Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
28.6 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Augustine, Manichaeism, and the Allegorical Interpretation of Creation: Foundations of an Androcentric Anthropology. David Morphew 150
1.4 Late Antique Literary Developments The Poet and the Virgin: Avitus of Vienne’s Ascetic Aesthetic David Ungvary 150
61.5 Literature of Empire Cringing at Favorinus: Lexicography and the dismantling of a legacy David W.F. Stifler 150
AIA-SCS Poster Session Opening up the Ancient Mediterranean World (through Unicode and Fonts) Deborah (Debbie) W Anderson 150
5.5 Law Money and Politics Satchmo in Macedon? Re-Framing Euripides' Macedonian "Exile" Dennis R Alley 150
71.4 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Statuary Alteration as Prediction Error: A Cognitive Theoretical Approach to Reuse Diana Y. Ng 150
40.2 Podcasting the Classics Educational Podcasts: Sensical Strategies Doug Metzger 150
53.1 Horace and his Legacy Teucer, Twofold: Echoes and exempla in Odes 1.7 Edgar Adrián García 150
14.5 Greek Political Thought Law's Measure: Aischines 3.199–200 Edwin Carawan 150
33.4 Feminist Re-Visionings: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Classics The silencing of Laura Riding Elena Theodorakopoulos 150
69.5 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #4: The Afterlife of Egypt in Early Christian Apologetics Eleni Manolaraki 150
55.3 Global Feminism and the Classics The Emancipation of the Soul: Gender and Body-Soul Dualism in Ancient Greek and Indian Philosophy. Elizabeth LaFray 150
59.1 A Century of Translating Poetry “Exquisite classics in simple English prose”: Theory and Practice in the Poets’ Translation Series (1915-1920) Elizabeth Vandiver 150
6.6 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions Rome’s Marble Plan: Progress and Prospects Elizabeth Wolfram Thrill 150
17.2 Theorizing Africana Receptions Reader-Response to Racism: Audre Lorde and Seneca on Anger Ellen Cole Lee 150
67.2 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Writing in the Achaemenid Empire Elspeth Dusinberre 150
13.4 Reception and National Traditions "Ne quid detrimenti capiat res publica": The Senatus Consultum Ultimum and a Print of George Washington Emilio Capettini 150
36.7 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries No Two are the Same: Stela Production in Ptolemaic and Roman Akhmim Emily Cole 150
33.3 Feminist Re-Visionings: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Classics Re-visioning Classics: Adrienne Rich and the Critique of “Old Texts” Emily Hauser 150
59.5 A Century of Translating Poetry Faithless: Gender bias and translating the classics Emily Wilson 150
75.5 Materiality and Literary Culture Etymological Resonances Between the Argiletum and the Forum Transitorium Emma Brobeck 150
22.3 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture Domitianic ‘Arachnes’ and ‘Lucretias’: An Inter-discursive Perspective Emma Buckley 150
21.4 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century “I shall sing of Herakles”: writing a Hercules oratorio for the twenty-first century Emma Stafford 150
34.2 Political Enculturation Where's the Beef? The Athletic Diet and its Resentment in Antiquity Emmanuel Aprilakis 150
90.1 Materiality of Writing The ancient edition of Archilochus’ works Enrico Emanuele Prodi 150
16.2 From APA to SCS: 150 Years of Professional Classics in North America 1869: The Year That Changed Classical Studies in America Eric Adler 150
71.3 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Ad futuram memoriam: The Augustan Ludi Saeculares Eric Orlin 150
70.6 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology GIS at 50: the many uses of a mature research tool Eric Poehler 150
73.1 Greek Religion Knowledgeable Encounters in Early Greek Religion Eric Wesley Driscoll 150
35.3 Rome and the Americas Transformation of Roman Poetry in Colonial Latin America Erika Valdivieso 150
5.1 Law Money and Politics Public Finance in Archaic Crete? The Poinikastas of Datala Revisited Evan J Vance 150
32.5 Hannibal's Legacy 'A death more becoming to himself’ Gender role reversal, Carthaginian Female Suicide and the Roman Imagination Eve MacDonald 150
63.1 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Open-ended ἐφήμερος Felix Budelmann 150
46.4 Thirty Years of the Jeweled Style: Reassessing Late Antique Poetry How to Bejewel a Cento (Eudocia the Magpie) Francesca Middleton 150
56.6 Music and the Divine Singing for the Gods under the Empire: Music and the Divine in the Age of Aelius Aristides Francesca Modini 150
51.4 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language Distributed Agency in Tragic Social Networks Francesca Spiegel 150
32.1 Hannibal's Legacy The Roman Senate in the Third Century BC Fred Drogula 150
7.3 Culture & Society in Greek Roman & Byzantine Egypt The development of papyrology in North America Gabi Stewart 150
70.3 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology G.I.S., Military History, and the Mapping of Nuanced Imperialism Gabriel Moss 150
87.5 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Language-Games in Parmenides' Proem Gabriela Cursaru 150
6.2 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions Greek and Roman Mapping Georgia Irby 150
14.2 Greek Political Thought Citizens’ wisdom and (other arguments for) the defence of moderate democracy in Aristotle’s Politics Georgia Tsouni 150
31.5 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean “It seems that they are using the Carian Language”: Multilingualism, Assimilation, and Acculturation in Caria Georgios Tsolakis 150
36.5 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries Locating energy in the archaeological record: A ceramic case study from Pompeii, Italy Gina Tibbott 150
18.2 Academic Mentoring in Classics Mentoring in Independent Schools Giselle Furlonge 150
48.2 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Κιναίδων βίος: The impossible praise of a lifestyle in Athenian erotic culture. Giulia Sissa 150
43.3 Latin Hexameter Poetry Lucan’s African Monsters: the Triumph of Chaos over Cosmos in the 'Bellum Civile' Giulio Celotto 150
7.4 Culture & Society in Greek Roman & Byzantine Egypt Final and consecutive clauses in the Greek documentary papyri of the Roman period Giuseppina di Bartolo 150
19.2 The Cosmic-Text: Metapoetics and Philosophy in Latin Literature Summoning Forth the Gods in Lucretius: an Idealist Interpretation of Venus and Mars Gordon Campbell 150
37.3 Writing the History of Epigraphy and Epigraphers 150 years, and more, of Teaching the Epigraphical Sciences (or, Epigraphical Training Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow) Graham Oliver 150