Emily Mitchell
Harvard University, Classics, Graduate Student
- University of Oxford, Classics, Alumnusadd
- I am currently a PhD candidate in Classical Philology at Harvard University, where I am writing my dissertation on commemorations, in Latin verse, of enslaved and emancipated pe... moreI am currently a PhD candidate in Classical Philology at Harvard University, where I am writing my dissertation on commemorations, in Latin verse, of enslaved and emancipated people across the Roman world. My primary research interests are imperial Latin texts (both literary and epigraphic), Roman social history, memory and commemoration in the ancient world, and comparative studies of enslavement.
I received my BA (2017) and MSt (2018) from Magdalen College, University of Oxford.edit
The graduate students of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University are pleased to announce the return of our biennial Graduate Student Conference, for which the theme this year will be “Abundance and Scarcity in the Ancient... more
The graduate students of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University are pleased to announce the return of our biennial Graduate Student Conference, for which the theme this year will be “Abundance and Scarcity in the Ancient Mediterranean World.” The conference will take place in person on April 21–22, 2023 in Cambridge, MA. Eric Cline, Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and of Anthropology at George Washington University, will deliver the keynote address.
In selecting our theme, we aspired to represent our commitment to a vision of the ancient Mediterranean in its full spatial extent and temporal richness—from the Iron Age to the Byzantine Period—and encompassing a range of methodological perspectives drawn from the various disciplines constituting Classics and Ancient Studies. We envision our conference to be a platform for current graduate students to at once present their current work and be exposed to methodologies and issues outside their fields of specialty. Therefore, we welcome contributions that engage with the themes of the conference to show how the same issues can be proficiently studied from a variety of meaningful approaches.
Topic areas might include, but are not limited to:
- Literary form and discourse (e.g., rhetorical style, topoi, aesthetics, translation)
- Impact and relevance to issues of social hierarchy and political legitimacy
- Pictorial art: spatial depth, relief sculpture, horror vacui, etc.
- Resource management, regional interdependence, and cultural exchange
- Fabrication of origin myths (e.g., prehistoric migrations, genealogies)
- Growth and decline of political and cultural systems
- Influence on agricultural practices, technologies, and systems of land tenure
- Philosophy and ethics (e.g., moderation, luxury, poverty)
- Methodological or metadisciplinary reflections (e.g., fragmentary evidence)
The keynote address will be delivered on the evening of Friday, April 21, while all the graduate papers will be delivered over the course of the next day, Saturday, April 22. Each speaker will have 30 minutes at their disposal: 20 minutes of presentation followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
In selecting our theme, we aspired to represent our commitment to a vision of the ancient Mediterranean in its full spatial extent and temporal richness—from the Iron Age to the Byzantine Period—and encompassing a range of methodological perspectives drawn from the various disciplines constituting Classics and Ancient Studies. We envision our conference to be a platform for current graduate students to at once present their current work and be exposed to methodologies and issues outside their fields of specialty. Therefore, we welcome contributions that engage with the themes of the conference to show how the same issues can be proficiently studied from a variety of meaningful approaches.
Topic areas might include, but are not limited to:
- Literary form and discourse (e.g., rhetorical style, topoi, aesthetics, translation)
- Impact and relevance to issues of social hierarchy and political legitimacy
- Pictorial art: spatial depth, relief sculpture, horror vacui, etc.
- Resource management, regional interdependence, and cultural exchange
- Fabrication of origin myths (e.g., prehistoric migrations, genealogies)
- Growth and decline of political and cultural systems
- Influence on agricultural practices, technologies, and systems of land tenure
- Philosophy and ethics (e.g., moderation, luxury, poverty)
- Methodological or metadisciplinary reflections (e.g., fragmentary evidence)
The keynote address will be delivered on the evening of Friday, April 21, while all the graduate papers will be delivered over the course of the next day, Saturday, April 22. Each speaker will have 30 minutes at their disposal: 20 minutes of presentation followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
