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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
53.3 Horace and his Legacy Horace the Communist: Marx’s Capital as Satire Katherine Wasdin 150
12.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Hot Topics: Aristophanes’ Acharnians and Charcoal Production Molly Schaub 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
21.5 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century How The Rock became Rockules: Dwayne Johnson’s star text in HERCULES (2014) Monica Cyrino 150
46.4 Thirty Years of the Jeweled Style: Reassessing Late Antique Poetry How to Bejewel a Cento (Eudocia the Magpie) Francesca Middleton 150
23.1 Attic Oratory How to Talk about Money in Attic Oratory: Insults and Iambos Robert K Morley 150
22.4 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture Identifying Demi-gods: Augustus, Domitian, and Hercules Claire Stocks 150
75.4 Materiality and Literary Culture Identity in Mosnier’s 17th-century Paintings of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica Kathryn Chew 150
82.1 Homer and Reception Iliadic Euphony, Odyssean Cacophony: Homeric Exempla in Philodemus’ On Poems 1 Amelia Margaret Bensch-Schaus 150
1.6 Late Antique Literary Developments Imitation and Emulation in Gregory of Nazianzus’ “On his own affairs” Peter O'Connell 150
11.3 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro Immigrants in Time Amy Richlin 150
27.1 Didactic Prose In Good Form: Hermogenes and the Didactic Strategy of On Forms of Style Byron MacDougall 150
27.4 Didactic Prose In the Margins: Humanist Scholars on Pliny in Print Clare Woods 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
22.2 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture Incendiary Memories: The Intermediality of Nero in Flavian Poetics and Politics Virginia Closs 150
37.2 Writing the History of Epigraphy and Epigraphers Inscription Hunting and Early Travellers in the Near East: The Cases of Pococke and Chandler Compared Alastair J.L. Blanshard 150
33.1 Feminist Re-Visionings: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Classics Inside Stories: Amateurism and Activism in the Classical Works of Naomi Mitchison Sheila Murnaghan 150
42.5 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity Invidia Tabernariorum: the economic interests of associations in late-antique Rome, a study of the corpus tabernariorum John Fabiano 150
36.4 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries Invisible Trades: Apprenticeship and Systems of Knowledge in Poorly Attested Industries Jared Benton 150
64.3 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Io's Dance: A Queer Move in Prometheus Bound Sarah Olsen 150
65.3 The Digital Latin Library Is There an Editor in this Text? Robert Kaster 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
30.3 Ovid Juno and Diana’s Revenge: The Use of Satiare in Ovid’s Metamorphoses India Watkins 150
43.4 Latin Hexameter Poetry Juvenal and the Lost Boys of the Argonautica: Daedalus, Jason, and the end of Roman epic Jessica Blum 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
73.1 Greek Religion Knowledgeable Encounters in Early Greek Religion Eric Wesley Driscoll 150
14.4 Greek Political Thought Kritias and Plato's Ur-Athens as Oligarchy William S. Morison 150
87.5 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Language-Games in Parmenides' Proem Gabriela Cursaru 150
14.5 Greek Political Thought Law's Measure: Aischines 3.199–200 Edwin Carawan 150
26.2 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Learning Latin, Learning How to Learn: Student Agency, Identity, and Resilience Kristina A Meinking 150
24.3 Latin Prose Interaction Legal Humor and Republican Political Culture (Cic. De Orat. 2.284) Cynthia J Bannon 150
42.4 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity Legal Lumpiness of the Late Roman Empire Ryan Pilipow 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
89.2 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues LGBTQ Parenting and the Profession Kristina Milnor 150
89.3 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues LGBTQ Pedagogy and Classics: Finding a Happy Medium when Discussing Ancient Homoeroticism in the Classroom Walter Penrose 150
80.2 Responses to Environmental Change in the Roman World Living Backwards: Roman Attitudes toward the Environment Victoria Pagán 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
40.5 Podcasting the Classics Looted: Lessons Learned Zoe Kontes 150
39.5 What's Roma Got to Do with It? Lost in translation: Mapping cultural displacement in the Plautine Mediterranean Leon Grek 150
43.3 Latin Hexameter Poetry Lucan’s African Monsters: the Triumph of Chaos over Cosmos in the 'Bellum Civile' Giulio Celotto 150
24.4 Latin Prose Interaction Lucius Anicius Gallus, Conqueror and Tripartite Divider Kevin Scahill 150
63.3 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Lyric ephemerality in Sappho Alex Purves 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship Make Your Own Ancient Studies Podcast Scott Aaron Lepisto 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship Mapping Text with Recogito Valeria Vitale 150
55.4 Global Feminism and the Classics Mapping the Intersection of Greek and Jewish Identity in Josephus’ Against Apion Sarah Christine Teets 150
70.1 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology Mapping the unmapped: digital annotation of premodern geographies Chiara Palladino 150
33.5 Feminist Re-Visionings: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Classics Marguerite Yourcenar’s Sappho (Feux, La Couronne et la Lyre) and Lesbian Paris in the early twentieth century Jacqueline Fabre-Serris 150
77.2 Herculaneum: Works in Progress Maritime façades in Roman villa architecture and decoration Mantha Zarmakoupi 150
63.4 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Me and my shadow Katharine Earnshaw 150