The Tenth Northwest Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World
Location: Ford Hall
Saturday, April 25, 2015
| 8:30 A.M. | CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPENS, Ford Hall 102 Continental breakfast served in Ford Hall 102 |
| 9:30 A.M. | INTRODUCTION, Ford Hall 102 |
| 9:30 - 10:50 A.M. | SESSION ONE - Politics, Ford Hall 102 Chair: Brian Turner (Portland State University) 9:30 - Katherine Gibbs (Gonzaga University) - "Empire State of Mind: A Look into Cicero's Contradictions Regarding Roman Imperialism" 9:50 - Abigail Russell (Western Washington University) - "Liberty's Chains" 10:10 - Kristen Patterson (ÐÓÊ®°Ëвè·ÖÏí) - "Agricola the Schoiar General" 10:30 - Bailey Boatsman (Reed College) - "Manipulating Augury: Exploring Augustus' Legitimization of Power Through Art" |
| 10:50 - 11:05 A.M. | BREAK |
| 11:05 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. | SESSION TWO - Religion and Philosophy, Ford Hall 102 Chair: Mary Schmitt (George Fox University) 11:05 - Mallory McGowen (Boise State University) - "Galen's Failure and the Gods' Victory: A Look at the Resurgence of Religious Fervor in the Wake of the Antonine Plague" 11:25 - Conor Foley (George Fox University) - "Anti-Theodicy in Jeremiah 17:5-8: The Polemicized Weltanschauung of Deuteronomic Ideology" 11:45 - Haley Tilt (Reed College) - "Lucretian Levity: The Role of Wordplay in the Philosophy of De Rerum Natura" |
| 12:05 P.M. - 1:05 P.M. | LUNCH |
| 1:05 - 2:25 P.M. | SESSION THREE - Ethnicity and Culture, Ford Hall 122 Chair: David Oosterhuis (Gonzaga University) 1:05 - Alexander Witherspoon (Evergreen State College) - "Hanno: An Inquiry and Commentary" 1:25 - Ian Blair (Lewis and Clark College) - "Eating Ethnicity: An Examination of the Politics of Ethnicity through Food Culture in Herodotus' Histories" 1:45 - Courtney Bither (George Fox University) - "Policing of Women's Body and Dress in Greco-Roman Society in the 1st Century CE" 2:05 - Ethan Schiller: "᾿Ουτοπιάζε: Heroic Identities in Homeric Utopianism" |
| 2:25 - 2:40 P.M. | BREAK |
| 2:40 – 3:40 P.M. | SESSION FOUR - Archaeology, Ford Hall 122 Chair: Thomas Keeline (Western Washington University) 2:40 - Jasmine Akiyama-Kim (University of Oregon) - "Arethusa: Four Perspectives on the Syracusan Fountains" 3:00 - Grace Birdwell - (Lewis and Clark College) - Bare Bones: An Analysis of Human Burials at the Villa con Cryptoportici 3:20 - Kaitlin O’Neill (ÐÓÊ®°Ëвè·ÖÏí) - "Connecting the Cup-and-ring Motif in Passage Tomb Art and Rock Art to the Landscape of Neolithic Ireland" |
| 4:00-5:00 | Optional Guided Tour Through the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Hallie Ford Museum of Art Guided Tour led by Ortwin Knorr (ÐÓÊ®°Ëвè·ÖÏí) |