Wilderness, Frontiers, and New Worlds in Antiquity Program
9:15-9:45: Breakfast
9:45-10:00: Introductions (Del Maticic, Rebecca Sausville)
Panel One: Devising the Wild
Respondent: Stephanie Crooks (NYU)
10:00-10:30: "Waterways in Hanno's Periplus," Charlotte Hunt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
10:30-11:00: "The 'Geo'-Politics of Nitocris and Semiramis in Book One of Herodotus: How Eastern Queens Manipulate the Land," Emily Erickson (University of Maryland)
11:00-11:30: "A Phenomenology of Vergil’s Landscape: Embodied Sensory Perception in Eclogues I & IX," Colleen Kron (The Ohio State University)
11:30-11:45: Coffee
Panel Two: Traversing and Sojourning
Respondent: Mikael Papadimitriou (NYU)
11:45-12:15: "Xenop(h)ontic Channel Surfing: Spartan Races, Athenian Drinks, and Black Sea Dancing," Ryan Franklin (Johns Hopkins University)
12:15-12:45: "Greek Identity in Post-Alexandrian Bactria," Thomas Hite (Washington University in St. Louis)
12:45-1:15: "Occupying Roman Arabia: Frontier Garrison as a Network," Jonathan Warner (Cornell University)
1:15-2:30: Lunch
Panel Three: Decamping
Respondent: Laura Santander (NYU)
2:30-3:00: "Storms, Giants, and Winters: A Storm only the Helmsman Stilicho Can Steer us through," Justin Spalding (University of Georgia)
3:00-3:30: "Libya’s Cultural Landscape in the Bellum Civile, Aeneid, and Punica: the Primitive and Mythological versus the Refined and Decadent," Amanda Severs (University of Kansas)
3:30-4:00: "The Alps as Katábasis: Landscape and Liminality in Livy Book 21," Benjamin Davis (University of Oregon)
4:00-4:30: Coffee
Keynote
4:30-5:30: "Classics and the Traveler's Kit: literature on ancient and modern frontiers," Prof. Emily Greenwood (Yale University)
5:30: Reception