Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
16.3 From APA to SCS: 150 Years of Professional Classics in North America African American Members of the Society for Classical Studies: A Census of Affiliations  (1875-1938) Michele Valerie Ronnick 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
15.5 Playing with Time ‘To Be Completed: The Poetry of July to December in Neo-Latin Fasti-poems’ Bobby Xinyue 150
15.4 Playing with Time Rebuilding Rome: Reading Ovid’s Fasti as a Chronological History of the City of Rome Samuel L. Kindick 150
15.3 Playing with Time Stop the Clock! Time in Apuleius' "Apology" Lauren Miller 150
15.2 Playing with Time Unlucky in Love: Games of Chance and Amatory Strategies in Roman Elegy Christopher S Dobbs 150
15.1 Playing with Time Swerving Atoms and Changing Times: Lucretius and his Readers in Late Antiquity Abigail Kate Buglass 150
14.5 Greek Political Thought Law's Measure: Aischines 3.199–200 Edwin Carawan 150
14.4 Greek Political Thought Kritias and Plato's Ur-Athens as Oligarchy William S. Morison 150
14.3 Greek Political Thought Plutarch’s Hellish Cures for Ardiaeus: The Myth of Thespesius and the Occlusion of Plato’s ‘Incurables’ Collin Miles Hilton 150
14.2 Greek Political Thought Citizens’ wisdom and (other arguments for) the defence of moderate democracy in Aristotle’s Politics Georgia Tsouni 150
14.1 Greek Political Thought "Philanthrōpia, Democracy, and the Proof of Power" Ted Parker 150
13.5 Reception and National Traditions Classical Reception within the Vietnamese Diaspora Kelly Nguyen 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
13.3 Reception and National Traditions From Homer to Lescarbot: The Iliad’s Influence on the First North American Drama Andrew E. Porter 150
13.2 Reception and National Traditions Ventriloquizing the Classics: Cicero and Early American Gothic James Uden 150
13.1 Reception and National Traditions Greek Andes: Briceño Guerrero and the Latin America Tragedy Jacobo Myerston 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
12.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Dorians are Allowed to Speak Doric: Theocritus' Idyll XV in the Context of Panhellenization Sophia Decker 150
12.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Hot Topics: Aristophanes’ Acharnians and Charcoal Production Molly Schaub 150
12.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students 'Your Marriage Murders Mine': The Moral Consciousness of the Tragic Virgin M. Katherine Pyne-Jaeger 150
12.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Role of Parmenides’ Goddess as Θέα Δαίμων David Bicknell 150
11.6 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro Directing Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles Jessica Kubzansky 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
11.4 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro 9-1-1 is a Joke in Yo Town: Justice in Alfaro’s Borderlands Tom Hawkins 150
11.3 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro Immigrants in Time Amy Richlin 150
11.2 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro Family, Fate, and Magic: An Introduction to the Greek Adaptations of Luis Alfaro Mary Louise Hart 150
10.5 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives Travesty: the ultimate domestication of epic Susanna Braund 150
10.4 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives Virgil’s Venus-virgo in Christian Early Modern Epic Viola Starnone 150
10.3 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives The Epics of Lepanto: Between Tradition and Innovation Maxim Rigaux 150
10.2 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives Emerging Markets and Transnational Interactions in Translation and Epicization: the Case of Spain 1549-1569 Richard H. Armstrong 150
9.5 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Friendship with the powerful? Perspectives pro and con in the Roman empire Zsuzsa Varhelyi 150
9.4 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Poetics of Political Fear: Lucan and the Neronian Age of Anxiety Irene Morrison-Moncure 150
9.3 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Roman Governors, "Greek Failings," and the Political World of Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom Christopher Fuhrmann 150
9.2 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Political Παρρησία in Plutarch: When Does It Work? Brad Buszard 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
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
8.4 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity Festive days in Statius’ Thebaid Anke Walter 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
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
8.1 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity The Aeneid, Book VI: Vergil’s Dream of the Afterlife Jeff Brodd 150
7.5 Culture & Society in Greek Roman & Byzantine Egypt Keeping up with the Apollonii: Social and Economic Strategy and Choice among Merchants in Roman Egypt Jane Sancinito 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
7.3 Culture & Society in Greek Roman & Byzantine Egypt The development of papyrology in North America Gabi Stewart 150
7.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt A New Understanding of the State Auction Process(es) in Egypt Andrew Hogan 150
7.1 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Judean immigration to Egypt in the 2nd century BC Christelle Fischer-Bovet 150
6.6 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions Rome’s Marble Plan: Progress and Prospects Elizabeth Wolfram Thrill 150
6.5 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions What has the Ancient World Mapping Center Done for Us? Lindsay Holman 150
6.4 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions What Difference Has Digitization Made? Tom Elliott 150
6.3 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions Modern Mapping Before Digitization Richard Talbert 150