SCHEDULE 

Wednesday, September 4 (CEC 201/205/209)

7:00-8:30 p.m. – Opening Keynote Session 

Presented by The Schwalb Center for Israel & Jewish Studies 

• When Alexander the Great Did NOT Visit Jerusalem: The Revolt of the Jerusalem Street in 169-67 BCE (Rabbi Benjamin Scolnic, Professor of Judaica at Southern Connecticut State 
University) 

Thursday, September 5 (CEC 230/231) 

8:15-9:45 a.m. – ONLINE – Macedonian Politics 

• Who Made Alexander King, and How? The Argead Accession Ritual and the Political Culture of Classical Macedonia (Florian Feil, Universität Trier) 
• The Velvet Glove: The Horror in Alexander's Administration (Borja Antela Bernardez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 
• The Opis Mutiny of 324 BCE, Again (Lee Brice, Western Illinois University)

10:00-12:15 p.m. – Women and Violence  

• Justin and Royal Women (Elizabeth D. Carney, Clemson University) 
• The Other Side of Violence: Forced Unions and War Marriage  (Monica D’Agostini, University of Bergamo) 
• Blotted Out by the Hands of Women: Female Violence in the Histories of Alexander the Great  (Joshua Nudell, Truman State University) 
• The Illyrian Warrior Versus the Bacchante: Hellenistic Royal Women and Violence  (Frances Pownall, University of Alberta)  

1:15-3:30 p.m. – Alexander in Later Sources 

• Cyclops vs. Wolverine: Plutarch, Hephaistion, Krateros, and Swords (Jeanne Reames, University of Nebraska Omaha) 
• Framing Alexander on the Tabula Chigi (David Petrain, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York) 
• Alexander the Great in Frontinus’ Stratagems (James Chlup, University of Manitoba) 
• The Language of Periodization in Quintus Curtius Rufus (Paul Hay, Hampden-Sydney College)    

3:45-5:00 p.m. – Macedonian Grave Markers 

• War and Remembrance: The Impact of Conflict on Classical Macedonian Figured Tombstones (Ann Haverkost, University of Nebraska Omaha) 
• Warfare, Conquest and the Making of Macedon (Vivi Saripanidi, Chercheuse qualifiée FNRS – Maître d’enseignement, CReA-Patrimoine, ULB)

7:30-9:00 p.m. – Thursday Keynote Session: CEC 201/205/209 

Presented by the Goldstein Center for Human Rights 

• Alexander the Great, Massacre and Terror: The Greek Way of War (Edward M. Anson, Distinguished Professor of History at  University of Arkansas at Little Rock)

Friday, September 6 (CEC 230/231)  

8:15-9:45 a.m. – ONLINE – Alexander’s Enduring Image 

• Reconfiguring War and Violence Against the Persians: The Image of Alexander I in the Times of Philip and Alexander  (Sabine Müller, Philipps-Universität Marburg) 
• Alexander's Diadochi in Justin' s Books XIII-XVII (Franca Landucci, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 
• The Spear of Justice: Spears, Kingship, and Executions in Macedonia (Marc Mendoza, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 

10:00-12:15 p.m. – The Portrayal of Alexander and Macedonia in Sources Ancient and Modern  

• The Macedonians in Military Treatises (And Some Historiography) (Sulochana R. Asirvatham, Montclair State University) 
• Alexander of the Metz Epitome: Some Thematic Considerations  (Matthew Watts, University of Otago) 
• Violence and the Letters of Alexander in the Alexander Romance (Giustina Monti, University of Lincoln) 
• Kalanos is “Alexander Too.”  The Retelling of Alexander’s Indian Campaign in Kostas Arkoudeas’ Historical Romance. (Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti, University of Liverpool) 

12:45-1:45 p.m. – Alexander’s Policies of Cooperation and Destruction 

• Did Alexander the Great Take Hostages? (Joel Allen, The City University of New York) 
• Alexander, Friends, and Gift-Giving  (Joseph Roisman, Colby College)  

2:00-3:00 p.m. – Sponsored Session: Alexander, Genocide, and Cultural Destruction 

Sponsored by The Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy 

• Merciful and Merciless: Alexander’s Methods at Curtailing Civilian Insurgency (Graham Wrightson, South Dakota State University)
• Urbicide, Memory Sanctions, and the Perso-Macedonian Dynasty: The Destructions of Thebes and Persepolis in the Reign of Alexander the Great  (Jenn Finn, Loyola University Chicago)

3:15-5:00 p.m. – Alexander’s Responses to Civilian Insurrection 

• Living in the Shadow of Achilles (William Greenwalt, Santa Clara University) 
• Karanos: The Murdered Half-Brother of Alexander Who Just Won't Die (Waldemar Heckel, University of Calgary) 
• The First Counterinsurgents: Comparative Counterinsurgency Strategies from Alexander to Ptolemaic Egypt  (Paul Johstono, Air Command & Staff College)  

5:30-7:00 p.m. – Experimental History Session with Sarissas 

Meet at Pep Bowl (weather depending)  

Saturday September 7 (CPAC Fishbowl)

9:00-10:15 – Alexander and Geography

• Rivers & Boundaries in Alexander’s Empire (Hugh Bowden, King’s College London) 
• Alexander and the Two Seas:  the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea (Stanley M. Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles) 

10:30-12:00 – Alexander’s Legacy After Babylon 

• Alexander: Chasing Aretē (Alex Toupal, University of South Dakota) 
• Alexandro Babylone Mortuo: Some Commentary on Cornelius Nepos Account of the Babylonian Settlement (Eumenes 2:1-2). (Stewart Innes, University of Cape Town) 
• Perdiccas and the Civil Confrontation at Babylon: Violence as Discipline  (Carol J. King, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland)

This event is sponsored by the South Dakota State University School of American and Global Studies, The Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, Goldstein Center for Human Rights, Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy, Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, Department of History, Department of Art History, Department of English, Department of Religious Studies, and the Department of Philosophy.