9:00-9:10 Introduction
09:15 – 10:15 Panel 1 The Ancient World across Time and Space
Archie Robson (Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, UK)
Missing the trees: a Late Mesolithic carved timber from Maerdy Windfarm, Wales, and its implications for prehistoric woodworking
Allen (Jilun) Zhu (Department of History, New York University, USA)
The Transformation of Byzantine Provincial Administration in the Seventh Century
Dustin Chen (Department of Classics, New York University, USA
Local Agency at the Crossroads: Yingpan Man as a Unique Case
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30-11:15 Panel 2 Women of the Ancient World
Fiona McFerrin-Clancy (Department of the Classics, Harvard University, USA)
Avian Presence in Female-Dedicated Lekythoi
Sophie Vo (Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Emory University, USA)
The Terrible Beauty of Many Gazes
Veena Nambi (Religion Department, Wellesley College, USA)
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Depictions of Bathsheba as a Feminist Interpretation
Julia Keikilani Edwards (Department of English and American Literature, New York University, USA)
On Frank Ocean’s “Pyramids:” The Pimping of Cleopatra VII
11:50 – 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:00 Panel 3 Creating Meaning
Katherine Shambaugh (Department of Classical Studies, College of Wooster, USA)
Reflections on Erections and Exposure: A Philological and Cultural Interpretation of Ψωλός
Rafael Torre de Silva (Department of Classics, New York University, USA)
Drunk Poets and Divine Politicians: Bacchus in Horace Odes 1.18, 2.19 and 3.25
Eleanor M. Vannan (Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria, Canada)
The Same Good Deeds Worthy of a Good Reputation: Preserving the Cultural Connotations of Pudicitia in Translation
2:00-2:15 Break
2:15-3:40 Panel 4 Reception of the Ancient World
Isabelle Grace Casimir (Department of Classics, Princeton University, USA)
Carolingian Reception of Eclogue 4: the Sibyl of Cumae in the Oxford Vergil and Montpellier Vergil
Nam Do (Department of Classics, Pomona College, USA)
Vercingetorix and the Honor-Identity of Empire
Emily Yoder (Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University, USA)
“Resound Ye Woods and Fields”: Echoes of Virgilian Pastoral in Henry David Thoreau’s “Lately, Alas, I Knew A Gentle Boy”
John Freeman (Department of Classics, Princeton University, USA)
Decentralizing the Modern Viewer: Repatriation and Re-presentation of Orpheus and the Sirens
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