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This paper explores the extent to which the recent turbulent history of Cyprus is reflected in an emblematic building, the Ledra Palace Hotel. The hotel is situated on Nicosia's buffer zone, the Green Line that, since 1964, has divided the island into Greek Cypriot and Turkish sectors. Since its establishment in 1949 the Ledra Palace has been the background of the country's key historical events. In this paper, the Ledra Palace is analysed as an integral part of Cyprus’ cultural heritage which contributes to the understanding and negotiation of the island's difficult past.

The documentation and protection of archaeological and cultural heritage (ACH) using remote sensing, a non-destructive tool, is increasingly popular for experts around the world, as it allows rapid searching and mapping at multiple scales, rapid analysis of multi-source data sets, and dynamic monitoring of ACH sites and their environments. The exploitation of remote sensing data and their products have seen an increased use in recent years in the fields of archaeological science and cultural heritage. Different spatial and spectral analysis datasets have been applied to distinguish archaeological remains and detect changes in the landscape over time, and, in the last decade, archaeologists have adopted more thoroughly automated object detection approaches for potential sites. These approaches included, among others, object detection methods, such as those of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms, as well as convolutional neural networks (CNN) and deep learning (DL) models using aerial and satellite images, airborne and spaceborne remote sensing (ASRS), multispectral, hyperspectral images, and active methods (synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and light detection and ranging radar (LiDAR)). Researchers also refer to the potential for archaeologists to explore such artificial intelligence (AI) approaches in various ways, such as identifying archaeological features and classifying them. Here, we present a review study related to the contributions of remote sensing (RS) and artificial intelligence in archaeology. However, a main question remains open in the field of research: the rate of positive contribution of remote sensing and artificial intelligence techniques in archaeological research. The scope of this study is to summarize the state of the art related to AI and RS for archaeological research and provide some further insights into the existing literature.

We explore the relationship between freight rates of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) and Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) carrier freight rates, and the global geopolitical risk, while also controlling for the macro environment. Our results show that a shock in geopolitical risk significantly increases the cost of the spot charter rates for both the LNG and LPG carriers, with the impact reaching around 25% for the former and 18% for the latter. Our results bare significant implications for the companies and countries involved in the liquefied gas trade, as it is likely to continue substituting other fossil fuels in the future. As such, the significance of a stable energy source makes it highly correlated with the economic development and energy security in the importing countries.

We employ a cointegration setup to explore route-specific off-equilibrium deviations related to Covid-19 that have affected clean (petroleum products) and dirty (crude oil) tanker freight rates, over and above the expected macroeconomic reactions. We find that the additional deviation caused by Covid-19 is route-specific. In particular, deviation caused by Covid-19 is found to be more significant for clean tankers, with an average impact of 0.15, an expected outcome given that these products are more reliant on economic developments because of their uses. The clean tanker impact is more evident in Japan-related routes, while no specific pattern can be extracted with regards to the additional off-equilibrium Covid-19 deviation for dirty tanker routes. Results suggest that time-charters and hedging against the stock markets can help ship-owners ameliorate demand-driven shocks.

Two Late Roman slag heaps located near Polis Chrysochous, western Cyprus, are studied to reconstruct the technological processes of copper production. The Pelathousa slag heap (4th-6th century C.E.) is located on the foothills of the Troodos Mountain close to the Limni mine, while the Argaka slag heap (3rd- 8th century C.E.) is near the coastline approximately five kilometers from the mine. Macroscopic examination, hhpXRF analysis, optical microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM-EDS) showed that the slag from both slag heaps has the same variability in manganese content, which varies from less than 1wt% to almost 40wt%. The slag assemblage derives exclusively from copper-matte smelting. The second part of the research focuses on the spatial analysis of the metallurgical remains. Using GIS spatial tools, the locations of the slag heaps are investigated in their topographic context and distance from the nearby mines, i.e. the Limni and Kinousa mines. The results will be used to understand the organization of copper production within the landscape. The Cyprus Institute, STARC

Includes bibliographical references. Number of sources in the bibliography: 262 Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Cyprus, Faculty of Letters, Department of History and Archaeology, 2022. The University of Cyprus Library holds the printed form of the thesis. Η αρχαιολογική κληρονομιά της Κύπρου, θεμέλιο της εδαφικής και πολιτιστικής ταυτότητας μιας χώρας που εξακολουθεί να είναι διχοτομημένη, παραμένει σε μεγάλο βαθμό άγνωστη εκτός των ορίων της επιστημονικής κοινότητας. Και αυτό, παρόλο που η ανάπτυξη της αρχαιολογικής έρευνας στο νησί από τον 19ο αιώνα και εξής επέτρεψε τη δημιουργία πολυάριθμων αρχαιολογικών συλλογών με κυπριακά τέχνεργα σε ολόκληρη την Ευρώπη. Οι συλλογές αυτές διατηρούν και εκθέτουν μια διασκορπισμένη αρχαιολογική κληρονομιά, η σημασία της οποίας γίνεται κατανοητή μόνο αποσπασματικά. Η μετάδοση της βασίζεται τόσο στη διατήρηση όσο και στην ανάδειξη των αρχαιολογικών καταλοίπων. Η παρούσα διατριβή, βασισμένη σε επιτόπια έρευνα και εμπειρικές παρατηρήσεις, σκιαγραφεί μια επικαιροποιημένη εικόνα αυτής της κληρονομιάς. Συγκεκριμένα, αναλύονται τα μέσα που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για τη διατήρηση και την ανάδειξη της από το 1960 – έτος κατά το οποίο η Κύπρος ανακηρύσσεται σε ανεξάρτητο κράτος και είναι σε θέση πλέον να διαμορφώσει τη δική της πολιτική για την προστασία και την προβολή της κληρονομιάς της ‒ μέχρι σήμερα. Η μελετή επικεντρώνεται σε επιλεγμένους αρχαιολογικούς χώρους και μνημεία, που αντιπροσωπεύουν τις διάφορες περιόδους της ιστορίας του νησιού, καθώς και σε μόνιμες εκθέσεις στην Κύπρο και στα σημαντικότερα μουσεία της Ευρώπης. Η προσέγγιση αυτή προσφέρει αφορμή για προβληματισμό γύρω από την ιστορία της κυπριακής αρχαιολογίας και των συλλογών κυπριακών αρχαιοτήτων και προτείνει τη σύγκριση των μέσων διατήρησης και ανάδειξης προκειμένου να προσδιοριστούν σημερινά ζητήματα και προκλήσεις. Στη συνέχεια, με βάση αυτή τη συγκριτική και διαχρονική ανάλυση, η παρούσα μελέτη προτείνει τη διερεύνηση προοπτικών και πιθανών λύσεων για την αποτελεσματικότερη ανάδειξη της σημασίας και του χαρακτήρα αυτής της κοινής κληρονομιάς. Στο τελευταίο μέρος της παρούσας διατριβής, αναδεικνύεται η σημασία των αρχαιολογικών συμφραζομένων για τη μετάδοση της κυπριακής κληρονομιάς, και μάλιστα ως μέσο για τον σχεδιασμό και υποστήριξη νέων εμπειριών για τους επισκέπτες. The archaeological heritage of Cyprus is one of the foundations of the territorial and cultural identity of a country that is still divided, yet it remains largely unknown outside the scientific community. However, the development of archaeological excavations since the 19th century has enabled the formation of various collections throughout Europe. These collections preserve and exhibit a scattered archaeological heritage, and its meaning is only partly accessible. Passing on this heritage relies on both the preservation and the display of the remains. Based on empirical investigations, the thesis draws up an up-to-date overview of this heritage. Thus, the means used to preserve and enhance it are analyzed, starting from 1960 - the date when Cyprus became an independent state and began implementing its own policy for protecting and enhancing its heritage - to the present day. To this end, a selection of sites and monuments is studied - they are representative of different periods of the island's history - as well as a number of permanent exhibitions in Cyprus and in the major museums of Europe. This study invites questioning the history of archaeology and archaeological collections: it suggests comparing preservation and display methods, in order to highlight the current issues at stake. On the basis of this comparative and diachronic analysis, this thesis then proposes to explore the possible perspectives for giving meaning to this shared heritage. Lastly, the matter of the archaeological context is discussed in the final part of the thesis. Archaeological context is revealed as of crucial importance in the transmission of the heritage, promoting new visitor experiences. Le patrimoine archéologique chypriote - l’un des fondements de l’identité territoriale et culturelle d’un pays toujours divisé - est largement méconnu en dehors de la communauté scientifique. Paradoxalement, le développement des fouilles archéologiques dès le XIXe siècle a permis la constitution de nombreuses collections à travers l’Europe. Celles-ci conservent et exposent un patrimoine archéologique dispersé, dont le sens n’est que partiellement saisissable. La transmission de ce patrimoine repose à la fois sur la préservation et la valorisation des vestiges. À partir d’enquêtes empiriques, cette thèse dessine une image actualisée de ce patrimoine. Dès lors, les moyens employés pour le préserver et le valoriser sont analysés depuis 1960 - date à laquelle Chypre devient un pays indépendant et mène sa propre politique de sauvegarde et de mise en valeur du patrimoine - jusqu’à nos jours. Pour cela, une sélection de sites et monuments - représentatifs de différentes périodes de l'histoire de l’île - et d’expositions permanentes à Chypre et dans les principaux musées européens sont étudiés. Cette démarche invite à s’interroger sur l’histoire de l’archéologie et des collections : elle propose de comparer les moyens de préservation et de mise en valeur pour en définir les enjeux actuels. Forte de cette analyse comparée et diachronique, cette thèse propose ensuite d’explorer les perspectives possibles pour redonner du sens à ce patrimoine en partage. Enfin, la question du contexte archéologique émerge dans la dernière partie de cette thèse et s’impose alors comme un enjeu de transmission du patrimoine, propre à soutenir de nouvelles expériences de visite. UR Histoire et critique des arts - Université Rennes 2

In this essay I attempt to draw some crucial theoretical parallelisms between ancient Greek cosmology and the Anthropocene. Taking inspiration from Marcel Detienne and Timothy Morton’s work, I deploy the figure of Dionysos as a conceptual persona which can help us think of strangeness as a non-human mode of relationality Anthropocene societies must urgently engage with. Events such as the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic, through which non-humans are brought to the forefront of politics and social relations, traditionally result to attempts of sublating strangeness through human modes of knowledge. As I argue, epidemics instead demand the creation of practices, collectives and techniques through which strangeness is not eliminated or ‘understood’, but rather elevated to a fundamental feature of social relations. In such sense, the ancient world presents a critical vector of intervention to the current state of the Anthropocene, since it showcases a cosmos in which human life and society is constantly embedded and negotiated amid non-human strangeness.

This study describes the design of a serious game for social change (“Fact Finders”) that presents intergroup conflicts through historical inquiry and multiperspectivity. A pre-test post-test experimental design examined the game’s effect on undergraduates’ perceptions of conflicts in history. Participants included 97 Greek Cypriots (direct parties of the conflict) and 79 Slovenians (third parties of the conflict) who interacted with and evaluated the game online. Data sources included a 17-item questionnaire on perceptions of conflicts in history and gameplay learning analytics data. Findings indicated that both groups’ perceptions for historical source evaluation and understanding multiperspectivity changed significantly after the game. The game significantly changed perceptions about the constructedness of history and the ability to overcome their country’s troubled past only for direct parties of the conflict. The study provides empirical evidence demonstrating the potential value of serious games for affecting young people’s perceptions of intractable intergroup conflicts and their desire to overcome troubled pasts.

This book provides an overview of the history and evolution of tourism to the present, and speculates on possible and probable change into the future. It discusses significant travel, tourism and hospitality events while referring to tourism-related notions and theories that have been developed since the beginnings of tourism. Its scope moves beyond a comprehensive historical account of facts and events. Instead, it bridges these with contemporary issues, challenges and concerns, hence enabling readers to connect tourism past with the present and future. This textbook aspires to enhance readers' comprehension of the perplexed system of tourism, promoting decision-making and even the development of new theories. Despite its academic orientation, the book is written in an approachable style enabling a clear and solid understanding of how tourism has evolved through the centuries. It uses several practitioner-linked, real-life examples and case studies derived from organizations and enterprises across all aspects of the tourism, travel and events industries. This book will be of great interest to academics, practitioners and students from a wide variety of disciplines, including tourism, hospitality, events, sociology, psychology, philosophy, history and human geography.