While there will be a number of special events taking place on Thursday, January 2nd, there will be no paper sessions on that day. Check on the 2020 Annual Meeting page for updates about special events.
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Last Revised - December 30, 2019 |
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Friday, January 3 |
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First Paper Session (8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.) |
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Responding to Harassment: Bystander Intervention (Workshop led by Collective Action for Save Spaces, D.C. Organized by Sarah Teets, University of Virginia, and Erika Zimmermann Damer, University of Richmond) [This same event will be held three times throughout the day, each time beginning at the start of each paper session] |
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(8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.) | Workshop |
(10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.) | Workshop |
(1:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.) | Workshop |
Session #1: Evaluating Scholarship, Digital and Traditional (Organized by the Digital Classics Association and Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY) | |
Neil Coffee (University at Buffalo, SUNY) | Introduction |
Samuel Huskey (Oklahoma University) | Evaluating Digital Scholarship on its Own Terms: A Case Study |
Gregory Crane (Tufts University) | Evaluating Digital and Traditional Scholarship |
Francesco Mambrini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) | Linking, Publishing and Evaluating Language Resources: The "LiLa: Linking Latin" Project |
Christopher Francese (Dickinson College) | Your Personnel Committee Has Questions |
Sheila Brennan (National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities) | Grant Awards as Pre-Publication Review |
Session #2: Greek and Latin Linguistics (Organized by the Society for the Study of the Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics & Jeremy Rau, Harvard University, Benjamin Fortson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Timothy Barnes, University of Cambridge) | |
Nadav Asraf (Harvard University) | Noun Incorporation in Ancient Greek? |
Thomas Davies (Princeton University) | The Etymologies of ἄπειρος |
Andrew Merritt (Cornell University) | Ἔρυκε Καλυψώ: An Etymologizing Pair? |
Laura Massetti (University of Copenhagen) | Ares πολισσόος (Homeric Hymn 8.2): A New Interpretation |
Sara Kaczko (Universita di Roma - La Sapienza) | Non-Conventional, Non-Formulaic, and Recent Linguistic Features in Homeric Epics |
Session #3: Blurring the Boundaries: Interactions between the Living and the Dead in the Roman World (Joint AIA-SCS Panel, Organized by T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University, and Lynne Lancaster, American Academy in Rome) | |
Lynne Lancaster (American Academy in Rome) | Introduction |
Dorian Borbonus (University of Dayton) | Mapping Funerary Monuments in the Periphery of Imperial Rome |
Allison Emmerson (Tulane University) | Death, Pollution, and Roman Social Life |
Liana Brent (University of Pennsylvania) | Not Set in Stone: Provisions for Roman Grave Reuse |
Mario Erasmo (University of Georgia) | Transgressing the Dead in Ancient and Renaissance Rome |
John Bodel (Brown University) | Response |
Session #4: Imperial Virgil (Organized by the Vergilian Society and Julia D. Hejduk, Baylor University) | |
Julia D. Hejduk (Baylor University) | Introduction |
Patricia Craig (Catholic University of America) | Aeneas, Hercules, and Augustus: The Ambiguous Heroes of Virgil's Aeneid |
David West (Ashland University) | Imperial Venus Venatrix in the Aeneid |
Adalberto Magnavacca (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) | Virgil's Teachings: Competitive Ecphrasis in Stat. Silv. 4.2 |
Vergil Parson (University of Virginia) | Imperial Tityrus: Virgil in Calpurnius Siculus |
Stephanie Quinn (Rockford University) | Broch Reads Virgil |
Vassiliki Panoussi (College of William & Mary) | Response |
Session #5: Classics and Archaeology for the General Reader: A Workshop with NEH Public Scholars (Joint AIA-SCS Workshop, Organized by Matthew M. McGowan) | |
Matthew M. McGowan (Fordham University) and Christopher P. Thornton (National Endowment for the Humanities) | Introduction |
Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Public Scholarship and the AIA |
James Romm (Bard College) | Public Scholarship and Classical Studies |
Eric Cline (George Washington University) | Public Scholarship and Classical Archaeology |
Session #6: Lightning Talks #1: Latin and Greek Literature (J. Andrew Foster, Fordham University, Presider) | |
Michael A. D. Moore (University of Chicago) | The Timaeus and Creation in Cicero's De Natura Deorum |
Alexander Nikolaev (Boston University) | Another Homerisches Wort: τιθαιβώσσω 'store up' (Od. 13.106) |
David Perry (University of Chicago) | Cicero Demonstrates a Transmission Error at De Divinatione 1.14-15 |
Simona Stoyanova (University of Nottingham) | Latinization, Multilingualism and Language Shift in the Western Provinces |
Emily Hulme Kozey (Ormond College, University of Melbourne) | An Unexpected Meaning of Epistasthai in Plato? |
Session #7: Greek Religious Texts (Jennifer Larson, Kent State University, Presider) | |
Rebecca Van Hove (Collège de France/Université de Liège) | Gods Set in Stone: Theoi Headings in Greek Legal Inscriptions |
Chiara R. Ciampa (King's College, London) | A Re-Reading of Empedocles' Fr. 115 DK |
Monica Park (Vanderbilt University) | Reconsidering Hellenistic Theologoumena: Between Callimachus and Euhemerus |
Jody Ellyn Cundy (University of Toronto) | Turning Hierophany into Text: Pausanias on Lebadeia and the Oracle of Trophonius |
Session #8: Voicing the Past (Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University, Presider) | |
Kelly Shannon-Henderson (University of Alabama) | Aetolia Shall Rise Again? Phlegon Peri Thaumasion 3 as Anti-Roman Alternative History |
Martin P. Shedd (Hendrix College) | Evaluating Criteria for Fictitious Lacunae |
Marc Bonaventura (University of Cambridge) | Author vs. Narrator: Voices and Agendas in Dictys Cretensis |
Marcos B. Gouvêa (University of Chicago) | The Homeric Life of Vergil in the Vita Vergilii (VSD) |
Session #9: Tragic Tradition (Nina Papathanasopoulou, SCS and College Year in Athens, Presider) | |
Ben Radcliffe (University of California, Los Angeles) | Catalogues and Popular Politics in Aeschylus' Persae |
Clinton Douglas Kinkade (Duke University) | The Critical Reception of Sophocles in the Ancient Scholia |
Katherine R. De Boer (Xavier University) | Maternal Malfunctions: Niobe and Latona in Seneca's Medea |
Michelle Currie (Colby College) | Fear, Hope, and Resignation in Seneca's Troades |
Hans Peter Obermayer (University of Munich LMU) | Black Medeas in Germany: Hans Henny Jahnn's and Paul Heyse's Medeae |
Second Paper Session (10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.) |
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Session #10: Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (Organized by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy and Anthony Preus, Binghamton University) | |
John Mulhern (University of Pennsylvania) | Eris in the Guise of Stasis in Aristotle's Politics |
Michael Vazquez (University of Pennsylvania) | Zeno Peripateticus? Cicero's Rhetorical Philosophy in De Officiis |
Robin Weiss (American University Cairo) | Stoic Philosophy and Its Parts in Two Analogies |
Session #11: The Future of Archaeology and Classics in American Academia (Joint AIA-SCS Workshop, Organized by Mary T. Boatwright, Duke University, and Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | |
Georgia Nugent (Kenyon College) | Panelist |
Jennifer Sheridan Moss (Wayne State University) | Panelist |
Jeff Henderson (Boston University) | Panelist |
Steven Tuck (Miami University of Ohio) | Panelist |
Kathleen Lynch (University of Cincinnati) | Panelist |
Session #12: Metaphor in Early Greek Poetry (Organized by Andreas Zanker, Amherst College, and Alexander Forte, Colgate University) | |
Andreas Zanker (Amherst College) and Alexander Forte (Colgate University) | Introduction |
Fabian Horn (University of Munich) | Emotion Metaphors in Early Greek Poetry |
Pura Nieto Hernández (Brown University) | Does Greek Pain Have Teeth? |
Alexander Forte (Colgate University) | Is Life a Journey, a Chase, or a Race? Metaphors of Death and Life in the Homeric Poems |
Andreas Thomas Zanker (Amherst College) | Metaphor in the Speech of Achilles |
Session #13: Readers and Reading: Current Debates (Organized by Joshua Billings, Princeton University, and Felix Budelmann, University of Oxford) | |
Joshua Billings (Princeton University) and Felix Budelmann (University of Oxford) | Introduction |
Irene Peirano Garrison (Yale University) | Responsive Reading |
Talitha E. Z. Kearey (University of Oxford) | Bad Readers: Anecdote, Affect and Audience in Ancient Virgilian Literary Criticism |
Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College) | Sunt Mihi Multae Curae: Self-Writing and the Emotional Reader |
Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford) | Response |
Session #14: Pedagogy (Workshop; Mary English, Montclair State University, Presider) | |
Blanche Conger McCune (College of Charleston) | Latin Programs in North America: Current Data and Future Decisions |
Ivy J. Livingston (Harvard University) | Facilitating Incidental and Intentional Learning Using the Hedera Personalized Language Learning Environment |
Micah Young Myers (Kenyon College) | Mapping Cicero's Letters: Digital Visualizations in the Liberal Arts Classroom |
Session #15: Literary Texture in Augustine and Gregory (Jen Ebbeler, University of Texas at Austin, Presider) | |
Madeline Monk (University of Texas at Austin) | Optatus Gildonianus: Exposure and Concealment in Augustine's Anti-Donatist Rhetoric |
Eric J. Hutchinson (Hillsdale College) | Maps of Misreading: The Presence of Horace's Vergil in Augustine's Horace |
Alex Poulos (Catholic University of America) | Gregory of Nazianzus and Apollinaris of Laodicea: Callimachean Polemic in the 4th c. CE |
Session #16: Greek Historiography (Emily Greenwood, Yale University, Presider) | |
Simone A. Oppen (Columbia University) | Why Herodotus is Worth Copying: The Scholia on Book 1 |
Emma N. Warhover (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Persuasion and Imperial Strategy in Cleon's Speech (Thucydides 3.36-39) |
Rachel Bruzzone (Bilkent University) | The Aesthetics of War: Symmetry and Civic Virtue in Thucydides' Sicilian Expedition |
Alex Lee (Florida State University) | Xenophon and the Arginusae Trial |
Session #17: Greek and Roman Novel (Tim Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge, Presider) | |
Nikola Golubovic (University of Pennsylvania) | Freedom and Confinement Aboard the Ship of Lichas (Satyricon 100-115) |
Ashli J. E. Baker (Bucknell University) | (Re)Reading the Roman Goddess Isis-Fortuna in Apuleius' Metamorphoses |
T. Joseph MacDonald (Washington University in St. Louis) | A Letter in a Land without Letters: Longus' Intrageneric Interlocutors |
Christopher Cochran (Harvard University) | A Land Without Slavery: Daphnis' Civil Status in the Pastoral Landscape of Longus |
Session #18: Screening Topographies of Classical Reception (Organized by Stacie Raucci, Union College, and Hunter Gardner, University of South Carolina) | |
Stacie Raucci (Union College) | Introduction & Reverse Archaeology: Constructing Ancient Roman Spaces on Screen |
Hunter Gardner (University of South Carolina) | Visual Archaeology and Spatial Disorientation in Fellini |
Dan Curley (Skidmore College) | A View with (a) Room: Spatial Projections in Ancient and Screen Epic |
Meredith Safran (Trinity College) | Lost in Space: Matrices of Exilic Wandering in the Aeneid and Battlestar Galactica |
Jon Solomon (University of Illinois) | Response |
Third Paper Session (1:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.) |
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Session #19: Lesbianism Before Sexuality (Organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus, Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College, and Kristina Milnor, Barnard College/Columbia University) | |
Irene Han (New York University) | Les Guérillères: Sappho and the Lesbian Body |
Kelly McArdle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Rethinking Julia Balbilla: Queer Poetics on the Memnon Colossus |
Rebecca Flemming (University of Cambridge) | "I Clitorize, You Clitorize, They Clitorize...": The Anatomy of Female Homoeroticism in the Roman Empire |
Rachel Lesser (Gettysburg College) | Sappho's Mythic Models: Figuring Lesbian Desire through Heterosexual Paradigms |
Kristin Mann (Depauw University) | Tribad Philaenis and Lesbian Bassa: WLW in Martial |
Sandra Boehringer (Université de Strasbourg) | Response |
Session #20: Teaching with Coins: Coins as Tools for Thinking About the Ancient World (Joint AIA-SCS Panel, Organized by the Friends of Numismatics, Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Harvard University, Roberta L. Stewart, Dartmouth College) | |
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi (Harvard University) | Introduction: Numismatics as Historical Discipline |
Gwynaeth McIntyre (University of Otago) and Jaymie Orchard (University of British Columbia) | Learning by Teaching with Roman Coins |
Katherine Petrole (The Parthenon, Centennial Park) | Reading Coins and Stories: Strengthening Student Literacy through Numismatic Concepts |
Phoebe Segal (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) | Teaching with Coins at the MFA Boston |
Christiana Zaccagnino (Queens University at Kingston) | Coins as a Teaching Tool: An Experience of Integration of Numismatics and Conservation |
Eliza Gettel (Harvard University) | Federalism and Ancient Greek Coins |
Roberta L. Stewart (Dartmouth College) | Response |
Session #21: Topography and Material Culture in Fifth-Century Drama (Organized by Anne M. Duray, Stanford University, and Simone A. Oppen, Columbia University) | |
Keating McKeon (Harvard University) | Perverted Return: Odious Epinician and Deadly Athletics in the Oedipus Tyrannus |
Jessica Paga (College of William & Mary) | Epiphanic Visitations: Deities on Temples and in Greek Tragedy |
Maria Combatti (Columbia University) | The Statue in the Meadow and the Garments in the River: Objects and Landscape in Euripides' Hippolytus |
Stavroula Valtadorou (University of Edinburgh) | The Bed, the Hearth, the Statue, and the Veil: Material Objects, Marriage and Emotions in Euripides' Alcestis |
Nolan Epstein (Stanford University) | How to Do Things Without Maps: New Cartographies & the Cyclops |
Jocelyn Moore (University of Virginia) | Enacting a House for Eumenides in the Oresteia |
Session #22: State Elite? Senators, Emperors and Roman Political Culture 25 BCE - 400 CE (Seminar) (Organized by John Weisweiler, University of Cambridge) | |
John Weisweiler (University of Cambridge) | The Heredity of Senatorial Status in the Early Empire |
Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University) | Senatorial Women in the Early Principate: Power without Office |
Monica Hellström (Durham University) | Respectful Distance? Diocletian, Rome, and the Senatorial Elite |
Michele Salzman (University of California, Riverside) | The Constantinian Revolution and the Resilience of Roman Senators |
Noel Lenski (Yale University) | Response |
Session #23: Ordering Information in Greco-Roman Medicine (Organized by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy & Courtney Roby, Cornell University) | |
Arthur Harris (University of Cambridge) | The Structure and Materiality of Medical Knowledge in Quintus Serenus' Liber Medicinalis |
Kassandra Miller (Union College) | Numbering the Hours: A New Battleground in Imperial-Period Medicine? |
Floris Overduin (Radboud University Nijmegen) | Didactic Pharmacology or Medical Homerocentron? Structuring Knowledge in the Carmen de Viribus Herbarum (Heitsch 64) |
Katherine van Schaik (Harvard University) | Big Hospitals: The Methodism of Caelius Aurelianus and Rapid-Access Medical Knowledge |
Marquis Berrey (University of Iowa) | Authorial Strategies in P.Oxy. 5231, an Empiricist Commentary on Hippocraties |
Session #24: Second Sophistic (Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, Presider) | |
Carolyn MacDonald (University of New Brunswick) | Echoes of Ovid: Metamorphic Moments in Philostratus' Imagines |
Jacqueline M. Arthur-Montagne (High Point University) | Sitting at the Kids' Table: Aesop and the Second Sophistic |
David William Frierson Stifler (Duke University) | Lucian, Aristophanes, and the Language of Intellectuals |
Sinja Küppers (Duke University) | Sophists: Public Identity and Roman Provincial Coinage |
Kyle Conrau-Lewis (Yale University) | Deterritorializing the Hellenosphere in Aelian's Varia Historia: Miscellany and Inclusion |
Session #25: Latin Poetry (Barbara Boyd, Bowdoin College, Presider) | |
Patrick Glauthier (Dartmouth College) | Homer Redivivus? Rethinking Ennian Metempsychosis |
Rebecca Moorman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Fair is Foul: Confronting the Sublate in Lucretius' Plague |
Edgar Adrián García (University of Washington, Seattle) | Serta Mihi Phyllis Legeret: Epigrammatic Echoes in Vergil's Eclogues |
Treasa M. Bell (Yale University) | Hesiod's Typhon and the Many-Mouth Topos |
Kevin E. Moch (University of California, Berkeley) | Future Counterfactual: Camilla, Women's Networks, and the Dynamics of Integration in Vergil's Aeneid |
Session #26: Legal Culture (Andrew Riggsby, University of Texas at Austin, Presider | |
Jesse James (Columbia University) | Socialized Compliance with Greek International Law |
Zachary R. Herz (University of Colorado, Boulder) | Death of a Crossdresser: Legal Storytelling in Pomponius |
Ryan A. Pilipow (University of Pennsylvania) | Imperial Backtalk: Using Legal Discourse to Refute an Emperor |
Mark Masterson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) | Sex and Desire between Men in Byzantium: Civil Law, Dissidence, and (the Lack of) Enforcement |
Laurie A. Wilson (Biola University) | A Tradition of Popular Consent: Readings of Livy, Cicero, and Justinian in the Political Thought of James Wilson |
Session #27: Approaches to Language and Style (Roger D. Woodard, University of Buffalo, Presider) | |
Il Kweon Sir (University of Oxford) | Lyric Worlds: "Vividness", Alcaeus, and Cognitive Poetics |
Thomas J. Bolt, Pramit Chaudhuri (University of Texas at Austin) and Joseph Dexter (Dartmouth College) | A Stylometric Analysis of Latin Literary Genre |
Britta Ager (Colorado College) | "Hiss at Some Length": Onomatopoeia, Mimesis, and Other Noises in the Greco-Roman Magical Tradition |
Brandon D. Bark (Stanford University) | The Language of Nature and the Nature of Language in Varro's De Lingua Latina |
Verity Walsh (Stanford University) | "Criticus Nascitur, Non Fit": Latin Textual Criticism and the Cult of Male Genius |
Session #28: Classics and Civic Activism (Joint AIA-SCS Workshop, Organized by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, Yurie Hong, Gustavus Adolphus College, and Amit Shilo, University of California, Santa Barbara) | |
Kim McMurray (The Indivisible Guide, Electoral Organizing Director) | Advocacy and Organizing 101 with the Indivisible Guide |
Alexandra Klein (National Humanities Alliance, Communications Manager) | Academia and Public Policy Advocacy |
Lindsay Theo (American Federation of Teachers) | Teachers, Contingent Faculty, and Civic Organizing |
Additional Speakers for Session #28 (Lightning Round) | |
Kiran Mansukhani (The Graduate Center, CUNY) | Repurposing Classical Pedagogy for Philippine Land Rights Activism |
Wynter Pohlenz Telles Douglas (Bryn Mawr College) | Prison Abolition and the History of Slavery |
Olga Faccani (University of California, Santa Barbara) | The Odyssey Project: Performing Homer with Incarcerated Youth |
Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers University) | Greek Tragedy and the Formerly Incarcerated: Dialogues with the Broader Public |
Kristina Chew (Rutgers University) | Using Greek Poetry and Drama to Advocate for Individuals with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities |
Arti Mehta (Howard University) | Social Programs and Food Insecurity in Juvenal |
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University) | Humanities Prep |
Jerise Fogel (Montclair State University) | Community Bookstores and Community Organizing |
Evening Session (5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.) |
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Session #29: Black Classicism in the Visual Arts (Organized by Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome, Mathias Hanses, Penn State University, Caroline Stark, Howard University, Harriet Fertik, University of New Hampshire, and Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Brown University) This event will take place off-site at Busboys and Poets, 450 K St. NW, Washington D.C., 20001 |
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Margaret Day Elsner (The University of the South) | Sugar Baby's Riddle: Sphinx or Sibyl? |
Samuel Agbamu (King's College, London) | Metamorphoses in Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You (2018) |
Stefani Echeverria-Fenn (University of California, Berkeley) | When and Where I (Don't) Enter: Afro-Pessimism, the Fungible Object, and Black Queer Representations of Medusa |
Tom Hawkins (Ohio State University) | Centaurs and Equisapiens |
Stuart McManus (Chinese University of Hong Kong) | Frank M. Snowden, Jr. and the Origins of the Image of the Black in Western Art |
Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University) | "Every Time I Think about Color It's a Political Statement:" Classical Elements in the Art of Emma Amos |
Shelley Haley (Hamilton College) | Response |
Saturday, January 4 |
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Fourth Paper Session (8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.) |
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Session #30: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (Organized by the American Society of Papyrologists & Giovanni R. Ruffini, Fairfield University) | |
Giovanni R. Ruffini (Fairfield University) | Introduction |
Arnaud Besson (New York University) | Roman Attitude towards Peregrine Marriage in Egypt Before and After 212 AD |
Amber Jacob (New York University) | P.Tebt.Med.d em: An Unpublished Demotic Medical Compendium from Tebtunis |
Joseph Morgan (Yale University) | Climate Science and Ptolemaic Egypt |
Elizabeth Nabney (University of Michigan) | The Impact of Labour and Mobility on Family Structures in Roman Egypt |
Roxanne Sarrazin (University of Ottowa) | An Unpublished Papyrus from the Coptic "Wizard's Hoard" |
Session #31: God and Man in the Second Sophistic: Criticism, Innovation and Continuity (Organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Nancy Evans, Wheaton College, and Sandra Blakely, Emory University | |
Nancy Evans (Wheaton College) | Introduction |
Barbara Blythe (Tulane University) | Ambiguous Epiphanies in the Novels of the Second Sophistic |
Inger Kuin (University of Virginia) | Sacrificing to Hungry Gods: Lucian on Ritual |
Rebecca Frank (University of Virginia) | The Didactic Oracle: The Delphic Oracle in Plutarch's "Delphic Dialogues" |
Kenneth Yu (University of Toronto) | Sincerity in the Second Sophistic: The Rhetoric of Religiosity in Philostratus' Heroicus |
James Henriques (University of Texas Austin) | "That's Not the Way I Heard It:" Folkloric Mechanisms in the Creation of Philostratus's Vita Apollonii |
Session #32: Homer in the Renaissance (Organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception, Caroline Stark, Howard University, Pramit Chaudhuri, University of Texas at Austin, and Ariane Schwartz, McKinsey & Company) | |
Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania) | Introduction |
Richard Armstrong (University of Houston) | Lodovico Dolce's L'Ulisse: Rethinking Homeric Translation and Reception from the Material to the Imaginary |
Julia C. Hernández (Washington and Lee University) | Juan de Mena's Omero Romançado: On (Not) Translating Homer in the Court of Juan II of Castile |
William Theiss (Princeton University) | The Abbé d'Aubignac and the Death of Homer |
Nathaniel Hess (University of Cambridge) | From Peisistratus to the Papacy - Homeric Translation and Authority in the Reign of Nicholas V |
Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania) | Response |
Session #33: Graduate Student Leadership in Classics (Organized by the Graduate Student Committee Del A. Maticic, New York University, and Robert Santucci, University of Michigan) | |
Del A. Maticic (New York University) | Introduction |
Ekaterina But and Colleen Kron (The Ohio State University) | The Classics Coffee Hour: Creating Connections and Promoting New Ideas through Graduate Student Service |
Samuel Kindick (University of Colorado Boulder) | How to Build a Community: My Experiences Founding and Growing a Classics Graduate Organization |
Kenneth Elliott (University of Iowa) | Perspectives and Methods in Graduate Student Union Organizing |
Kelly Dugan (University of Georgia) | "The Solution is to Start Building the Community You Imagine": One Graduate Student's Experience in Co-founding an Organization and Network of Scholars Dedicated to Antiracism and Pedagogy in Classics |
Session #34: Humanities Publishing in Transition (Joint AIA-SCS Workshop, Organized by Deborah E. Brown Stewart, University of Pennsylvania) | |
Deborah E. Brown Stewart (University of Pennsylvania) | Introduction |
Rebecca Stuhr (University of Pennsylvania) | Panelist |
Sebastian Heath (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) | Panelist |
William Caraher (University of North Dakota) | Panelist |
Bethany Wasik (Cornell University Press) | Panelist |
Catherine Goldstead (Johns Hopkins University Press) | Panelist |
Session #35: Classical Reception in Contemporary Asian and Asian American Culture (Organized by Christopher Waldo, University of California, Berkeley, and Elizabeth Wueste, American University of Rome) | |
Christopher Waldo (University of California, Berkeley) | Introduction |
Stephanie Wong (Brown University) | Princess Turandot, an Occidental Oriental |
Kelly Nguyen (Brown University) | No One Knows His Own Stock: Ocean Vuong's Reception of Telemachus and Odysseus |
Kristina Chew (University of California, Santa Cruz) | Translating the Voices of Tragedy's "Other" Women: Theresa Has Kyung Cha's Dictee and Seneca's Phaedra |
Priya Kothari (University of California, Berkeley) | A Palimpsest of Performance: The Construction of Classicism in the Vallabha Tradition |
Melissa Mueller (University of Massachusetts Amherst) | Response |
Session #36: Lightning Talks #2: Greek Literature (Zoe Stamatopoulou, Washington University in St. Louis, Presider) | |
Amy Lather (Wake Forest University) | Thinking with Things: Mētis as Extended Cognition |
Alexander Loney (Wheaton College) | Who is the Leader of Penelope's Suitors? |
Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan) | Tithonus the Kitharode |
Pavlos Sfyroeras (Middlebury College) | Bearing a Burden, Pericles, and Aristophanes' Frogs |
Chiara Sulprizio (Vanderbilt University) | Of a Different Color: The Ever-Changing Image of the Female Centaur |
Session #37: Foucault and Antiquity Beyond Sexuality (Organized by Charles Stocking, Western University) | |
Charles Stocking (Western University) | Introduction |
Marcus Folch (Columbia University) | Foucault in the Roman Carcer |
Charles Stocking (Western University) | Foucault and the Funeral Games: Ancient Roots for a Modern Problematic of Power |
Miriam Leonard (University College London) | The Power of Oedipus: Michel Foucault with Hannah Arendt |
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University) | Biopolitics and the Afterlife of Michel Foucault's Concept of Life |
Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina) | The Body Politic: Foucault and Cynics |
Session #38: Hellenistic Poetry, Greek and Latin (Peter Bing, Emory University, presiding) | |
Brett Evans (University of Virginia) | Here Comes the Bride: Brokering Female Patronage in Callimachus' Victoria Berenices |
Laura Marshall (Penn State University) | Which Came First: Intentional Anachronism in Callimachus' Iambus 1 |
Brian D. McPhee (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Text and Image in Time and Space: Reading Simias' Wings and Axe |
James Faulkner (University of Michigan) | Two Sides on Corinth: The Cultural Stakes of Epigram ca. 102 BCE |
Brian P. Hill (Bucknell University) | The Hellenistic Pedigree of Lucretius' Honeyed Cup |
Session #39: Numismatics (Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Harvard University, Presider) | |
Parrish Elizabeth Wright (University of Michigan) | Heraclean Coinage: The Italiote League between Polybius and Diodorus |
Tal A. Ish-Shalom (Columbia University) | Coins, Continuity, and Change: "Hellenization" in the Post-Seleucid Levant |
Marsha McCoy (Southern Methodist University) | A Coin's Eye View of Roman Imperialism |
Sven Betjes (Radboud University Nijmegen) | The Hadrianic Revolution of the Coin Legend |
Career Networking Event (12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.) |
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Fifth Paper Session (10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.) |
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Session #40: The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (Organized by Eta Sigma Phi and David H. Sick, Eta Sigma Phi) | |
Joseph Slama (Truman State University) | The Suffering Man and House: The Centrality of Human Misery in the Odyssey |
Samuel G. H. Powell (Columbia University) | An Opportunity for Non-Existence: The Foreigner in the Hellenic World |
Emma Clifton (Hillsdale College) | Lucretius' Legacy in Mathematics: Past and Present Resonances |
Phoebe Wing (Christendom College) | A Philosophy of Paradox in Augustine's Confessions |
Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania) | Response |
Session #41: Late Antique Textualities (Organized by the Society for Late Antiquity and Colin M. Whiting, American School of Classical Studies at Athens) | |
Colin Whiting (American School of Classical Studies at Athens) | Introduction |
Alan Ross (Columbia University) | Text and Paratext: Reading the Emperor Julian via Libanius |
Christopher Blunda (University of California, Berkeley) | Gennadius and Jerome: Discontinuity in the De Viris Illustribus Tradition |
Andrew Horne (University of Chicago) | Why is there so Much Varro in the City of God? |
Jacob Latham (University of Tennessee) | Romanitas between "Pagans" and Christians: Christian Invective against Late Antique Roman Traditional Religions |
Session #42: Classics Graduate Education in the 21st Century (Organized by Committee on College and University Education, Ariana Traill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Clifford Ando, University of Chicago, and Jennifer Anna Rea, University of Florida) | |
Clifford Ando (University of Chicago) | Introduction |
Amy Richlin (University of California, Los Angeles) | Post-Baccalaureate Programs for the 21st Century |
Michael Furman (Florida State University) | Developing a Graduate-Level Pedagogy Course: A Test Case at Florida State University |
Velvet Yates (University of Florida) | Distance Technology and Graduate Classics Education |
Jennifer Rea (University of Florida) | Response |
Session #43: Citizenship, Migration, and Identity in Classical Athens (Organized by Jennifer T. Roberts, City College of New York) | |
Justin Yoo (King's College London) | Introduction |
Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University) | Environment-Based Identity and Athenian Anti-Immigrant Policies in the Classical Period |
Naomi Campa (Kenyon College) | Power Struggles: Neaira and the Threat to Citizenship |
Mary Jean McNamara (Brooklyn College) | Plataean Citizenship: Dual Identities |
Jennifer Roberts (City College of New York) | Immigration and Exclusion: A Comparative Study |
Konstantinos Kapparis (University of Florida) | Response |
Session #44: From Illustration to Context: Figure-Decorated Pottery in Pedagogical Settings (Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, University of California, Davis, and Jacquelyn Clements, Getty Research Institute) | |
Amy Smith (University of Reading and Ure Museum of Archaeology) | Presentation 1 |
Marya Fisher (Pierrepont School) | Presentation 2 |
Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati (National Gallery of Art) | Presentation 3 |
Susan Blevin (AIA member-at-large) | Presentation 4 |
Session #45: Roman Cultural History (Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University, Presider) | |
Jordan Reed Rogers (University of Pennsylvania) | Defining Neighborliness in Republican Rome: Plautus' Mercator |
Cait Monroe Mongrain (Princeton University) | A Pastoral Pathicus? Juv. Sat. 9, Verg. Ecl. 2, and Patronage at Rome |
Adrian C. Linden-High (Duke University) | Slaves and Liberti in Roman Military Inscriptions, 1st-3rd c. CE |
Timothy M. Warnock (University of Pennsylvania) | A Second Coming of Age: Ritual Shaving as a Roman Rite of Passage |
Session #46: Ecocriticism (Brooke A. Holmes, Princeton University, Presider) | |
Samuel Cooper (Bard High School Early College Queens) | Ecocriticism and the Wanderings of Odysseus |
Kyle Sanders (Sewanee: The University of the South) | Seeing the Trees: Reading Pindar and the Anthropocene |
Katherine Beydler (University of Michigan) | Retelling Rome's Environmental History: Pliny's Natural History 18 and Columella's De Re Rustica 1-3 |
Session #47: The Lives of Books (James J. O'Donnell, Arizona State University, Presider) | |
Joseph A. Howley (Columbia University) | Imagining Tablets and Unseeing Secretaries: Real and Imagined Logistics of Roman Literary Production |
Cat Lambert (Columbia University) | The Ancient Entomological Bookworm: A New Chapter in the Shelf Life of Books |
Mirte Liebregts (Radboud University Nijmegen) | Which Classics Come in Red and Green? The Creation of the Loeb Classical Library Canon |
Session #48: Chorality (Anna Uhlig, University of California, Davis, Presider) | |
Amy N. Hendricks (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Whirling in Their Midst: Choral Intonations in the Iliad |
Emmanuel Aprilakis (Rutgers University) | The Chorus Leader in Early Hexameter Poetry |
Gregory Jones (Independent Scholar) | Male Lament and the Symposium |
Aaron J. Beck-Schachter (Rutgers University) | Choral Identity and the Slave Trade in 5th Century Athens |
Session #49: Latin Poetics and Poetic Theory (Catherine Keane, Washington University in St. Louis, Presider) | |
Jesse Hill (University of Toronto) | Neoteric Questions |
John Svarlien (Transylvania University) | Philodemean Poetics in Horace, Satires 1.2 |
Patrick J. Burns (University of Texas at Austin) | "Poeticness" as a Continuous Variable: Rethinking Prosaism in Horace's Odes 4.9 |
Paul Hay (Case Western Reserve University) | The Poetics of Wormwood: Bitter Botany in Lucretius and Ovid |
Roundtable Discussion Session (12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.) |
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Hestia BU Graduate Pedagogy | Organized by Alicia Matz, Boston University, Shannon DuBois, Boston University, and Ian Nurmi, Boston University |
Fostering Graduate "Success" in a Contingent Market | Organized by Timothy Heckenlively, Baylor University, and Elizabeth LaFray, Siena Heights University |
Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) | Organized by Meredith E. Safran, Trinity College, and Emma Scioli, University of Kansas |
Approaching Ancient Magic in the Classroom | Organized by Gil Renberg, University of Michigan, Jessica Lamont, Yale University, and Drew Wilburn, Oberlin College |
White Supremacy and the History of Future of Classics | Organized by Curtis Dozier, Vassar College |
Classical Traditions in Science Fiction and Fantasy VI | Organized by Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University, and Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College |
Classics for Business Leaders | Organized by Mallory A. Monaco Caterine, Tulane University, and Rebecca Frankel, SAGE Publications |
Sixth Paper Session (1:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.) |
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Session #50: Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era (Organized by the International Plutarch Society, Jeffrey Beneker, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Zoe Stamatopoulou, Washington University in St. Louis) | |
David Driscoll (University of California, Davis) | "Always and Everywhere:" Early Greek Poetry, Local Identities, and the Universal Homer in Plutarch's Symposia |
Sara De Martin (King's College London) | Theognis at Dinner: Metasympotics through Time |
Katherine Krauss (University of Oxford) | Macrobius' Misreadings: Exploring Plato's Symposium in the Late Antique Latin West |
Scott J. DiGiulio (Mississippi State University) | Gellius' Convivial Scenes and Roman Intellectual Identity in the Noctes Atticae |
Bryant Kirkland (University of California, Los Angeles) | On Having Many Acquaintances: Friend-Making in Table Talk |
Session #51: Problems in Performance: Failure and Classical Reception Studies (Organized by Rosa Andújar, King's College London, and Daniel Orrells, King's College London) | |
Daniel Orrells (King's College London) | Introduction |
Ronald J. J. Blankenborg (Radboud University Nijmegen) | Discomfort in Performance? Aigeus Seduced in Euripides' Medea |
Kay Gabriel (Princeton University) | Euripides, Ultra-Moderniste: H. D. and Avant-Garde Failure |
Edmund V. Thomas (Durham University) | Bernini's Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception in Seventeenth-Century Rome |
Peter Swallow (King's College London) | The Birds Doesn't Take Off: Aristophanes' Victorian Burlesque and Why It Failed |
Marios Kallos (University of British Columbia) | Challenging Expectations: The Notorious Productions of Peter Sellars' Ajax and Anatoly Vasiliev's Medea |
Melissa Funke (University of Winnipeg) | Dionysus on Tour: Cross-Cultural Performance in a Beijing Opera Bacchae |
Rosa Andújar (King's College London) | Response |
Session #52: New Perspectives on the Atlantic Façade of the Roman World (Seminar) (Organized by Carlos F. Norena, University of California, Berkeley) | |
Greg Woolf (Institute of Classical Studies, London) | Building the Atlantic Super-Seaway in the Roman Period |
Carlos F. Norena (University of California, Berkeley) | Atlantic Commerce and Social Mobility in Southwestern Iberia |
Elva Johnston (University College, Dublin) | The Atlantic Histories of Late Antique Ireland |
Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford) | The Ocean of Mount Atlas: Atlantic History and/in the Ancient World |
Session #53: Neo-Latin in the Old and New Worlds: Current Scholarship (Organized by American Association for Neo-Latin Studies and Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University) | |
Bryan Whitchurch (Fordham University) | Turks as Trojans: Intertext and Allusion in Ubertino Posculo's Constantinopolis |
Annette M. Baertschi (Bryn Mawr College) | Exemplarity in Petrarch's Africa |
Carl P. E. Springer (University of Tennessee) | Rhyming Rome: Luther's In Clementem Papam VII |
John Izzo (Columbia University) | Aztec Physicians in Greco-Roman Garb |
Benjamin C. Driver (Brown University) | Galileo the Immortalizer: Classical Allusions in the Dedication of Sidereus Nuncius |
Nicolò Bettegazzi (University of Groningen) | The Pax Augustea in Fascist Italy: A Catholic Response to the Augustan Bimillenary |
Session #54: Administrative Appointments: A Contribution to the Dialogue on the Present and Future of Classics, Humanities, and Higher Education from Administrative Perspectives (Organized by Joseph M. Romero, University of Mary Washington) | |
Joy Connolly (American Council of Learned Societies) | Toward a New Institutional Future of Classics |
Jeannine D. Uzzi (University of Southern Maine) | Maine Public Classics |
Patrice Rankine (University of Richmond) | Different Strokes for Different Folks: Three Universities, Three "Classics" |
Sarah E. Bond (University of Iowa) | How Can Administrators Support Public Outreach and Digital Humanities? |
Joseph M. Romero (University of Mary Washington) | Anchor Institutions and a Challenge to Classics, Humanities, and Higher Education |
Kenneth Scott Morrell (Rhodes College) | The Undergraduate Major in Classics Revisited: Ten Years Later |
Session #55: Women in Rage, Women in Protest: Feminist Approaches to Ancient Anger (Seminar) (Organized by Erika L. Weiberg, Florida State University, and Mary Hamil Gilbert, Birmingham-Southern College) | |
Suzanne Lye (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Putting Pressure on the Patriarchy: The Subversive Power of Women's Anger in Ancient Greek Literature and Magic |
Erika L. Weiberg (Florida State University) | The Problem of the Angry Woman and Herodotus' Use of Tragedy in Two Athenian Logoi |
Ellen Cole Lee (University of Pittsburgh) | Irata Puella: Gaslighting, Violence, and Anger in Elegy |
Mary Hamil Gilbert (Birmingham-Southern College) | Furor Frustrated: Policing Women's Anger in the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia |
Session #56: Lucan, Statius, and Silius (Andrew Zissos, University of California, Irvine, Presider) | |
Colin MacCormack (University of Texas at Austin) | Why Did It Have to be Snakes? Animals, Knowledge and Dread in Lucan and Nicander |
Andrew M. McClellan (San Diego State University) | A Requiem for Pompey in Lucan's Bellum Civile |
Diana Librandi (University of California, Los Angeles) | Velut Mater Agnoscens: Hypsipyle's Recognitions in Statius's Thebaid |
Jasmine A. Akiyama-Kim (University of California, Los Angeles) | Seeing Double: The Temporality of Theseus's Shield in Statius's Thebaid |
Alice Hu (Gustavus Adolphus College) | Edible Complex: Oedipus' Appetites in Statius' Thebaid 8 |
Adam Kozak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | The Best Defense: Triumphal Geography and Empire in Silius's Punica |
Session #57: Science in Context (Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, presiding) | |
Laura Winters (Duke University) | Greek Mathematical Traditions |
Richard Janko (University of Michigan) | Themistocles, Pericles, and Anaxagoras' Trial for Studying Astronomy |
Andrew Scholtz (Binghamton University) | From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern: Polemon and the Ontology of Passion |
Jonathan Reeder (Florida State University) | The Medical Context of Galen's Protrepticus |
Jessica L. Wright (University of Texas at San Antonio) | Gendering the Brain in Ancient Medicine |
Max Leventhal (University of Cambridge) | Viewing Cultures in the Letter of Aristeas |
Session #58: Global Receptions (Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania, presiding) | |
David Wray (University of Chicago) | "Learned Poetry," Modernist Juxtaposition, and the Classics: Three Case Studies |
Christopher Stedman Parmenter (New York University) | Frank Snowden at Naukratis: Revisiting the Image of the Black in Western Art |
Kathleen Noelle Cruz (Princeton University) | Norse Gods in Tyrkland: The Manipulation of the Classical Tradition in Snorra Edda |
Adriana Maria Vazquez (University of California, Los Angeles) | Dreaming of Hector in the Brazilian Neoclassical Period: Conceptualizing "Window Reception" |
James R. Townshend (University of Miami) | "Keep Quiet! You Can't Even Read Latin!" The Satirical Purpose of Western Classics in Natsume Sōseki's I Am a Cat |
Session #59: Cicero (Anthony Corbeill, University of Virginia, presiding) | |
Noah A. S. Segal (University of California, Santa Barbara) | A Farewell to Arms? Cicero's Pro Fonteio and the Shortage of Commanders in the Republic's Last Generation |
Ky Merkley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | When Being a Man Just Isn't Enough: A Modified Forensic Defense in the Pro Ligario |
Joanna Kenty (Radboud University Nijmegen) | Irony in Cicero's Letter to Lucceius |
Jeffrey Easton (University of Toronto) | Creating Familiaritas: Cicero's Letter of Recommendation of 46-45 BCE |
Presidential Panel (5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.) |
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Plenary Session (6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.) |
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Sunday, January 5 |
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Seventh Paper Session (8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) |
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Session #60: Sisters Doin' It for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary (Organized by the Women's Classical Caucus, T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, and Serena S. Witzke, Wesleyan University) | |
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University) and Serena S. Witzke (Wesleyan University) | Introduction |
Catherine M. Draycott (Durham University) | If I Say that the Polyxena Sarcophagus was Designed for a Woman, Does that Make Me a TERF? Identity Politics and Power Now and Then |
Alana Newman (Monmouth College) | Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Ptolemaic Faience and the Limits of Female Power |
Krishni Schaefgen Burns (University of Illinois at Chicago) | Cornelia's Connections: Political Influence in Cross-Class Female Networks |
Morgan E. Palmer (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | Always Advanced by Her Recommendations: The Vestal Virgins and Women's Mentoring |
Jessica Clark (Florida State University) | Chiomara and the Roman Centurion |
Gunnar Dumke (Martin-Luter-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) | Basilissa, Not Mahārāni: The Indo-Greek Queen Agathokleia |
Session #61: Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons (Organized by David J. Wright, Fordham University, and Lindsey A. Mazurek, University of Oregon) | |
Nicole Nowbahar (Rutgers University) | Using Cross-Dressing to Understand Ancient Conceptions of Gender and Identity |
Curtis Dozier (Vassar College) | Classical Antiquity and Contemporary Hate Groups |
Matthew Gorey (Wabash College) | The Reception of Classics in Hispanophone and Lusophone Cultures and Modern Imperialism |
Lindsey A. Mazurek (University of Oregon) | Comparing Present and Past in the Migration Classroom |
Daniel Libatique (College of the Holy Cross) | Cultural and Historical Contingencies in Ancient and Modern Sexuality |
Sam Flores (College of Charleston) | Race in Antiquity and Modernity |
Session #62: Translating "Evil" in Ancient Greek and Hebrew and Modern American Culture (Seminar) (Organized by Thomas G. Palaima, University of Texas at Austin; Christian Wildberg, University of Pittsburgh, moderator and lead discussant) | |
Aren Max Wilson-Wright (University of Zurich) | In Search of the Root of All Evil: Is there a Concept of "Evil" in the Hebrew Bible? |
Diane Arnson Svarlien (Independent Scholar) | Just Some Evil Scheme: Translating "Badness" in the Plays of Euripides |
Thomas G. Palaima (University of Texas at Austin) | Evil (Not) Then and Evil Now: A Test Case in "Translating" Cultural Notions |
Christian Wildberg (University of Pittsburgh), moderator and lead discussant | Evil, Past and Present, from a Philosophical Perspective |
Session #63: What's New in Ovidian Studies (Organized by the International Ovidian Society, Sharon L. James, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Laurel Fulkerson, Florida State University, and Alison M. Keith, University of Toronto) | |
Sharon L. James (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Introduction |
Sophie Emilia Seidler (University of Washington) | Proserpina's Pomegranate and Ceres' Anorexic Anger: Food, Sexuality, and Denial in Ovid's Account of Ceres and Proserpina |
Caitlin Hines (Wake Forest University) | Ovid's Visceral Reactions: Lexical Change as Intervention in Public Discourses of Power |
Chenye (Peter) Shi (Stanford University) | Naso Ex Machina: A Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis of Ovid's Epistolary Poetry |
Debra Freas (Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies) | Fabula Muta: Ovid's Jove in Petronius Satyrica 126.18 |
Ben Philippi (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) | The Haunting of Naso's Ghost in Spenser's Ovidian Intertexts |
Aislinn Melchior (University of Puget Sound) | Reweaving Philomela's Tongue |
Session #64: Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts (Joint AIA-SCS Panel, Organized by Eleni Hasaki, University of Arizona, Sandra Blakely, Emory University, and Diane Harris Cline, George Washington University) | |
Eleni Hasaki (University of Arizona), Sandra Blakely (Emory University), and Diane Harris Cline (George Washington University) | Introduction |
Sandra Blakely (Emory University) |
Maritime Networks and Moral Imagination: Samothracian Proxeny as an Archaeology of Coalition |
Zehavi Husser (Biola University) | An Examination of Epigraphical and Numismatic Evidence for the Innovation of Jupiter in Roman Imperial Italy using Network Analysis |
Clare Woods (Duke University) | Books on the Road: Exploring Material Evidence for Social Networks in the Early Middle Ages |
Gregory Gilles (King's College London) | Female Agency in the Late Roman Republic: A Social Network Approach |
Gregory J. Callaghan (University of Pennsylvania) | Attalus I and Networks of Benefactions |
Eleni Hasaki (University of Arizona) and Diane Harris Cline (George Washington University) | The Social Networks of Athenian Potters (SNAP) Project: Modeling Communities of Artists |
Giovanni R. Ruffini (Fairfield University) | Response |
Session #65: Late Antiquity (Michele Renee Salzman, University of California, Riverside, Presider) | |
Jeremy J. Swist (Miami University) | Julian and Rome's Eternal Refoundation |
James F. Patterson (University of Texas at Austin) | Staging Schism: Optatus 1.16-20 and the Earliest Extant Christian Play |
Anthony J. Thomas (University of Minnesota) | Figuring It Out: The Relationship between Exemplum and Figura in Ambrose of Milan's De Abraham |
Angela Zielinski Kinney (University of Wales/University of Vienna) | The Encomiastic "Other" in Jerome's Epistles |
Alvaro O. Pires (Brown University) | A Fiction of Nature and the Nature of Fiction: Animal Allegory in the Greek Physiologos |
Session #66: Homerica (Richard Janko, University of Michigan, Presider) | |
Joshua M. Smith (Johns Hopkins University) | Another Current in Homer's Ocean |
Jennifer L. Weintritt (Northwestern University) | More Useful and More Trustworthy? The Cyclical Poem in Scholia |
Kaitlyn Boulding (University of Washington) | Poetically Packed: πυκ[ι]νός in the Iliad |
John McDonald (University of Missouri) | Helen of Troy and her Indo-European Sisters: Women's Vocal Agency and Self-Rescue in Greek, Indian, and Irish Epic |
Marcus D. Ziemann (The Ohio State University) | Panhellenistic Appropriations: The Case of Aphrodite, Diomedes' Aristeia, and Tablet VI of Gilgamesh |
Session #67: Plato and His Reception (Sara Itoku Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan, Presider) | |
Ethan Schwartz (Harvard University) | Divination and Dialogue: The Construction of Philosophy in Plato's Apology |
Joseph Gerbasi (University of Toronto) | Plato's Apology of Socrates: For What Does Socrates Die? |
Justin Barney (University of Michigan) | Religious Practice as Play in Plato's Laws |
Collin Miles Hilton (Bryn Mawr College) | Roman Stoic Appropriation of the Middle Platonic "Imitation of God" |
Matthew Watton (University of Toronto) | Academic Consolation in Pseudo-Plato's Axiochus |
Session #68: Greek and Latin Comedy (Timothy Moore, Washington University at St. Louis, presiding) | |
Amy S. Lewis (University of Pennsylvania) | Pherecrates' Comic Poetics |
Dustin W. Dixon (Grinnell College) | Innovation and Intertextuality in Greek Mythological Comedy |
Peter Burian (Duke University) | Braunfels's Aristophanic Opera, Die Vögel |
Rachel Mazzara (University of Toronto) | Dropping the Dramatic Illusion: A Narratological Model of Plautine Metatheater |
Hannah Sorscher (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Wife-Erasure in Terence's Hecyra |
Session #69: Public Life in Classical Athens (Johanna Hanink, Brown University, Presider) | |
Deborah Kamen (University of Washington) | Insults and Status Negotiation in the Athenian Agora |
Andrew Foster (Fordham University) | The Trierarchy, Financial Syndication, and Impersonal Intermediation |
Mitchell H. Parks (Knox College) | The Lives of Lycurgus: Self-Commemoration in Fourth-Century Athens |
Ted Parker (University of Toronto) | Making Necessity of a Virtue: Hidden Value Judgements in Forensic Suggnōmē |
SCS Business Meeting of Members (11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.) |
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Eighth Paper Session (11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.) |
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Session #70: Inscriptions and Dates (Organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, and Gil Renberg, University of Michigan) | |
Gil Renberg (University of Michigan) | Introduction |
Rachele Pierini (University of Bologna) | How Old are the Earliest Mycenaean Tablets? Absolute and Relative Chronology of the Linear B Tablet Deposits of the Room of the Chariot Tablets (RCT) and the North Entrance Passage (NEP) at Knossos |
Paul Iversen (Case Western Reserve University) | Dating, and Dating by, the Antikythera Mechanism |
John Morgan (University of Delaware) | Erroneous Dates in Athenian State Decrees and Financial Documents |
Ilaria Bultrighini (University of London, Institute of Classical Studies) | One is Not Enough: Double Dates in Inscriptions from the Greek East under Rome |
Session #71: Moving to the Music: Song and Dance in Antiquity (Organized by the Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage, Carolyn M. Laferriere, Yale University, and Sarah Olsen, Williams College) | |
Carolyn M. Laferriere (Yale University) and Sarah Olsen (Williams College) | Introduction |
Michel Briand (Université de Poitiers) | Movement, Sight, and Sound in Archaic Song-and-Dance Poetry: Erotic and Ritual Kinesthesia and Synesthesia in the "Newest Sappho" |
Tyler Jo Smith (University of Virginia) | Komos and Choros: The Language of Dance in Greek Vase-Painting |
Harry Morgan (University of Oxford) | Dancing in Roman Dress: Fabula Togata and the Music of Pantomime |
Amy Koenig (Hamilton College) | The Pantomimic Voice: Ovid's Echo and the Body-Voice Relationship in Dance |
Session #72: If Classics is for Everybody, Why Isn't Everybody in My Class? Building Bridges and Opening Doors to the Study of Classics (Organized by Elizabeth A. Bobrick, Wesleyan University, and Danielle R. Bostick, John Handley High School) | |
Elizabeth Bobrick (Wesleyan University) | Introduction |
Sara Ahbel-Rappe (University of Michigan) and Sierra P. Jones (University of Michigan) | Increasing the Diversity of Graduate Students in Classics: The University of Michigan's Bridge M.A. and Bridge to the Ph.D. Programs |
Danielle R. Bostick (John Handley High School) | Creating Systemic Change within Existing Structures |
Sonya Wurster (Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy; La Trobe University) | Integrating Diverse Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds in the Latin Classroom, and Reconsidering the Place of Classics in Non-Western Traditions |
Nina Papathanasopoulou (SCS and College Year in Athens) | Expanding Classics through the Visual and Performing Arts, In and Out of the Classroom |
Session #73: Novel Entanglements: The Ancient Novel in New Social, Intellectual, and Material Contexts (Organized by Emilio Capettini, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Bendek Kruchió, University of Cambridge) | |
Emilio Capettini (University of California, Santa Barbara) | Introduction |
Karen Ni-Mheallaigh (University of Exeter) | Time-Psychology in the Cena Trimalchionis |
Emma Greensmith (University of Cambridge) | Awkward Authority: Gnomai Heliodorus and Nonnus |
Benedek Kruchió (University of Cambridge) | Between Skeptical Sophistry and Religious Teleology: The Multiperspectivity of Heliodorus' Aethiopica |
Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge) | The Novel and Bookspace |
Session #74: Personhood and Authorship: Collective Living Commentary on a Project of Thomas Habinek (Organized by James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University, and Enrica Sciarrino, University of Canterbury) | |
James Ker (University of Pennsylvania) | Introduction |
Basil Dufallo (University of Michigan) | Ch.1: Persons, Selves, Subjects, and Others: Terminology and Conceptual Preliminaries |
Zsuzsana Várhelyi (Boston University) | Ch. 1: Constructing Personhood in Classical Rome: Discourses, Practices, and Images |
Scott Lepisto (College of Wooster) | Ch. 3: Modes of Authorship |
Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University) | Ch. 4: Outcomes and Prospects |
Session #75: Greek History (Fred Naiden, University of North Carolina, Presider) | |
Marcaline J. Boyd (University of Delaware) | Whose Tyrant are You?: The Installation of Tyrants in the Archaic and Classical Worlds |
Konstantinos Karathanasis (Washington University in St. Louis) | A Game of Timber Monopoly: Atheno-Macedonian Relations on the Eve of the Peloponnesian War |
Evan Vance (University of California, Berkeley) | Redistribution, Public Wealth, and the Cretan Andreion |
Sjoukje M. Kamphorst (University of Groningen) | Carving Communities in Stone: Cosmopolitan Space on Hellenistic Kos |
Session #76: Style and Stylistics (Joy Connolly, American Council of Learned Societies, presiding) | |
Milena Anfosso (University of California, Los Angeles ; Sorbonne University) | Timotheus of Miletus' Persae, 150-161: "Entwining Greek with Asian Speech" |
Sidney Kochman (Indiana University Bloomington) | "Why is it Impossible to Do It Well?" Aristotle and Quintilian on Narrative Brevity in Forensic Oratory |
Lydia Spielberg (University of California, Los Angeles) | Nomine Nos Capis: Cicero's Cato and the Theory and Practice Impersonating Orators |
Scheherazade J. Khan (University of Pennsylvania) | Ne Procaces Manus Rapiant: Stylistic Shifts as a Defensive Strategy in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia |
Session #77: Constructing a Classical Tradition: East and West (John F. Miller, University of Virginia, Presider) | |
Nathan M. Kish (Tulane University) | Decorum, Obscenity, and Literary Authority in the Letters of Poggio Bracciolini and Panormita |
Eric Wesley Driscoll (American School of Classical Studies at Athens) | "A Single, Easily Managed Household": Antiquity and the Peloponnese in Late Byzantium |
Jesús Muñoz Morcillo (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Institut für Kunst- und Baugeschichte) | Progymnasmatic Ekphrasis at the Latin School of Arezzo and Vasari's "Memory Images" |
Eigth Paper Session (AIA Schedule) (12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.) |
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Session #78: Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia (Joint AIA-SCS Panel, Organized by Talia Prussin, University of California, Berkeley, and Jeremy A. Simmons, Columbia University) | |
Talia Prussin (University of California, Berkeley) and Jeremy A. Simmons (Columbia University) | Introduction |
Lana Radloff (Bishop's University) | Transitional Spaces and Connective Tissues: Harbor Dynamics in Hellenistic Asian Minor |
Talia Prussin (University of California, Brekeley) | Networks and Networking in the Economy of Seleucid Uruk |
Jeremy Simmons (Columbia University) | After Polity: Hellenistic Networks in Northwestern India (200 BCE - 200 CE) |
Ryan M. Horne (University of Pittsburgh) | Mediterranean Pathways: GIS, Network Analysis, and the Ancient World |
Marian Feldman (Johns Hopkins University) | Response |
Session #79: The Roman Army During the Republican Period (Joint AIA-SCS Panel, Organized by Michael J. Taylor, University of Albany, SUNY) | |
Jonathan Roth (San Jose State University) | Introduction |
Jeremy S. Armstrong (University of Aukland) | Men of Bronze or Paper Tigers? |
Michael Taylor (University at Albany, SUNY) | Beyond Celtic: Panoply and Identity in the Roman Republic |
Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross) | Cultural Transformation of the Roman Army in Republican Spain |
Kathryn Milne (Wofford College) | How Loyal were Middle Republican Soldiers? |
François Gauthier (Mount Allison University) | The 'Disappearance' of Velites in the Late Republic: A Reappraisal |
Jonathan Roth (San Jose State University) | Response |
Session #80: Monumental Expressions of Political Identities (Joint AIA-SCS Panel, Organized by Nicholas Cross, Queens College, CUNY, and Emyr Dakin, The Graduate Center, CUNY) | |
Nicholas Cross (Queens College, CUNY) | Introduction |
Nicholas Cross (Queens College, CUNY) | Representations of Interstate Cooperation in the Archaic Treasuries at Olympia: A Constructivist's Interpretation |
Ashley Eckhardt (Emory University) | Local Legends and Power POlitics in the Cult States of the Temple of Despoina at Lykosoura |
Emyr Dakin (The Graduate Center, CUNY) | The Honorary Decree for Karzoazos, Son of Attalus: A Monument for a 'New Man'? |
Timothy Clark (University of Chicago) | Refashioning the East in the Roman Provinces: The Relief of Nero and Armenia at Aphrodisias' Sebasteion |
Pamina Fernández Camacho (Universidad de Cádiz) | The Herakleion and Expressions of Political Identities at Gades from the Hellenistic to Early Modern Age |
Ninth Paper Session (2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.) |
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Session #81: Greek Culture in the Roman World (Organized by the American Classical League, Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center, and David Petrain, Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center) | |
Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center) | Introduction |
Marcie Persyn (University of Pittsburgh) | Lucilius Philosophos? Manipulation of Greek Philosophy in the Early Roman Satires |
Jovan Cvjetičanin (University of Virginia) | Greek Philosophy and Roman Politics in Cicero's De Consulatu Suo |
Helen Van Noorden (University of Cambridge) | The Anti-Roman Sibyl |
Sarah Griffis (Harvard University) | Christian Interaction with Greek Tragedy in the Second and Third Centuries |
David Petrain (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) | Response |
Session #82: Soul Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matter to the Varius Discourses of Neoplatonism? (Organized by International Society for Neo-Platonism and Sara L. Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) | |
Aaron P. Johnson (Lee University) | Souls and Daemons: The Contribution of Porphyry's Commentary on the Timaeus for Later Platonist Psychology |
Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (Florida State University) | Neither the Body Without the Soul: Why does Medicine Matter? |
Sarah K. Wear (Franciscan University) | Neoplatonic Language of the Soul in Cyril's Scholia on the Incarnation |
David Ryan Morphew (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) | Plutarch and the Non-Rational Soul: A Defense Against the Republic's Psychological Criticism of Poetry |
Jonathan Young (University of Iowa) | Origen's Resurrection of the Rational Soul and Its Ascent to the Likeness of Angels |
Session #83: Childhood and Fictive Kinship in the Roman Empire (Organized by Gaia Gianni, Brown University) | |
Gaia Gianni (Brown University) | Introduction & On Roman Collactanei: "Milk-kinship" from Ancient Rome to Modern Turkey and Cape Verde |
Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University) | Pliny's Threptoi: A Case of Cross-Cultural Confusion? |
April Pudsey (Manchester Metropolitan University) | "...And All the Troubles of Nursing to which Their Station Condemns Them..." Maternitas and Social Motherhood in the Roman World |
Zane McGee (Emory University) | Taught as a Child: The Family-Forging Effect of Instruction in Early Christianity and its Historical Influences |
Tara Mulder (Vassar College) | Response |
Session #84: Variant Voices in Roman Foundation Narratives (Organized by Jessica Wise, University of Colorado Boulder, and Anastasia Belinskaya, Florida State University) | |
Anastasia Belinskaya (Florida State University) | Introduction |
Celia Campbell (Florida State University) | Roma/amor Redux: Cultivating Rome in the Early Books of the Metamorphoses |
Caleb Dance (Washington and Lee University) | Rome's Feminine Foundations and the Agency of the Sabine Women |
Matthew Loar (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | Hercules (and Cacus?) at the Lupercalia in Fasti 2.303-80 |
Carole Newlands (University of Colorado Boulder) | Performing Foundation: Carmentis and Mater Matuta |
Jessica Wise (University of Colorado Boulder) | Response |
Session #85: Theater of Displacement: Ancient Tragedy and Modern Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (Organized by Seth Jeppesen, Brigham Young University, Cecilia Peek, Brigham Young University, and Chiara Aliberti, Brigham Young University) | |
Seth Jeppesen (Brigham Young University) | Introduction |
Hallie Marshall (University of British Columbia) | Now We See You, Now We Don't: Displacement, Citizenship, and Gender in Greek Tragedy |
Allannah Karas (Valparaiso University) | Aeschylus' Erinyes as Suppliant Immigrants: Enchantment and Subjugation |
Lana Radloff (Bishop's University) | The Sword, the Box, and the Bow: Trauma, (Dis)placement, and "New Canadians" |
Sarah J. Thompson (University of California, Davis) | How Sweet are Tears: The Uses of Lamentation in the Trojan Women and Queens of Syria |
Chiara Aliberti (Brigham Young University) | Response |
Session #86: Augustus and After (Andrew Johnston, Yale University, Presider) | |
Ayelet Haimson Lushkov (University of Texas at Austin) | Politicizing Citation: Livy's Cossus Digression and Augustan Literary Culture |
Ryan M. Pasco (Boston University) | Augustus on Holiday: Sinister Saturnalia in Suetonius' Divus Augustus 98 |
Lee E. Patterson (Eastern Illinois University) | Augustus and the Nakharars of Armenia |
Rebecca Edwards (Wright State University) | Princeps Proferendi Imperi Incuriosus: Tiberius and the Pax Augusta |
Session #87: Ancient Ethics (David Konstan, New York University, presiding) | |
Paul W. Ludwig (St. John's College, Annapolis) | Political Friendship in Nicomachean Ethics IX.6 |
Takashi Oki (Nagoya University) | Aristotle on Deliberation and Necessitarianism |
Peter Ishmael Osorio (Cornell University) | Brutus' Philosophical Position in On Virtue |
Mary Rosalie Stoner (University of Chicago) | Quintilian's Last Word: Voluntas and the Goodness of the Vir Bonus Dicendi Peritus |
David H. Kaufman (Transylvania University) | Galen on Non-Rational Motivation and the Freedom from Emotions: A Reading of Affections of the Soul |
Session #88: Archaic Poetics of Identity (Johannes Haubold, Princeton University, Presider) | |
Thomas James Nelson (Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge) | Intertextual Impersonation in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo |
Amelia Margaret Bensch-Schaus (University of Pennsylvania) | Poetic Foundations on Delos: The Homeric Hymns to Apollo and Callimachus' Hymn to Delos |
Ippokratis Kantzios (University of South Florida) | Sea Storms, Memory and Aristocratic Identity in Alc. Fr. 6 V |
Peter Moench (University of Virginia) | Pindar's Nemean 5 and the Problem of Aeginetan Descent from the Aiakidai |