September 29, 2018, Saturday
220/221 Commons at Bates College

THE INS AND OUTS OF ATHENS AND ROME
Hamish Cameron/moderator

9:00
The ‘Barbarian’ inside the Ancient Greek World
Sujatha Chandrasekaran, University of Oxford, 2012

9:40
Affecting Civil War: A Cognitive Approach to Roman History
Irene Morrison-Moncure, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2018

10:20
Break

11:00
Patrons at Home, Patrons at Rome: Asian Cities and Associations of Roman Citizens
Sailakshmi Ramgopal, University of Chicago, 2016

11:40
Between Rome and Luoyang: Walls and Political Complexity in Roman and Chinese Capital Cities
JaShong King, University of Ottawa, expected 2021

NEW GENRES/ANCIENT STORIES
Laurie O’Higgins/moderator

1:40
Afro-Brazilian Writers and the Classical Tradition
Andrea Kouklanakis, Harvard University, 2013

2:20
Pandora and Automata in the Film Ex Machina
Aleah Hernandez, University of California, Irvine, 2017

3:00
Break

3:20
La Nouvelle Vague: The Liquid Feminine in Plato’s Republic
Irene Han, University of California at Los Angeles 2017

4:00
The Hype 4 Homer Project: Ancient Greek Poetry and the Need for a Hip-Hop Pedagogy
Brandon Bourgeois, The Ohio State University 2018

5:00
Eta Sigma Phi hosts a reception for conferees in the Bates College Museum

For a pdf version of this flyer: The (Un)Boundaries of Classics