As always, UW will be very well represented at the annual conference of the Society for Classical Studies/Archaeological Institute of America, to be held in Philadelphia in January 2025. See below for talks and panels by UW graduate students, faculty, and alumnx!
Friday Jan 3, 2025
First Paper Session (8:00am–10:30am)
SCS-7: HYBRID: Greek Law and Oratory
- Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, University of Pittsburgh (UW PhD ’22), “Fugitivity and Space in Apollodorus’s Against Neaira”
AIA-1L: City of Rome
- Zoé Elise Thomas, University of Texas at Austin (UW BA '16), “Buildings, Space, and Coercive Diplomacy in Republican Rome”
Second Paper Session (11:00am–1:00pm)
SCS-14: Linguistics
- Olga Levaniouk (UW faculty), University of Washington, Presider
SCS-19: HYBRID: Animals
- Jonathan Clark (UW PhD student), University of Washington, “’They Prayed to Become Her Sheep’: Reading Eroticized Animals and Servitium Amoris in Daphnis and Chloe”
Third Paper Session (2:00pm–5:00pm)
SCS-26: Hidden Labor and Precarity in the Roman World (Organizer-Referred Panel)
- Sarah Levin-Richardson (UW faculty), University of Washington, “Enslaved Children’s Emotional Labor in Roman Culture”
- Grace Funsten (UW PhD ’22), University of Pittsburgh, “Underground Poetry: Verse Epitaphs in the Monument of the Statilii”
AIA-3A: Recent Fieldwork and New Interpretations from Sicily and Southern Italy
- Valeria Riedemann Lorca (UW faculty), University of Washington, “The Funerary Sculptural Reliefs of Tarantine Naiskoi: Greek and Italic Interactions in Apulian Contexts”
Presidential Panel (5:30pm–7:00pm)
HYBRID: Demographic Change in SCS Research Foci
- Melissa Funke (UW PhD ‘13), University of Winnipeg, “The Hetaira at the Intersection of Literary and Social History”
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Fourth Paper Session (8:00am–10:30am)
SCS-41: Landscape and Environment
- Catherine Chase (UW PhD student), University of Washington, “The Visual Properties of Water in Statius’ Silvae 2.3”
Fifth Paper Session (11:00am–1:00pm)
SCS-42: HYBRID: Lightning Talk Session
- Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (UW PhD ‘14), Santa Clara University, Presider
SCS-49: Classical Legacies and the Ibero-global World (organized by Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World)
- Adriana Vazquez (UW PhD ‘17), University of California, Los Angeles, and Julia Hernández, New York University, Organizers
SCS-50: HYBRID: Lit in Late Antiquity
- Alex Dressler (UW PhD ‘09), University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The political economy of the Art of Poetry as an anticipatory illumination of Christian song: Horace as laborer, mad poet as revolutionary”
Roundtables (1:00pm–2:00pm)
SCS-51: Roundtable Session: Mentoring Meet-and-Greet: Programs, Best Practices, and How to Connect
- Morgan Palmer (UW PhD ‘14), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Organizer
Sixth Paper Session (2:00pm–5:00pm)
SCS-52: VIRTUAL: Between, Beyond, Bygone, Behind: Queer Time in the Ancient Mediterranean (Organizer-Referred Panel)
- Laura Harris (UW PhD student), University of Washington, “Repeating Nymphs and Repeating Trauma: Queer Time and the Narrative Structure of the Metamorphoses”
SCS-58: HYBRID: Antiquity in Asia and the Mediterranean: A Comparative Approach (organized by the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus)
- Christopher Waldo (UW faculty), University of Washington, Seattle, and Lorraine Abagatnan (UW BA '20), University of Michigan, Organizers
- Binh Nguyen (UW PhD student, Astronomy), University of Washington, The Vergilian Heroine of The Tale of Kie'u
SCS-62: New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy in the 21st Century (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists and the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy)
- Morgan Palmer (UW PhD ‘14), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Vestal Virgins and Roman Soldiers: Inscriptions and the Feriale Duranum (P.Dura 54)”
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Seventh Paper Session (8:00am-11:00am)
SCS-65: Ovid
- Stephen Hinds (UW faculty), University of Washington, Presider
SCS-68: Readers and Reception
- Deborah Kamen (UW faculty), University of Washington, “Anne Lister as a queer reader of Martial’s epigrams”
AIA-7C: Greek Iconography
- Kathryn Topper (UW faculty), University of Washington, “Deixis and Animal Metaphors on a Cup by Neandros”
Eighth Paper Session (11:30am–1:30pm)
SCS-77: Graduate Student Firsts: Presenting and Publishing in Graduate School (organized by the SCS Graduate Student Committee)
- Brandon Jones (UW PhD ‘15), Boston University, “Early Career Journal Publication: Some Advice from a Managing Editor”
SCS-78: Asian / Mediterranean Intersections
- Olga Levaniouk (UW faculty), University of Washington, “Megacles the Golden Goose: Herodotus and the Jataka Once Again”
SCS-79: Roman Drama
- Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (UW PhD ’22), University of Pittsburgh, Presider
Ninth Paper Session (2:30pm–5:00pm)
SCS-87: Hellenistic and Imperial Literature
- Jackie Murray (UW PhD ‘05), University at Buffalo, Presider