The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Société americaine d'épigraphie grecque et latine) is an organization whose purpose is to further research in, and the teaching of, Greek and Latin epigraphy in North America. The Society fosters collaboration in the field and facilitates the exchange of scholarly research and discussion, both in the public forum and in published form. The Society is associated with L’Association Internationale d’Epigraphie grecque et latine (AIEGL).
NACGLE 2020
Third North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Washington, D.C. January 5-7, 2020
Draft Program (updated: 16 December 2019)
Sunday, January 5
2.00-5.00pm
Registration
3.00-4.00
Tom Elliott (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) and Aaron Hershkowitz (Institute for Advanced Study): “Recent Developments with Epigraphy.info”
4.45-4.504.50-5.00
Welcome, Rebecca Benefiel, President, ASGLEWelcome, Chris Celenza, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University
5.00-6.00
Keynote Lecture: John Bodel, Brown University “Epigraphic Culture and the Epigraphic Mode”(Co-sponsored by the Washington DC Society of the AIA)
6.00-7.30
Reception (appetizers provided at the Georgetown Conference Center)
Monday, January 6 (overview)
8.00-9.00
Pastries and Posters Session
9.00-12.00
Panel sessions #1-5
12.00-1.30
Break (lunch on your own)
1.30-4.45
Panel sessions #6-10
6.00-7.00
Keynote Lecture : Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia “Sacred Manumissions were not Manumissions” (Co-sponsored by the Bodnar lecture fund, Department of Classics, Georgetown University)
1. Greek Epigraphy: New Texts, New Readings (Panel Presider: Cathy Keesling)
9.00-9.25
Paul Iversen (Case Western Reserve University) and Alexander Jones (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University): “A New Edition of the ‘Back Plate Inscription’ on the Antikythera Mechanism and a Minor Revision of the Eclipse Possibilities on its Saros Dial”
9.25-9.50
Eleni Theodorou (University of Vienna): “Unpublished Honorific Inscriptions from Ariassos in Pisidia”
9.50-10.15
Cameron Pearson (University of Warsaw): “New Evidence for Slave Names, Literacy, and Social Mobility from the Archaic Period in Greece”
2. Curses (Panel Presider: Jorge Bravo)
9.00-9.25
Irene Polinskaya (King’s College London): “Greek Curses on Ceramic Vessels”
9.25-9.50
Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (University of Washington): “‘May the Thief Become as Liquid as Water’: Persuasion and Power in a Curse Tablet from Roman Bath”
9.50-10.15
Hans Bork (Stanford University): “The Curse of Roman Slavery”
Riccardo Bertolazzi (University of Toronto): “Neapolis, Colonia Antoniniana”
9.25-9.50
Cédric Brélaz (University of Fribourg): “The Creation of the Roman Province of Lycia and the Control of the Epigraphic Landscape”
9.50-10.15
Hüseyin Uzunoğlu (Akdeniz University / ANAMED, Koç University): “Roman Soldiers and Imperial Properties in the Galatian-Phrygian Borderland: A New Inscription from the Eskişehir Museum”
Edward Harris (Durham University): “Signs vs. Laws, Decrees and By-Laws in Greek Sacred Norms”
11.10-11.35
Sebastian Zerhoch (Freie Universität Berlin): “Libation in Greek Inscriptions”
11.35-12.00
Michael Laughy (Washington and Lee University): “Ritual Authority in Early Athenian Religion”
5. Roman Epigraphy: Evidence from Epitaphs I (Panel Presider: Rebecca Benefiel)
10.45-11.10
Colleen Kron (The Ohio State University): “Going Greek on the Edge of Rome: The ‘Heroön’ of Atilia Pomptilla”
11.10-11.35
Jeffrey Easton (University of Toronto): “Servi Empticii and Manumission in the Roman Familia Publica”
11.35-12.00
Kristin Harper (University of Missouri): “‘She Trampled Underfoot Threats to her Body’: Subversive Young Women Commemorated in Late Antique Verse Epitaphs”
Talia Prussin (University of California, Berkeley): “Leasing Sacred Land in Hellenistic Thespiai: A Social Network Approach”
1.55-2.20
Evan Vance (University of California, Berkeley): “Sacred and Public Property in the Archaic Argolid”
2.20-2.45
Michael McGlin (Temple University): “Reevaluating Personal Borrowing from the Tempe of Apollo at Delos”
2.45-3.10
Jan-Mathieu Carbon (Collège de France/Liège): “Artemis Kindyas and the Traveling Tombs of Bargylia”
7. Ancestors, Family, and Home (Panel Presider: John Bodel)
1.30-1.55
Georgios Tsolakis (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University): “In the Steps of Ancestors: ‘Ancestral formulae’ in the Epigraphic Texts of Hellenistic and Imperial Times”
1.55-2.20
Gaia Gianni (Brown University): “Mamma and Tata: Considerations on Social Designations and Family Structure in Rome ”
2.20-2.45
Veronika Scheibelreiter-Gail (ÖAW Vienna): “Inscriptions of the Private Sphere”
8. Epigraphy and Communities (Panel Presider: Victoria Pedrick)
1.30-1.55
Eliza Gettel (Villanova University): “Koina and Hellenes of the Imperial Peloponnese”
1.55-2.20
Kathryn Langenfeld (Clemson University) and Lindsey Mazurek (University of Oregon): “Inscriptions and Permanence: Memory, Spoliation, and Social Networks at Ostia and Dion”
2.20-2.45
Marta Fernández Corral (York University): “Roman Voting Tribes and the Representation of the Elites in Hispania Citerior: Citizenship and Epigraphic Habit”
Cristina Carusi (University of Parma): “Changing the Epigraphic Habit: From Building Accounts to Building Specifications in Classical Athens”
3.55-4.20
Joanna Porucznik (University of Opole (Poland)): “The Epigraphic Habit of the North-West Black Sea Region: Local and Global Trends”
4.20-4.45
Dominika Grzesik (University of Wroclaw): “The Epigraphy of Honours: Epigraphic Habit and Honorific Culture at Delphi”
10. Roman Epigraphy: The Sacred (Panel Presider: Jonathan Edmondson)
3.30-3.55
Morgan E. Palmer (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): “The Fictores on Inscriptions from the Atrium Vestae”
3.55-4.20
Roosa Kallunki (Tampere University): “Funerary Inscriptions for Child Priests in Ancient Rome: Honorific Offices as Part of the Epigraphic Habit or Actual Religious Positions?”
4.20-4.45
Christoph Begass (Universität Mannheim): “Hadrian and Sabina as ‘New Gods’. Epigraphical Explorations in Popular Piety”
4.45-6.00 Break
6.00-7.00
Keynote Lecture: Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia “Sacred Manumissions were not Manumissions”
11. Greek Epigraphy: New Interpretations (Panel Presider: Alex Sens)
9.00-9.25
Hanna Golab (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Nothing Useful or Pleasant? Inscriptions and the Performative Habit”
9.25-9.50
Emyr Dakin (The Graduate Center, CUNY): “IosPE I² 39: The Honorary Decree for Karzoazos, Son of Attalos. Rhetoric for a New Man”
9.50-10.15
Stella Skaltsa (University of Copenhagen): “Highs and Lows of Earthquakes and Rhodian Chronology: An Honorific Decree from Telos”
12. City Planning and Organization (Panel Presider: Michael Laughy)
9.00-9.25
Susan Rahyab (Hunter College, CUNY): “The Keepers of the Agora: The Office of Agoranomos”
9.25-9.50
Jan Dewitt (University of Michigan): “Anti-Dumping Inscriptions and Republican Civil Society”
9.50-10.15
John Fabiano (University of Toronto): “‘Removing the Rubbish and Raising the Renewed’: Rebuilding Inscriptions and the Socio-Economic Significance of Rebuilding in Late-Antique Rome”
13. The Inscribed and the Literary (Panel Presider: Marden Nichols)
9.00-9.25
Joseph Day (Wabash College): “Leon’s Epitaph from Itanos: Literary Sophistication in an Unlikely Place?”
9.25-9.50
Barbara Blythe (Tulane University): “Religious Dedications and the Epigraphic Habit in the Ancient Novels”
9.50-10.15
Alessandra Tafaro (University of Warwick): “Poetic Modes of Consumption. Between Carmina Latina Epigraphica and Martial’s Epigrams”
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
14. Greek Epigraphy: Attica (Panel Presider: Michael Laughy)
10.45-11.10
Jim Sickinger (Florida State University): “Corrections to Ostraka and the Literacy of Athenian Citizens”
11.10-11.35
Constantine Karathanasis (Washington University in St. Louis): “Honors & Politics: Athenian Proxenic Decrees and the Mysterious Case of Epikerdes (IG i3 125)”
11.35-12.00
Caterina Stripeikis (Universidad de Buenos Aires): “Reader Oriented Strategies in Attic Funerary Monuments from the Classical Period”
15. Roman Epigraphy: Evidence from Epitaphs II (Panel Presider: Evan Jewell)
10.45-11.10
Maria Ángeles Alonso Alonso (Universidad del País Vasco): “Professional Identity and Urban Space in Ancient Rome. The Case of a Iatromea Regionis Suae Primae”
11.10-11.35
Jane Sancinito (Oberlin College): “Viae Appiae Multorum Annorum Negotians: Place in Merchant Funerary Inscriptions”
11.35-12.00
Evan Jewell (Columbia University): “Street View: Monuments, Prepositions and the Creation of Spatial Identities at Rome”
12.00-1.30 Lunch (Buffet lunch provided)
16. Greek Epigraphy: Inscribing Identity (Panel Presider: Charles McNelis)
1.30-1.55
Simone Agrimonti (University of Cincinnati): “In Battle and in Court: Messenian Victory Narratives in Olympia”
1.55-2.20
Elizabeth Foley (Trinity College Dublin): “Fragments of Stone and History on Hellenistic Ios”
2.20-2.45
Juliane Zachhuber (University of Oxford): “Sacred Epigraphy and Local Identity: The Development and Construction of the Epigraphic Culture of the Sanctuary of Athena Lindia”
17. Roman Epigraphy: Pompeii and Herculaneum (Panel Presider: Rebecca Benefiel)
1.30-1.55
Rebecca Benefiel (Washington and Lee University) and Holly Sypniewski (Millsaps College): “Writing on Columns: A Study of Graffiti in Pompeii’s Campus ad Amphitheatrum (Regio II.7.1)”
1.55-2.20
Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons (University of Mississippi): “The Aesthetics of Campanian Charcoal Graffiti”
2.20-2.45
Gianmarco Bianchini (University of Toronto) and Gian Luca Gregori (University of Rome, La Sapienza): “The Triclinium of the ‘Casa del Moralista’ in Pompeii and its Epigraphic Trousseau”
2.45-3.30 Break
18. Greek Epigraphy: Language Contact in Multilingual Communities (Panel Presider: Cathy Keesling)
3.30-3.55
Jessica Lamont (Yale University): “Commerce, Literacy, and Cross-Cultural Exchange: Private Greek Letters and Curse Tablets from the Black Sea”
3.55-4.20
Justin Miller (Harvard University) and Evan Levine (Brown University): “I, a Body, Am Buried in This Earth: Identity and Community in the Shem/Antipatros Stele of the Kerameikos:”
4.20-4.45
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (University of Oxford): “Language Contact in Judaea-Palestine and Arabia: Semitic Loanwords in Greek Inscriptions”
4.45-5.10
James Wolfe (The Ohio State University): “ΚΑΙ ΣΟΙ: Language Contact and Liturgical Formulae in Greek and Syriac”
Diane Harris Cline (George Washington University): “Rocks, Papers, and Scissors: The Methods and Work Habits of Woodward and Lewis on the Inventory Lists of the Treasurers of Athena”
3.55-4.20
Jonathan Edmondson (York University): “New Technologies for Editing the Inscriptions of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain) for CIL II2/3: Assessing the Value of Morphological Residual Modelling (M.R.M.)”
4.20-4.45
John Morgan (University of Delaware): “Errors on the Fasti Consulares Capitolini and Fasti Triumphales Capitolini”
