Penn Faculty and Graduate Students at the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting
Friday, January 5, 2024
8:00 - 10:30 am
Session SCS-3: Astronomy and Astrology
Nathaniel Solley (CLST): Per liquidum aethera: A Horatian Constellation?
Session AIA 1H: New Research on Roman Greece (Colloquium)
Organizer: Mantha Zarmakoupi
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Session AIA-2I: Late Antique Transitions: New Approaches to Changing Landscapes
James Gross (AAMW): Taxation, Commerce and the Economic Experience of Empire in Late Roman Sicily
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Session SCS-25: Hellenistic Literature
Amelia Bensch-Schaus (CLST): Peleus and the Fate of Achilles: Iliadic Allusions in the Odyssean Argonautica
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Session SCS-27: Translators' Showcase: Bilingual Readings
Kate Meng Brassel: “Oh, anxious humankind! How great the universe’s void! Who’ll read this stuff? This you ask me? No one, dammit. No one?” Persius, Satire 1.1-2.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Session SCS-30: Classics in the Community. Panel on Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities Initiative (workshop organized by the Committee on Classics in the Community)
Organizers: James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, and Nina Papathanasopoulou, College Year in Athens/SCS
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Session AIA 3E: The Archaeology of Magna Grecia and Sicily
William Pedrick, Princeton University, Alex Moskowitz, University of Michigan, Andrea Samz-Pustol, Bryn Mawr College, Kevin Ennis, Indiana University Bloomington, Phoebe Thompson (University of Pennsylvania - ANCH) and Christy Schirmer, Tulane University, Anne Truetzel, Davidson College, and Alex Walthall, University of Texas: The Agora Valley Project at Morgantina, Sicily: Report on the 2023 Field Season
Saturday, January 6, 2024
8:00 - 10:30 am
Session AIA 4E: New Fieldwork in Roman Archaeology II
Brigitte Keslinke (AAMW): Cooking and Community in the Cult of Mithras
Session AIA 4D: Cultural Encounters in the North Pontic Region after Antiquity (Colloquium)
Discussant: Renata Holod
11:00 am -1:00 pm
Session AIA 5G: Archaeological Science
Mark van Horn (AAMW): The Fabrics of the Rural Economy: Peasant Ceramic Networks in First Centuries BCE/CE Roman Tuscany
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Session SCS-59: Greek and Roman Philosophy
Emma Dyson (CLST): Socrates and the Seven Sages
Session SCS-61: Reaching over the Divide: Perspectives from K-12, College, and University Classics Teaching (organized by the American Classical League)
Philip Walsh, St. Andrew’s School, and James Ker, University of Pennsylvania
Session AIA 6D: Mobility and Local Traditions in Gaul and the British Isles
John Sigmier (AAMW): Local Expertise and Architectural Innovation in the Earth-Built Theaters of Roman Gaul
Sunday, January 7, 2024
8:00-11:00 am
Session SCS-70: Coins, Copies, and Prototypes (organized by the American Society for Numismatics, Joint Session)
Daniel Qin (ANCH): Coping with Loss and Confusion: Copying Old Coins for a New Identity
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Session AIA 8F: New Evidence from Archaeological Research in Asia Minor and Beyond
Mantha Zarmakoupi, University of Pennsylvania, and Musa Kadıoğlu, University of Ankara: The Bouleuterion at Teos, Turkey (Excavation Season 2023)
2:00 - 4:30 pm
Session SCS-92: Greek Lyric
Maddalena Scarperi (ANCH): Erasing Landscapes, Silencing the Past: A Post-colonial Reading of Bacchylides’ Ode 11
Maria Kovalchuk (CLST): Theocritus’ Idyll 18 and the Invention of the Sacred