Conference Info
Conference Program
Please note: morning and afternoon tea will be catered. However, attendees will need to provide or purchase their own lunch. There are a number of eateries on campus and in the vicinity. More details about their location will be made available during the conference.
Day 1 (9th June)
Registration and Keynote Address
The Racecourse Hotel
4:30pm Registration opens
5:00pm Keynote Address: The future of ancient world studies: responding to challenges and adapting to change, Associate Professor Andrew Jamieson (for more details, see Special Events)
6:00pm Reception function
Day 2 (10th June)
Monash University Caulfield Campus, H Building, Level 9
8:00-9:00 Registration and Poster set up
9:00-10:30 Session 1
Session 1A: Concepts of Other
Chair: Catherine Rosbrook
Fair is Foul, Foul is Fair: Representations of Kirke and Medeia on Attic Vase-Paintings
Katherine Torres-Monro
Anti-Slavery and Abolitionism: Social and political attitudes towards slavery in ancient China and Rome
Dan Zhao
Othering in the Roman Empire: Violent images and urban spatial dialectic in Flavian Rome
Nicholas George
Session 1B: Politics 1: Empires
Chair: David White
‘Gestalt-switch’ and inventio’, ‘sublime historical experience’ and ‘vertigo’ in the age of Akhenaten: Exploring future directions in Amarna historiography
Michael Hayes
Emerging from the Shadows: Theodosius II in the Hippodrome of Constantinople
Alex Kujanpaa
The Economic Policies of the Palmyrene Empire CE 270-273
Lila Knight
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea (provided)
11:00-12:30 Session 2
Session 2A: Gender
Chair: Campbell Calverley
The Portrayal of Women in the Poetry of Bishop Avitus of Vienne
Catherine Rosbrook
Ovid redirected: Gendered voice in Seicento Heroides receptions
Julia Pelosi-Thorpe
Future Directions in Analysing Rape Narratives in Roman Antiquity
Caroline Chong
Session 2B: Reception Studies
Chair: Michael Hayes
Valuing Vases: Pre-Hamiltonian Greek Vase Collecting
Lauren Murphy
“A Destiny For Man Made By His Ancestors”: The Influence of Greek Tragedy on Victorian Criminology
Ash Green
The poet and the empress: Ovid and Livia in medieval commentaries and glosses
Aimee Turner
12:30-2:00 Lunch and Posters
2:00-3:00 Future Directions in Ancient World Studies
Facilitators: Aimee Turner, Campbell Calverley and Dustin McKenzie
3:00-3:30 Afternoon Tea (provided)
3:30-5:30 Session 3
Session 3A: Literature
Chair: Caroline Chong
Laughing at and with Socrates: A Reading of Plato’s Euthyphro
John Blackler
A Most Handsome Warrior: Leon of Troizen
Nile de Jonge
The future of poetry, according to Herodas’ mimiamboi
Janek Drevikovsky
Averting Evil: Apotropaic Strategies Against Evil Daimones in the Third Century CE
Tiana Blazevic
Session 3B: Politics 2: Roman
Chair: Vinko Kerr-Harris
Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita: Reflecting on the Future of Rome
Ryleigh Adams
Innovation over Precedent: The “Conservative” Preference for Distributing Grain over Land
Tonya Rushmer
‘Universa Italia adversus Romanos’: Italian enfranchisement as Roman victory after the Social War
Jocelin Chan
Future Directions in late antique research: The Western Successor States and the Court of Constantinople
David White
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will be held at the Racecourse Hotel, on Monday 10th June. Dinner will begin at 6:00pm, with the first course served at 6:30pm.
Cost per person attending: $50. This must be paid in cash when you register at the conference.
This covers a three-course meal and Trivia
Day 3 (11th June)
Monash University Caulfield Campus, H Building, Level 9
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:30 Session 4
Session 4A: Early Christianity
Chair: Kate McLardy
Older than God?: Providence, necessity and fate in Cicero, ps-Plutarch, and Irenaeus
Jonatan Simons
Popular Fiction and the Christian Acts: Modernising Folklore
Jessica Zelli
The Conversion of the Parthenon into a Christian Church and its prominence in Byzantine Athens: An act of Christian Triumphalism or of Classical Continuity?
Arthur Giatsios
Session 4B: Politics 3: Military
Chair: Alex Kujanpaa
Masculinity and the Construction of Imperial Authority in the Third and early-Fourth Centuries CE
Thomas Wakefield
The ‘Rebellion’ of Rome’s Allies in 209 BCE: Were Allied Reactions to joining the Legiones Cannenses a Motivating Factor?
Jimmy Blackwell
Accuracy, Authenticity, and Antiquity: Classical Reception and Game Design
Dustin McKenzie
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea (provided)
11:00-12:00 The Publishing Process Panel
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Postgraduate Meeting
2:00-4:00 Session 5
Session 5A: Art and Architecture
Chair: Sarah Chandlee
“The door that bars”: doorways as social and liminal boundaries in the Egyptian Pyramid Texts
Anna Chilcott
Getting High in the Bronze Age: Architecture, Ritual Space, and the Emergence of New Social Hierarchies in Minoan Crete
Vinko Kerr-Harris
The Hypostyle Hall at Karnak: Art, architecture and space
Gillian Smith
Baqet’s Birds and Bats: re-examining the tomb of a so-called “twitcher” at Beni Hassan
Lydia Bashford
Session 5B: Biography and Self
Chair: Julie Pelosi-Thorpe
The Prosopography of the Magister Militum in the Fourth Century
Christopher Bendle
Moral Philosophy and the Self in Seneca’s Letters
Tamas Preston
Incest in Excess: The role of the ‘family’ in the rumours of incest in Suetonius’ Lives
Tamara Bremert
The Epistolary Character of Marcus Caelius Rufus
Kai Riley-McPhee
4:00 Wrap Up
