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IAWC 22 Panels

Thursday, June 23

Panel: Arms and tactics

• Stabbing with sicae and sibynae: Arms, armour and tactics of Illyrian hoplites Florian Feil, Ph.D. student, University of Trier
• The Sparabara: Reassessing Achaemenid Persian Infantry Equipment and Tactics Jeffrey Rop, University of Minnesota Duluth

Panel: Herodotus and Xenophon 

• "Attitudes towards Killing in War in Xenophon’s Writings“ Lennart Gilhaus, University of Bonn
• Secretive Spartans: Herodotus’ views towards secret communication in Persia and Sparta and its effect on post-Herodotean sources Martine Diepenbroek, Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg.

Panel: Changing views of war

• Warriors who neither know victory nor defeat from Messapia: the reliefs on the base from Ugento Carlo Lualdi, Ph.D. candidate, Warwick University currently in annual exchange at La Sapienza University, Rome.
• One Final Siege: The Trojan War as the Expedition’s Capstone Ronald Blankenborg, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands Violence on Archaic and Classical Crete: A New Perspective through Digital Humanities Jesse Obert, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkeley

Panel: Women in war 

• Feminine Valor: The Empress’s virtues in Roman Propaganda Julia Wetzel, Ph.D. student, University of North Texas
• "Dying for ‘doing’: Mythical Athenian heroines in times of war." Ioannis Mitsios, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Women’s Agency in Hellenistic Warfare: Queens on the Battlefield. Hatin Boumehache Erjali, PhD Candidate and Predoctoral Fellow, University of the Basque Country.

Panel: Aspects of war 

• Hans Delbrück and the Study of Ancient Warfare Roel Konijnendijk, University of Edinburgh
• Traumatic Brain Injury in Roman War Brendan McCarthy, Utah Valley University
• Great Power Rivalry in Sixth Century BCE China John F. Sullivan, University of Hawaii

Panel: Late Rome

• The Mechanics of Battle in the Sixth-Century (CE) Roman Empire Conor Whateley, University of Winnipeg
• Chaotic Endeavors: Gallienus’ Efforts in Saving Rome in the Crisis of the Third Century Avery Sage, South ��ֱ���� State University
• Iranian Historical Traditions and the Campaigns of Gordian III and Galerius Byron Waldron, University of Sydney

Friday, June 24

Panel: Classical reception

• The Appropriation of women in Classical Literature in support of the Great War by the Girls’ Own paper Phyllis Brighouse, University of Liverpool
• From Julius Caesar to the Bletchley Park: The Journey of Caesar Cipher from Republican Rome to the Machine Age Amanthee Pussepitiya, University of Peradeniya
• When East Meets West: European Empires’ Recruitment of Muslim Fighters from Ancient to Modern Times Otman Bychou, Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco

Panel: Christian War 

• Ancient warfare and sacrorum canonum contemptores Despina Iosif, Hellenic Open University and College
• Year in Athens Re-evaluating Tertullian’s Attitudes towards Warfare and Soldiering Joshua Littell, Ph.D. student, University of Exeter

Panel: Hannibal and the Punic Wars

• Illa uero pars calliditatis egregia et ab omni reprehensione procul remota... Hannibal, the Carthaginians and the stratagems in Valerius Maximus Gabriele Brusa, University of Pavia, PhD candidate
• Questioning the “decisive battle” model: the case of the Metaurus Fabrizio Biglino, Universitá degli Studi di
• Torino The Seeds of Sedition: Hannibal’s Italian Strategy and the Social War Charles W. Oughton, Brigham Young University

Panel: Sicily and Carthage 

• Deterrence and Self-representation: the Roman Headquarters at Syracuse Borja Vertedor Ballesteros, PhD Candidate, University of the Balearic Islands
• Xanthippos’ arrival in Carthage as an underappreciated catalyst in the First Punic War Dan Powers, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Panel: Small wars and tactics 

• Defeating the ‘Other Romans of Central Italy’: Explaining Roman Strategic Success in the Samnite Wars Henry Moore, Ph.D. candidate, the Centre for War Studies at the University of Hull.
• “Fighting Skirmishes, Small Wars and Irregular engagements in Ptolemaic Egypt.” Paul Johstono, U.S. Air Force's Air Command and Staff College in Montgomery, Alabama. 

Panel: Ships, logistics and organization

• The Impact of the Tacfarinian Revolt Beyond Africa Jared Kreiner, Christopher Newport University The battle of Panium: A reassessment Graham Wrightson, South ��ֱ���� State University.
• The classification of Classical and Hellenistic ships of the Mediterranean Bryant Ahrenberg, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Auckland.

Saturday, June 25

Panel: War in literature 

• Scripturus bella regum cum gentibus adversis (HF I Praef.): Wars, battles and violence in the first book of Historia Francorum. Davide Vago, Università degli Studi di.
• Genova War at night: Valerius Flaccus’ imitative technique in the nyktomachy described at 3.14-272 Lorenzo Vespoli, Université de Genève, PhD Candidate.
• From battle to text: The word Actium in Latin literature as resource for identity and geographic monumentality Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira, Centre of Classical and Humanistic Studies of University of Coimbra.

Panel: Weapons and ships 

• Homer’s Boar Tusk Helmets Samuel Azzopardi, University of Malta.
• A Roman Icon: Depicting an Accurate Image of the Scutum Avery Sage, South ��ֱ���� State University Get to the Point: What Questions Should We Ask About a Spear? Sean Manning, Independent Scholar.

Panel: Roman military policy

• Punishing Deserters and Traitors in Roman Warfare 700 BC – AD 120 Gaius Stern, University of California, Berkeley.
• The Suspension of the War-Tax (Tributum): A Short-Sighted Decision? François Gauthier, University of British Columbia.
• The Roman Triumph and Collective Military Identity during the Republic. Jon Manley, Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington.