Two undergraduate students participate at CANE annual conference

Two Classics students attended the Classical Association of New England [CANE]'s Annual Meeting at Yale on March 21-22nd of this year where they presented papers representative of their studies in Dartmouth's Classics Department..

Gideon Gruel '26 is a double major in Ancient History and Philosophy.

The title of his paper is "The Politics of Episcopal παρρησία [candid speech]: Christian Speech Addressing the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century CE." This paper was written during an Independent Study in the Department of Religion, supervised by Professor Christopher MacEvitt and forms part of Gideon's research as Hanlon Scholar. As a Hanlon Scholar, Gideon focuses on uncovering the logics of religious (in)tolerance in the 3rd and 4th centuries CE and Roman religions more broadly.

Btari Laksono '26 is pursuing a double major in History modified with French and Geography modified with Economics, alongside a minor in Ancient History.

Btari's paper won the 2025 Phyllis B. Katz Prize, and she was also invited to present her work at the conference. The title of her paper is "BASILISSA: Exploring Cleopatra Selene's Complex Identity through her Coinage"; This paper was also published in the Spring 2025 issue of the New England Classical Journal (NECJ, Volume 52, Issue 1, 2025). It was written for HIST 94.16/CLST 11.19: Coins as Text, taught by Professor Roberta Stewart in the Fall term of 2024.

Link to article: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol52/iss1/7/ .

Btari's academic interests include globalization and the logics of empire in the ancient world.