Panels

9:00-10:30: Panel 1 – Rulers and Government 

Mallaury Guigner (Université Paul Valéry 3), The Importance of the Office Holders Related to the Care of the King’s Body in Maintaining the Order of the Country in Egypt

Louis Polcin (University of British Columbia), Mosaics of Identity: Herodian Legitimization and Displays of Kingship 

Michele Nardelli (Université de Rennes 2), The Pacification of the Alpine Region from Augustus to Mussolini

11:00-12:30: Panel 2 – Material Culture and Archaeology

Tabasom Ilkhan (Simon Fraser University), Bioarchaeological Investigation and a Preliminary Study in the Mobility in the Center of the Iranian Plateau During the Bronze Age, Kafarved-Varzaneh 

Louise O’Brien (University of Liverpool), Reframing the Hawara Mummy Portraits: A New Approach to Hybridity in Graeco-Roman Egypt

2:00-3:30: Panel 3 – Philology and Literature 

David Eich (Freie Universität Berlin), Order within the Chaos: The Organizational Principles of Enumerations in Sumerian Literary Texts 

Patricia Hatcher (City University of New York), Ordering Pliny’s Naturalis Historia Book VIII: Creating the Monstrous ‘Other’ 

Cristalle Watson (University of British Columbia), “Bringing Order out of Chaos in the “Creation” Episode of Proba’s Cento Vergilianus

4:00-5:30: Panel 4 – Re-examinations and New Approaches

Matthieu Hagenmuller (Sorbonne University, Paris), A New Approach to Ancient Egyptian Punishments 

Nick Trcalek (Tufts University), The Antonine Itinerary: A Beautiful Mess 

Michael Hensley (Catholic University of America), A King by Any Other Name: Remembering and Reconstructing the Aksumite Past from Medieval Evidence 

6:00-7:30: Keynote Address – Law Without Order in Severan Rome

Zachary Herz, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Colorado-Boulder