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Revised - November 12, 2015

Thursday, January 7, 2016

First Paper Session

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 1: Texts and Transmission

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 2: Republican Literature

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 3: Time and Memory

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 4: Herodotus at 2500 (Joint Classical Association/SCS Panel)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 5: The Ides of March: New Perspectives

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 6: The List as Genre

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 7: Globalizing the Field: Preserving and Creating Access to Archaeological Collections (Joint AIA/SCS Session)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 8: Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois (Organized by the Minority Scholarship Committee)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 9: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (Organized by the American Society of Papyrologists)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 10: Ancient Music and the Emotions (Organized by MOISA: The International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage)

Second Paper Session

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 11: Prophecy

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 12: Money Matters

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 13: Performance, Politics, Pedagogy

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 14: Traditions of Antiquity in the Post-Classical World: Religious, Ethnographic, and Political Representation in the Poetic Works of Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, and George of Pisidia

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 15: German and Austrian Refugee Classicists: New Testimonies, New Perspectives (Organized by the Committee on Outreach)

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 16: New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 17: Rome: The City as Text (Organized by the American Classical League)

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 18: Plutarch and Late Republican Rome (Organized by the International Plutarch Society)

11:00 a.m.

3:00 p.m.

Session 19: Poster Session (Joint AIA/SCS Session)

Third Paper Session

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 20: How (Not) to Write

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 21: Ancient Kingship

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 22: Perception and the Senses

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 23: Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 24: Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 25: Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 26: Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 27: Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama

1:45 p.m. 4:45 p.m.

Session 28: Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives (Organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception)

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 29: Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present (Seminar: Advance Registration Required)

5:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

Presidential Panel: The Spring from the Year

Friday, January 8, 2016

Fourth Paper Session

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 30: Euripides

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 31: Gender and Identity

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 32: Friendship and Affection

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 33: Livy and the Construction of the Past

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 34: Architecture and Self-Definition

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 35: Standardization and the State (Joint AIA/SCS Session)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 36: Fides in Flavian Poetry

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 37: Authors Meet Critics: Race, Religion, Ethnicity: The Politics of Modern Classics (Organized by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 38: Cicero across Genres

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 39: Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach (Organized by the Digital Classics Association) (Joint AIA/SCS Session)

Fifth Paper Session

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 40: The Future of Classical Education: A Dialogue (Organized by the Program Committee)

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 41: Marx and Antiquity

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 42: Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” from the Inside Out

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 43: Fragments from Theory to Practice

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 44: The Bucolic Challenge: Continuity and Change in Later Latin Pastoral Poetry

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 45: Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! (Organized by the Vergilian (Society)

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 46: Ancient Greek Philosophy (Organized by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy)

10:45 a.m.

12:45 p.m.

Session 47: The Emperor Julian (Organized by the Society for Late Antiquity)

12:15 p.m.

1:45 p.m.

Roundtable Discussion Session (Joint AIA/SCS Session)

Sixth Paper Session

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 48: Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 49: Athenian Unity?

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 50: Identity and Ethnicity

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 51: Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 52: Roman Dance Cultures in Context

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 53: Epistolary Epigraphy (Organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy)

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 54: Greek and Latin Linguistics (Organized by the Society for the Study of the Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics)

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 55: Sexuality in Ancient Art (Organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus)

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 56: Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research (Organized by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies)

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 57: Beyond the Case Study: Theorizing Classical Reception (Organized by the Committee on Classical Tradition and Reception) (Seminar: Advance Registration Required)

1:45 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Session 58: Rethinking Roman Imperialism in the Middle and Late Republic (c.327 - 49 BCE) (Seminar: Advance Registration Required)

5:00 p.m.

6:30 p.m.

Plenary Session featuring Presidential Address, The Historian as Hero: Herodotus and the 300 at Thermopylae

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Seventh Paper Session

8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 59: Men and War

8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 60: Poetry and Place

8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 61: Running Down Rome: Lyric, Iambic, and Satire

8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 62: Truth and Lies

8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 63: Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime

8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 64: Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage (Joint AIA/SCS Session)

8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 65: Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity

8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 66: New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama (Organized by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance)

8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 67: The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy (Organized by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies)

11:00 a.m.

11:30 a.m.

SCS Business Meeting of Members

Eighth Paper Session

11:45 a.m.

1:45 p.m.

Session 68: Free Speech

11:45 a.m.

1:45 p.m.

Session 69: Language and Meter

11:45 a.m.

1:45 p.m.

Session 70: Latin Hexameter Poetry

11:45 a.m.

1:45 p.m.

Session 71: Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy

11:45 a.m.

1:45 p.m.

Session 72: Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World

11:45 a.m.

1:45 p.m.

Session 73: The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society

11:45 a.m.

1:45 p.m.

Session 74: Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare

11:45 a.m.

1:45 p.m.

Session 75: "Theism" and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions (Organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions)

11:45 a.m.

1:45 p.m.

Session 76: Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature (Organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group)

Ninth Paper Session

2:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 77: Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry

2:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 78: New Studies in Asymmetric Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World

2:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 79: Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity

2:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 80: Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology

2:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 81: Ancient Greek Personal Religion

2:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 82: Women and Water (Organized by the Women's Classical Caucus)

2:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 83: Herculaneum in Word and Text (Organized by the American Friends of Herculaneum)

2:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 84: The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (Organized by Eta Sigma Phi)

2:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 85: Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine (Organized by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy)