Join the students from Greek Lyric and the Roman Villa for presentations of their research projects. Talks begin at 10 AM and continue until 5 PM according to the program below:
10.00-10.30 Vanessa Cimino, A Place for the Invisible: The Allocation of Slave Space in Roman Villas
10.30-11.00 Taylor Johnston, Villas à la Martial: A Study of Villas in Book 10
11.00-11.30 Francesca Patten, Mental and Emotional Wellness in Greek Lyric
11.30-12.00 Jeff Masse, In Search of the Better: Naturalizing the Epistemology of Xenophanes
12.00-1.00 Lunch
1.00-1.30 Nicole Gavin, Recreating an Imperial Roman Garden: The Reflection of the Villa of Livia’s Garden Room
1.30-2.00 Natalie Armistead, Blurred Lines: Landscape Paintings in the House of Menander in Pompeii
2.00-2.30 Heather Roy, These Floors were Made for Walking: Socio-Political Pathways at Piazza Armerina
2.30-3.00 Rick Castle, The Nature of Memory (or Memory of Nature) in Sappho’s Poetics
3.00-3.30 Tea/Coffee
3.30-4.00 Esther Knegt, The Network of Lesbian Trade in the Archaic Period
4.00-4.30 Brian Abfal, The Cotswolds Estates: Assessing Roman Villa Culture in Southwest Britain
4.30-5.00 Marina Ekkel, The Homeric ideal of Κλέος in the poetry of Callinus and Tyrtaeus
