIUC): Welcome
Robert Ousterhout (UIUC): Opening remarks

Session I
Jerrilynn Dodds (CUNY): "Hunting for Identity"
D. Fairchild Ruggles (UIUC): "The Seville Alcazar of Pedro I"
Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania): "Medieval Djerba: A Landscape of
Social Control"

Lunch by subscription, 12:00 noon, Atrium of Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Friday afternoon, 1:30 p.m.

Session II
William Tronzo (Tulane University): "'Encounters with Islam'? The Measure
of Twelfth-Century Sicily"
Jill Caskey (University of Toronto): "'Islamic' Towns in Southern Italy: Urban Morphologies in the Region of Amalfi and Some Problems of Interpretation"

Coffee Break, 3:30-4:00 p.m. in the Atrium
Charles Nicklies (New Mexico State University): "Patrons, Builders, and Identity: The Domed Basilicas of Sicily and Calabria"
Karen-edis Barzman (Binghamton University): "Emergent Orientalism: Italian
Figurations of Islamic Faith and State Rule"

Reception, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday morning 5 April, 9:30 a.m.
Session III
Maria Georgopoulou (Yale University): "Crusaders and Oriental Christians in Thirteenth Century Art"
Eva Hoffman (Tufts University): "Identity and Difference in Ayyubid Metalwork: Crusader-Islamic Visual Encounters in the Context of Mediterranean Culture"
Lynn Jones (Philadelphia): "Abbasid Suzerainty in the Medieval Caucasus:
Appropriation and Adaption in Iconography and Ideology"

Lunch by subscription, 12:30 p.m. in the Atrium

Saturday afternoon, 2:00 p.m.
Session IV
Oya Pancaroglu (Oriental Institute, Oxford): "The Itinerant Dragon Slayer: Forging Paths of Image and Identity in Medieval Anatolia"
Robert Ousterhout (UIUC): "The Appropriation of the Past in Early Ottoman
Architecture"

Coffee Break 4:00-4:30 p.m. in the Atrium
Christina Maranci (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukie): "Constructing Race in the Mediterranean: Architectural History and Josef Strzygowski"

D. Fairchild Ruggles (UIUC): Concluding remarks and general discussion

Speakers' Dinner, 7:00 p.m.

The symposium is sponsored by the School of Architecture, the Department of
Landscape Architecture, and the Medieval Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with support from the Program in South and East Asian Studies, the Alan K. and Leonarda F. Laing Fund in the School of Architecture, and a William and Flora Hewlett International Conference Grant. External sponsors include the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the International Center of Medieval Art.

For more information, contact the organizers at rgouster@uiuc.edu or
dfr1@uiuc.edu.

Following the success of the colloquium (in 2001) and day-school (in 2002), the AHRB Centre for Byzantine Cultural History’s Gender Project has decided to continue with the meetings in Sussex in May.

The first workshop, on 9th May 2003, will be held at the University of Sussex. The title of the day-school in 2003 will be ‘Crossing the Gender Boundaries in Byzantium’. Having considered ‘gender’ as an analytical tool of historical analysis at the first meeting, then exploring ‘masculinities’ more fully at the second, we now wish to turn our attention to Byzantine primary evidence for subversion at the discontinuities of the gender boundaries. The general format will be the same, with approximately six invited speakers presenting papers closely related to the topic. The workshop format is envisaged very much as an informal gathering of people (active researchers, students and interested general public) to allow presentation of theories, ideas and evidence as well as discussion of what it all might mean.

For further details, please contact Dr Dion C. Smythe, Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen’s University of Belfast, BELFAST BT7 1NN or dionsmythe@hotmail.com

The Oxford Byzantine Society is pleased to announce a day conference on Byzantium and Armenia. The conference will be held on 10th May in Keble College. There will be a charge of £8 (£5 for OBS members). For further details please contact James George: james.george@keble.ox.ac.uk

10.00am R. Thomson, "Perceptions of Byzantium in Armenian Writers."
11.00am J. Howard-Johnston, The Armenian Campaigns of John Kourkouas

12.00am Lunch

1.00pm T. Greenwood, Byzantium Observed: Armenian Inscriptions and Colophons 850-1100
2.00pm C. Holmes, 'Finding a context for Byzantino-Armenian relations in the reign
of Basil II'

3.00pm Coffee

3.30pm J. Shepard, A case of 'decapitation'? The background to the Byzantine
annexation of Ani (1045)
4.30pm T. Van Lint, Grigor Magistros and his Letters: the Challenge of an 11th century Armenian Scholar - Statesman

5.30pm Close

11 May 2003
Late Antique Archaeology 2003
The Social and Political Archaeology of Late Antiquity
Padova

Programme:

9:30 Registration
9:45 Welcoming remarks: Claudia Rapp (UCLA)

Session I: Moderator: Barisa Krekic (UCLA)
10:00-11:00
Speros Vryonis, Jr. (Emeritus Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Civilization and Culture, New York University), "Byzantium, Slavs and 'Culture'"

11:00-11:30 Break
Session II: Moderator: John Langdon (Mar-borough School)
11:30-12:15
Paul Stephensen (University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Dumbarton Oaks), "Byzantium in the Balkans, 1018-1204"

12:15-2:00 Lunch (Prepaid reservation required)
Session III: Moderator: Gail Lenhoff (UCLA)
2:00-2:45
Robert Romanchuk (University of Pennsylvania and Florida State University), "Byzantine School Texts in Muscovy: Some Possibilities and Limits of 'Byzantine Humanism'"

2:45-3:30
Nikolas Chrissidis (Southern Connecticut University), "Shrinking the Orthodox Commonwealth: Greeks and Russians in the Seventeenth Century"

3:30-4:00 Break
Session IV: Moderator: Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley)
4:00-4:45
George Contis (President, MSCI, and Independent Scholar, Washington), "Russian Brass Icons: A Legacy of Byzantium"

Registration Information
Advance registration required. Seating is limited; seats will be available on a first-come first-served basis. To register, complete the form in this brochure or contact the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at (310) 825-1880 or cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu. There is no admission fee. Lunch-Advance Reservation Required!

The Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge has put together its annual Laurence Seminar on the subject of Sensory Perception in Classics. A list of speakers and paper titles is pasted below.

This three-day conference will take place 28-30 May and will aim to reinstate sensory perception as a significant point-of-entry into classical literature, philosophy, history, art and linguistics. Papers will address such issues as the expression and appropriation of the senses in Greek and Roman literature, philosophical debates on the relationship of perception and epistemology, the development of agendas for deriving information from the physical environment at key stages of Greco-Roman history, strategies through which the art historian can relate art objects and perception, and the semantic interface between language and sensation. By incorporating speakers from each of these specialisms, this conference seeks to create a collaborative research atmosphere in which to explore some of the basic issues implicated in writing a cultural history of the
senses. Anyone with an interest is invited to attend.

SENSORY PERCEPTIONS, Laurence Seminar,
Faculty of Classics G.21, Cambridge, May 2003

Day 1, May 28th General Introduction: The issues, pitfalls and
possibilities of the cross-cultural study of perception

8.45-9.00 Introduction
Panel 1 - Chair: Paul Cartledge
9.00-10.15 Justin Broackes (Philosophy, Brown University) - Sight and
colour among the ancient Greeks.

10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-12.00 Yannis Hamilakis (Archaeology, Southampton) - Material culture, the senses and sensory memory.

12.00-1.30 Lunch
Panel 2 - Chair: John Patterson
1.30-2.45 Tim Ingold (Social Anthropology, Aberdeen) - Ecological anthropology and sensory perception.

2.45-3.15 Coffee
3.15-4.30 John Mollon (Experimental Psychology, Cambridge) - The adaptation of perception to the natural and cultural environment.

Day 2, May 29th Language and perception: Literary approaches to the senses
Panel 3 - Chair: Robin Osborne
9.00-10.15 Maureen Mclane (Literature, Harvard) - The representation and mediation of the senses in literature from the romantic period to the present.

10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-12.00 Ashley Clements (Ancient History, Cambridge) - Taste and Old Comedy in Ancient Greece.

12.00-1.30 Lunch
Panel 4 - Chair: TBC
1.30-2.45 Katerina Ierodiakonou (Philosophy, Oxford) - Hellenistic theories of colour.

2.45-3.15 Coffee
3.15-4.30 Michael Clarke (Classics, Maynooth) - 'Green wine and wet voices: Greek adjectives and cultural maps'.

Day 3, May 30th Art history, aesthetics and material culture
Panel 5 - Chair: Christopher Kelly
9.00-10.15 Geoffrey Lloyd (Classics, Cambridge) - Sensibilia in Greek philosophy and cross-cultural universals.

10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-12.00 Georgia Frank (Classics, Colgate) - Retelling Scripture, Reeducating Perception: The Sensory Worlds of Romanos the Melodist.

12.00-1.30 Lunch
Panel 6 - Chair: Peter Garnsey
1.30-2.45 Liz James (Art History, Sussex) - Senses and Sensibility. Deciphering
Byzantine sensory perceptions.

2.45-3.15 Coffee
3.15-4.30 Mark Bradley (Ancient History, Cambridge) - The colour marble in Ancient Rome

4:30-4:45 Retrospect

Organizers: Mark Bradley (mab29@cam.ac.uk) and Ashley Clements
(ac271@cam.ac.uk)

10-11 June 2003
Conference on Byzantine Art and Literature
University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Warsaw

12 July 2003 (provsional date)
Beyond Byzantium: The Archaeology of the Eastern Churches From St Thomas to Marco Polo. One Day Workshop.
London

Contributions are now invited for the above conference. This short workshop seeks to bring together scholars working on the archaeology (which may include a degree of art/architectural history) of the churches of the east, the so-called oriental churches. Our parameters, for the sake of simplicity, include the churches described in A Atiya (1968), A History of the Eastern Churches. In short, we are focusing predominantly on the historical non-Chalcedonian churches of the east. Geographically we are encompassing northeastern Africa (Coptic Egypt/Ethiopia/Old Nubia), the Levant, the Caucasus, the middle east, Arabia, India and China. Temporally we are focusing on the period of church development up to the 13th century CE. The workshop will be run in three parallel sessions:

Northeastern Africa:
Coptic Egypt, Ethiopia, Old Nubia

Caucasus:
Armenia and also to include Georgia for sake of geographical inclusiveness.

From Antioch to Nanking:
East and west Syrian churches, Indian and Chines (Silk Road), also Maronite for sake of geographical inclusiveness.

At this stage the organisers only require an expression of interest, and if available an outline abstract of a potential paper (perhaps 20 minutes' duration). The emphasis is on bringing together a work-in-progress forum, primarily for UK scholars, with a view to establishing a larger base for a future extended conference.

We will be happy to discuss any further queries (see below).

Contacts:

Dr Joe Elders, Church of England (e-mail joseph.elders@ccc.c-of-e.org.uk)
Dr Niall Finneran, Department of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, London (e-mail nf16@soas.ac.uk)
Dr Geoffrey King, Department of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, London (e-mail ggking@eurobell.co.uk)
Dr Emma Loosley, University of York (e-mail emma@eloosley.freeserve.co.uk)

13th Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 8-10 July 2003.

Organised by the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, in conjunction with the Centre for European Studies and the Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink, University of Adelaide, this conference aims to bring together scholars from diverse fields on a topic currently exciting considerable interest internationally.

The language of the conference is English. Papers will be 25 minutes in length. Abstracts of no more than 300 words are invited on any topic related to food and drink in the period from the very beginnings of the Byzantine world in the fourth century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 CE.

Further detail and updates are available on the Association web site: www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/AABS

The colloquium will cover mainly the period from the Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. It includes the liturgical and art-historical developments in the East (Egypt, Syria, Byzantium etc.) and the West. The aim is to reveal the differences and/or similarities concerning the relationship of architecture and liturgy in different regions and different times.

Those who would like to give a lecture (20 minutes) on this occasion are requested to contact: Professor Dr Claudia Nauerth or Dr Michael Altripp, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Victor-Schultze-Institut, Am Rubenowplatz 2/3, 17487 Greifswald (Germany), fax: 0049-(0)3834-862512, e-mail: christku@uni-greifswald.de.

Organized by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Akademienvorhaben "Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit"), the Freie Universität Berlin (Byzantinisch-Neugriechisches Seminar) and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische
Kunst).

People who are interested in the symposium should contact:

Dr. Claudia Ludwig, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademienvorhaben "Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit, Jägerstr.
22/23, D - 10117 Berlin, FAX: 030 20370 600, Tel.: 030 20370 289.
E-mail: ludwig@bbaw.de oder

Dr. Claudia Sode, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena,
Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, Fürstengraben 1, D - 07745 Jena,
E-mail: ClSode@aol.com.

More Information at: www.pmbz.bbaw.de

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE in the context of the 9TH SCIENTIFIC FORUM ON GREECE

THEMES
1. The Siege of Constantinople
2. Source materials on Constantinople
3. The Fall of Constantinople and the Western world
4. The Fall in modern and contemporary literature
5. The Fall in educational manuals
6. Constantinople after the Fall
7. Granada and Constantinople: two parallel routes
8. Constantinople in the Byzantine sources
9. Constantinople through the eyes of foreigners
10. Topography of Constantinople
11. Constantinople as a political, religious and intellectual centre

Information: Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas
C/ Gran Via, 9-2º, 18001 Granada-Spain
Tel.no./fax: 0034 958220874
e-mail: shen@ugr.es

Registration €20 for speakers, €30 for non speakers (tbc)

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will organize an International Conference from Ancient to Modern European History in Athens, Greece on December 29-30, 2003. The conference will be held in downtown Athens, within walking distance of the Acropolis (Parthenon) and other historical sites of Athens.

The registration fee is 150 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, planned tours to historical sites will be organized. On Wednesday 31st, 2003 a gala dinner will be held under the Acropolis to celebrate NEW YEAR'S EVE.

The main theme of the conference is European History. Papers (in English) from all areas of European history are welcome. Preferences will be given to the following areas: Ancient Greek History, Cultural History, Arts History, Economic, Political and Social History, Sports History (History of Olympic Games), Historiography, Historic Preservation and the Future of Historical Studies. Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings.

Please submit a 300-word abstract (preferably by email) by September 30th, 2003 to the following address: Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, Director, (ATINER), 14 Solomou Street, 10683 Athens, Greece. Tel.: + 30 210 383-4227 Fax: + 30 210 384-7734 Email: atiner@otenet.gr.
Your abstract should include: Title of Paper, Full Name(S), Affiliation, Current Position and an email.