Each year, AMNE graduate students organize the Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference (AIGSC) on a particular theme chosen by the AIGSC committee. The conference invites submissions from graduate students and other scholars from around the world and includes an internationally-recognized scholar as the keynote speaker.
Program and Registration
Conference Presentation Panels (9am to 3:45pm Vancouver local time)
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wqfuChqjsqH9We06kOzbbEDoWgC8OEKy5w
Keynote Lecture (4pm Vancouver local time)
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50uce6sqTsuHNXzP9uMFBYBHIhYqG3YBbZy
Program with abstracts
If you would like to attend conference activities in person, including coffee, pizza lunch, and happy hour, please RSVP to Teresa at amne.grad.conference@ubc.ca.
Conference Schedule
Friday, March 22, 2024
Location: UBC Campus, Buchanan C203 and online
9:00am–10:45am: Opening Remarks and Panel 1 – Texts
Caroline Armstrong (University of British Columbia), Avoiding Assumptions: The Liminality of Captivity during the Anatolian and Levantine Late Bronze Age
Abigail Hoskins (University of California, Berkeley), Translating Cuneiform Culture in Seleukid Babylonia: Gaps, Erasures, and Legacies
Olivia May (Princeton University), Roman Identity in Exile in Horace’s Odes 3.3 and 3.5
Alex Hagler (University of British Columbia), Changing Appetites: Continuity through Ritual Dining at the site of Folly Lane in Roman Britain
11:00am–12:45pm: Panel 2 – Material Culture and Archaeology
Anisa Côté (University of British Columbia), A Comparative Analysis of Etruscans and Moche Erotic Pottery
Marcus Spencer-Brown (University of Birmingham), The Changing Perceptions of the Imperial Populace as a Political Entity on Late Roman Base-Metal Coinage
Drosos Kardulias (University of Michigan), A Rupture Among Ruptures, Ensuring Continuity: Medieval Roman Transitions and Adaptations on the Island of Kalymnos, Greece
Cristalle Watson (University of British Columbia), Heu pietas, heu prisca fides!: Pagan and Christian Religious Continuity in Proba’s Cento Vergilianus
2:00pm–3:45pm: Panel 3 – Imagery
Georgia Landgraf (University of British Columbia), The Continuity of the Polis: Athenian Images of Childrearing in the 5th century BCE
Saeed Baghizadeh (Heidelberg Universität), Continuity and Discontinuity in the Administration Technology of Iranian Central Plateau in 4th Millennium B.C.
Joshua MacKay (University of Virginia), “No Nobler Action:” The Razing and Rebuilding of Megalopolis in 223 B.C.E.
Fabrizio Di Sarro (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), The Continuity of the Greek Culture of Taranto in the Roman Era: The Case of Funerary Coroplastic Production
4:00pm–5:00pm Keynote Address – “Mnesarete to Phryne: Fragmentation and Biographical Tradition in Greek Literature”.
Location: UBC Campus, Dodson Room 302, Irving K Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) and online
Melissa Funke, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Winnipeg
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Melissa Funke
Melissa Funke is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, where she works on gender and sexuality in ancient Greek literature as well as ancient drama. She is also co-host of the Peopling the Past podcast, which presents cutting-edge research into the everyday lives of real people in antiquity.
Dr. Funke’s new monograph, Phryne: A Life in Fragments, is now available through Bloomsbury Publishing.
Acknowledgements
The AIGSC committee wishes to thank the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies for the generous support.
The Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference is a volunteer-organised event. A special thanks is due to our voluntary chairs, committee members, and volunteers:
- Teresa Luther, committee, chair
- Caroline Barnes, committee
- Aimée Bernard, committee
- Anisa Côté, volunteer
- Caroline Armstrong, volunteer
- Brendan Kay, volunteer
- David Finden, volunteer
- Jelena Todorovic, volunteer
- Kyle Barnes, volunteer
- Bridget Kelly, volunteer
- Chris Thoms-Bauer, committee, emeritus
The Committee also wishes to thank the AMNE Staff and Faculty. We are grateful for the support from the entire department, and especially from our faculty advisor, Dr. Talia Prussin, who provided vision and guidance in ensuring the smooth running of this event.
Event image courtesy of Altes Museum, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
