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Papers by Penn Graduate Students and Faculty at the AIA/SCS 2025

 

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