Virginia Undergraduate Symposium in Classics I was hosted by Randolph-Macon College and sponsored by the Shelton H. Short III Professorship, the Randolph-Macon Department of Classics, and the Randolph-Macon Women's Studies Program.

Location: Randolph-Macon College, Brock Commons 201-202
When: Friday, November 14, 2014; 1-5 PM

Symposium Program

1-1:40 - Keynote: Dr. Vassiliki Panoussi, College of William and Mary
  • Mourning Becomes Orpheus? Poetry and Women's Rituals in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10 and 11
1:40-1:50 - Response: Dr. Bartolo Natoli, Randolph-Macon College
1:50-2:00 - Questions and Answers
2:00-2:20 - Olivia Garner, University of Mary Washington
  • The Thesmophoria: A Reversal of Gender Roles in Classical Athens
2:20-2:40 - Ben Strawsburg, University of Richmond
  • Ancient Athenian Sexuality and Encomiastic Rhetoric
2:40-3:00 - Sarah Keith, Randolph-Macon College
  • Paraclausithrya in Cicero's First Catilinarian​
3:10-3:30 - Mary McCulla, College of William and Mary
  • The Laudatio Turiae as a Bridge between Eras
3:30-3:50 - Victoria Jansson, College of William and Mary
  • Feta Armis: Pregnancy in Vergil's Aeneid
3:50-4:10 - Hali Johnson, Randolph-Macon College
  • Widows and Daughters: The Impact of Judaism on the Rise of the 'New Woman' in Imperial Rome
​4:10-4:30 - Julie Kinsella Gavin, University of Mary Washington
  • ​Narcissism and Enabling: A Portrait of Marital Dysfunction at Trimalchio's Dinner Party
​4:30-4:50 - Kara Jonas
  • How Nero Turned Everyone Gay: An Analysis of the Change in the Representation of Male Same Sex Relationships
4:50-5:50 - Reception​