The NYU Department of Classics, Department of Comparative Literature, Center for Ancient Studies, Office of the Dean for Humanities, and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, along with the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and the New York Classical Club present
WILDERNESS, FRONTIERS, AND NEW WORLDS IN ANTIQUITY
Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Jurow Lecture Hall
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Panel One: Devising the Wild
Respondent: Stephanie Crooks (NYU)
10:00am Waterways in Hanno’s Periplus
Charlotte Hunt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
10:30am The ‘Geo’-Politics of Nitocris and Semiramis in Book One of Herodotus: How Eastern Queens Manipulate the Land
Emily Erickson (University of Maryland)
11:00am A Phenomenology of Vergil’s Landscape: Embodied Sensory Perception in Eclogues I & IX
Colleen Kron (The Ohio State University)
Panel Two:
Traversing and Sojourning
Respondent: Mikael Papadimitriou (NYU)
11:45am Xenop(h)ontic Channel Surfing: Spartan Races, Athenian Drinks, and Black Sea Dancing
Ryan Franklin (Johns Hopkins University)
12:15pm Greek Identity in Post-Alexandrian Bactria
Thomas Hite (Washington University in St. Louis)
12:45pm Occupying Roman Arabia: Frontier Garrison as a Network
Jonathan Warner (Cornell University)
Panel Three: Decamping
Respondent: Laura Santander (NYU)
2:30pm Storms, Giants, and Winters: A Storm only the Helmsman Stilicho Can Steer Us Through
Justin Spalding (University of Georgia)
3:00pm 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)
3:30pm The Alps as Katábasis: Landscape and Liminality in Livy Book 21
Benjamin Davis (University of Oregon)
Keynote
4:30pm Classics and the Traveler’s Kit: Literature on Ancient and Modern Frontiers
Prof. Emily Greenwood (Yale University)
5:30pm Reception
This conference is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the conference webpage: http://as.nyu.edu/classics/events/WFNW2017Program.html or contact: nyugradconference@gmail.com
Wilderness, Frontiers, and New Worlds in Antiquity
