We’re looking forward to the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in Boston on January 5-7, 2018. Many Brock faculty will discuss their current research:

On Friday, January 5th:

Allison Glazebrook, “Dangerous Liaisons: Sex, Slavery, and Violence in Classical Athens;”

Justin Leidwanger (Stanford University), Elizabeth S. Greene, and Numan Tuna (Middle East Technical University), “From Burgaz to the Knidia: Contextualizing the Maritime Landscape of the Datça Peninsula.”

On Saturday, Jan. 6th:

Deborah Beck (University of Texas at Austin) and Katherine von Stackelberg, Roundtable Discussion Session, “Mapping Roads Toward Real Inclusivity;”

Adam Rappold, “For the Wheel’s Still in Spin: The Evolution of the Skira Festival in Classical Athens.”

On Sunday, Jan 7th:

R. Angus K. Smith, “Ritual Feasting in the Early Neopalatial Period: Middle Minoan III Pottery from the Gournia Palace”. The panel, titled “Whats New at Gournia? The Gournia Excavation Project, 2010-present”, is organized by Brock alumnus D. Matthew Buell (Concordia University) and Kevin T. Glowacki (Texas A&M University).

Be sure to stop by the book exhibit at the conference to see books published in 2017 by department faculty. These include Ovid’s Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays, by Paul Murgatroyd, Bridget Reeves, and Sarah Parker; Housing the New Romans. Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World, edited by Katharine von Stackelberg and Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Themes in Greek Society and Culture: An Introduction to Ancient Greece, edited by Allison Glazebrook and Christina Vester; and Ayia Sotira: A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece, by R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, and James C. Wright.