6:00-7:00pm Welcome Reception for Presenters
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
***All Sessions in the
8:30-9:00 Morning Coffee and Refreshments
9:00-10:00 Session I: The Politics of Poetry
Sophocles'
Venantius Fortunatus: Power of the Pen in Merovingian
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 Session II: Navigating Collections
The Gospel of Thomas: Child of Plato or Solomon?, Kyle Simpson, Southwestern University
Contrasting Comparanda in Multiple-Referent Similes in the Aeneid, Juan Ramirez,
11:15-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:45 Session III: Cult and Ritual
Restoring the Wall: Death, Ritual, and Community in Book 23 of the Iliad, Kayla Rasmussen,
Introducing Marsyas, Haley Smith,
1:45-2:00 Break
2:00-3:00 Session IV: Roundtable Discussion: Technology and Intercampus Collaboration in Classics
3:15-4:15 Session V: The Politics of
Patronage on the Periphery: Caesar,
Abortion and Augustus: The Moral Rhetoric of the Past, Whitney Carter,
6:30-8:00 Banquet (