Another Round of Conferences/Presentations

Over the next six weeks I will present at two conferences and one poster session.  Usually I try to present at two conferences every academic year, one each semester.  This year, however, I have five.  I have already discussed the graduate conference at Penn State and the AIA conference last month.  My three scheduled presentations are the graduate research exhibition at Penn State, the 104th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) in Tucson, and the 3rd Annual Phi Alpha Theta conference at the University of North Dakota.  The graduate research exhibition is a poster session where PhD students present their current research to the general public.  Here I will discuss my dissertation topic, literacy in the ancient military.  I am in the early stages of research so I will present a selection of epigraphic material on military equipment (one of my primary data sets) and feature the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project (where much of the epigraphic material has come from thus far).  At the CAMWS conference I will present my sling-bullet research, which I discussed in a previous post.  I have yet to decide exactly what I am going to present at the Phi Alpha Theta conference.  The plan is to present the votive offering paper but that all depends on the next few weeks.