The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents
The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
Work/Life: Institutions, Subjectivities, and Human Resources in the Roman World
Wednesday - Friday, October 13-15, 2021
via Zoom webinar
WEDNESDAY, October 13, 2021
Welcome and Introduction (9:00-9:30am)
Matthew Santirocco, NYU
Jordan Rogers, Carleton College and Del A. Maticic, NYU
SESSION 1 (9:30am-12:30pm)
Skills and Professional Knowledge
Moderator: Astrid Van Oyen, Cornell University
Working and Learning Environments
Caroline Cheung, Princeton University
Wandering Workers: Economic Mobility among Skilled Professionals in the Roman World
Claire Holleran, University of Exeter
Neither ‘Blissful’ Nor ‘Unaware’: Merchant Responses to Elite and Non-Elite Stereotypes in the Roman World
Jane Sancinito, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
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THURSDAY, October 14, 2021
SESSION 2 (9:00am-11:00am)
Life, Death, and Memory
Moderator: Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University
Philotimia at Work in Roman Asia Minor
Rebecca Sausville, NYU
Libitina's Laborers: praeficae and the Origins of the Roman Funerary Trade
John Bodel, Brown University
BREAK (11:00am-11:30am)
SESSION 3 (11:30am-1:30pm)
Not in the Job Description
Moderator: Emilia Barbiero, NYU
The Problem of the Vilicus: Ontologies of Knowledge and Work in Roman Elite Enslaver Ideology
Joseph Howley, Columbia University
The Flight of a Literary Assistant and an Unnamed operarius: Between Professional Responsibility and Personal Duty
Nicole Giannella, Cornell University
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FRIDAY, October 15, 2021
Session 4 (9:00am-11:00am)
Images of Labor
Moderator:
Lauren Hackworth Petersen, University of Delaware
Looking at the Laboring: Fictions, ‘Realities’, and a Culture of Competence
Ann Kuttner, University of Pennsylvania
Labor and Religio in the So-Called fabri tignarii Relief
Jordan Rogers, Carleton College
BREAK (11:00am-11:30am)
SESSION 5 (11:30am-2:30pm)
Making Poetry Work
Moderator: Nandini Pandey, Johns Hopkins University
Work/Life Integration in the Vergilian Project
Del A. Maticic, NYU
The Politics of Pesto: Making Metaphor Work (Moretum)
Tom Geue, University of St. Andrews
Arachne or the Metamorphosis of Labor
Marco Formisano, Ghent University
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For more information, contact the NYU Center for Ancient Studies at 212.992.7978 or at ancient.studies@nyu.edu