We are please to announce the following results from the surveys that were sent to all those who were registered for the recent Annual Meeting in New Orleans on January 9, 10, and 11.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9
Best session overall:
- Session #5 New Fragments of Sappho
Honorable mention
- Session #6 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics?
- Session #13 The Impact of Moses Finley
- Session #16 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity, Organized by the Women's Classical Caucus
- Session #21 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World
Best session chairs:
- Session #6 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? Ariane Schwartz, University of California, Los Angeles and Pramit Chaudhuri, Dartmouth College, Organizers
- Session #21 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World
Honorable mention
- Session #5 New Fragments of Sappho, André Lardinois, Radboud University Nijmegen, Organizer
- Session #27 Humoerotica, Organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus, Ruby Blondell and Kathryn Topper, University of Washington, Organizers
Best papers, morning sessions:
- Session #5 New Fragments of Sappho – 3 Eva Stehle, University of Maryland, Sappho and Her Brothers”
- Session #6 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? – 4 Stephen Hinds, University of Washington, “Poetry between Latin and the Vernacular: Literature and Literalism in the Classical Tradition”
Honorable mention
- Session #5 New Fragments of Sappho – André Lardinois, Radboud University Nijmegen, Introduction
- Session #5 New Fragments of Sappho – 2 Joel Lidov, City University of New York, (S)he Do the Polis in Different Voices”
- Session #6 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? – 1 Christopher S. Celenza, The Johns Hopkins University, “What Kind of Language Did Ancient Romans Speak? A Fifteenth-Century Debate”
Best papers, midday sessions:
- Session #16 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity , Organized by the Women’s Classical Caucus – 3 Tara Mulder, Brown University, “Adult Breastfeeding in Ancient Rome”
Honorable mention
- Session #13 The Impact of Moses Finley – 1 Keith Hopkins Interviews Sir Moses Finley (video, 35 mins.)
- Session #16 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity , Organized by the Women’s Classical Caucus – 4 Stamatia Dova, Hellenic College, “Lactation Cessation and the Realities of Martyrdom in the Passion of Saint Perpetua”
- Session #10 The Performance of Greek Poetry – 3 Jonathan Ready, Indiana University, “On the ‘Scribe as Performer’ and the Homeric Text”
Best papers, afternoon sessions:
- Session #21 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World – 3 Amy Russell, Durham University, “Pax, the Senate, and Augustus in 13 BCE: A New Look at the Ara Pacis Augustae”
- Presidential Panel – 1 Andrew Ford, Princeton University, “Debates about the Value of Literature from Homer to Aristotle”
Honorable mention
- Session #20 Religion, Ritual, and Identity – 2 Andreas Bendlin, University of Toronto, “Curses, Class, and Gender: Psychological and Demographic Aspects of Roman ‘Magic’”
- Presidential Panel – 4 Joy Connolly, New York University, “Reading like a Roman Rhetorician”
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10
Best session overall:
- Session #42 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century
Honorable mention
- Session #47 Women, Sex, and Power
- Session #40 Interactive Pedagogy and the Teaching of Ancient History, Organized by the Committee on Ancient History
- Session #32 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing
Best session chair:
- Session #52 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games, T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, and Robyn Le Blanc, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Organizers
Honorable mention
- Session #46 The Figure of the Tyrant, Christopher Baron, University of Notre Dame, Presider
- Session #42 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century, Tom Keeline, Western Washington University, and Justin Stover, University of Oxford, Organizer
Best papers, morning sessions:
- Session #32 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing — 3 Miriam Leonard, University College London, “Tragedy and the Intrusion of Time: Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba”
- Session #32 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing — 4 Tim Whitmarsh, University of Oxford, “Quantum Classics: Untimely Chronologies and Postclassical Literary Histories”
Honorable mention
- Session #33 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism — 2 Pamela Gordon, University of Kansas, “Code-switching for Epicurus in the Late Republic”
- Session #29 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society — 5 Matthew Leigh, University of Oxford, “Sicily and the Eclogues of Vergil”
- Session #32 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing — 1 Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, “Classics and the Precipice of Time”
- Session #33 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism — 1 Nathan Gilbert, University of Toronto, “Gastronomy and Slavery under Caesar: The Politics of an Epicurean Cliché (Ad Fam. 15.18)”
- Session #33 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism — Wilson Shearin, University of Miami, Response
- Session #34 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy , Organized by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance — 4 Amy R. Cohen, Randolph College, “Doubling in Practice and Pedagogy”
Best papers, midday sessions:
- Session #42 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century — 3 Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania, “Beyond Variants: Some Digital Desiderata for the Critical Apparatus of Ancient Greek and Latin Texts”
Honorable mention
- Session #40 Interactive Pedagogy and the Teaching of Ancient History , Organized by the Committee on Ancient History — 2 Christine Loren Albright, University of Georgia, “Reconvening the Senate: Learning Outcomes after Using Reacting to the Past in the Intermediate Latin Course”
- Session #42 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century — 1 Richard Tarrant, Harvard University, “Quae quibus anteferam? The Grouping and Ordering of Works in Modern Editions of Classical Texts”
- Session #42 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century — 2 Sarah Hendriks, University of Oxford, “Editing the Latin Papyri from Herculaneum: The Case of PHerc. 78”
- Session #40 Interactive Pedagogy and the Teaching of Ancient History , Organized by the Committee on Ancient History — 1 Carl A. Anderson, Michigan State University and T. Keith Dix, University of Georgia Reacting to the Past: Pedagogy and ‘Beware the Ides of March, Rome in 44 BCE’”
- Session #42 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century — 4 Francesca Schironi, University of Michigan, “Philology and Textual Editing in the Classroom (and beyond)”
- Session #40 Interactive Pedagogy and the Teaching of Ancient History , Organized by the Committee on Ancient History — 3 Gregory Aldrete, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, “Making History Come Alive: Reflections on 20-Years’ Worth of Role-Playing Simulation Games, Exercises, and Paper Assignments”
Best papers, afternoon sessions:
- Session #52 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games — 2 Robyn Le Blanc, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “‘Future Archaeology’: Modular Roleplay in Material-Culture Courses”
- Session #52 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games — 1 Sarah Landis, Latin School of Chicago, Maxwell Teitel Paule, Earlham College, and T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, “Persona grata: Role-Playing Games in Language and Civilization Instruction”
Honorable mention
- Session #47 Women, Sex, and Power — 2 Rebecca Flemming, University of Cambridge, “The Archaeology of the Classical Clitoris”
- Session #48 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy — 3 Georgina White, Princeton University, “Lucretian Temporality: The Problem of the Epicurean Past in the De Rerum Natura”
- Session #52 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games — 3 Bret Mulligan, Haverford College, “Ethopoeia and Reacting to the Past in the Latin Classroom (and Beyond)”
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11
Best session overall:
- Session #59 40 Years of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women’s History in Classics, Organized by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups
Honorable mention
- Session #74 Comedy and Comic Receptions
- Session #55 Truth and Untruth
- Session #69 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry
- Session #78 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions
Best session chairs:
- Session #59 40 Years of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women’s History in Classics , Organized by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups, Georgia Tsouvala, Illinois State University and Celia Schultz, University of Michigan, Organizers
Honorable mention
- Session #69 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry, Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, University of Cincinnati, Organizer
- Session #55 Truth and Untruth, Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania, Presider
- Session #78 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions, William Johnson, Duke University, Presider
Best papers, morning sessions:
- Session #59 40 Years of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women’s History in Classics , Organized by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups — 3 Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, “Tragic Realities: What Kind of History Do Fictional Women Let Us Write?”
Honorable mention
- Session #59 40 Years of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women’s History in Classics , Organized by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups — 4 Kristina Milnor, Barnard College, “On Knowing and Not Knowing”
- Session #55 Truth and Untruth — 2 Charles Oughton, University of Texas at Austin, “Hannibal the Historian at Ticinus and Cannae”
- Session #62 Making Meaning from Data (Joint SCS/AIA Panel) , Organized by the Digital Classics Association — 5 Joseph P. Dexter, Harvard University; Matteo Romanello, Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut Berlin; Pramit Chaudhuri, Dartmouth College; Tathagata Dasgupta, Harvard University; and Nilesh Tripuraneni, University of Cambridge, “Enhancing and Extending the Digital Study of Intertextuality”
Best papers, midday sessions:
- Session #69 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry — 3 Salvador Bartera, Mississippi State University and Claire Stocks, Radboud University Nijmegen, “Epic Manipulation: Restructuring Livy’s Hannibalic War in Silius Italicus’ Punica”
- Session #72 Greek and Latin Linguistics, Organized by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics — 4 Alexander Nikolaev, Boston University, “Greek εἱαμενή”
Honorable mention
- Session #65 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists — 2 Jared Secord, University of Chicago, “Diogenes Laertius and Cross-Cultural Intellectual Debates in the Third Century”
- Session #69 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry — 1 Thomas Biggs, University of Georgia, “Quia videtur historiam composuisse, non poema: Roman Epic as Roman History”
- Session #72 Greek and Latin Linguistics , Organized by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics — 1 Anthony Yates, University of California, Los Angeles, “Motivating Osthoff’s Law in Latin”
Best papers, afternoon sessions:
- Session #74 Comedy and Comic Receptions — 3 Al Duncan, University of Utah, “Boogeymen in the Playwright’s Closet: Mormolukeia, Generic Aesthetics, and Adolescent Outreach in Old Comedy”
- Session #74 Comedy and Comic Receptions — 5 Mathias Hanses, Columbia University, “Lucretius at the Ludi: Comedy and Other Drama in Book Four of De rerum natura”
Honorable mention
- Session #74 Comedy and Comic Receptions — 4 Patrick Dombrowski, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Spectator Courts: Metatheater and Program in Terence’s Prologues”
- Session #78 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions — 4 Justin Stover, University of Oxford, “A New Work by Apuleius”
EXTRA CREDIT
With which outside group did you most enjoy sharing the hotel?
- Bikers, New Orleans 2015
Honorable mention
- Cheerleaders, Dallas 1999