Each winter the Society of Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Association) holds a join meeting with the Archaeological Institute of America. The conference features the presentation of individual papers, as well as discussion sessions. This year's conference, taking place from January 8-11 in New Orleans, LA, will feature presentations by several faculty members and graduate students from Stanford. Congratulations to our AIA and SCS presenters:
Graduate Students:
Carolyn MacDonald, Coast of Utopia: the Argo in the Tyrrhenian Sea
Mark Pyzyk, Specialization Among Citizens in Classical Greece
Matthieu Abgrall, Handling slaves in the wake of war: a closer look at the Roman slave supply
Megan J. Daniels, moderator, "Thinking Outside the Box: Alternative Careers within Academia"
Matthew Loar, co-moderator, "Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research"
Katherine Kreindler, "Orientalizing Economies: Inter-Regional Trade in Central Italy in the Eighth and Seventh centuries B.C.E."
Justin Leidwanger and Elizabeth S. Greene, Workshop on Underwater Cultural Heritage
Justin Leidwanger , "Mobility and Maritimity: Creating Socioeconomic Communities around the Northeast Mediterranean"
Walter Scheidel, "Connectivity and Predictive Modeling: Challenges of Simulating the Development of the Roman World"
Joint Presentations:
Giovanna Ceserani and Thea De Armond, Early Modern Material Pasts: architects, proto-archaeologists, and the power of images in the eighteenth century