BU Classics at the SCS!

BU Classics faculty, graduate students, and alumni participated in this year’s Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, which took place virtually due to COVID-19. The panels can be streamed if you register for the conference.

Below is a schedule of talks and panels by BU faculty, graduate students, and alumni. The full program can be found here.

Note: All times have been converted to Eastern Standard Time. The program lists all times in Central Standard Time.

Society for Classical Studies 2021 Annual Meeting:

January 6, 2021

  • Panel 19: Lightening Session – History and Literature
    10am-1pm EST
    Professor James Uden, Presiding
  • Panel 22: Neronian Literature
    3-6pm EST
    Prof. James Uden
    “Drugs, Immunity, and Body Politics in the Age of Nero”
  • Panel 26: The Powers and Perils of Solitude in Greek Literature
    3-6pm EST
    Prof. Emily Austin (Chicago, BU PhD 2016), Organizer
  • Panel 26: The Powers and Perils of Solitude in Greek Literature
    3-6pm EST
    Prof. Emily Austin (Chicago, BU PhD 2016)
    The Kleos of Solitude in Sophocles’ Philoctetes”

January 7, 2021

January 8, 2021

  • Panel 52: COVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study
    3-6pm EST
    Alicia Matz (BU Graduate Student)
    “More than Brains in Jars: A Graduate Perspective on the Future of Classics Graduate Studies”
  • Panel 52: COVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study
    3-6pm EST
    Prof. Hannah Culik-Baird
    “Digital Teaching and COVID-19”

January 9, 2021

  • Panel 64: Ovid
    3-6pm EST
    Alicia Matz (BU Graduate Student), Re-presenting Woman: Pandora in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

January 10, 2021

  • Panel 79: Republican Latin Poetry
    3-6pm EST
    Prof. Leah Kronenberg, Presiding
  • Panel 81: Homer and Hellenistic Literature
    3-6pm EST
    Evan Armacost (The Fessenden School, BU BA/MA 2018)
    “The Politics of Colchian Space and Movement in Argonautica 4″