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Thursday, April 2, 2009
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7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration (Registration Area)
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Display (Ballroom 3)
8:15-9:45 a.m First Paper Session (Excelsior Bay)
Section A
Greek History
Timothy Howe (St. Olaf College), presiding
- Individual Philia as a
Source of Athenian Demagogues' Power. Robert
H Simmons (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
- The Trial of Orontas: Anabasis. Arthur
P. Keaveney (University of
Kent)
- Clarifying the Role of Women at symposion and deipnon. Laurie
A. Kilker (Ohio State University)
- Menopause in the Ancient Greek
World. Kristen M.
Gentile (Ohio State
University)
- Civic Honors for Young Girls in
Hellenistic Greece. Ariel
Loftus (Wichita
State University)
8:15-9:45 a.m. First Paper Session (Lake Nokomis)
Section B
Aeschylus
Georgia Irby-Massie (College of William
and Mary), presiding
- Remembrance of Wars Past: The Trojan
War and the Fall of the Heike in Greek Tragedy and Noh Drama. Gary Mathews (University of North Carolina
School of the Arts)
- Beyond Aristotle: Webs of Emotions in Aeschylus' Suppliants. Claudia
Zatta (Wabash College)
- The Hiketides' Closing Song:
One Chorus Divided. Paul
Bednarowski (University
of Texas, Austin)
- Becoming the Masculine Ideal: Women
Acting as Hero in Greek Tragedy.
Michelle Myers (Eckerd College)
- Reading ἐκών,
οὐκ ἐκών,
and ἀέκων
in Aeschylus. Stephen C. Fineberg (Knox College)
8:15-9:45 a.m. First Paper Session (Spring Park Bay)
Section C
Roman Historians
Jonathan Zarecki (University of North
Carolina, Greenboro), presiding
- Gallic Ethnography in Context from
Caesar to Tacitus. Ann
M. Morgan (University of Texas)
- Constructing Empire: Julius Caesar
and the Ethnography of Northern Peoples.
Bradley G. Potter (Pontifical College Josephinum)
- Caesar Chrematopoios. Neil A. Coffee (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
- A Sum Greater Than Its Parts:
The Republic in Sallust's Monographs.
Paul A. Montgomery (Samford University)
8:15-9:45 a.m. First Paper Session (Lake Calhoun)
Section D
Aeneid 1
Keely Lake (Wayland Academy), presiding
- The Connotation of Flight in Virgil's Aeneid. Harry
R. Smith (Baylor
University)
- non tam praecipites ruunt currus:
The Boat Race of Aeneas. Thomas
D. Kohn (Wayne State University)
- Dido and the Serpent of Aeneid V.84-9. Barbara
A. Blythe (Brown University)
- "Shades" of Sappho: Melic
Allusion in Aeneid 450-47. Alexander
E. Hall (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
8:15-9:45 a.m First Paper Session (Wayzata Bay)
Section E
Panel
Petronius: Author, Identities, Reception
Marsha B. McCoy (Southern Methodist University),
organizer
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- The Petronian Question within a Neronian Context. Stephen
M. Bay (Brigham
Young University)
- The Cult of Priapus and Queer Identities in Petronius’ Satyrica. Marsha
B. McCoy (Austin College)
- His Career as Trimalchio': Petronian Character and Narrative in Fitzgerald's
Great American Novel. Niall W. Slater (Emory University)
- Petronius and Hunter S. Thompson. Matthew Carter (University of Western
Ontario)
8:15-9:45 a.m. First Paper Session (Lake Harriet)
Section F
Cicero 1
Shannon Byrne (Xavier University), presiding
- Rumors True and False in Cicero's
Letters. Doug
C. Clapp (Samford University)
- Getting Your Way in Cicero's Dialogues. Daniel
P. Hanchey (Baylor University)
- The Jurists in Cicero's Brutus. Michael deBrauw (North
Central College)
- The Ethics of Language in Cicero's De Legibus. Joshua
C. Davies (University
of Tennessee, Chattanooga)
10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session (Excelsior Bay)
Section A
Poikila Hellenika
Emily West (College of St. Catherine), presiding
- From Shame to Sin: Fictional Prostitutes
and Greek Fiction. Kyle
Harper (University of Oklahoma)
- This Story is Believable: The Rhetoric
of Truth in Strabo's Geography.
Nicholas J. Gresens (Indiana University)
- Why Naupaktos: Endings and Beginnings
in Pausanias, Book X. Aaron
W. Wenzel (Ohio State University)
- Pausanias and the Macedonian Kings:
Samples of a Tortured Relationship.
Emilia Oddo (University of Cincinnati)
10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session (Lake Nokomis)
Section B
Petronius & Apuleius
E. Del Chrol (Marshall University), presiding
- Revisiting the City of the Cena Trimalchionis. Marc
D. Kleijwegt (University
of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Inscriptions in the Domus Trimalchionis. Teresa
R. Ramsby (University
of Massachussetts, Amherst)
- Declamator Furiosus: Encolpius and Plato's Phaedrus in Petronius' Satyrica.
Grant A. Nelsestuen (Trinity University)
- The De Deo Socratis:
Apuleius' Romanization of Plato and Homer. Anna
Peterson (Ohio State University)
- A Lucretian Venus: Erotic and Divine Love in Apuleius' Cupid
and Psyche.
Melinda K. Wolfrom (Boston College)
- Intertexts between Catullus' Coma Berenices and Apuleius' Met.
6-9.
David C. Wiltshire (University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill)
10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session (Spring Park Bay)
Section C
Plato
Thomas K. Hubbard (University of Texas,
Austin), presiding
- A Case of Platonic Irony at Laches 191b. Steve
A. Maiullo (Ohio State
University)
- Euripides at Plato's Symposium. Joseph Cummins (Grinnell College)
- Alcibiades at the Crossroads:
Philosophers, Courtesans and the Contest for a Young Man's Soul. Nicholas C. Rynearson (University of Georgia)
- Was Alcibiades a Socratic? Alexander S. Alderman (Pacific Lutheran University)
- Pig City Lost. Jim Hamm (University of Minnesota)
- Shifting Allegiances in Plato’s Republic. Laura
A. Ward (Duke University)
10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session (Lake Calhoun)
Section D
Horace
John F. Miller (University of Virginia), presiding
- A new look at Epodes 8
and 12: Horatian iambics and poetic consciousness.
Erika E. Zimmermann-Damer (University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill)
- Old Hags and a Narrative Snag: Horace's Persona in the Epodes. Donald
E. Lavigne (Texas Tech University)
- Horace the ruris amator in Epistles. Stephanie
A. McCarter (University
of the South)
- Horace Ode 11: White Thoughts
on a Winter Day. Jenny
Strauss Clay (University
of Virginia)
- Building A Temple: Horace, Vergil and the Aedes
Herculis Musarum. Eric W. Fanning (University of Minnesota)
- Apollo's Dictation: Odes 15 and the Augustan Recusatio. Shonda
Tohm (University of Michigan)
10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session (Wayzata Bay)
Section E
Panel
On Plautine 'Change: Dealing with the Mercator
Niall W. Slater (Emory University), organizer
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- Trafficking Pasicompsa: A Courtesan’s Travels and Travails in Plautus’
Mercator. Sharon L. James (University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- A Musical Merchant: The Cantica of Mercator. Timothy
J. Moore (University
of Texas)
- What the Cook Knew: The Cocus in Plautus’ Mercator. J.
Mira Seo (University
of Michigan)
- Syra and Stereotyping of Syrian Slaves in Plautus’ Mercator. John
H. Starks, Jr. (SUNY, Binghamton)
- Mercator Paratragoedans: Plautus Rewrites Teucer’s Exile. Antony
Augoustakis (Baylor University)
10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session (Lake Harriet)
Section F
Lucan
Seán Easton (Gustavus Adolphus College),
presiding
- The Intrusive Trope: Apostrophe in
Lucan. Paolo Asso (University
of Michigan)
- Lucan: Historical Repo Man. Jennifer E. Thomas (Grinnell
College)
- Death of the Republic: Caieta's Tomb in Lucan's Bellum
Civile. Brent
A. Harper (University of Washington)
- Catullus 64 and Lucan's Pharsalia. Ethan
T. Adams (Loyola Marymount Univeristy)
- Caesar and Cato in the Footsteps
of Aeneas. Emily
E. Batinski (Louisiana
State University)
- Noscendi Nilum Cupido: the Nile in Lucan’s Bellum
Civile. Eleni C. Manolaraki (University of South
Florida)
Noon-1:00 p.m. Boxed Luncheon Meeting for CAMWS Committees
(Pine/Cedar Lake)
1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session (Excelsior Bay)
Section A
Reception Studies 1
William K. Freiert (Gustavus Adolphus College), presiding
- The Performance of the Artist in Homer's Iliad. Lauren
E. Crampton (Bryn
Mawr College)
- Franco Rossi's Odissea:
The Greatest Screen Adaptation of Homer. Martin
M. Winkler (George Mason University)
- Goethe's Homeric Hymn to Dorothea. Amy E.
Vail (Baylor University)
- Appropriating an Ancient Hero: Gide's Philoctète. Steve
B. Heiny (Earlham
College)
- Pasolini's Medea: A Twentieth
Century Tragedy. Susan
O. Shapiro (Utah
State University)
1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session (Lake Nokomis)
Section B
Virgil, Eclogues
Samuel J. Huskey (University of Oklahoma), presiding
- In Defense of Thyrsis: The Importance of the Poetic Loser in Vergil's
Eclogues. Kathleen R. Burt (Marquette University)
- Caelata fagina pocula:
Irony in Virgil's Pastoral Ekphrasis. Holly
L. Murphy (Baylor University)
- Motion and Time in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue. Anna
M. Sitz (Baylor University)
- Errabunda Vestigia: The Traces of Catullus in Virgil's Eclogue. Ashley
A. Crooks (Baylor University)
- The Sky is Falling: Seneca’s Thyestes and Virgil’s Eclogues.
Christopher V. Trinacty (Amherst College)
1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session (Spring Park Bay)
Section C
Panel
From Purple to Perfume: New Studies Concerning Crete
Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University),
organizer
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- Riding the Wind Leuconotus: An Investigation of Creto-Cyrenean
Trade. Andrew J. Koh (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Sweet History: The Importance of Honey in the Ancient Mediterranean
and Its Role in the Cretan Economy. Jennifer L. Meyer (Wayne
State University)
- Looking Through the Purple Haze: Investigating Royal Purple Dye Production
in Crete. Thomas C. Harwood (Wayne State University)
- A Brief Look at the History of Cretan Cypress. Michele
Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University)
1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session (Lake Calhoun)
Section D
Iliad 1
Steve Reece (St. Olaf College), presiding
- Feel the Wrath of Their Anger: Aristoxenus' Proem to the Iliad and
the Rhetoric of Anger. Vincent E. Tomasso (Stanford University)
- Reconsideration of the Homeric Seer. Kenneth Yu (Boston
University)
- Speech-Act Theory and the Diapeira of Iliad. Joel
P. Christensen (University of Texas, San Antonio)
- Brothers in the Night: Agamemnon and Menelaus in Book 10 of the Iliad. Benjamin
G. Sammons (Independent Scholar)
1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session (Wayzata Bay)
Section E
Herodotus 1
Andrew Wolpert (University of Florida ), presiding
- Oracles and the composition of Book 1 of Herodotus’ Histories. Ryan
C. Fowler (Grinnell College)
- Croesus' Tragic Sacrifice. Sophie J. Mills (University
of North Carolina, Asheville)
- Déjà Vu?: Inversion in Herodotus'
Stories of Croesus and Astyages. Kenneth
M. Draper (Indiana University, Bloomington)
- The Problem of Amphiaraos in Herodotus' Histories. David
C. Carlisle (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- A Unified Conception of Herodotus' Histories 7.8-18. Christian
A. Preus (University of Iowa)
1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session (Lake Harriet)
Section F
Livy
Andrew B. Gallia (University of Minnesota),
presiding
- The Case of Lucretia: A Linguistic
Construction of Absence.
Michelle L. Andrews (Princeton University)
- There's No Place Like Rome: Non-Roman
Space in Livy. Alexandra
Kennedy (University of Washington)
- Gracchus and the Slave Army: A
Subplot in Livy's Third Decade. Stacie
Kadleck (Indiana University)
- Fabius, Thucydides, and the
Lessons of History (Livy 28.413 and 17). Wolfgang Polleichtner (Ruhr
Universität)
3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session (Excelsior Bay)
Section A
Iliad 2
Stewart Flory (Gustavus Adolphus College), presiding
- Kindred Spirit: Nestor's Speech and
Patroclus' Response. Michael
H. Hanel (University of Cincinnati)
- The Performance of Early Greek
Law. Michael Gagarin (University
of Texas, Austin)
- Fathers and Sons at the banquet: Iliad 2
487-50. Rebecca
M. Muich (University of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign)
- Suppliant, Guest, and
the Power of Zeus in Homeric Epic. Miriam
Tworek-Hofstetter (University of Texas, Austin)
3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session (Lake Nokomis)
Section B
Euripides
Eric Dugdale (Gustavus Adolphus College), presiding
- Phaedra’s Game: Hunting, Sex, and Domestication in Euripides’ Hippolytus.
Tracy Jamison Wood (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- ἄνω κάτω:
spatial metaphor in Euripides' Herakles and the duality of the
hero. Emily
A. Kratzer (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Euripides' Heracleidae and
the Cult of Heroes. Barbara
A. McCauley (Concordia
College)
- The Abduction of Persephone and Euripides' Electra. Brian
V. Lush (College
of Charleston)
- Titans on the Panathenaic peplos? A reconsideration of Hec.
470-4 and IT 222. Zoe Stamatopoulou (University
of Georgia)
- Mimesis, Materiality, and Madness in Euripides' Bacchae. Melissa Y. Mueller (University
of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Thursday, April 2, 2009
3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session (Spring Park Bay)
Section C
Panel
Non-tenure-stream Positions: the Future of our Profession?
A Panel Sponsored by the Committee for the Promotion of Latin
Kristin O. Lord (Wilfrid Laurier University),
organizer
Carin M. Green (University of Iowa), presiding
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- Contingent Faculty in Classics: Numbers and Causes. Adam
D. Blistein (American
Philological Association)
- Limited-Term Jobs: a Strategy or a Career? Madeleine
M. Henry (Iowa
State University)
- Moving up the Totem Pole: one person’s account of (finally) landing
that tenure-track position. Georgia L. Irby-Massie (College
of William and Mary)
- Sticking (or not) with a Union: Some Benefits and Limits of Unionization
for Classicists in Non-Tenure-Stream Positions. Kristin
O. Lord (Wilfrid
Laurier University)
- Response. Carin M. Green (University of Iowa)
3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session (Lake Calhoun)
Section D
Ovid 1
Sharon L. James (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
presiding
- Poet and Princeps Femina: Livia in Ovid's Fasti I. Heather
Woods (University
of Minnesota)
- The Transformation of Adultery: Sexual Infidelity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Meredith Prince (Auburn
University)
- The Loss of Speech and its Effect on Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Bartolo A. Natoli (University
of Texas, Austin)
- Thyesteis mensis: The Missing Cannibalism Episodes in the Metamorphoses. David J. White (Baylor
University)
- By the Light of the Moon: Medea and Agrarian Magic in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Mariah Smith (University
of Kansas)
- "Suasit amor facinus":
What was she thinking? Notes on scandals in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Garrett. A Jacobsen (Denison
University)
3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session (Wayzata Bay)
Section E
Juvenal and Martial
Antony Augoustakis (Baylor University), presiding
- Mensura Incognita: Problems
of Reception and Interpretation of Juvenal's Ninth Satire. Michael H. Broder (The Graduate
Center of The City University of New York)
- Gravis Occursu, Taeterrima Vultu:
Zoomorphic Imagery and Verbal Humor in Juvenal. Heather Vincent (Eckerd College)
- Juvenal's Vowel Movements. Christopher M. Brunelle (St.
Olaf College)
- Menander in the Admiring Eyes
of Epigram. Charles
S. Campbell (University
of Cincinnati)
- Martial's Interpres: latine loqui fas sit. Peter
J. Anderson (Grand Valley
State University)
3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session (Lake Harriet)
Section F
Greek Rhetoric
Craig A. Gibson (University of Iowa), presiding
- Litigation and Characterization:
Manipulating Stereotypes in Dem. 25 (Against Aristogeiton I). Jess L. Miner (College of Charleston)
- The Case against Nikomachos and
the Amnesty (Lys. 30.7-14). Edwin
Carawan (Missouri State University)
- Ethical Arguments in Athenian Homicide
Courts. Andrew
O. Wolpert (University
of Florida)
- Kin-Killing and the Construction
of Kinship in Isaeus 9, On the Estate of Astyphilus. Bradford D. Holmes (University of Southern
California)
- The Abuse of Religious Ideology in
the Orators. Gregory
P. Sears (Indiana
University, Bloomington)
- The class credentials of fist-fights
in Aeschin. 135-7. Julia
P. Shapiro (University of Michigan)
5:45-6:00 p.m. Business Meeting: CAMWS Southern Section
(Lake Harriet)
6:00-7:00 p.m. Happy Hour for Graduate Students (Pine/Cedar Lake)
6:00-7:00 p.m. Reception for ACM/GLCA/ACS Classicists (Maple
Lake)
6:00-7:00 p.m. Vergilian Society Reception (Birch Lake)
6:30-8:00 p.m. Dinner Meeting of CAMWS Vice-Presidents
(Deer/Elk Lake)
8:00-10:00 p.m. Fifth Paper Session (Excelsior Bay)
Section A
Roman History
Cheryl L. Golden (Newman University), presiding
- "Their occurence did not seem unreasonable": A comparative-analytical
study of slave wars and peasant rebellions in the Roman world. Adam
E. Donaldson (University of Arizona)
- A New Look at Roman Indifference
Towards Cyprus in the Late Republic. Jonathan P. Zarecki (University
of North Carolina, Greensboro)
- The Status of Rome in Republican
Discourse. Kathryn
L. Steed (Reed College)
- Provincial Attitudes toward the Roman
Empire. Kenneth
R. Jones (Baylor
University)
8:00-10:00 p.m. Fifth Paper Session (Spring Park Bay)
Section C
Greek Religion and Law
Carl A. Anderson (Michigan State University), presiding
- Magic and Religion: A Semiotic
Analysis. Adria R.
Haluszka (Ohio State
University)
- Violent Passions? Nekudaimonesin Greek
Erotic Magic. Rebecca
A. Sears (University of Michigan)
- DTA 87: A view into the "Business
of Magic."
Jennifer L. Finn (University of Michigan)
- Cursing Democracy: The Magic of Binding
Spells and Athenian Law Court Procedures. Werner Riess (University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill)
- Phonos as a Term of Athenian
Law: "Homicide" or
"Killing," Not "Murder/Manslaughter." David D. Phillips
(University of California, Los Angeles)
- Religious Practice and Local Identity
within Pausanias' Periegesis. Flint Dibble (University
of Cincinnati)
8:00-10:00 p.m. Fifth Paper Session (Lake Calhoun)
Section D
Panel
Preparing to Publish (GSIC panel)
Sharada S. Price (University of Iowa), organizer
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- Publishing Journal Articles in Classics: An Editor’s Practical Perspective.
S. Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota)
- Publication and You: Thinking Strategically about Publishing. Samuel
J. Huskey (University of Oklahoma)
- Turning a Seminar Paper or CAMWS Talk into a Publishable Paper. Barbara
Weiden Boyd (Bowdoin College)
- Dissertation to Book: Entering a Conversation. Basil
J. Dufallo (University
of Michigan)
- After your dissertation: Your five-year publication plan. Craig
A. Gibson (University of Iowa)
- Response. Bruce Heiden (Ohio State University)
8:00-10:00 p.m. Fifth Paper Session (Wayzata Bay)
Section E
Germanicus & Ovid
Mary L. B. Pendergraft (Wake Forest University), presiding
- Scitus Aratus: Germanicus, Aratea 13. David
P. Kubiak (Wabash College)
- Ovid Imagining Flora. John F. Miller (University of
Virginia)
- Byblis in exemplo est:
the Power of Reception in Ovid's Tale of Byblis and Caunus. Ursula Bergstrom (University of
Chicago)
- Reconsidering Pygmalion. Rachel M. Bruzzone (University
of Virginia)
- Ovid's Orpheus Revisited. Georgia Sermamoglou (University
of Virginia)
- Planting the Seeds of Rome: Three Botanical Love Stories from Ovid's Fasti and Metamorphoses. Angeline
C. Chiu (University of Vermont)
8:00-10:00 p.m. Round-Table Reading of Vergil’s Aeneid,
Book 1 (sponsored by the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin
Literature) Mark R. Miner, presiding (Lake Nokomis)
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