New Perspectives in Greek Archaeology: A Celebration in Honor of John Camp

 Please join us in person or online for the symposium “New Perspectives in Greek Archaeology,” a celebration in honor of Dr. John Camp from his students at the Athenian Agora. The event will be held in Cotsen Hall on June 24th and 25th and is organized by Laura Gawlinski (Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Loyola

University Chicago) [Agora 1995–1996, 1998–2021] and Brian Martens (Getty-ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art, ASCSA) [Agora 2008–2022].

To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://bit.ly/3OIukgc.

** Guests attending Cotsen Hall events are required to wear a mask and to present valid COVID-19 vaccination certificates or certificates of recovery (valid for 180 days) along with ID.

Schedule:
Friday, June 24th
7:00 p.m.
Welcome by Jenifer Neils,
Director, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Kathleen Lynch
Professor of Classics, University of Cincinnati
Susan Rotroff
Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita, Washington University in St. Louis
"The Crossroads Enclosure at the Crossroads of Archaeology, History, and Religion"

8:00 p.m. POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION
Johanna Boyer (Agora 2004–2012)
College of Arts and Science, University of Missouri
"Measuring Human Capacity through Attic Gouged Jugs at the Athenian Agora"

Miranda Lala (Agora 2006–2008)
Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of Delphi
"Reexamining the Inscriptions of Lindos: A Statistical Analysis"

Brian Martens (Agora 2008–2022)
Getty-ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art, ASCSA
"A Tripod ‘Worth Seeing’ (Pausanias 1.18.8): New Evidence for a Lost Athenian Monument"

Katie Petrole (Agora 2009–2012)
Director of Education, Nashville Parthenon
"The Nashville Parthenon Polychromy Project"

Hannah Ringheim (Agora 2012–2016)
Researcher, Institute for Environmental Decisions, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
"Mercenaries and Civic Spaces: A Case from Athens"

Philip Sapirstein
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Toronto Jeff Vanderpool (Agora 1995–1996)
Jeff Vanderpool Photography
"Digital Models of Agora Inscriptions"

Katerina Velentza (Agora 2014–2019)
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki
"Reimagining the Use of Traditional Watercraft in the Aegean Sea for a Sustainable Environment and Economy"

Saturday, June 25th

10:00 a.m.
SESSION 1: ECONOMY
Chair: Lee Ann Riccardi (Agora 1992, 1994–1996, 1998), Professor of Art History and Classical Studies, The College of New Jersey

Katherine Harrington (Agora 2005–2009)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Greek Art and Architecture, Emory University
"Women’s Labor in Ancient Athens: Archaeological Evidence from the Agora and Beyond"

Vassia Dimitrakopoulou (Agora 2013–2022)
PhD Candidate, University of Athens
"Coroplastic Workshops of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods in the Athenian Agora"

Evan Vance (Agora 2013–2015)
PhD Candidate, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley
"Statues and Statutes in Ancient Greece"

11:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

11:30 a.m. SESSION 2: CERAMICS
Chair: John Papadopoulos, Distinguished Professor of Classics, University of California at Los Angeles

Nadhira Hill (Agora 2014–2015, 2017)
PhD Candidate, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"You Are What You Drink: Towards a Typology of Group Drinking in Classical Olynthos"

Aspasia Efstathiou (Agora 2011–2018)
PhD Candidate, University of Thessaly; Assistant Registrar, Agora Excavations "Wedding Scenes on Red-Figure Vases from a Shop Near the Athenian Agora"

Seth Pevnick (Agora 1999, 2001, 2003)
Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
"A Red-Figure Krater with SIMONOS in Cleveland"

12:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK

2:00 p.m. SESSION 3: POST-CLASSICAL GREECE
Chair: Olga Palagia, Professor Emerita of Classical Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Michael Laughy (Agora 1997–2005, 2007, 2009–2011, 2013–2014, 2018) Boetsch Term Associate Professor of Classics, Washington and Lee University
"Nicknames From the Grave: A View from the Columnar Grave Monuments from the Athenian Agora"

Kevin Daly (Agora 1995–2002, 2004–2006, 2008–2010)
Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Bucknell University
"The Seen and Unseen in Pausanias"

Anne McCabe (Agora 1996–2001, 2003–2008)
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford
"The Consecration Deposit of the Hephaisteion and the Temple as Church"

Maria Liaska, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens Kleio Tsogka, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens
"Η ανασκαφή της Εφορείας Αρχαιοτήτων Πόλης Αθηνών στο πλάτωμα νοτίως του Αρείου Πάγου:
μια πρώτη προσέγγιση (The Excavation of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens on the Plateau South of the Areopagus: A First Approach)"

3:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK

4:00 p.m. SESSION 4: ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
Chair: Bruce Hartzler (Agora 1998–2022), Program Manager, Packard Humanities Institute

Anne Duray (Agora 2010–2013)
Edward Capps Postdoctoral Fellow, ASCSA; Editorial Assistant, American Journal of Archaeology
"Stratigraphies of the Late 19th–Early 20th Centuries: Disciplinary Negotiation, Archaeological Practice, and the Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age Transition"

Chelsea Gardner (Agora 2011–2013)
Associate Professor of Ancient History, Acadia University
"Fieldwork at the End of the World: Recent Investigations in the Mani Peninsula"

Amalia Kakissis (Agora 1997–1998)
Archivist, British School at Athens
"Archiving Archaeology, Excavating Histories: Archival Literacy and
Archaeological Records"

5:00 p.m. Laura Gawlinski (Agora 1995–1996, 1998–2021)
Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Loyola University Chicago
Closing Remarks

FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2022 AT 7 PM

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Cotsen Hall

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