Conference Program

Friday, March 25th

11:00 am – 12:50 pm: Registration (Quita Woodward Room)

1:00 – 2:30 pm: Welcome; Panel 1 – Power, Agency, and Motion (Carpenter Library, B21) [Zoom]

Chair: Jenni Glaser

Charissa Skoutelas: Serving Humans and Gods: Slave Women and Access to Religious Practice in Classical Athens

Giulia Clabassi: The Triadic Structure of Motion in Aristotle’s Phys. VIII, 5

Nicholas P. Fernacz: Safely Maneuvering Across Linhe Road: Infrastructural Transgression and Movement against Modernity

2:30 – 3:00 pm: Break (Quita Woodward Room/the Cloisters)

3:00 – 4:30 pm: Panel 2 – Patterns of Trade (Carpenter Library, B21) [Zoom]

Chair: Meriç Özölçer

Jan Sienkiewicz: Maritime Movement and Mobile Mourners: Reconstructing Networks of Trade Exchange and Social Interaction in Prehistory

Priyasakhi C. Barchi and Dylan G. Winchell: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Maritime Trade in Southeastern India in the 1^st-3^rd Centuries CE

Nataña Aldana-Lowe: Nanban Lacquerware Trade; Of the First Arts that Represent Early-Modern Globalization

4:30 – 5:00 pm: Break (Quita Woodward Room/the Cloisters)

5:00 – 6:30 pm: Keynote Lecture (Carpenter Library, B21) [Register to attend online]

Eva Hoffman, “Mobility and Exchange: Framing a Global Mediterranean”

with reception to follow (the Lusty Cup, Canaday Library)

Saturday, March 26th

9:00 – 10:00 am: Breakfast (Quita Woodward Room/the Cloisters)

10:00 – 12:00 pm: Panel 3 – Urban Intersections (Old Library, 110) [Zoom]

Chair: Katie Breyer

Melanie Woody Nguyen: Points of Contact: Mierle Laderman Ukele’s Touch Sanitation (1979-80) and American Environmentalism

Tianqi Zhu: Crossing Boundaries, Embracing Diversity: Syrian Migrants in Trastevere of Rome

Jeff Cumonow: Streets of the Past, Streets of the Present: Exploring Aleppo’s Urban Fabric through Spolia, Structures, and Systems

Elizabeth Fair: Production and Patronage at the Weaverville Temple: Religious Objects and Architecture in Chinese California

12:00 – 1:00 pm: Lunch (The Great Hall/the Cloisters)

1:00 – 2:30 pm: Panel 4 – Kinesthesia: Bodies in Action (Old Library, 110) [Zoom]

Chair: Yusi Liu

Mekayla May: Pseudo-Natural Dinner Theater in Tiberius’s Grotto

Lauren Heilman: “Whirling in the Dance”: An Examination of Dance Motifs in Achilles’ Shield

Liam Maher: States of Invention: Disorientation and Parangolé

2:30 – 2:45 pm: Break (The Great Hall/the Cloister)

2:45 – 4:15 pm: Panel 5 – Approaching the Other (Old Library, 110) [Zoom]

Chair: Mallory Fitzpatrick

Martin W. Michálek: Virgil, National Identity, and Sisson’s “Descent”

Kristen Patterson: The Ways in Witch: Circe, Medea, and the Dynamics of Danger and Movement

Kelly Ahrens: Creating the Public Image: The Reception of Tyche and Cybele in Ancient Rome

4:15- 6:45 pm: Closing remarks by Astrid Lindelauf with reception to follow (the Great Hall)