Schedule for the Tenth Northwest Undergraduate Conference On the Ancient World

The Tenth Northwest Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World

Location: Ford Hall

Saturday, April 25, 2015

8:30 A.M.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPENS, Ford Hall 102

Continental breakfast served in Ford Hall 102

9:30 A.M.
INTRODUCTION, Ford Hall 102
9:30 - 10:50 A.M.
SESSION ONE - Politics, Ford Hall 102

Chair: Brian Turner (Portland State University)

9:30 - Katherine Gibbs (Gonzaga University) - "Empire State of Mind: A Look into Cicero's Contradictions Regarding Roman Imperialism"

9:50 - Abigail Russell (Western Washington University) - "Liberty's Chains"

10:10 - Kristen Patterson (Willamette University) - "Agricola the Schoiar General"

10:30 - Bailey Boatsman (Reed College) - "Manipulating Augury: Exploring Augustus' Legitimization of Power Through Art"

10:50 - 11:05 A.M.
BREAK
11:05 A.M. - 12:05 P.M.
SESSION TWO - Religion and Philosophy, Ford Hall 102

Chair: Mary Schmitt (George Fox University)

11:05 - Mallory McGowen (Boise State University) - "Galen's Failure and the Gods' Victory: A Look at the Resurgence of Religious Fervor in the Wake of the Antonine Plague"

11:25 - Conor Foley (George Fox University) - "Anti-Theodicy in Jeremiah 17:5-8: The Polemicized Weltanschauung of Deuteronomic Ideology"

11:45 - Haley Tilt (Reed College) - "Lucretian Levity: The Role of Wordplay in the Philosophy of De Rerum Natura"

12:05 P.M. - 1:05 P.M.
LUNCH
1:05 - 2:25 P.M.
SESSION THREE - Ethnicity and Culture, Ford Hall 122

Chair: David Oosterhuis (Gonzaga University)

1:05 - Alexander Witherspoon (Evergreen State College) - "Hanno: An Inquiry and Commentary"

1:25 - Ian Blair (Lewis and Clark College) - "Eating Ethnicity: An Examination of the Politics of Ethnicity through Food Culture in Herodotus' Histories"

1:45 - Courtney Bither (George Fox University) - "Policing of Women's Body and Dress in Greco-Roman Society in the 1st Century CE"

2:05 - Ethan Schiller: "᾿Ουτοπιάζε: Heroic Identities in Homeric Utopianism"

2:25 - 2:40 P.M.
BREAK
2:40 – 3:40 P.M.
SESSION FOUR - Archaeology, Ford Hall 122

Chair: Thomas Keeline (Western Washington University)

2:40 - Jasmine Akiyama-Kim (University of Oregon) - "Arethusa: Four Perspectives on the Syracusan Fountains"

3:00 - Grace Birdwell - (Lewis and Clark College) - Bare Bones: An Analysis of Human Burials at the Villa con Cryptoportici

3:20 - Kaitlin O’Neill (Willamette University) - "Connecting the Cup-and-ring Motif in Passage Tomb Art and Rock Art to the Landscape of Neolithic Ireland"

4:00-5:00
Optional Guided Tour Through the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Hallie Ford Museum of Art

Guided Tour led by Ortwin Knorr (Willamette University)

Willamette University

Classical Studies

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Salem Oregon 97301 U.S.A.
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