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Thursday January 8, 2026
First Paper Session (8:00–10:30am)
SCS-8: Receptions of the Modern Era (paper session)
- Adriana Vazquez (UW PhD ‘17), University of California, Los Angeles, Which lotos? “Ludic Confusion,” Combinatorial Reception, and Hyper-Ovidianism in the Lotis Digression of Gabriel Pereira de Castro’s Ulisseia, ou Lisboa Edificada (1636)
- Ryan Platte (UW PhD ’08), Northwestern University, The Chicago Forum, classical reception in the 19th century South Side
- Jonathan Clark (UW graduate student), University of Washington, A Queer Galatea? Garcilaso de la Vega’s Use of Vergil’s Second Eclogue
Second Paper Session (11:00am–1:00pm)
SCS-14 HYBRID: Immigration and Citizenship, Then and Now (organized by Classics and Social Justice)
- Eunice Kim (UW PhD ‘17), Furman University, The Myth of Murderous Migrants
SCS-15: Oratory and Rhetoric (paper session)
- Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (UW PhD ’22), University of Pittsburgh, Double Mastery in Lysias’s On the Murder of Eratosthenes
SCS-17: Embodied History (paper session)
- Raymond Lahiri (UW faculty), University of Washington, Dismemberment and the Writing of History: Procopius of Caesarea on Historical Organicism and Narrative Economy
Third Paper Session (2:00–5:00pm)
SCS-24: Epigraphy and Power (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy)
- Lauryn Hanley (UW graduate student), University of Washington, Bilingual Bonds: Freedpeople and Identity Formation in Etruscan-Roman Chiusi
SCS-26: Homer (paper session)
- Edward Nolan (UW BA ’12), National Taiwan University, Language Order and Divine Onomastics
AIA-3C: Ethnoscapes of the Dead: Italic and Etruscan Chamber Tombs Revisited (Colloquium)
- Organizers: Valeria Riedemann Lorca (UW faculty), University of Washington, and Karolina Sekita, Tel-Aviv University
SCS Presidential Panel (4:00–5:30pm)
SCS-29 HYBRID: SCS Presidential Panel: Good Classics in Bad Times
- Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (UW PhD ’22), University of Pittsburgh, Non est fabulosum: Trans and Intersex Classics Beyond Mythology
- Naomi Campa (UW PhD ’14), University of Texas at Austin, Refusing to Cede our Discipline
Friday January 9, 2026
Fifth Paper Session (11:00am–1:00pm)
SCS-40 HYBRID: Navigating Contingent Positions and the Precarity of the Faculty Pipeline (workshop organized by First Generation Low-Income Federation, joint session)
- Naomi Campa (UW PhD ’14), University of Texas at Austin
SCS-44: Living, Laughing, Loving: Roman Elegy in Light of New Developments in Roman Comedy (organizer-refereed panel)
- Grace Funsten (UW PhD ’22), University of Pittsburgh, From Ornatrix to Lectrix: The Enslaved Audience of Ovid Amores 2.7-8
SCS-49: Roundtable Discussion Session (12:00-1:00pm)
- The Committee for Gender and Sexuality in the Profession (COGSIP) sponsored Roundtable. Organizer: Melissa Funke (UW PhD ’13), University of Winnipeg
- Early Christianity in the Classics Classroom. Organizers: Ryan Platte (UW PhD ’08) and Abbe Walker, Northwestern University
Sixth Paper Session (2:00–5:00pm)
SCS-58: Roman Epic (paper session)
- Laura Harris (UW graduate student), University of Washington, Nescit enim quid amor: Asexual Gender in Ovid’s Hermaphroditus Episode
Saturday January 10, 2026
Seventh Paper Session (8:00–11:00am)
SCS-61 HYBRID: Collaboration in a Digital World: Expanding the Boundaries of Classical Studies (organized by the Digital Classics Association)
- Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (UW PhD ’14), Santa Clara University, Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Collaboration in Creating Immersive Virtual Ancient Environments
SCS-68: Hellenistic Poetry (paper session)
- Presider: Jim Clauss (UW faculty), University of Washington
- Luke Giuntoli (UW graduate student) University of Washington, A Clash of Epics: The Metapoetic Implications of Apollonius’ Talos
AIA-7E: Queer Roman Archaeology: (Self)-Representations of Queerness in Visual Material Culture (Colloquium)
- Discussant: Sarah Levin-Richardson (UW faculty), University of Washington
Eighth Paper Session (11.30am–1.30pm)
SCS-77: Athenian History & Historiography (paper session)
- Presider: Naomi Campa (UW PhD ’17), University of Texas at Austin
Ninth Paper Session (2:30–5:00pm)
SCS-78 HYBRID: Gardens and Water in Roman Poetry (paper session)
- Emma Brobeck (UW PhD ’21), Furman University, The Significance of Water Within Martial’s Saturnalian Banquet
SCS-81 HYBRID: Yellow Gold: Ornamentalism, Antiquity and the Asiatic Female (organized by the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus)
- Chris Waldo (UW faculty), University of Washington, Locating the Roots of Ornamental Femininity in Hesiod and Sappho