Stanford Classics Faculty and Graduate Students Participate in the 2026 SCS Annual Meeting

The Stanford Department of Classics will be well represented at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS). Faculty and graduate students will be presenting papers and serving as presiders across a range of sessions, reflecting the breadth of research and scholarly engagement within the department.

According to the official conference program, Stanford participants include:

Presentations

• Sasha Barish – “Pentameters in the Epitaph of Allia Potestas: Metrical Irregularity and Poetic Meaning” (Epigraphy)
• John R. Tennant – “Nascitur Ordo: Vergil’s Poetics of History in a Totalitarian Age” (Contemporary Issues and the Interpretation of Vergil)
• Miriam Kamil – “The Politics and Poetics of invidia in Ovid’s Metamorphoses” (Roman Epic)
• Veirty Walsh – “Against ‘vertigo’: Encyclopedic fatigue in Pliny the Elder” (Classical Compilations in the Ancient World)
• Hans Bork – “Was anyone stupidus in Mid-Republican Rome?” (Words, Words, Words)

Session Presiders

• Christopher B. Krebs – Horace
• Richard Martin – Homer
• Anastasia Peponi – Psychology and Pathology

The department congratulates all participants and looks forward to their contributions at this year’s meeting!