Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
11.2 Distanced Classics in a Time of Plague: What Have We Learned? Pandemic pivoting and online outreach: how ‘Classical Conversations’ helped Oxford reach new pre-university audiences Arlene Holmes-Henderson (Oxford University) 153
11.3 Distanced Classics in a Time of Plague: What Have We Learned? Teaching Oedipus Remotely with a Comprehensive Commentary: Capitalizing on Collaboration Christopher Blackwell (Furman University) 153
11.4 Distanced Classics in a Time of Plague: What Have We Learned? From Background to Foreground: Librarianship and Instruction during the Pandemic Michael Kicey (University at Buffalo, SUNY) 153
11.5 Distanced Classics in a Time of Plague: What Have We Learned? The Pandemic and Undergraduate Greek: Crisis and Opportunity William Owens (Ohio University) 153
12.2 Recentering the Roman Empire: Local Agency and Interactions with Rome On the Water’s Edge: Continuity and Change in Provincial River Communities Christy Schirmer (The University of Texas at Austin) 153
12.3 Recentering the Roman Empire: Local Agency and Interactions with Rome Caput Factionum? Rethinking Rome through Ancient Sports Merchandise Maggie Popkin (Case Western Reserve University) 153
12.4 Recentering the Roman Empire: Local Agency and Interactions with Rome Images of “Modest Venus” and multi-scalar identity politics on Roman provincial coins Dillon Gisch (Stanford University) 153
12.5 Recentering the Roman Empire: Local Agency and Interactions with Rome Greek Heroes in the Roman Provinces: Contextualizing Three Colossal Copies of the ‘Pasquino Group’ Rebecca Levitan (University of California, Berkeley) 153
13.2 "What Is a Woman?," or, Intersextional Feminisms: Exploring Ancient Definitions of Womanhood Beyond the Binary Compared to What?: Reverse Similes, Animal Similes, and Poetic Language Beyond the Gender Binary in Homeric Epic Eleonora Colli (Oxford University) 153
13.3 "What Is a Woman?," or, Intersextional Feminisms: Exploring Ancient Definitions of Womanhood Beyond the Binary Camilla/Chloreus: Gender Fluidity and Intersexuality in Aeneid 11 Thomas Biggs (University of St. Andrews / University of Georgia) 153
13.4 "What Is a Woman?," or, Intersextional Feminisms: Exploring Ancient Definitions of Womanhood Beyond the Binary Breaking Bodies: Materiality and Vulnerability in Heroides 12 Erin Lam (University of California, Berkeley) 153
13.5 "What Is a Woman?," or, Intersextional Feminisms: Exploring Ancient Definitions of Womanhood Beyond the Binary Beyond a Binary Sappho: (Re)Thinking Sappho’s Gender and Sexuality in Ovid, Her. 15 Simona Martorana (Durham University) 153
13.6 "What Is a Woman?," or, Intersextional Feminisms: Exploring Ancient Definitions of Womanhood Beyond the Binary The Rope, the Witch, and the Non-Binary in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Victoria Hodges (Rutgers University) 153
14.1 Archaic Art and Poetry Wining and Dining: Parallels in the Depiction of Food in Greek Symposia and Etruscan Banquets during the Archaic and Early Classical Periods Christopher R Ell (Brown University) 153
14.2 Archaic Art and Poetry Here and Now and Then and There: The Construction of Imagined Space in Sappho Fr. 16 Sarah Elizabeth Needham (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 153
14.3 Archaic Art and Poetry Sparta’s Persian War Epigrams Matthew A Sears (University of New Brunswick) 153
14.4 Archaic Art and Poetry Of Good and Evil: Contested Value Terminology in the Theognidea Alexander Edward Karsten (Duke University) 153
15.1 Ancient Scholarship Pherecydes of Syros in Alexandrian Poetry Laura Marshall (The Pennsylvania State University) 153
15.2 Ancient Scholarship Attacking and Defending Homer: Zoilus’ Against Homer’s Poetry Matthiue Réal (Cornell University) 153
15.3 Ancient Scholarship Marginal Gains: Scholarly Camps within the Mythographic Tragic Scholia Clinton Douglas Kinkade (Duke University) 153
15.4 Ancient Scholarship A Tattered Net, a Tangled Web: Contested sophia in Aliciphron Letters 1.17–19 Andrew Scholtz (Binghamton University - SUNY) 153
16.1 Petronius, Lucan, and Statius Revisiting Satire and Petronius’ Satyrica William R. Dingee (Princeton University) 153
16.2 Petronius, Lucan, and Statius Untangling Quartilla’s Orgy and Sexual Terminology in Petronius’ Satyricon Ashley Kirsten Weed (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 153
16.3 Petronius, Lucan, and Statius Correcting Caesar: Lucan’s Revision of Bellum Civile 3.47-49 Julia Mebane (Indiana University) 153
16.4 Petronius, Lucan, and Statius Nec modus est lacrimis: Weeping Military Leaders in Latin Civil War Epic Mary Somerville (Bryn Mawr College) 153
16.5 Petronius, Lucan, and Statius The Virtue of Audacity in Statius' Silvae and Thebaid Stephen M Kershner (Austin Peay State University) 153
17.1 Old Comedy The Rhetoric of Innovation in Old Comedy: An Athenian Cultural Recovery Project? Daniel Anderson (Coventry University) 153
17.2 Old Comedy Comedy as Civics: A Social Science Approach to Aristophanes’ Political Commentary Konstantinos Karathanasis (Washington University in St Louis) 153
17.3 Old Comedy The Curious Case of Fish-bodied Cecrops: Old Comedy Transtextuality, Hypertextual Parodies, and Coins as Iconic Paratexts Alexei Alexeev (University of Ottawa) 153
17.4 Old Comedy Aristophanes’ Frog Chorus and the Hyporcheme of Pratinas as Parodies of Phrynichus “The Toad” Tragicus Amy S. Lewis (Gustavus Adolphus College) 153
18.1 Literary Texts as Objects Sappho, Papyrology and the Materiality of Texts Roberta Mazza (University of Manchester) 153
18.2 Literary Texts as Objects O Brothers, Where Art Thou? Scholarship on Papyri in Private Collections Mark de Kreij (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) 153
18.3 Literary Texts as Objects "Object Lessons" Lessons Andrew Hogan (The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley) 153
18.4 Literary Texts as Objects Archaeological Context and Purchased Papyri: Some Fragmentary Books from Karanis Mike Sampson (University of Manitoba) 153
18.5 Literary Texts as Objects Imagining the Real: Constantine Simonides’ Fabrication of Papyrus Autographs Malcolm Choat (Macquarie University) 153
18.6 Literary Texts as Objects Pseudo-Scrolls, Amputated Hands, and Other Effects of Market-Motivated Destruction of Ancient Texts Erin L. Thompson (City University of New York) 153
19.1 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom The Voice of the Vanquished: The Role of the Babylonian Talmud in the Study of Classics Daniel R Golde (Jewish Theological Seminary) 153
19.2 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom Teaching with Luis Alfaro Young Richard Kim (University of Illinois at Chicago) 153
19.2 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom Prediction in Pedagogy Stephen A Sansom (Cornell University) 153
19.3 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom Teaching Contemporary Hate Groups’ Appropriations of Greco-Roman Antiquity Curtis Dozier (Vassar College) 153
19.4 The Ancient World and the Contemporary Classroom Using the ancient ars memoriae to learn vocabulary Tom Keeline (Washington University in St. Louis) 153
19.4 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom Alternative Assessment in Latin Classrooms: Benefits and Challenges Katherine Beydler (University of Iowa) 153
19.6 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom Why I'm Tentatively Hugging Ungrading Elizabeth Manwell (Kalamazoo College) 153
20.2 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation Μύθος, Μουσική, and Philosophy in "Phaedo" and "Phaedrus" Mary Clare Young (Christendom College) 153
20.3 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation The Sensations of Chariot Racing John Harrop (Truman State University) 153
20.4 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation Gender According to Lucius: A Look at Gender and Sexuality in Pseudo-Lucian’s "The Ass" Veronica Kilanowski-Doroh (Rhodes College) 153
20.5 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation Apuleius on the Law Court: A Case of Areopagitic Justice in the Metamorphoses Adam Wyatt (Rhodes College) 153
20.6 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation Rembrandt: Seeking Closure in Classical Narratives Parker Blackwell (George Washington University) 153
21.1 WCC Past, Present, and Future: A Celebration of the WCC’s 50th Anniversary The Promise and Possibility of the Women’s Classical Caucus Nandini B. Pandey (University of Wisconsin--Madison) 153
21.2 WCC Past, Present, and Future: A Celebration of the WCC’s 50th Anniversary What the WCC Means to Me Amy Richlin (University of California, Los Angeles) 153