Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2021–22 Abstract Urban dance is often used as an umbrella term which encompasses hip hop, street and club dance styles such as breakdance, popping, locking, waving, hip hop party dance, dancehall, house dance, waacking, voguing, afrostyles etc. This research focused mainly on urban dance styles… Read more
Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2021–22 Abstract This research examines maidens’ somatised emotional responses to womanhood in antiquity, as this is described in the Hippocratic texts, vis-a-vis hysteria in fin de siècle Europe. It examines the sociocultural contexts that gave rise to these female maladies, as well as to their medical diagnoses and proposed… Read more
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22 The aim of my proposed research during the pre-Doctoral fellowship on Hellenic Studies was the investigation of the authorial interventions of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the narration of the conspiracies throughout the Antiquitates Romanae; mainly the first eleven books, because of the fragmentation of the rest of the oeuvre. Dionysius’… Read more
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22 The CHS pre-doctoral fellowship has represented for me an extremely important appointment both for my personal growth and the progression of my academic career. At this stage of my PhD, I am on the verge of revising my manuscript with the precious support of… Read more
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22 Abstract The research project which I have worked on during my CHS Pre-doctoral Fellowship focuses on the legal argumentation presented by Demosthenes in his speech Against Timocrates (Dem. 24.17–109). This speech was delivered by a certain Diodorus in a public trial against an inexpedient law. In… Read more
