Department of Classical Studies
Friday, April 14th, 2023
Keynote Address
5:30 – 6:45 pm
Professor Kashi Gomez (University of Pennsylvania)
“Theories of Conquest and the Bodies of Women in Sanskrit Literature”
7:00 pm
Pizza & drinks reception in Cohen 2nd floor lounge
Saturday, April 15th, 2023
9 am Breakfast
Panel 1: Experiences of War
9:30 am
Vanessa Stovall (University of Vermont)
“The (Dis)tresses of Women: Traumatized Hair and Gendered Anxiety in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita”
9:45 am
Mark Van Horn (University of Pennsylvania)
“Ancient Media and Modern Aftermaths: Eternal Soldier and the Veterans’ History Exchange”
10:00 am
Brianna Gardner (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
“Assessing Skeletal Trauma for Evidence of Organized Conflict”
10:15 am
Jermaine Bryant (Princeton University)
“Umbria, Home of the Roman Callimachus! On Propertius’ Problematic Patria”
10:30 am
Discussant: Amelia Bensch-Schaus (University of Pennsylvania)
Break 11:15 – 11:45 am
11:35 am Museum Focus Object with David Mulder (University of Pennsylvania)
Panel 2: Empire and Colonization
11:45 am
Jeremy Steinberg (University of Pennsylvania)
An End to Post-Judaean War Trauma? Rethinking Nerva’s Fiscus Iudaicus Coin
12:00 pm
Natalie Marie Yeagley (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
“Surveying Material Evidence for Periods of Increased Violence in the Early Bronze Age Aegean”
12:15 pm
Kong F. Cheong (American University)
“Coconut Palm and European Colonization: An Ecological Disaster at the Ancient Swahili Stone Town of Manda, Kenya”
12:30 PM
Helen Wong (University of Pennsylvania)
“Water Access, Imperialism, and the Urban-rural Relationship in Hellenistic-Roman Scythopolis”
12:45 pm
Discussant: Danielle Perry (University of Pennsylvania)
Lunch Break 1:30 – 2:45 pm
2:35 pm Museum Focus Object with Arielle Hardy (University of Pennsylvania)
Panel 3: Language and Conflict
2:45 pm
Roman “Sunshine” Alvarez De Silva (University of Vermont)
“Remembering to Heal: Livy’s Preface and Aeneas’ Speech after the Storm”
3:00 pm
Julia Pare (Princeton University)
“Pasiphae’s Paideia: Traumatized Stoic Education and Self-Alienation in Seneca’s Phaedra”
3:15 pm
Eric Daniel Villalobos (Emory University)
“Bending the Rules Better: Debating Exceptions to Monastic Rules in Mūrtipūjaka Śvetāmbara Jainism”
3:30 pm
Discussant: Tiffany Nguyen (University of Pennsylvania)
Break 4:15 – 4:45 pm
4:35 pm Museum Focus Object with Shaashi Ahlawat (University of Pennsylvania)
Panel 4: Monuments and Commemoration
4:45 pm
Charles Ro (University of Pennsylvania)
“Troiani qui capta Troia bello superfuerant: The Defeat, Immigration, and Refuge of Aeneas”
5:00 pm
Maja Kleihs (University of Oregon)
“Identity in the Attalid Dedications: Examining the Vanquished Vatican Persian”
5:15 pm
Alex Nguyen (University of Pennsylvania)
“The City on Fire, or, How Do You Memorialize A Burning City?: The Poetics of Grief in Response to the Razings of Saigon, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Troy”
5:30 pm
Discussant: Matthew Capps (University of Pennsylvania)
Dinner
6:30 pm, Han Dynasty