Note: These papers are scripts of conference talks. They are posted as written and delivered, with no updating other than formatting changes to make them presentable online (with a useful online link added here and there); so they may not (often do not) reflect my current thinking on given questions. They have not been published elsewhere or peer-reviewed, so they may contain errors of fact (despite my scholarly care for fact-checking while drafting talks). They also may refer to other texts without the sort of full references and citation that would accompany more formally published works.
“The Empire’s New Texts: A Lucan-Centered Syllabus for Roman Literature and History,” 3/25/2006, at annual conference of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (CAPN -new website), Reed College, Portland, OR. (CAPN 2006 talk pdf, capn 2006 handout)
“Ancient Ruins in Bob Dylan’s Masked and Anonymous (2003),” 3/11/2006, at Cal. State Long Beach Comparative Literature Conference, Long Beach, CA. (CSLB talk pdf) (M & A powerpoint ) (conference press release)
“Social Formation and Intergroup Competition in Ancient Greece and China,” 3/5/2006, at conference Ancient Song in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Ritual, Performance, and History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. (Emory Talk pdf)
–Conference Website (at Internet Archive)
“Archaic Oral Epos and Ritual Manufacture of Musical Instruments,” 2/25/2006, at USC graduate conference Ties that Bind and Build: Networks of Production in the Ancient Mediterranean, USC, Los Angeles, CA. (USC 2006 talk pdf) (USC 2006 talk ppt)
“Tortoises, Lyres and Eros Amechanos: the irresistible sex appeal of musical instruments.” 2/19/2005, on panel “Affective Arts and the Production of Subject,” at the 2005 CACW/CAPN Conference “(Ir)rationality in Antiquity,” Victoria, British Columbia. (CAPN 2005 talk pdf)
“Orpheus: Thracian bard, student of Moses, or mosaic villa decor?” 3/27/2004, at UNC-Duke graduate student colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC. (UNC talk abstract pdf) (conference program)
“Paronomasia and riddling speech in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes,” 1/4/2004, at APA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (APA 2004 talk pdf, apa 2004 handout pdf)
