2025 Society of Classical Studies Annual Meeting

We are proud that Columbia Classics made quite an impact at the 2025 Society of Classical Studies (SCS) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia; faculty and graduate students of the Classics Department submitted papers and participated in panels.  Below is a breakdown of our representation at the conference.

SCS 2025 Columbia University

Presenters:

1. Melody Wauke (PhD Candidate)
   Fictive Kinship through Rhetorical Training in Philostratus and Lucian

2. Marissa Swan (PhD Candidate)
   The Animalization of Imperial Bodies: Lactantius and the Tetrarchic Emperors

3. Geoffrey Harmsworth (PhD Candidate)
   Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, and the Punditry Sphere in the Roman-era Polis

4. José Cancino Alfaro (PhD Candidate)
   Indigenous voices? Four cantiunculae of a Machi in Bernard Havestadt’s Chilidugu (1777)

5. Elizabeth Heintges (PhD Candidate)
   Missive Missiles: Inscribed Sling Bullets and Communication in the Late Republic

6. Riley Parker (Undergraduate, Classics)
   Exiled by Fate: Memory and National Identity in Aeneid VIII

7. Kit Pyne-Jaeger (PhD Student, English and Comp-Lit)
   Styling Queerness and Decorating Time: J.W. Waterhouse and Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Presiders/Roundtables:

1. Joseph Howley (Assoc. Professor of Classics, Columbia) - Labor Panel

2. Kristina Milnor (Professor of Classics, Barnard) - Co-organizer of the Queer Families in the Ancient Mediterranean World Panel (Lambda Classical Caucus)

3. Valeria Spacciante (PhD Candidate) and Umberto Verdura (PhD Student) - Roundtable: Ancient Narrative Interest Group [based on the roundtable, this will be a consistent paper panel going forward for future SCS conferences]