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
- Panel 29: Greek Comedy
10am-1pm EST
Prof. Jeff Henderson, Presiding
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″