The NYU Department of Classics presents
Biennial Graduate Student Conference
Horror vacui: Fear of Space in the Ancient World
Friday, November 5, 2019
NYU Department of Classics
via Zoom
All conference times listed in EDT
9:00-9:15am Introductions
9:15-10:45am First Panel: Philosophy
Conflict and Contours: Opposing Drives in Anaximander’s Apeiron and Nietzsche’s Primordial Unity
Tanner Lyon (The New School for Social Research)
Traces of Horror Vacui in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Elisa Citano (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, RTG)
The Void is the Final Theme of Ontology: Badiou’s Critique of Ancient Materialism
Shane Devine (The New School for Social Research)
10:45-11:00am Break
11:00am-12:30pm Second Panel: Production
Taming Natural Disasters: Subverting Fear of the Void in The Natural History of Pliny
Isabel Tracy (NYU)
Publicly Private: Athenian Narratives of Mourning and Loss
Justin Lorenzo Biggi (University of Edinburgh)
Drapery on Roman Sarcophagi: between Pathos and Filler
Giulia Bertoni (Columbia University)
12:30-2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-3:30pm Third Panel: Place
Horror Vacui and Oblative Signs in Roman Republican Augury
Keegan J. Valbuena (Princeton University)
The Imperial Eye: A GIS Based Approach to the Panoptic Design of the Sasanian City of Ardašīr-Xwarrah, Iran
Johnathan Hardy (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
Agrimensura: Land Divisions in Roman Veteran Colonies
Joseph Carrino (University of Cambridge)
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00pm Keynote Address
On the ‘Emptiness’ of Space
Amy Russell (Brown University)
To register for this event, visit: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_66MuvwV-RnScoDayPNTpmA
For more information, visit the conference website: https://as.nyu.edu/classics/events/horror-vacui--fear-of-space-in-the-ancient-world.html or contact the conference organizers at: nyugradconference@gmail.com