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
1.2 SCS-1: HYBRID: "famaeque dissimilis": Image Management, Perception, and Reality in Tacitus’ Histories  Revisiting Otho: Otho as an Anti-Nero in Tacitus’ Histories Guy Rahat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 155
1.3 SCS-1: HYBRID: "famaeque dissimilis": Image Management, Perception, and Reality in Tacitus’ Histories  Duality in Leadership: Tacitus’ Pairs of Generals Brendan Hay, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 155
1.4 SCS-1: HYBRID: "famaeque dissimilis": Image Management, Perception, and Reality in Tacitus’ Histories  Burdensome Brothers: Fraternal Liability in Tacitus’ Histories Casey Barnett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 155
1.5 SCS-1: HYBRID: "famaeque dissimilis": Image Management, Perception, and Reality in Tacitus’ Histories  Tacitus’ Gruesome Spectacle: Vitellius’ Perversion as Vespasian’s Eminence Amy Vandervelde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 155
1.6 SCS-1: HYBRID: "famaeque dissimilis": Image Management, Perception, and Reality in Tacitus’ Histories  What a Tangled Web: Tacitus’ Use of Praetexo in the Histories Emma Reyman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 155
1.7 SCS-1: HYBRID: "famaeque dissimilis": Image Management, Perception, and Reality in Tacitus’ Histories  incertae causae, difficiliora remedia: Images of "Madness" in Tacitus' Histories. Joseph Baronovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 155
2.2 SCS-2: HYBRID: Re-Tracing the Archive: Affects and Ethics Enslaved Experiences and Critical Fabulation in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington 155
2.3 SCS-2: HYBRID: Re-Tracing the Archive: Affects and Ethics Earinus in Two Acts: Anarchival Aesthetics in Statius, Silvae 3.4 Tommaso Bernadini, University of California, Berkeley 155
2.4 SCS-2: HYBRID: Re-Tracing the Archive: Affects and Ethics Forgery and the archive, ft. Confessions of the Fox Cat Lambert, Cornell University 155
2.5 SCS-2: HYBRID: Re-Tracing the Archive: Affects and Ethics Archive, Hoard, Heap: The Exempla of Valerius Maximus and Frontinus Chiara Graf, University of Maryland 155
2.6 SCS-2: HYBRID: Re-Tracing the Archive: Affects and Ethics We, the Archive: Reparative Violence and Disciplinary Hauntology Nandini Pandey, Johns Hopkins University 155
3.1 SCS-3: Astronomy and Astrology Aratus’ Mirror Belisarius Welgan, Cornell University 155
3.2 SCS-3: Astronomy and Astrology Finding Algorithms in Babylonian Astronomy: A Venus Procedure Text and Cross-Cultural Case Study E.L. Meszaros, Brown University 155
3.3 SCS-3: Astronomy and Astrology Sirius Rising: Religious Metaphysics’ role in Roman astrology Tejas Aralere, University of California, Santa Barbara 155
3.4 SCS-3: Astronomy and Astrology Martial’s Fasti: Calendrical Reversals in Epigrams Book 10 Jovan Cvjeticanin, University of Virginia 155
3.5 SCS-3: Astronomy and Astrology Per liquidum aethera: A Horatian Constellation? Nathaniel Solley, University of Pennsylvania 155
4.2 SCS-4: Comparative Legal Thought and Practice in the Graeco-Roman World and Early China The Construction of “Labor” in Early China Trenton W. Wilson, Princeton University 155
4.3 SCS-4: Comparative Legal Thought and Practice in the Graeco-Roman World and Early China Processing with Bamboo and Wood: Information Technologies of Legal Writings in Early Imperial China Xunxiao Xiao, Princeton University 155
4.4 SCS-4: Comparative Legal Thought and Practice in the Graeco-Roman World and Early China Standardization in the Athenian Empire and Beyond: Imperial Ideologies and the Creation of Common Knowledge Flavio Santini, University of California, Berkeley 155
4.5 SCS-4: Comparative Legal Thought and Practice in the Graeco-Roman World and Early China Legal Treatment and Status Differentiation in Early China and Ancient Rome Yifan Zheng, University of California, Berkeley 155
4.6 SCS-4: Comparative Legal Thought and Practice in the Graeco-Roman World and Early China Government without Bureaucracy? Empire and law in the Roman and other tributary empires Peter Fibiger Bang, University of Copenhagen 155
4.7 SCS-4: Comparative Legal Thought and Practice in the Graeco-Roman World and Early China The State and the Individual: Population Control and Taxation in Ancient Rome and Early China Zhengyuan Zhang, University of California, Berkeley 155
5.1 SCS-5: The Politics of Reception Achilles and Romulus in México: Mythopoiesis in María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction Leanna Boychenko, Loyola University, Chicago 155
5.2 SCS-5: The Politics of Reception The Homeric Framing of Phillis Wheatley’s “Infant Muse” David Petrain, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY 155
5.3 SCS-5: The Politics of Reception Translating Aristotle’s Rhetoric in 1950s-1960s China: Politics and Translator’s Autonomy Mengzhen Yue, Shandong University 155
5.4 SCS-5: The Politics of Reception “Their rest could benefit humankind:” Seneca and W. E. B. Du Bois on Leisure as a Political Project Harriet Fertik, The Ohio State University 155
5.5 SCS-5: The Politics of Reception Athenoanchoring: Nicknaming Settlements as ‘Athens’ in the American Midwest Robert Barnes, Wabash College 155
7.1 SCS-7: Latin Epic Virtue’s Claim to Fame in Statius’ Version of Menoeceus’ Sacrifice (Stat. Theb. 10.610-679) Melissande Tomcik, University of Toronto 155
7.2 SCS-7: Latin Epic The Counternarratives of Composite Bodies: Moments of Disrupted Monstrosity in Post-Vergilian Latin Epic Kathleen Cruz, University of California, Davis 155
7.3 SCS-7: Latin Epic From Ships to Nymphs: Cybele’s Maternal Metamorphosis in Aen. 7.77-122 and Met. 14.530-65 Lien van Geel, Columbia University 155
7.4 SCS-7: Latin Epic Incest Exposed: Oedipus’ Programmatic Speech in Statius’ Thebaid Georgia Ferentinou, University of Toronto 155
8.1 SCS-8: The Afterlife of Plato Dio Gelostom: Tracing Plato's Theories of Laughter in the speeches of Dio of Prusa Patrick Callahan, UCLA 155
8.2 SCS-8: The Afterlife of Plato Reading Plato in Dio: How Cassius Dio’s philosophy shaped his Roman History Matthew Lupu, Florida State University 155
8.3 SCS-8: The Afterlife of Plato Socrates’ Two Wives: irony and eclecticism in the pseudo-Platonic Halcyon John Anderson, University of Texas at Austin 155
9.1 SCS-9: Future Most Vivid: Creating the Conditions for Human-AI Collaboration in Classical Studies Why should I believe what you tell me is true?”: What Machine-Generated Homeric Poetry Tells Us about AI and Philology Annie K. Lamar, Stanford University 155
9.2 SCS-9: Future Most Vivid: Creating the Conditions for Human-AI Collaboration in Classical Studies From the Presocratics to ChatGPT: Teaching Classics and the Ethics of AI Jennifer Devereaux, Harvard University 155
9.3 SCS-9: Future Most Vivid: Creating the Conditions for Human-AI Collaboration in Classical Studies Using AI to Study Semantics in Classical Literature: Perspectives from the Field of Computer Science Abigail Swenor, University of Notre Dame, Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, Walter Scheirer, University of Notre Dame 155
9.4 SCS-9: Future Most Vivid: Creating the Conditions for Human-AI Collaboration in Classical Studies Zukunftsphilologie: The Rewards (and Perils) of Machine-Human Collaboration Barbara Graziosi, Charlie Cowen-Breen, Creston Brooks, and Johannes Haubold, Princeton University 155
10.1 SCS-10: Greek and Latin Linguistics The Latin -to Imperatives in Late Republican Epistolography Solveig Hilmarsdottir, University of Cambridge 155
10.2 SCS-10: Greek and Latin Linguistics Neither Here Nor There: Interactive Functions of Vagueness in Roman Comedy Tomaz Potocnik, University College London 155
10.3 SCS-10: Greek and Latin Linguistics Some Clarifications Concerning the Origin and Relatives of γῆ/γαῖα ‘earth’ Andrew Merritt, Cornell University 155
10.4 SCS-10: Greek and Latin Linguistics Form and Structure in Aeolic Lyric Meter Angelo Mercado, Grinnell College 155
11.1 SCS-11: HYBRID: Roman Religion Prodigies and Expiations in Roman Sicily Susan Satterfield, Rhodes College 155
11.2 SCS-11: HYBRID: Roman Religion Re-Centering Augustan Diana in Grattius’ Cynegetica Alicia Matz, Boston University 155
11.3 SCS-11: HYBRID: Roman Religion A Re-Examination of the Forêt d’Halatte Ex-Votos : Power, Community and Entanglement Christiane-Marie Cantwell, University of Cambridge 155
12.1 SCS-12: HYBRID: Translation ‘La Anónima’, vates amica: Latin Poetry as a Colonizing Weapon in 17th-Century Peru Brian Jorge Bizio, Whitman College 155
12.2 SCS-12: HYBRID: Translation Translating Empire and Race: Vergil, Velasco, and Spanish Humanist Epic Joseph Ortiz, University of Texas at El Paso 155
12.3 SCS-12: HYBRID: Translation (Pseudo-)Classics in Translation–The Case of Antonio de Guevara Matthew Gorey, Wabash College 155
12.4 SCS-12: HYBRID: Translation Rex, Satrap and Zamorin: Translating Titles in Early Modern Latin Texts of India Shruti Raigopal, University College Cork 155
13.1 SCS-13: Greek Historiography Elagabalus, a Pantomime Dancer on the Eve of the Sasanian Empire Yanxiao He, Tsinghua University 155