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Thursday January 8, 2026 

First Paper Session (8:00–10:30am) 

SCS-8: Receptions of the Modern Era (paper session) 

• Adriana Vazquez (UW PhD ‘17), University of California, Los Angeles, Which lotos? “Ludic Confusion,” Combinatorial Reception, and Hyper-Ovidianism in the Lotis Digression of Gabriel Pereira de Castro’s Ulisseia, ou Lisboa Edificada (1636)
• Ryan Platte (UW PhD ’08), Northwestern University, The Chicago Forum, classical reception in the 19th century South Side
• Jonathan Clark (UW graduate student), University of Washington, A Queer Galatea? Garcilaso de la Vega’s Use of Vergil’s Second Eclogue 

Second Paper Session (11:00am–1:00pm) 

SCS-14 HYBRID: Immigration and Citizenship, Then and Now (organized by ������ and Social Justice) 

• Eunice Kim (UW PhD ‘17), Furman University, The Myth of Murderous Migrants 

SCS-15: Oratory and Rhetoric (paper session) 

• Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (UW PhD ’22), University of Pittsburgh, Double Mastery in Lysias’s On the Murder of Eratosthenes 

SCS-17: Embodied History (paper session) 

• Raymond Lahiri (UW faculty), University of Washington, Dismemberment and the Writing of History: Procopius of Caesarea on Historical Organicism and Narrative Economy 

Third Paper Session (2:00–5:00pm) 

SCS-24: Epigraphy and Power (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) 

• Lauryn Hanley (UW graduate student), University of Washington, Bilingual Bonds: Freedpeople and Identity Formation in Etruscan-������ Chiusi 

SCS-26: Homer (paper session) 

• Edward Nolan (UW BA ’12), National Taiwan University, Language Order and Divine Onomastics 

AIA-3C: Ethnoscapes of the Dead: Italic and Etruscan Chamber Tombs Revisited (Colloquium) 

• Organizers: Valeria Riedemann Lorca (UW faculty), University of Washington, and Karolina Sekita, Tel-Aviv University 

SCS Presidential Panel (4:00–5:30pm) 

SCS-29 HYBRID: SCS Presidential Panel: Good ������ in Bad Times 

• Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (UW PhD ’22), University of Pittsburgh, Non est fabulosum: Trans and Intersex ������ Beyond Mythology
• Naomi Campa (UW PhD ’14), University of Texas at Austin, Refusing to Cede our Discipline 

Friday January 9, 2026 

Fifth Paper Session (11:00am–1:00pm) 

SCS-40 HYBRID: Navigating Contingent Positions and the Precarity of the Faculty Pipeline (workshop organized by First Generation Low-Income Federation, joint session) 

• Naomi Campa (UW PhD ’14), University of Texas at Austin 

SCS-44: Living, Laughing, Loving: ������ Elegy in Light of New Developments in ������ Comedy (organizer-refereed panel) 

• Grace Funsten (UW PhD ’22), University of Pittsburgh, From Ornatrix to Lectrix: The Enslaved Audience of Ovid Amores 2.7-8 

SCS-49: Roundtable Discussion Session (12:00-1:00pm) 

• The Committee for Gender and Sexuality in the Profession (COGSIP) sponsored Roundtable. Organizer: Melissa Funke (UW PhD ’13), University of Winnipeg
• Early Christianity in the ������ Classroom. Organizers: Ryan Platte (UW PhD ’08) and Abbe Walker, Northwestern University 

AIA-5L: AIA/SCS Joint Roundtable Discussion Session (1:00pm-2:00pm)

• Cultivating Conversation: Agriculture, Environment, and Sustainability through Text and Material Culture. Organizers: Alberto Requejo (UW PhD '17) and Savannah Bishop, Western Washington University

Sixth Paper Session (2:00–5:00pm) 

SCS-58: ������ Epic (paper session) 

• Laura Harris (UW graduate student), University of Washington, Nescit enim quid amor: Asexual Gender in Ovid’s Hermaphroditus Episode 

Saturday January 10, 2026 

Seventh Paper Session (8:00–11:00am) 

SCS-61 HYBRID: Collaboration in a Digital World: Expanding the Boundaries of Classical Studies (organized by the Digital ������ Association) 

• Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (UW PhD ’14), Santa Clara University, Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Collaboration in Creating Immersive Virtual Ancient Environments 

SCS-68: Hellenistic Poetry (paper session) 

• Presider: Jim Clauss (UW faculty), University of Washington
• Luke Giuntoli (UW graduate student) University of Washington, A Clash of Epics: The Metapoetic Implications of Apollonius’ Talos 

AIA-7E: Queer ������ Archaeology: (Self)-Representations of Queerness in Visual Material Culture (Colloquium) 

• Discussant: Sarah Levin-Richardson (UW faculty), University of Washington 

Eighth Paper Session (11.30am–1.30pm) 

SCS-77: Athenian History & Historiography (paper session) 

• Presider: Naomi Campa (UW PhD ’17), University of Texas at Austin 

Ninth Paper Session (2:30–5:00pm) 

SCS-78 HYBRID: Gardens and Water in ������ Poetry (paper session) 

• Emma Brobeck (UW PhD ’21), Furman University, The Significance of Water Within Martial’s Saturnalian Banquet 

SCS-81 HYBRID: Yellow Gold: Ornamentalism, Antiquity and the Asiatic Female (organized by the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus) 

• Chris Waldo (UW faculty), University of Washington, Locating the Roots of Ornamental Femininity in Hesiod and Sappho