Meeting

Saturday, March 27, 2010

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7:00-8:00 a.m. Breakfast sponsored by the Women's Classical Caucus (Room 14)

7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Registration (Great Hall D)

7:30 a.m.-noon Book Display (Great Hall D)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Annual CAMWS Business Meeting (all are welcome to attend) (Great Hall E)

10:00 a.m.-noon Tenth Paper Session (Great Hall E)

Section 10.A

Ovid III

Samuel J. Huskey (University of Oklahoma), presiding

  1. Power, Poetry, and Women's Rituals in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10, 11. Vassiliki Panoussi (College of William and Mary)
  2. Plautinisches im Ovid: The Metamorphoses, the Amphitruo, and a Rejection of Roman Comedy. Mathias Hanses (University of Illinois)
  3. Ira Dei: The Politics of Anger in Ovid's Exile Poetry. Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
  4. Tempting Augustus? Bacchic Persuasion in Tristia 5.3. Joy Reeber (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  5. Lest we Forget: Object Lessons in the Monumenta of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Jennifer L. Muslin (State University of New York, Buffalo)
  6. Ovid's Vertumnus and the Elegiac Fantasy. Daniel J. Griffin (Duke University)

10:00 a.m.-noon Tenth Paper Session (Room 16)

Section 10.B

Vergilian Society Panel

Poetry or Propaganda: Vergil's perspective and readers' responses to politics and patronage in the Aeneid

Steven L. Tuck (Miami University), organizer

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  1. Poetry Not Propaganda: Horace's and Vergil's Poetics of Indeterminacy. Timothy S. Johnson (University of Florida)
  2. Poetry and Propaganda: Vergil's Aeneid and the Temple of Mars Ultor in the Forum Augustum. Marsha B. McCoy (Southern Methodist University)
  3. Vergil at Sperlonga: Poetry, Statues and Imperial Reception of the Aeneid. Stephen L. Tuck (Miami University)
  4. “et mentem mortalia tangunt”: Reception of the Aeneid and the question of authorial intent? Timothy R. Wutrich (Case Western Reserve University)
  5. Misreading in Vergil and Dante: Or How We Readers Miss the Point. Christine G. Perkell (Emory University)
  6. Translating Dido: Catherine the Great in the Aeneid. Zara M. Torlone (Miami University)

10:00 a.m.-noon Tenth Paper Session (Room 17)

Section 10.C

Philosophy II

Ryan C. Platte (Washington University), presiding

  1. Metapoetic Qualification in Plato's Cave. David Schur (City University of New York, Brooklyn College)
  2. Myth, Movement, and Reversal in Plato's Phaedo. Alden Smith (Baylor University)
  3. Reading Plato Through the Menexenus. David J. Schenker (University of Missouri)
  4. Eat, Sing, Philosophize: Salutary Foods and Poetry in Plato and Lucretius. Gwendolyn M. Gruber (University of Iowa)
  5. Themistius on the Aristotelian Intellect. John Finamore (University of Iowa)
  6. Plato's Quarrel with Homer's “Divine Bard”: Implied Censorship in Republic Book 3. Patrick G. Lake (The Hill School / Fordham University)

10:00 a.m.-noon Tenth Paper Session (Room 18)

Section 10.D

Reception Studies III

Barbara Lawatsch-Melton (Emory University), presiding

  1. Augustine and Cassiodorus on Education. Joshua Kinlaw (City University of New York, Graduate Center)
  2. Civitas Terrena et Civitas Dei: Orosius and Augustine on Temporal Power, Roman Society, and Divine Will. Hunter L. Nielsen (University of Arizona)
  3. How Poetry Castrated Attis: Toward a Model of Prudentian Poetics. Robin E. McGill (Brown University)
  4. The HOMEROMANTEION and Early Byzantine Cento Poems: Divination, Biblical Stories and Performance of Homer in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium.. Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine/Center for Hellenic Studies)

10:00 a.m.-noon Tenth Paper Session (Room 19)

Section 10.E

Undergraduate Student Panel I

Greek and Latin Literature

Anne H. Groton (St. Olaf College), presiding

  1. Meaning and Myth: Translating the Fourth Stasimon of Oidipous Turannos. Joshua L. Wall (Northwestern University)
  2. “Swine from the herd of Epicurus”: The Enlightenment's Reception of Lucretius and De Rerum Natura. Micah Everson (University of Montana)
  3. Memoria and the Immortal Soul in Cicero's Tusculan Disputation 1. Caroline B. Barta (Baylor University)
  4. Hearing Horace: The Alcaic Stanza in the Grammatici Latini and Odes 1.9. Alexandria DeSio (Virginia Tech University)
  5. Hungry for Sin: Stomachs in Persius. Brantley N. Cesanek (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey )

10:00 a.m.-noon Tenth Paper Session (Room 20)

Section 10.F

Pedagogy II

Nicoletta Villa-Sella (The Linsly School), presiding

  1. Towards Consistency in Student Writing Assignments. Carrie L. Galsworthy (Miami University)
  2. Third Language Acquisition: Spanish-Speaking Students in the Latin Classroom. Tracy Jamison Wood (Independent Scholar)
  3. Teaching the Scientific Terminology Course. David L. Sigsbee (University of Memphis)
  4. From Caecilius to Aeneas: Thoughts on Growing a Successful Latin Program Using the Cambridge Latin Course. Ginny T. Lindzey (Dripping Springs High School )

Noon-1:00 p.m. Luncheon sponsored by the Committee for the Promotion of Latin (Room 15)

Noon-1:00 p.m. Luncheon for Consulares (Room 14)

David W. Tandy (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), presiding

1:15-3:15 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session (Great Hall E)

Section 11.A

Panel

Tenacity of Purpose:  Growing Classics in a Harsh Climate

Peter J. Anderson (Grand Valley State University), organizer

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  1. Classics and the Koala: Lessons in seeming bigger than you are. Peter J. Anderson (Grand Valley State University)
  2. Assessing the Effectiveness of Classics within Liberal Education. Charles Pazdernik (Grand Valley State University)
  3. ἶσον θυμὸν ἔχοντες: Co-curricular offerings and the Classics Department. Diane Rayor (Grand Valley State University)
  4. A Hearth and a Coffee Pot. Brenda Fineberg (Knox College)
  5. Teaching Big Ideas and Open Questions: the Problem of Assessment in a Private Liberal Arts College. Stephen C. Fineberg (Knox College)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session (Room 16)

Section 11.B

Undergraduate Student Panel II

Greek and Roman Culture

R. Alden Smith (Baylor University), presiding

  1. Shedding Light on Roman Social Practice: Artifact Assemblage Analysis at Pompeii and Karanis. Megan E. Shuler (College of William and Mary)
  2. Securing the Savages: The Boundaries of Numidia in Historia Naturalis 5.22. Gena Goodman (Eckerd College)
  3. An Assessment of the Political Power of the Severan Women. Ellis H. Bridgers (Elon University )
  4. A Reevaluation of the “Orphic” Tablets with Regard to Evidence Provided by the Ketef Hinnom Amulets. Norman A. Shamas (Arizona State University)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session (Room 17)

Section 11.C

Roman History III

J. Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma), presiding

  1. How to Govern Like a Roman. Claudia I. Arno (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  2. Squelching Rumors: L. Aemilius Paullus in Livy 44. Douglas C. Clapp (Samford University)
  3. Pliny's Poisonous Provinces: Poison, Foreigners, and Imperium in the Naturalis Historia. Molly A. Jones-Lewis (Ohio State University)
  4. Pliny the Younger and the Fall of the Republic. Thomas E. Strunk (Xavier University )
  5. Subverting Caesar: Cassius Dio and the creation of an alternative ethnography of the North. Andrew C. Johnston (Harvard University)
  6. Risk Management: Economic Activities and Strategies on Late Roman Estates. Philip F. Venticinque (Cornell College)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session (Room 18)

Section 11.D

Greek Comedy and Oratory

Timothy R. Wutrich (Case Western Reserve University), presiding

  1. Topical and Philosophical Comedy in Epicharmus. Wilfred E. Major (Louisiana State University)
  2. Manipulating Marriage: The epiklerate in Menander's Aspis. Bartolo A. Natoli (University of Texas, Austin)
  3. Menander and the Macedonians: Dating the Aspis. Andrew Howard (University of Texas, Austin)
  4. Enmity and Probability in the Attic Orators. Andrew T. Alwine (University of Florida)
  5. Performing the Law: The theatrical features of Demosthenes' On the Crown. Andreas S. Seraphim (University of Texas, Austin)
  6. Sparta, scowling, style and pretension in the speeches of Demosthenes. Julia P. Shapiro (University of Michigan)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session (Room TBA)

Section 11.E

Reception Studies IV

Rebecca Huskey (University of Oklahoma), presiding

  1. Lorem Ipsum: The Rise of Junk Latin. Dunstan E. Lowe (Grand Valley State University)
  2. The Uncanny Transformation: Laughter and the Unconscious in Aristophanes. Devon Harlow (Independent Scholar)
  3. Theseus and the Serial Killers. Debbie Felton (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  4. Beneath the Root of Memory- Forgetfulness and Recollection in Oresteia. Catalina Popescu (University of Texas, Austin)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session (Room 20)

Section 11.F

Juvenal

Amanda R. Wilcox (Williams College), presiding

  1. Juvenal 3 and the Metapoetic Bully. Erin Moodie (Colgate University)
  2. Eat Like An Egyptian: Cannibalism in Juvenal 15 and Achilles Tatius. Katherine Panagakos (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
  3. Fish and Roman Decay in Juvenal's Satires. Osman Umurhan (Austin College)
  4. Loitering With Intent: Juvenal at the Crossroads. David H. Larmour (Texas Tech University)
  5. Exiling Mars: Gods and Disgraced Aristocrats in Juvenal's Rome. Christopher Nappa (University of Minnesota)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session (Great Hall E)

Section 12.A

Pedagogy III

Ginny T. Lindzey (Dripping Springs High School), presiding

  1. Electronic Publishing and Latin Pedagogy: Redefining Introductory-Level Textbooks. Andrew Reinhard (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers)
  2. Teaching Latin to the 21st Century Student. Tom Garvey (University of Virginia)
  3. Numen - The Latin Lexicon: A New Approach to Online Latin Dictionaries. Keith A. Woodell (University of New Mexico)
  4. Grammar and Graffiti: Using Inscriptions in the Intermediate Latin College Classroom. Angeline C. Chiu (University of Vermont)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session (Room 16)

Section 12.B

Panel

Latin in Our High Schools

Mary L. Pendergraft (Wake Forest University), organizer

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  1. The CAMWS Translation Contest. Robert T. White (Shaker Heights High School)
  2. Julius Caesar for Twenty-First Century Students. Jane W. Crawford (University of Virginia)
  3. Ilion falling, Rome arising . . . . Mary L. Pendergraft (Wake Forest University)
  4. The Nitty-Gritty of Preparing for the Latin AP Exam. Nicoletta Villa-Sella (The Linsly School)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session (Room 17)

Section 12.C

Seneca

Garrett Jacobsen (Denison College), presiding

  1. Seneca the Younger and Neronian Aesthetics. Robert Sklenar (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
  2. The Perversion of Nature in the Slavery of Seneca's 47th Letter. Alan Fleming (Indiana University)
  3. condidit suos enses: allusion to Vergil and Lucan in The Octavia. Lauren M. Donovan (Brown University)
  4. Playing the Tyrant: Nero in ps.-Seneca's Octavia. Anne E. Duncan (University of Nebraska)
  5. Narrative Thinking and the Traumatic Past in Seneca's Medea. Amanda Wilcox (Williams College)
  6. est genitor in te totus: Significant Role Distribution in Senecan Tragedy. Thomas D. Kohn (Wayne State University)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session (Room 18)

Section 12.D

Latin Epic

Ellen Greene (University of Oklahoma), presiding

  1. Echoes of Alexander. Jason M. Osborne (University of Iowa)
  2. Coaching strategies for horses and sailors and their political implications in the Aeneid. Gail C. Polk (University of Georgia)
  3. The Extraordinary Fate of Creusa: Life, Death, and Beyond in Vergil's Troy. Anna E. Beek (University of Minnesota)
  4. Fertile for Nothing Good: Medusa's Offspring in Lucan's Pharsalia. Elizabeth A. Brinnehl (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  5. Homeric Formulae and Bilingual Intertextuality in Lucan's Pharsalia. Tobias P. Torgerson (Cornell University)
  6. The God-like Dead: Dream apparitions in Post Augustan Epic. Jane I. Rayburn (Boston University)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session (Room 19)

Section 12.E

Martial and Juvenal

Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina), presiding

  1. Camp Aesthetics and Queer Kinship in Juvenal's Ninth Satire. Michael H. Broder (City University of New York, Graduate Center)
  2. Cannibalizing Ovid: Allusive Play in Juvenal's Satire 15. Kristen Ehrhardt (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  3. Ludibria Horrenda: Martial's Construction of Monstrosity in Flavian Rome. Christina E. Franzen (Marshall University)
  4. Plagiarism, Play, and Persona in Martial. Scott McGill (Rice University)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session (Room 20)

Section 12.F

Homer

Rachel A. Knudsen (University of Oklahoma), presiding

  1. The Quarrel of Agamemnon and Menelaus (Od. 3.132-57). Benjamin G. Sammons (Independent Scholar)
  2. Stranded Lovers Take Another: Callirhoe and Odysseus' Infidelities. Lisa Feldkamp (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  3. Homer and Collective Memory: The End of the Odyssey. Wolfgang Polleichtner (Ruhr Universität)
  4. The Un-Usual Suspects: Near Eastern Penelopean Parallels. Chris Wood (Villanova Preparatory School)
  5. Analogy and Orality: What can Rajasthani Epic Teach Us about Homer? Joel Christensen (University of Texas, San Antonio)

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