The NYU Society for Ancient Studies presents
An Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World
The Society for Ancient Studies (SAS) — an interdisciplinary graduate student organization at New York University — will host a one day undergraduate conference on the ancient world on Friday, February 8, 2019 at NYU. This conference, organized and moderated by graduate students for talented and advanced undergraduates, will offer participants the opportunity to present their scholarship in the professional setting of an academic conference.
Friday, February 8, 2019
Department of Classics
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
Enter at 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place
212.998.8590
9:00 am: Registration & Welcome
9:30 am: Session I: Archaeological Measures of Politics in Antiquity
Moderator: Kyle Brunner (ISAW)
Long Walls, A Solution to a Difficult Problem
Henry Aufderheide (NYU)
Early Arsacid Iconography and Ideology in Royal Coinage
Ryan Robinson (University of Washington – Seattle)
10:15 am: Session II: Reception in Antiquity, Antiquity in Reception
Moderator: Avi M. Miller (NYU)
Zooming in and Out: Stories of Judith in the Construction of Jewish and Christian Identity
Reuven Herzog (Yeshiva University)
Even Though It Is Not a Mitzvah: Textual Influence and Conceptual Change: Topics in the Rabbinic Treatment of Non-Temple Passover Rituals
Yona Benjamin (Jewish Theological Seminary/Columbia University)
The Visigothic Law Code: A Study in Late Antique Christian Identity Formation
Emily Ward (Kenyon College)
11:30 am: Session III: Material Remains, Historical Reconstructions
Moderator: Sarah Cohen (NYU IFA)
Defining the Symposiast’s Neuroaesthetic Response to the Ceramic Satyr
Margaret Corn (Columbia University)
Circe’s Tame Beasts and Wild Men
Amy Freeman, Queens College (CUNY)
Reading the Textile Industries of Achaemenid Mesopotamia and Persia in New York City
Jiyun Kim (Fashion Institute of Technology)
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:45pm: Session IV: Magic and Madness
Moderator: Rebekah Rust (NYU)
Feminine Necromantic Competence in Witchcraft and Martyrdom from Circe to Perpetua
Carly Zerbe (Brooklyn College)
Searching for Divine Identification and Immortality: Greek Magical Papyri and Orphic Gold Leaves
Heather Dupire-Nelson (NYU)
Guilt of the Day, Innocence of the Night: De Medicina and Early Imperial Roman Madness
Leah F. Bórquez (Bryn Mawr College)
3:00pm: Session V: Ancient Relationships and Modern Conceptions
Moderator: Ben Nikota (NYU)
The Power of the Child-Bearer in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
Isaac Hoffman (Hofstra University)
Erastes, Eromenos, Philtatos: What We Talk About When We Talk About Pederasty
Madeleine Johnson (University of Chicago)
3:45pm: Closing Remarks
This conference is generously supported by the NYU Office of the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the Center for Ancient Studies, and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.
For more information, please visit the conference website at: https://nyusasugconference.webs.com/
Questions? All inquiries can be directed to the Conference Organizers: Joshua Blachorsky, Alexandria Istok, and Patrick Angiolillo at: NYUniversitySAS@gmail.com