On November 4, 2017, NYU Classics hosted eight graduate students from across the U.S. for its biennial graduate student conference. The topic was "Wilderness, Frontiers, and New Worlds in Antiquity," and through their papers the participants ably explored that prompt in a variety of settings throughout Greco-Roman antiquity -- the program and abstracts can be found here. Fifth year NYU graduate students Stephanie Crooks and Laura Santander and fourth year student Mikael Papadimitriou acted as respondents to the papers, and Prof. Emily Greenwood of Yale delivered a stirring keynote entitled "Classics and the Traveler's Kit: literature on ancient and modern frontiers," which was simultaneously a nuanced treatment of geography and space in Herodotus and a challenge to question and explore what comprises a canon on a societal and individual level. 

Here are some photos from the proceedings, taken by third year graduate student Rebekah Rust.