SCS and AIA Joint Annual Meeting in Toronto

From January 5th to the 8th, the Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) (formerly known as the American Philological Association) took place in Toronto, Ontario. Sessions explored artifacts, art, social systems, fashion, cooking vessels, trade networks, shipwrecks, architecture, inscriptions, and archaeological research methods of the classical and New World.

A few of Duke CLST's Professors presented at the meeting.

On January 6th, Professor Mary T. Boatwright presented "Imperial Mothers and Daughters in Second-Century Rome" at the "Mothers and Daughters in Antiquity" session, organized by the Women's Classical Caucus. Also on January 5th, Professor Maurizio Forte presented "Vulci 3000: Fieldwork Season 2016" at the "Tombs and More in Etruria" session.

On January 7th, PhD student John P. Aldrup-MacDonald presented "Deconstructing an Athenian Decree: IG 13 84 and the Composition of the Inscribed Document" at the "Legal Authority" session. Later that day, Duke Professor Helen Ackers presented "Wives of 'Crisis': Portraits of Women in the Third Century C.E." at the "Faces of Power: Roman Imperial Portraits" session. Professor Maurizio Forte, alongside the Art, Art History & Visual Studies professor Dr. Nevio Danelon, the Nicolas School of the Environment's Professor David W. Johnston and Everette Newton, and Ph.D student Katherine McCusker, presented "40 Multispectral UAVs in Classical Archaeology: The Case of Vulci" at "Imaging from the Air to the Artifact".

On the last day of the event, January 8th, Professor Erin Walsh presented "The Sources of Wisdom: Robert Holcot’s Political Theology" at the "Post-Classical Wisdom Literature" session, organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group.