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
- Power, Poetry, and Women's Rituals in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10, 11. Vassiliki
Panoussi (College of William and Mary)
- Plautinisches im Ovid: The Metamorphoses, the Amphitruo, and a Rejection of Roman Comedy. Mathias
Hanses (University of Illinois)
- Ira Dei: The Politics of Anger in Ovid's Exile Poetry. Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
- Tempting Augustus? Bacchic Persuasion in Tristia 5.3. Joy
Reeber (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Lest we Forget: Object Lessons in the Monumenta of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Jennifer L.
Muslin (State University of New York, Buffalo)
- 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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Poetry Not Propaganda: Horace's and Vergil's Poetics of Indeterminacy. Timothy S. Johnson (University
of Florida)
- Poetry and Propaganda: Vergil's Aeneid and the Temple of Mars Ultor in the Forum Augustum. Marsha B. McCoy (Southern Methodist University)
- Vergil at Sperlonga: Poetry, Statues and Imperial Reception of the Aeneid. Stephen
L. Tuck (Miami University)
- “et mentem mortalia tangunt”: Reception of the Aeneid and the question of authorial intent? Timothy R. Wutrich (Case Western Reserve University)
- Misreading in Vergil and Dante: Or How We Readers Miss the Point. Christine G. Perkell (Emory University)
- 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
- Metapoetic Qualification in Plato's Cave. David Schur (City University of New York, Brooklyn College)
- Myth, Movement, and Reversal in Plato's Phaedo. Alden
Smith (Baylor University)
- Reading Plato Through the Menexenus. David
J. Schenker (University of Missouri)
- Eat, Sing, Philosophize: Salutary Foods and Poetry in Plato and Lucretius. Gwendolyn M. Gruber (University
of Iowa)
- Themistius on the Aristotelian Intellect. John Finamore (University
of Iowa)
- 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
- Augustine and Cassiodorus on Education. Joshua Kinlaw (City University of New York, Graduate Center)
- Civitas Terrena et Civitas Dei: Orosius and Augustine on Temporal Power, Roman Society, and Divine Will. Hunter
L. Nielsen (University of Arizona)
- How Poetry Castrated Attis: Toward a Model of Prudentian Poetics. Robin
E. McGill (Brown University)
- 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
- Meaning and Myth: Translating the Fourth Stasimon of Oidipous Turannos. Joshua L.
Wall (Northwestern University)
- “Swine from the herd of Epicurus”: The Enlightenment's Reception of Lucretius and De Rerum Natura. Micah Everson (University
of Montana)
- Memoria and the Immortal Soul in Cicero's Tusculan Disputation 1. Caroline
B. Barta (Baylor University)
- Hearing Horace: The Alcaic Stanza in the Grammatici Latini and Odes 1.9. Alexandria
DeSio (Virginia Tech University)
- 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
- Towards Consistency in Student Writing Assignments. Carrie
L. Galsworthy (Miami University)
- Third Language Acquisition: Spanish-Speaking Students in the Latin Classroom. Tracy Jamison Wood (Independent Scholar)
- Teaching the Scientific Terminology Course. David
L. Sigsbee (University
of Memphis)
- 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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- Classics and the Koala: Lessons in seeming bigger than you are. Peter
J. Anderson (Grand Valley State University)
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Classics within Liberal Education. Charles
Pazdernik (Grand Valley State University)
- ἶσον θυμὸν ἔχοντες: Co-curricular offerings and the Classics Department. Diane Rayor (Grand Valley State University)
- A Hearth and a Coffee Pot. Brenda Fineberg (Knox College)
- 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
- Shedding Light on Roman Social Practice: Artifact Assemblage Analysis at Pompeii and Karanis. Megan E. Shuler (College of William and Mary)
- Securing the Savages: The Boundaries of Numidia in Historia Naturalis 5.22. Gena
Goodman (Eckerd College)
- An Assessment of the Political Power of the Severan Women. Ellis H. Bridgers (Elon University )
- 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
- How to Govern Like a Roman. Claudia
I. Arno (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- Squelching Rumors: L. Aemilius Paullus in Livy 44. Douglas C. Clapp (Samford University)
- Pliny's Poisonous Provinces: Poison, Foreigners, and Imperium in the Naturalis Historia. Molly A.
Jones-Lewis (Ohio State University)
- Pliny the Younger and the Fall of the Republic. Thomas E. Strunk (Xavier University )
- Subverting Caesar: Cassius Dio and the creation of an alternative ethnography of the North. Andrew
C. Johnston (Harvard University)
- 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
- Topical and Philosophical Comedy in Epicharmus. Wilfred E. Major (Louisiana State University)
- Manipulating Marriage: The epiklerate in Menander's Aspis. Bartolo
A. Natoli (University of Texas, Austin)
- Menander and the Macedonians: Dating the Aspis. Andrew Howard (University of Texas, Austin)
- Enmity and Probability in the Attic Orators. Andrew T. Alwine (University
of Florida)
- Performing the Law: The theatrical features of Demosthenes' On the Crown. Andreas S.
Seraphim (University of Texas, Austin)
- 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
- Lorem Ipsum: The Rise of Junk Latin. Dunstan E. Lowe (Grand Valley State University)
- The Uncanny Transformation: Laughter and the Unconscious in Aristophanes. Devon Harlow (Independent Scholar)
- Theseus and the Serial Killers. Debbie Felton (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- 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
- Juvenal 3 and the Metapoetic Bully. Erin
Moodie (Colgate University)
- Eat Like An Egyptian: Cannibalism in Juvenal 15 and Achilles Tatius. Katherine Panagakos (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
- Fish and Roman Decay in Juvenal's Satires. Osman Umurhan (Austin College)
- Loitering With Intent: Juvenal at the Crossroads. David
H. Larmour (Texas Tech
University)
- 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
- Electronic Publishing and Latin Pedagogy: Redefining Introductory-Level Textbooks. Andrew Reinhard (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers)
- Teaching Latin to the 21st Century Student. Tom Garvey (University of Virginia)
- Numen - The Latin Lexicon: A New Approach to Online Latin Dictionaries. Keith A. Woodell (University of New Mexico)
- 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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- The CAMWS Translation Contest. Robert T. White (Shaker Heights High School)
- Julius Caesar for Twenty-First Century Students. Jane
W. Crawford (University
of Virginia)
- Ilion falling, Rome arising . . . . Mary L. Pendergraft (Wake Forest University)
- 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
- Seneca the Younger and Neronian Aesthetics. Robert
Sklenar (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
- The Perversion of Nature in the Slavery of Seneca's 47th Letter. Alan Fleming (Indiana University)
- condidit suos enses: allusion to Vergil and Lucan in The Octavia. Lauren
M. Donovan (Brown University)
- Playing the Tyrant: Nero in ps.-Seneca's Octavia. Anne
E. Duncan (University of Nebraska)
- Narrative Thinking and the Traumatic Past in Seneca's Medea. Amanda Wilcox (Williams College)
- 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
- Echoes of Alexander. Jason M. Osborne (University of Iowa)
- Coaching strategies for horses and sailors and their political implications in the Aeneid. Gail C. Polk (University of Georgia)
- The Extraordinary Fate of Creusa: Life, Death, and Beyond in Vergil's Troy. Anna
E. Beek (University of Minnesota)
- Fertile for Nothing Good: Medusa's Offspring in Lucan's Pharsalia. Elizabeth A. Brinnehl (University
of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Homeric Formulae and Bilingual Intertextuality in Lucan's Pharsalia. Tobias P. Torgerson (Cornell University)
- 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
- Camp Aesthetics and Queer Kinship in Juvenal's Ninth Satire. Michael H. Broder (City University of New York, Graduate Center)
- Cannibalizing Ovid: Allusive Play in Juvenal's Satire 15. Kristen Ehrhardt (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Ludibria Horrenda: Martial's Construction of Monstrosity in Flavian Rome. Christina
E. Franzen (Marshall University)
- 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
- The Quarrel of Agamemnon and Menelaus (Od. 3.132-57). Benjamin G. Sammons (Independent Scholar)
- Stranded Lovers Take Another: Callirhoe and Odysseus' Infidelities. Lisa Feldkamp (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Homer and Collective Memory: The End of the Odyssey. Wolfgang
Polleichtner (Ruhr Universität)
- The Un-Usual Suspects: Near Eastern Penelopean Parallels. Chris Wood (Villanova Preparatory School)
- Analogy and Orality: What can Rajasthani Epic Teach Us about Homer? Joel Christensen (University of Texas, San Antonio)
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