The UC-OSU Classics Colloquium

The UC-OSU Classics Colloquium

October 10th, 2026

The Ohio State University

The Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room, The Ohio Union

9:45 a.m. – Opening Reception with Continental Breakfast

10:30 a.m. – Welcoming Remarks

10:40 a.m. – Lightning Talks I

1. Gaia Gianni, “Fortunata went to market: enslaved child mobility in the Roman Empire and the Antebellum South”
2. Peter van Minnen, “An Unusual Census Return”
3. Thomas McMath, “Pedagogues and Parrots: Apuleius on Training Parrots and Poets in Florida 12”
4. Cleo Elizabeth-Robertson, “Hometowns: trends in locations of origin on Roman military diplomas”
5. Matthew Herzog, “Emotions and Prophecy in Greek Tragedy”
6. Sandra Ayikwerah, “Enslaved Intellectual Labor in Epistolography”
7. Julius Grant-Gubbins, “The Late Antique Afterlife of Lucan’s Lesser Actors”
8. Logan Biren, “Online Curse Tablet Corpora”
9. Rachel Gastrich, “Into Insanity: Feminine Rage in Seneca’s Hercules Furens and Medea”

12:10 p.m. – Lunch

1:10 p.m. – Lightning Talks II

1. Alan Ross, “Britain Regained: Pan. Lat. VIII(4)”
2. Jeff Kramer, “Central ‘Casting’: A Possible Origin of the Linear B Tablet Casts in the UC Classics Study Collection”
3. Dana Munteanu, “Dangerous Art-Life Interactions”
4. Maurice Jensen, TBD
5. Elias Bouchendouka, “Geometry and Light in Sir Thomas Browne’s Garden of Cyrus”
6. Kelsey Schalo, “Tried and True: A Practical Guide to Sex Labor in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans”
7. William Little, “Writing Back to Sappho: Humanist Verse Responses to Heroides 15”

2:30 p.m. – Small Groups I

2:50 p.m. – Small Groups II

3:30 p.m. – Visit to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library (Thompson Library 105)

4:30 p.m. – Closing Remarks