Presentations & Invited Guest Lectures
Presentations & Invited Guest Lectures
Invited Lectures
2023
“Diversity in Roman Higher Education: Self-Taught Students and Late Learners”, Bates
College, Maine, 1/17/2023
2020
Guest Speaker at the Third Duke/UNC First-Generation Graduate Symposium, 1/16/2020
2019
Movement in The Second Sophistic Movement | invited guest lecture, University of Trier,
12/18/2019
Presentations
2024
“‘Inequality is the Starting Point of a Pleasant Life’: Human Flourishing in Christian Philosophy” |
XIX International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, 8/2024 (accepted)
Loving a Slave: Redefining Servitium Amoris in Ausonius’ Love Poetry | Society forClassical Studies,
Chicago, 1/5/2024 (accepted)
2023
“Nontraditional Pathways in Roman Education: Outsiders or Role Models? Late Learners, Autodidacts, and
Disabled Students”, CAMWS Provo, Utah 3/31/2023
“Sophistic Innovators and Christian Persuaders: The Rhetoric of Persuasion and Consent
in Church History” | Society for Classical Studies, New Orleans, 1/2023
2022
“Sinners, Seekers, Censors: Converted Christians Bridging Communities – From Rhetor to
Church Father” | History of Education Society, Baltimore, 11/2022
“Libanius’ Biography: New Perspectives on Roman Education” | CAMWS Winston-Salem, 3/26/2022
“At the Margins of Roman Higher Education: Students in Need” | 5th Annual UFCGS:
New Perspectives on the Ancient Mediterranean | University of Florida, 2/26/2022
2021
“Intellectuals’ Social Media: Identity Formation Through Educational Biographies” |
Communication and Interaction in the Ancient World and Its Study | Cardiff, U.K., 11/19/2021
“Fear of Studying ‘Abroad’ in Antiquity: Immigration Policies & Political Agendas” |
The 15th annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL), Reading 6/18/2021
Studying ‘Abroad’ in Antiquity: Student Movement and Educational Policy | Virtual CAMWS (Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper), 4/8/2021
Defining Academic Space: How Second Sophistic Authors Appropriate the Chair’ | SCS/AIA Joint Annual Virtual Meeting, 1/6/2021
2020
Panhellenic Publicity in Epinician Poetry | CAMWS Redux, 5/27/2020
Sweet Advertisement: Epinician Performances | Duke/UNC Classics Symposium, 2/22/2020
Sophists: Public Identity and Roman Provincial Coinage | SCS Washington D.C, 1/3/2020
2019
Sophists: Identity and Roman Provincial Coinage | UNC Chapel Hill, 4/13/2019
A Glance into the Lives of Sophists: The Title ‘Sophist’ in Documentary Papyri | Duke/UNC
Classics Graduate Symposium, 2/9/2019