Third North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
Washington, D.C.
January 5-7, 2020
Draft Program
(updated: 16 December 2019)
Sunday, January 5
| 2.00-5.00pm | Registration |
| 3.00-4.00 | Tom Elliott (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) and Aaron Hershkowitz (Institute for Advanced Study): “Recent Developments with Epigraphy.info” |
| 4.45-4.504.50-5.00 | Welcome, Rebecca Benefiel, President, ASGLEWelcome, Chris Celenza, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University |
| 5.00-6.00 | Keynote Lecture: John Bodel, Brown University “Epigraphic Culture and the Epigraphic Mode”(Co-sponsored by the Washington DC Society of the AIA) |
| 6.00-7.30 | Reception (appetizers provided at the Georgetown Conference Center) |
Monday, January 6 (overview)
| 8.00-9.00 | Pastries and Posters Session |
| 9.00-12.00 | Panel sessions #1-5 |
| 12.00-1.30 | Break (lunch on your own) |
| 1.30-4.45 | Panel sessions #6-10 |
| 6.00-7.00 | Keynote Lecture : Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia “Sacred Manumissions were not Manumissions” (Co-sponsored by the Bodnar lecture fund, Department of Classics, Georgetown University) |
| 7.00-9.00 | Dinner (buffet dinner provided in Riggs Library, Healy Hall, Georgetown University) |
Tuesday, January 7 (overview)
| 8.00-9.00 | Pastries and Posters Session |
| 9.00-12.00 | Panel sessions #11-15 |
| 12.00-1.30 | Lunch (Buffet lunch provided) |
| 1.30-5.10 | Panel sessions #16-19 |
Monday, January 6
| 8.00-9.00 Pastries and Posters |
| 1. Greek Epigraphy: New Texts, New Readings (Panel Presider: Cathy Keesling) | |
| 9.00-9.25 | Paul Iversen (Case Western Reserve University) and Alexander Jones (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University): “A New Edition of the ‘Back Plate Inscription’ on the Antikythera Mechanism and a Minor Revision of the Eclipse Possibilities on its Saros Dial” |
| 9.25-9.50 | Eleni Theodorou (University of Vienna): “Unpublished Honorific Inscriptions from Ariassos in Pisidia” |
| 9.50-10.15 | Cameron Pearson (University of Warsaw): “New Evidence for Slave Names, Literacy, and Social Mobility from the Archaic Period in Greece” |
| 2. Curses (Panel Presider: Jorge Bravo) | |
| 9.00-9.25 | Irene Polinskaya (King’s College London): “Greek Curses on Ceramic Vessels” |
| 9.25-9.50 | Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (University of Washington): “‘May the Thief Become as Liquid as Water’: Persuasion and Power in a Curse Tablet from Roman Bath” |
| 9.50-10.15 | Hans Bork (Stanford University): “The Curse of Roman Slavery” |
| 3. Imperial Relations (Panel Presider: Josiah Osgood) | |
| 9.00-9.25 | Riccardo Bertolazzi (University of Toronto): “Neapolis, Colonia Antoniniana” |
| 9.25-9.50 | Cédric Brélaz (University of Fribourg): “The Creation of the Roman Province of Lycia and the Control of the Epigraphic Landscape” |
| 9.50-10.15 | Hüseyin Uzunoğlu (Akdeniz University / ANAMED, Koç University): “Roman Soldiers and Imperial Properties in the Galatian-Phrygian Borderland: A New Inscription from the Eskişehir Museum” |
| 10.15-10.45 Coffee break |
| 4. Greek Epigraphy: Sacred Rituals, Sacred Norms (Panel Presider: Jorge Bravo) | |
| 10.45-11.10 | Edward Harris (Durham University): “Signs vs. Laws, Decrees and By-Laws in Greek Sacred Norms” |
| 11.10-11.35 | Sebastian Zerhoch (Freie Universität Berlin): “Libation in Greek Inscriptions” |
| 11.35-12.00 | Michael Laughy (Washington and Lee University): “Ritual Authority in Early Athenian Religion” |
| 5. Roman Epigraphy: Evidence from Epitaphs I (Panel Presider: Rebecca Benefiel) | |
| 10.45-11.10 | Colleen Kron (The Ohio State University): “Going Greek on the Edge of Rome: The ‘Heroön’ of Atilia Pomptilla” |
| 11.10-11.35 | Jeffrey Easton (University of Toronto): “Servi Empticii and Manumission in the Roman Familia Publica” |
| 11.35-12.00 | Kristin Harper (University of Missouri): “‘She Trampled Underfoot Threats to her Body’: Subversive Young Women Commemorated in Late Antique Verse Epitaphs” |
| 12.00-1.30 Break (Lunch on your own) |
| 6. Greek Epigraphy: Sacred Land, Sacred Monies (Panel Presider: Paul Iversen) | |
| 1.30-1.55 | Talia Prussin (University of California, Berkeley): “Leasing Sacred Land in Hellenistic Thespiai: A Social Network Approach” |
| 1.55-2.20 | Evan Vance (University of California, Berkeley): “Sacred and Public Property in the Archaic Argolid” |
| 2.20-2.45 | Michael McGlin (Temple University): “Reevaluating Personal Borrowing from the Tempe of Apollo at Delos” |
| 2.45-3.10 | Jan-Mathieu Carbon (Collège de France/Liège): “Artemis Kindyas and the Traveling Tombs of Bargylia” |
| 7. Ancestors, Family, and Home (Panel Presider: John Bodel) | |
| 1.30-1.55 | Georgios Tsolakis (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University): “In the Steps of Ancestors: ‘Ancestral formulae’ in the Epigraphic Texts of Hellenistic and Imperial Times” |
| 1.55-2.20 | Gaia Gianni (Brown University): “Mamma and Tata: Considerations on Social Designations and Family Structure in Rome ” |
| 2.20-2.45 | Veronika Scheibelreiter-Gail (ÖAW Vienna): “Inscriptions of the Private Sphere” |
| 8. Epigraphy and Communities (Panel Presider: Victoria Pedrick) | |
| 1.30-1.55 | Eliza Gettel (Villanova University): “Koina and Hellenes of the Imperial Peloponnese” |
| 1.55-2.20 | Kathryn Langenfeld (Clemson University) and Lindsey Mazurek (University of Oregon): “Inscriptions and Permanence: Memory, Spoliation, and Social Networks at Ostia and Dion” |
| 2.20-2.45 | Marta Fernández Corral (York University): “Roman Voting Tribes and the Representation of the Elites in Hispania Citerior: Citizenship and Epigraphic Habit” |
| 3.10-3.30 Break |
| 9. Greek Epigraphy: Epigraphic Habit(s) (Panel Presider: Adele Scafuro) | |
| 3.30-3.55 | Cristina Carusi (University of Parma): “Changing the Epigraphic Habit: From Building Accounts to Building Specifications in Classical Athens” |
| 3.55-4.20 | Joanna Porucznik (University of Opole (Poland)): “The Epigraphic Habit of the North-West Black Sea Region: Local and Global Trends” |
| 4.20-4.45 | Dominika Grzesik (University of Wroclaw): “The Epigraphy of Honours: Epigraphic Habit and Honorific Culture at Delphi” |
| 10. Roman Epigraphy: The Sacred (Panel Presider: Jonathan Edmondson) | |
| 3.30-3.55 | Morgan E. Palmer (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): “The Fictores on Inscriptions from the Atrium Vestae” |
| 3.55-4.20 | Roosa Kallunki (Tampere University): “Funerary Inscriptions for Child Priests in Ancient Rome: Honorific Offices as Part of the Epigraphic Habit or Actual Religious Positions?” |
| 4.20-4.45 | Christoph Begass (Universität Mannheim): “Hadrian and Sabina as ‘New Gods’. Epigraphical Explorations in Popular Piety” |
| 4.45-6.00 Break |
| 6.00-7.00 | Keynote Lecture: Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia “Sacred Manumissions were not Manumissions” |
| 7.00-9.00 | Dinner (buffet dinner provided in Riggs Library, Healy Hall, Georgetown University) |
Tuesday, January 7
| 8.00-9.00 Pastries and Posters |
| 11. Greek Epigraphy: New Interpretations (Panel Presider: Alex Sens) | |
| 9.00-9.25 | Hanna Golab (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Nothing Useful or Pleasant? Inscriptions and the Performative Habit” |
| 9.25-9.50 | Emyr Dakin (The Graduate Center, CUNY): “IosPE I² 39: The Honorary Decree for Karzoazos, Son of Attalos. Rhetoric for a New Man” |
| 9.50-10.15 | Stella Skaltsa (University of Copenhagen): “Highs and Lows of Earthquakes and Rhodian Chronology: An Honorific Decree from Telos” |
| 12. City Planning and Organization (Panel Presider: Michael Laughy) | |
| 9.00-9.25 | Susan Rahyab (Hunter College, CUNY): “The Keepers of the Agora: The Office of Agoranomos” |
| 9.25-9.50 | Jan Dewitt (University of Michigan): “Anti-Dumping Inscriptions and Republican Civil Society” |
| 9.50-10.15 | John Fabiano (University of Toronto): “‘Removing the Rubbish and Raising the Renewed’: Rebuilding Inscriptions and the Socio-Economic Significance of Rebuilding in Late-Antique Rome” |
| 13. The Inscribed and the Literary (Panel Presider: Marden Nichols) | |
| 9.00-9.25 | Joseph Day (Wabash College): “Leon’s Epitaph from Itanos: Literary Sophistication in an Unlikely Place?” |
| 9.25-9.50 | Barbara Blythe (Tulane University): “Religious Dedications and the Epigraphic Habit in the Ancient Novels” |
| 9.50-10.15 | Alessandra Tafaro (University of Warwick): “Poetic Modes of Consumption. Between Carmina Latina Epigraphica and Martial’s Epigrams” |
| 10.15-10.45 Coffee break |
| 14. Greek Epigraphy: Attica (Panel Presider: Michael Laughy) | |
| 10.45-11.10 | Jim Sickinger (Florida State University): “Corrections to Ostraka and the Literacy of Athenian Citizens” |
| 11.10-11.35 | Constantine Karathanasis (Washington University in St. Louis): “Honors & Politics: Athenian Proxenic Decrees and the Mysterious Case of Epikerdes (IG i3 125)” |
| 11.35-12.00 | Caterina Stripeikis (Universidad de Buenos Aires): “Reader Oriented Strategies in Attic Funerary Monuments from the Classical Period” |
| 15. Roman Epigraphy: Evidence from Epitaphs II (Panel Presider: Evan Jewell) | |
| 10.45-11.10 | Maria Ángeles Alonso Alonso (Universidad del País Vasco): “Professional Identity and Urban Space in Ancient Rome. The Case of a Iatromea Regionis Suae Primae” |
| 11.10-11.35 | Jane Sancinito (Oberlin College): “Viae Appiae Multorum Annorum Negotians: Place in Merchant Funerary Inscriptions” |
| 11.35-12.00 | Evan Jewell (Columbia University): “Street View: Monuments, Prepositions and the Creation of Spatial Identities at Rome” |
| 12.00-1.30 Lunch (Buffet lunch provided) |
| 16. Greek Epigraphy: Inscribing Identity (Panel Presider: Charles McNelis) | |
| 1.30-1.55 | Simone Agrimonti (University of Cincinnati): “In Battle and in Court: Messenian Victory Narratives in Olympia” |
| 1.55-2.20 | Elizabeth Foley (Trinity College Dublin): “Fragments of Stone and History on Hellenistic Ios” |
| 2.20-2.45 | Juliane Zachhuber (University of Oxford): “Sacred Epigraphy and Local Identity: The Development and Construction of the Epigraphic Culture of the Sanctuary of Athena Lindia” |
| 17. Roman Epigraphy: Pompeii and Herculaneum (Panel Presider: Rebecca Benefiel) | |
| 1.30-1.55 | Rebecca Benefiel (Washington and Lee University) and Holly Sypniewski (Millsaps College): “Writing on Columns: A Study of Graffiti in Pompeii’s Campus ad Amphitheatrum (Regio II.7.1)” |
| 1.55-2.20 | Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons (University of Mississippi): “The Aesthetics of Campanian Charcoal Graffiti” |
| 2.20-2.45 | Gianmarco Bianchini (University of Toronto) and Gian Luca Gregori (University of Rome, La Sapienza): “The Triclinium of the ‘Casa del Moralista’ in Pompeii and its Epigraphic Trousseau” |
| 2.45-3.30 Break |
| 18. Greek Epigraphy: Language Contact in Multilingual Communities (Panel Presider: Cathy Keesling) | |
| 3.30-3.55 | Jessica Lamont (Yale University): “Commerce, Literacy, and Cross-Cultural Exchange: Private Greek Letters and Curse Tablets from the Black Sea” |
| 3.55-4.20 | Justin Miller (Harvard University) and Evan Levine (Brown University): “I, a Body, Am Buried in This Earth: Identity and Community in the Shem/Antipatros Stele of the Kerameikos:” |
| 4.20-4.45 | Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (University of Oxford): “Language Contact in Judaea-Palestine and Arabia: Semitic Loanwords in Greek Inscriptions” |
| 4.45-5.10 | James Wolfe (The Ohio State University): “ΚΑΙ ΣΟΙ: Language Contact and Liturgical Formulae in Greek and Syriac” |
| 19. Epigraphic Logistics: Editing, Editions, and Errors (Panel Presider: Josiah Osgood) | |
| 3.30-3.55 | Diane Harris Cline (George Washington University): “Rocks, Papers, and Scissors: The Methods and Work Habits of Woodward and Lewis on the Inventory Lists of the Treasurers of Athena” |
| 3.55-4.20 | Jonathan Edmondson (York University): “New Technologies for Editing the Inscriptions of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain) for CIL II2/3: Assessing the Value of Morphological Residual Modelling (M.R.M.)” |
| 4.20-4.45 | John Morgan (University of Delaware): “Errors on the Fasti Consulares Capitolini and Fasti Triumphales Capitolini” End of Congress |