RESEARCH TEAM
Jerzy Axer, PhD hab., Classical philologist & Neo-Latin scholar
Professor and Director of the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
E-mail: axer@ibi.uw.edu.pl
For further information see: http://www.al.uw.edu.pl/en-16
Research theme: A Latin Lesson for Bad Boys, or Kipling's Tale of the Enchanted Bird
Elena Ermolaeva, PhD, Classical philologist
Associate Professor at the Department of Classical Philology, Saint-Petersburg State University
E-mail: elena.ermolaeva304@gmail.com
For further information see: http://www.euroclassica.eu/index.php?modul=team
Research theme: Classical Antiquity in Children’s Literature in the Soviet Union
Cristian-Nicolae Gașpar, PhD, Classical philologist & Medievalist
Lector at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
E-mail: gasparc@ceu.hu
For further information see: http://www.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/cristian-nicolae_gaspar
Research theme: Politics, Euhemerism, and Adolescent Literature in Socialist Romania: Horia Stancu’s “Asclepius”
Valentina Garulli, PhD, Classical philologist
Agata Grzybowska, BA, Hebrew and Jewish Studies
MA-student in the College of Interdepartmental
Individual Studies in the Humanities, University of Warsaw
E-mail: agata.grzybowska@student.uw.edu.pl
Research theme: Saul Tchernichowsky’s Mythical Childhood (in collaboration with Jörg Schulte)
Elizabeth Hale, PhD, English Literature scholar
Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts, University of New England (New South Wales)
E-mail: ehale@une.edu.au
For further information see: http://www.une.edu.au/staff/ehale.php
Research
theme: Katabasis Down Under in the Young Adult Fantasies of Margaret Mahy and
Maurice Gee
Edith
Hall, PhD, Classical philologist
Professor at the Department of Classics, King’s College London
E-mail: edith@edithhall.co.uk
For further information see: http://www.edithhall.co.uk/
Research theme: Aesop’s Fables as Modern Children’s Stories
Owen Hodkinson, DPhil, Classical philologist
Lecturer at the Department of Classics, University of Leeds
E-mail: owen.hodkinson@gmail.com
For further information see: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20047/classics/person/1701/owen_hodkinson
Research theme:
‘His Greek Materials’: Philip Pullman’s Use of Classical Mythology
Katarzyna Jerzak, PhD, Comparative Literature scholar
Associate Professor at the Comparative Literature Department, University of Georgia, US
E-mail: kejerzak@uga.edu
For further information see: http://www.cmlt.uga.edu/fac-directory.html
Research theme: The Aftermath of Myth: Hermes in J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens”
and in Astrid Lindgren’s “Karlson on the Roof”
György Karsai, PhD hab., Classical philologist
Professor and Chair of the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Pécs, Professor at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest
E-mail: karsaigy@gmail.com
For further information see: http://www.doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&sz_ID=1503&lang=EN
Research theme: Children’s Literature in Hungary after WW2: Ideological Struggle in the Kindergarten
Joanna Kłos, MA, Mediterranean Scholar & BA, Classical philologist
"Diamond Grantee"-Student at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
Research Secretary for the Project
E-mail: joanna.klos@student.uw.edu.pl
For further information see:
Research theme: Telemachus Wearing Jeans – Adam
Bahdaj’s Reception of the Myth about Odysseus’ Son
Przemysław Kordos, PhD, Modern Greek philologist & Ethnologist
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
E-mail: pkordos@ibi.uw.edu.pl
For further information see: http://www.al.uw.edu.pl/en-37
Research theme: Modern Greek Children
Meet their Ancient Legacy
Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi, PhD, Japanese philologist
Assistant Professor at the Department of Japanese and Korean Studies, University of Warsaw
E-mail: kubiak@post.pl
For further information see: http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/pl/japonistyka/jap/pracownicy/lista-pracownikow/beata-kubiak-ho-chi/
Research theme: Isoppu monogatari, or Aesop’s Fables in Japanese Children Literature
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, PhD hab., German philologist
Professor at the German Department, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
E-mail: bettina.kuemmerling-meibauer@uni-tuebingen.de
For further information see: http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/bettina.kuemmerling-meibauer/
Research theme: Orpheus and Eurydice. Reception of the Myth in Children’s Literature in German, French and English
Helen
Lovatt, PhD, Classical philologist
Associate Professor at the Department of Classics, University of Nottingham
E-mail: helen.lovatt@nottingham.ac.uk
For further information see: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics/people/helen.lovatt
Research theme: East, West and Finding Yourself in Caroline Lawrence’s
“Roman Mysteries”
Adam Łukaszewicz, PhD hab., Archaeologist
Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw
E-mail: adlukasz@adm.uw.edu.pl
For further information see: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_%C5%81ukaszewicz
Research theme: Vitalis the Fox. Remarks on the Early Reading of a Future
Historian of Antiquity in Poland (1950s-60s)
Katarzyna Marciniak, PhD hab., Classical & Italian philologist
Associate Professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
Project Coordinator
E-mail: kamar@ibi.uw.edu.pl
For further information see: http://www.al.uw.edu.pl/en-38
Research theme: Create Your Own Mythology: Children for Children in Mythological Fan Fiction
Barbara Milewska-Waźbińska, PhD hab., Classical philologist & Neo-Latin scholar
Professor at the Institute for Classical Philology, University of Warsaw
E-mail: wazbinska@uw.edu.pl
For further information see: http://www.ifk.uw.edu.pl/index.php?page=Front.PersonDetails&uid=20
Research theme: Childhood Rhetorical Exercises of the
Victor of Vienna
Michał Mizera, PhD, Polish philologist & Europeanist
Lecturer at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
Coordinator of Children Activities
E-mail: mizera@ibi.uw.edu.pl
For further information see:
Research theme: Tadeusz Zieliński’s “Irezyona. Attic Legends”: Between Academic and Literary Mythology
David Movrin, PhD, Classical Philologist
Teaching Assistant at the Department of Classical Philology, University of Ljubljana
E-mail: david.movrin@gmail.com
For further information see: http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/oddelki/klasfilol/ucitelji2/movrin.html
Research theme: Aemulating Aesopus: Slovenian
Fables and Fablers Between Tradition and Innovation
Sheila Murnaghan, PhD, Classical Philologist
Professor at the Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, US
E-mail: smurnagh@sas.upenn.edu
For further information see: http://www.classics.upenn.edu/bio/murnaghan
Research theme: Childhood, Mythology, and the Promise of Peace (in collaboration with Deborah H. Roberts)
Elżbieta Olechowska, PhD, Classical philologist & Media scholar
Academic Secretary for the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
Project Coordinator
E-mail: elzbieta.olechowska@gmail.com
For further information see: http://www.al.uw.edu.pl/en-39
Research theme: J.K. Rowling Exposes Generations of Children Worldwide to Classical Antiquity
Hanna Paulouskaya, MA, Classical philologist
PhD student at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
E-mail: handziapa@gmail.com
Research theme: “An Attempt on Theseus”
by Kir Bulychev. A New Generation of Russian Kids and Their New Antiquity
Deborah H. Roberts, PhD, Classical philologist
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the Department of Classics, Haverford College, US
E-mail: droberts@haverford.edu
For further information see: http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/droberts
Research theme: War, Empire, and the Frontier in American Fictions of Ancient Rome (in collaboration with Sheila Murnaghan)
Ewa Rudnicka, PhD, Polish philologist
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
E-mail: e.rudnicka@ibi.uw.edu.pl
For further information see: http://www.ewa.edu.pl/
Research theme: Reception of Classical Antiquity in Lexicography for Children and Adolescents
Jörg Schulte, PhD hab., Slavic & Comparative Literature scholar
Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London
E-mail: j.schulte@ucl.ac.uk
For further information see: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal/index?upi=JSCHU39
Research theme: Saul Tchernichowsky’s Mythical Childhood (in collaboration with Agata Grzybowska)
Peter Simatei, PhD, African Literature & Cinema scholar 
Wilfried Stroh, PhD hab., Classical philologist
Professor emeritus at the Institute for Classical Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
E-mail: Stroh@klassphil.uni-muenchen.de
For further information see: http://www.lrz.de/~stroh/index.html
Research theme: De fabellis puerilibus Latinis
Robert A. Sucharski, PhD hab., Classical philologist, Mycaenean scholar
Associate Professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
E-mail: sucharsk@ibi.uw.edu.pl
For further information see: http://www.al.uw.edu.pl/en-34
Research theme: Jadwiga
Żylińska’s Fabulous Antiquity
Christine Walde, PhD hab., Classical philologist
Professor at the Institute for Classical Philology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
E-mail: waldec@uni-mainz.de
For further information see: http://www.klassphil.uni-mainz.de/89.php
Research theme: Uses of Antiquity in Harry Potter or The Birth of a Modern Classic
Szymon Wróbel, PhD hab., Philosopher & Psychologist
Associate Professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
E-mail: wrobelsz@gmail.com
For further information see: http://www.al.uw.edu.pl/en-208
Research theme: Oedipal Conflicts and their Fabulous Solutions
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Poster presentations:
Sylwia Chmielewska, MA Programme in Mediterranean Civilization 
Adam Ciołek, MA Programme in Indology 
Francesca M. Richards, MA, Classical philologist