The schedule for our 2023 conference, Knowing & Knowing Nothing: Learning, Teaching, and Apprenticeship in the Ancient Mediterranean, is now live! The conference will be held on September 29 and 30, 2023 in Royce Hall on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus.
If you would like to attend our conference virtually, please email us at uclaclassicsgraduates@gmail.com so that we can work out digital logistics in advance. We look forward to seeing you this fall!
Our speakers were chosen from responses to this Call for Papers.
Friday, September 29, 2023
5:00 pm | Keynote Address (Royce Hall 314)
Professor Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University) – Apprenticeships–From Ancient “Trad Wives” to Modern Graduate Students
6:15 pm | Question & Answer Period
Dinner to follow (Royce Hall 306).
Saturday, September 30, 2023
8:30 am | Registration and Coffee (Royce Hall 314)
9:15 am | Opening Remarks (Royce Hall 314)
Professor David Blank (UC Los Angeles)
9:30 am | Panel 1: Philosophy and Religion (Royce Hall 314)
— Panel Moderator – Nicolette D’Angelo (UC Los Angeles)
— Sevcan Gugumcu (UC Los Angeles) – The Cognition of First Principles in Aristotle
— Charlotte Mencke (Northwestern University) – Eros, Gossip, and Philosophy in Plato’s Symposium
— Carson Greene (UC Los Angeles) – The Divine in Education: An Analysis of Fourth Century Hellenism Based on the Emperor Julian’s School Law
— Panel Respondent – Zak Gram (UC Los Angeles)
11:30 am | Lunch (Royce Hall 306)
12:30 pm | Panel 2: Rhetoric and Society (Royce Hall 314)
— Panel Moderator – JuliAnne Rach (UC Los Angeles)
— Alex Montag (Tulane University) – Heidegger’s Challenge: On Logos in Plato’s Sophist
— Jermaine Bryant (Princeton University) – Testing Rome’s Social Limits: Civil War in Senecan Declamation and Appian’s Civil Wars
— Robert Drummond (University of Southern California) – Polyneices “primus inter pares”: an intertextual reading of Thebaid 11
— Panel Respondent – Jasmine Akiyama-Kim (UC Los Angeles)
2:30 pm | Break
2:45 pm | Panel 3: Knowledge and Identity (Royce Hall 314)
— Panel Moderator – Grant Hussong (UC Los Angeles)
— Jordan Cohen (UC Riverside) – Enslavement and Apprenticeship in Medical Training — Elisa Markhoff (Villanova University) – Mein Sparta: The League of German Girls and the Appropriation of Spartan Education in the Third Reich
— Vanessa Stovall (Columbia University) – (En)gendered Soph-istry: Poetic Author(ization)s and Musical Innovations Across Euripides’ Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis
— Panel Respondent – Rachel Morrison (UC Los Angeles)
Dinner to follow (Royce 306).
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