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AIMS May Event

May 30 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm UTC+0

The next AIMS event will take place on May 30, 2026 12:00-4:45 PM Eastern Time. Register here: https://forms.gle/rT2hXeEwu3LsRupD7 for free to gain access to prerecorded videos and the live event. The schedule follows:

12-1 PM. Research Panel 1: The Multimodal Muse: Classical Reception and MCDA in the construction of Contemporary Pop Divas

      • Ovidian Echoes in the Era of the Anthropocene: Taylor Swift’s Reappropriation of Apollo and Daphne’s Myth

    (Adriana Marinelli and Giuseppe Vitale)

      • Performing Empowerment: Classical Reception and Black Female Agency in Beyonce’s Lemonade (2016)

    (Anastasia Parise)

  • From Olympus to Music Video: Classical Myths as Tools for Social Critique (Raffaele Pizzo)

1:15-2:15 PM.
Book Launch: Animation and the Ancient World (eds. Toph Marshall and Chiara Sulprizio)

2:30-3:30 PM. Research panel 2: Playing the Greek

      • Choose Your Own Aristeia: Simulations of Homeric God-Mortal Relations in Contemporary Tabletop Gaming

    (Nina Houle)

      • Ancient Medicine and Modern Board Games: Tabletop Receptions of Galen and Hippocrates

    (Jared Secord)

  • Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic World, and Modern Fandom Culture (Daniel Szabo)

3:45-4:45 PM.
AIMS Committee event: Pedagogy Potluck on AI

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