Association KORYVANTES Lectures in the Pultusk Academy Conference, Pultusk / Poland , July 1 2015

The Association of Historical Studies KORYVANTES is exceptionally honored to announce it's succesfull participation in the 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference of the Pultusk Academy of Humanities / Poland  entitled «Thinking Symbols» (June 30 – July 2 , 2015) which was held in the Conference Center of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology of the Academy.

Association KORYVANTES was represented at the Conference under three (3) studies of it’s members  Mr Richard Vallance Janke, Mrs Christy Emilio Ioannidou and Mr Spyros Bakas.

• Mr Richard Vallance Janke  lecture under the title "The Rôle of Supersyllabograms in Mycenaean Linear B" through witch will present his remarkable research on Linear B Syllabograms with the discovery of SUPERSYLLABOGRAMS, the first major breakthrough in the further decipherment of Linear B since 1952 and the famous Michael Ventris. 

• Mrs Christy Emilio Ioannidou lecture, entitled «Negative verbal symbols in ancient Greek warfare» will present the importance of negative verbal symbols in the War in the ancient Greek world, and how they contributed effectively to the psychological operations against the enemy.

• Mr. Spyros Bakas lecture, entitled «Psychological Warfare in Greek Bronze Age. Mycenaean panoplies and weapons as symbols of power and divinity» will present the practice of psychological warfare by the Mycenaeans in the battlefields, through the use of exotic weapons and armor as a symbols of power and divine origin.

The conference was adorned with the presence of distinguised academics from around Europe : Guilherme Borges Pires (CHAM/ FCSH/ Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ UAç) , Nicholas Campion (Sophia Centre,University of Wales Trinity Saint David), Marta Fituła (SiciliaAntica) ,Ana Alexandra Fraga Vieira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal) , and many others. (The list of abstracts is attached)

The proseedings of the conference will be published whithin 2016 under a renown Academic Journal.

Association KORYVANTES would  like to thank the  Conference's organisers  Dr Joanna Popielska and Dr Bożena Józefów-Czerwińska for their kind invitation, and full support on our Association's international academic work.

KORYVANTES Association has also participated with great success in the relevant conference of the Pultusk Academy in 2012, with the publication of the study «The man-made Economic Disaster of Mid 12th Century BC and the Reconstruction of the Military Technology that It Brought About»

Mr Richard Vallance Janke  lecture under the title "The Rôle of Supersyllabograms in Mycenaean Linear B"

Mrs Christy Emilio Ioannidou lecture, entitled «Negative verbal symbols in ancient Greek warfare»

Spyros Bakas lecture, entitled «Psychological Warfare in Greek Bronze Age. Mycenaean panoplies and weapons as symbols of power and divinity»

Memmorial photo of some of the participants in the gate of the Pultusk Academy of Humanities

Spyros Bakas with Dr Bożena Józefów-Czerwińska

With the Archaeologist Dr Pantelis Komninos from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

In the gate of the Warsaw University

3rd Interdisciplinary Conference of the Pultusk Academy of Humanities / Poland entitled «Thinking Symbols»... by Spyros Bakas