The upcoming meeting at the annual joint meeting of the American Institute of Archaeology and the Society for Classical Studies will include presentations by over two dozen Penn students and faculty. See the list here:
Friday, January 03
SCS-10: Herculaneum: Old Finds, New Approaches
8:00 am - 10:30 am
Ann Brownlee: The Wanamaker Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum
AIA 1D: Symposia and Banqueting
8:00 am - 10:30 am
Gwyneth Fletcher (ANCH): Valuing the Auletris: Reconsidering Athenian Female Performers in Sympotic Contexts
SCS-12 Numismatics
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Jeremy Steinberg (RELS): A Re-Evaluation of Nerva’s Fiscus Iudaicus Coin
SCS-18: Mythography and Cultural Identity in the Early Modern World
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Emma Dyson (GLLL/CLST): From Romance to History: The Myth of Albina in Early Modern England
AIA 2F: Space, Performance, Experience
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Kristina B. Donnally (AAMW): Beyond the Harem: Re-examining the Roles and Identites of the Palace Women at Mari
Charles J. Ro (AAMW): Haec amat obscurum: Beholding Darkness in Roman Black-Ground Wall Paintings
SCS-23: The Gods are Watching: The Ocular and the Oracular in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cianna Jackson (GLLL/CLST): She Who Sees the Unseen: Poetic and Visual Representations of Cassandra’s Prophetic Visions
SCS-31: Organization, Display, and Transfer of Knowledge
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Peter Satterthwaite (ANCH): Double-edged Honor: Publicity and Social Pressure in Greek Subscription Lists
AIA 3A: Recent Fieldwork and New Interpretations from Sicily and Southern Italy
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Phoebe Thompson (ANCH) and Andrea Samz-Pustol (University of Wisconsin-Madison: The Cult of Demeter and Persephone at Enna, Lake Pergusa, and Mt. Etna: A Reevaluation of a Sacred Landscape in Central Sicily
Jason Herrmann and Paola Sconzo (Università degli Studi di Palermo): Building Space, Identity, and a Home for Motyans
3H: Exploring Legacy Preservation and Scholarly Innovation: The Role of Archives and Archival Data in Current Late Antique, Byzantine, and Post-Medieval Research
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Deb Brown Steward — Discussant
Saturday, January 04
SCS-34: Medicine and Disability
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Danielle Perry (ANCH): The Sickness of Slavery: Manumission at Epidaurus
SCS-39: Translation and Creative Adaptation
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Alex Nguyen (GLLL/CLST): Transcribing Telemachus: The Development of Colonial Vietnamese National Identity Negotiated Through the Translation and Adaptation of the Telemachy
AIA 4A: Hellenistic Cities & Sanctuaries
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Arielle Hardy (AAMW): Altar-ing Experiences: The Hellenistic Altar of Artemis at Magnesia on the Maeander
Zi Xuan Qin (ANCH): Neighborhoods and Networks: Constructing Sub-Polis Communities in Hellenistic Priene
AIA 4H: Current Fieldwork in Ancient West Asia I
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Holly Pittman: Report on Six Seasons of Work at Lagash, Dhi Qar Province, Iraq
AIA 5A: More–than–human: Agencies, Divination, and the Etruscans
11:00 - 1:00 pm
Jean MacIntosh Turfa: The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar: An Infusion of Mesopotamian Omens
SCS-53: Homer
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Samantha Taylor (GLLL/CLST): ἀνένευε δὲ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη: The Narrative Function of the Failed Prayer to Athena in Iliad 6
SCS-57: CAMP Workshop. New Plays, New Directions: Ellen McLaughlin’s Conversations at the Return of Spring
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sheila Murnaghan — Respondent
SCS-62: New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy in the 21st Century
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sheridan Marsh (AAMW): Inscribing Revolts in Epigraphic Memory
Helen Wong (AAMW): “A Good Papyrus Script”: Multigenerational Funerary Inscriptions from the Tomb of Apollophanes
AIA 6C: Early Prehistoric Mediterranean & Environs
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Riley Glickman (AAMW), Julia Gustafson (University of Cambridge), and Emily Holt (University of Cardiff): The Pran’e Siddi Landscape Project: Survey Results from the 2022-2024 Field Seasons
AIA 6I: The Matter of History: Artifacts and the Stories they Tell Gold medal panel in Honor of Andrea Berlin
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Brigitte Keslinske (AAMW): The Power of the Pot(tery Database)
C. Brian Rose: Trash and Treasure from Classical and Hellenistic Troy
Sunday, January 05
SCS-72: Thinking about Wealth and Inequality in Antiquity
8:00am – 11:00am
Kim Bowes: Everyday Inequality
SCS-73: Reading Networks of Reading: ANT-ish Approaches to Reception Studies
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Kate Meng Brassel: Binding, Agency, and Authorship: The Case of an Erotic Vatican Codex
AIA 7A: Work and Worship in the Ancient Mediterranean
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Kim Bowes — Discussant
SCS-84: Decrees, Laws and Roman History
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Louis Polcin (ANCH): Seizing a “Perfect Storm”: Flaccus’ Decree, Gaius’ Policies, and the Alexandrian Pogrom
AIA 8D: Long-Term Human-Environmental Interactions
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Chantel E. White, Laura Heale (University of Auckland), Pierre-Antoine Vivier (Paris Nanterre), and Nathan Arrington (Princeton): Botanical Results from a Classical, Late Roman, and Early Byzantine Site in Northern Greece
8F: Ceramics and their Analysis
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Brigitte Keslinke (AAMW), Marie-Claude Boileau, and Janelle Sadarananda (Skidmore College): Architectural Terracottas from Gordion: A Petrographic Study
8G: Giacomo Boni: Commemoration and Reassessment
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Brian Rose — Discussant
SCS-89: Hellenistic and Imperial History
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Jeremy McInerney: The Border between Ambrakia and Charadros: Negotiating Independence in the Shadow of Rome
SCS-92: Imperial Greek Literature II
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Molly Schaub (GLLL/CLST): Athenaeus’ Banquet and the Immersive Power of Taste