Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
71.2 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Remembering to Mourn in Tacitus' Annals: Germanicus' Death and the Shape of Grief Aaron M. Seider 150
71.1 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture The Future of the Past: Fabius Pictor and Dionysios of Halicarnassos on the Pompa Circensis (Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 7.70-72) Jacob A. Latham 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
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
70.3 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology Accessing Economic, Material, and Social Networks in Antiquity Through GIS and Linked Data Ryan Horne 150
70.2 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology “Is that a place or a person?” Teaching classics with a digital annotation platform Valeria Vitale 150
70.1 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology Mapping the unmapped: digital annotation of premodern geographies Chiara Palladino 150
69.6 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #5: Origins, Dialogues, and Identities: Shifting Perspectives on Greek Hymns to Egyptian Gods Ian Moyer 150
69.5 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #4: The Afterlife of Egypt in Early Christian Apologetics Eleni Manolaraki 150
69.4 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #3: Where Art Meets Text: Potent Words and Vivid Images in the Isiac Cults Molly Swetnam-Burland 150
69.3 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #2: In the Guise of Isis: Visual Symbols and Constructing Identity Richard Veymiers 150
69.2 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #1: The Cult of Isis, from ‘Oriental’ to Global Laurent Bricault 150
68.5 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Ovid in the #MeToo Era Daniel Libatique 150
68.4 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Ovid In and After Exile: Modern Fiction on Ovid outside Rome Alison Keith 150
68.3 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Actaeon in the Wilderness: Ovid, Christine de Pizan and Gavin Douglas Carole Newlands 150
68.2 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium New Directions in Ovidian Scholarship Sara Myers 150
67.6 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Ancient Mesopotamian Literate Culture Stephen J. Tinney 150
67.5 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Phoenician and Punic Civilizations Josephine Crawley Quinn 150
67.4 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures The Invention of Greek "Literature" Ruth Scodel 150
67.3 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Epigraphic Egocentrism and Ancient Literary Invention Seth Larkin Sanders 150
67.2 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Writing in the Achaemenid Empire Elspeth Dusinberre 150
65.5 The Digital Latin Library Automatically Encoding Critical Editions of Latin Texts Virginia K. Felkner 150
65.4 The Digital Latin Library Pragmatic or Pure? Two Experiments in Editing Cynthia Damon 150
65.3 The Digital Latin Library Is There an Editor in this Text? Robert Kaster 150
65.2 The Digital Latin Library What does a (digital) critical edition look like? Hugh Cayless 150
65.1 The Digital Latin Library The Digital Latin Library Samuel J Huskey 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
64.5 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Normal for Byzantium is Queer for Us Mark Masterson 150
64.4 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Homo Urbanus or Urban Homos?: The Metronormative Trope, Philo’s Therapeuts, and Ancient Queer Subcultures James Hoke 150
64.3 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Io's Dance: A Queer Move in Prometheus Bound Sarah Olsen 150
64.2 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope “ἦλθον Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι,” or, Going Amazon: Queering the Warrior Women in the Iliad Rowan Ash 150
63.6 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Split tunnel: Nonius Datus celebrating and mourning construction Nolan Epstein 150
63.5 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Temporalities of stone, hand, and light in Posidippus’ Lithika Verity Platt 150
63.4 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Me and my shadow Katharine Earnshaw 150
63.3 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Lyric ephemerality in Sappho Alex Purves 150
63.2 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Ephemerality as exhortation Sarah Nooter 150
63.1 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Open-ended ἐφήμερος Felix Budelmann 150
62.6 Reconnecting the Classics Object-Oriented Philology Patrick Burns 150
62.5 Reconnecting the Classics The Ship of Theseus: A framework for intertextuality connecting literature, biology, and computation Pramit Chaudhuri and Joseph P. Dexter 150
62.4 Reconnecting the Classics In the Mind of a Polymath: Exploring D’Arcy Thompson’s Glossary of Greek Birds Marie-Claire Beaulieu 150
62.3 Reconnecting the Classics Philology and the Future of Work Gregory Crane 150
62.2 Reconnecting the Classics Reconnecting the Classics: The Vocation and the Vocations in the 21st Century Christopher Blackwell 150
61.6 Literature of Empire Quintus of Smyrna and Hesiod Colin Pang 150
61.5 Literature of Empire Cringing at Favorinus: Lexicography and the dismantling of a legacy David W.F. Stifler 150
61.4 Literature of Empire The Historiographic Nature of Lucianic Polemic in the Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit Luther Karper 150
61.3 Literature of Empire Phaedrus’s Double Dowry: Laughter and Joking in the Fabulae Aesopiae Kristin Mann 150
61.2 Literature of Empire ‘Even When Sappho is Sung’: Taste in Sapphic and Anacreontic Performance in Early Imperial Symposia David F. Driscoll 150
61.1 Literature of Empire A Polytheist or Christian Journey in Alexander’s Letter to Olympias? Matthew W Ferguson 150
60.6 Herodotus and Thucydides Dialectics of Hope and Fear in Thucydides Book 6 Bradley Hald 150