Call for Papers: 9th Athens Annual International Conference on History
9th Annual International Conference on History:
From Ancient to Modern
1-4 August 2011, Athens, Greece
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
The History Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and
Research (ATINER) will organize its 9th Annual International Conference
on History in Athens, Greece on 1-4 August 2011. The conference will be
held in downtown Athens, within walking distance of the Acropolis
(Parthenon) and other historical sites of Athens.
Papers (in English) from all areas of history are welcome. Special
sessions will be organized in the following areas: Ancient Greek and
Roman History, Cultural History, History of Religion, Arts History,
Economic History, Political and Social History, Sports History (History
of Olympic Games), History of Sciences, History of Philosophy,
Intellectual History, Modern American History, Latin American History,
African History, Asian History, European History, Personalities in
Philosophy and History, Interactions of Civilizations (East-West &
North-South), Historiography, Historic Preservation and the Future of
Historical Studies. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of
one paper, chair a session or observer. The conference website is
http://www.atiner.gr/history.htm. Selected papers will be published in a
Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings. The previous conferences
produced a number of books. Visit our site
http://www.atiner.gr/docs/HISTORY_PUBLICATIONS.htm for titles, table of
contents and order form.
The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions,
conference material and 2 lunches. 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 and nearby islands
will be organized. A special evening is organized with live Greek music
and dinner. During the tour, we will visit, among other sites: Hadrian’s
Arch, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Panathenaic Stadium where the
first Olympic Games of the modern era were held in 1896, and on
Acropolis: the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erectheion and
finally “the harmony between material and spirit”, the monument that
“puts order in the mind”, the Parthenon.
Please submit a 300-word abstract via email only by 1st of March
2011 to the following address: Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Professor of
History, Sam Houston State University, USA and Vice-President of
ATINER. 8 Valaoritou
Street, Kolonaki, 10671 Athens, Greece. Tel.: + 30 210 363-4210 Fax: +
30 210 363-4209 Email: atiner@atiner.gr. Abstracts should include: Title
of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address
and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your
submission. We also invite people to chair sessions, act as reviewers
and editors of the book(s) that will be published after the conference.
If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a
session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or
books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send
an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, gtp@atiner.gr, Director, ATINER.
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established
in 1995 as an independent academic organization with the mission to
become a forum, where academics and researchers - from all over the
world - could meet in Athens and exchange ideas on their research and
discuss the future developments of their discipline. Since 1995, ATINER
has organized more than 100 international conferences and has published
over 100 books. Academically, the Institute consists of four research
divisions and nineteen research units. Each research unit organizes at
least an annual conference and undertakes various small and large
research projects.