The MCA’s Conference of Contemporary Classics Research series is dedicated to showcasing ongoing or recently completed research in any field of Classics study, with a particular emphasis on the work of postgraduate students and early career scholars from around the world. The March 2022 Conference was held online between Thursday 24th and Saturday 26th March according to the below programme.
A number of speakers very generously allowed the recording of their presentations to be shared with you through the below hyperlinks.
Thursday 24th
4:30pm – Registration
17:00 – Queer Fragments: Evocations of Graeco-Roman Antiquity during the AIDS Crisis
4:30pm – Registration
17:00 – Queer Fragments: Evocations of Graeco-Roman Antiquity during the AIDS Crisis
Dr Emilio Capettini, University of California SB
18:30 – Panel 1: Intimacy and Violence
Rape and Respectability in the Athenian oikos.
Kirsty Harrod
Family Violence and Greek Mythology – The Timelessness of Zeus’ Parricide
Joana Pinto Salvador Costa
The Use of Prejudices and Stereotypes in the Narrative of Against Neaira [Demosthenes 59]
Roberta Dainotto
Friday 25th
17:00 – Panel 2: Rome and the East
17:00 – Panel 2: Rome and the East
The Publicans and the Governors of Asia: a Power Struggle on Financial Exploitation (123 – 41 BC)
Tom Zhuohun Wang
Updates on Manumission in Roman Egypt: the Evidence of Roman Wills
Dr Lucia Consuelo Colella
The Euphrates River as Engagement Facilitator of Hellenistic-Roman Cities
Luis Maia de Freitas
18:30 – Panel 3: The Classics and Late Antiquity
An Ideal Teacher in Damscius’ Philosophical History
Prof. Eugene Afonasin
Reading and Teaching Euripides in the Paleologan Age: the Case of Planudes’ Scholia
Valeria Annunziata
Multiplicity and Christian Theology in Gregory of Nazianus II.1.13 and Nonnus’ Paraphrase 6
Domenico Pratico
Saturday 26th
9:00 – Panel 4: Digital Classics
9:00 – Panel 4: Digital Classics
Jonathan Kim
Let’s Get Loeb’d: Extending the Functionality of our Favourite Online Classical Library
Tom Chambers
10:30 – Panel 5: The Trials of Empire
Change and Evolution in the Roman Army through Roman and Greek Eyes
Gabriele Brusa
The Intricacies of Reconciliation in the 1st C. BC: the case of Cicero and Appius Claudius
Dr Gabriel Evangelou
11:45 – Panel 6: Women as Heroes and Saviours
Mythical Plagues and Pandemics in Ancient Athens
Dr Ioannis Mitsios
Jessica Alexander
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – Panel 7: Discovery through Text Analysis
Plautus’ Comedies and Archaic Roman Law
Dr Camilla Tosi
Dr Nelson Ferreira
Elements Supporting the Thesis of Dual Authorship of Aristanetus’ Erotic Letters
Prof. Sabira Hajdarević
15:30 – Panel 8: Thoughts of a Generation
Exile Literature and Cultural Imagology: the Otherness through the Experience of Ovid exsul
Dr. Dalila D’Alfonso
Revisiting an Old Friend: Conversational Philosophy in Horace’s Odes and Epistles
Alice Robinson
Hic Ego Dux Milesque Bonus – how to become a Soldier of Love
Clemens Wurzinger
17:00 – Panel 9: Approaching the Divine
Leah Wild
A Gender Matter: Virtus and Pudicitia as Divinised Virtues
Laura Bevilacqua
We are all, actually, Islands: Syncretic Practices in Contemporary Hellenic Polytheism
Aneirin Pendragon