On November 15, 2024, Sarah Beckmann (Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, UCLA) met with a panel of CIAMS-affiliated students (Priscilla Dantas de Moraes, Li Hayes, and Carson Riggs), and Verity Platt (Professor, Department of Classics) to discuss her work on representations of enslaved children in the Roman world.
Podcast Engineer: Ruth Portes (CIAMS Assistant Director)
CONTENT WARNING: Listeners are advised that this episode discusses evidence for the sexualization and sexual exploitation of minors, especially enslaved minors.
The articles discussed in this episode are:
Beckmann, Sarah E. "The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco." American Journal of Archaeology 127, no. 1 (2023): 55-83.
and her forthcoming chapter: "Alterity, Enslavement, and Empire in a Roman Genre Sculpture: The Oplontis-Borghese Boy with a Duck" in U. Roth (ed.), Enslaved Childhoods in the Roman Imperial World. Alienation, Accommodation, Approbation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025
