Conferences
4th International Conference
Textualising the Experience – Digitalising the Text: Cyprus through Travel Literature (15th-18th c.)
6-8 February 2019
Learning Resource Centre "Stelios Ioannou", University of Cyprus, Nicosia
4th International Conference
6-8 February 2019
Learning Resource Centre "Stelios Ioannou", University of Cyprus, Nicosia
The 4th International Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, entitled Textualising the Experience – Digitalising the Text: Cyprus through Travel Literature (15th-18th c.), was held, on 6-8 February 2019 in Nicosia, in collaboration with the University of Cyprus at the Learning Resource Centre "Stelios Ioannou", in Nicosia.
The conference was held under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr Nicos Anastasiades.
The aim of the Conference was to encourage the interdisciplinary study of travel literature on the Eastern Mediterranean, with an emphasis on Cyprus, and to promote the use of digital tools and resources in humanities research.
Researchers and scholars from eight countries approached travel writing as a genre, as evidence of perceptions of the Other, as a means of representing space, as a testimonial of cultural exchange and as a historical source. In terms of background research, the presentations will be based on the platform created for the ZEFYROS research programme, supervised by Professor Julia Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister (University of Cyprus) and funded by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.
With an innovative approach to travel literature and a corresponding new methodology, ZEFYROS collected and indexed the multitude of Cyprus-related information traced in 125 editions (in 11 languages) of travel literature from the 15th to the 18th century in the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection. Researchers have access to 60,000 entries on the natural space, habitation, society, economy, culture and history of Cyprus. Users are able to retrieve data and view the original text.
ZEFYROS is the first component of a broader web platform, INSPIRAL which in the future will host further databases of travel literature on the Eastern Mediterranean.
You can find 15 select papers from the 4th International Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation in one of Foundation's publications:
'Textualising the Experience – Digitalising the Text: Cyprus through Travel Literature (15th-18th Centuries)'
President
Sylvia Ioannou
Founder of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation
General Secretary
Dimitris Stefanou
Members
Dora Mitsonia
Antonis Valsamos
Dr Maria Yiouroukou
President
Prof. Julia Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister
Members
Prof. Jacques Bouchard
Prof. Panagiotis N. Doukellis
Dr Mary Roussou-Sinclair
Dr Filippos Tsimpoglou
Elena Diomidi-Parpouna
Acting Library Director, University of Cyprus
Tasos Christofides
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Rector of the University of Cyprus
Artemis Scutari
Kostas Champiaouris
Minister of Education and Culture (on behalf of the President of the Republic of Cyprus)
Jacques Bouchard
President: Jacques Bouchard
Travel Literature in the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection
Leonora Navari
Textualising the Experience - Digitalising the Text: The Journey of Information from Text to Electronic Database
Julia Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister
It's for All of Us!
Peter Economides
Part 1
Chair: Anastasia Nikolopoulou
The Cyprus of the Travellers (15th-16th Centuries)
Chryssa Maltezou
The Presence of European Travel Literature in the Libraries of European Merchants in the Levant
Cornel Zwierlein
The Italian Travellers’ View of Cyprus in Early Modern Times: Political Representations of an Imaginary Dominion
Eleftheria Zei
Discussion
Part 2
Chair: Pantelis Voutouris
The Cypriot World in the Age of the Protestant Reformation in Europe
Pavlína Šípová
The Representation of Cyprus by the German Traveller Carsten Niebuhr about 1766
Chariton Karanasios
Charting the Empire: The Colonial Eye in Travellers’ Accounts
Mary Roussou-Sinclair
Discussion
Part 3
Chair: Georgios Xenis
Cyprus in the 18th Century from the Descriptions of Two Swedish Travellers
Vassilios Sabatakakis
Travel and Fiction: The Case of the French Explorer, Geographer, Astronomer and Encyclopaedist Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774)
Dimitri Dolapsakis
Giovanni Mariti’s Treatise on Cypriot Wine
Sasha Djordjevic
Discussion
Part 1
Chair: Thomas A. Sinclair
Routes in 18th-century Cyprus
Panagiotis N. Doukellis
Angelicus Maria Müller (1677-1734) and the Island of Cyprus
Andreas Ε. Müller
Reading Between the Lines: Facts, Tales and Misunderstandings Concerning Christian Monuments of Cyprus (7th-18th Centuries) Based on Travellers’ Texts
Charalampos G. Chotzakoglou
Discussion
Part 2
Chair: Chryssa Maltezou
The Representation of Cyprus in the Work of Olfert Dapper (1688): Images of the Mediterranean in the Travel Literature of the Late Dutch Golden Age
Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi
Interdenominational Interaction in Ottoman Cyprus (Orthodox, Catholics, Armenians, Jews)
Ioannis Zelepos
The Armenians of Cyprus According to Western Travellers
Hervé R. Georgelin
Discussion
Part 3
Chair: Michalis N. Michael
The Ottoman Occupation of Cyprus in Johann van Kootwyck’s Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum
Spyridon Tzounakas
Travellers and the Administration of Ottoman Justice in Cyprus: New Insights Facilitated by the Zefyros Research Programme
Richard Wittmann
Muslims and Islam in the Work of Giovanni Mariti
Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Discussion
Chair
Artemis Scutari
Coordinator
Filippos Tsimpoglou
Roundtable Discussion
Aliki Asvesta
Maria Georgopoulou
Thanos Papadimitriou
Apostolos Sarris
General Discussion
Conclusions
Aliki Asvesta
Historian, The Gennadius Library, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Jacques Bouchard
Professor, Director of the Centre for Neohellenic Studies, University of Montreal, Member of the Royal Society of Canada
Julia Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister
Professor, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus
Charalampos G. Chotzakoglou
Byzantinologist, Hellenic Open University, Chairman of the Society of Cypriot Studies
Sasha Djordjevic
PhD candidate, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus
Dimitri Dolapsakis
Researcher, Hellenic Open University
Panagiotis N. Doukellis
Professor, Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens
Peter Economides
Brand strategist
Hervé Georgelin
Lecturer, Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Maria Georgopoulou
Director, The Gennadius Library, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Chariton Karanasios
Senior Researcher, Research Centre for Medieval and Modern Hellenism, Academy of Athens
Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi
PhD candidate, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus
Chryssa Maltezou
Prof. Emerita, University of Athens, Member of the Academy of Athens
Michalis N. Michael
Associate Professor, Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus
Andreas E. Müller
Professor, Institut für Byzantinistik und Νeogräzistik, Universität Wien
Leonora Navari
Historical bibliographer
Anastasia Nikolopoulou
Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Cyprus
Thanos Papadimitriou
Professor, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan
Mary Roussou-Sinclair
Special Teaching Staff, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus
Vassilios Sabatakakis
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
Apostolos Sarris
Research Director, Foundation for Research and Technology, Crete
Artemis Scutari
Director, Sylvia Ioannou Foundation
Thomas A. Sinclair
Associate Professor, Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus
Pavlína Šípová
Assistant Professor, Institute of Greek and Latin Studies, Charles University, Prague
Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
Filippos Tsimpoglou
General Director, National Library of Greece
Spyridon Tzounakas
Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus
Pantelis Voutouris
Professor, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus
Richard Wittmann
Deputy Director, Orient-Institut Istanbul
Georgios Xenis
Professor, Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus
Eleftheria Zei
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
Ioannis Zelepos
Researcher, Institute for Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Art History and Modern Greek Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Cornel Zwierlein
Prof. Dr., Assoziierter Fellow, Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Universität Erfurt
4th International Conference
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