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