Eta Sigma Phi Undergraduate Conference

The UNC chapter of Eta Sigma Phi will be hosting the 2nd Annual UNC Undergraduate Classics Conference in Peabody 104, Saturday April 26 – Sunday April 27. They will have twelve presenters from various universities, as well as a keynote address by Dr. T.H.M. Gellar-Goad. Should you wish, you are all more than welcome to attend.

For more information, contact Luke Hagemann at lwhATliveDOTuncDOTedu.

Conference Panels

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Roman History

4:00 – 4:20 PM: Herodotean Geography in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum, by Joe Watkins

4:20 – 4:40 PM: The Magi as Wise Men: Contextualizing Cicero’s De Divinatione 1.46, by Ben Wiley

4:40 – 5:00 PM: Constructing an Empire: Trajan’s Military Projects in Dacia during the 2nd Century AD, by Peter Guevara

5:00 – 5:25 PM: Panel Q&A

6:00 – 7:30 PM: Dinner at Kipos Greek Restaurant

8:00 – 9:30 PM: Keynote Address – Pimps and piety in Plautus’ comedies, by Dr. T.H.M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University), followed by Q&A.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Archaeology

8:00 – 8:20 AM: Hadrian’s Pantheon and Cultural Unification, by Elizabeth Penland

8:20 – 8:40 AM: Not Just for the Birds: Bird Depictions of Portentous Significance in Athenian Vases and BM 108874, by Sophia Taborski

8:40 – 9:00 AM: The Forum Baths of Pompeii: an Analysis, by Amy Rabenberg

9:00 – 9:25 AM: Panel Q&A

Latin Literature

9:30 – 9:50 AM: “When Kosmoi Come of Age: Language of Sexual Maturation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1”, by Del Maticic

9:50 – 10:10 AM: Plague, Contagion, and Civil War in Latin Literature: A Lens Through Which to Examine Modern Fascinations, by Olivia Garrett

10:10 – 10:30 AM: The Lines Are Drawn: Christian Apologies in Late Antiquity, by Ryan Slauer

10:30 – 10:55 AM: Panel Q&A

Women in Antiquity

11:00 – 11:20 AM: A Reexamination of Attendance for the Athenian Thesmophoria, by Erik Shell

11:20 – 11:40 AM: Plots and Prejudice: Conflicts Between Women in Vergil’s Aeneid, by Elizabeth Settoducato

11:40 – 12:00 PM: The Enslaved Sex: The Social Rights and Freedoms of Hetairai and Female Citizens in Classical Athens (479-323 BCE), by Brianna Odom

12:00 – 12:25 PM: Panel Q&A