Conference Schedule

All refreshments served in the Eaton Humanities ground floor lobby.

All talks given in Eaton Humanities 150.

8:00-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-11:00 First Panel: Archaeology and Epigraphy

9:00: Joey Williams (University of Buffalo) “The Social Variability of Metallurgical

Pollution: Slaves, Metalworking and Exposure to Environmental

Contamination in the Roman World”

9:40: Stacey King (University of Colorado) “Epigraphic Evidence for Accumulated Wealth

Among the Servi Caesaris and Its Social Implications”

10:20: Smaranda Andrews (Iowa State University) “Dacian Slaves, Literary and

Archaeological Evidence”

11:00-11:30 Morning Break

11:30-12:10 Keynote Speaker Peter Hunt (University of Colorado) “Slave Culture

in Athens”

12:10-1:10 Lunch

1:10-2:30 Second Panel: Ancient Greece and Republican Rome

1:10: Daniel Walin (University of California, Berkeley) “The Slave as Author and

Object of Humor in Old Comedy”

1:50: Jacob Morton (University of Colorado) “Character Over Profit: A Look at What the

Ancient Roman Farm Owners Wanted in a Vilicus and Why”

2:30-3:00 Afternoon Break

3:00-4:20 Third Panel: Imperial and Late Antique Rome

3:00: Andrew Clay (University of Colorado) “Aspects of Roman Slave Trade in Late

Antiquity”

3:40: Carey Seal (Princeton University) “Seneca, Slavery, and the Philosophical Life:

Epistle 77”

4:20-5:00 Keynote Speaker Noel Lenski (University of Colorado) “Jerome’s Life of

Malchus as a Slave Narrative”