2021 NYU SAS UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE ON THE ANCIENT WORLD
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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

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