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
61.5 Literature of Empire Cringing at Favorinus: Lexicography and the dismantling of a legacy David W.F. Stifler 150
9.1 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Creating polytopic and de-centered identities: A Greek answer to exile imposed by the Roman Policy? Maria Vamvouri Ruffy 150
41.5 Centering the Margins Creating Inclusivity with Material Culture in Civilization and History Survey Courses Robyn Le Blanc 150
41.3 Centering the Margins Creating Inclusive Beginning Language Courses Amy Pistone 150
3.5 Roman Political Self-Representation Contested Recycling: Conflicting Heritage Values in Dio Chysostom’s Rhodian Oration Cynthia Susalla 150
86.4 What's in a Name?: Race Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Vergil Constructing Ethnicity in Miniature: Cultural Memory in the World of the Aeneid Tedd Wimperis 150
36.2 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries Constructing Cetariae: The Role of Knowledge Networks in Building the Roman Fish Salting Industry Christopher F. Motz 150
38.4 What Can Active Latin Accomplish Comprehensible Output, Form-focused Recasts, and the New Standards Peter Anderson 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship CommentarySandbox: Creating Custom Digital Commentaries for the Classroom Bret Mulligan 150
27.6 Didactic Prose Columella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 10 Victoria Austen-Perry 150
48.3 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Cleomachus: A Case Study in “Cinaedism” Thomas Sapsford 150
40.4 Podcasting the Classics Classics for the People Vanya Visnjic 150
13.5 Reception and National Traditions Classical Reception within the Vietnamese Diaspora Kelly Nguyen 150
14.2 Greek Political Thought Citizens’ wisdom and (other arguments for) the defence of moderate democracy in Aristotle’s Politics Georgia Tsouni 150
74.6 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing Circular by Design: Graphic Clues in Magical and Cultic Graffiti Irene Polinskaya 150
24.1 Latin Prose Interaction Cicero, Brutus 63–9 and the history of Cato’s Origines Jackie Elliott 150
11.5 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro Chorus and Comunidad in Alfaro’s Electricidad and Oedipus El Rey Name: Rosa Andújar 150
43.2 Latin Hexameter Poetry Caesar and the Poetics of Nefas in Lucan's Civil War Isaia Crosson 150
3.4 Roman Political Self-Representation Bureaucratic Consistency and Dynastic Continuity: The Case of Titus Zachary Herz 150
89.6 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues Building LGBTQIA+ Community on Diverse Campuses- Faculty’s Role and Responsibilities Shaun Travers 150
41.4 Centering the Margins Bringing the Outside In: Incorporating Marginalized Identities and Modern Topics into an Introductory Mythology Course Yurie Hong 150
17.3 Theorizing Africana Receptions Bodies in Dissent Sarah Derbew 150
64.6 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Blank Marks: Absence as Interpretation of Queer Erotics in 20th-21st Century Reception of Sappho Mary Mussman 150
31.2 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean Beyond the Text: Socio-political Implications in Cypriot bilingual Inscriptions Beatrice Pestarino 150
50.5 The Romance of Reception Beyond the Ethnicity of Fragments Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 150
44.5 Allusion and Intertext Beyond Ornamentation: Seneca, Vergil's Aeneid, and the Interlocutor Sophia R Elzie 150
88.2 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Being There: The Use of Brief Dialogue in Herodotus and Thucydides Christopher A. Baron 150
4.2 Satire Before the Ars Poetica: Poema and Poesis in Lucilius and Varro Marcie Persyn 150
65.5 The Digital Latin Library Automatically Encoding Critical Editions of Latin Texts Virginia K. Felkner 150
38.2 What Can Active Latin Accomplish Aut Latine aut nihil? A tertium quid Tom Keeline 150
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
93.2 Forms of Drama Atreus' Indecision in Seneca's Thyestes Isabella Reinhardt 150
36.3 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries Association and Archive: The Technitai of Dionysus as Keepers of Knowledge Mali Skotheim 150
83.1 Philosophy Aristotle’s Uses of ‘ἕνεκά του’ and ‘οὗ ἕνεκα’ Takashi Oki 150
46.2 Thirty Years of the Jeweled Style: Reassessing Late Antique Poetry Argento auroque coruscis scripta notis: Optatianic reflections on the ‘jeweled style’ Michael Squire 150
51.2 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language Archilochus fr. 93a W: Musical Diplomacy on Thasos? Timothy C Power 150
28.5 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Apuleius' use of philosophical allegory Joshua Renfro 150
60.3 Herodotus and Thucydides Apotropaic Lions in Herodotus David Branscome 150
72.2 Hellenistic Poetry Apollonius, Orpheus, and the Sirens: beyond poetical aemulatio matthieu real 150
1.1 Late Antique Literary Developments Aphrahat the Persian Sage: Testimony to Constantine and the Roman-Persian Wars Mary J Jett 150
58.2 Ancient Drama / New World Antigone: Anastrophe in Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa Charles Pletcher 150
83.2 Philosophy Anticipating the Worst: A Cyrenaic Technique to Increase Pleasure Isabelle Chouinard 150
91.5 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Answering the Natural Questions: Pliny Ep. 4.30 and Ep. 8.20 Christopher V. Trinacty 150
19.5 The Cosmic-Text: Metapoetics and Philosophy in Latin Literature Another Look at Proserpina's Cosmic Text in Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae Stephen Wheeler 150
27.5 Didactic Prose Animal Speech, Sermo, and Imperialism in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History Wesley J Hanson 150
89.5 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues Ancient Sexualities for Tourists Andrew Lear 150
67.6 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Ancient Mesopotamian Literate Culture Stephen J. Tinney 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship Analyzing Ciceronian Networks with Gephi Caitlin Marley 150
73.2 Greek Religion An Infant μύστης at Pelinna? Evidence for the Initiation of Children into Bacchic-Dionysiac Mystery Cults Colleen Kron 150
90.3 Materiality of Writing An Emperor Makes His Mark: Claudius’ New Letters in the Epigraphic Record Melissa Huber 150