The NYU Society for Ancient Studies presents
The Third-Annual Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World
Friday, February 12, 2021
via Zoom
9:00 am Introduction and Keynote
Historical Method and National Identity in the Ancient World
David Levene, Professor of Classics (NYU)
10:30 am Panel 1: Conceptualizations of Space
The Vocabulary of Defense in Egypt’s Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period
Jacob Glenister (Penn State University)
The Significance of Thonis-Heracleion’s Sacred Topography to the Establishment and Success of the Ptolemaic Dynasty
Elliot Luke (University of Lincoln)
Gauls in Roman Society: Political Change and its Cultural Effects under Emperor Claudius
Alessandra Schultz (University of Queensland)
Ruralization of Coastal Palestine During the Transition from the Byzantine to Islamic Periods: A Focus on Rural Developments in the Hinterlands of Caesarea Maritima
Matthew Paltiel Weinstein (NYU)
12:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 pm Panel 2: Art History
Visualizing Imperialism: The Pompeiian Second Style as a Recollection of Roman Elite Cultural Memory
Max Meyer (NYU)
Decapitation and Dynamite: The Mutilated Roadside Monument of Gaius Julius Aquila on the Coast of Bithynia et Pontus
Sean Silvia (University of Southern California)
Diocletian and his Gods: Digital Analysis of Divine Association in Diocletianic Coinage
Christopher Thoms-Bauer (Rutgers)
2:15 pm Panel 3: Perceptions/Senses/Bodies
Maybe it’s a Sign: Observation and Doubt in a Mesopotamian Omen Series
Madeline Ouimet (University of Chicago)
The Body and the Shaping of Historical Discourse in Thucydides
Georgios Podaropoulos (Leiden University)
From Disgust to Divinity: Ritual Debasement in 4th Century Athenian Legal Speeches
Maria Lentz (University of Southern California)
3:30 pm Panel 4: Reception
From Augustus to Cosimo: Classical Art as a Language of Social and Political Power in Renaissance Florence
Joselyn Garcia (Hunter College CUNY)
Reverse Colonization in the Silver Age: Understanding Trimalchio through Comparison with Count Dracula
Brogan A. Smith (Georgetown University)
ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant: Empire and the Periphery in Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire
Jacob Hane (Hamilton College)
Classical Myths in Children’s Picturebooks
Jessica Alexander (Queens College CUNY)
5:00 Closing Remarks
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