{"id":367,"date":"2016-11-04T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T13:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/?p=367"},"modified":"2016-11-04T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T13:45:04","slug":"conference-in-honor-of-elizabeth-r-gebhard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/2016\/11\/04\/conference-in-honor-of-elizabeth-r-gebhard\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference in Honor of Elizabeth R. Gebhard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday and Saturday, October 21 and 22, 2016, Trinity College hosted a conference in honor of Elizabeth R. (&#8220;Betsy&#8221;) Gebhard. Scholars convened from all over the world to give papers on topics dear to Betsy&#8217;s heart, from theaters at ancient Stobi in Macedonia to Cybele and Attis at Corinth; a list of participants and their topics follows. The conference was organized by Trinity&#8217;s own Martha Risser, who has known and worked with Betsy for over thirty years, and Virginia Anderson-Stojanovic, another of Betsy&#8217;s long-time collaborators and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference Participants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Silvana Blazevska, &#8220;Theaterical Entertainments: Evidence on Terracotta Oil-Lamps and Figurines from Stobi&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Dickie, &#8220;The Mysteries of Palaemon in Late Antiquity&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Katherine M. D. Dunbabin, &#8220;Some Athletic Imaginary at the End of Antiquity&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Hall, &#8220;Telesilla and her Afterlife&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goce Pavlovski, &#8220;The First Phase of the Cavea of the Roman Theatre at Stobi&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Warner Slane, &#8220;Gifts for Demeter&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James Wiseman, &#8220;Cybele, Attis, and Regilla at Corinth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Virginia, Betsy, and Martha:<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2016\/11\/Martha-at-Betsy-Conference.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-368\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2016\/11\/Martha-at-Betsy-Conference-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Martha at Betsy Conference\" width=\"625\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2016\/11\/Martha-at-Betsy-Conference-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2016\/11\/Martha-at-Betsy-Conference-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2016\/11\/Martha-at-Betsy-Conference-768x510.jpg 768w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2016\/11\/Martha-at-Betsy-Conference-624x414.jpg 624w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2016\/11\/Martha-at-Betsy-Conference.jpg 1461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday and Saturday, October 21 and 22, 2016, Trinity College hosted a conference in honor of Elizabeth R. (&#8220;Betsy&#8221;) Gebhard. Scholars convened from all over the world to give papers on topics dear to Betsy&#8217;s heart, from theaters at ancient Stobi in Macedonia to Cybele and Attis at Corinth; a list of participants and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}