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Friday, January 26, Multi-Purpose Room, Student Community Center
9:00-9:15am Introduction (Colin Webster, UC Davis)
9:15-10:45am Panel 1: Organizing and Distributing Enslaved Labor
"Reinventing the mango: The Trafficker in Rhetoric and Technology" (Candida Moss, University of Birmingham)
"Panchronicon on the Roman Farm: Labor, Time-based Efficiency, and the Built Environment (Andres Matlock, University of Georgia, Athens)
11:00am-12:30pm Panel 2: Animals and Slavery
"Agricultural Technologies and the Animalization of the Enslaved" (Martin Devecka, UC Santa Cruz)
"'Talking Tools' and 'Human Property': The Roman Discourse of Animalization" (Rose MacLean, UC Santa Barbara)
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Panel 3: Prosthetic Actions
"The Difference between Life and Death in Hoplite Warfare: Enslaved Battlefield Attendants in Classical Athens" (Jesse Obert, University of Pittsburgh)
"Setting Body Clocks: Technologies for Regulating Fertility and Menstruation Among Enslaved Women" (Kassandra Miller, Colby College)
3:15-4:45pm Panel 4: Automation and Mechanics
"Vessels and Vassals: A Case Study in Mechanics and the Enslaved in Hellenistic Sympotic Culture" (Tatiana Bur, Australian National University)
[REGRETFULLY CANCELED:] "Servomechanisms: Automation and Specialization in Roman Theology" (Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University)
Saturday, January 27, Multi-Purpose Room, Student Community Center
9:00-10:30am Panel 5: Enslavement and Manual Labor
"Seeing Internal Divisions at Work: Images of Skilled and Unskilled Construction Workers and Glassblowers from the Second to Fifth centuries CE" (Hallie Meredith, Washington State University)
"‘An Exceptional Occupation’? Roman Mining, Forced Labor, and Technological Innovation" (Linda R. Gosner, Texas Tech University)
10:45am-12:15pm Panel 6: Enslavement in Farming and Medicine
"Agricultural Imperialism and the Invisible “Slave”: Pax and Spes as agricultural laborers in Tibullus" (Elizabeth Fajardo, UC Berkeley)
"Enslaved People as Prostheses in Classical Scholarship" (Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Unrecognized Knowledge: Slaves in Medical Settings" (Jordan Cohen, UC Riverside)
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
1:15-2:45pm Panel 7: Technologies of Beauty
"The Body Work and Biohacking of the Boy: Body Hair, Somatic Technologies and the Enslaved Puer in the Roman Empire" (Evan Jewell, Rutgers University)
"Hidden Pins_ Enslaved Women and the Technology of Beauty" (Sarah Blake, York University)
3:00-4:30pm Panel 8: Information Technology and Slavery
"Good to Think With: What 'Artificial Intelligence' Can Tell Us About the Roman Idea of Enslaved Worker as Tool" (Joseph Howley, Columbia University)
"Accounting (for) Enslaved Experts" (Serafina Cuomo, Durham University)
4:30-5:00pm Roundtable Discussion