ABSTRACTS of all the academic papers can be downloaded here.

 

Session 1

(8:30-10:30)

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1A. Modern Receptions

Session Chair: Claire Catenaccio, Georgetown University
Room: LASR 102

Cat Chase, University of Washington
Sharing Straight Up: The Reception of Sappho in Eloise Klein Healy’s The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho

Karen Carr, Portland State University
Women, Clothing and Money: Myth and Reception

Kelly MacFarlane, University of Alberta
“Christ Effie, thanks, you took the cut, for all of us”: Social Justice in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott

Anna Muh, University of Washington
Bacchic Belief or Transphobic Translation? Using Ugarit Translation Alignment Editor to identify transphobic bias in translations of Euripides’ Bacchae

 

1B. Latin Literature

Session Chair: Andrew McClellan, SDSU

Room: LASR 104

A.M. Davis, University of Washington
Crossed Boundaries and Star-Crossed Lovers in Propertius 4.4

Madalena Parsons, University of Washington
The Maiden’s Materials: The Composition of Pygmalion’s Statue in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Caden Hanrahan, University of Washington
Beholding Horror: The Viewer and the Viewed in Seneca’s Medea

Ray Lahiri, University of Washington
Monolingualism and Empire in Plautus’ Poenulus

 

1C. Material Culture

Session Chair: Matthew McCarty, UBC

Room: LASR 105

Ulrike Krotscheck, Evergreen State College
The Archaic-Classical Cemetery at Isthmia, Greece: Preliminary Results

François Gauthier, UBC-Okanagan
Auxiliaries and War Economy in the Second Punic War

Greg Rowe, University of Victoria
Inscription and monument: the Heading of Augustus’ Res Gestae and the nature of epigraphy

Jeremy Rossiter, University of Alberta
Elusive lychnology: in search of Roman Africa’s missing lamps

 

Session 2

(11:00-12:00)

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2A. Gaming Receptions

Session Chair: C. W. Marshall, UBC
Room: LASR 102

Liam Dulaney, University of Washington
Localizing Athenian Queerness: Alcibiades in Assassin’s Creed

Nina Houle, Simon Fraser University
Choose Your Own Aristeia: Simulations of Homeric God-Mortal Relations in Contemporary Tabletop Gaming

 

2B. Foiled Again

Session Chair: Deborah Kamen, UW

Room: LASR 104

Alexander Hollmann, University of Washington
Puzzling pictures on curse tablets from Caesarea and Antioch

 

2C. Archives and Galleries

Session Chair: Megan Daniels, UBC

Room: LASR 105

Janelle Jenstad, University of Victoria
Reviving and Archiving The Golden Age for Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO)

Catherine Connors, University of Washington
What can the CAPN Archive contribute to histories of women in the study and teaching of Greek and Roman classics?

 

Session 3

(1:30-3:00)

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3A. Early Receptions

Session Chair: Hallie Marshall, UBC

Room: LASR 102

Jonathan Clark, University of Washington
Finding Another Galatea: Reading Garcilaso de la Vega’s Égloga Primera

Stephen Hinds, University of Washington
‘Reversions of Pastoral: Spenser’s Virgilian philology’

Owen Ewald, Seattle Pacific University
Les Troyens: Vergilian and French 2nd Empire Prophecies of Doom

 

3B. Greek Drama

Session Chair: Laurel Bowman, UVic

Room: LASR 104

Julia Perroni, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
‘Going’ Mad: Cassandra’s Madness and Discourses of Disability in the Agamemnon

Ian Storey, Trent University
In defense of younger men: A pair of odd episodes in Aristophanes’ late comedy

Jennifer A Porter, UBC
At Their Own Expense: The Stagecraft of Roman Mime

 

3C. Full House

Session Chair: Karen Carr, Portland State U

Room: LASR 105

Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington
Paedagogi and Affect in the Roman Empire

Theresa Ruoxi Xu, University of Toronto
Between Kin and Kind: Pet-Keeping and Enslaved Children in the Roman Households

Chloë Conley, UBC
Howl I Live Without You? Ancient Dog Graves: Understanding Canine ‘Emotions’

 

Session 4

(3:30-5:00)

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4A. SF and Animated Receptions

Session Chair: Nina Houle, Simon Fraser University

Room: LASR 102

Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College
Medea, Motherhood, Race, and Ecocatastrophe in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Dark

Suh Young Choi, University of Washington
Heroes Made by the Times: Echoes of the Iliad in Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Ortwin Knorr, Willamette University
Odysseus in Bikini Bottom: Homer Parody in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

 

4B. Greek Literature

Session Chair: Florence Yoon, UBC

Room: LASR 104

Nigel Nicholson, Reed College
A Victor, not an Athlete with a Victory: The Representation of Athletic Victory in Odes and Dedications

Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary
Lucian’s Masks

Olga Levaniouk, University of Washington
Gold and silver, white and red: wedding aesthetics and the death of Euphorbos in the Iliad

 

4C. Philosophy and Hermetics

Session Chair: Vincent Steinfeld, UBC

Room: LASR 105

David Mirhady, Simon Fraser University
Ēthos and the Composition of Aristotle’s Rhetoric

JPR MacDaniel-Streibel, University of Alberta
Creation and Divinity in the Corpus Hermeticum

Brendan Kay, UBC
Labyrinths, Knots and Tunnels in Time: Hermeticism and Myth in Netflix’s Dark