Association of Ancient Historians 2021
Classics Department Organizing Committee: Antony Augoustakis, Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Vaughn Fenton, Brett Kaufman, Daniel Leon, Nicholas Rudman, Craig Williams
Sponsored by the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
NOTE: All times are set in Central Standard Time (Chicago)
Thursday 6 May
2:00-3:30 pm
Welcome: Antony Augoustakis, Head of Classics and Elena Delgado, Director of the UIUC School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Panel #1: Monuments and Their Reception, Craig Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Graham Oliver (Brown University), “The Half-Lives of (Inscribed) Monuments: Epigraphical Disposal in Ancient Greece”
- Todd E. Caissie (Rutgers University), “Monumental Time: The Many Iterations and Reception of the tropaeum alpium”
3:30-4:00 pm: Break
4:00-5:30 pm
Panel #2: Recovery and Rebuilding I, Angeliki Tzanetou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Joshua Allbright (University of Southern California), “Re-Membering Democracy: Athenian Civic Education after the Amnesty”
- Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston University), “Finding a Community to Belong to in the Wake of Crisis: Recovery from the Civil Wars in Seneca the Elder”
6:00-7:00 pm Keynote Speaker Prof. Solange Ashby “Rome in the Borderlands of Nubia: Diplomacy in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Moderator: Clara Bosak-Schroeder)
7:00-8:00 pm Social Hour
Friday 7 May
9:00-10:30 am
Panel #3: Power Relations and Popular Unrest I, Vaughn Fenton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Jared Kreiner (Christopher Newport University), “Mass Movements Against Provincial Censuses under Augustus and Tiberius: Revolts or Popular Protests?”
- Brian Messner (Lincoln Christian University), “Pontius Pilate and Unrest in Judaea: Strategic Considerations”
- William Burghart (University of Washington, Tacoma), “Pleonexia and Popular Unrest in Polybius”
10:30-11:00 am: Break
11:00 am -12:30 pm
Panel #4: Diplomacy in the Ancient Mediterranean I: Greece, Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Nick Cross (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy), “Ancient Greek Alliance Terminology: Symmachia and Its Antecedents”
- Philip Kaplan (University of North Florida), “In the Presence of the King: The Greek Common Peace and Persian Imperial Strategy in the Fourth Century BCE”
- Gregory Callaghan (University of Pennsylvania), “Cyzicus and the Bridge of Kinship: A Case Study of Attalid Access to Aegean Interstate Systems”
12:30-2:00 pm: Break
2:00-3:30 pm
Panel #5: New Assignments for Gen-Ed Students, Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Lee L. Brice (Western Illinois University) and Theodora B. Kopestonsky (University of Tennessee at Knoxville), “Teaching General Education Classes with Material Culture: Coins”
- Chris Saladin (University of Minnesota), “Visualizing the Greek World: Collaborative Mapping in a History Survey Course”
- Bice Peruzzi (Rutgers University), “Learning Greek Pottery through Problem Based Learning Pedagogy”
3:30-4:00 pm: Break
4:00-5:30 pm
Panel #6: Power Relations and Popular Unrest II, Nicholas Rudman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Tara Sewell-Lasater (University of Houston), “The Disregarded Cause: Popular Unrest and the Civil War of Ptolemy VIII and Kleopatra II”
- Paul A. Johstono (Air Command & Staff College), “Egyptian Soldiers, Egyptian Revolts? Interrogating the Role of Egyptian Military Personnel in Revolts against Ptolemaic Rule”
- Nathaniel S. Katz (The University of Texas at Austin), “Didius Julianus and the Plebs”
6:00-7:00 pm: Keynote Speaker Prof. Carolina López-Ruiz "Mediterranean Histories and the Phoenicians" (Moderator: Brett Kaufman)
7:00-8:00 pm Social Hour
Saturday 8 May
8:30-10:00 am
Panel #7: Sport and Mass Entertainment, Daniel Leon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Eva Carrara (Florida State University), “Creating Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor”
- Kathryn Murphy (Trinity College Dublin), “The Bear Necessities: Re-imagining Roman Animal Displays in an Age of Environmental Degradation”
- Amanda Devitt (St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan), “Practicalities of Circus Curses”
10:00-10:30 am: Break
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Panel #8: Recovery and Rebuilding II, Brett Kaufman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Tola Rodrick (Indiana University), “Memory, Biography, and Identity Construction in the Apophthegmata Patrum”
- Mark Andrew Orsag (Doane University) (with Amanda McKinney, DeeAnn M. Reeder, and Lindsay Sears), “What Caused the Plague of Cyprian? A Proposed Multidisciplinary Solution to a Horrific 1,771 Year Old Mystery”
12:00-1:00 pm: Break
1:00-2:30 pm
Panel #9: Diplomacy in the Ancient Mediterranean II: Rome, Ariana Traill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Pierre-Luc Brisson (McGill University), “Rome and Carthage: The ‘Enemy Image’ Under Mediterranean Unipolarity (188-146 BC)”
- Eliza Gettel (Villanova University), “Embassies from Hellas to Rome (1st to 3rd cent. CE)”
2:30-3:00 pm: Break
3:00-4:30 pm
Panel #10: Roman Social History, Georgia Tsouvala, Illinois State University
- Bruce W. Frier (University of Michigan), “Did Roman Tax Collectors Issue Stock?”
- Thomas A. Leibundgut (Stanford University), “The Migration of Women on the Iberian Peninsula during the Principate”
- Aura Piccioni (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), “Retracing Bronze-Statues and Their Contexts in Roman Raetia”
4:30-5:00 pm: Break
5:00-7:00 pm Business Meeting
7:00 pm: Closing Remarks and Thanks