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Last Revised: 12/4/2024

This is a detailed listing of sessions for the 2025 Annual Meeting, including panels, seminars, workshops, and roundtables. While there will be events taking place on Thursday, January 2nd, there will be no paper sessions on that day.

For the Program Outline, which will include a summary of all special events and sessions, please visit the Program Outline page, and for more information on Registration and Hotel Reservations, please visit the 2025 Annual Meeting page.

Please note that all times listed are Eastern Time (ET).

Thursday January 2nd, 2025–Sunday January 5th, 2025
Friday, January 3rd (First–Third Session blocks)
Saturday, January 4th (Fourth–Sixth Session blocks)
Sunday, January 5th (Seventh–Ninth Session blocks)

In the program outline below, SCS Staff and the Program Committee tried to minimize thematic scheduling conflicts. However, some session blocks may have thematic overlaps, due to individual scheduling needs and available space.

If you notice a typo or an error in the information below, please submit the corrected information through the following form. Any corrections submitted after November 15th, 2024 will be updated online, but are unable to be updated in the print program: Typo Correction Form


Friday, January 3, 2025
First Paper Session (10 sessions)

8:00am–10:30am,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-1: HYBRID: The Heroides and Their Tradition (organized by the International Ovidian Society)
Daniel Libatique, Fairfield University, and Alicia Matz, San Diego State University, Organizers

  1. Daniel Libatique, Fairfield University and Alicia Matz, San Diego State University
    Introduction
  2. Shona Edwards, University of Adelaide
    Dido’s swan song: Poetic legacy in Ovid’s Heroides 7
  3. Sebastian Hyams, Oxford University
    The Limitations of Male Authorship: The Construction of Gender and Female Experience in Ovid, Heroides 16–21
  4. Millie Marriott, Universities of Bristol and Exeter
    15 Heroines: The Digital World of Ovid’s Heroines
  5. Emma Scioli, University of Kansas
    Intercorporeality and the Rhetoric of the Body in Heroides 13
  6. Ashley Walker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Epistolarity in Early Modern Illustrations of Ovid’s Heroides

8:00am–10:30am,
407-409

SCS-2: Roman Historiography
Luca Grillo, University of Notre Dame, Presider

  1. Devin Lawson, Bryn Mawr College
    “It’s Murder to Found a Colony”: Roman (Re)foundations in Livy
  2. Kathryn Langenfeld, Clemson University
    Firmus and the Crocodiles Revisited: Egyptian Imagery and Imperial Anxiety in the Historia Augusta’s Life of the Four Tyrants
  3. Kelsey Schalo, University of Cincinnati
    Tacitus and the ‘Noble’ Barbarian Family as Hostage
  4. Daniel Hunter, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
    Appian’s Narrative of the “Asiatic Vespers” and Comparison with Genocide Narratives in the earlier Judaeo-Christian Literary tradition
  5. Fabrizio Feraco, University of Calabria
    Water and fire in the battle of Strasbourg: Ammianus Marcellinus, 16.12

8:00am–10:30am,
411-412

SCS-3: ISNS Panel: The Geographies of Plato(ism) (organized by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies)
Sara Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan, Organizer

  1. Sara Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan
    Introduction
  2. Daniel Rose, Florida State University
    Plato and the geography of an empire in the myth of Atlantis
  3. Eleonora Falini, Florida State University
    The geography of literary genres in Plato’s myths
  4. Ben John, Ohio State University
    Mapping the Mind, Body, and Cosmos in the Chaldean Oracles
  5. Jeremy Swist, Grand Valley State University
    Founding Rome as a Capital of Theurgic Hellenism: Romulus, Numa, and Julian
  6. Mostafa Younesi, Independent Scholar
    Textual Analysis of Al-Shahrastani's Narration of Plato's Opinions

8:00am–10:30am,
414-415

SCS-4: Education and Rhetoric
Laura Viidebaum, New York University, Presider

  1. Melody Wauke, Columbia University
    Fictive Kinship through Rhetorical Training in Philostratus and Lucian
  2. Rebecca Frank, Colby College
    The Son of… Draco? Alexander the Great in Ptolemy the Quail’s Kaine Historia
  3. Luiza dos Santos Souza, University of Cincinnati
    Language education in Quintilian as an instrument of social stratification and Romanization
  4. Mary Rosalie Stoner, Yale University
    Wanting Better Things for Seneca: Reading Velle in Institutio Oratoria 10.1.125-131
  5. Elizabeth Lavender, Yale University
    A Second Sicily: Nurture and Artifact in 'On the Restoration of the Schools'

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon G

SCS-5: Queer Space and Time
Amy Pistone, Gonzaga University, Presider

  1. Sinead Brennan-McMahon, Stanford University
    Queer Spaces in Pompeii?: Phallic Aesthetics and Shared Communities
  2. Tiffany VanWinkoop, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Cruising to Byzantium: Queer futurity in The History of Michael Attaleiates
  3. Cypris (Em) Roalsvig, UC Santa Barbara
    Queer Time and Embodied Ekphrasis in Catullus 64
  4. Rachel Rucker, University of Iowa
    μόνα δὴ νὼ λελειμμένα: Ismene’s Queer Sisterhood

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-6: HYBRID: Reception of Tragedy
Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan, Presider

  1. Nebojsa Todorovic, Harvard University
    Tragedies of Disintegration: Balkanizing Greco-Roman Antiquity
  2. Sergiusz Kazmierski, University of Regensburg
    Hölderlin as Interpreter - Interpreting Hölderlin. On Sophocles' Antigone, vv. 332-52
  3. Andrew Ntapalis, Harvard University
    Social Poetry and the Reception of Sophocles’ Philoctetes in Greek Modernism
  4. Yoandy Cabrera Ortega, Rockford University
    Ways of Being Cassandra: Transformation, Liminalities, and a Possible Third Space

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-7: HYBRID: Greek Law and Oratory
Ifigeneia Giannadaki, University of Florida, Presider

  1. Andrew Wolpert, University of Florida
    Fear and Anger in Lysias 12, Against Eratosthenes
  2. Gavin Blasdel, University of Groningen
    Ordo Areopagitarum Atheniensium? Rethinking the Roman Areopagos
  3. Eric Wesley Driscoll, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Athenian Juristocracy? Scrutiny of the Law as Democratic Ritual
  4. Davide Napoli, Harvard University
    Against Common Sense: Performing Dissent in Sophistic Speeches
  5. Sarah Breitenfeld, University of Pittsburgh
    Fugitivity and Space in Apollodorus’s 'Against Neaira'

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon J

SCS-8: Being First Generation, Low Income in Classics (Workshop, Joint Session)
Katie Tardio, Bucknell University, and Ashley Eckhardt, American School of Classical Studies, Organizers

Panelists:
Nicholas Bolig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Laura Gawlinski, Loyola University Chicago
Sinja Küppers, Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Katelin McCullough, Hollins University
Andrea Samz-Pustol, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ashley Eckhardt, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Response
Katie Tardio, Bucknell University, Response

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-9: HYBRID: Lenses into the Ancient World: Coins and Pedagogy (organized by the Friends of Numismatics, Joint Session)
Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College, and Nathan Elkins, American Numismatic Society, Organizers

  1. Nathan Elkins, American Numismatic Society, and Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College
    Introduction
  2. Gregory Callaghan, Union College
    Die Studies in the Classroom: Making Students ‘Real Ancient Economists’
  3. Allison Kidd, Independent Scholar
    Disentangling Ancient Coins and Questions about Their Provenance in General Education Curricula
  4. Jane Sancinito, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
    Coins and Confidence-Building: Numismatics and Undergraduate Research Projects
  5. Anna Accetola, Hamilton College
    Hoards and Replicas as Tools in the Undergraduate Classroom
  6. Benjamin Hellings, Yale University Art Gallery, and Emily Pearce, Yale University Art Gallery
    Numismatriculation: A Case Study of the Yale University Art Gallery’s Numismatics Collection in Education and Teaching
  7. Lucia Carbone, American Numismatic Society
    Response

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon L

SCS-10: Herculaneum: Old Finds, New Approaches (organized by the American Friends of Herculaneum)
Carol Mattusch, George Mason University, and David Sider, New York University, Organizers

  1. Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons, University of Mississippi
    Visualizing Dipinti: Decorrelation Stretch and the painted inscriptions of Herculaneum and Pompeii
  2. Stephen Parsons, University of Kentucky
    The Virtual Unwrapping of the Herculaneum Papyri
  3. Ann Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
    The Wanamaker Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum
  4. Richard Janko, University of Michigan
    Reading the new aesthetic treatise from Herculaneum with AI
Second Paper Session (10 sessions)

11:00am–1:00pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-11: HYBRID: Labor
Joseph Howley, Columbia University, Presider

  1. Ludivine Capra, University of Strasbourg
    Women’s craft practices in Roman Gaul
  2. Danielle LaRose, Binghamton University
    Labor and Family Life among Enslaved and Freed Members of the Elite Roman Domus
  3. Bobby Xinyue, King's College London
    Collaboration and Exploitation in the Roman Literary Economy: The Case of the Moretum
  4. Kathryn Wilson, Washington University in St. Louis
    Body of Work: Women, Labor, and Other Things in Greek Epigram

11:00am–1:00pm,
407-409

SCS-12: Numismatics
Lydia Spielberg, University of California, Los Angeles, Presider

  1. Jeremy Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania
    A Re-Evaluation of Nerva’s Fiscus Iudaicus Coin
  2. Ching-Yuan Wu, Peking University
    Sinope's Changing Epochs: a Colony's Adaptation to a Common Paphlagonian Past
  3. Allen Kendall, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    A Tale of Two Brothers and One Mother: Ptolemy Philadelphos, Magas of Cyrene, and the Introduction of Coin Portraits of Queens
  4. Patricia Hatcher, CUNY Graduate Center
    Rebel, Rebel: Coins of the Late Roman Republic

11:00am–1:00pm,
411-412

SCS-13: Pedagogy
Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Presider

  1. Elza Tiner, University of Lynchburg
    Teaching Latin with Medical Terminology: Making Connections from Antiquity to Anatomy
  2. Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Ungrading the Gen Ed Classroom: Potential and Pitfalls

11:00am–1:00pm,
414-415

SCS-14: Linguistics
Olga Levaniouk, University of Washington, Presider

  1. Michele Bianconi, University of Oxford
    “Autour de ταρ épique”–Greek, Luwian, or an εἴδωλον comparationis?
  2. Marta Capano, Università per Stranieri di Siena
    The classifications of Greek subdialects and the perception of microvariation in ancient scholarship
  3. Brian Jorge Bigio, Whitman College
    ‘Saving (in) the Mind’: Toward a New Etymology of Σωφροσύνη

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon G

SCS-15: Bring Your Own Poem: An Experiential Workshop (Workshop)
Emily Lord-Kambitsch, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Irene Salvo, University of Verona, Organizers

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-16: HYBRID: Collaborative Practice for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient Mediterranean (Workshop)
Chiara Sulprizio, Vanderbilt University; Jody Valentine, Pomona College; Devon Harlow, Connecticut College, Organizers

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-17: HYBRID: International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? Obstacles and Challenges to Equity: A Mountaintop Coalition Panel (Panel, Joint Session)
Yusi Liu, Bryn Mawr College, Chris Gipson, Loyola Marymount University, and Najee Olya, The College of William and Mary, Organizers

  1. Yusi Liu, Bryn Mawr College
    Introduction
  2. Michelle Martinez, Walnut Hills High School
    Oh the Places You (Might) Go: Reflections and Limitations on Study Abroad
  3. Ximing Lu, University of Oregon
    PhD in Visa Applications
  4. Young Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago
    The ‘Cyprus Problem’ and the Limits of Academic Research
  5. Dustin Thomas, University of Virginia
    Assessing the Application and Accessibility of 3D Technologies in Classical Archaeology

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon J

SCS-18: Mythography and Cultural Identity in the Early Modern World
(organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception)
Caroline Stark, Howard University, Organizer

  1. Caroline Stark, Howard University
    Introduction
  2. Emma Dyson, University of Pennsylvania
    From Romance to History: The Myth of Albina in Early Modern England
  3. Nicoletta Bruno, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo Latin Studies Innsbruck
    Classical Mythistory and Utopias for the New World in Peter Martyr and Vasco de Quiroga
  4. Maria das Neves Gomes, Centre for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon
    The Third and Last Rome: Rome and Byzantium as Legitimating Legacies in Early Modern Russian Identity
  5. Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University
    Vercingetorix: Myth and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth Century France

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-19: HYBRID: Animals
Pauline LeVen, Yale University, Presider

  1. Tashi Treadway, Johns Hopkins University
    Ancient Veterinarians and their Animal Patients
  2. Alexei Alexeev, University of Ottawa
    From Echidna’s Progeny to Parabiblical Monsters: Ophiomorphic Composites in the Minor Arts of Classical Antiquity
  3. Marissa Swan, Columbia University
    The Animalization of Imperial Bodies: Lactantius and the Tetrarchic Emperors
  4. Jonathan Clark, University of Washington
    “They Prayed to Become Her Sheep”: Reading Eroticized Animals and Servitium Amoris in Daphnis and Chloe

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon L

SCS-20: Modern & Popular Receptions of Late Antiquity (organized by the Society for Late Antiquity)
Jeremy Swist, Grand Valley State University, Organizer

  1. Jen Ebbler, University of Texas Austin
    Barbie’s Confessions: The Risks and Rewards of Embodiment in Augustine’s Confessions and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie
  2. Jackson Hase, University of Toronto
    How to Win Late Antiquity: Board Games and Historical Narratives
  3. Rodney Mancuso, Texas A&M University
    Digital Spolia: Reshaping History with Video Games
  4. Sílvia Pereira Diogo, University of Lisbon
    Webtooner in love with the image of a boy she herself has drawn: Aristaenetus’ love letter 2.10 revisited

12:00pm–2:00pm,
Exhibition Hall (Franklin Hall)

SCS-21: Poster Session

  1. Gabriel Moss, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    Maps for Texts: New Technologies and Approaches at the Ancient World Mapping Center
  2. Martin Shedd, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
    Unexpected Journeys at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
Third Paper Session (10 sessions)

2:00pm–5:00pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-22: HYBRID: Re-evaluating Turnus in Vergil and the Vergilian Tradition (organized by the Vergilian Society)
Randall Ganiban, Middlebury College, Organizer

  1. Randall Ganiban, Middlebury College
    Introduction
  2. Sarah McCallum, University of Arizona
    Turnus Aflame: Vergil's Intergeneric Miles Amans (Verg. A. 7.55-56, 406-74, 577-79)
  3. Jackie Elliott, University of Colorado-Boulder
    Cato, Servius, and the Wrath of Turnus
  4. Owen Campbell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    The Future Lasts Forever: Human Sacrifice and Aeneid 12
  5. Julia Hejduk, Baylor University
    Acrostic Commentary on the Sacrifice of Turnus
  6. Clayton Schroer, Emory University
    The Postcolonial Turn(us)
  7. James O'Hara, University of North Carolina
    Response

2:00pm–5:00pm,
407-409

SCS-23: The Gods are Watching: The Ocular and the Oracular in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions)
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Boston University, Organizer

  1. Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Boston University
    Introduction
  2. Cianna Jackson, University of Pennsylvania
    She Who Sees the Unseen: Poetic and Visual Representations of Cassandra’s Prophetic Visions
  3. Mark McClay, Hillsdale College
    Most Terrible and Most Gentle: Disguised Gods in the Tragic Theater
  4. Federica Scicolone, Scuola Superiore Meridionale
    Is Seeing Believing? Shaping the Divine Through Vision in Hellenistic Religious Texts
  5. Dane Scott, Boston University
    Concealing God From View: Inhibiting The Gaze of Cult Images in Antiquity
  6. Rabun Taylor, University of Texas at Austin
    Hecate and Janus: Envisioning Gods of Panoptic Vision
  7. Torie Burmeister, Wesleyan University
    Fury, Fate, Chaos: Divine & Mortal Sight in Vergil’s Aeneid

2:00pm–5:00pm,
411-412

SCS-24: Euripides
Rosa Andújar, King’s College London, Presider

  1. Anastasia Stavroula Valtadorou, Institute for Advanced Study
    Shattered Dreams: Gender, Youthful Love and The Doomed Love Affair in Euripides’ Skyrians
  2. Jonathan Ready, University of Michigan
    Euripides’s Orestes and Post-Critique
  3. Christina Filippaki, University of Chicago
    Letter writing and possibilities in Iphigenia among the Taurians
  4. Paul Eberwine, Princeton University
    Defining Death in Euripides’ Alcestis
  5. Luis Sanchez, Princeton University
    The Renegotiation of Autochthony in the Erechtheus of Euripides

2:00pm–5:00pm,
414-415

SCS-25: Greek and Roman Intertexts
Carolyn MacDonald, University of New Brunswick, Presider

  1. William Owens, Ohio University
    Longus, Virgil, and the Class Struggle
  2. Frances Pownall, University of Alberta
    The Roman Alexander and the Amazon Queen
  3. Joseph Droegemueller, University of Michigan
    Greeks and Romans Behind Closed Doors: Vivacity in Greek and Roman Comedy
  4. Aidan Mahoney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Philadelphian Lesbia: Divine Incest in Catullus 87 and Theocritus 17
  5. Caroline Spurr, Boston University
    The Treatment of Homeric Epithets in the Ilias Latina
  6. Anna Papile, University of Texas at Austin
    Epic Narrators and the Fabulative: Comparing the Hypsipyles of Apollonius of Rhodes and Statius

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon G

SCS-26: Hidden Labor and Precarity in the Roman World (Organizer-Refereed Panel)
Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto, and Rebecca Moorman, Boston University, Organizers

  1. Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto
    Introduction
  2. Bettina Reitz-Joosse, University of Groningen
    Non-Human Agency and Hidden Labour in Vitruvius’ De architectura
  3. Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington
    Enslaved Children’s Emotional Labor in Roman Culture
  4. Stephen Blair, University College London
    Sub uoce: The text de uerborum significatu and the hidden intellectual labor of lexicography
  5. Christopher Londa, Johns Hopkins University
    Last Words: Deathbeds, Dictation, and Dying ‘Alone’
  6. Grace Funsten, University of Pittsburgh
    Underground Poetry: Verse Epitaphs in the Monument of the Statilii
  7. Rebecca Moorman, Boston University
    Response

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-27: HYBRID: Imperial Greek Literature
Lawrence Kim, Trinity University, Presider

  1. Floris Overduin, Radboud University Nijmegen
    The Good Wife: Naumachius’ didactic epic reconsidered (GDRK 29)
  2. Jasmine Akiyama-Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
    The Pleasures and Dangers of Unrestrained Mimesis: Dio Chrysostom on Nero
  3. Andrew Scholtz, Binghamton University (SUNY)
    Network Issues: Parasites, Patrons, and Passion in Alciphron
  4. Geoffrey Harmsworth, Columbia University
    Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, and the Punditry Sphere in the Roman-era Polis
  5. John Griffin, Boston University
    Agonized Unions: Syncretism as Competition in Nonnus' Dionysiaca
  6. Christopher van den Berg, Amherst College
    Homeric Vengeance and Dio's Aesthetics in the Olympic Oration (Dio Chrysostom, Oration 12)

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-28: HYBRID: Latin Letters
James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

  1. Grace DeAngelis, Princeton University
    A Written Walk through Pliny’s Estates
  2. Vasileios Dimoglidis, University of Cincinnati
    Bracketed information on letter-writing: an interpretation of the meta-communicative parenthesis of Pliny’s Letters.
  3. Andres Matlock, University of Georgia
    Diligentia and Neglegentia: Interpersonal Style in Imperial Letters
  4. Seth Speerstra, University of California, Riverside
    The Authenticity of Julian’s Epistle 22 and its Role in the Emperor’s Pagan Project
  5. Rachel Morrison, University of California, Los Angeles
    omne saeculum: Epistolary Asynchronicity in the Letters of Ausonius and Paulinus
  6. Patrick Callahan, University of California, Los Angeles
    'Videsne Me Iocari?' Getting the Jokes in Cicero's Letters

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon J

SCS-29: Queer Families in the Ancient Mediterranean World (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus)
Kristina Milnor, Barnard College, and Thomas Sapsford, Boston College, Organizers

  1. Julia Perroni, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Animal House: (Un)Natural Kinship on Circe's Island
  2. Christopher Cochran, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    Domestic Partnership, Brotherhood, and Queer Family Making: The use of societas omnium bonorum in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 10.13-16 and Petronius’ Satyrica.
  3. Hannah Sorscher, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
    Female-Led Families of Choice in Roman Comedy
  4. Evan Jewell, Rutgers University - Camden
    The Queer Bonds of Slavery: Queer Funerary Monuments and Roman Freedpeople
  5. Malina Buturovic, Yale University
    Declassicizing Kinship: Marshall Sahlins' Antiquity
  6. Carman Romano, Bryn Mawr College
    Queer Family Dynamic in the New Sinai Palimpsest

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-30: HYBRID: Classics Beyond Classics Departments: Challenge, Adaptation, Innovation
(organized by the SCS Committee on College and University Education)
Michael Furman, Florida State University, Stephen Kershner, Austin Peay State University, Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College, and Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Organizers

  1. Aaron Beek, Case Western Reserve University
  2. Mary English, Montclair State University
  3. Eric Kondratieff, Western Kentucky University
  4. Anise Strong, Western Michigan University
  5. Jeffrey Winkle, Grand Rapids Community College
  6. Michael Furman, Florida State University

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon L

SCS-31: Organization, Display, and Transfer of Knowledge (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy and the American Society of Papyrologists)
James Sickinger, Florida State University, and C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba, Organizers

  1. James Sickinger, Florida State University
    Introduction
  2. Eleanor Martin, Yale University
    Family Time? Filiation, Kinship, and Ethnic Knowledge in North African Bilingual Inscriptions
  3. Lavinia Ferretti, University of Basel
    The Origin of (Papyrological) Hypomnemata across Greek, Aramaic and Demotic Evidence
  4. Marcus Ziemann, Princeton University
    Assyria Grammata: How Did Greeks Encounter Near Eastern Literature?
  5. Eduardo Garcia-Molina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    From Skins to Stone: Examining Multimediality in Seleukid Inscriptions
  6. Peter Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania
    Double-edged Honor: Publicity and Social Pressure in Greek Subscription Lists
  7. Steven Tuck, Miami University
    Text, Material, and Meaning at Naples: The Emperor Titus’ Post-Eruption Rebuilding Inscription (CIL 10.1481)
5:30pm–7:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid)

HYBRID: Presidential Panel: Demographic Change in SCS Research Foci
In memoriam Sharon Lynn James
Organized by SCS President Alison Keith, University of Toronto

  1. Laura McClure, University of Wisconsin
    Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus
  2. Melissa Funke, University of Winnipeg
    The Hetaira at the Intersection of Literary and Social History
  3. Sarah Blake, York University
    Pieris, ornatrix, vixit an(nos) VIIII: Enslaved Women and Girls in Roman Beauty Work
  4. Mariapia Pietropaolo, McMaster University
    Nymphs of Consequence

Saturday, January 4, 2025
Fourth Paper Session (10 sessions)

8:00am–10:30am,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-32: HYBRID: Greek Poetry
Bill Beck, Indiana University, Presider

  1. Nigel Nicholson, Reed College
    Natural Superiority and Flexible Inheritance in Pindar’s Odes
  2. Caroline Murphy-Racette, University of Michigan
    The Traffic in Women by Women in Archaic Greek Poetry
  3. Peter Mayer, University of Szeged
    Mater semper certa? Interpretive remarks on the new Archilochus-commentary (P.Oxy. 4952)
  4. Sherry (Chiayi) Lee, Princeton University
    Hearing the voice of justice: The personification of Dikē in Hesiod’s Works and Days
  5. Carolyn Laferriere, Princeton University Art Museum
    Sympotic Metamorphoses: Poets on Pots in Archaic Athens

8:00am–10:30am,
407-409

SCS-33: The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (organized by Eta Sigma Phi)
Katherine Panagakos, Stockton University, Organizer

  1. Katherine Panagakos, Stockton University
    Introduction
  2. Zachary Chen, Hillsdale College
    The Loneliness of Excellence: Social Schism in the Stories of Coriolanus and Achilles
  3. Emmeline Murphy, Northwestern University
    Wearied or Fallen: The Critical Reception of the Creusa Episode and Editorial History of Aeneid 2.739
  4. Riley Parker, Columbia University
    Exiled by Fate: Memory and National Identity in Aeneid VIII
  5. Olivia Gandee, Bryn Mawr College
    Presence, Identity, and Legitimacy: The Power of Song in Vergil’s Aeneid
  6. Barbara Gold, Hamilton College
    Response

8:00am–10:30am,
411-412

SCS-34: Medicine and Disability
Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

  1. Jonas Tai, Stanford University
    Idioms of Distress: Psychosocial Symptomizing in the Epidaurian Miracle Inscriptions
  2. Catherine Schenck, University of Michigan
    Treating Lovesickness with Lead: The Curative Use of Curse Tablets in the Roman Empire
  3. Mar Rodda, Merton College, Oxford
    There is a pain so *utterable*: Lived experiences of chronic pain in antiquity and today
  4. Cecily Bateman, University of Cambridge
    Monstrous Empire: Disability and Display of Bodies in the Roman Empire
  5. Danielle Perry, University of Pennsylvania
    The Sickness of Slavery: Manumission at Epidaurus

8:00am–10:30am,
414-415

SCS-35: Latin Poetry
Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

  1. Joshua Paul, Queen's University
    A Walking Caricature: Epicureanism on the Road to Brundisium in Horace Satire 1.5
  2. Jessica Westerhold, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    The Promise of Happiness as a Technology of Social Control in Tibullus
  3. Nathaniel Herter, Harvard University
    The Failure of Ritual in the Lusus Troiae of Aeneid V
  4. Jessica Blum-Sorensen, Providence College
    Fruit of the Poisoned Tree: Meleager, Family, and Ambition in Imperial Rome
  5. Nicolette D'Angelo, University of California, Los Angeles
    “If anyone’s entire race has failed them”: Poetics of Crisis, Racecraft, and Renewal in Vergil’s Georgics and Beyond

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon G

SCS-36: Scribal Culture
Stephanie Ann Frampton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Presider

  1. Sandra Ayikwerah, University of Cincinnati
    Lectores et Notarii: Slave Labor in Pliny the Younger's Literature
  2. Michael Freeman, Duke University
    Expunging Mistakes: Revising Understanding of Ancient Erasing Tools
  3. Justin Stover, University of Edinburgh
    VTERE FELIX: Books as objects and ghosts of objects
  4. Calloway Scott, University of Cincinnati
    Galen’s World of Work: Science, Authority, and “Invisible Technicians”
  5. Marcie Persyn, University of Pittsburgh
    Re-Examining the Roman Scholarly “Workshop”: Restoring the Voices, Innovations, and Discoveries of the Enslaved

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-37: HYBRID: Byzantine and Early Modern Reception
Caroline Stark, Howard University, Presider

  1. Keisuke Nakajima, Johns Hopkins University
    What is to love, umpossible?: Plato, Lyly and the Alchemy of Love
  2. John Kee, Harvard University
    Plato in the Marketplace: Reception as Intellectual Contestation in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
  3. Andrew Lund, Tulane University
    Marginalizing Dorus in 15th-Century France: Terence’s Eunuchus and Jewish Iconography in a Gothic Illuminated Manuscript
  4. Alyssa Mulé, University of Chicago
    Hecuba’s Conscience-Catching Mirror: Euripidean Echoes and Catharsis in 'Hamlet'
  5. Joseph Ortiz, University of Texas at El Paso
    Turning the Soil: Virgil’s Georgics and Humanist Translation in Petrarch and Milton

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-38: HYBRID: Love and Self-knowledge: Tragic, Lyric, and Platonic Perspectives (Panel)
Huaiyuan "Susanna" Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, Thu Truong, Princeton University, and Jiawen Wang, University of Chicago, Organizers

  1. Thu Truong, Princeton University
    Introduction
  2. Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Stanford University
    Thinking the Somatic: Sappho and Diotima on Bodies
  3. Jiawen Wang, University of Chicago
    The Journey to the Past: Beauty, Jealousy, and the Triangular Love in Sophocles’ Trachiniae and Plato’s Phaedrus
  4. Zacharoula Petraki, University of Crete
    Love, Resemblance and the Formation of the Self in Plato’s Phaedrus
  5. Huaiyuan "Susanna" Zhang, Pennsylvania State University
    Giving What I Do Not Have to Someone Who Does Not Need It—Reading Erotic Parapraxis in Plato’s Symposium with Levinas and Lacan
  6. Marc Mastrangelo, Dickinson College
    The Platonic and the Tragic in Augustine’s Confessions
  7. Glenn Most, University of Chicago; Joshua Billings, Princeton University
    Response

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon J

SCS-39: Translation and Creative Adaptation (organized by the SCS Committee on Translations of Classical Authors)
Stephanie McCarter, University of the South, Sewanee, and Deborah Roberts, Haverford College, Organizers

  1. Sophia Elzie, Northwestern University
    There to Here, Then to Now: Considering Luis Alfaro’s Mojada through Translation Theory
  2. Spencer Lee-Lenfield, Yale University
    Between Translation and Adaptation: Rethinking Dryden’s Imitation with Stephanie Burt’s After Callimachus
  3. Inger Kuin, University of Virginia
    The Cry from Melissa: Translation and Engagement in Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s Alkibiades
  4. Alex Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania
    Transcribing Telemachus: the Development of Colonial Vietnamese National Identity Negotiated Through the Translation and Adaptation of the Telemachy
  5. Harrison Biddle, University of Oxford
    ‘More than an accurate translation of words or even phrases’: Exploring queerness, translation and adaption in A. L. Hillman’s Mimes of the Courtesans
  6. Martin Michalek, Johns Hopkins University
    Hope Mirrlees, Horace, and the Carpe Diem Poetics of Modernism

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-40: HYBRID: Opening Up Classics with AI (organized by the Digital Classics Association)
Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Organizer

  1. Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Introduction
  2. Samuel Huskey, University of Oklahoma
    Opening Up Bottlenecks in Digital Classics Workflows with Human-in-the-Loop AI
  3. Patrick Burns, New York University
    Prompt Engineering for Latin Teachers
  4. Edward Ross, University of Reading, and Jackie Baines, University of Reading
    Generative Image AI and Teaching Classics: A Case of Exaggeration
  5. Gregory Crane, Tufts University
    AI, Machine Actionable Publication and Assigning Credit
  6. Joseph Dexter, Harvard University, and Pramit Chaudhuri, University of Texas at Austin
    Benchmarking Generative AI Models for Classical Literary Criticism

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon L

SCS-41: Landscape and Environment
Thomas Biggs, University of St Andrews, Presider

  1. Margaret Danaher, Brown University
    Space, Landscape, and Ruination in Juvenal’s Satires
  2. Alexandra Hardwick, Oxford University
    Imagining Traumatic Landscapes: Warfare, Geography, and Weather in Greek Literature
  3. Donald McCarthy, University of Toronto
    Venus in Vervain: Vergil's Garden (G. 4.116–48)
  4. Catherine Chase, University of Washington
    The Visual Properties of Water in Statius’ Silvae 2.3
  5. Vassilis Sazaklidis, University of Texas at Austin
    Body, Landscape, and Metaphorical Language in Aristides’ Sacred Tales
  6. Christopher Wood, Baylor University
    Shadow of the Serpent: Archaeoastronomy, Topography and the Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Fifth Paper Session (9 sessions)

11:00am–1:00pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-42: HYBRID: Lightning Talk Session
Lissa Crofton-Sleigh, Santa Clara University, Presider

  1. Adam Gitner, Thesaurus linguae Latinae / Bavarian Academy of Sciences
    The Digital Futures of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
  2. Noreen Kupernik, Thaden School
    Natural Method for Dead Languages?
  3. Jenny Strauss Clay, University of Virginia
    ὀρσοθύρη and the narrative function of Odyssey 22. . 126–30

11:00am–1:00pm,
407-409

SCS-43: Historiography and Roman Imperialism (Panel)
Andrew Scott, Villanova University, and Jesper Madsen, University of Southern Denmark, Organizers

  1. Jessica Clark, Florida State University
    Reckoning Empire: Cato, Caesar, and Frontinus
  2. Jesper Madsen, University of Southern Denmark
    The Conquest of Spain in Roman Historiography
  3. Andrew Scott, Villanova University
    The Historiography of Collective Suicide and Roman Conquest: Three Case Studies
  4. Kelly Shannon-Henderson, University of Cincinnati
    Religion and Imperialism in Tacitus’ Parthian Narratives

11:00am–1:00pm,
411-412

SCS-44: Plato and Aristotle
Johanna Hanink, Brown University, Presider

  1. Laura Viidebaum, New York University
    Aristotle's style
  2. Matthew Pincus, Creighton University
    Phaedo's Beautiful Hair: Queering Erotic, Familial, and Narrative Boundaries in Plato's Phaedo
  3. Emily Hulme, University of Sydney
    Was Diotima a Real Person?

11:00am–1:00pm,
414-415

SCS-45: Disaster in Rome
Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University, Presider

  1. Alexander Kiprof, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Statius’s Fiery River Battle: Implications of Reading ignis instead of amnis at Theb. 9.462
  2. Rebecca Kerns, University of Cincinnati
    Arsonists at Large: Incendiarism & Fraud in the City of Rome
  3. Cait Mongrain, Princeton University
    Cannibalizing Community in Juvenal and Ps.-Quintilian

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon G

SCS-46: Dance and Myth: The Reception of the Greeks by Martha Graham (Panel organized by the SCS Classics in the Community Committee)
Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, and Nina Papathanasopoulou, College Year in Athens and Society for Classical Studies, Organizers

  1. Amanda Kubic, University of Michigan
    Witnesses, Furies, and Revelers: Comparing Martha Graham’s Modern Choruses in Cave of the Heart, Clytemnestra, and Acts of Light
  2. Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
    The Spider Dress from “Cave of the Heart”: Graham and Noguchi’s Medea
  3. Nina Papathanasopoulou, College Year in Athens and Society for Classical Studies
    Tracing the Ancient Literary and Visual Sources in Martha Graham’s Greek-themed Dances
  4. Victoria Phillips, Global Fellow, Wilson Center
    When the Personal Becomes Political: Martha Graham and Myth, Carl Jung as Agent 488, and United States Cold War Psychological Warfare
  5. Victoria Hodges, Rutgers University
    "Choreography proves sexy yet tasteful”: Censoring Bodies in Balletic Performance
  6. Janet Eilber, Lloyd Knight, and Anne Souder, Martha Graham Dance Company
    Interview with Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company Janet Eilber, and MGDC Principal Dancers, Lloyd Knight and Anne Souder

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-47: HYBRID: Comedy
Matthew Farmer, Haverford College, Presider

  1. Christopher Ell, Boston University
    Dicaeopolis at the Choes: Implications of the Comic Orestes for Aristophanes' Acharnians
  2. Jiaqi Ma, Yale University
    Fishy Transformations in Aristophanes' Wasps
  3. Emmanuel Aprilakis, Rutgers University
    Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Parabasis of Old Comedy
  4. Dustin Dixon, Grinnell College
    Comic Re-Cosmogonies and Revolution

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-48: HYBRID: Teaching with Role-Immersive Games in a Variety of Classroom Settings (Workshop)
Lauren Caldwell, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Bret Mulligan, Haverford College, Organizers

  1. Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Teaching the "Athens in 403: Threshold of Democracy" in a Greek Civilization course
  2. Kyle Helms, St. Olaf College
    Reacting to Classical Athens and Ming China in First-Year Seminars
  3. Denver Graninger, University of California, Riverside
    Historical Games in History Courses
  4. Michael Nerdahl, Bowdoin College
    The Game of Grading: The Tricky Role of Assessment

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon J

SCS-49: Classical Legacies and the Ibero-global World (organized by Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World)
Adriana Vazquez, University of California, Los Angeles, and Julia Hernández, New York University, Organizers

  1. Steven González, University of Southern California
    Mining the Earth: Reflections on the Relationship Between Workers and their Environment in Landívar’s Rusticatio Mexicana
  2. Leanna Boychenko, Loyola University Chicago
    Medea in the Borderlands: Sandra Cisnero’s 'Woman Hollering Creek'
  3. José Cancino Alfaro, Columbia University
    Indigenous voices? Four cantiunculae of a Machi in Bernard Havestadt’s Chilidugu (1777)
  4. Ella González, Johns Hopkins University
    Antioch Mosaics in Cuba? Exploring the Classical Tradition in the Caribbean

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-50: HYBRID: Lit in Late Antiquity
James J. O'Hara, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Presider

  1. Lucy McInerney, Brown University
    Violent Blushing in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae
  2. Phoebe Lakin, Harvard University
    Getting the last word: the fate of the Aeneid in Anth. Lat. 672
  3. Alex Dressler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    The political economy of the Art of Poetry as an anticipatory illumination of Christian song: Horace as laborer, mad poet as revolutionary
  4. Clifford Robinson, Princeton Public Library
    The Epiphany of Philosophia and Philosophical Therapy in Boethius’ "Consolation of Philosophy"

11:30am–12:30pm,
Salon L

SCS Data Committee Report: State of the Field 2025
Rachel Philbrick, University of British Columbia, and Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan, Organizers

  1. Rachel Philbrick, University of British Columbia, and Del Maticic, Vassar College
    Results and Takeaways from the 2024 Membership Census
  2. Mali Skotheim, Ashoka University
  3. Clinton Kinkade, University of South Florida
    Two New Databases: Recently Completed Dissertations and SCS Job Ads

1:00pm–2:00pm,
Exhibition Hall (Franklin Hall) or Virtual

SCS-51: Roundtable Session:

The Digital Study of Kelsey Objects at the University of Michigan
Hannah Edwards, University of Michigan, Taylor Tyrell, University of Michigan, and Cathy Person, University of Michigan, Organizers

The Role of Theory in the Field: A Roundtable Sponsored by Helios
Donald Lavigne, Helios and Texas Tech University, Organizer

Mentoring Meet-and-Greet: Programs, Best Practices, and How to Connect
Morgan Palmer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Organizer

Classical Studies as Public Humanities
Clifford Robinson, Princeton Public Library, and Emma Ianni, Columbia University, Organizers

Organizing an Ancient Narrative Interest Group
Evelyn Adkins, Case Western Reserve University, Valeria Spacciante, Columbia University, Umberto Verdura, Columbia University, JuliAnne N. Rach, University of California, Alessandra Migliara, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Victoria Hodges, Rutgers University, Organizers

VIRTUAL: L’Année philologique: innovating tradition
Mackenzie Zalin, Johns Hopkins University, Organizer

VIRTUAL: Hidden Labor and Academic Precarity
Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto, and Rebecca Moorman, Boston University, Organizers

Sixth Paper Session (11 sessions)

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Virtual

SCS-52: VIRTUAL: Between, Beyond, Bygone, Behind: Queer Time in the Ancient Mediterranean (Organizer-Refereed Panel)
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, Organizer

  1. T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University
    Introduction
  2. Kathryn Stutz, Johns Hopkins University
    To Live by Night and Die by Day: (Having a) Queer Time in the Ancient Greek Arctic
  3. Rowan Ash, University of Western Ontario
    The Great Chain of (Queer) Being and Time: Temporal and Ontological Drag in the Greek Magical Papyri
  4. Giovanni Lovisetto, Emory University
    The (Queer) Time of the Ghost. A Hauntological Perspective on Achilles and Patroklos
  5. Laura Harris, University of Washington
    Repeating Nymphs and Repeating Trauma: Queer Time and the Narrative Structure of the Metamorphoses
  6. Jaymie Orchard, University of Otago
    Time After Time: Queering the Temporalities of the Temple of Hercules Musarum
  7. Ryan Warwick, Haverford College
    Knowing Tiro: Classics and the Queer Archive

2:00pm–5:00pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-53: HYBRID: Homer
Thomas Nelson, University of Oxford, Presider

  1. Eden Riebling, The Horace Mann School
    Empathy in Iliad 24
  2. Erynn Kim, University of Notre Dame
    Epic Dreamscapes: The Time and Space of Dreams in Homer and Gilgamesh
  3. Frances Pickworth, University of Bristol
    From mētis to biē: Idomeneus and Meriones as an intergenerational pair in the Iliad
  4. Spiridon Iosif Capotos, Boston University
    As long as it flows: didactic poetry and the deluge in Iliad XII, 16-33
  5. Samantha Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
    ἀνένευε δὲ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη: The Narrative Function of the Failed Prayer to Athena in Iliad 6
  6. Collin Moat, University of California, Los Angeles
    Planting the Oar: the Avoidance of Tree Death in the Odyssey

2:00pm–5:00pm,
407-409

SCS-54: Ancient Greek Exegesis: The Work of Commentators from the Classical Period to Late Antiquity (Panel)
Matteo Milesi, University of Texas at Austin, and Matthieu Réal, Università degli Studi di Padova and Cornell University, Organizers

  1. Matteo Milesi, University of Texas at Austin, and Matthieu Réal, Università degli Studi di Padova and Cornell University
    Introduction
  2. Mirjam Kotwick, Princeton University
    (Dream) interpretation in the fifth century BCE
  3. Bill Beck, Indiana University Bloomington
    “Through this, Homer teaches us…”: The Exegetical Scholia on the Lessons of the Iliad
  4. Kenneth Yu, University of Toronto
    Emotions as Scholarly Virtues in Homeric Commentary
  5. Peter Martens, Saint Louis University
    How Christians Re-Addressed their Sacred Writings
  6. Matteo Milesi, University of Texas at Austin, and Matthieu Réal, Università degli Studi di Padova and Cornell University
    Response

2:00pm–5:00pm,
411-412

SCS-55: Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics (organized by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics)
Jeremy Rau, Harvard University, Benjamin Fortson, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and Timothy Barnes, Oxford University, Organizers

  1. Nadav Asraf, Harvard University
    A Case Study in the Technique of Homeric Versification: The Homeric Forms πέρθετο (Il.12.15), περθομένη (Il.2.374 = 4.291 = 13.816), and πέρθαι (Il.16.708) as Bardic Usages
  2. Krishnan Ram-Prasad, Oxford University
    Tmesis in Homer: At the intersection of syntax, pragmatics and poetics
  3. Jorge Wong, University of Richmond
    Sappho’s Flowers: Sapphic ἄνθεσι and the Reconstruction of the Lesbian Dative
  4. Andrew Merritt, Georgetown University
    Seeming and Seemliness: An Etymological Account of κόσμος ‘ordered appearance’
  5. Hana Aghababian, Cornell University
    A look through the smoke: PIE *dheu̯- and TB tute ‘yellow’
  6. Michael Weiss, Cornell University
    Tense and Mood in Conditional Clauses in the Twelve Tables

2:00pm–5:00pm,
414-415

SCS-56: Imperial History
E.Del Chrol, Marshall University, Presider

  1. Christiane-Marie Cantwell, University of Cambridge
    Follow the Priest! : The adoption and perpetuation of the taurobolium in Roman Gaul
  2. Alessandro Giovanni Battaglia, University of Cincinnati
    The Ruins of the Telesterion: Conceptualizing the Eleusinian Mysteries after the Collapse of the Temples.
  3. Collin Parks, The Ohio State University
    The Theodosian Obelisk and the Rise of Rufinus
  4. Christer Bruun, University of Toronto
    Agrippa Postumus’ Unexpected Fall from Favour in 7 CE and His Presence in the Fasti Ostienses
  5. James Alexander Macksoud, Stanford University
    Perpetual Endowments and Civic Finances in the Early Roman Empire
  6. Theodore Boivin, University of Cincinnati
    Cassius Dio as a Reader of Tacitus: The Mutinies of 14 CE

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon G

SCS-57: CAMP Workshop. New Plays, New Directions: Ellen McLaughlin’s Conversations at the Return of Spring (Workshop organized by the SCS Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance)
Claire Catenaccio, Georgetown University, Al Duncan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Krishni Burns, University of Illinois, Organizers

  1. Ellen McLaughlin, Freelance artist and playwright
    Conversations at the Return of Spring
  2. Timothy Power, Rutgers University, Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, and Lane Flores, University of Texas, Austin
    Response

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-58: HYBRID: Antiquity in Asia and the Mediterranean: A Comparative Approach (organized by the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus)
Christopher Waldo, University of Washington, Seattle, and Lorraine Abagatnan, University of Michigan, Organizers

  1. Yanxiao He
    Seres in Rome, Romantown in China, and Off-Chinatown Classics
  2. Binh Nguyen, University of Washington, Seattle
    The Vergilian Heroine of The Tale of Kie'u
  3. Luke Soucy, Princeton University
    Axis of Power: The Two Emperor Problem in Europe and East Asia
  4. Shreyoshi Ghoshray
    Pralaya and Kháos: Comparative Examinations of Creation, Dissolution and Flux within Ancient Indian and Ancient Greek Philosophical and Cultural Perspectives
  5. Claire Jiang
    Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Gendered Disparities in Early China, Ancient Rome, and Beyond
  6. Cynthia Liu, Jesus College, Oxford
    Comparing and translating the Greco-Roman chorus and Classical Chinese (和)

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-59: HYBRID: Global Classical Reception
Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

  1. Thomas Munro, Yale University
    Postimperial Nostalgia in Some Modern British Odysseys
  2. Gregory Baker, The Catholic University of America
    “...leave the borders of our land, fruitful fields:” Aboriginal Alienation, Virgil and the Roman Vision of Christopher Okigbo
  3. Trevor Lee, The Ohio State University
    “Cancelling the Western Canon”: Classical Education in Hong Kong’s English Political Discourse
  4. Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University
    ‘Turno Aeneas Provoca a la Gue[r]ra’: Episodes from Book 9 of the Aeneid on an Eighteenth Century Batea from Nueva España
  5. German Campos-Munoz, Northwestern University
    Fomos e Somos a Atlântida: Atlantean Etiologies in 20th-century Brazil

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon J

SCS-60: Slavery
Hannah Čulík-Baird, Boston University, Presider

  1. Chance Bonar, Tufts University
    Enslaved Religious Knowledge & Festival Disruption during Ancient Mediterranean Slave Revolts
  2. Charles Muntz, University of Arkansas
    Treat Your Slaves Well, For It Might Be You: The Ideology of Slavery in Diodorus Siculus
  3. Christopher Jotischky-Hull, Brown University
    Better than the Ancestors? Discourses of Enslavement around the Greek War of Independence
  4. Gaia Gianni, Ohio State University
    Desperately seeking Caecilia: the possibilities of critical fabulation
  5. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University, and Javal Coleman, University of Texas–Austin
    Cruelty against Property: The Rescript(s) on Enslaver Violence
  6. Brittany Joyce, University of Michigan
    A Household Charybdis: Sex and Slavery in Late Antiquity

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-61: HYBRID: Epic Interjections (Organizer-Refereed Panel)
Diana Librandi, California State University, Long Beach, Organizer

  1. Ronald Blankenborg, Radboud University
    Make Some Noise: Interjectional Phrases as Attentional Triggers
  2. Kevin Nobel, CUNY Graduate Center
    The Interjection ὢ πόποι as a Flexible Pragmatic Marker in Homeric Epic
  3. Giacomo Scavello, Utrecht University
    The Iliad ‘poem of kindness’: mortality compassion and generosity in the interjection ἆ δειλ(έ)
  4. Marco Comunetti, University of Genoa
    Discourses on Odysseus: a survey on interjections in the Odyssey
  5. Maria Kovalchuk, University of Pennsylvania
    Reading the Moralizing Interjection in Theocritus’ Idyll 26
  6. Alicia Matz, San Diego State University
    Ira pharetrae fertur satiata Diana: Identifying with the Victim via Interjection in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  7. Eleni Papadogiannaki, University of Crete
    Response

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon L

SCS-62: New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy in the 21st Century (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists and the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy)
C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba, and James Sickinger, Florida State University, Organizers

  1. C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba
    Introduction
  2. Morgan Palmer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Vestal Virgins and Roman Soldiers: Inscriptions and the Feriale Duranum (P.Dura 54)
  3. Sheridan Marsh, University of Pennsylvania
    Inscribing Revolts in Epigraphic Memory
  4. Caroline van Toor, University of Groningen
    In death not divided. Integrating text and image in the study of social history on the basis of funerary monuments
  5. Helen Wong, University of Pennsylvania
    “A good papyrus script”: multigenerational funerary inscriptions from the Tomb of Apollophanes
  6. Qizhen Xie, Brown University
    Apparition and Representation: Presence of “Toparchs” in Two "Non-Ptolemaic" Inscriptions
  7. Egidia Occhipinti, University of Palermo
    A multidisciplinary approach to the study of literary papyri

Sunday, January 5, 2025
Seventh Paper Session (13 sessions)

8:00am–11:00am,
Virtual

SCS-63: VIRTUAL: A Rupture in Time: Queer Receptions of the Ancient Mediterranean (Panel)
Cassandra Tran, Wake Forest University, Organizer

  1. Cassandra Tran, Wake Forest University
    Introduction
  2. Jillian White, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    La Loba Travesti Classical wolves and trans* temporal bodies in Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s La virgen cabeza and Camila Sosa Villada’s Las malas
  3. Michael Mignanelli, University of New Hampshire
    Crowley’s Symposium: Queer Classicisms in Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band
  4. Mal Main, New York University
    Queer Time and Gender Transition in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  5. Kit Pyne-Jaeger, Columbia University
    Styling Queerness and Decorating Time: J.W. Waterhouse and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  6. Francesca Beretta, Yale University
    Philology in the Streets: Feeling Sappho Backward in 1970s Italy
  7. Daniel Orrells, King's College London
    Queer History and Antiquity with Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

8:00am–11:00am,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-64: HYBRID: Neronian and Flavian Literature
Matthew Roller, Johns Hopkins University, Presider

  1. William Dingee, The Pennington School
    Color Arte Compositus: Staging Blackness in Petronius
  2. Gianmarco Bianchini, University of Toronto
    Juvenal the Historian: Analysing the Role of the Satires in the Scholia on Lucan’s Bellum ciuile
  3. Mallory Fitzpatrick, Bryn Mawr College
    Tricks, Treats, and Temptation: Trimalchio as Tantalus in the Satyricon
  4. Ryan Baldwin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    pro volnere corpus: Atomic Dissolution in Lucan’s Snake Episode
  5. Emily Mitchell, Harvard University
    Modes of mourning: a reinterpretation of Martial, Epigrams 6.28 and 6.29
  6. Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki, Arizona State University
    Keeping up with the Julio-Claudians: Plants and the Imperial Family in Pliny’s Natural History

8:00am–11:00am,
407-409

SCS-65: Ovid
Stephen Hinds, University of Washington, Presider

  1. Evan Brubaker, University of Virginia
    Bellowing from the Bronze Bull: Allegory and Intertext in Ovid, Tristia 3.11
  2. Catalina Popescu, Texas Tech University
    Achilles’ Hardened Shell. A Nuptial Metamorphosis in Ovid
  3. Kathleen Cruz, University of California, Davis
    Sight, Self-discovery, and Epistemological Horror in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  4. Livvie May, Princeton University
    Three Approaches to Ars Amatoria 1.351-98
  5. Sam Kindick, University of Colorado Boulder
    Anna Perenna and Ovid’s Sequel to the Aeneid
  6. Emily Hudson, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Abortion in the Amores: A Queer Intervention of Corinna’s Abortion

8:00am–11:00am,
411-412

SCS-66: Greek Tragedy
Erika Weiberg, Duke University, Presider

  1. Amelia Bensch-Schaus, University of Pennsylvania
    Helen against Penelope, Euripides against Homer: The Helen and its Epic Models
  2. Yuecheng Li, Princeton University, and Jakob Barnes, Princeton University
    Oedipus, the Ethnographer King: A Reading of Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 337–45
  3. Charissa Skoutelas, Johns Hopkins University
    A Torch “Like the Shining Moon”: Xenophanean threads in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
  4. Amit Shilo, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Democratic Theory and the Hand of the People in the Suppliants of Aeschylus
  5. Eric Blum, Cornell University
    “Maid of Many Cows”: Does Polyboea Lurk in Euripides’ Helen?
  6. Vanessa Stovall, Independent Scholar
    Changeable Chap(let)s: Tragic Tresses & (Un)godly Garlands in Euripidean Drama

8:00am–11:00am,
414-415

SCS-67: Liquid Poetics: Bodies of Water and Greek Poetry (Panel)
Katelin Mikos, University of Michigan, and Lauren Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley, Organizers

  1. Katelin Mikos, University of Michigan
    An Unmeasured Evil: Shipwrecking in Simonides’ Danae Fragment
  2. Lauren Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley
    The Stream of the Persian Host: Water and Speech in Aeschylus’ Persae
  3. Megan Bowler, University of Oxford
    The Font of All Ignorance? Water as Insult in Aristophanes’ Knights and Acharnians
  4. Pauline LeVen, Yale University
    Allusion as Alluvium: Reading Helen’s Liquid Commons
  5. Frank van den Boom, Leiden University
    Callimachean Hydropoetics and the Risk of Metaphor
  6. Constance Everett-Pite, University of Oxford
    “Each glacier is lit from underneath | as memory is”: Ice, Desire, and Remembering Antiquity
  7. Alex Purves, University of California, Los Angeles
    Response

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon G

SCS-68: Readers and Reception
Yopie Prins, University of Michigan, Presider

  1. Deborah Kamen, University of Washington
    Anne Lister as a queer reader of Martial’s epigrams
  2. Hans Peter Obermayer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
    “A Jewish refugee from England”: Reconstructing Friedrich Solmsen’s exile according to the files
  3. Barbara Gold, Hamilton College
    Simone Weil’s Interpretation of Homer’s Iliad: What Is it?
  4. Harriet Fertik, The Ohio State University
    Hannah Arendt's Ulysses

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-69: HYBRID: Mabel Lang and Her Legacy: New Research in Greek History, Culture, and Archaeology (Panel, Joint Session)
Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University, Organizer

  1. Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University
    Introduction
  2. Rebecca Ammerman, Colgate University
    Excavating in the Shade of the Temple of Athena at Paestum
  3. Leslie Kurke, University of California, Berkeley
    Herodotus’ Scythian Swarms
  4. Joan Breton Connelly, New York University
    Mabel Lang, Genealogical Succession Myth, and the Athenian Acropolis
  5. Jenifer Neils, Case Western Reserve University
    The Athenian Citizen, His Heroes and the Parthenon
  6. Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University
    From the Tyrant-Slayers to Alcibiades: Assassination and the Revolution of the Four Hundred in Athens
  7. Lucia Nixon, Wolson College, Oxford University
    Following Mabel Lang’s Example: The Importance of Combining Material and Textual Evidence

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-70: HYBRID: Myth
Sheila (Bridget) Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

  1. Alice Gaber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Before the Anthropocene: an Ecocritical Reading of Greek Myth
  2. Stella Fritzell, Bryn Mawr College
    Arriving from Elsewhere: Reconciling Maenad Myth and Argive History
  3. Katherine Hsu, College of the Holy Cross
    Courage, Cowardice, and the Architecture of kleos in Myth
  4. Collin Hilton, Villanova University
    Julianic Piety and Habituated ‘Reading’ of the Mother of the Gods: Allegorizing Myth as a Defense for Early Students on the Path to Neoplatonic Ascent

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon J

SCS-71: Classical Greek History
Jessica Lamont, Yale University, Presider

  1. Will Lewis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Udderly Different: Πρόβατα, Pastoral Others, and Challenges to Greek Identity in Herodotus
  2. James Hua, University of Oxford
    Population expulsions caused by natural disasters in the Classical Greek world: annihilation, revival, and identity
  3. Joseph Watkins, Boston University
    ἔξω Ἡρακλέων στηλέων? Herodotus on the Celts in context
  4. Joseph DiProperzio, Fordham University
    The Spartan Navy: The Second Sea Power of Greece
  5. K. Scarlett Kingsley, Agnes Scott College
    Militarism, Agrarianism, and the End of Herodotus’ Histories
  6. Jessica Penny Evans, University of Vermont
    Thucydides and the Masculinity Trap

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-72: HYBRID: Thinking about wealth and inequality in antiquity (Panel)
John Weisweiler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Bart Danon, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and Myles Lavan, University of St Andrews, Organizers

  1. John Weisweiler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Limits of Private Wealth in the Roman Empire
  2. Emily Mackil, University of California, Berkeley
    Wealth beyond Land in Classical Athens
  3. Bart Danon, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
    The explanatory value of Roman wealth distributions
  4. Myles Lavan, University of St Andrews
    The distribution of wealth/income in a slave society
  5. Kim Bowes, University of Pennsylvania
    Everyday Inequality
  6. Sarah Murray, University of Toronto
    Wealth and Inequality in the Greek Early Iron Age: Questioning Some Basic Assumptions

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon L

SCS-73: Reading Networks of Reading: ANT-ish Approaches to Reception Studies (Workshop)
Jennifer Weintritt, Northwestern University; Erika Valdivieso, Yale University, Organizers

  1. Tara Welch, University of Kansas
    Valerius Maximus, Hierarchical Paratexts, and the Technology of the Book
  2. Charles Pletcher, University of Lausanne
    The Ajax Multi-Commentary: An interactive visualization of commentary networks
  3. Naomi Scott, University of Bristol
    Chapter Titles as Hermeneutic Actors: The Case of Julius Pollux’s Onomasticon
  4. Kate Meng Brassel, University of Pennsylvania
    Binding, agency, and authorship: the case of an erotic Vatican codex
  5. Enrico Prodi, Università di Cagliari
    Reassembling the poet: Hipponax in Alexandria
  6. Tori Lee, Boston University
    On Not Knowing Latin or Greek: Paratext & Indirect Translation in Daniel Lavery’s Chatner

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon D

SCS-74: HYBRID: The Feel of Luxury: The Sense-scape of Roman Convivia (Panel, Joint Session)
Alice Hu, Reed College, and Daira Nocera, IES Abroad Rome, Organizers

  1. Annalisa Marzano, Università di Bologna, Caitie Barrett, Cornell University, Kathryn Gleason, Cornell University, Lee Grana Nicolaou, Università di Bologna
    Gardens, Plants, and Social Status: The Multisensory Experience of Outdoor Dining at Pompeii
  2. Danilo Campanaro, Lund University
    A dining darkly: investigating the ancient banqueting space using combined digital methods
  3. Jeremy Simmons, University of Maryland
    The Spice of Life: Aromatics and the Sensoaesthetics of the Roman Convivium
  4. Friederike Brunzema, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
    Riddles and Rules in Food Performance
  5. River Deng, King's College London
    The Gap of Luxury: Clientela and Sensory Suffering at the Convivia

8:00am–1:30pm,
Salon A

SCS-75: Ancient MakerSpaces (Workshop, Joint session)
Eleanor Martin, Yale University, Alex Elvis Badillo, Indiana State University, Chiara Palladino, Furman University, Hugh McElroy, Sidwell Friends School, and Stephan Hassam, Randolph-Macon College, Organizers

  1. Peter J. Cobb, University of Hong Kong, and Juuso H. Nieminen, University of Hong Kong
    Virtual Reality for Spatial and Visual Learning about the Past
  2. Robert Stephan, University of Arizona, and Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona
    Bringing the World to You: Pedagogical and Practical Implications for Virtual Reality Course Design in Online Cultural Heritage Education
  3. Garth Henning, Running Reality, Valentina Mignosa, Università degli Studi di Udine, Stefania De Vido, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Arianna Esposito, Université de Bourgogne
    Mapping Ancient Sicily, TeMAES, and Running Reality: Exploring Coin and Inscription Data with the Running Reality Toolset
  4. Mervenur Sevil Kandemir, Koc University
    Identification of Osteological Information of Archaeological Remains through AI
  5. Michael McGlin, Brandeis University
    Laser cutting and the Ancient World
  6. Neel Smith, College of the Holy Cross, and Ashley Terjanian, College of the Holy Cross
    A Digital Complutensian Bible
  7. Guiliano Sidro, University of California, Berkeley, Sarah Tew, University of Florida Libraries, Todd Hickey, University of California, Berkeley, Maddie Qualls, University of California, Berkeley, and Millie You, University of California, Berkeley
    histpap.info: A New Digital-Edition Illuminating the Early History of Papyrology
  8. Hannah Lents, University of Texas at Austin, and Steven Friesen, University of Texas at Austin
    The Visual Cultures of Revelation
Eighth Paper Session (9 sessions)

11:30am–1:30pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-76: HYBRID: Reproductive Justice in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (organized by Classics and Social Justice)
Amy Pistone, Gonzaga University, and Kassandra Miller, Colby College, Organizer

  1. Kris McLain, Pennsylvania State University
    Resonances of Practice: Socratic Midwifery, Birthing Methods, and Reproductive Justice
  2. Misa Nguyễn, University of California at Santa Barbara
    “Safer to Prevent than to Destroy”: Abortion as Spectrum and Specter in Roman Law and Medicine
  3. Jennifer Stager, Johns Hopkins University
    Modern law & ancient medicine: abortion rhetoric, plant networks, and the Supreme Court
  4. Cassandra Tran, Wake Forest University
    Unplanned Pregnancies and Prescribed Lives: Decisions about Motherhood for the Meretrix and Virgo of Plautus’ Truculentus
  5. Ellen Lee, University of Pittsburgh
    Response

11:30am–1:30pm,
407-409

SCS-77: Graduate Student Firsts: Presenting and Publishing in Graduate School (organized by the SCS Graduate Student Committee)
Christopher Parmenter, Ohio State University, and Nadhira Hill, Randolph Macon College

  1. Brandon Jones, Boston University
    Early Career Journal Publication: Some Advice from a Managing Editor
  2. William Farris, Christendom College
    Educational Benefits of Graduate Student Publishing
  3. Evelyn Adkins, Case Western Reserve University
    Not Just a Line on Your CV: Presenting and Publishing as Networking
  4. Philip Katz, Princeton University
    Beyond "Publish or Perish:" The Professionalization of Early-Career Scholars

11:30am–1:30pm,
411-412

SCS-78: Asian / Mediterranean Intersections
Sanjaya Thakur, Colorado College, Presider

  1. Olga Levaniouk, University of Washington
    Megacles the Golden Goose: Herodotus and the Jataka Once Again
  2. Yiting (Karisa) Liu, University of Tokyo
    A comparison between the Hippocratic corpus and Huangdi Neijing- Ancient Medicine in cross cultures
  3. Sara Johnson, University of Connecticut
    Writing Fictions in the Shadow of Empire: From the Second Sophistic to the Heian Imperial Court

11:30am–1:30pm,
414-415

SCS-79: Roman Drama
Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, University of Pittsburgh, Presider

  1. Andrew Gallia, University of Minnesota
    Toying with the Audience?: Paegnium and the Experience of Plautine Comedy
  2. Mac Carley, Brown University
    ‘Dum Haec Agitur Fabula’: The Spatial Imaginary in Republican Theater
  3. Erin Moodie, Purdue University
    Gelasimus as Tragic Poet-Figure in Plautus’ Stichus

11:30am–1:30pm,
Salon G

SCS-80: Roman Republican History
Harriet Flower, Princeton University, Presider

  1. Christopher Erdman, University of California, Santa Barbara
    P. Clodius’ 'Librarium Legum' and the Praetorship of 52
  2. Emily Salamanca, Princeton University
    Perfect Imperfect Laws: The Paradox of Roman leges sumptuariae
  3. Elizabeth Heintges, Columbia University
    Missive Missiles: Inscribed Sling Bullets and Communication in the Late Republic
  4. John Morgan, University of Delaware
    The Ancestry of Cicero’s Supporter and Client T. Annius Milo

11:30am–1:30pm,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-81: HYBRID: Mater et materia: Maternal Experience and Embodied Motherhood in Latin Literature (Panel)
Caitlin Hines, University of Cincinnati, and Simona Martorana, Australian National University, Organizers

  1. Allie Pohler, Kansas State University
    Like Mother, Like Daughter: Embodied Trauma and the "Regenerative Plot" in Terence
  2. Caitlin Hines, University of Cincinnati
    Reproductive Coercion and the Paradox of Elegiac Pregnancy
  3. Cristiana Roffi, University of Toronto
    Mother Earth: Ecofeminist Narratives in Ovid's Metamorphoses
  4. Simona Martorana, Australian National University
    Parta ultio est: Embodied Motherhood, Abjection, and Revenge in Seneca's Medea
  5. Nandini Pandey, Johns Hopkins University
    Response

11:30am–1:30pm,
Salon J

SCS-82: Narrative History and "Big Books" in Classics: challenges and prospects (Workshop)
Johanna Hanink, Brown University, Organizer

  1. Johanna Hanink, Brown University
    Introduction
  2. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University
    For whom does one write or speak?
  3. Josephine Quinn, Oxford University
    Trade publishing in the US versus the UK
  4. Naoíse Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna
    Why stay in our lane?
  5. Tim Whitmarsh, Cambridge University
    Narrative as ana-lysis: closure and anti-closure in the histories we tell
  6. Rob Tempio, Princeton University Press
    Response

11:30am–1:30pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-83: HYBRID: American Classical Reception
Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Presider

  1. Theodore Delwiche, Heidelberg University
    Overseas Philanthropy and Native American Classical Education: John Mettawan’s Latin Learning in 18th-century Connecticut
  2. Thu Truong, Princeton University
    Ocean Vuong, Allusion, and the Limits of Interpretation
  3. Emma English, University of Wisconsin–Madison
    Thomas Jefferson’s Pro-Slavery Classics

11:30am–1:30pm,
Salon L

SCS-84: Decrees, Laws and Roman History
Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

  1. Catherine Steel, University of Glasgow
    Crisis, legitimacy and power: the ‘Senatus Consultum Ultimum’ and the Roman Senate
  2. Brandon Bourgeois, University of Southern California
    Fictions Made “Elsewhere than at Rome”: the dies imperii and Lex de imperio of Vespasian
  3. Zhengyuan Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
    Anticipatory Honors for Promised Gifts in the Cities of the Roman West
  4. Louis Polcin, University of Pennsylvania
    Seizing a “Perfect Storm”: Flaccus’ Decree, Gaius’ Policies, and the Alexandrian Pogrom
Ninth Paper Session (9 sessions)

2:30pm–5:00pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-85: HYBRID: Medical Modernities (organized by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology)
Aileen Das, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Calloway Scott, University of Cincinnati, Organizers

  1. Aileen Das, University of Michigan
    Introduction
  2. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie
    Ancient Vivisection as Argument for Early Modern Medicine —On Galen and Andreas Vesalius
  3. Monica Green, Independent Scholar
    The ‘Genetics Turn’ in Disease History: What It Means to ‘Retrospectively Diagnose’ in an Age of Evolutionary Pathogen Histories
  4. Anna Gili, University of Padua/University of Wuerzburg
    Arabic 10th century physicians and the challenge of reconstructing the history of medicine
  5. Paul Hay, Hampden-Sydney College
    Celsus and the Temporality of Medical History in De Medicina
  6. Alex-Jaden Peart, University of Cambridge
    Medical Modernities: The Shift from Hippocratic Aporia to Galen’s Agnoia in On My Opinions

2:30pm–5:00pm,
407-409

SCS-86: Current Research in the World of Neo-Latin Studies (Panel)
Patrick M. Owens, Colgate University, Organizer

  1. Patrick M. Owens, Colgate University
    Introduction
  2. Marquis Berrey, University of Maryland
    Literary Intention and Medical Realism in Antonio Benivieni’s De Abditis
  3. William Barton, The University of Innsbruck
    Improving Alexander von Humboldt’s Latin: Karl Benedikt Hase and the De distributione geographica plantarum secundum (1817)
  4. Paola Filisetti, Università di Trento
    Moralem Sensum Nostro Si Carmine Sumes. The Reception of Satire in the Stultifera Navis by Jakob Locher
  5. Christopher Mackay, University of Alberta
    Plus ça change: the relevance of the early-modern “Grammarians’ War” to contemporary pedagogy
  6. David White, Baylor University
    The Latin Poetry of Richard Crashaw

2:30pm–5:00pm,
411-412

SCS-87: Hellenistic and Imperial Literature
Jackie Murray, State University of New York at Buffalo, Presider

  1. Vittorio Bottini, University of Toronto
    Iambos from Behind a Wall: The elusiveness of Babrius as an iambic narrator
  2. S. Elizabeth Needham, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Environmental Origins of Callimachean Water Imagery
  3. Samuel Green, University of Virginia
    Callimachus and his Quest for the Golden Fleece of Song: Pythian 4 in the Hymn to Apollo
  4. Kathleen Kidder, Wayne State University
    Dangling Stones and Cosmic Domination: An Allusion to Tantalus’ Punishment (Orestes 982–986) in Posidippus’ Epigram on a Darius Gem (AB 8)
  5. Han Hao, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Gifts, Songs, and Ekphrasis in Theocritus’ Idyll 1

2:30pm–5:00pm,
414-415

SCS-88: Reception as Writing
Jeffrey Ulrich, Rutgers University, Presider

  1. Robert Santucci, University of North Carolina Wilmington
    Vomiting up Vergil: Seneca's Emetic Theory of Reception
  2. James Uden, Boston University
    Catullan Thefts in the Cena Trimalchionis
  3. Anna Grant, Princeton University
    Quotation as a Site of Social Critique in Horace’s Epistles Book 1
  4. Esther Reichek, Harvard University
    Murdering Your Darlings: Toward A Lucianic Theory of Reception
  5. Scott DiGiulio, Mississippi State University
    Citation, Mediation, and Reception in Gellius’ Noctes Atticae: The Example of Historical Fragments and Quotations

2:30pm–5:00pm,
Salon G

SCS-89: Hellenistic and Imperial History
Kathleen Cruz, University of California, Davis, Presider

  1. Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Macquarie University
    Babylon and Antioch: Old and New Capitals under the Seleukids
  2. Dominic Machado, College of the Holy Cross, and Michael Taylor, University at Albany, SUNY
    The Carthaginian Masters: Settler Colonialism, Racecraft and Empire in Ancient North Africa
  3. Chiara Battisti, Princeton University
    Divine Vision and Memory in Sulla’s Dedicatory Epigram for Aphrodite
  4. Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania
    The Border between Ambrakia and Charadros: Negotiating Independence in the Shadow of Rome
  5. Maxwell Shiller, University of Southern California
    Creative Destruction: Natural Disasters, Sieges, and the Rise of Hellenistic Rhodes

2:30pm–5:00pm,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-90: HYBRID: Roman Performance
Lauren Ginsberg, Duke University, Presider

  1. Elliott Piros, Loyola Marymount University
    Purple Motion: Pantomime Dance in Martial’s Epigrams
  2. Joseph Smith, San Diego State Univeristy
    Favored Rhythms in the Iambic Trimeters of Senecan Tragedy: New Evidence of Sound Sense in Imperial Theatre
  3. Anna Cambron, Duke University
    Cato’s Walkout: Investigating the Social Place of the Roman Floralia
  4. Rebecca Sears, Washington University in St. Louis
    Phrygio numero: Musical Multimodality as Intermediality in Republican Latin Poetry

2:30pm–5:00pm,
Salon J

SCS-91: How Do We Teach Introductory Language? (organized by the The American Classical League, ACL)
Philip Walsh, The Classical Outlook, James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, and Kathleen Durkin, Garden City High School

  1. Andrea Stehle, St. Timothy's Episcopal School
    How the Adolescent Brain Learns Latin Vocabulary and What We Can Do to Facilitate Learning
  2. John Ryan, Tempe Preparatory Academy
    A Morphophonological Approach to Teaching Latin
  3. Ric Rader, Montgomery Bell Academy
    An Honors-Level Course in Ancient Greek at an Independent School
  4. Christine Albright, University of Georgia
    Strategies of a Successful Elementary Latin Program at a Large State University
  5. AnnMarie Patterson, University of Southern California
    Hands-On Latin: Museums, Manuscripts, and In-Class Material Culture for First-Year Latin Students

2:30pm–5:00pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-92: HYBRID: Imperial Greek Literature II
Tim Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge, Presider

  1. Seth Levin, Bryn Mawr College
    The Dogs Descend to Hades: Lucian's Cynic Subversion of the Classical Past
  2. Rebecca Arends, Rutgers University
    Pamphila's Preface and the Tradition of the Seven Sages in the First Century CE
  3. Molly Schaub, University of Pennsylvania
    Athenaeus’ Banquet and the Immersive Power of Taste
  4. Jenni Glaser, Bryn Mawr College
    Lucian, Fable, and Old Comedy in The Ignorant Book-Collector
  5. Gwendolyn Gibbons, Indiana University
    Sex and the Syrinx: Pipe-playing as Sexual and Literary Maturation in Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe

2:30pm–5:00pm,
Salon L

SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry (Panel)
Ben Broadbent, University of Michigan, Organizer

  1. Elena Limongelli, Merton College, University of Oxford
    Beyond human, yet human nonetheless: how demigods approach death from Uruk to Troy
  2. Thyra-Lilja Altunin, Brasenose College, University of Oxford
    Intonational Patterns and Syntax in Homeric Song: A Case Study of the Iliad Book 24
  3. Kieran Vernon, Queen's College, University of Oxford
    Monster-slaying and Monstrous Gods: Changing Standards of Proper Behaviour in the Homeric Hymns to Apollo and Hermes
  4. Charles Baker, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
    Secrecy in Homeric Norm-Contravention: The Iliadic Scholia and Shame Culture
  5. Ben Broadbent, University of Michigan
    Hospitality Violation in the Odyssey and Astronautilia, a 1990s Ancient Greek sci-fi epic
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AIA/SCS 2025 Joint Annual Meeting, January 2–5, 2025, Philadelphia, PA, with a photo of Philadelphia