NOTE: ALL SESSIONS WILL RUN IN U.S. EASTERN STANDARD TIME (EST)
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (EST)
Panel 1 / Representing “The East”
11:40 AM – 1:10 PM (EST)
Panel 2 / Dehumanizations
1:20 PM – 2:05 PM (EST)
Social hour
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM (EST)
Panel 3 / Assessing Masculinities
3:55 PM – 4:55 PM (EST)
Roundtable 1 / “They Didn’t Do That!” Accuracy, Fact, and Fictions in Classical Representations on Screen
5:05 PM – 6:05 PM (EST)
Panel 4 / Aesthetics and Credibility
6:15 PM – 7:15 PM (EST)
Roundtable 2 / Netflix’s Blood of Zeus: Greek Mythology Meets American Anime
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (EST)
Panel 1 / Representing “The East”
Chair // Jennifer Rea / University of Florida
- Mithra-ndir: Gandalf and the Roman Cult of Mithras
Alicia Matz / Boston University
- Jackal Warriors and Laser Crocodiles: 30 Years of Egyptian Monsters in Videogames
Kate Minniti / University of British Columbia
- Ruler and Community: Porus vs. Alexander in Sikandar (Modi, 1941) and Alexander (Stone, 2004–2014)
Seán Easton / Gustavus Adolphus College
11:40 AM – 1:10 PM (EST)
Panel 2 / Dehumanizations
Chair // Hunter Gardner / University of South Carolina
- Atom Age Gladiator: Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
Robert White / Beaumont School
- True Grit(ty): Reclaiming Monsters for the Marginalized
David J. Wright / Fordham University
- Embodied Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and District 9 (2009)
Katherine R. De Boer / Xavier University
1:20 PM – 2:05 PM (EST)
Social hour
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM (EST)
Panel 3 / Assessing Masculinities
Chair // Rocki Wentzel / Augustana University
- Monstrous Masculinity: Toxic Masculinity Encounters the Minotaur in Legends of Tomorrow
Ky Merkley / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Achilles and Patroclus: Out of the Closet and onto the Screen
David Delbar / University of Chicago
- “Scuttle Back to Your Wine, You Sacks of Uselessness”: The Roman Army in Assassin’s Creed: Origins
Hamish Cameron / Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
3:55 PM – 4:55 PM (EST)
Roundtable 1 / “They Didn’t Do That!” Accuracy, Fact, and Fictions in Classical Representations on Screen
Chair // Sylvie Magerstaedt / University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney
5:05 PM – 6:05 PM (EST)
Panel 4 / Aesthetics and Credibility
Chair // Matthew Taylor / Beloit College
- Classicizing Goth: Nick Knight’s S.W.A.L.K. (2020) and John Galliano’s “Wet Look” for Maison Margiela
Alison Poe and Marice Rose / Fairfield University
- “Long Ago, in the Faraway Land of Ancient Greece”: Setting the Scene and Establishing Engagement in Disney’s Hercules
Amy Arezzolo / University of New England, Australia
6:15 PM – 7:15 PM (EST)
Roundtable 2 / Netflix’s Blood of Zeus: Greek Mythology Meets American Anime
Chairs // Ekaterina But / The Ohio State University // Chiara Sulprizio / Vanderbilt University
