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Friday, April 3, 2009
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7:00-8:00 a.m. Buffet Breakfast sponsored by the Vergilian
Society (Deer/Elk Lake)
7:30 a.m.-noon Registration (Registration Area)
8:00 a.m.-noon Book Display (Ballroom 3)
8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Excelsior Bay)
Section A
Panel
New Approaches to Student Engagement
Albert T. Watanabe (Louisiana State University), co-organizer
Jane Poynter Webb (Louisiana State University) co-organizer
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- Games Students Play: "Reacting to the Past" and Student Engagement
in Learning. Carl A. Anderson (Michigan State University),
T. Keith Dix (University of Georgia) co-presenters
- Caesar, The Master Communicator, As A Tool for CxC. Jane Poynter
Webb (Louisiana State University)
- Communication Across the Curriculum Through Mythology. Albert T.
Watanabe (Louisiana State University)
8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Lake Nokomis)
Section B
Greek Historians
Mark T. Gustafson (University of Minnesota),
presiding, presiding
- Thucydides as a Borderline, High-functioning
Autistic. Stewart
Flory (Gustavus Adolphus College)
- Brasidas RHIPSASPIS? Charles F. Pazdernik (Grand
Valley State University) -- will be read by Peter
J. Anderson (Grand Valley
State University)
- Herculean Historians. Abram Ring (Franklin and Marshall
College)
- Plutarch on the Rise and Fall of
Alexander. Jeffrey
S. Beneker (University
of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Why did Macrinus plot against Caracalla? Andrew G.
Scott (Hendrix College)
8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Spring Park Bay)
Section C
Reception Studies 2
Mark Edward Clark (University of Southern Mississippi), presiding
- "Me miserable!": Ovid, Apollonius, and The Distressed
Heroine in Paradise Lost. Amanda R. Regan (University
of Michigan)
- B.G. Niebuhr's Romantic Imagination. Alexander Conison (University
of Michigan)
- Popular Magazines and the Classical
Past in the Post-War Boom (1945-1970). John V. Carlevale (Berea
College)
- HBO Rome Series' Conflicted Representation
of Octavian. Art
L. Spisak (Missouri State University)
8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Lake Calhoun)
Section D
Thucydides & Sophocles
P. Andrew Montgomery (Samford University), presiding
- Pericles' Consolation and Solon's
Happiest Life. Andrew
W. Sweet (Cornell
University)
- Inference & Expectation in Thuc. 6-10. Joseph
A. Ponczoch (University
of Texas, Austin)
- Profit in Learning: Economic and Educational Identities in Sophocles' Antigone. Brett M. Rogers (Gettysburg
College)
- κέρδος 2.0:
Profit and Linguistic Confusion in the Antigone. Jameson
C. Farmer (Samford University)
- Problematic Endings and Ethical Attachments
in Sophocles. Francis
M. Dunn (Unversity of California, Santa Barbara)
8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Wayzata Bay)
Section E
Cicero 2
Robert W. Cape, Jr. (Austin College), presiding
- Elephant in the Room: Cicero's use of iniquitatem
temporum in pro Roscio
Amerino. Jennifer L. LaFleur (University of Virginia)
- The Conspiracy Narrative and Cicero's
Verrines. Walter E. Spencer
- Asconius' Influence on the Bobbio Scholiast: Cicero's Pro
Milone and
its Ancient Commentaries. Jane W. Crawford (University
of Virginia)
- Cicero's self-stereotyping in Pro Sulla,
§§18-19. Christopher
P. Craig (University of Tennessee)
- Magnae spes altera Romae:
Cicero and Vergil in later Latin tradition. Caroline B. Bishop (University of Pennsylvania)
8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Lake Harriet)
Section F
Greek Ritual and Orphism
Gregory N. Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College), presiding
- Danae in the Chest: Female Coming-of-Age
and Marriage. Marie-Claire
A. Beaulieu (Dartmouth College)
- Ritual Theory and the Funeral Games of Iliad 23. Daniel
J. Griffin (Duke University)
- Children of Earth and Starry Sky:
Reconsidering Gender and Identity in the Orphic Gold Tablets. Evelyn W. Adkins (University
of Michigan)
10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Excelsior Bay)
Section A
Euripides & Aristophanes
Theodore A. Tarkow (University of Missouri, Columbia), presiding
- For Us the Living: Lament in Euripides’ Ion. Cat
L. Wilson (University
of British Columbia)
- Euripides’ Ion, Poetic
Genealogies, and the Ethnic Identity of Eastern Sicily. David G. Smith (San Francisco State
University)
- Helen’s Changeable Hermes. Mary L. McMenomy (St. Olaf
College)
- Staging Andromeda in Euripides and
Aristophanes. Wilfred
E. Major (Louisiana
State University)
- Political and Martial Fantasy in
Aristophanes’ Babylonians. Jennifer
S. Starkey (University of Colorado)
- Lysistrata as Athena. Hollister N. Pritchett (Indiana
University)
10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Lake Nokomis)
Section B
Greek Poetry
Alexandra Pappas (University of Arkansas), presiding
- Hesiod’s Erga, Genre
Theory, and Greek Lyric Poetry. William
A. Tortorelli (Northwestern University)
- Diomedes on Iambus: Genre in Ancient
Educational Sources. Andrea
Rotstein (Tel Aviv University)
- Dancing Before Dawn: The Performance
of Alcman’s Partheneion. Thomas
K. Hubbard (University of Texas, Austin)
- Xenophanes’ Reinvention of Poetic
Authority. Derek
Smith (University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Time and Ritual in Archaic Greek
Poetry: Two Perspectives. Steven
R. Lundy (University of Texas, Austin)
10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Spring Park Bay)
Section C
Cleopatra
Mary R. McHugh (Gustavus Adolphus College), presiding
- Ptolemaic Religious Patronage: How
Cleopatra Became “King”. Cecilia
M. Peek (Brigham Young University)
- Formae confisa suae:
Ancient Traditions on the Beauty of Cleopatra. Gregory
N. Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College)
- The Iconography of Ptolemaic Queens. Kathryn McBride (University
of Arizona)
10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Lake Calhoun)
Section D
Aeneid 2 & Influence
Helena Dettmer (University of Iowa), presiding
- “Tune hinc spoliis indute meorum eripiare mihi?…”: tune, furor, and power
reversals in the Aeneid. Susan E. Drummond (University of Mary Washington)
- Invisus Apollini Turnus. Timothy S. Heckenlively (Baylor
University)
- Levels of Metaphor in the Hercules-Cacus
Episode. Noelle
D. Jacot (Baylor
University)
- Mechanisms for a Coming-of-Age Gender Transformation in Statius’ Achilleid:
Persuasion, Association, and Performance. Matthew P.
Vieron (University of
Wisconsin, Madison)
- Reading Augustine Reading Virgil: “Tolle Lege”
Redux. Mary
C. Russell (Baylor University)
- The Figure of Creusa in Augustine’s
Confessions. Rocki
T. Wentzel (Augustana
College)
10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Wayzata Bay)
Section E
Panel
Uses of Narrative in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum
Aislinn A. Melchior (University of Puget Sound),
Rex Stem (University of California, Davis), co-organizers
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here to download all of the abstracts for this panel.
- The Bellum Gallicum and the Development of the Historical Monograph
in the Late Republic. Debra L. Nousek (University of Western
Ontario)
- Making an Example of Sabinus (BG 17-19, 26-37). Rex
Stem (University
of California, Davis)
- Bridging the Rhine (BG 17). Robert Brown (Vassar College)
- Violence and Closure in Bellum Gallicum, Book One. Aislinn
A. Melchior (University of Puget Sound)
10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Lake Harriet)
Section F
Ancient Philosophy 1
Michael Gagarin (University of Texas), presiding
- From Author Presentation to
Audience Perception: The Case of Empedocles.
Carrie L. Galsworthy (Miami University)
- Rational Action in Protagoras’
Theory of Punishment and Gorgias’ Palamedes. David J. Riesbeck (University
of Texas, Austin)
- Philo of Alexandria’s Philosophy
of Dreams. (Michael)
Jason A. Reddoch (University of Cincinnati)
- Topography as Epistemology in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Yasuko
Taoka (Southern Illinois University)
- Wisdom and Rituals of Old: Divine
Authority in Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs. James W. Hosler (Florida State University)
- The Use and Abuse of Philosophical
Successions. Kendra
J. Eshleman (Boston
College)
NOTE: All Friday-afternoon sessions will take place
on the campus of the University of Minnesota, at the Hubert H. Humphrey
Center. Transportation will be provided to the campus.
1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (HHH 180)
Section A
Minoan & Greek Art
Lora L. Holland (University of North Carolina, Asheville),
presiding
- The Use of Heirlooms on Minoan Crete. Sarah R. Linn (University
of Arizona)
- Bull-Leaping in Minoan Courts:
Reality or Myth? Perspectives from Modern Rodeo Arenas. Theodore
B. Gatchell, Dwanna
Crain, Eleni Hasaki (University of Arizona)
- Mourning women: the Tanagra
larnakes and the Minoan connection. Margaretha
Kramer-Hajos (Indiana University)
- Hephaistos’ Winged Shoes and the
Birth of Athena. Daniel
B. Levine (University
of Arkansas)
- Parthenoi to Watch Out For? Looking
at Female Couples in Vase-Painting and Lyric. Meryl Altman (DePauw University)
- Holding Fast: Images Relating to
Aphrodite (Venus) Euploia on Greek and Roman Lead Anchor Stocks. Harry R. Neilson, III (St.
Joseph’s University)
1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (HHH 215)
Section B
Pottery and Glass
Andrew Reinhard (Bolchazy- Carducci Publishers, Inc.), presiding
- Share and Share Alike: Cultural
Blending and the Orientalizing Phenomenon in Magna Graecia. Allisa J. Stoimenoff (University of
Texas at Austin)
- The Southern Italian Lebes Gamikos:
its unique features and their cultural relevance. Bruce L. Warren (Indiana University,
Bloomington)
- Satyric Divination. Leigh A. Lieberman (Princeton University)
- Volute kraters in Apulian funerary
contexts. Bice
Peruzzi (University
of Cincinnati)
- Gift Exchange and the Etruscan Kantharos:
From Drinking to Diplomacy to Dionysos. Jennifer L. Muslin (University at Buffalo,
SUNY)
- Roman Glass Workers: Some Social
Considerations. Lucinda
Jaffe (University
of Arizona)
1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (HHH 35)
Section C
Pindar
Wilfred E. Major (Louisiana State University), presiding
- Interpreting the Crux at Pythian 14-18,
an “Occasion for Bad Scholarship”.
Christopher C. Eckerman (University of Oregon)
- The Negatable Difference: A Speech
Act Approach to Epinician Prayers. James B. Wells (Hamilton
College)
- The Form and Function of Direct
Speech in Pindar’s Victory Odes. Henry
Spelman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- The Erginos myth at Pindar, Ol.
19-27. Simon
P. Burris (Baylor University)
1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (HHH 184)
Section D
Presidential Panel:
Vox Humana, non solum Romana: Neo-Latin Literature and our Heritage
Robert W. Ulery, Jr. (Wake Forest University), organizer
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here to download all of the abstracts for this panel.
- The Use of Latin as a Spoken Language in the Humanist Age. Terence
D. Tunberg (University of Kentucky)
- The Heroides of Eobanus Hessus (1488-1540): Toward an
Evangelical Paideia. Diane L. Johnson (Western Washington
University)
- Scatology and Eschatology: Reading Luther’s Latin Verse. Carl P.
E. Springer (Southern Illinois University)
1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (HHH 170)
Section E
Hellenistic & Roman Poetry
Peter J. Anderson (Grand Valley State University), presiding
- From the homosocial to the heterosocial: Societal development in Argonautica. T.H.M.
Gellar-Goad (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Lucretius’s Broken Jar: Philosophical
Transformations of a Poetic Image. Christopher S. Welser (Brown
University)
- The Catalepton: Conception
and Misconception. David
K. Oosterhuis (Macalester
College)
- The “Bucket List”: Virgil
and Cicero on Gardening and Old Age. Alden Smith (Baylor
University)
- Plowing as a Metaphor for Poetic Composition in Vergil’s Georgics. John
H. Henkel (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Generic Symbiosis and Self-Presentation in Statius's Silvae. Stephen
M. Kershner (Denison University)
1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (Cowles Auditorium)
Section F
Panel
Philmology: Tracing Relations between Films and the Ancient
World
Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr. (University of New Mexico), organizer
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here to download all of the abstracts for this panel.
- Degrees of Invitation: How to Recognize Oedipus in a Dark Alley. Life
Blumberg (University of Iowa)
- Augustus in the Mezzogiorno: The Role of the Roman Past in Constructing
Ethnic Identity. Vincent E. Tomasso (Stanford University)
- The Classical Western Archetype: Shane via Greek and Roman Epic. Kirsten
Day (Augustana College)
- Reading Text like Film: Tracing Cinematic Conventions in Ancient Texts. Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr. (University
of New Mexico)
3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (HHH 180)
Section A
Iliad 3
Daniel B. Levine (University of Arkansas), presiding
- The Knees of Athena: Constructing
Homer's Troy in Ancient Scholarship.
Cassandra Borges (University of Michigan)
- Pelôrios Aias:
Size Isn't Everything. Robin
N. Mitchell-Boyask (Temple
University)
- Paris/Alexander, Pandarus, Peisander,
and Some Related Iliadic Doublets. Jonathan B. Fenno (University
of Mississippi)
- Maternal Genealogies in Homer's Iliad. Laura
K. McClure (University of
Wisconsin)
- Trojan Phthia: Achilles as Exile in the Iliad. Ryan E.
McConnell (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (HHH 215)
Section B
Lucian & Theon
Susan O. Shapiro (Utah State University), presiding
- Sweet roots, bitter fruits: Lucian's Rhetorum Praeceptor as ironic rebuttal
of a chreia. Craig A. Gibson (University of Iowa)
- Constructing and Deconstructing Identity
in Theon's Progymnasmata. Arti
Mehta (Indiana University, Bloomington) -- paper will be read
by Susan O. Shapiro (Utah State University)
- Paradoxography and Self Presentation in Lucian's Prolaliai. Valentina
Popescu (University of Cincinnati)
- Lucian's Megilla/us: Rethinking
Gender, Agency, and Same-Sex Relationships. Allison Fields (University of Cincinnati)
3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (HHH 35)
Section C
Roman Art & Archaeology
Stephen C. Fineberg (Knox College), presiding
- The Temple of Mars Ultor: What Was
Being Avenged? Duane
W. Roller (Ohio
State University)
- Sharing the Wealth: Common Motifs
in Third Style Wall Painting, Jewelry, and Metalware. Elizabeth A. Wueste (University of California,
Berkeley)
- Varus' Legacy After Teutoburger Wald:
Roman POWs, Tiberius, and the Ara Pacis. Gaius Stern (San Jose State University)
- Reconciling Rome's Regionary Catalogues
with the Severan Marble Plan. Daniel
W. Moore (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- The Economics and Social Conceptions
of Religiosity and Divine Patronage: Painted Lararia and Depictions of
Vesta in Pompeii's Pistrina. Erin
M. Pitt (University of Colorado Boulder)
- East and West: Patterns of Dynastic
Display in the Antonine Age. Rachel
Meyers (Iowa State University)
3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (HHH 184)
Section D
Greek Cities
Liane Houghtalin (University of Mary Washington), presiding
- Lykourgan Brauron:
A New Analysis of SEG LII 104. Elizabeth
T. Bose (University of Texas, Austin)
- The Temple as Courtroom: Judicial
Inscriptions from Roman Imperial Lydia. Lochlan Shelfer (The
Johns Hopkins University)
- Building F in Athens: Palace,
Workshop or Proto-Prytaneion. Barbara
Tsakirgis (Vanderbilt University)
- Honors for a Roman Official at Corinth
by the The Association of the Artists of Dionysos from the Isthmos and
Nemea. Paul A. Iversen (Case
Western Reserve University)
- The Odeion at Ancient Corinth:
New Discoveries. Aileen
Ajootian (University
of Mississippi)
3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (HHH 170)
Section E
Tacitus
Victoria E. Pagán (University of Florida), presiding
- Tacitus' Ethnographies: the Role of the Other in the Germania,
the Agricola and Histories. H. Paul
Brown (Southern Illinois
University)
- Memory and Authority in Tacitus' Treatment of the Res
Gestae. Gabriel
P. Grabarek (Indiana University)
- Political Revolutions and the Mistreatment
of Women: Tacitus on Livia and Augustus. Thomas E. Strunk (Xavier University)
- Seneca and Petronius in Tacitus' Annals. Emlen
M. Smith (University of
Pennsylvania)
- Devotiones: The Deaths of Galba and Otho in Tacitus' Histories. Rebecca
M. Edwards (Wright State University)
- Roman Embassies and Flavian Generals: Tacitus, Histories 80-8. Kathryn F. Williams (Canisius
College)
3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (Cowles Auditorium)
Section F
Panel
Greek Drama on the American University Campus
John P. Given (East Carolina University),
Bradley B. Buszard (Christopher Newport University), co-organizers
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- From choreut to chorodidaskalos: when students are left
to their own theatrical devices. Eric K. Dugdale (Gustavus
Adolphus College)
- Musical Choruses for Euripides’ Medea. Bradley
B. Buszard (Christopher
Newport University), Raychel Pekoe Loney (Christopher
Newport University), co-presenters
- Helen in Egypt, at the Beach, and in a Black Box. Peter
H. Burian (Duke
University)
- Outside Inside: Performing Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen in a Midwest
Spring. Kathryn G. Bosher (Northwestern University)
- In a Dream of Passion: The Classical Greek Theatre Festival. James
T. Svendsen (University of Utah)
5:00-6:00 p.m. Reception on the campus of the University of Minnesota, Hubert
H. Humphrey Center.
NOTE: Friday-afternoon events held on the University of Minnesota campus
will conclude with the reception at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center. Transportation
will be provided back to the Minneapolis Marriott City Center hotel.
7:00-7:30 p.m. Cash Bar (Atrium)
7:30-10:00 p.m. Banquet (Ballroom 1 & 2)
Presiding: Eddie R. Lowry, Jr. (Ripon College)
Welcome: James A. Parente, Jr., Dean of the College of Liberal
Arts, University of Minnesota
Response: Michele V. Ronnick (Wayne State University),
President-Elect
Ovationes: James M. May (St. Olaf College), Orator
Address: Robert W. Ulery (Wake Forest University), President
Title: “De senectute studiorum: On Old Age and Antiquity”
10:00-11:00 p.m. President's Reception (Cash Bar) (Ballroom 1 & 2)
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