Event Details

The department of the Classical Mediterranean and Middle East invites you to the Senior Capstone Colloquium on Wednesday, December 4 (THDA 202) and Thursday, December 5 (THDA 204) beginning at 4:45 p.m. Please join us to hear senior scholars present and discuss their individual capstone projects.

Wednesday, December 4, 4:45-6:15pm, THDA 202

Anna Runquist, "A Taste of the Empire: The Isotopic Analysis of Dietary Patterns in Lower-Class Romans"

Claire Mcdayter, "The Leading Folly of the Day: A Geological Museum of Early Imperial Rome"

Josh Staub, "Digitizing Ancient Greek: Building a Dictionary"

Merrick Gormley, "Unam Magnam Scutellam de Onichio: The Many Lives of the Tazza Farnese"

Katie Abramson Newman, "Queer Narratives In Ovid's Metamorphoses"

Jack Kerner, The Essence of Greekness: Repatriation and A Greek Western Identity"

Thursday, December 5, 4:45-6:15pm, THDA 204

Verity Wray-Raabolle, "Archaeology By the Book, But Which Book?: Archaeology and Nation Building in Germany and Israel"

Kalev T. Murray-Rouse, "Dionysus’s Transformations in Ancient Athens and Rome"

Leah Wasson, "Explanations Not Excuses: A Case Study in Centering Women’s Voices in Greek Mythology Retellings"

William Srere, "The Immortalized Body: Imperial Power and Ideology in Augustan and Julio-Claudian Portraiture"

Nicholas Miller, "Apocalypse Now: The Destruction of Syrian and Iraqi Archaeological Sites at the Hands of ISIS"

Macie McIlvain, "Acquisition 15: From al-Matbaa al-Kastaliyya to Florence"

Ian Wanger, "Unbuilding: an Ethical Approach to a Public Museum Gallery"