The Student Affairs Interest Group (SAIG) of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Graduate Student Committee (GSC) of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) are pleased to present the inaugural SAIG/GSC Dissertation Lecture. This annual talk is a collaborative effort intended to highlight the work of a senior doctoral candidate whose research features interdisciplinary work between the fields of archaeology and classical philology, and to support the student networks between these related fields.
As the first SAIG/GSC Dissertation Lecturer, Elizabeth Heintges, doctoral candidate at Columbia University, will present “Forgetting Sextus Pompey: the bellum Siculum and Vergil’s Aeneid,” integrating both literary and material evidence into an analysis of two major moments in Roman Republican history. Please see the poster and abstract below for more details.
The lecture will be held virtually on Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 5:00 pm EDT. Please register here in advance of this Zoom webinar.
Any questions? Please don’t hesitate to reach out via email (studentaffairsaia@gmail.com).
About the Annual Lecture, SAIG, and GSC:
Following the 2020 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting, the Student Affairs Interest Group of the AIA and the Graduate Student Committee of the SCS began discussing future collaboration, with the purpose of highlighting and uplifting interdisciplinary graduate research. From this, the SAIG/GSC Annual Lecture was born, an awarded lecture for a doctoral candidate who emphasizes both new and interdisciplinary research in their own work. This Inaugural 2021 Lecture serves to empower graduate students, provide a professionalization opportunity during a critical period of career transition, and broadly, to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Through an ongoing virtual lecture series, the SAIG and GSC hope to expand access for their graduate audiences to new research and upcoming scholars, and to allow for scholarly participation and interest across a broad geographic area.
The Student Affairs Interest Group (SAIG) seeks to increase student engagement within the AIA and to provide student members a platform to have their voices heard. SAIG consists of AIA members with an interest in the expansion of opportunities for student participation and professional development within the AIA, the promotion of student scholarship, and the facilitation of dialogues between the student membership and other members of the organization through its various events, initiatives, and mentorship program. More information can be found at https://studentaffairsaia.wordpress.com/.
The SCS Graduate Student Committee (GSC) is a nominated subcommittee within the Education Division of the SCS, chiefly concerned with graduate student representation and unification for both member and non-member graduate students. Its initiatives have recently included advocating for greater representation of graduate students in positions of leadership and facilitating the creation of a region-based graduate student network.
