Thursday's Sessions

Thursday, 12 March 2026

Thursday, First Paper Session 8:15 – 9:45 am

  1. Mythology and Weaving – Clipper 

Georgia L. Irby (William & Mary), presider

The Transformations of Kaine/Kaineus and Ambā/ Śikhaṇḍin, Albert T. Watanabe (Louisiana State University)

Miracula, Myth, and Memory in L. Ampelius’ Liber Memorialis, Molly Swetnam-Burland (William & Mary), Benjamin McClarty (William & Mary), and Patrick Carpenter (William & Mary)

Of Lions, Witches, and Wardrobes: What descriptors say about the character of a witch, Madison Berresford (Florida State University)

Tiresias, Ancient Witches, and their Deviant Bodies, Basil Perkins (University of Georgia)

Looms in the Classroom: Ancient Textiles through Studio Art, Bayla Kamens (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

  1. Attic Oratory and the Democracy – Mobile Bay 1

Naomi T. Campa (University of Texas at Austin), presider

What Made Hubris an Actionable Offense in Classical Athens, Andrew Wolpert (University of Florida)

Demosthenes’ Manipulation of the Rhetoric of Enmity in the Crown Oration, Lehman Schwab (University of Southern California)

Demagogues and Tyrants: Populist Reform in Athens from the Sixth to the Fifth Century BCE, Ethan Bosworth (University of Arizona)

Elected Officials in 4th-Century Athens: Slide into Oligarchy or Development in Democracy?, Andrew Alwine (College of Charleston)

Me Mnesikakein? Treating transmissional trauma in Plato’s Apology of Socrates, Silvio Foce (University of Southern California)

 

 

 

  1. Staging Cassandra – Mobile Bay 2

Krishni Burns (University of Illinois Chicago), presider

Cassandra as Bilingual in Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Hyeonseo Kim (Cornell University)

Cassandra, Bestialized: Otherness and Intersectionality in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Teresa Scott (Texas A&M International University)

The Power of Pity in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Doug Clapp (Samford University)

The Frenzied Prophetess: The Use of Bacchic Cognates to Describe Cassandra in Euripides, Jamie Gross (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

                                                  

  1. Cicero – Mobile Bay 3

Tom Keeline (Washington University in St. Louis), presider

Plebeius Sermo: A Corpus Study of Cicero's Letters to Atticus, Matthew DeHass (University of Missouri)

The Development of Cicero and Pompey's Relationship Through an Analysis of Cicero's Epistles, Juan Corujo (University of Georgia)

Networking Cicero's Legacy: Ancient History and Political Power in the Late Republic, Brendan McCarthy (Utah Valley University)

A Liberty Founded on Proportional Equality: An examination of Cicero’s De re publica, Paige Garrett (University of St Andrews)

Et Tu, Brewte? Cicero on What Ales the State, Jonathan Zarecki (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

 

  1. Greek Lyric Poetry – Schooner

Lorenzo Garcia, Jr. (University of New Mexico), presider

Eros, again, is Looking at me Meltingly: The Role of Vision in Archaic Greek Lyric and Hellenistic Epigram, Ruth Patterson (Trinity University)

The Finest Host: A New Interpretation of Sappho 16, Gillian Swain (Northwestern University)

“We Would Not Love Evil Things”: A Reinterpretation of Semonides, Jack Oster (University of Cincinnati)

Playing the Pharmakos: Persona and Parody in Hipponax, Grant Geiger (University of Virginia)

Absent Adonis: Setting and Speaker in the Poetry of the Adonia, Madeline Baird (William & Mary)        

 

  1. Catullus in Conversation – Windjammer

Molly Pasco-Pranger (University of Mississippi), presider

The Politics of pietas: Catullus, Vergil, and the Augustan Reimagining of the Roman Self, Vassiliki Panoussi (William & Mary)

Catullus et Calvus: Poetic Friendship in Catullus 50 and 14, Bradley B. Sadowsky (University of Kansas)

“Cheeks not Unstained”: Simonides’ “Danaë” (fr. 543) and Catullus 38 Reconsidered, Robert J. Buhite (Duke University)

Hiding Behind Their Puella: Insecure Narrators in Catullus 67 and Propertius 1.16, Jia Self (University of Kansas)

 

  1. Whither Classical Studies? Innovative Pedagogies, Enrollment Diversification, and Social Relevance – Riverboat

Victor A. Martinez (Independent Scholar), organizer and presider

Diversifying Classics through Intentional Collaboration, Amy Pistone (Gonzaga University)

Pragmatic Gaming and Virtual Realities in the Classics Classroom, Eduardo Garcia-Molina (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Gateway Classicism: The Classic Problem with the Ancient World, Victor A. Martinez (Independent Scholar)

 

Thursday, Second Paper Session 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

  1.  Roman Archaeology – Clipper

Susann Lusnia (Tulane University), presider

The Use of Tuff in Roman Monumental Construction, Madeleine Lynch (University of Arizona)

Aristoxenus' Fragment on the Barbarization and the Painted Tomb of Capua and Poseidonia: An Interdisciplinary Comparison, Antonio Lau (University of Michigan)

Negotiating Roman Imperialism in Civic Architecture at Bibracte (Mont-Beuvray, France), Zoé Thomas (Millsaps College)

 

  1. Ancient Novels and Novelists – Mobile Bay 1   

Sarah Keith (University of Michigan), presider

Cultural Hybridity and the Sacred Geography of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica, Chloe Gupta (University of California, Los Angeles)

Echoes of Latin Elegy in Daphnis and Chloe, Morgan Amonett (University of Virginia)

Sanguinis Eruptionem: Abjection and Forced Feminization in the Aristomenes Episode of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, James R. Legutki (University of Iowa)

Lautissimus homo: Cleanliness and the macula servitutis in Petronius' Satyrica, Amanda Aleksandrowicz (University of Kansas)

Epistolary Paradox in Apuleius's Apology, Ashley G. Walker (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

 

  1. Some Political Contexts – Mobile Bay 2

Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina at Asheville), presider

Dirtbag's Guide to Leadership, E. Del Chrol (Marshall University)

A Tradition in Crisis: Cicero's Catilinarians and American Presidential Rhetoric, Riya Saha (Noble and Greenough)

The Trump Administration’s Executive Orders on Classical Architecture in their Historical and Ideological Contexts, Curtis Dozier (Vassar College)

Poesia Eroica: Mussolini's Ugly Aeneas, Elijah Peacock (University of Georgia)

Michelangelo, Mussolini, and Mary in Marble: Fascism, Catholicism, and the Modern American TradCath Movement, Jenna Glassburner (Arizona State University)

  1. Greek Law and Society – Mobile Bay 3

Sydnor Roy (Marshall University), presider

Civic Education and Social Control in Classical Athens: The Case of the Ephebeia, Joshua Allbright (Louisiana State University)

Failures in Athenian Espionage: An Examination of Espionage in Thucydides, Justice Neasbitt (University of Arizona)

Strangers, Murderers, Laborers: Attic Homicide Law and the Rights of Subordinates, Brian Jorge Bigio (University of Miami)

Seeing Isokrates' Evagoras as an Epitaphios Logos, Nicholas Trcalek (Brown University)

Ancient Contract Disputes: Character Evidence and Context in the Democratic Courts of Classical Athens, Madelyn Kavanagh (University of Florida)

 

  1. Euripides 1 – Schooner

Amy Pistone (Gonzaga University), presider

From Hunter to Hunted, in Euripides' Hippolytus, Everest Wirszyla (Independent Scholar)

A Body Made Divine: ὁ δαίμων and ὁ θεός in Euripides’ Bacchae, Oliver Richards (University of Kentucky)

Sparagmos of a Speech: Tiresias’ Apology as an Interpretive Key to Euripides’ Bacchae, Nicholas Powers (University of Kentucky)

Yes/No Future: Queer Temporality in Iphigenia at Aulis, Laird Cantrell (University of Iowa)

Horse Girl Son or Masculine κλέος Daughter? An Exploration of Achilles' Gender Performance in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, Marisa Rude (University of Iowa)

 

  1. Workshop: Creating Support Networks for Lone Classicists – Riverboat

Stephen M. Kershner (Austin Peay State University) and Angela Pitts (University of Mary Washington), co-organizers and co-presenters

 

Thursday, Third Paper Session 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

  1. Euripides 2 – Clipper

Eunice Kim (Furman University), presider

Helen, Clytemnestra, and the proliferation of the self, Christina Filippaki (University of Chicago)

Seven Against Convention: Rethinking the Number of the Tragic Chorus, Emmanuel Aprilakis (Rutgers University)

Age, Birds, and Lament: Choral Poetics and Cohesion in Euripides’ Herakles, Aikaterini Markaki (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

A Hate That Dare Now Speak Its Name: Sublime Attack, Victor Castellani (University of Denver – Emeritus)

Absurdism and Euripides' Helen, Martin Albright (University of Alabama)

 

  1. Princes and Power – Mobile Bay 1

Sam Kindick (University of Alabama), presider

Landscape and the Memory of Conflict in Strabo's Italy, Elizabeth G. Palazzolo, Providence College

Caligula Among the Client Kings, Trevor Luke (Florida State University)

A Calpurnian Conspiracy: Anti-Neronian Themes in the Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus, Jakob Tucker (University of Arizona)

Imperium and one-man rule in Tacitus' Histories, Panayiotis Christoforou (University of Oxford)

Septimia Zenobia Augusta: Gender Performance, Legitimacy, and Masculine Authority in the Historia Augusta, Kevin Gallagher (University of Southern Florida)

 

  1. The Grateful Dead – Mobile Bay 2

Allannah Karas (University of Miami), presider

Heroic Immortality in the Proem of Parmenides, Benjamin John (The Ohio State University)

Before the Afterlife: The Overlooked Impact of Lived Experiences in Mystery Cults, Andrew Burrow (Carson-Newman University)

The Sensual Dead: Exploring the Non-Visual Paradigm of the Greek Afterlife, Suzanne Lye (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Good Ghosts: A Re-view of the Roman Ghost Story, Kathleen Burt (Middle Georgia State University)

 

  1. Greek Cultural Studies – Mobile Bay 3

Andrew Wolpert (University of Florida), presider

Tracing the Origins of the Ephesian Artemis, Zoe Hubacker (University of Arizona)

Gendered Athletics in Greece and Rome, Grace Kim (Andover Academy)

A Typology of Ancient Greek Migration, Naomi T. Campa (The University of Texas at Austin)

The Parthenon as a Symbol of Cultural Identities in Athens, Kai L. Jones (Southeastern Oklahoma State University)

 

  1. Objects – Schooner

Jessica Anne Westerhold (University of Tennessee), presider

Show, don’t tell: Case studies from Homer’s Odyssey in translating speech to image, Margaretha Kramer-Hajos (Dartmouth College)

Objects of Illumination: Lamps, Desire, and the Reflexive Dynamics of Viewing in Sympotic Vases, Hellenistic Epigram, and Latin Poetry, Flora Iff-Noël (University of Florida)

Aeneas and the Ekphrasis of the Theban Crater in Ovid's Metamorphoses 13, Aaron Palmore (Loyola University Maryland)

Messalina Invicta: Gender and Sexual Behavior as a Discourse of Power in Portable Objects in the Roman Empire, Alyson Roy (University of Idaho)

 

  1. Roundtable: Goals of GSIC for CAMWS Graduate Students – Riverboat

Rebecca Sanders (University of Michigan), organizer

 

Thursday, Fourth Paper Session 3:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

  1. Sophocles – Clipper

Doug Clapp (Samford University), presider

A story of misunderstood jealousy: Procne’s emotion in Sophocles’ Tereus, Maria Eugenia Bonaparte-Gimenez (Washington University in St. Louis)

From Figure to Plot: Innovative Embodiment of Metapoetic Metaphors in Sophocles' Tereus, Matteo Ciocca (University of Cincinnati)

Emotional Pain as an Ethical Guide: Neoptolemus’ Aischunē in Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Daniel Ruprecht (University of Chicago)

The Persuasion of Philoctetes, Davis Holden (Washington University in St. Louis)

Sibling Address and Cooperative Verbal Strategies in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, Virginia Lewis (Florida State University)

 

  1. Medicine – Mobile Bay 1

Konstantinos Kapparis (University of Florida), presider

Binding Down the Womb: Uterine Prolapse and Magical Practice, Miranda Amey (The Ohio State University)

Reconsidering the Hippocratic "Incurable" Case, Grant Hussong (University of California, Los Angeles)

Aeschylus' Agamemnon: Miasma and the Hippocratic Corpus, Abbey Linnell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Medical Rhetoric in Theocritus’ Idyll 11, Christopher Harden (Florida State University)

 

  1. Archaeology – Mobile Bay 2

Daniel Levine (University of Arkansas), presider

Preliminary Social Network Analysis of Thebes Odos Pelopidou Linear B Tablets, Rebecca Sanders (University of Michigan)

Re-Reading of Rural Fortifications: Resource Exploitation and the (Shifting) Dynamics of Identity in the Attic-Boeotian Borderlands, Hidayet Topal (University of Michigan)

Real and Imagined Cityscapes of Late Antique Ascalon, Simeon Ehrlich (Georgia State University)

Gaining Forts and Ports: The Materiality of Sympolities, Christina DiFabio (University of Kansas)

 

  1. Latin Poetry and Gender – Mobile Bay 3

E. Del Chrol (Marshall University), presider

Women's Joy and Happiness in Propertius, Jessica Anne Westerhold (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

The Enunciation of Masculinity in Catullan Invective, Lily Hart (University of Iowa)

Martial is uncomfortable with sex? The Roman Woman and the Foreign Prostitute, Dylan Plemper (Emory University)

The Semantics of Sexuality: Obscenity in Catullus and Martial, Kristina Perdue (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

Two Homeric Women in Juvenal’s Sixth Satire, Christopher Nappa (Florida State University)

 

  1. Workshop: Graduate Student Teaching in 2026– Riverboat

Sarah Keith (University of Michigan), organizer and presider

Sponsored by the Graduate Student Issues Committee (GSIC)

 

  1. Tacitus and Suetonius – Windjammer

Jonathan Master (Emory University), presider

Syncrisis and Power Politics in Tacitus' Agricola, Aurora Muggeridge (Hillsdale College)

The “Decline” of Eloquence in Pliny’s Letters and Tacitus’ Dialogus, Tiziano Boggio (Vertex Partnership Academies)

Revenge and Cruelty: Suetonius and His Depiction of Octavian in the Civil Wars, Skylar Wittenborn (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Comissimus multa ioco transigebat: Quotation, Humor, and Double-Voicing in Suetonius" Life of Vespasian, Scott DiGiulio (Mississippi State University)

History and the Histrio, Emma Warhover (Florida State University)

 

  1. Reflections on Classics – Schooner

Allen Miller (University of South Carolina), presider

Rethinking Intellectuality from Medea to Gloria Steinem, Eleni Bozia (University of Florida)

Classicists in low places: what popular fiction reveals about perceptions of our discipline, Sophie Mills (University of North at Carolina at Asheville)

 

H. Roman Elegy - Grand Bay Ballroom

Emma Brobeck (Furman University), presider

The Sacred Countryside: Hellenistic Poetics and Roman Religion in Tibullus 2.1, Lauren Kronk (University of Alabama)

“Fuisse Ferar”: Sulpicia’s Temporal Compression of Fama in [Tibullus] 3.13, Zoe Roettger (Carleton College)

At the Door: The Tibullan Exclusus Amator and the Boundaries of Masculinity, Sara N. Baldwin (University of Cincinnati)

Reading Elegiac Grief in Propertius 1.7, Shangwei Deng (University of Michigan)

The Augustan Program in Propertius 4.6, Nicole Wolking (University of Kansas)