AMPRAW 2021 Program: November 11-13th, 2021, Columbia University
THURSDAY, NOV. 11
1:00 pm: Introductory Remarks: Emma Ianni (Columbia University) and Valeria Spacciante (Columbia University)
1:30 pm: Panel #1: New Media
Chair: Izzy Levy (Columbia University)
Leah Bórquez (University of California, Berkeley) - Trajans' Giant death robot: 4X games, historians, and decolonizing discipline
Lily Bickers (Leiden University) - Homer and Homestuck: Epic in the digital age
Stephen Fodroczi (Cornell University) - Water, virtue, and homecoming: Odyssean recurrences in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away
3:00 pm: Keynote address: Ellen McLaughlin (Barnard College)
4:30 pm: Panel #2: Pushing the Limits of a Text
Chair: Joe Howley (Columbia University)
Charles Pletcher (Columbia University) - Hippolytus three ways: the limits of sight and sound in a fatal crash
Juan Carlos Garzon Mantilla (Columbia University) - Mayan traces of Ulysses: ancient Greek history as created from early modern Yucatán
Alicia Matz (Boston University) - Bringing the canon to the periphery: using fan fiction to teach Latin
6:00 pm: Reception
FRIDAY, NOV. 12
9:00 am: Breakfast
9:30 am: Panel #3: Reclaiming Space
Chair: Helene Foley (Columbia University)
Raffaella Sero (University of Cambridge) - The Women's Rome: disruption as appropriation in 20th century female approaches to the classics
Alex Silverman (APGRD/University of Oxford) - In search of the universal: the classical tradition and peripheral voices synthesised in Elizabeth Swados' music for Trojan women (1974)
Jessica Lawrence (University of Cambridge) - Madeline Miller: making space in Homer
11:00 am: Panel #4: Knowledge at Borders
Chair: Emily Greenwood (Princeton University)
Giulio Leghissa (University of Toronto) - The gulf of Syrtes and the dis-connected North Africa: ancient Mediterranean as a space of colonial difference
Giacomo Loi (Johns Hopkins University) - In the mirror of the classical other: reading center and margins in Israeli culture
Nebo Todorovic (Yale University) - Between Bacchae and Bacchanalia. Border thinking as a mode of classical reception
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: Panel #5: Against Classicism
Chair: Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University)
Sophia Elzie (independent scholar) - "No more for him the streams of sorrow pour": teaching mourning, critiquing classics, and alternative epistemology in Phillis Wheatley's Elegies
Alwin Franke (Reed College) - The color of classicism: race and narrative in Martin Bernal's Black Athena
Malina Buturovic (Princeton University) - Bodies, kin and classicism: rereading Marshall Sahlin's What kinship is - and is not
3:00 pm: Panel #6: Women, Academia, the Classics
Chair: Darcy Krasne (Columbia University)
Teddy Delwiche (Yale University) - Reconsidering women's classical education in early America
Aron Ouwerkerk (Utrecht University) - Women's neo-Latin texts: potentials & challenges outside the canon
Frances Myatt (LMU Munich) - Placetne magistra? Making space for women in academia in Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night
4:30 pm: Coffee break
5:00 pm: Panel #7: Pedagogy and the Classics
Chair: Brett Stine (Columbia University)
Amanda Kubic (University of Michigan) - Classical reception pedagogy and the first-year writing course: a case study of Comparative literature 122, writing world literatures: body politics/body poetics
Robin Diver (University of Birmingham) - Rapists of privilege vs. underdog rapists: how post-1980s children's literature uses liminality to depict rape as justifiable
6:30 pm: Reception
SATURDAY, NOV. 13
9:00 am: Breakfast
9:30 am: Panel #8: Queer Receptions
Chair: Nikolas Kakkoufa (Columbia University)
Giovanni Lovisetto (Columbia University) - Nullification or centrality of the penis? Representing the tied phallus from Greek kynodesme to contemporary photography
Cat Lambert (Columbia University) - Plutarch's Alexander and his bedtime reading: archiving a queer moment in the books
Marios Anastasiadis (University of Edinburgh) - An unnamed slave boy and his power in 4th century BC Athens
11:00 am: Keynote address: Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago)
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: Panel #9: Representing the Feminine
Chair: Marissa Swan (Columbia University)
Lien Van Geel (Columbia University) - Soror Augusti, non uxor ero: shifting centre and periphery in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia
Patricia Eunji Kim (NYU) - Centering Black feminity: Augusta Savage and sculpting amazons in the early twentieth century
Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University) and Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham) - Morbid tales: heavy metal music and the global reception of Egyptian queens
3:00 pm: Panel #10: Subversive Monuments
Chair: Katy Knortz (Princeton University)
Emmanuela Schoinoplokaki (University of California, Santa Barbara) - Βέβηλη Πτήση, Βασίλης Γκουρογιάννης. The Parthenon: a site of reflection?
Paula Gaither (Stanford University) - Reconstruction as remediation: the Ara Pacis Augustae
Giorgio Motisi (Scuola Normale Superiore) - Outside the Fascist canon of ancient art: the case of Edoardo Persico and Arte romana (1935)
4:30 pm: Coffee break
5:00 pm: Panel #11: Classsics Without Class
Chair: Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)
Sophie Wardle (University of Cambridge) - "Connoisseurs" in construction trenches: Victorian working-class responses to London's Roman past
Abigail Breuker (Columbia University) - Centering mercy: what Seneca's De clementia means for institutional justice
Ana Santori Rodríguez (University of Michigan) - "Canta, diosa, la colera del pueblo". Classics in Puerto Rico during the summer of 2019
6:30 pm: Closing Remarks: Nancy Worman (Columbia University)
7:00 pm: Dinner