Please join us for Social History and Epigraphic Evidence, a conference hosted by The Ohio State University Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies.
This event is open to the public.
General Information
All events, otherwise indicated in the schedule below, will take place at the Ohio Union (1739 N High St), in the Barbie Tootle Room (room 3156), which is located on the 3rd Floor.
On the day of the conference, our graduate student Sydney Urbaniak (urbaniak.17@buckeyemail.osu.edu) will provide tech support. Please email her a copy of your PowerPoint presentation, if you have one, so that she has easy access to all of them. If you prefer to save your PowerPoint on a flash-drive, we can also accommodate that.
Please contact Wendy Watkins (watkins.72@osu.edu) for all your travel related questions, and Gaia Gianni (gianni.8@osu.edu) for all other questions.
Friday, September 11th
8.15-9.00 Breakfast
9.00-9.15 Opening remarks: Gaia Gianni (Ohio State University)
9.15-10.45 Session 1: Family Matters
- Mills McArthur (Southern Adventist University) Attic Manumissions: Family Relationships and Social Control.
- Damian Day (University of Virginia) Brothers-in-Blood or Brothers-in-Arms: New Methods for Interpreting Frater in Solders’ Funerary Inscriptions.
- Sheena Finnigan (University of Chicago) “Nunc quis alet natum?” An Analysis of an Enslaved Mother’s Funerary Monument.
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.45 Session 2: Epigraphy in the Near East
- Anna Accettola (Independent Scholar) Comparative Identities: What does it mean to be “Nabataean” in the Mediterranean World?
- Kate Farrow (University of Melbourne) Epigraphy at the Margins: Scythians and the Limits of the Written Record.
- James Moore (Ohio State University) The Corpus of Imperial Aramaic Inscriptions and Epigraphs from Asia Minor in the DEAPS Database.
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2-3.30 Session 3: Labor and identity
- Davide Luigi Pironi (Brown University) Across the Alps: Connectivity and Trade Networks in Roman Northern Italy.
- Jinyu Liu (Emory University) The Dual Role of Roman Collegium in Relation to Family
- Hallie G. Meredith (Washington State University) Handheld Words: Finding late Roman Professional Women Glass Producers.
3.30-4.00: Coffee Break
4.00-5.30: Keynote Speaker 1: John Bodel (Brown University) TBA
5.30-9.00: Reception and Dinner at the Faculty Club
Saturday, September 12th
8.15-9.00 Breakfast
9.00-10.30 Session 4: Living religion
- Stella Skaltsa (Queen’s University) Reviving the cult of Poseidon in Late Hellenistic Thasos: the role of associations.
- Yesenia Brambilla (University of California Berkeley) Taskscapes of the Attic Sacrificial Calendars.
- Grace Funsten (University of Pittsburg) Sensory Approaches to Latin Verse Epitaphs: CIL 6.5302 as Case Study.
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 Session 5: Greco-Roman Slavery
- Marios Anastasiadis (New York University) An ‘Epigraphy of Slavery’? The Attic Curse Tablets as a Case Study.
- Jan-Mathieu Carbon (Queen’s University) Enslaved and Prisoners: Comparing Rules about “Release” or Temporary Freedom in Greek Festivals.
- Morgan Palmer (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Slaves and Freed Persons of the Vestal Virgins: Evidence from Roman Inscriptions.
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.30 Session 6: Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Holly Sypniewski and Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons (Clarkson University and University of Mississippi) New Figural Graffiti in the Casa dei Cervi, Herculaneum (IV.21).
- Rebecca Benefiel (Washington and Lee University) Functional and Social Literacy? Ancient Graffiti in Bakeries and Taverns.
- Ashley Jordan and Charlotte McDonald (Ohio State University) The Faces of Pompeii
- Steven Tuck (Miami University) Variances in the Identities Among Survivors of Vesuvius from Herculaneum and Pompeii
3.30-4.00 Coffee Break
4.00-5.30 Keynote Speaker 2: Sara Forsdyke (University of Michigan) Beyond Textiles and Sex Work:
Epigraphical Evidence for Women’s Income-Generating Labor Outside the
Household in Ancient Greece
5.30-9.00 Reception and Dinner