Thursday, November 6
5:00 PM
Opening Remarks
Derrick Cartwright, Director, Hood Museum of Art
Ada Cohen, Chair Art History Department, Dartmouth College

Keynote Addresses

Moderator: Jeremy Rutter, Chair Classics Department, Dartmouth College

5:15 PM
Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University
" Intimate Relations: Children, Childbearing, and Parentage on the Euripidean Stage"

5:50 PM
Simon Hillson, University College London
"Archaeology's Largest Known Baby Cemetery: Notia Kylindra on Astypalaia in the Dodecanese"

6:25 PM
Lesley Beaumont, University of Sydney
"The Changing Face of Childhood in Greek Art"

7:00 PM
Reception in Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art
Hosted by the Friends of Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art

Friday, November 7

9:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks: Jeremy Rutter, Dartmouth College
Introduction: Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg

Session 1: Families
9:20 – 10:40 AM

Moderator: Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg

Louise Pratt, Emory University
"Homeric Children and Their Parents"

Carol Lawton, Lawrence University
"Children in Classical Athenian Votive Reliefs"

Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, University of Southern Maine
"The Power of Parenthood: Roman and Non-Roman Children in Roman Art"

Break

Session 2: Enculturation

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Moderator: Paul Christesen, Dartmouth College

Timothy J. McNiven, Ohio State University
"Seen but Not Heard: Gestural Babytalk in Athenian Vase-Painting"

Constantin A. Marinescu, Pace University
" Paideia's Children: Childhood Education on a Group of Late Antique Mosaics"
Paper by Constantin A. Marinescu (Pace University), Sarah Cox (Columbia
University), and Rudolf Wachter (University of Basel)

Phyllis Katz, Dartmouth College
"Educating Paula: A Proposed Curriculum for a Fourth-Century Christian Infant"

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch Break

Session 3: Transitions
2:00 – 3:30 PM

Moderator: Phyllis Katz, Dartmouth College

Anne Chapin, Brevard College
"Boys Will Be Boys: Youth and Gender Identity in Theran Frescoes"

Mary Harlow and Lisa Alberici, University of Birmingham
"Age and Innocence: The End of Childhood in Late Antiquity"

Ra'anan (Abusch) Boustan, University of Minnesota
"Social Asymmetry in Ritual: The Use of the Child Medium in Late
Antique Divinatory Rites"


Break

Session 4: Art and Ritual
3:45 – 5:30 PM

Moderator: Jeremy Rutter, Dartmouth College

Paul Rehak, University of Kansas
"Children's Work: Girls as Acolytes in Aegean Ritual and Cult"

Susan Langdon, University of Missouri-Columbia
"The Awkward Age: Art and Maturation in Early Greece"

Rebecca Ammerman, Colgate University
"Terracottas as Ritual Markers of Childhood"

Concluding Remarks: Jenifer Neils, Case Western
Reserve University, co-curator of the exhibition Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past

Saturday, November 8

9:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks: Ada Cohen, Dartmouth College

Session 5: Ambiguities
9:05 – 10:30 AM

Moderator: Margaret Williamson, Dartmouth College

Ada Cohen, Dartmouth College
"Gendering the Age Gap: Boys, Girls, and Abduction in Ancient Greek Art"

Janet Huskinson, The Open University
"Lubrica Aetas: The Slippery Age: Ambiguity in the Representation of Childhood on Roman Children's Sarcophagi"

Annemarie Ambuehl, University of Basel
"Children as Poets — Poets as Children? Romantic Constructions of Childhood and Hellenistic Poetry"

Break

Session 6: Death, Infanticide, and Commemoration
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Moderator: Steven Kangas, Dartmouth College

Janet Grossman, The J. Paul Getty Museum
"What Attic Funerary Monuments Can and Cannot Tell Us About the Lives of Ancient Greek Children"

Joseph A. Greene, Harvard University
"Guilty as Charged? Accusations of Phoenician Child Sacrifice and the Question of Infanticide in the Ancient Mediterranean World"

Eve D'Ambra, Vassar College
"Racing with Death: Circus Sarcophagi and the Commemoration of Children in Roman Italy"

12:30– 2:00 PM Lunch Break

Session 7: Burials
2:00 – 3:30 PM

Moderator: Kathleen Corrigan, Dartmouth College

Marshall Joseph Becker, West Chester University
"Childhood Among the Etruscans: Mortuary Programs as Indicators of the Age of Transition to Adult Status in Etruria"

Anna Lagia, University of Chicago
"Notions of Childhood in the Classical Polis: Evidence from
the Bioarchaeological Record"

Jean Sorabella, Adelphi University
"Eros and the Lizard: Wished for the Children in Roman Funerary Art"

Break

Session 8: Transformations
3:50 – 5:35 PM

Moderator: Ada Cohen, Dartmouth College

Andromache Karanika, Stanford University
"Children's Songs and Theatrical Games in Antiquity: Tortoise, Game and Talisman"

Karen Johnson, University of Michigan
"Transforming Childhood: Harpokrates the Child-God in Roman Egypt"

Amy C. Smith, University of Reading
"Komos Growing Up Among Satyrs and Humans"

Concluding remarks: John Oakley, College of William and Mary, co-curator of the exhibition Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past

A question and discussion period will follow each session.