Rutgers University Classics Graduate Association

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Material Culture and Literature in Greece & Rome

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ

Alexander Library, Pane Room

April 29, 2006

9:30 a.m – 6 p.m.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Ann Kuttner, University of Pennsylvania, History of Art

Ann Kuttner received her B.A. (1978) in Classical and Near Eastern

Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and Ph.D. (1987) from the

Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the

University of California, Berkeley. Her research and teaching

interests lie in Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique socio-political

history, visual language, and material culture.

Conference Organizers

Ryan Fowler (rfowler2@eden.rutgers.edu)

Andrew Scott (agscott@eden.rutgers.edu)

This conference has been funded by the Rutgers University, New

Brunswick Graduate Student Association.

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Rutgers University, Dept. of Classics

April 29, 2006

9.30 – 9.45 am

Welcome

9.45am – 11:45 pm

Melissa Haynes, ‘When Statues Talk Back: authorial position and the portrait statue in Favorinus and Alciphron’

Erin Moodie, ‘Philostratus’ Eikones and the Sophistic-ated Ecphrasis’

Mark Nugent, ‘Casting the Cultured Woman: art and identity in Lucian’s Images’

11:45 – 12:45 pm

Lunch

12:45 – 2.15 pm

Rachel Goldman, ‘Cicero’s Decorative Program for his Tusculum Villa’

Kathleen Shea, ‘Art and Spectacle in Ovid’s Amores 1.2, 2.2, and 3.2’

2.15 – 2.30 pm

Coffee

2.30 – 4.00 pm

Tuna Sare, ‘Marriage to Death on the Polyxena Sarcophagus’

Kate Topper, ‘Uncommon Pursuits: Perseus, the beautiful Gorgon, and visual humor on red-figure vases’

4.00 pm

Ann Kuttner

‘Looking, Moving, Reading, Thinking: cognitive prescription and the Roman artifact’

5:30 – 6.00

Reception