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2025
\nGlobal Premodern and Early Modern Studies at Bates
\n<\/strong>Moderator: Mark Tizzoni<\/em>
\n<\/em>Bora Lugunda ’25: In Search of Witches: Kongolese Cosmology and the Opperation of Power
\nRosalie Brown ’27: Forging Meaning: Recreating Ancient Greek Metalwork in a Modern Blacksmith Shop
\nGeorge Miller ’25: Athanasian Asceticism: Late Antique Egyptian Christian Identity in Ascetic Literature
\nGongshi Huang ’25: Royal Guards, The Mixi Sword, and Political Identities:
\nMongols as Co-Founders of the Ming Dynasty<\/p>\n

Student Research on Roman Slavery
\n<\/strong>Moderator: Liana Brent<\/em>
\nPresentations from:
\nJulia Neumann ’25
\nElias Jones ’27
\nPhoebe Zou ’26<\/p>\n

2024
\nResearch on the Classical Era, Spanish Shepherding, the Astrolable, and Visigoths in Spain<\/strong>
\nModerator: Sarah Lynch<\/em>
\nNate Lewis ’24: Winckelmann, Jefferson, and the Bronze Age Pervert: Classicism, Whiteness, and the Construction of the Alt-Right Male in the Digital Age
\nMaria McEvoy ’25: Sheep, Shepherds, and State: The Mynth of the Reconquista and the Islamic Origins of Spanish Shepherding
\nEvan Boxer-Cook ’26: Understanding the Astrolabe: How a Medieval Pocket Computer Puts the Universe in Your Hands
\nJohn Price ’24: Otherness and “Alterity” in Visigothic Spain<\/p>\n

2023
\nNegotiating Belief in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World
\n<\/strong>Moderator: Mark Tizzoni<\/em>
\nMary Trafton ’23: “He chose for Himself yours- a useless, disobedient, and faithless nation”: Jewish, Christian, and Roman Identity in Justin Martyr’s\u00a0Dialogue with Trypho<\/i>
\nCody Pfeiffer ’23, \u201cHabia abido y abia y andaba en ellas duende<\/i>\u2026\u201d: The case of a duende in early modern Spain
\nGeorge Miller ’25, The Influences of Ezana’s Conversion<\/p>\n

2016
\nOvid’s Metamorphoses and Trigger Warnings
\n<\/strong>Moderator: Lisa Maurizio (FYS 345, Classical Myths and Contemporary Art)
\n<\/em>Students consider the prevalence of violence against women in Ovid: Should we be forewarned?<\/p>\n

2013
\nLights, Camera, Classics! Euripides’ Bacchae<\/em> and Pautus’s Captivi<\/em><\/strong>
\nModerator: Laurie O’Higgins
\n<\/em>Performed Live and on Video
\nMichaela Brady ’14, Andrew Carranco ’14, Emily Clark ’15, Michael Creedon ’15, Charles Munn ’14, and Nicholas Steverson ’15<\/p>\n

2011
\nResearch in History from Ancient Room to Contemporary Japan<\/strong>
\nAndrew Beck ‘ll: In the Shadow of Defeat: Tactical Transformation during Second Punic War<\/p>\n

2010
\nPlautus\u2019 Miles Gloriosus<\/em><\/strong>
\nModerator: Laurie O\u2019Higgins<\/em>
\nStudents from Latin 204 perform scenes from Plautus\u2019 Miles Gloriosus <\/em>with English subtitles.<\/em><\/p>\n

Apuleius\u2019 Fictional Trial of Pudens<\/strong>
\nModerator: Margaret Imber<\/em>
\nStudents from Roman Law CMHI 253 reconstruct and re-enact the trial of Pudens<\/p>\n

Roman Law I: Law and Change<\/strong>
\nModerator: Margaret Imber (Students from CMHI 390J)<\/em>
\nAlexander Garnick ’10: A Comparison of the Vestal Virgins to Livia Drusilla
\nChristopher Miller ’10: Fideicommissa<\/em>
\nEliza Kano-Bowers ’11: The Impacts of the Lex Julia de Adulteris
\nNeeraj Hotchandani ’10: Degeneration of Citizens’ Rights and Increased Brutality in Roman Law<\/p>\n

Roman Law II: Aspects of Roman Law<\/strong>
\nModerator: Michael Jones, History<\/em> (Students from CMHI 390J)<\/em>
\nRonald Ead ’12: Imperial Protection at the Expense of Senatorial Libertas<\/em>
\nJoncarl Hersey ’12: The Mystery of Acceptable and Unacceptable Magic in Ancient Rome
\nEvan Procknow ’10: Law and Ethnogenesis<\/p>\n

2008
\nLove and Identity in King Arthur’s Court<\/strong>
\nModerator: Thomas Hayward, Classical and Medieval Studies <\/em>(FYS 341\/Federico)
\nCharlotte Green ’11: National Identities in Arthurian Legend
\nKatherine Bernier ’11: Arthurian Love Dynamics
\nJamie Nickerson ’11: The Paradox of Courtly Love
\nNoah McCreight ’11: Courtly Love and Chivalry in Conflict in Arthurian Literature<\/p>\n

Agency, Identity, and Gender from Ancient Rome to the Present<\/strong>
\nModerator: Lavina Shankar, English \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(CMS thesis student)
\n**Erin Faulder ’08: Reading Roman Women through Rhetorical Invective
\nErin Bonney ’09: The Legacy of the Desaparecidos in Argentina
\nMallika Raghavan ’08 and Nina Schwabe ’08: Bengali American Women in The Namesake<\/em><\/p>\n

2006
\nArtistic and Critical Interpretation of the Classics: Homer, Cicero, Seneca<\/strong>
\nModerator: Thomas Hayward, Classical and Medieval Studies <\/em>(CMS students)
\nAnne Barton ’08: Missing from the Equation: Briseis and the Iliad<\/em>
\nErin Faulder ’08: “Scipio’s Dream”: The Bond between Cicero’s Politics and Philosophy
\nAnne Barton ’08, Erin Faulder ’08, Molly Madzelan ’09, Magdalene McCally ’08, and
\nAnna Meader ’09: Performing Seneca’s Medea<\/em><\/p>\n

Themes in Arthurian Literature<\/strong>
\nModerator: Sylvia Federico, Classical and Medieval Studies\/English, <\/em>(CM\/EN 121)
\nChristine Arsnow ’08: An Author’s Responsibility: T. H. White’s Message to WW II Era Youth
\nJonathan Browher ’08: Inverted Worlds: Environments in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em>
\nAlexandra Kelly ’09: The Technique of History: History of the Kings of Britain<\/em> and Quest for King Arthur<\/em><\/p>\n

2005
\nArt and Analysis in the Humanities<\/strong>
\nModerator: Sylvia Federico, Classical and Medieval Studies <\/em>(thesis student)
\nJoshua Harris, ’05: Critical Transformation in the Writing of Zhuangzi<\/em>
\n**Nancy Highcock, ’05: Christianity in Fourth-CenturyBritain: The Destruction of Mithraeums
\nJohn Mulligan, ’06: Remembering Democracy in the Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus
\nMegan Hamilton, ’06: Prose Reading<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong>
\nAncient Threads in Modern Texts<\/strong>
\nHenry Walker, Classical and Medieval Studies, moderator <\/em>(thesis students)
\nSarah Connell ’04: Hero and Goddess
\nJennifer Hanley ’05: The Perversion of Ritual in the Iliad
\nMartha Horan ’04: Shakespeare\u2019s Mulberry Tree: A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream
\nJennifer McGill ’04: Female Characters in Greek and Noh Drama<\/p>\n

2003
\nEverything You Wanted to Know about Psycholanalysis but Were Afraid to Ask Ovid<\/strong>
\nLisa Maurizio and Amanda Seadler ’05, moderators<\/em> (CM\/WS 219)
\nAmanda Seadler ’05:\u00a0 Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Myth
\nJennifer Hanley ’05:\u00a0 Compliancy in Arachne as Revealed through Winnicott
\nDara Kidder ’03:\u00a0 Winnicott’s Artist and Daedalus
\nMichelle Gomperts ’05:\u00a0 Winnicott’s Failing Mother-Mirror in Greek Myths
\nKim Neeb ’03:\u00a0 Mother-Mirroring in Narcissus and Echo
\nElizabeth Santy ’06 and Taylor Miles ’05: Apollo and Daphne: Turning a Woman into an Object
\nNaama Zohn ’05:\u00a0 Transformation as Flight<\/p>\n

I’ll See You in Court: Litigation as Evidence of Life in Classical Athens<\/strong>
\nMargaret Imber, Classical and Medieval Studies, moderator<\/em> (CM\/HI 231)
\nPatrick Sherwood ’06:\u00a0 Banking in Fourth-Century Athens
\nEmily Rand ’06 Hubris:\u00a0 Rhetoric of the Rich and Famous
\nHenry Crosby ’05: \u00a0Litigation in Ancient Athens
\nAlyssa Asack ’04:\u00a0 The Aristocractic Athenian Wife
\nJohn Michael Karass ’05:\u00a0 Litigation in Ancient Athens<\/p>\n

Language, Music, and the Construction of Ideas<\/strong>
\nBaltasar Fra-Molinero, moderator <\/em>(thesis student)
\nBenjamin Daggett ’03: The Resurrection of the Word in Eduardo Galeano
\nChristina Bouris ’03:\u00a0 Western Music’s Other:\u00a0 World Music in Context
\n**Elizabeth Wilson ’03:\u00a0 Seneca’s Hercules Furens<\/em>: Reviving a Classic<\/p>\n

2002
\nClassical Architecture <\/strong>
\nLisa Maurizio, Classical and Medieval Studies, moderator <\/em>(CMS 210)
\nKara Stenback ’05 and Katherine Miles ’05: The Temple of Aphaia
\nErin Torrey ’05 and Jennifer Hanley ’05: The Temple of Hephaistos: Analysis and Interpretation<\/p>\n

Creative Work in Classics<\/strong>
\nLisa Maurizio, Classical and Medieval Studies, moderator <\/em>(thesis students)
\nElizabeth Miller ’02: “Nix Leo”: Translating Children’s Literature into Latin (reading)
\nZachary Gill ’02: The Masculine Hero in “Hercules Furens”
\n(short talk and dramatic reading with Hilary Kiskaddon ’03, Matteo Pangallo ’03, and Elizabeth Wilson \u201803)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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