Weaving Words, Sculpting Sentiments: Manipulating Emotions in Public Spaces of the Ancient Mediterranean
16th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Friday, April 5th, 2024
Location: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY – Segal Theater, 1st Floor
9:00 – 9:30 am. Registration, Welcome, and Introduction
9:30 – 11:30 am. Panel 1 – Effecting Emotions through Religion
- Tikva Blaukopf Schein (Bar-Ilan Univ., Shalem College) – Hannibal and R’Akiva: Laughter in the Face of Defeat
- Judith Hendriksma (Univ. of Oslo) – Immortal Suffering, Mortal Sympathy: The Poet, the Audience and Emotion in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
- Gabriela Canazart (Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil and Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland) – Divine Pity in the Iliad: Guiding Audience Emotions through Gods’ Spectatorial Role
11:30 – 1:00 pm. Lunch Break – 5th Floor Room #5414
1:00 – 2:30 pm. Panel 2 – Emotional Manipulation through Material Culture
- Diego Suárez Martinez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) – It’s Either Me or No One: Augustus and the Manipulation of Emotions in the Forum through the Spolia Opima
- Julius Arnold (Univ. of Colorado) – Gone, but (Not) Forgotten: Rome’s Role in Remembering the Antigonids
- Stephanie Polos (Univ. of Virginia) – Emotional Support Animals: Pets and Death on Classical Grave Stelai
2:30 – 3:00 pm. Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:30 pm. Panel 3 – Managing Emotions through Authoritarian Control
- Jared Kerr (San Diego State Univ.) – Silver Spears: Philip II of Macedon, the Amphictyonic League, and the Fall of Greece
- Giovanni Lovisetto (Columbia Univ.) – How to Bind Your Audience: Images of Constrained Bodies in Athenian Drama and Oratory
- Mamie Murphy (John Cabot Univ.) – Not Set in Stone: Tiberius and the Temple of Concord
5:00 – 6:00 pm. Keynote
- David Konstan (NYU) – Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation
