Annual Meeting Abstracts

Links for the abstracts for the annual meeting appear below. To see the abstract of a paper to be delivered at the annual meeting, click on the abstract's title. To find a particular abstract, use the search field below. You can also click on the column headers to alter the order in which the information is sorted. By default, the abstracts are sorted by the number of the session and the order in which the papers will be presented. Please note the following apparent anomalies: Not all sessions and presentations have abstracts associated with them. Panels in which the first abstract is listed as .2 rather than .1 have an introductory speaker.

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
48.4 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Representing the cinaedus in Roman Visual Culture John R. Clarke 150
32.6 Hannibal's Legacy Sicily and the Second Punic War: The (Re)Organisation of Rome’s First Province John Serrati 150
2.1 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Hecataeus' Heroic Boast: Personal and Impersonal Genealogies in Archaic Greek Literature Joseph Baker Zehner 150
75.2 Materiality and Literary Culture The Imperial Bellerophon: Reading Archaic Tablets as Modern Books in the Second Sophistic Joseph Howley 150
90.4 Materiality of Writing Spelling Legitimacy: Claudius, Orthography and Re-Foundation Joseph R O'Neill 150
67.5 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Phoenician and Punic Civilizations Josephine Crawley Quinn 150
91.6 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Rethinking Morality: A Senecan Shift in Stoic Sexual Ethics? Joshua M Reno 150
79.5 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches Sannazaro’s Pastoral Seascape Joshua Patch 150
28.5 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Apuleius' use of philosophical allegory Joshua Renfro 150
45.3 The Future of Classics speaker/facilitator Joy Connolly 150
8.2 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity Sacrificial Acrostics and the Fall of Great Cities in Latin Epic Julia Hejduk 150
49.4 Contagious Narrative Disease in Virgil and Edwidge Danticat's "The Farming of Bones" Julia Nelson Hawkins 150
84.2 Vergil An Amber River at Georgics 3.522 Julia Scarborough 150
92.2 Homer and Hesiod A Question of Memory: Who and Whose are You? Justin Arft 150
44.4 Allusion and Intertext The Daemon Grows: Some Offshoots of Empedocles in Horace’s Ars Poetica Justin Hudak 150
52.4 Greek Language Let All Marvel at This Stele: Complexity and Performance in the Shem/Antipatros Stele of the Kerameikos Justin S. Miller 150
80.3 Responses Under the Plane Tree: Cultivation in Ancient Urban Pollution Kaja Tally-Schumacher 150
21.2 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century Herakles/Vajrapani, the companion of Buddha Karl Galinsky 150
25.4 Greek Semantics How Long Does the "Right Time" Last? Kairos in Galen's On Crises and On Hygiene Kassandra Jackson Miller 150
79.4 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches Syphilitic Trees: Immobility and Voicelessness in Ovid and Fracastoro Kat Vaananen 150
47.5 Varro the Philosopher 288 Ways of Looking at the summum bonum: Varro the Roman Eclectic Katharina Volk 150
63.4 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Me and my shadow Katharine Earnshaw 150
85.4 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Hierarchical Communities: Elite Approaches to Defining botanē in Ancient Medical Practice Katherine Beydler 150
53.3 Horace and his Legacy Horace the Communist: Marx’s Capital as Satire Katherine Wasdin 150
54.1 Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: A Practical Guide for Users Presentation Kathleen Coleman 150
1.3 Late Antique Literary Developments The Face of Vice: The Monsters of the 'Psychomachia' Kathleen M. Kirsch 150
75.4 Materiality and Literary Culture Identity in Mosnier’s 17th-century Paintings of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica Kathryn Chew 150
72.3 Hellenistic Poetry Organizing Snakes: Nicander’s Literary and Biological Catalog Kathryn Dorothy Wilson 150
12.5 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Advancing an Eschatological Conversation: An Interpretation of Via Latina’s “Hercules Cycle” through the Eyes of the Late Antique Roman Viewer Katie Hillery 150
72.1 Hellenistic Poetry The Same River Twice: The Anaurus-crossing(s) and Narrative Strategy in Apollonius' Argonautica Keith Penich 150
13.5 Reception and National Traditions Classical Reception within the Vietnamese Diaspora Kelly Nguyen 150
26.5 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Using Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Greek and Latin Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Socially Conscious Classics Pedagogy Kelly P. Dugan 150
86.1 What's in a Name?: Race Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Vergil Whose Fatherland? The Use of patria and patrius in Vergil Kevin Moch 150
24.4 Latin Prose Interaction Lucius Anicius Gallus, Conqueror and Tripartite Divider Kevin Scahill 150
8.3 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity Pallas Primamque Deorum: Minerva in Flavian Epic and Religion Kira Jones 150
48.5 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Did (Imaginary) Cinaedi Have Sex with Women? Kirk Ormand 150
61.3 Literature of Empire Phaedrus’s Double Dowry: Laughter and Joking in the Fabulae Aesopiae Kristin Mann 150
89.2 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues LGBTQ Parenting and the Profession Kristina Milnor 150
26.2 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Learning Latin, Learning How to Learn: Student Agency, Identity, and Resilience Kristina A Meinking 150
44.6 Allusion and Intertext The Muses and Redacted Antiquity: Rodulfus Tortarius’ poetic adaptation of Valerius Maximus Kyle Conrau-Lewis 150
73.3 Greek Religion The Place of the Club-bearer: Thoughts on the New Festival Calendar from Arcadia Kyle W Mahoney 150
8.5 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity Travels with Martyrs: Epic Journey Motifs and Sacred Landscapes in Late Antique Poetry Laura K. Roesch 150
15.3 Playing with Time Stop the Clock! Time in Apuleius' "Apology" Lauren Miller 150
69.2 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #1: The Cult of Isis, from ‘Oriental’ to Global Laurent Bricault 150
58.4 Ancient Drama / New World Reimagining Creon and his Daughter in Euripides' Medea: Armida as Queen of the Barrio in Luis Alfaro's Mojada Laurialan Blake Reitzammer 150
50.2 The Romance of Reception The Greek Novel, ‘Asianic’ Style, and the Second Sophistic Lawrence Kim 150
16.4 From APA to SCS: 150 Years of Professional Classics in North America Speaking as a Classicist: The APA/SCS and American Politics Lee T Pearcy 150
31.3 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean The Xanthos Trilingual and Beyond: Interlingual Patterns in Greek-Lycian-Aramaic Inscriptions Leon Battista Borsano 150
39.5 What's Roma Got to Do with It? Lost in translation: Mapping cultural displacement in the Plautine Mediterranean Leon Grek 150
87.6 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Empedocles on Language, Nature and Learning Leon Wash 150