Connections and Divisions: Landscape Features of the Ancient World
17th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Friday, May 2, 2025
Location: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY – Segal Theater, 1st Floor
9:00 – 9:30 am. Registration, Welcome, and Introduction – Light Breakfast
9:30 – 11:00 am. Panel 1
- Catarina Madeira, Universidade de Lisboa, “Nature in the Frame: Negotiating Space and Connections in Roman Frescoes”
- Samuel Oer de Almeida, University of Tübingen, “Coins, Landscapes, and Myths: Connecting and Dividing the Communities of the Middle Maeander Valley”
- Wesley Hanson, Howard University, “Exemplary Landscape in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum”
11:00 – 12:30 pm. Lunch Break – 5th Floor Room #5414
12:30 – 2:00 pm. Panel 2
- Ronnie Hirsch, Brown University, “An Empire of Brick and Mortar: The Walls of Athens as a Symbol of Imperialism in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE”
- Ioannis Mitsios, National and Kapodistrain University of Athens, “Mythologizing Rivers in Ancient Athens: The Case of Kephisos”
- Yentl Love, University of Potsdam, “Bacchic Speleology: Bacchus Queer Geography, and the Liminal Cave”
2:00 – 2:30 pm. Coffee Break
2:30 – 4:00 pm. Panel 3
- Shiro Burnette, NYU “A Charged River: Tracing Roman Suppression of Nilotic Memory”
- Lauryn Hanley, University of Washington, “Caves and the Female Body in Greco-Roman Myth: Reproduction, Sexuality, and Control”
- Pedro Schmidt, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, “The Flowless River: The Danube in Ovid’s Tristia”
4:00 – 4:15 pm. Refreshments
4:15 – 5:30 pm. Keynote
- Prudence Jones (Montclair State) – Fluid Borders: Rivers, Exile, and Migration
