This year, the SCS/AIA is holding its annual conference virtually, and Department of Classics faculty, graduate students, affiliated students, and alumni will be making presentations over the coming days. Please read on for more details!
Wednesday, January 6
SCS session 28: Subverting the Classics in the Early Modern Americas
3-6pm EST (2-5pm CST)
John Izzo (Classics PhD student), "Slavery, Subjugation, and Empire in Cortés Totoquihuatzin's Latin Epistle to Charles V"
Thursday, January 7
SCS session 32: Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment
10am-1pm EST (9am-12pm CST)
Ashley Simone (Classics PhD 2020), "Ovid's Phaethon and Failed Cosmic Vision"
SCS session 33: Recent Work in Digital Classics
10am-1pm EST (9am-12pm CST)
Charles Pletcher (Classics PhD student), "How to Read with Hypertext: Building and Using New Alexandria"
AIA session 5A: Coins as Social Artifacts
10am-1pm EST (9am-12pm CST)
Jeremy Simmons (CLST PhD 2020), "Slashing, Soldering, and Simulating: Adaptations to Roman coins in ancient India"
SCS session 36: Eos READS: Toni Morrison, "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature"
3-6pm EST (2-5pm CST)
Yujhán Claros (Classics PhD student), discussion facilitator
Friday, January 8
SCS session 43: Augustan Poetry
10am-1pm EST (9am-12pm CST)
Elizabeth Heintges (Classics PhD student), "Pirates and Pietas: Sextus Pompey and the Ship Race in Aeneid 5"
SCS session 46: Indigenous Voices and Classical Literature
10am-1pm EST (9am-12pm CST)
Prof. Nancy Worman, "Medea's Ghosts: Cherríe Moraga and Euripides on the Body's Tragedies"
SCS session 47: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt
10am-1pm EST (9am-12pm CST)
Susan Rahyab (CLST PhD student), ""Anything Illicit": Censorship and Book-Burning in Roman Egypt"
Saturday, January 9
AIA Session 9B: There’s No Place Like Domus: Explorations of the Roman House
10am-1pm EST (9am-12pm CST)
Nicole Vellidis (CLST MA student), "Beware of Envy: A Reconstructive Study of the Mosaics in the Roman Villa of Skalla"
Katy Knortz (CLST MA 2020), "Aesthetics of Excess: Challenging the Theory of Elite Imitation in Trimalchio’s Home"
SCS-66: in a Roman Context
3-6pm EST (2-5pm CST)
Kate Brassel (Classics PhD 2018), "Epictetus, Caesar, and the Animals: A Fable"
Sunday, January 10
SCS-70: Epigraphy and History
10am-1pm EST (9am-12pm CST)
Deborah Sokolowski (CLST PhD student), "Sebastoi in the Countryside: Praying for Imperial Success in Rural Bithynia"
SCS-71: Seneca in the Renaissance
10am-1pm EST (9am-12pm CST)
Erin Jo Petrella (Classics PhD student), "Servilis vs. Puerilis: Seneca's De Tranquilitate Animi"
