Department of Classics | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Seventh Annual Tennessee Undergraduate Classics Research Conference

University of Tennessee, Law School
Saturday February 24, 2018

8:30-9:00	Check-In and Registration	College of Law
9:00-9:15	Welcome Dr. Marisa Moazen, Executive Director, Office of Undergraduate Research and Office of Community Engagement, University of Tennessee	College of Law 132
9:15-10:15	Keynote Presentation Dr. Matthew Farmer, University of Missouri Once More a Weasel: Actors’ Mistakes and Parody in Greek Drama.	College of Law 132
10:15-10:30	Morning Break	College of Law
10:30-12:00	First Paper Session
	Session#1:Presider: Dr. Aleydis Van de Moortel Emily Brower, University of Tennessee Representation of Human Musculature in the Bronze Age Aegean Rose Milnes, Vanderbilt University Normalized Rape: Connotations of Sexual Assault on Domestic Pottery in Classical Athens Sarah Addison Phillips, Mississippi State University Critias of Athens and the Sisyphus Fragment Meggie Ellis, University of Tennessee Reconstructing the Middle Bronze Age Boat from Mitrou, Greece	College of Law 135
	Session#2: Presider: Dr. Robert Sklenar Jamie Wheeler, Baylor University ‘Eadem magistratuum vocabula’: Imperial Names and Titles in Tacitus' Annales 1 and 2 Rylee Jo Maples, Austin Peay State University Truth is in the Eye of the Beholder: Catilinarian Conspiracy in Cicero and Sallust Hannah Harvey, Austin Peay State University Catiline: Chaos Incarnate or Tragic Hero? Kate Davenport, Sewanee Exilium Voluntarium: Seneca's Stoic Refashioning of Exile in Epistula 28	College of Law 136
	Session#3: Presider: Dr. Christopher Craig Kiley Dempsey, College of Charleston To Write You Happy: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura as a Poetical Antidote Arnav Tandon, Columbia University Ciceronian Friendship: Pure Philosophy Meets Political Practice Mahalia Smith, Austin Peay State University Cicero's Use of Rhetorical Role-Playing in the Catilinarian Speeches Madison Howell, Sewanee The Personification of Nature in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura	College of Law 241
12:10-1:10	Lunch	Hilton Garden Inn
1:20-2:50	Second Paper Session
	Session#4: Presider: Dr. Stephen Collins-Elliott Julia Castner, Bryn Mawr College Experiencing the Cloaca Maxima: A Smellscape of Imperial Rome Jessica Urban, Haverford College Water and Wealth: Water as an Elite Symbol in the Domestic Landscape of the Bay of Naples Megan Mulkern, Bryn Mawr College Leave Your Sandals at the Door: Prescriptions, Prohibitions and the Social Landscape of Greek Sanctuaries Catherine Rowen, Bryn Mawr College Containing Fear: Acadian Pan in the Athenian Wilderness	College of Law 135
	Session#5: Presider: Dr. Justin Arft Linda McNulty Perez, University of Texas, San Antonio The Role of αἷμα in the Homeric Epics Kelly Powers, Columbia University Violent Death, the Body, and Mourning in the Iliad and Modern Poetry Chad Uhl, University of Kansas Conflating Mortal and Divine Law in Euripides' Orestes Virginia Freeman, University of Buffalo A Broken Tongue: Translation and Sappho's Affective Poetics in Fragment 31	College of Law 136
	Session#6: Presider: Dr. Jessica Westerhold Lauren Gentile, University of Iowa ‘A Thousand Kisses’: Reading Shakespeare Through Catullus Alexander Kee, Austin Peay State University The Importance of the Latin Diminutive in Horace's Odes Riley Miller, University of Tennessee Praise Augustus! Sara Menees, Austin Peay State University Horace and Wordsworth as Poetic Priests: ‘Pride Sough by Merit’	College of Law 241
2:50-3:00	Break	College of Law
3:00-4:30	Third Paper Session
	Session#7: Presider: Dr. Taylor Coughlan Ian Morgan, University of Cincinnati Arachne through the Ages Alex Morano, University of Arizona Iphigenia in Etruria: The House of Atreus in the Etruscan Artistic Tradition Jessica Carter, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Gifts to Apollo: Tracking Delphi's Changing Role Through Dedicatory Practice Austin Mitchell, University of Alabama The Evolution of the Genius in Ancient Rome	College of Law 135
	Session#8: Presider: Dr. Thomas Rose Keegan Sims, Loyola University, Chicago Agriculture and Debt-Slavery in Archaic Greece Logan Elliott, University of North Carolina Greensboro Demosthenes' Resistant Influence on the Character of Philip II of Macedon Clayton Meldrum, Kalamazoo College Modern Medicine, Ancient Model Neal Payne, Simon Fraser University The 'Romanized' Food Ways of Britain: The Extent of, and Factors Governing, Differential Access to Food Resources	College of Law 136
4:40-4:45	Closing Remarks Dr. Aleydis Van de Moortel, Lindsay Young Professor and Head, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee	College of Law 132

Sponsored by the Classics Enrichment Fund of the Department of Classics,
with generous co-sponsorship by:
The College of Arts &Sciences, The Chancellor’s Honors and Scholars Program, The Office of Research and Engagement, The Humanities Center, The Departments of English, History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies

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