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
The Vocabulary of Defense in Egypt’s Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period
Elliot Luke
The Significance of Thonis-Heracleion’s Sacred Topography to the Establishment and Success of the Ptolemaic Dynasty
Alessandra Schultz
Gauls in Roman Society: Political Change and its Cultural Effects under Emperor Claudius
Matthew Paltiel Weinstein
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
Visualizing Imperialism: The Pompeiian Second Style as a Recollection of Roman Elite Cultural Memory
Sean Silvia
Decapitation and Dynamite: The Mutilated Roadside Monument of Gaius Julius Aquila on the Coast of Bithynia et Pontus
Christopher Thoms-Bauer
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
Maybe it’s a Sign: Observation and Doubt in a Mesopotamian Omen Series
Georgios Podaropoulos
The Body and the Shaping of Historical Discourse in Thucydides
Maria Lentz
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
From Augustus to Cosimo: Classical Art as a Language of Social and Political Power in Renaissance Florence
Brogan A. Smith
Reverse Colonization in the Silver Age: Understanding Trimalchio through Comparison with Count Dracula
Jacob Hane
ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant: Empire and the Periphery in Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire
Jessica Alexander
Classical Myths in Children’s Picturebooks
5:00-5:15 Closing Remarks