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
56.3 Homer Forking time and spectatorship in the Odyssey Yukai Li (Carleton University) 154
56.4 Homer Homer and the Chronotope: Death “Far from Home” and Divine Vulnerability in Iliad 16 and 24 Brett L. Stine (Columbia University) 154
56.5 Homer Peer Pressure: Persuasion in the Embassy to Achilles Joseph R. Watkins (Boston University) 154
57.1 Phusis Kai Phuta: Thinking with and about Plants in Greek Literature & Philosophy Empedocles' Definition of Wine Leon Wash (Colgate University) 154
57.2 Phusis Kai Phuta: Thinking with and about Plants in Greek Literature & Philosophy Phusis, Growth, and Order: Empedocles and Philolaus Rose Cherubin (George Mason University) 154
57.3 Phusis Kai Phuta: Thinking with and about Plants in Greek Literature & Philosophy Hesiodic Embryology: Plants and Crafts Joseph B Zehner (Leiden University) 154
57.4 Phusis Kai Phuta: Thinking with and about Plants in Greek Literature & Philosophy Vegetal, Animal, and Menses in Aristotle's Generation of Animals Aparna Ravilochan (St. John's College) 154
57.5 Phusis Kai Phuta: Thinking with and about Plants in Greek Literature & Philosophy The analogy between agriculture and learning in the 5th and 4th c. B.C.E. Orestis Karatzoglou (University of Thessaloniki) 154
57.6 Phusis Kai Phuta: Thinking with and about Plants in Greek Literature & Philosophy A Phytomorphic Kosmos: Phusis and Logos in Heraclitus Luke Parker (Vassar College) 154
58.2 Classics and Race Race, Racecraft, and Ancient Philosophy David Kaufman (Transylvania University) 154
58.3 Classics and Race Race in Roman Comedy Mathias Hanses (Penn State University) 154
58.4 Classics and Race Religion and Racecraft in Late Antiquity Yonatan Binyam (UCLA) 154
58.5 Classics and Race Race and Classical Art History Katherine Harloe (University of London School of Advanced Study) 154
58.6 Classics and Race Culture and Race in Classical Reception: African Adaptations of Greek Tragedy Olakunbi Olasope (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) 154
58.7 Classics and Race Transimperial Approaches to Racing the Classics Kelly Nguyen (Stanford University) 154
59.2 Transformative Pedagogies: The Connection between Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Social Justice Primum Non Nocere: Dispatches and Diagnoses from the Academic Bod Allison Das (The Kinkaid School (Houston, TX)) 154
59.3 Transformative Pedagogies: The Connection between Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Social Justice Designing an Inclusive High School Latin Curriculum Ann Morgan (Parish Episcopal School) 154
59.4 Transformative Pedagogies: The Connection between Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Social Justice A Brief Introduction to Somatic Pedagogy Jody Valentine (Pomona College) 154
59.5 Transformative Pedagogies: The Connection between Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Social Justice Reading Aeschylus in Prison Cristina Pace (Università degli studi Roma “Tor Vergata”) 154
59.6 Transformative Pedagogies: The Connection between Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Social Justice Tragedy of Displacement: Ancient Theater and Contemporary Social Issues Olga Faccani (UC Santa Barbara) 154
60.1 Greek Language “The Mechanisms of Tone Assignment in Ancient Greek: A New Solution” Stephen M Trzaskoma (University of New Hampshire) 154
60.2 Greek Language The Ionic iterative-preterits and their epic development Greta Galeotti (Harvard University) 154
60.3 Greek Language A Word Between Two Languages: Greco-Aramaic and Imperial Greek Daniel Golde (The Jewish Theological Seminary) 154
60.4 Greek Language The Last Trumpet: Dionysiac Allusion in the Salpinx of 1 Corinthians 15.52 Tobias Robert Philip (Rutgers University) 154
60.5 Greek Language Ancient Greek dialects, non-Attic Greek, and Attic poetical traditions Sara Kaczko (University of Rome, "La Sapienza") 154
60.6 Greek Language Understanding the Sicilian language identities through “implicit” and “explicit” bilingual inscription. A novel approach. Marta Capano (Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies) 154
61.2 Platonism and Indian/Tibetan Philosophy. A conversation. “Prolegomena to a Comparative Study of Kashmiri Shaivism and Platonic Gendered Metaphysics” Danielle Layne (Gonzaga) 154
61.3 Platonism and Indian/Tibetan Philosophy. A conversation. “Contemplation in Action in Buddhaghosa and Ancient Neoplatonism Michael Griffin (University of British Columbia) 154
61.4 Platonism and Indian/Tibetan Philosophy. A conversation. A hitherto unnoticed parallel in the beginnings of Indian and Greek political philosophy Christoph Poetsch (University of Heidelberg) 154
61.5 Platonism and Indian/Tibetan Philosophy. A conversation. “Rasa and Eros: Abhinavagupta’s Rasa Theory Compared to Psyche’s Response to Beauty in Plotinus” Michael Wakoff (Shambala Press) 154
61.6 Platonism and Indian/Tibetan Philosophy. A conversation. The Value of Knowledge: Dharmottara’s and Socrates’ Different Protreptic Paths Blaze Marpet (Northwestern) 154
61.7 Platonism and Indian/Tibetan Philosophy. A conversation. “Pure field and intelligible realm. Plotinus, Iamblichus and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism” Grégoire Langouet (Louvain-la-Neuve University) 154
62.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt When in Egypt...: Ptolemaic Greek Marriage Documents and the Position of Women Jasmine Sahu (Yale University) 154
62.3 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt A Material Study of the Scribe X Papyri: Demotic in Kalamos Pen in the Late Ptolemaic Grapheion at Theogonis Leah Grams (UC Berkeley) 154
62.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Affective Labour and Manumission in Roman Egypt: Relationships, Emotional Expression, and Freeing the Enslaved in the Papyri Alex Cushing (Independent Scholar) 154
62.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt From Professional Association Regulations to Monastic Rules Carl-Louis Raschel (Collège de France) 154
62.6 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Classical Greek Literature in Late Byzantine and Early Islamic Egypt (650-800) Gabriel Nocchi Macedo (Université de Liège) 154
63.2 Women and the Ancient Economy: Past, Present, and Future On the ‘Invisibility’ of Women’s Labor: Redefining Work in Ancient Greece Katherine Harrington (Emory University) 154
63.3 Women and the Ancient Economy: Past, Present, and Future Women in Stems: Produce Vendors in the Athenian Agora Jane Millar Tully (University of Texas at Austin) 154
63.4 Women and the Ancient Economy: Past, Present, and Future Entrepreneuring Women: Making and Marketing Textiles in Classical Greek Cities Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool) 154
63.5 Women and the Ancient Economy: Past, Present, and Future Evaluating Compensation for Working Women in the Roman Empire Olivia Graves (Cornell University) 154
63.6 Women and the Ancient Economy: Past, Present, and Future Sex Work and Affective Labor: A Feminist Approach to the Ancient Economy Sarah Levin-Richardson (University of Washington) 154
63.7 Women and the Ancient Economy: Past, Present, and Future Working Inside the Outdoors: Domestic Labor and the Role of Women in Roman Animal Husbandry Selena Ross (Rutgers University) 154
65.1 Making Space for Translation Rhythmic Space: the Case for Metrical Fidelity Diane Arnson Svarlien (Independent Translator) 154
65.2 Making Space for Translation Translation and Interdisciplinary Space within Classics Stephanie McCarter (The University of the South (Sewanee)) 154
65.3 Making Space for Translation Translating Indigenous Spaces of the Americas in the Early Modern and Modern Imaginary Michael Brumbaugh (Tulane University) 154
65.4 Making Space for Translation Your Sons are Safe upon the Sea: Shaping Impossible Spaces through Victorian Sappho Kathryn H. Stutz (Johns Hopkins University) 154
65.5 Making Space for Translation The Small Space of Translation Kristina Chew (University of California, Santa Cruz) 154
66.1 Ovid in the Global Village: Interconnectivity and Alienation in Ovidian Studies Ovid’s Heroides: dramatizing (dis)connectivity in the global village Thomas Munro (Yale University) 154
66.2 Ovid in the Global Village: Interconnectivity and Alienation in Ovidian Studies Fors sua cuique loco est: Cosmic order, local chaos in Ovid’s fasti Stephen Blair (UCL) 154