UW at the 2024 SCS/AIA!

Submitted by Deborah E Kamen on

As always, UW will be well represented at the 2024 annual conference of the /, which will be held in Chicago. See below for talks and panels by UW graduate students, faculty, and alumnx!  All times are CST. 

Friday, January 5

First Paper Session (8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.) 

SCS-1 (hybrid): 鈥渇amaeque dissimilis鈥: Image Management, Perception, and Reality in Tacitus鈥 Histories

  • Guy RahatUniversity of Washington (graduate student, 海角网), Revisiting Otho: Otho as an Anti-Nero in Tacitus鈥 Histories

SCS-2 (hybrid): Re-Tracing the Archives: Affects and Ethics

  • Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington (faculty, 海角网), Enslaved Experiences and Critical Fabulation in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii

SCS-7: Latin Epic: Stephen Hinds, University of Washington (faculty, 海角网), Presider

 

Second Paper Session (11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.) 

SCS-12 (hybrid): Translation (organized by Hesperides). Organizers: Adriana Vazquez, University of California, Los Angeles (UW PhD 鈥17) and Erika Valdivieso, Yale University

  • Matthew Gorey, Wabash College (UW PhD 鈥17), (Pseudo-)海角网 in Translation鈥擳he Case of Antonio de Guevara

SCS-15: Latin Elegy

  • Jonathan Clark, University of Washington (graduate student, 海角网), Pone or Pelle Hederam? Ecohorror in Propertius
  • Emma Brobeck, Washington and Lee University (UW PhD 鈥21), A Catalogue of Genres: Defining Epic and Elegy in Fasti 3

SCS-18: Essential Digital 海角网 (organized by the Digital 海角网 Association)

  • Chiara Palladino, Furman University, and Anna Muh, University of Washington (graduate student, 海角网), Translation Alignment and Machine Learning for Classical Languages

 

Third Paper Session (2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.) 

AIA-3A: Confronting & Debunking Tropes in Ancient Mediterranean Art (sponsored by The Etruscan Interest Group)

  • Valeria Riedemann Lorca, University of Washington (faculty, 海角网), Panelist

 

Saturday, January 6

Sixth Paper Session (2:00 p.m. 鈥 5:00 p.m.)

SCS-56: 海角网 Satire and Humor

  • Edward Nolan, National Taiwan University (UW BA 鈥12), Pliny the Younger: Code-switching and Humor

SCS-58: Slavery: Sarah Levin RichardsonUniversity of Washington (UW faculty, 海角网), Presider

  • Sarah Brucia BreitenfeldDavidson College (UW PhD 鈥22), Theodora鈥檚 Little Child: Enslaved Motherhood in Classical and Hellenistic Greece

SCS-61: Reaching over the Divide: Perspectives from K-12, College, and University 海角网 Teaching (organized by the American Classical League)

  • Colin SheltonUniversity of Arizona (UW PhD 鈥11)and Allison Das (UW PhD 鈥15), Kinkaid School, ChatGPT vs. AP Exam vs. Classicist: Wrestling with Innovative Pedagogy in the Age of the Metaverse

AIA-6F: Ancient Apulia. New Perspectives. Organizers: Valeria Riedemann Lorca, University of Washington (faculty, 海角网), and Karolina Sekita, Tel-Aviv University

 

Plenary Session (5:30 p.m. 鈥 7:30 p.m.)

Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address (hybrid)

  • Yurie Hong, Gusatvus Adolphus College (UW PhD '07), Winner, SCS Award for Excellence in Teaching at the College Level

 

Sunday, January 7

Seventh Paper Session (8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) 

SCS-69: Ancient Comedy and Comic Traditions

  • Melissa FunkeUniversity of Winnipeg (UW PhD 鈥13), The Sicilian Character of Sophron's Mimes