Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
21.3 WCC Past, Present, and Future: A Celebration of the WCC’s 50th Anniversary What Women('s Classical Caucus Members) Want Caroline Cheung (Princeton University) 153
21.4 WCC Past, Present, and Future: A Celebration of the WCC’s 50th Anniversary Where Mission Meets Strategy: Restructuring the Women’s Classical Caucus for the 21st Century Suzanne Lye (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 153
21.5 WCC Past, Present, and Future: A Celebration of the WCC’s 50th Anniversary Finding Our Core: WCC Membership, Mentorship, and Outreach Eunice Kim (Furman University) 153
22.1 Classics and Banner and Brand The Confederacy, Cato the Younger, and Lost Causes Thomas E. Strunk (Xavier University) 153
22.2 Classics and Banner and Brand “And Yet You…Call Us a Horde of Barbarians!”: Race Rhetoric and Greco-Roman Antiquity during Reconstruction Benjamin Howland (Southeastern Louisiana University) 153
22.3 Classics and Banner and Brand “An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose”: Greek Antiquity and Militant Eroticism During the AIDS Crisis Emilio Capettini (University of California, Santa Barbara) 153
22.4 Classics and Banner and Brand The “traps” of Classics: the use of (Western) Classics in Chinese state propaganda Xinyi Huang (University of South Carolina) 153
22.5 Classics and Banner and Brand Classics and the US Craft Beer Industry Kyle A Jazwa (Maastricht University) 153
22.6 Classics and Banner and Brand Smelling Like the Mother of Monsters: Perfume, Wearable Texts, and the Odiferous Reception of the Classics Britta Ager (Arizona State University) 153
23.1 Medium and Message in Greek Poetry Lies and Laughter: A Metaliterary Reading of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes Alessandra Migliara (The Graduate Center, CUNY) 153
23.2 Medium and Message in Greek Poetry Persuasion & Deception: Divine Speech Acts in the Homeric Hymns Kathryn Caliva (Hollins University) 153
23.3 Medium and Message in Greek Poetry Anacreon, Magician Carman Romano (The Ohio State University) 153
23.4 Medium and Message in Greek Poetry Playful Uses of Epic Language in Late Archaic and Classical Poetry: A Holistic Approach Adrienne Atkins (University of Pennsylvania) 153
24.1 Historiography and Biography The poet, the grammarian and the Origines: Servius, Vergil and the record of Cato’s history in ancient scholarship Jackie Elliott (University of Colorado Boulder) 153
24.2 Historiography and Biography The Interrupting Sea: From Primordial to Historical in Livy’s Cleonymus Digression (10.2) Kyle Khellaf (University of California, Riverside) 153
24.3 Historiography and Biography An (A)Political Hero and a Tragic Mother. Plutarch’s Life of Coriolanus Federico Ingretolli (University of Oxford) 153
24.4 Historiography and Biography Anticipated Memory and the Pregnant Body in Tacitus’ Annals Caitlin Cecilia Gillespie (Brandeis University) 153
24.5 Historiography and Biography The Goddess, the Seeress and the Wife – Tacitean Reception and the Depiction of Germanic Women Teresa Mocharitsch (University of Graz) 153
24.6 Historiography and Biography A New Type of Civil War in Tacitus Marshall C. Buchanan (University of Michigan) 153
25.1 Parmenides and Plato The Authenticity of Parmenides B3 DK Stephen White (University of Texas at Austin) 153
25.2 Parmenides and Plato The Eternal Present in an Instant—Plato’s Revision of Parmenidean Time in the Parmenides Huaiyuan Zhang (Pennsylvania State University) 153
25.3 Parmenides and Plato Antigone in Magnesia: Plato’s Revision of the Sophoclean Tragedy in the Laws Emma Ianni (Columbia University) 153
25.4 Parmenides and Plato Stomach and Womb: Gendered Desire in Plato and Hesiod Kaitlyn Boulding (University of Washington) 153
25.5 Parmenides and Plato Civic Memory and Philosophy in Plato's "Apology" Joseph Gerbasi (University of Toronto) 153
25.6 Parmenides and Plato The Odyssean Meta-Reading of Plato's Work Marta Antola (Durham University) 153
26.2 Extending Roman Personhood and Authorship Personification, Slavery, and the Roman Authorial Paradigm Christopher Londa (Yale University) 153
26.3 Extending Roman Personhood and Authorship Admonitores non nimis verecundi: Personification and Personhood in Cicero’s Letters Ryan Warwick (Johns Hopkins University) 153
26.4 Extending Roman Personhood and Authorship Blending personae: Hybrid Speakers and the Performance of Authorship in Cicero’s Dialogues Lisa Cordes (Humboldt-University, Berlin) 153
26.5 Extending Roman Personhood and Authorship Beyond Biology: The Natural World, Self, and Memory in Senecan Texts Jennifer Devereaux (Bryn Mawr College) 153
26.6 Extending Roman Personhood and Authorship Were Martyrs Persons? Barbara Gold (Hamilton College) 153
27.0 Ancient MakerSpaces Imaging and Imagining Artifacts in a Virtual Environment Alexandra Ratzlaff (Brandeis University) 153
27.0 Ancient MakerSpaces Mythodikos: Digital Visualization of Mythical People & Places Stella Fritzell (Bryn Mawr College) 153
27.0 Ancient MakerSpaces Integrating custom maps into off-the-shelf database programs with Leaflet Christopher Motz (University of Cincinnati) 153
27.0 Ancient MakerSpaces A Composite Model for Scholia Transmission Anne-Catherine Schaaf (College of the Holy Cross) 153
27.0 Ancient MakerSpaces Peopling the Past Podcast Sabrina Higgins (Simon Fraser University) 153
27.0 Ancient MakerSpaces Yale Digital Dura-Europos Archive Anne Chen (Yale University) 153
27.0 Ancient MakerSpaces The Mycenaean Atlas Project Robert Consoli (Independent Scholar) 153
27.0 Ancient MakerSpaces ArchaeoCosmos: Historical Geography of the Mediterranean and the Near East from the Prehistory to Late Antiquity Konstantinos Kopanios (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) 153
28.2 Orientalisms Iaponia Capta Cepit: Bathing Cultures and Roman Syncretism in Thermae Romae (2012) Natalie Swain (University of Bristol) 153
28.3 Orientalisms Counter-Orientalism and Modern Greco-Arabic Studies Aileen Das (University of Michigan) 153
28.4 Orientalisms Sophonisba: The Development of an "Oriental" Femme Fatale Samuel Agbamu (Royal Holloway, University of London) 153
28.5 Orientalisms Oriental/ized Orientalists: The Asian American East-West Classicism of Achilles Fang and Younghill Kang Spencer Lee-Lenfield (Yale University) 153
28.6 Orientalisms "Now and then I hear the youths mutter": Hybrid Traditions of Reception in Haizi's To Sappho Jiaqi Maria Ma (Yale University) 153
28.7 Orientalisms Elektra under martial Law: Lino Brocka's Insiang (1976) at the Limits of Classical Reception Kiran Pizarro Mansukhani (The Graduate Center, City University of New York) 153
29.2 Bridging the “Gap”: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cretan polis in the Archaic and Classical periods Cretan States? Cretan political communities in a comparative frame James Whitley (Cardiff University) 153
29.3 Bridging the “Gap”: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cretan polis in the Archaic and Classical periods “East Greek” pottery and the earliest mints of Crete Paula Perlman (University of Texas at Austin) 153
29.4 Bridging the “Gap”: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cretan polis in the Archaic and Classical periods Mochlos in Archaic and Late Classical Times: A Site-Focused Study of Connectivity Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (American School of Classical Studies at Athens) 153
29.5 Bridging the “Gap”: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cretan polis in the Archaic and Classical periods The epigraphy of Gortyn between order and disorder: buildings, alphabets and the hands of scribes in a polis of archaic Crete Giovanni Marginesu (Università degli Studi di Sassari) 153
29.6 Bridging the “Gap”: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cretan polis in the Archaic and Classical periods Cretan Austerity Revisited: A Pottery Perspective Brice Erickson (University of California at Santa Barbara) 153
30.1 Activisms Ancient and Modern The Liberation of Black Earth: What Indigenous and Black Agricultural Movements Can Teach Us About Solon Sarah Teets (University of Virginia) 153