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Elite fabrics from the Grave Circles of Mycenae

Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021-22 Introduction The Mycenaean culture was the first Greek civilization, placed in the Late Bronze Age, between c. 1600 and 1100 BCE, in the so-called Late Helladic period (LH). We know from the preserved material evidence that the Mycenaeans were great warriors, dynamic traders,… Read more

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Eastern Attica in the Postpalatial times and a new Late Helladic IIIC cemetery at Porto Raphti

Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021-22 Introduction A storm of events led to the Collapse of the Palatial System in the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the 13th BC century, with a serious impact on the Aegean, too. The 12th century that followed the fall of the… Read more

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Performative femininities in transnational urban dance styles: Aspects of gendered resistance

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

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The weaker the body, the stronger the protest

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

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Conspiracy narratives and authorial intervention in the Roman Archaeology of Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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

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The concept of self and otherness in ancient Greek courts

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

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Elite fabrics from the Grave Circles of Mycenae

Eastern Attica in the Postpalatial times and a new Late Helladic IIIC cemetery at Porto Raphti

Performative femininities in transnational urban dance styles: Aspects of gendered resistance

The weaker the body, the stronger the protest

Conspiracy narratives and authorial intervention in the Roman Archaeology of Dionysius of Halicarnassus

The concept of self and otherness in ancient Greek courts

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Elite fabrics from the Grave Circles of Mycenae

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Performative femininities in transnational urban dance styles: Aspects of gendered resistance