Servi Sunt: Immo Homines

The Classics Department at CU is pleased to announce a
Graduate Student Conference on Slavery in Antiquity to be held
in the Eaton Humanities building, Room 150, on
Saturday, November 15th from 8am to 5pm.

All talks are free and open to the public.

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 forAccumulated 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: 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”