The students of the Classics Department of The Graduate Center, CUNY are honored to invite you to the 15th Annual Grad Students Conference
IDENTITY PLAY: CONSTRUCTING THE SELF IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Friday, April 28, 2023 | 09:15 am - 5:00 pm On Zoom (register here for zoom link and info: https://tinyurl.com/
Download the program (pdf).
Keynote address: Dr. Cinzia Arruzza (The New School)-- Under Aspasia's Spell: the Socratic Circle on Eros, Marriage, and Foreign Women
PROGRAM
9:15-9:30 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30-11:00 am | Session I: Constructing Gender
--> Amanda Kubic (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)- The Rose Has Many Petals': Deciphering Helen’s Phantom Double in Euripides’ Helen and H.D.’s Helen in Egypt
--> Tara Jacklin (University of Western Ontario)- Unveiling Agency: Veiling Practices of Women in the Western Roman Provinces
--> Christina Filippaki (University of Chicago)- Constructing The
11:30 am-1:00 pm | Session II: Deconstructing Authority
--> Ani Chen (Cornell University)- Claims-making as world-unmaking in Euripides’ Hecuba
--> Derek Alfredo Cebrián (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)- Composed Indigenous Identities in the Aeneid: The Rasenna
--> Kimball Naughton (New York University)- Doubling, (Mis)recognition, and the Alienable Self in Plautus' Amphitruo
2:00-3:30 pm | Session III: Reconstructing Liminality
--> Mac Carley (Brown University) | Playing the Vir: Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Roman Funeral
--> Emilia Cottignoli (Stanford University) | Reflections of Identity: Gender and Androgyny within the Etruscan Bronze Mirror
--> Lauren Nguyen (UC Berkeley) | Scyros and Thebes in Statius’ Achilleid
4:00-5:00 pm | Keynote address: Dr. Cinzia Arruzza (The New School)-- Under Aspasia's Spell: the Socratic Circle on Eros, Marriage, and Foreign Women
For questions, please reach out to the conference organizers, Keren Freidenreich, Victoria Hsu and Patricia Hatcher at identityplay2023@gmail.com
