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
43.2 Citizenship Migration and Identity Environment-based Identity and Athenian Anti-Immigrant Policies in the Classical Period Rebecca Futo Kennedy 151
25.2 Latin Poetry Fair is Foul: Confronting the Sublate in Lucretius' Plague Rebecca Moorman 151
7.1 Greek Religious Texts Gods Set in Stone: Theoi Headings in Greek Legal Inscriptions Rebecca Van Hove 151
32.2 Homer in the Renaissance Lodovico Dolce’s L’Ulisse: Rethinking Homeric Translation and Reception from the Material to the Imaginary Richard Armstrong 151
57.2 Science in Context Themistocles, Pericles, and Anaxagoras' trial for studying astronomy Richard Janko 151
10.3 Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Stoic Philosophy and Its Parts in Two Analogies Robin Weiss 151
51.2 Problems in Performance: Failure in Classical Reception Studies Discomfort in Performance? Aigeus Seduced in Euripides' Medea Ronald J. J. Blankenborg 151
30.6 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt An Unpublished Papyrus from the Coptic “Wizard’s Hoard” Roxanne Sarrazin 151
36.3 Lightning Talks #2: Greek Literature Tithonus the Kitharode Ruth Scodel 151
26.3 Legal Culture Imperial Backtalk: Using Legal Discourse to Refute an Emperor Ryan A Pilipow 151
86.2 Augustus and After Augustus on Holiday: Sinister Saturnalia in Suetonius’ Divus Augustus 98 Ryan M Pasco 151
78.5 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia Mediterranean Pathways: GIS, Network Analysis, and the Ancient World Ryan M. Horne 151
61.6 Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons Race in Antiquity and Modernity Sam Flores 151
29.2 Black Classicism in the Visual Arts Metamorphoses in Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You (2018) Samuel Agbamu 151
46.1 Ecocriticism Eco-criticism and the Wanderings of Odysseus Samuel Cooper 151
40.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students An Opportunity for Non-Existence: The Foreigner in the Hellenic World Samuel G. H. Powell 151
1.1 Evaluating Scholarship: Digital and Traditional Evaluating Digital Scholarship on its Own Terms: A Case Study Samuel Huskey 151
33.3 Graduate Student Leadership in Classics How to Build a Community: My Experiences Founding and Growing a Classics Graduate Organization Samuel Kindick 151
64.2 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts Maritime Networks and Moral Imagination: Samothracian Proxeny as an Archaeology of Coalition Sandra Blakely 151
72.2 If Classics is for Everybody Why Isn't Everybody in My Class? Increasing the diversity of graduate students in Classics: The University of Michigan’s Bridge M.A. and Bridge to the Ph.D Programs Sara Ahbel-Rappe and Sierra P. Jones 151
50.2 Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era Theognis at Dinner: Metasympotics through Time Sara De Martin 151
2.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics Non-Conventional, Non-Formulaic, and Recent Linguistic Features in Homeric Epics Sara Kaczko 151
54.3 Administrative Appointments: A Contribution to the Dialogue on the Present and Future of Classics... How Can Administrators Support Public Outreach and Digital Humanities? Sarah E. Bond 151
81.5 Greek Culture in the Roman World Christian Interaction with Greek Tragedy in the Second and Third Centuries Sarah Griffis 151
85.5 Theatre of Displacement How Sweet Are Tears: The Uses of Lamentation in The Trojan Women and Queens of Syria. Sarah J. Thompson 151
82.3 Soul Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matters to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism? Neoplatonic Language of the Soul in Cyril’s Scholia on the Incarnation Sarah K Wear 151
76.4 Style and Stylistics Ne procaces manus rapiant: Stylistic Shifts as a Defensive Strategy in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia Scheherazade J Khan 151
50.4 Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era Gellius’ Convivial Scenes and Roman Intellectual Identity in the Noctes Atticae Scott J. DiGiulio 151
1.5 Evaluating Scholarship: Digital and Traditional Grant Awards as Pre-Publication Review Sheila Brennan 151
76.2 Style and Stylistics “Why is it impossible to do it well?” Aristotle and Quintilian on Narrative Brevity in Forensic Oratory Sidney Kochman 151
6.4 Lightning Talks 1: Latin and Greek Literature Latinization, multilingualism and language shift in the Western provinces Simona Stoyanova 151
16.1 Greek Historiography Why Herodotus is Worth Copying: The Scholia on Book 1 Simone A. Oppen 151
24.4 Second Sophistic Sophists: Public Identity and Roman Provincial Coinage Sinja Küppers 151
75.4 Greek History Carving Communities in Stone: Cosmopolitan Space on Hellenistic Kos Sjoukje M Kamphorst 151
72.4 If Classics is for Everybody Why Isn't Everybody in My Class? Integrating diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds in the Latin classroom, and reconsidering the place of Classics in non-western traditions Sonya Wurster 151
63.2 What's New in Ovidian Studies? Proserpina’s Pomegranate and Ceres’ Anorexic Anger: Food, Sexuality, and Denial in Ovid’s Account of Ceres and Proserpina Sophie Emilia Seidler 151
18.1 Screening Topographies of Classical Reception Reverse Archaeology: Constructing Ancient Roman Spaces on Screen Stacie Raucci 151
21.4 Topography and Material Culture in Fifth-Century Drama The Bed, the Hearth, the Statue, and the Veil. Material Objects, Marriage and emotions in Euripides' Alcestis Stauroula Valtadorou 151
29.3 Black Classicism in the Visual Arts When and Where I (Don’t) Enter: Afro-Pessimism, The Fungible Object, and Black Queer Representations of Medusa Stefani Echeverria-Fenn 151
4.5 Imperial Virgil “Broch Reads Virgil” Stephanie Quinn 151
35.2 Classical Reception in Contemporary Asian and Asian American Culture Princess Turandot, an Occidental Oriental Stephanie Wong 151
29.5 Black Classicism in the Visual Arts Frank M. Snowden, Jr. and the Origins of The Image of the Black in Western Art Stuart McManus 151
55.1 Women in Rage Women in Protest... Putting Pressure on the Patriarchy: The Subversive Power of Women's Anger in Ancient Greek Literature and Magic Suzanne Lye 151
39.4 Numismatics The Hadrianic Revolution of the Coin Legend Sven Betjes 151
82.2 Soul Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matters to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism? Neither the Body Without the Soul: Why does Medicine Matter? Svetla Slaveva-Griffin 151
17.3 Greek and Roman Novel A Letter in a Land without Letters: Longus’ Intrageneric Interlocutors T. Joseph MacDonald 151
87.2 Ancient Ethics Aristotle on Deliberation and Necessitarianism Takashi Oki 151
39.2 Numismatics Coins, Continuity, and Change: “Hellenization” in the Post-Seleucid Levant Tal A. Ish-Shalom 151
78.3 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia Networks and Networking in the Economy of Seleucid Uruk Talia Prussin 151
13.3 Readers and Reading: Current Debates Bad Readers: Anecdote, Affect and Audience in Ancient Virgilian Literary Criticism Talitha E. Z. Kearey 151