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
30.2 Activisms Ancient and Modern Empathy for the Enslaved? The Senatus Consultum Silanianum and Popular Protest in 61 CE Alex Cushing (University of Toronto) 153
30.3 Activisms Ancient and Modern Rising from the Ashes of Troy: the Trojan Women Project Michael Morgan (University of California, Santa Barbara) 153
30.4 Activisms Ancient and Modern Public Humanities and Communal Conversations: The Classics as a Window into Mass Incarceration Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers) 153
30.5 Activisms Ancient and Modern Applied Classics’: Training a New Generation of Citizen Scholars Alice König (University of St Andrews) 153
31.2 Epigraphy and Gender in the Greco-Roman World I Bind Theodora: Evidence for Enslaved Women on Attic Curse Tablets Sarah Breitenfeld (University of Washington) 153
31.3 Epigraphy and Gender in the Greco-Roman World The Goddess Feronia and her Worshippers: Gender and Religious Practice in Roman Italy Gaia Gianni (Brown University) 153
31.4 Epigraphy and Gender in the Greco-Roman World Gender, Epigraphy, and Mobility in the Roman World: Recovering Female Migrants and Travelers’ Voices in the Roman provinces during the Principate Marie-Adeline Le Guennec (Université de Québec à Montréal) 153
31.5 Epigraphy and Gender in the Greco-Roman World More Than a Woman: The Complex Identities of Rome’s Working Women Thomas Andreas Leibundgut (Stanford University) 153
31.6 Epigraphy and Gender in the Greco-Roman World Gender in Amphorae Production: New Insights and Data on the Baetican Olive Oil Economy Ivan González Tobar (Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3) 153
31.7 Epigraphy and Gender in the Greco-Roman World The Vestal Virgins and Cross-Gender Mentoring at Rome: Epigraphic Evidence from the Atrium Vestae Morgan Palmer (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 153
32.2 The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics Unlevelling the Fields of the First Georgic Katherine Dennis (Princeton University) 153
32.3 The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics The Tormented Master of Vergil’s Georgics Philip Thibodeau (Brooklyn College) 153
32.4 The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics The Social Status of the Drone in Vergil and other Ancient Writers on Apiculture Matthew Leigh (Oxford University) 153
32.5 The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics Getting our hands dirty / Digging Moretum / What if this is as good as it gets? Tom Geue (University of St. Andrews) 153
32.6 The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics Laboring in the Garden: Exhortations to Horticulture in Columella’s Garden Poem Steven Gonzalez (University of Southern California) 153
32.7 The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics Virgil in the Cane Fields of Brazil Erika Valdivieso (Princeton University) 153
33.1 The Ancient World and the Contemporary Classroom Teaching Public Speaking as a Classicist Christopher Francese (Dickinson College) 153
33.3 The Ancient World and the Contemporary Classroom Story Map: A New Narrative Mapping Tool Robert W Groves (University of Arizona) 153
33.4 The Ancient World and the Contemporary Classroom The 21st century Shield of Achilles Todd Clary (Cornell University) 153
33.5 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom Labor-Based Grading in the Classics Classroom Ashli J. E. Baker (Bucknell University) 153
35.1 The Poetics of Form Meter and Meaning in Greek and Roman Lyric: Greater Asclepiads from Alcaeus to Horace Il-Kweon Sir (University of Cambridge) 153
35.2 The Poetics of Form Depicting what cannot be heard? Diagrams in the Tradition of Greek Harmonic Theory. Anne Weddigen (Sorbonne Université) 153
35.3 The Poetics of Form Clarity or Confusion? Delphic Ambiguity in Imperial Greek Literature Rebecca Frank (Oberlin College) 153
35.4 The Poetics of Form Aere Perilleo: The Bull of Phalaris and Phenomena of Actualized Mimesis in Graeco-Roman Antiquity Scheherazade Jehan Khan (University of Pennsylvania) 153
35.5 The Poetics of Form Musaeus the allegorist? Hero and Leander and late antique hermeneutics Benedek Kruchio (University of Cambridge) 153
35.6 The Poetics of Form Peripatetic and Platonic Poetics in Porphyry's "Cave of the Nymphs" Matteo Milesi (University of Michigan) 153
36.2 Honig’s Bacchae / Euripides’ Theory of Refusal After Kehinde Wiley’s ‘A Bacchant’ (after Bonnie Honig’s A Feminist Theory of Refusal) Helen Morales (University of California - Santa Barbara) 153
36.3 Honig’s Bacchae / Euripides’ Theory of Refusal Glimpses of Gestures: Refusing and Recovering Loss in Honig and Euripides Ava Shirazi (Haverford College) 153
36.4 Honig’s Bacchae / Euripides’ Theory of Refusal Migrant refusals: the inoperativity of the Asian bacchants in Euripides Luigi Battezzato (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) 153
36.5 Honig’s Bacchae / Euripides’ Theory of Refusal “Actin’ Womanish” - Fabulation, Cosmetics, and (En)gendered Sophistry with Euripides and Hartman in Bacch(ant)ic Canon Vanessa Stovall (Columbia University) 153
37.1 Reception Tityrus Unrevived in Petrarch's Pastoral Poetry Diana Librandi (UCLA) 153
37.2 Reception A Symbol of Poetic Inspiration and Female Authority: The Sibyl's Reception in Women Authors of the Romantic Period Laurie A. Wilson (Biola University) 153
37.3 Reception The Failure of Reception Nora Goldschmidt (Durham University) 153
37.4 Reception Reception and Romance: Uses of Classics in Recent Mass-Market Historical Romantic Fiction Rebecca Resinski (Hendrix College) 153
37.5 Reception Bodies, Burials, and Borders: Living and Dying Latinx in Marisela Treviño Orta's "Woman on Fire" Kathleen Cruz (University of California, Davis) 153
38.1 Ancient Medicine Inventing Skin: A lexical approach to the significance of the body surface in ancient Greece Glyn Muitjens (Leiden University) 153
38.2 Ancient Medicine Cinical Communication and Narrative Medicine in Galen’s On Prognosis and On the Affections and Errors of the Soul Isaac Hoskins (University of the Sciences) 153
38.3 Ancient Medicine Magicae Herbae, Alchemy, and the 15th Century Reception of Pliny’s Historia Naturalis Erin Petrella (Columbia University) 153
38.4 Ancient Medicine Did a female doctor really practise medicine at Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain) in the second century CE? Re-examining CIL II 497 JONATHAN C EDMONDSON (York University, Toronto) 153
38.5 Ancient Medicine Making sense of Melothesia in Astronomica and the Yavana Jātaka Tejas S Aralere (University of California, Santa Barbara) 153
39.1 Homer (1) Recasting Heroes: Labor, Metallurgy, and Critical Aesthetics in the Iliad Ben Radcliffe (Loyola Marymount University) 153
39.2 Homer (1) Between two worlds: lessons on code switching from Achilles (Iliad 1) Laurie Glenn Hutcheson (Boston University) 153
39.3 Homer (1) Fate, Homer, Achilles, and Counterfactuals Joseph Bringman (University of Washington) 153
39.4 Homer (1) Diomedes in the Iliad Jorge Alejandro Wong-Medina (Harvard University) 153
40.1 Ovid The Stars in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria Sam Kindick (University of Colorado Boulder) 153
40.2 Ovid Still Waters Run Deep: Interpretations of the Metamorphoses' Pools Becky Kahane (University of Texas at Austin) 153
40.3 Ovid Manus est mea debilis ergo? Deliberative Soliloquies and Gender-Bending in Ovid’s Metamorphoses A. Everett Beek (North-West University) 153
40.4 Ovid Fallen in Tomis- Ovid’s Failure at Greek Heroic Apotheosis Catalina Popescu (independent scholar) 153
41.1 Seneca Hungry Eyes: Seneca’s Hostius Quadra as Eater Robert Santucci (University of Michigan) 153
41.2 Seneca Time and Enslavement in Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilius 47 and 124 Mason Wheelock-Johnson (University of Wisconsin - Madison) 153