Schedule

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9:30 – 10:00: Coffee + Welcome

10:00 – 11:00: The Archaic Sea

  • Shannon White, “Fishing for Ionians in the Upper Sea: Considerations for the Creation of Assyrian Imperial Geography”
  • Izzy Martin, “Odysseus Through the Looking Glass”

11:00 – 12:30: Lunch

12:30 – 1:30: A Connected Mediterranean

  • Araceli Rizzo, “Sea-ing Double: A Comparative Study of Artistic and Literary Depictions of Fishermen in the Hellenistic Period”
  • Meghana Gella & Nellie Carbone, “The Sea in Catullus 63: An Expanse of Transformation”

1:30 – 2:00: Refreshments

2:00 – 3:00: Mare Nostrum

  • Doug Braun, “A Kunstkammer on Capri? Imperial Roman Displays of Sea Monsters and Other Maritime Oddities”
  • Emma Arnold, “The Empire and the Sponge: An Invertebrate View of Class and Culture”
  • Manolis Mavromatis, “Globalizing the Northern Aegean: Thasos and Samothrace under Rome”

3:00 – 3:30: Refreshments

3:30 – 4:30: Keynote Address

4:30 – 5:30: Reception