NYU SAS Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World - 12/02/2021, (Online)

This conference, organized and moderated by graduate students for motivated undergraduates, will offer participants the opportunity to present their scholarship in the professional setting of an academic conference, providing a space for students of ancient texts, material culture, and art to come together and share their ideas.

FECHA / DATE/DATA: 12/02/2021

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Online

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: The NYU Society for Ancient Studies

INFO: web

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Aquí/here/qui Deadline: 11/02/2021

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

9:00-9:10 Introduction

9:10-10:00 Keynote

Dr. David Levene, Professor of Classics, New York University (USA)

Historical Method and National Identity in the Ancient World

10:00-10:15 Q+A for Keynote

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:45 Panel 1: Conceptualizations of Space

Jacob Glenister (Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Penn State University, USA)

The Vocabulary of Defense in Egypt’s Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period

Elliot Luke (School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln, UK)

The Significance of Thonis-Heracleion’s Sacred Topography to the Establishment and Success of the Ptolemaic Dynasty

Alessandra Schultz (School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland, Australia)

Gauls in Roman Society: Political Change and its Cultural Effects under Emperor Claudius

Matthew Paltiel Weinstein (Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, USA)

Ruralization of Coastal Palestine During the Transition from the Byzantine to Islamic Periods: A Focus on Rural Developments in the Hinterlands of Caesarea Maritima

12:00-1:00 Lunch Break

1:00-2:00 Panel 2: Art History

Max Meyer (Department of Classics, College of Arts and Science, New York University, USA)

Visualizing Imperialism: The Pompeiian Second Style as a Recollection of Roman Elite Cultural Memory

Sean Silvia (Departments of Archaeology and History, University of Southern California, USA)

Decapitation and Dynamite: The Mutilated Roadside Monument of Gaius Julius Aquila on the Coast of Bithynia et Pontus

Christopher Thoms-Bauer, Department of Classics, Rutgers University (USA)

Diocletian and his Gods: Digital Analysis of Divine Association in Diocletianic Coinage

2:00-2:15 Break

2:15-3:15 Panel 3: Perceptions/Senses/Bodies

Madeline Ouimet (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, USA)

Maybe it’s a Sign: Observation and Doubt in a Mesopotamian Omen Series

Georgios Podaropoulos (Literary Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands; Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Sport and Society, CHS Harvard, USA/Greece – IOA)

The Body and the Shaping of Historical Discourse in Thucydides

Maria Lentz (Department of History, University of Southern California, USA)

From Disgust to Divinity: Ritual Debasement in 4th Century Athenian Legal Speeches

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-5:00 Panel 4: Reception

Joselyn Garcia (Classical Studies and Art History, Hunter College CUNY, USA)

From Augustus to Cosimo: Classical Art as a Language of Social and Political Power in Renaissance Florence

Brogan A. Smith (Department of Classics, Georgetown University, USA)

Reverse Colonization in the Silver Age: Understanding Trimalchio through Comparison with Count Dracula

Jacob Hane (Classics Department, Hamilton College, USA)

ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant: Empire and the Periphery in Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire

Jessica Alexander (Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures, Queens College, CUNY, USA)

Classical Myths in Children’s Picturebooks

5:00-5:15 Closing Remarks