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Presentations

2023-2024

"The Birsama Exploration Project: Tracing the Development of a Late Roman Fort and Its Environs"
Erin M. Brantmayer and Alexandra Ratzlaff
American Society of Overseas Research, Fall 2023

“Augustus and the Iamidae in Pausanias’ Spartan Agora: A Reception of the Greco-Persian Wars from the Second Sophistic”
William T. Farris
From Antiquity to Modern Times, hybrid workshop, Kyoto University, Fall 2023

"The Application of aDNA in Kinship Analysis in Histria"
Amber L. Kearns
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2024

"Socrates' Two Wives: Irony & Eclecticism in ps.-Plato Halcyon"
John Anderson
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2024

“Cicero’s Letter of Exile and the Space of Political Upheaval”
Vassilis Sazaklidis
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2024

“Nikosthenes’ Networks of Production and Trade”
Cole Smith, Jennifer S Tafe, and Eleni Hasaki
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2024

"Favorinus and the Dichotomy between Public and Private Space in Aulus Gellius’ Notes Atticae"
Vassilis Sazaklidis
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2024

"Free Mustache Rides: CIL IV.8939-40"
J. Dean Murphy
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2024

“Ancient World Studies: Which Path to Take?”
Roundtable
Ethan G. Warren
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2024

"Queering the Chorus: Relationality vs. Rationality"
Lane A. Flores
Performance Philosophy Biennial Conference, Summer 2024

2022-2023

"The Social Catchment of Kurgans: Viewsheds and Memory in the Lower Dnipro Region"
Erin M. Brantmayer and Ruth Portes
American Society of Overseas Research, Fall 2022

“The Polysemy of the Latin Verb HAURIRE and its Uses in the Aeneid”
William T. Farris
Centennial Fall Conference of the Texas Classical Association, Fall 2022

"Aristotle's Fragments on Justice"
John Anderson
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2023

“Divine Anger at the Aiolids in Apollonius’ Argonautica
William T. Farris
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2023

“A Complex Cultivated Pottery Trade? Social Network Analysis of the Marks of Trade on Greek (Attic) Pottery,”
Cole Smith
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2023

“Dreaming of the Silk Road: Narrative Conversations”
Panel, organizer
Ethan G. Warren
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2022

“Hesiodic Motifs in Apollonius’ Argonautica Book 1"
William T. Farris
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2023

"Queering Agathon"
Lane A. Flores
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2023

"When Anxiety Becomes Desire: Lucretius and Lacan"
J. Dean Murphy
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2023

"Queering Agathon"
Lane A. Flores
Tragedy Queered conference at the University of Reading, Summer 2023

Zoé E. Thomas
“How I Met your Arician Mother"
Symposium Cumanum, Summer 2023

2021-2022

Zoé E. Thomas
“Demeter and Motherhood in Modern Receptions of Hades and Persephone”
Antiquity in Media Studies, Fall 2021

“Vir/Non-Vir: Societal Implications of the Narrator in Ovid’s Amores
Ethan G. Warren
Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, Fall 2021

Zoé E. Thomas
“Gutter Women: Comic Theory and Roman Wall Painting"
Feminism and Classics Conference, Wake Forest University, Spring 2022

2020-2021

"Signs of Writing? The Paleography of Cypro-Minoan Potmarks"
Cassandra M. Donnelly
Aegean Archaeology Group, University of Cambridge, Fall 2020

"Cypro-Minoan Abroad, Cypriots Abroad?"
Cassandra M. Donnelly
Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Fall 2020

"Bulls vs. Rams: Near Eastern Connections in the Iconography of the Inlaid Silver Cups from Enkomi, Cyprus and Midea, Dendra"
Michele Mitrovich
Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Fall 2020

"Writers, Markers, and Merchants in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean"
Cassandra M. Donnelly
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2021

"The Shadow of Commodus on Pertinax's Coinage"
Nathaniel S. Katz
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2021

“Sirens, Lions, Wrestlers and Ring Composition in Lycophron’s Alexandra”
William T. Farris
First Annual Conference of Contemporary Classics Research, Malta Classics Association, Spring 2021

2019-2020

"New Developments in Digital Imaging for Archaeology"
Erin M. Brantmayer and Alexandra Ratzlaff
American Society of Overseas Research, Fall 2019

"Treaties as Short-Term Pauses in the Corinthian War"
Thomas O. Rover
"Warfare in Antiquity" conference, London, Fall 2019

"Writing and Economy in the Late Bronze Age Cyprus"
Cassandra M. Donnelly
Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Spring Lecture Series, Spring 2020

"Contesting and Asserting Libertas Augusta"
Nathaniel S. Katz
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2020

"Don’t Rock the Boat: Negotiating Fishing Rights on the Rivers of the Roman Empire"
Christy Q. Schirmer
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2020

“The 2017-2019 Field Seasons of the Urban Economy of Volubilis Project (UEVP)” 
Christy Q. Schirmer (with Jared Benton) 
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2020

"The Use of Caesar in the First Triad of Tacitus' Annales"
David Welch
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2020

2018-2019

"Breaking and Remaking Terence: The Politics of the Terentian Authorship Debate"
Caolán P. Mac An Aircinn
University of Texas at Austin Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, Fall 2018

"You’re Gonna Need a Bigger...Trireme: Jaws and the Greek Ketos"
Michael A. Mignanelli
University of Texas at Austin Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, Fall 2018

“Sister, Maiden, Goddess of the Great Sea: The Role of Helle in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica"
Madeline E. Monk
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section, Fall 2018

"The Re-meme-ification of Rome: How Ancient Rome Lives Again Online"
Colin D. MacCormack
Pro Publica: A Public Classics Workshop, Northwestern University, Spring 2019

“A Plated Ingot from Himera and its Implications for the Monetary Use of Bronze in Classical Sicily”
Giuseppe C. Castellano
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2019

“Responses to Environmental Change in the Roman World”
Panel, co-organizers
Margaret K. Clark, Jane E. Millar
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2019

Plus Ça Change: Climate and Roman Agronomy on Changing Agricultural Landscapes”Panel,
Margaret K. Clark, Jane E. Millar
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2019

"Regional Pressures in the Formation and Use of Cypro-Minoan"
Cassandra M. Donnelly
12th International Workshop of the Association for Written Language and Literacy, Spring 2019

"Mixed Literacy and Non-Scribal Writing on Bronze Age Cyprus"
Cassandra M. Donnelly
Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World XIII, Spring 2019

"Inscribed Metal Bowls in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age"
Cassandra M. Donnelly
Aegean Archaeology Group Conference, Cambridge, Spring 2019

"Olive Oil and Pretty Pots in the Same Lot': An Introduction to Cypro-Minoan Potmarks"
Cassandra M. Donnelly
E-Caucus Seminar, Cambridge, Spring 2019

"Volvere Casus: the Aeneid and Volvo"
Rebecca A. van der Horst
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2019

"Non-Elite Art and Roman Visualization of the City: The Case of the Amphitheater Riot Fresco from Pompeii"
Kevin S. Lee
"The Popular in Classical Antiquity" conference, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2019

"Not Just by Jove: The Roman Emperor in Oaths"
Nathaniel S. Katz
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2019

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Zoology and Ecology in Herodotus’ Histories"
Colin D. MacCormack
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2019

"Marvelous Animals, Monstrous Animals: Venomous Serpents in Nicander's Theriaca and Lucan's Bellum Civile IX"
Colin D. MacCormack
"Classical Marvels" conference, St. Andrews, Spring 2019

Zoé E. Thomas and Erin Roberson
“Stress in the Székelyföld: Developmental Discrepancies in a Non-Adult Burial from the Papdomb Site in Medieval Transylvania”
Adult Osteology Workshop, Archaeotek Osteology Lab, Summer 2019

2017-2018

“Paraba-THIS: The Aristophanic Parabasis and Political Commentary in Modern Theater”
Michael A. Mignanelli
University of Texas at Austin Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, Fall 2017

“Coins in Context: Trade, Monetization, and Cultural Contact in the Tyrrhenian Sea”
Giuseppe C. Castellano
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2018

“Roman Terroir?: Local Soils, Specialties, and Identities”
Margaret K. Clark
Annual Meeting, Association of Ancient Historians, Spring 2018

“Building an Empire from the Ground Up: The Imperialist Implications of Soil as a Raw Material in the Roman Agronomists”
Margaret K. Clark
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2018

"Pleasing the Public: The Combined Monumentalization of Streets and Shops in the Eastern Roman Empire"
Benjamin M. Crowther
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2018

"The Kober-Daniel Correspondence: New (Again) Approaches to Cypro-Minoan"
Cassandra M. Donnelly
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2018

"The Clementia of Burning Letters"
Nathaniel S. Katz
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2018

"I’ll Never Be Your Beast of Burden: Poetic Manifestations of Animals in Herodotus"
Colin D. MacCormack
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2018

"The Prevalence and Semiotics of Werewolves in the Ancient World"
Colin D. MacCormack
Synoikismos Seminar, Belgium, Spring 2018

“Performing Problem Plays”
Co-organizer of panel sponsored by Committee for Ancient and Modern Performance.
Michael A. Mignanelli
Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Spring 2018

"Aristophanic Paratragodia of Late-Euripidean Tragedy: A Study of Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae"
Michael A. Mignanelli
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2018

“Lost Boys in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica: Parental Grief and Vergilian Allusion"
Madeline E. Monk
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Spring 2018