FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10
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| 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast (Lobby) |
| 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Registration (Lobby) |
| 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Exhibitor & Vendor Hall Open (Cedar) |
| 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Paper Sessions 1-4 |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Break with Refreshments (Lobby) |
| 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Paper Sessions 5-6; Panels 1-2 |
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Luncheon for All Registrants; Ovatio (Cypress) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Paper Session 7; Panels 3-5 |
| 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Jerry Clack Memorial Reception (Cypress) Registration Required |
| 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Jerry Clack Memorial Lecture (Cypress) Registration Required |
| 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. | Dinner for All Registrants with Hahn Scholarship Reports (Cypress) |
Friday, October 10 | 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
| SESSION OVERVIEW | DETAILS |
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| Paper Session 1 Tragic Entanglements: Revisiting Aeschylus and Sophocles Location: Persimmon I Presiders: James Capreedy (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) and David Rosenbloom (University of Maryland, Baltimore Country), 1st CAAS Vice-President | Cyprian Characteristics: Erotic Imag(in)ing of Foreign Economies in Aeschylus’ Suppliants Vanessa Stovall (Independent Scholar) From Perception to Deception: Ajax’s Haunting Prologue Jazmín Novoa Lara (Columbia University) Another Look at Sophocles’ Ajax and Homeric Ethics Rachel Lesser (Gettysburg College) |
| Paper Session 2 Ancient Greek Medicine: Hippocrates and His Legacy Location: Persimmon II Presiders: Molly Jones-Lewis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and Maria Marsilio (Saint Joseph’s University) | The Good Doctor, Naturally: Professional Identities in Early Greek Medicine Tyson Sukava (University of Delaware) While the Body Sleeps, the Soul Wakes Dreaming: The Hippocratic Soul in Regimen IV Wyatt Flicker (University of Delaware) Mentor: Tyson Sukava Syphilis, Airs, Waters, Places Andrea Kouklanakis (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) |
| Paper Session 3 Textual Afterlives: Transmission, Interpretation, and Transformation of Classical Thought Location: Walnut Presiders: Lawrence Kowerski (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center), CAAS Archivist and Stephen B. Ogumah (Hofstra University), Director of New York City and Long Island | The Curious Case of Alcaeus, P. Oxy. 2301 Fr. 1 Martin Michalek (Johns Hopkins University) Between Feasting and Fasting: The Motif of the Gluttonous Reader in Eustathios’ Commentary on the Iliad Julia Pare (Princeton University) Political Offices in Plato’s “Second Best City”: Reception of Laws 12 in George of Trebizond and Cardinal Bessarion Catherine Wells (The Catholic University of America) |
| Paper Session 4 Antiquity after Antiquity: Classical Presences in Modern Art and Architecture Location: Maple Presiders: Frederick Booth (Seton Hall University), past CAAS President and Katherine Wasdin (University of Maryland, College Park) | From Tradition to Transformation: John Cotton Dana and the Classical Past Deborah Chatr Aryamontri (Montclair State University) Nobler Than Thetis’s Son? Classicizing Monuments in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore Kathryn Stutz (Johns Hopkins University) Classical Fascination and “Exotic Power”: Herodotus’ Tomyris in European Art Maria Frank (University of Delaware) Mentor: Marcaline Boyd |
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Friday, October 10 | 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
| SESSION OVERVIEW | DETAILS |
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| Paper Session 5 Sexuality and Symbolism: Gendered Approaches to Ancient Literature Location: Willow Presiders: Katherine Panagakos (Stockton University), CAAS Secretary, and Lauren Petersen (University of Delaware), 2nd CAAS Vice-President | “Why Should I Mention Io?”: The Significance of Abduction Imagery in Argonautica 3.869-1162 Nissa Maria Flanders (The Catholic University of America) “Bad” Virginity in the Story of Aura (Nonnos, Dion. 48.238-978) Stella J. Fritzell (Bryn Mawr College) Muliebri Fraude: The Death of Germanicus and Gendered Magical Language in Tacitus’ Annales 2.69-72 Mary McNulty Harrington (Tufts University) Coop-erating Priestesses: The Sacred Chickens of Rome and the Riddle of Gallinaceous Virginity Karen Klaiber Hersch (Temple University) |
| Paper Session 6 Themes and Figures: Rethinking Ancient Philosophy from Heraclitus to Seneca Location: Persimmon I Presiders: Chiara Graf (University of Maryland, College Park) and Christian Wildberg (University of Pittsburgh), Director of Pennsylvania (Central and Western) | His Dearest Doctrine: Heraclitus of Ephesus’ Doctrine of Universal Material Flux Viewed Through a New Approach to How it is Generated William Gruen (Rutgers University) Socrates the Philosophical Metic: The Burdens of Citizenship in Plato’s Republic and Phaedo Shashank Dimri (Columbia University) Timon of Phlius as Model for Diogenes Laertius Charles George (Academy of the Holy Angels) The Ethics of Withdrawal: Seneca’s Bonus Civis and the Vestal Tommaso Gazzarri (Union College) |
| Panel 1 Horatian (Im)Materialities Location: Persimmon II Organizer: Livvie May (Princeton University) | Bristling Women: Visual and Phonetic Shivers in Horace Epodes 5 and 12 Kate Hildreth (Rutgers University) Horace’s Ecological Understanding of Language Nathaniel Fleury Solley (University of Pennsylvania) Lyrics Writ in Water: Odes 1.11 and Beyond Livvie May, Panel Organizer The Limits of Monumentality in Horace Odes IV Grace DeAngelis (Princeton University) |
| Panel 2 Beyond the Protagonist: Supporting Characters in Big Screen Greece and Rome In honorem et memoriam Arthur J. Pomeroy (Victoria University of Wellington – d. 2025) Location: Walnut Organizer: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph’s University) | Introduction: Why Focus on Supporting Characters – and How Do We Define Them? Are Screen Time and Star Power Enough? Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Panel Organizer “How Foolish Do Your Fears Seem Now, Calphurnia!”: Depicting and Dismissing Caesar’s Wife on Screen Christopher McDonough (The University of the South) Modes of Resistance: Disenfranchised Supporting Characters Countering Oppression in 1950s and 1960s Cinematic Revivals of Classical Antiquity Kirsten Day (Augustana College) Creon in the Cinema: Representing Toxic Masculinity in Pasolini’s Medea and Ripstein’s Such is Life Patricia Salzman-Mitchell (Montclair State University) The Queen’s Insolent Handmaid: From Enslavement in Homeric Sparta to Embodiment of 1920s Flapper Femininity in The Private Life of Helen of Troy Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Panel Organizer Respondent: Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico) |
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Friday, October 10 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
| LUNCHEON FOR ALL REGISTRANTS | DETAILS |
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| Luncheon for All Registrants Location: Cypress Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, CAAS Program Coordinator, Presiding | Ovatio for Denise Flood Doyle (Bronxville High School), Past CAAS President and Interim Officer-at-Large – Authors: Erin M. Hanses (The Pennsylvania State University), Robert Santucci (University of North Carolina Wilmington), and Gareth Williams (Columbia University) – Readers: Mary Brown (Saint Joseph’s University) and Henry Bender (Saint Joseph’s University) |
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Friday, October 10 | 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
| SESSION OVERVIEW | DETAILS |
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| Paper Session 7 Semantics and Rhetorical Strategies in late Greek and Latin Prose Location: Persimmon I Presiders: Sulochana Asirvatham (Montclair State University) and Randolph Ford (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) | ἥκιστα ἡ φύσις φιλόκαινος: Plutarch on Creativity and Its Problems Yanneck Wiegers (University of Maryland, College Park) Foster Fathers in the Life and Works of Aelius Aristides Melody Wauke (Columbia University) The (Crafty) Fox in Babrius’ Fables Jason Palladino-Gomez (CUNY Graduate Center) Bilingualism and Code-switching Practices in Pliny’s Letters Chiara Battisti (Princeton University) Constantius II and King Ahab in the Writings of Lucifer of Cagliari Nathan Moore (Calvary Day School) |
| Panel 3 Love and Character in Classical Literature Location: Persimmon II Organizer: Pamela Zinn (Texas Tech University) | Helen’s Family Relations in Pindar Pura Nieto Hernandez (Brown University) Platonic Love and Lucretius Pamela Zinn, Panel Organizer Lucan’s Double Heroides: Pompey and Cornelia Colton Levi (Texas Tech University) Love and the Metamorphosis of Psyche’s Psyche Tracey Sapien (Texas Tech University) Mentor: Pamela Zinn |
| Panel 4 Undergraduate Panel: Next-Gen Insights on Sex, Gender, and Power Dynamics in the Ancient World Location: Walnut Organizer: Justin Dwyer (University of Rochester) | Introduction Justin Dwyer, Panel Organizer Gender Dynamics and Apollo’s Arrival at Delphi Carter Attardo (University of Rochester) Mentor: Justin Dwyer Seizing Control: Gender, Power, and Erotic Binding Spells in Ancient Greece Tristan Gamard (University of Rochester) Mentor: Justin Dwyer Naevoleia Tyche and Female Agency: Constructing Freedwomen’s Identity in the Roman Funerary Landscape Natalie Dundas (University of Rochester) Mentor: Justin Dwyer Medusa Reimagined: An Anti-Binary Apotropaism Sadie Herman (University of Rochester) Mentor: Justin Dwyer |
| Panel 5 Updates for All on the Current State of Latin Pedagogy: Lightning Talks and Discussion Location: Willow Organizer: Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center), Past CAAS President | Introduction: Why This Panel on the Current State of Latin Pedagogy and Why “For All”? Ronnie Ancona, Panel Organizer Active Latin: The Journey Inside and Outside the Classroom Melissa Marturano (Bard High School Early College Queens) Latin Novellas in the K-12 and College Latin Classroom Teresa Ramsby (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Beyond Caecilius: Teaching Latin to a New Generation with Suburani Andrew Bodo (Marymount School of New York) Teaching the New AP Latin Curriculum: Resources, Strategies, and Assessment Brian Serwicki (East Aurora High School) Innovating Latin Curriculum for the 21st Century Denise Flood Doyle (Bronxville High School) |
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Friday, October 10 | 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
| JERRY CLACK MEMORIAL LECTURE | DETAILS |
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| Jerry Clack Memorial Lecture Registration Required Location: Cypress Introduction: Margaret L. Laird, Chair of the Jerry Clack Lectureship Committee Learn more about the origins of the Clack Lecture at this link. | Rome: Monarchs & Monuments Paul Roberts (Research Keeper, Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford University, U.K.) |
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Friday, October 10 | 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
| DINNER FOR ALL REGISTRANTS | DETAILS |
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| Dinner for All Registrants Location: Cypress Mary Brown, CAAS Executive Director, Presiding Introduction: Sulochana Asirvatham, Chair of the Hahn Scholarship Committee | Reports by Jonathan Guggenmos (University of Wisconsin) and Danielle LaRose (Binghamton University), recipients of the E. Adelaide Hahn Scholarship |
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