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Thursday, October 17
- 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Registration [Lobby Lounge]/ Exhibitors/Vendors setup [Neilson Room]
- 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Combined Meeting of the Finance and Executive Committees [Christopher’s Bar]
- 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Meeting of the Board of Directors, Delegates, and Committee Chairs [Kelly Room]
Friday, October 18
- 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast for All Registrants [Kelly Kiosk]
- 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration [Lobby Lounge]
- 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Exhibits and Vendors [Neilson Room]
Sessions: 8-10AM / 10.30AM-1.00PM / 1:00PM-2:30PM /2.30-5PM / 6.00-8.00PM / 8:00-10PM
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8.00am – 10.00am
Friday, October 17: 8.00am – 10.00am |
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Paper Session 1: Echoing Themes: Intertextuality in Ancient Greek Prose Waksman Room Presiders: Frederick Booth (Seton Hall University) and Marcaline Boyd (University of Delaware) “ῥήματα ἤ θαύματα;” Rhetoric of Marvel in Aeschines 3 and Demosthenes 18 Charissa Skoutelas (Johns Hopkins University) Anytus and the Socratic Mission in Plato’s Apology and Meno Thomas Falkner (McDaniel College) Xenophon in Mourning? Obituaric Writing across a Multi-Generic Corpus Sarah Ferrario (The Catholic University of America) |
Paper Session 2: Medicine: Ancient and Modern Textual and Material (Mis)representations Meyer Room Presiders: Tommaso Gazzarri (Union College) and Leah Himmelhoch (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Epic Medicine: The Itinerate Physician as Bard in Classical Greece Tyson Sukava (University of Delaware) Except for Panaratus and Prosdocia: Workplace Law in the Funerary Inscription of Scribonia Attike and Ulpius Amerimnus Molly Jones-Lewis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Hippocratic One Health: Classical Reception in Medicine Tashi Treadway (Johns Hopkins University) |
Paper Session 3: Reception in Vergil and the Reception of Vergil Janeway Room Presiders: Karen Klaiber Hersch (Temple University) and Katherine Wasdin (University of Maryland, College Park) Veteris Vestigia Flammae: Allusive (and Elusive) Intertextuality in the Influence of the Apollonian Medea on Vergil’s Depiction of Dido Nissa Maria Flanders (The Catholic University of America) Physical Limits and the (Meta)poetic Tradition: Vergil’s Georgics and Statius’ Thebaid Anthony Smith (University of Florida) “Vergilius Impudens”: Petronius, Ausonius, and the “Desecration” of Vergil Claire Pettit (Swarthmore College) Mentor: William Turpin (Swarthmore College) |
- 10.00am-10.30am: Break with Beverages and Refreshments [Kelly Kiosk]
10.30am – 1.00pm
Friday, October 17: 10.30am – 1.00Pm |
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Paper Session 4: Greek and Roman Poetry: Word and Context Meyer Room Presiders: Lawrence Kowerski (Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York) and David Scott Rosenbloom (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) The “Live Nightingale” and “Wet Fear”: A New Look at Homeric χλωρός Hana Aghababian (Cornell University) The Partridge Family: Poet and Chorus in Alcman PMG 39 Timothy Power (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) “Her Space, Her Time”: Proxemics, Chronemics, and Female Agency in Theocritus’ Idyll 2 Vasileios Dimoglidis (University of Cincinnati) Three Approaches to Ovid’s Ars Amatoria 1.351-398 Livvie May (Princeton University) Oedipus, ἐνάργεια, and Aesthetics: The Extispicy in Seneca’s Oedipus Daniel Hunter (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) |
Panel 1: Intertextual Aesthetics and the Ancient Novel Dickson Room Organizers: Bice Peruzzi (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) and Jeffrey Ulrich (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Introduction Bice Peruzzi and Jeffrey Ulrich Platonic Aesthetics and Ovidian Erotics in Chariton’s Callirhoe Jeff Ulrich Longus and His Snare Emily Wiley (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Psyche Twice Punished: Objectification and Desirability in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Kate Hildreth (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Discussant Geoffrey Benson (Colgate University) |
Paper Session 5: Roman Socio-Economic History Waksman Room Presiders: Mathias Hanses (The Pennsylvania State University) and Timothy Renner (Montclair State University) Mobile Women’s Subjectivities in the Roman City: Using Transportation to Contest Public Space Jessica Lee (Independent Scholar) On their own Terms: Conceptions of Familia among Enslaved and Freed Romans Danielle LaRose (Binghamton University) Public Land and the Revenues of Cities in the Early Roman Empire James Macksoud (Stanford University) Race and Centuriation in Siculus Flaccus’ De Conditionibus Agrorum Maxwell Mitchell (Vassar College) Mentor: Del Maticic |
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m
Luncheon for All Registrants. Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University), CAAS President, presiding [Livingston 1]
- Ovatio laudatioque funebris for †Annette Hawkins Eaton (Howard University), past CAAS President, Reader: Thomas Sienkewicz (Monmouth College)
- Remarks by Jazmín Novoa Lara (Columbia University), recipient of the E. Adelaide Hahn Scholarship
2.30pm – 5.00pm
Friday, October 17: 2.30Pm – 5.00Pm |
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Panel 2: Size Matters: Big Books and the Idea of the Classic(al) Janeway Room Organizers: Lien Van Geel (Columbia University) and Charles Pletcher (University of Lausanne) Introduction Lien Van Geel and Charles Pletcher Classics, Commodification, and the Edwardian Bookshelf Claire Barnes (Oxford University) and Caterina Domeneghini (Oxford University) Big Classic, Little Classicisms Grace Clifford (Northwestern University) Multi-vocality and Cervantes’ Catalogue of Classics Lien Van Geel and Charles Pletcher |
Paper Session 6: Rereading Ancient Literature through a Cross-Textual, Cross-Cultural, and Cross-Temporal Lens Waksman Room Presiders: Andrea Kouklanakis (Hunter College) and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell (Montclair State University) Odysseus and the Bow: Reflections of an Indo-European Death God Raymond Capra (Queens College, City University of New York) Hearing the Invisible: The Interrelatedness of Tragedy and Epic Poetry through Implicit Stage Directions Daria Molinari (Princeton University) Into the Unknown: Northbound to the Knowledge and Death Keisuke Nakajima (Johns Hopkins University) Polyphemus <3 Acis: Ovid’s Conduit Fic (Met. 13.750-897) Robert Santucci (University of North Carolina at Wilmington) Statius’ Achilles: A Hero on the Threshold Patricia Hatcher (The Graduate Center, City University of New York) |
Paper Session 7: Greco-Roman Art and Architecture: Past and Present Dickson Room Presiders: Henry Bender (Saint Joseph’s University) and Deborah Chatr Aryamontri (Montclair State University) Embodying Foreign Bodies: Amazon Monument and Myth in Attica Stella J. Fritzell (Bryn Mawr College) Building with the Ear: Acoustics in Ancient Greek Theater Architecture Emmanuel Aprilakis (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Roman Drawing, Professional and Amateur Margaret Laird (University of Delaware) Setting the Scene: The Montclair State University Amphitheater (1938-2024) Carson Ten Eyck (Montclair State University) Mentor: Mary English |
6.00pm – 8.00pm
Jerry Clack Memorial Reception and Lecture
- 6.00pm – 7.00pm: Jerry Clack Memorial Reception – Ballroom Foyer
- 7.00pm – 8.00pm: Jerry Clack Memorial Lecture – Livingston 2
- Yopie Prins, Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature (University of Michigan)
- Title: Sappho Echoes
- Introduction: T. Corey Brennan (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), Chair of the CAAS Clack Lectureship Committee
8:30pm-10:00pm Dinner
Fri October 17 8.30pM-10:00PM |
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Dinner for All Registrants Livingston 3 & 4 Dan-el Padilla Peralta, CAAS President, presiding Ovatio for James Capreedy (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Chair of the CAAS Grants Committee Reader: Mary Brown (Saint Joseph’s University), CAAS Executive Director Remarks by Daniel Hunter (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), recipient of the E. Adelaide Hahn Scholarship |