The NYU Society for Ancient Studies presents
The Second-Annual Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World
The Society for Ancient Studies (SAS) — an interdisciplinary graduate student organization at New York University — hosts its second-annual undergraduate conference on the ancient world at NYU. This conference, organized and moderated by graduate students for motivated undergraduates, offers participants the opportunity to present their scholarship in the professional setting of an academic conference.
Friday, February 7, 2020
The NYU King Juan Carlos of Spain Center
Screening Room and Atrium
53 Washington Square South
9:00am Session I: Women’s Worlds
Rupture Reimagined: Parabatic Functions and Agonistic Dramaturgy in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae
Maggie Rothberg (Wesleyan University)
Graceful Giving: The Role of the Female in Seneca's De Beneficiis
Helen Ruger (Columbia University)
Respondent: Josh Ziesel (NYU)
10:00am Session II: Counting in Latin Literature
A Case for a Standard Elementary Math Education in Ancient Rome
Luis Sanchez (FSU)
Sound Devices in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Book I
Jillian Heatley (Saint Anselm College)
Respondent: Greta Gualdi (NYU)
11:15am Session III: Plants and Sexuality
The Men Who Would Bear Fruit: Plant Horror, Gender, and Sexuality in the Ampelomixian of Lucian’s Verae Historiae
Kirsten Traudt (Princeton University)
A Durus Circulus: Farmer, Nature, and Civil Violence in Vergil’s Georgics
Emelyn Hatch (Wake Forest)
Respondent: Tuhin Bhattacharjee (NYU)
12:30pm Session IV: Roman Production and Commercial Space
Local Viniculture in Rough Cilicia
Clara Gambill, John Turco, and Grace Hermes (St. Olaf)
Cult and Industry: An Analysis of Religious Shrines in the Commercial Spaces of Pompeii
Abigail Staub (UVA)
Respondent: Meredith Millar (NYU)
2:30pm Session V: Imagining Others
Refashioning Elagabalus: The Construction of anti-Syrian stereotypes in Herodian, Cassius Dio, and the Historia Augusta
Stefan Loos (University of Houston)
Creating India: Exploring Colonized Histories and Mythologized Realities in Megasthenes's Indica
Aditi Rao (Columbia University)
Respondent: Ben Nikota (NYU)
3:45pm Session VI: Religious and Spiritual Receptions
Augustus in Blue: An Examination of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Faience Head of Augustus
Megan Gatton (NYU)
Egyptomania Across the Empire: Reexamining the Temple of Isis at Pompeii
Avery Warkentin (McGill University)
Fragments of Its Gods': The Reinterpretive Evangelism of Nineteenth-Century Philhellenist Poetics
Kit Pyne-Jaeger (Cornell University)
Respondents: Dashiell Jordan (NYU) and Zach Rivers (NYU)
5:30pm Keynote Lecture
Venus: 33-26-38
Hallie M. Franks (NYU)
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 Science, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Department of Classics, The Institute of Fine Arts, The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, and the Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies.
For more information visit the conference website or email nyuniversitysas@gmail.com.
Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World
