SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
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| 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast (Lobby) |
| 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 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 8-10; Workshop 1 |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Break with Refreshments (Lobby) |
| 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Paper Sessions 11-13; Panel 6 |
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Luncheon and Annual Business Session with Gratulatio (Cypress) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Paper Sessions 14-15; Workshop 2 |
Saturday, October 11 | 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
| SESSION OVERVIEW | DETAILS |
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| Paper Session 8 Tyrants and Conspirators: Critical Reflections on Ancient History’s Villains Location: Persimmon I Presiders: Dobrinka Chiekova (The College of New Jersey) and Sarah B. Ferrario (The Catholic University of America) | Herodotus on Tyranny Again Marcaline Boyd (University of Delaware) The Moral Use of Thrasybulus’ Victory over the Thirty Tyrants Nicholas Cross (United States Naval Academy) Dramatic History: Livy, Roman Comedy, and the Bacchanalian Affair Felix Bieneman (Bryn Mawr College) |
| Paper Session 9 Roman Material Culture: Representing and Constructing in the Ancient World Location: Persimmon II Presiders: Raymond Capra (Queens College), CAAS Investment Liaison, and Joanne Spurza (Hunter College) | Gladiator Drawings and Statistics Graffiti at Pompeii: A Multimodal Method of Popular Communication Margaret Laird (University of Delaware) Whose Family is it Anyway? Kinship and Commemoration in the Familia Caesaris Danielle LaRose (Binghamton University) Feasibility of Proposed Solutions to Moving the Trilithon Stones of Jupiter’s Temple at Baalbek Omar Ibrahim (Montclair State University) Mentor: Deborah Chatr Aryamontri |
| Paper Session 10 Classics and Popular Culture: From Direct Receptions to Indirect Resonances Location: Walnut Presiders: Andrea Kouklanakis (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph’s University) | On the Road with Petronius: The Satyrica and New Queer Cinema Robert Santucci (University of North Carolina Wilmington) Alexander Senki: Postmodern Considerations on 20th Century Japanese Philhellenism Juan Dopico (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Sins of the Father: Familial Miasma in Mike Flanigan’s The Fall of the House of Usher Patricia Hatcher (Graduate Center, City University of New York) |
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Saturday, October 11 | 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
| SESSION OVERVIEW | DETAILS |
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| Paper Session 11 Crossing Genres and Eras: Intertextual Threads in Ancient Literature Location: Maple Presiders: Marcaline Boyd (University of Delaware), Director of Delaware, and Tommaso Gazzarri (Union College), Director of New York (Eastern) | The End of Hesiod’s Theogony (963-1022) and Epic Chronology in Apollonius’ Argonautica William Farris (Christendom College) A Wise and Truthful Man: Aristophanic Echoes in Lucian’s True Histories Bryce Hammer (Rutgers University) Reading Dreams with Lucian: Interpretation and Irony in Lucian’s Life Evan Waters (Catholic University of America) Euripidean Tragedy in the Comic Fragments of Apollodorus of Carystus Justin Dwyer (University of Rochester) Don’t Delay the Drama: Josephus as a Tragic Narrator of Gaius’ Assassination in Jewish Antiquities (19.1-273) Saga Herdeskoeld (Independent Scholar) |
| Paper Session 12 Labor, Status, and Abuse: Women’s Experiences in the Ancient World Location: Persimmon I Presiders: T. Corey Brennan (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) and Margaret Laird (University of Delaware) | How to Spin a Thread: Experimental Research in Greek and Roman Wool Processing Molly Jones-Lewis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Terentia, the Temple of Vesta, and the Tabula Valeria Maria Marsilio (Saint Joseph’s University) Enslaved Female Labor in the Production of Roman Luxury Lauren Petersen (University of Delaware) The Lives and Labor of Servae and Libertae Marcus Beardsley (University of Delaware) Mentor: Lauren Petersen |
| Paper Session 13 Classical Reception in Modern Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Writing Location: Persimmon II Presiders: Caroline Stark (Howard University), David Kuyat (Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School), and Alison Williams Lewin (Saint Joseph’s University) | Classical Studies, Trans Joy, and Reparative Reading in Wrath Goddess Sing Hannah Steele (University of Delaware) Catullus Sails to China: Age and Identity in John Yau’s Catullan poetry Katherine Wasdin (University of Maryland) Pindar, Compagnonnage, and Surrealism James Wells (DePauw University) “Delenda Est America,” While Pyramids Decay: Emily Dickinson Declaims Latin Stephen Rojcewicz (Independent Scholar) “Virginum Eruditissima”: A Student Commentary on the Works of Elizabeth Jane Weston Claire Pettit (Princeton University) Dido, Cleopatra, and the Dux Femina Trope: Writing the “Female Other” Jo Bogart (Elon University) Mentor: Kristina Meinking |
| Panel 6 Secondary School Panel Location: Walnut Organizer: Scott Barnard (The Lawrenceville School) | Dido, Venus, and the Son: Tragic Love Through the Lens of Freud Sophie Yang (The Lawrenceville School) Artistic Propaganda on the Shield of Aeneas Eric Xu (The Lawrenceville School) From Enslaved to Empowered: How Roman Freedwomen Transformed their Lives During the Augustan Age Yanxin Wu (The Pennington School) Vergilian Poetic Devices and Perception in the Underworld Michael Zampardi (The Lawrenceville School) |
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Saturday, October 11 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
| LUNCHEON and Annual Business session | DETAILS |
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| Luncheon and Annual Business Session Location: Cypress Karen Klaiber Hersch, CAAS President, Presiding | Financial Report: Henry Bender, CAAS Treasurer Gratulatio for Mary Brown, CAAS Executive Director – Authors: Faye Bakovsky (Independent Scholar) and Gareth Williams (Columbia University) – Reader: Maria Marsilio, Awards Committee Chair and past CAAS Program Coordinator |
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Saturday, October 11 | 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
| SESSION OVERVIEW | DETAILS |
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| Paper Session 14 Heroic Conflicts in Homer: Honor, Selfhood, and Deception Location: Maple Presiders: Deborah Chatr Aryamontri (Montclair State University), Director of New Jersey (North), and Tyson Sukava (University of Delaware) | Success, Suffering, and Status in the Iliad Alexander Neuschotz (Rutgers University) “ἔδμεναι και ἔδεσθαι” (To Eat and to be Eaten): Food as a Mirror to Achilles’ Humanity Natalie Dean (University of Maryland) Nobody: Homeric Constructions of Odysseus as Liar and Truth-Teller Brendan Cullen (Tufts University) Mentor: Tommaso Gazzarri (Union College) |
| Paper Session 15 Layered Texts: Rethinking Meaning in Augustan Poetry Location: Persimmon I Presiders: Prudence Jones (Montclair State University) and Maria Silvia Sarais (Hunter College) | Color in Vergil’s Aeneid: A Case Study on the Red Sky Hana Aghababian (Skidmore College) Readers and Narrators in Aeneid 2: Intertextuality as a Threat to Meaning Marissa Krmpotich (The Catholic University of America) The Paragon of Animals: Crises of Recognition and the Animal Paradigm in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Thu Truong (Princeton University) |
| Workshop Picturing Texts: Using Images to Make Authentic Ancient Literature Accessible Location: Persimmon II | Organizers and Workshop Leaders: Laurie Hutcheson (Boston University) and Annmarie Patterson (University of Southern California) |
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