Saturday's Session

Saturday, 14 March 2026

8:00 a.m.- 10 a.m.

CAMWS Business Meeting - Grand Bay Ballroom


Saturday, Ninth Paper Session 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

  1. Classics from Popular Culture to Classrooms – Clipper

Christopher McDonough (The University of the South), presider

Aristophanes, Leymah Gbowee, and Spike Lee: understanding modern reception with students, Hana Aghababian (Skidmore College)

Dionysos and His Twisted Sisters: An Accidental Bacchae and Pop Culture Classics, Beau J. Henson (Montgomery Bell Academy)

Physical Culturists’ technosomata: Bodybuilder, Hercules, and the Terminator, Keisuke Nakajima (Johns Hopkins University)

Bruce Wayne: A Modern Odysseus, Sarah A. Mason (Washington University in St. Louis)
 

  1. Etruscans – Mobile Bay 1

Zoé Thomas (Millsaps College), presider

Revisiting the Stele of Lemnos: Questions of Etruscan Connectivity, Emilie Prince (Florida State University)

Dressing Demons: An Examination of Demon Garb in Painted Etruscan Tombs, Meghan Hannum (Florida State University)

Shards and Status: What the Spatial Analysis of Glass can Reveal about Community Organization in Early Italy, Catherine Uritis (Florida State University)
 

  1. Third and Fourth Century Roman Empire – Mobile Bay 2

Benjamin S. Haller (Virginia Wesleyan University), presider

Aurelian and The Sun: The Use of Sol Invictus as a Tool of Propaganda, Jon Barragan (Florida State University)

Historiographical Commentary: How Ammianus Marcellinus' First Roman digression functions as socio-political commentary, Samuel Barnes (Texas Tech University)

Ammianus Marcellinus, Priscus, and (De)humanizing the Huns, Aaron Wenzel (University of Minnesota Morris)

The Legacy of Constantine in Lucifer of Cagliari, Nathan Moore (Calvary Day School)
 

  1. Greek Philosophy – Mobile Bay 3

Sarah J. Cullinan Herring (University of Kansas), presider

The Myth of the Cicadas and the Philosophical Life in Plato’s Phaedrus, Connie Jiang (University of Georgia)

Socrates between the Sheets: Reading the Mystical Visions of Love in Plato’s Erotic Dialogues with Plotinus and Rumi, Sara Ahbel-Rappe (University of Michigan)
 

  1. The Aeneid – Grand Bay Ballroom

Lisa Ellison (East Carolina University), presider

Death Ante Ora Patrum: Trojan Pietas in Aeneas’ First Speech, David Jacks (University of Toronto)

Pholoe fugax (Horace C. 2.5.17) Becomes a Serva: The Significance of the Enslaved Woman’s Name in Vergil’s Ship-Race (Aeneid 5.282-285), Kris Fletcher (Louisiana State University)

Aeneas, Odysseus, and the Problem of Divine Hiddenness, Blanche C. McCune (College of Charleston)

False Foundations: Looking For Rome in Virgil’s Aeneid, Sam Kindick (University of Alabama)
 

  1. Roman Republic Unplugged – Riverboat

Christina DiFabio (University of Kansas), presider

Polybius on Hope, Mary Frances Williams (Independent Scholar)

Reaching the Point of No Return: Dehumanization in Polybius’ Histories, Regina Loehr (Missouri State University)

The Ramifications of Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, Bailey Sears (University of Arizona)

Sallust's Use of Gendered Space: The Case of Sempronia, Alexander Kraut (University of Florida)
 

 

  1. Workshop:  Making Leather Shoes – Schooner

Nathalie Roy (Glasgow Middle School), organizer and presider

 

  1. Roundtable: Polarization and Politicalization: o tempora, o mores – Windjammer  

Ted Tarkow (University of Missouri) organizer

 

Joy Connolly (President of ACLS), Robin Anderson (Phoenix Country Day School), Julia Hejduk (Baylor University), Susan Shapiro (Utah State University), Allen Miller (University of South Carolina), Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College), Mario Telo (UC Berkeley) presenters

Sponsored by the Committee for Diversity and Inclusion

 

Saturday, Tenth Paper Session 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

  1. Religion across the Ancient Mediterranean – Clipper

Yuliya Minets (University of Alabama), presider

Characterization of a Sage: The Many Moseses of Philo of Alexandria, Garrett Hanson (Brown University)

"The Things I Hate": Romans 7 and the Construction of Self, Nicole Francis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

"I Will Be A Deceiving Spirit": Divine Misdirection in Ancient Mediterranean Religion, Luke Gorton (University of New Mexico)

Body (Politic) Aches: Christianity as Disease among Imperial Roman Authors, Leah Dawson (University of Notre Dame)

Tricky Tales, Madelynn Green (Mississippi State University)
 

  1. Roman Republican History and Historiography – Mobile Bay 1

Trevor Luke (Florida State University), presider

Polybius and Livy on Fabius and Scipio: What Makes an Effective General?, Owen Embree (Washington University in St. Louis)

A More August Preface: Re-examining Livy’s Praefatio, Gizelle Winter (University of Notre Dame)

"Sullan" as historical arrangement and discourse, Signe Janoska-Bedi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Appello ad Maiores: Allusions to Romanitas in Pro Roscio Amerino, Benjamin C. Gordon (Emory University)

Paraklausithyra in Plutarch’s Life of Antony: Ruined at the Doors, Jasper Chen (Columbia University)

  1. Ovid – Mobile Bay 2

Debra Freas (Virginia Tech), presider

Transition, Transformation, and Transgender: Tiresias in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Rachel M. Gastrich (The Ohio State University)

The Turning Hinge: Cosmological Double Meanings in Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe, Maxwell Mitchell (University of Colorado Boulder)

Alcithoë’s Rhetorical Loom: The Workshop and Escalation of Storytelling within Book 4 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, RJ (Richard Joseph) Palmer (Johns Hopkins University)

Ovid, Iphigenia, and Orestes as Exiles in Ovid's Exile Poetry, Emma Buhrman (Trinity University)
 

  1. Gendered Artifacts – Mobile Bay 3

Flora Iff-Noël (University of Florida), presider

A Comparison of Gender Iconography of Abduction Scenes on Pottery from Early Iron Age and Classical Era Athens, Holly Chanfrau (University of Colorado Boulder)

The Golden Girl: A Case Study in Bead Assemblage Deposition and Unrealized Fertility in the Roman Fayum, Cheyenne Strickland (Florida State University)

Clytemnestra and the Furies: Women, Revenge, and the Revealed Breast on Roman Sarcophagi, Lillian Joyce (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
 

  1. Workshop: Pliny: The Man and His Letters – Schooner

Jacqueline Carlon (University of Massachusetts Boston), organizer and presider
 

  1. Panel: Opening the Gates to Rare Materials: Pedagogical Approaches – Riverboat

Dustin Heinen (North Carolina State University), presider

Maps and Manuscripts, Comics and Cartoons: A Graduate Student Instructor’s Incorporation of Special Collections in Courses, Anthony J. Smith (University of Florida)

Bringing Special Collections into the Classroom through Digital Media, Dustin Heinen (North Carolina State University)

Teaming up with your Library and Librarians to Teach Classics with Rare Materials, Megan Daly (University of Florida)

 

Saturday, Eleventh Paper Session 3:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

  1. Roman Drama – Clipper

Lauren D. Ginsberg (Duke University), presider

Theaetetus in the Theatre, David J. De Salvo (Naples Classical Academy)

Βαχεῖα Κρατίνου and the Bacchants of Plautus, William C. Scott (University of Arizona)

Tantalus’ touch and the repeating curse in Seneca’s Thyestes, Zimo Liang (University of Cincinnati)

Physiognomy in Terence’s Plays and in the Vatican Terence Illustrations, Dan Mills (Kennesaw State University)
 

  1. Religious Materiality – Mobile Bay 1

Isabel Köster (University of Colorado Boulder), presider

The Sword and the Shrine: Rendering Spoils Sacred in Republican Rome, Katrina Kuxhausen-DeRose (University of California, Los Angeles)

Last Holdouts? Temple Closures, Conversions, and Abandonment Chronologies, Matthew Robertson (Texas Tech University)

The Votive λίκνα of the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Acrocorinth, Estill Loyd (Tufts University)

Building the Imperial Cult: Religion and Urbanism in Augustan Pompeii, Gabriella Kogan (University of Notre Dame)
 

  1. Augustus – Mobile Bay 2

Aaron Palmore (Loyola University Maryland), presider

Horace Odes 4 and the leges Juliae, Daniel A. Rose (Florida State University)

The Evolution of Augustan Theme and Image, Bryan Carlson (University of Florida/ Fort Worth Country Day)

Two ornamenta are better than one: The supra-municipal role of the *Augustales in the Roman empire, Jeffrey A. Easton (Southwestern University)

Augustus as Scrooge: Saturnalia and the Politics of Solstice, Joel Allen (City University of New York)
 

  1. Classrooms that Come Alive! – Mobile Bay 3

Regina Loehr (Missouri State University), presider

Visualizing Literary Text with GenAI: the Iliad Visualization Project, Rhodora G. Vennarucci (Denison University)

Ancient and Modern Fiber Arts: Praxis and Pedagogy, Kristen Ehrhardt (John Carroll University)

Lantern Slides and Lecture Halls: An Examination of the Evolution of Classical Education at the University of Iowa, Avery E. Domino (University of Iowa)

Libellus: Writing an OER Introductory Latin Textbook, Joy E. Reeber (University of Illinois)
 

  1. Lucan Unplugged – Windjammer

Megan Daly (University of Florida), presider

Infelix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas: Caesar’s Divine Transgression of Epic Proportions in Lucan’s Pharsalia, Ava Reese (Emory University)

A Failure of Epic Proportions: The Insufficiency of Lucan's Pompey in Comparison to Hector, Mary Dickinson (Baylor University)

In Sua Viscera: Cato’s Suicide in the Pharsalia, Chris Griffin (University of Chicago)

In Sua Viscera: Gore and the Body Politic in Lucan's Bellum Civile, Aryn Hanna (University of Georgia)
 

  1. Workshop: Mastering Q3: Crafting and Coaching for AP Latin – Schooner

Osman Umurhan (University of New Mexico), organizer and presider

Osman Umurhan (University of New Mexico) and
Micheal Posey (Mountain Brook Jr. High, AL), presenters