Welcome to the webpage for

"FREAKS! Exploring the Unnatural in the Ancient World"

a graduate student conference to be held on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles
from Friday, November 10th to Saturday, November 11th, 2006.

We are happy to announce our schedule:

Friday, November 10th
6:00 p.m.
Royce Hall 314

Keynote Address
Page duBois
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
University of California, San Diego

"Super Freaks: Magic, the Abnormal and the Unnatural"

Saturday, November 11th
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Royce Hall 314

Featured Presentations:
Research by graduate students from ten universities in four panels:

The Body: 9:00 a.m.
"The Writhing Tongue and the Scrabbling Hand"
--Jarrett Welsh, Harvard University
"Vegetarian Radicals in Classical Antiquity"
--Tom Garvey, University of Virginia

Animals: 10:40 a.m.
"Pinge Duos Anguis: The Protective Function of the Serpent on Pompeian Household Shrines"
--Amanda Pavlick, Tufts University
"Giraffes and Barnacles: Pliny's Monstrous Zoology"
-- Dunstan Lowe, University of Cambridge
"Seals and Crocodiles: The Notion of Naturally Deformed Animals in Classical Greek Culture"
-- Evrydiki Tasopoulou, Bryn Mawr College (Classical and N. Eastern Archaeology)

Hybrids: 1:30 p.m.
"The Use of Theriomorphic and Therianthropic Imagery in Etruscan and Roman Art"
--Wayne L. Rupp, Jr., Florida State University
"The Function and Meaning of Monumental Sphinx Statues in Archaic Greek Sanctuaries"
--Phoebe Segal, Columbia University (Art History)

Sex and Gender: 3:10 p.m.
"Taming Priapus: A New Reading of Horace's Satires 1.8"
--Michael Vincze, Boston U
"Nil Faciet...Perversity and Morality in Juvenal 9"
--Michael Broder, The City University of New York
"Gender Transformations in Apuleius"
--Anna McCullough, University of St Andrews

Closing Remarks: 4:40 p.m.
Amy Richlin

If you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to contact us (see below).