Schedule
Preliminary Schedule (as of Feb. 22)
| Friday, May 14 | |||
| Time (EDT) | Time (GMT) | ||
| 9:00 – 9:50 | Welcome | 13:00 – 13:50 | |
| Remarks by Organizers Begin at 9:30 EDT | |||
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Session 1: Expertise and Hierarchy | 14:00 – 16:00 | |
| Social Hierarchy and Work Hierarchy: Indistinct Status within the Manual Production Workshop. Slaves’ Example. | Eléonore Favier (Université Lumière Lyon II) | ||
| Athenian Bank: A Glowing Example of Labour Specialization | Giacinto Falco (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa) | ||
| A New Understanding of the Division of Specialized Labor in the Roman Building Industry | Christopher Motz (University of Cincinnati) | ||
| The Selection and Recruitment of Freed Agricultural Procuratores in Roman Italy | Alex Cushing (Independent Scholar) | ||
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch/Coffee Break | 16:00 – 17:30 | |
| 1:30 – 3:30 | Session 2: Ideology and Definitions of Labor | 17:30 – 19:30 | |
| One Man, Two Jobs: The Justice of Moneymaking in Plato’s Republic | Daniel Silvermintz (University of Houston – Clear Lake) | ||
| Quin tu aliquid saltem potius, quorum indiget usus: Poetry at Work in Vergil’s Eclogues | Katherine Dennis (Princeton University) | ||
| The Invisible Thread: The Evidence for Social Context and Gender in Textile Production in Roman Britain | Sara Rumberg (Independent Scholar) | ||
| Favour or Debt: The Ciceronian Prejudice against Contract Labour in Paul’s Letter to the Romans | J. LaRae Cherukara (University of Oxford) | ||
| 4:00 – 5:30 | Keynote: Dr. David Hollander (Iowa State University) | 20:00 – 21:30 | |
| 5:30 – 6:30 | Happy Hour | 21:30 – 22:30 | |
| Saturday, May 15 | |||
| Time (EDT) | Time (GMT) | ||
| 9:00 – 9:50 | Welcome Back | 13:00 – 13:50 | |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Session 3: Individuality and Commemoration | 14:00 – 16:00 | |
| The Housewife in the Funerary Monument: Why Domestic Work was Considered Specialized Labor in Classical Athens | Florencia de Graaff (Universidad de Buenos Aires) | ||
| Pastorum Convenarumque: The Mythic Herdsman and Roman Identity | Selena Ross (Rutgers University) | ||
| Forging Specialization: Tool Imagery and Identity on the Funerary Monuments of Roman Blacksmiths | Allan B. Daoust (Thorneloe University at Laurentian) | ||
| Educating Slaves: Who Were the Educators of Rome’s Youth? A Survey of the Representation of (Former) Slave Educators in Funerary Epigraphy from the Latin West | Madison Rolls (University of Edinburgh) | ||
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch/Coffee Break | 16:00 – 17:30 | |
| 1:30 – 3:30 | Session 4: Location and Causation | 17:30 – 19:30 | |
| What Kind of Specialization? The Archaeological Indicators of Pottery Production Specialization in Pre-Roman Central Tyrrhenian Italy (8th-6th c. BCE) | Mattia D’Acri (University of Missouri) | ||
| Builders for the Gods. Trophonius and Agamedes. The Oracular Cult in Lebadea | Lavinia Maria Silvia Fallea (Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici, Università degli Studi di Catania) | ||
| Theophrastus and the Door-Makers of Athens | David Lewis (University of Edinburgh) | ||
| The Fenomeno Associativo and the Specialized Labour in Two Trade Hubs of the Roman West: Ostia and Lugdunum (II-III C. AD) | Simone Ciambelli (Università di Bologna) | ||
| 4:00 – 5:30 | Keynote: Dr. Lynne Kvapil (Butler University) | 20:00 – 21:30 | |
| 5:30 – 6:30 | Farewell and Happy Hour | 21:30 – 22:30 |