{"id":7376,"date":"2020-09-18T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/?page_id=7376"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:04:55","slug":"past-roman-studies-conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/news-events\/barsc\/past-roman-studies-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Roman Studies Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smallness and Miniatures in the Roman World \u2013 March 21, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University<\/span>
\n\u201cWeapons in Miniature: Gladiatorial Equipment on Roman Lamps\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Squire, Cambridge University
\n\u201cEpic miniaturisation in Roman art\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebecca Moorman, Boston University<\/span>
\n\u201cSquishing, Squeezing, Sizing Up: Apuleius\u2019\u00a0Colonializing Diminutive\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Systems of Knowledge in Republican Rome \u2013 April 23, 2021<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Diana Spencer, University of Birmingham
\nVarro\u2019s strategies of quotation in\u00a0De Lingua Latina<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

Hannah \u010cul\u00edk-Baird, Boston University
\n\u201cCicero on Fiction\u201d<\/p>\n

Katharina Volk, Columbia University
\n\u201cNecromancers in the Senate\u201d<\/p>\n

Ovid and Augustan Culture – April 26, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

John F. Miller, University of Virginia
\n\u201cThe Lover\u2019s Calendar\u201d<\/p>\n

Ioannis Ziogas, Durham University
\n\u201cLex amatoria: <\/em>Teaching Law and Love in the Age of Augustus<\/p>\n

Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College
\n“Still, She Persisted: Materiality in Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Religion and Relationships in the Poetry of Catullus – April 20, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leah Kronenberg, Boston University
\n\u201cIn Praise of Diana? Catullus 34 and the Diana <\/em>of Valerius Cato\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Polt, Boston College
\n\u201cBroken Hymenaeus <\/em>and Priapic Pontifex: <\/em>Ritual Subversion and Restoration in Catullus 17\u201d<\/p>\n

William Fitzgerald, King\u2019s College London
\n\u201cCatullus: Our Roman or False Friend?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ovid Over Time – April 21, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul Barolsky, University of Virginia
\n\u201cThe Watery World of Ovid\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin Winker, George Mason University
\n\u201cCinemetamorphosis: Films as ars Ovidiana\u201d<\/p>\n

Carole Newlands, University of Colorado Boulder
\n\u201cOvid on the Margins: From Gavin Douglas to Derek Walcott<\/p>\n

Ian Fielding, University of Michigan
\n\u201cSome Ovidian Anniversaries\u201d<\/p>\n

Representations: The World of the World in Late Republican Rome – April 22, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Dugan, University at Buffalo, SUNY
\n\u201cCicero\u2019s Secret History\u2019 and his Death as an Author\u201d<\/p>\n

Fred Ahl, Cornell University
\n\u201cThe Power of Cicero\u2019s Wordplay\u201d<\/p>\n

John Bodel, Brown University
\n\u201cLiving up to your name in Roman histography and related genres\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary Jaeger, University of Oregon
\n\u201cLame in One Foot: Livy\u2019s Alternate History and the Case of Titus Quinctius\u201d<\/p>\n

The Public Life of Roman Women – April 10, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amy Richlin, University of California, Los Angeles
\n\u201cSlave-women and Freedwomen: Political Culture from Below in the 200s BCE\u201d<\/p>\n

Patricia Johnson, Boston Univeristy
\n\u201cThe Female Kin of C. Sempronius Tuditanus: A Prosopography of Women\u2019s Political Engagement\u201d<\/p>\n

Barbara Gold, Hamilton College
\n\u201cPerpetua and the Women of the Novel and the Apocryphal Acts: How Public and Private Interact\u201d<\/p>\n

From Infant to Citizen – April 25, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keith Bradley, University of Notre Dame
\n\u201cLearning Virtue: Aeneas, Ascanius, and Augustus\u201d<\/p>\n

Lauren Caldwell, Wesleyan University
\n\u201cBecoming Cloelia: The Education of Roman Girls\u201d<\/p>\n

James Uden, Boston University
\n\u201cChildhood Education in Imperial Rome: Plutarch, Quintilian Juvenal\u201d<\/p>\n

Imperium Romanum: Domination and its Challenges – April 26, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emma Dench, Harvard University
\n\u201cImaging Roman Power\u201d<\/p>\n

Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Boston University
\n\u201cRepresenting Leaders \u2013 From Republic to Empire\u201d<\/p>\n

Josiah Osgood, Georgetown University
\n\u201cHow do Civil Wars End? Some Roman Answers\u201d<\/p>\n

April 20, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joy Connolly, New York University
\n\u201cThe Poetics of Non-Sovereign Freedom in Horace\u2019s Satires<\/p>\n

James Uden, Boston University
\n\u201cThe Satirist and the Scholar in Second-Century Rome\u201d<\/p>\n

Joel Relihan, Wheaton College
\n\u201cApuleius and Lucian: A Menippean Moment in the Second Century<\/p>\n

Presenting the Past – April 29, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lisa Mignone, Brown University
\n“Land Confiscation in 456 BCE? Rethinking the Lex Icilia”<\/p>\n

Ann Vasaly, Boston University
\n“The ‘Archaeology’ of Early Rome: Livy and his Predecessors”<\/p>\n

Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University
\n“Vergil’s Salian Fugue: Excavating Roman Epic in Evander’s Rome”<\/p>\n

Shrinking the Muse: Psychoanalysis and Literature – April 30, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University
\n\u201cPsychoanalytic Interpretation: Greek Myths and Roman Poems\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Mehlman, Boston University
\n\u201cHippolytus Takes a Girlfriend: A Psychoanalytic Crux\u201d<\/p>\n

Ellen Oliensis, University of California, Berkeley
\n\u201cLoving writing: Ovid’s Amores\u201d<\/p>\n

Novel Ideas – April 24, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Henderson, Boston University
\n\u201cPetronius and the Greek Novel\u201d<\/p>\n

Niall Slater, Emory University
\n\u201cVarious Asses\u201d<\/p>\n

Judith Perkins, St. Joseph College
\n\u201cImagined Communities in Ancient Fictions\u201d<\/p>\n

Reading Imperial Religion – April 22, 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zsuzsanna V\u00e1rhelyi, Boston University
\n“Religion and Power in the Early Empire\u201d<\/p>\n

James Rives, York University
\n“Reason and Revelation in Apuleius”<\/p>\n

Joseph Pucci, Brown University
\n“Catullus among the Christians”<\/p>\n

Greece in Rome – April 23, 2004 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Frank Nisetich, Visiting Professor Classics at Boston University
\n\u201cFrom Tarentum to Mantua:\u00a0 Latin Translators and Roman Poets\u201d<\/p>\n

Alan Cameron, Columbia University
\n\u201cGreek Mythology in the roman world:\u00a0 The Strange Story of Ptolemy the Quail\u201d<\/p>\n

Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University
\n\u201cQ. Sulpicius Maximus, poet, eleven years old\u201d<\/p>\n

April 25, 2003
\n<\/strong>In Honor of Professor Meyer Reinhold<\/em><\/p>\n

Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University
\n\u201cCaesar, Augustus, and the Restoration of Liberty\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolfgang Haase, Boston University
\n\u201cMarc-Antoine Muret, First Political Commentator of Tacitus\u201d<\/p>\n

Susan Ford Wiltshire, Vanderbilt University
\n\u201cJames A. Garfield:\u00a0 Classicist and President\u201d<\/p>\n

April 19, 2002<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University
\n\u201cMars in Love: Hellenistic Traits in the Proem to Lucretius\u2019 DRN<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeri DeBrohun, Brown University
\n\u201cLove\u2019s Monuments: Inscriptional Language and the Immortalization of Elegy in Propertius, Book IV\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruce Redford, Boston University
\n\u201cEros and the Antique: Sir William Hamilton in Enlightenment Naples\u201d<\/p>\n

April 27, 2001<\/strong><\/p>\n

Susanna Braund, Yale University
\n\u201cRepresentations of Rage in Roman Epic Poetry\u201d<\/p>\n

Pamela Bleisch, Boston University
\nTransvestism and Tragicomedy in Plautus\u2019 Amphitruo<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Charles Segal, Harvard University
\n\u201cBlack and White Magic in Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses<\/em>: Passion, Love, Art\u201d<\/p>\n

Horace – April 28, 2000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles Ahern, Boston College
\n\u201cHorace, Hypermnestra, and the Danaids in Rome\u201d<\/p>\n

Cynthia Damon, Amherst College
\n\u201cUp From the Dead: Historiography in Horace’s Odes<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Tarrant, Harvard University
\n\u201cThe Problem of Horace’s Political Poetry\u201d<\/p>\n

Donald Carne-Ross, Boston University
\n“The Horatian Ode: if it won’t translate…”<\/p>\n

David Ferry, Wellesley College
\nReading from his translations\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 23, 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vasily Rudich, Yale University
\n\u201cPaideia in Persius and Petronius\u201d<\/p>\n

Nancy Shumate, Smith College
\n\u201cPetronius and the Question of Authenticity\u201d<\/p>\n

John Bodel Rutgers University
\n\u201cLiber Esto: <\/em>Free(d) Speech: at the Banquet of Trimalchio (Pet. <\/em>41-46)\u201d<\/p>\n

April 24, 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mario Erasmo, Wellesley College
\n\u201cReading Death in Roman Poetry\u201d<\/p>\n

Valerie M. Warrior, Boston University
\n\u201cReligio<\/em> in Livy\u2019s Account of the Second Punic War\u201d<\/p>\n

David Konstan, Brown University
\n\u201cRoman Pity\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>April 18, 1997<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard F. Thomas, Harvard University
\n\u201cVirgil and Aeneas\u201d<\/p>\n

James J. O\u2019Hara, Wesleyan University
\n\u201cCallimachus and Virgilian Etymological Wordplay\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen Scully, Boston University
\n\u201c\u2018Refining Fire\u2019 in Aeneid <\/em>8\u201d<\/p>\n

April 19, 1996<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adele Scafuro, Brown University
\n\u201cLudic Litigators and Layman Judges in Second Century BC Rome\u201d<\/p>\n

Patricia Johnston, Brandeis University
\n\u201cEros and Psyche in the Ancient Mystery Cults\u201d<\/p>\n

William Vance, Boston University
\n\u201cAmerica\u2019s Christians and Rome\u2019s Nudes\u201d<\/p>\n

April 21, 1995<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ann Vasaly, <\/em>Boston University
\n\u2018Livy\u2019s Ideal Republic\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Patricia Johnson, College of the Holy Cross
\n\u2018Ovid\u2019s Livia in Exile\u2019<\/p>\n

Michael Putnam, Brown University
\n\u201cThe Lyric Genius of the Aeneid<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smallness and Miniatures in the Roman World \u2013 March 21, 2025 Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University \u201cWeapons in Miniature: Gladiatorial Equipment on Roman Lamps\u201d Michael Squire, Cambridge University \u201cEpic miniaturisation in Roman art\u201d Rebecca Moorman, Boston University \u201cSquishing, Squeezing, Sizing Up: Apuleius\u2019\u00a0Colonializing Diminutive\u201d Systems of Knowledge in Republican Rome \u2013 April 23, 2021 Diana Spencer, University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16797,"featured_media":0,"parent":7267,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7376"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11556,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7376\/revisions\/11556"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}