1/1 - Dr.Ariella Atzmon (Co-Chair): Detachment and Alienation: from the freedom of choice to the promise of being chosen.

1/2 - Prof. Ignazio Corsaro (Editor of Lo Straniero, Italy): Pirandello and the Pirandellian: Their Estrangement from Absurdity of Life.

1/3 - Prof. Stefan Gandler (Faculty of Humanities, Univ. Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico): Alienation and Ethos in Capitalistic Modernity.

1/4 - Dr. Vince Marotta (School of Social Inquiry, Deakin Univ., Australia): The Cosmopolitan Stranger.

1/5 - Dr. Michael McAnear (Co­Chair): Extreme Alienation, Guilt, and Survival: Albert Drach and His Demons.

2/1 - Dr. Domenico Ciancio (Co-Chair): Technological Innovations in the Printing-Editing of Regional-Daily Newspapers.

2/2 - Prof. Ignazio Corsaro (Co-Chair): Use of the IMISE Journal Lo Straniero: Participants' requests and suggestions.

2/3 - Dr. Steve Higgonson (Film Director, Liverpool, UK) and Dr. Anthony Wailey (Historical Consultant, London College of Communic., UK): Temp Manifesto (film).

2/4 - Dr.Steve Higgonson, (Independent Researcher, Liverpool, UK) and Dr.Anthony Wailey, (London College of Communication, UK): Waiting for Brando: Estrangement as Emblematic of Port Cities (paper).

3/1 ­ Dr. Rivka Bakalash ((Art Dept., Kay Academic College, Beer Sheva, Israle): Duchamp the Stranger, Mobilizes his Art Against War.

3/2 - Libera Carraro (Painter, Venice, Italy): Libertà Interiore (Inner Freedom).

3/3 - Prof. Elio Mercuri (Art Critic, Rome, Italy): A Painter seen as a Stranger.

3/4 - Prof. Ignazio Maiore (Psychoanalyst, President of the Italian Association of Mental Analysis, Rome, Italy): Dialogue between a Painter and a Psychoanalyst.

3/5 - Maria Tolbat (Pedag. Teaching History of Culture at Jewish Comm., Cieszyn [Teschen], Poland): Jewish Artists in former Austrian Silesia (from beginning of the 20th century till 2nd World War) - Strangers or "Prophets in Their Own Country"?

4/1 - Dr. Dagmar Jaegar (Foreign Lang. & Literatures Dept., MIT, Cambridge, USA): Estranged Stories: Recent German novels as counter-history.

4/2 - Dr.Burt Kimmelman (Dept. of Humanities, NJ Inst. of Technology, USA): The Estrangement of Twentieth-Century Science and Its Effects on Poetry.

4/3 - Prof. Endre Kiss (Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Budapest, Hungary): Fate-Generations and Generation-Fates: Writers of Jewish origins in modern Hungarian culture.

4/4 - Prof. Nicholas Mann (Chair): Estrangement: Self-Awareness and Self-Consciousness in Petrarch.

4/5 ­ Prof. David Tresilian (English Dept., American Univ. of Paris, France): On Being Estranged from England: the Case of D.H. Lawrence.

4/6 - Dr. Giovanni Trezza (Correspondent of Lo Straniero): Cultural Aspects of Cemeteris in the Antiquity, at the Time of Shakespeare, and Nowadays.

4/7 - Dr. Evy Varsamopoulou (European Lit., Humanities Dept., Anglia Polytechnic Univ., Cambridge/UK): Estrangement as an act of will: becoming an alien to the nation in Thomas Bernhard's 'Extinction' .

5/1 - Dr. Caroline Armenteros (History Dept., AUP, France): Orthodoxy, Pietism and Ultramontanism at the Congress of Vienna: the Religious Origins of European International Law.

5/2 - Prof. Dr. Aurora Ciuca (Fac. of Law, M.Kogalniceanu Univ., Iasi, Romania): On Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism.

5/3 - Prof. Dr. Valerius Ciuca (Roman Law Dept., A.I.Cuza Univ., Iasi, Romania): The Place and the Identity.

5/4 ­ Dr. Cercis Ikiel (Head of Geography Dept., Sakarya Univ., Turkey): Where Is the Last Station of Turkey in the Global Journey?

5/5 - Mr. Muhammed Kacmaz (Research Assistant, Geography Dept., Sakarya Univ., Turkey): Current State of EU from a Young Academic Eye.

5/6 - Ms. Beyza Kaymaz (Research Assistant, Geography Dept., Sakarya Univ., Turkey): Hazards and their Impact on Humans.

5/7 - Prof.Dr. Gerrit Olivier (Director of Centre for European Studies, Univ. of Johannesburg, South Africa): Africa's Alienation in an era of globalisation.

5/8 - Prof. Enis Sahin (Dept. of History, Fac. of Arts & Sciences, Sakarya Univ.): Russian Policies Inclined Towards Caucasus After the Dissolution of Soviet Union.

5/9 - Prof. Petermichael von Bawey (Chair): Berlin Wall Memorials and the Politics of Memory.

6/A - First Session: Politics as Science of Government

6/A/1 - Prof. Ignazio Corsaro (Editor of Lo Straniero): Suggestion for New Column Entitled: The Fear of Politicians' "Truth".

6/A/2 - Dr. Sergey Grachov (Pedagogical Science, Mordovian Pedagogical Inst., RU), Dr. Alexander Martinenko (History/Philosophy of Orient, Mord.Ped.Inst., RU), Dr. Nikolai Shilov (History/Ethnology, Mord.Ped.Inst., RU): Geopolitical Context of the Interconfessional Relations in the Sphere of Education.

6/A/3 - Dr. Indrek Grauberg (Administrative Vice Rector, Univ. Nord, Tallinn, Estonia): Sovereignty in Modern and Postmodern World.

6/A/4 - Prof. David Lovell (Chair): Exporting Democracy: Cultural Dimensions.

6/A/5 - Prof. Victor Nemchinov (Political Psychology Dept., Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia): Globalized alienation of local cultures: Isolation or Death.

6/A/6 - Prof. Mario Rimanelli (Dept. of Politics, Saint Leo University-Florida & AUP-France): U.S., NATO and E.U. Policies towards Central Asia, 1990s-2000s.

6/A/7 - Dr. Giovanni Trezza (Correspondent of Lo Straniero): Estrangement from the Fabrication of Methaphysics and its Impact on Politics.

6/B - Second Session: Politics in the Arts

6/B/1 - Dr. William Dow (Comparative Literature Dept., AUP, France): Challenges of Estrangement: The 1930s Literary Legacy.

6/B/2 - Prof. John T.F. Lang (Philosophy and Humanities Dept., Vanier College, Toronto/Ont., Canada): Dramatic Estrangement and Reconciliation.

7/1 - Dr. H. Mustafa Acikoz (Philosophy Dept., Sakarya Univ., Turkey): The Agony of Water Lilly and Homo Modernicus.

7/2 - Jane Gluckstern BA, (Dept. of Anthropology, Sussex Univ., Brighton, UK): Tackling Anthropology.

7/3 - Prof. Joseph Gonda (Philosophy Dept., York Univ, Toronto, Canada): Michelangelo's David and Plato.

7/4 - Prof. Ene Grauberg (Rector of the Nord Univ., Tallinn, Estonia): Technology and Estrangement.

7/5 - Prof. Lucia Palmer (Chair): Title not yet received.

7/6 - Prof. Andrew Packard (Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Naples, Italy): Diary of Amala and Kamala, children who have a wolf as a mother.

7/7 - Prof.Stanley Tweyman (Philos.Dept., York Univ., Toronto, Canada): On the Philosophy of David Hume.

8/1 - Prof. Garlaschelli (Organic Chemistry Dept., University of Pavia, Italy): Miraculous Italian Blood Relics.

8/2 - Dr. Giovanni Trezza (Chair): Homage to Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.

8/3 - Prof. Guido Cuturi (Italy): Title not yet received.

9/1 - Prof. Michael M. Chemers (Dept. of Dramatic Literature, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA): 'In Locus Lusus': Freakish Estrangement as Theatre of Liberation.

9/2 - Prof. Ignazio Corsaro (Editor of Lo Straniero, Italy): Machiavellian Tricks (play) also: Pirandello and the Pirandellian: Absurdity of Life in their Theatre (paper excerpts read by Prof. Janet Madelle Feindel).

9/3 ­ Prof. Cathy Fank, (Theatre Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin, USA): Apathy: Self-alienation in our Complex World.

9/4 - Dr. Yulia Kreinin (Dept. of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Estrangement as a way to avoid censorship: The spiritual message of Dmitri Shostakovich.

9/5 - Prof. Janet Madelle Feindel (School of Drama, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, USA): Principles of the Alexander Technique and Voice (paper).  Excerpts from some of her scripts (performance).

9/6 - Prof. Ingrid Sonnicksen (Chair): Dialect as a factor in Alienation.

9/7 - Dr. Alla Sosnovskaya (Theatre Dept., Haifa Univ, Israel): Theatrical Effects ­ Are they Part of Stage Design or Forms of Estrangement?

9/8 - Prof. Kalina Stefanova (Theatre Criticism, Bulgarian National Academy): Does Estrangement from Politics Make Theatre Apolitical?

9/9 - Prof. Susan Tsu (Costume Design, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburg, USA): The Predicament of the Estranged American Theatre Artist.