PANELS and WORKSHOPS
2017
Advances in Teaching Beginning Greek
Wilfred E. Major (Louisiana State University), organizer and presider
1. The 2016 College Greek Exam. Albert Watanabe (Louisana State University)
2. Teaching Ablaut in Elementary Ancient Greek. Rex Wallace (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
3. Sailing through Practice in Elementary Greek: How to Use Pseudo-Skylax’s Periplous. Wilfred E. Major (Louisiana State University)
4. The Politics of Greek Online Courses. Anthony Hollingsworth (Roger Williams University)
Around and Across the Pontos Euxeinos: Recent Research in Ancient Black Sea Studies
Altay Coşkun (University of Waterloo), organizer and presider
1. Prosodion Written in Bone: An Inscribed Bone Plaque from the Berezan Island. Anna K. Boshnakova (Sheridan College)
2. Peripheral Aftermath of the Treaty of Apameia in the Black Sea. Germain Payen (Independent Scholar)
3. The Bosporan Kings: Friends or Enemies of the Romans? Altay Coşkun (University of Waterloo)
4. New Observations on the Dura-Periplus Map. Konstantin Boshnakov (Conestoga College)
5. Assessing Regional Wealth in Late Roman Pontos. Hugh Elton (Trent University)
Outside Elite Perspective: the Subaltern in Ancient Art
Tarah Csaszar (Independent Scholar), organizer, and Crystal Rosenthal (Independent Scholar), organizer and presider
1. Here I Lie on the Narrow Beach: Listening to Subaltern Voices in the Epitaphs of Anyte. Kathryn Caliva (The Ohio State University)
2. About Face: Ancient Physiognomy and onflict. Tarah Csaszar (Independent Scholar)
3. Watching the World Go By: Non-Elite Viewership of Roman Processional Movements. Noreen Sit (Yale University)
4. Gender War in the Church: Opposing Views of Women and Their Role in the New Testament. Justin Germain (Southern Methodist University)
5. Condemning Clytemnestra: Exploring the Tragic Heroine in Art and Culture. Rhiannon Pare (Princeton University)
Finding a New Beat: Teaching Latin Poetry with Popular Music
Theodora Kopestonsky (University of Tennessee at Knoxville), organizer
Justin Arft (University of Tennessee at Knoxville), organizer and presider
1, Wild Nothing: Teaching Latin Intertextuality. Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin College)
2. Medea Sings: Pop Music as Interpretation. Christopher Bungard (Butler University)
3. Before Queen: Vergil and the Musical Tradition of Sampling Popular Song. Naomi Kaloudis (Valparaiso University)
4. What Can Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, and Adele Do for Your Latin Prose Composition Students? Stephen Kershner (Austin Peay State University)
5. Never Out of Style: Teaching Latin Love Poetry with Taylor Swift. Theodora Kopestonsky (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
From “Second Sophistic” to Imperial Literature
Janet Downie (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), organizer
Lawrence Kim (Trinity University), organizer and presider
1. Classical Sophists in the Second Sophistic. Kendra Eshleman (Boston College)
2. Lovers of Homer in Dio of Prusa’s On Kingship (Or. 2) and Borystheniticus (Or. 36). Lawrence Kim (Trinity University)
3. The Romance Between Greece and Rome in Aelius Aristides’ Orations on Smyrna (Orr. 17–21) and Corinth (Or. 46). Janet Downie (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
4. Experiencing the Divine in Apuleius’ ‘Cupid and Psyche’. Aldo Tagliabue (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
5, Narrative Form and Medical Ethics in Galen’s On Prognosis. Lauren Caldwell (Wesleyan University)
Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866-1946) and her Impact on the Study of Women's History
Elizabeth Carney (Clemson University), organizer
Anna R. Raia (The College of New Rochelle), and Maria S. Marsilio (Saint Joseph’s University), presiders
1. Assessing and Continuing the Contributions of Grace Harriet Macurdy, Pioneering Feminist Scholar: Barbara McManus’ The Drunken Duchess of Vassar: Grace Harriet Macurdy, Pioneering Feminist Classical Scholar. Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland)
2. From Feminism to Orientalism: Grace Harriet Macurdy on Cleopatra and Antony. Walter Penrose (San Diego State)
3. Grace Harriet Macurdy and 'Woman Power' in Argead Macedonia: Eurydice, Mother of Philip II. Elizabeth Carney (Clemson University)
4. Grace Harriet Macurdy on the Seleucid Queens. Gillian Ramsey (University of Regina)
5. Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866–1946) and her Impact on the Study of Women’s History Response to Papers. Sheila Ager (University of Waterloo)
Introducing the Revised Standards for Classical Language Learning to New Audiences
John Gruber-Miller, Cornell College, organizer and presider
1. From Standards for Classical Language Learning to World-Readiness Standards: What’s New and How It Can Improve Classroom Instruction. Bartolo Natoli (Randolph-Macon College)
2. College Professors and the New Standards for Classical Language Learning. Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)
3 How the Revised Standards for Classical Language Learning Help Beginning Teachers. Timothy Hanford (Hunter College)
4. Backward Mapping with the New Standards. Peter Anderson (Grand Valley State University)
5. The Digital Humanist’s Renaissance: verba volant scripta remanent digita sunt. Cynthia White (University of Arizona)
Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies Panel
New Perspectives on Greek and Latin Literary Ekphrasis
Riemer Faber (University of Waterloo), organizer and presider
1. Verbal-Visual Kinship in the Shield of Herakles. Timothy Heckenlively (Baylor University)
2. Aetiology and Descriptions of Works of Art in Callimachus. Flora Manakidou (Democritus University of Thrace)
3. Feasting by Homeric Torchlight: Ekphrasis and Cultural Transmission at De Rerum Natura 2.24-26. Basil Dufallo (University of Michigan)
4. Ekphrasis, Experience, and Experiment. Courtney Roby (Cornell University)
GSIC Panel
Now What?: Finding a Job with a Graduate Degree in Classics
Elizabeth Deacon (University of Colorado), organizer and presider
1. ‘Visiting’ Along to Tenure-Track. Osman Umurhan (University of New Mexico)
2. Finding a Primary and Secondary Teaching Position in Latin. Jennifer Kindick (Cherry Creek High School and Ricks Center for Gifted Children)
3. Parallel Lives: Alternative Careers in Classics, Humanities, and Academia.Wesley Wood (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Presidential Panel: Ovid and Virgil
Julia D. Hejduk (Baylor University), organizer and presider
1. Festive Allusions: Ovid on the Ides of March. Carole E. Newlands (University of Colorado)
2. Vergil and Ovid: Poets of Their Times, and of Ours. Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania)
3. Archaeologizing Intertextuality in Virgil and Ovid. Peter Knox (Case Western Reserve University)
4. Response. James J. O’Hara (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Presence and Role of Biases in the Academic Life Cycle
Kathryn A. Simonsen (Memorial University of Newfoundland), organizer and presider
1. Equity and Graduate Students Pursuing Non-academic Career Paths in Classical Studies. Lisa Hughes (University of Calgary)
2. Unconscious Bias in the Hiring Process. Alison Keith (University of Toronto)
3. Gender Bias in the Evaluation of Scholarship: Problems and Solutions, Sarah Blake (York University)
Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies Panel
Ptolemy I Soter: A Self-Made Man
Sheila Ager (University of Waterloo), organizer and presider
1. Kings Don’t Lie: Truthtelling and Ptolemy I. Timothy Howe (St. Olaf College)
2. Ptolemy I Soter: A Man of His Own Creation. Waldemar Heckel (University of Calgary)
3. Ptolemy the Reckless: the Son of Lagos’ Actions in the Early Years Following Alexander the Great’s Death. Edward Anson (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
4. Numismatic Evidence for the Character of Ptolemy I. Catharine Lorber (Independent Scholar)
5. Building a Dynasty: the Families of Ptolemy I Soter. Sheila Ager (University of Waterloo)
Senecan Materialism(s): Stoic Physics or the Agency of Matter in the Writings of Seneca the Younger
Clifford A. Robinson (University of the Sciences), organizer
Michael Goyette (Brooklyn College), presider
1. Effects of Place in Senecan Tragedy. Lisl Walsh (Beloit College)
2. Writing to Realization: Seneca’s 30th Epistle. Scott Lepisto (University of Southern California)
3. Visualization, Emotions, and Understanding in Senecan Exempla. Laury Ward (Hillsdale College)
4. The Materiality of the Voice in Stoic Thought and Seneca’s Personae of Claudius. Clifford A. Robinson (University of the Sciences)
5. Response. Michael Goyette (Brooklyn College)
Styling the Past: Ancient and Classical Motifs in Fashion and Popular Media
Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico), organizer and presider
1, Greeking Women’s Fashion from 1795 to 1863. Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University)
2. Cleopatra, Egypt, and Early Twentieth-Century Female Dress. Kelly Olson (University of Western Ontario)
3. Illusion and Reality: Historical Costume and Everyday Fashion. Margaret Toscano (University of Utah)
4. Designing Lizpatra (1963): The Vision and Influence of Irene Sharaff. Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico)
5. The Shadow of Cleopatra’s Eyes. Anise K. Strong (Western Michigan University)
CPL Panel
Testing Classical Languages and Culture in the 21st Century
Jennifer S. Moss (Wayne State University), organizer and presider
1. Testing as a Part of Genuine Assessment in a High School Language Class. Keely Lake (Wayland Academy)
2. Testing in a College Language Classroom. Jennifer S. Moss (Wayne State University)
3. Assessment from an Instructional Design and Learning Science Perspective. Jaclyn Dudek (Pennsylvania State University)
Translation in Late Antiquity
Andrew T. Faulkner (University of Waterloo), organizer and presider
1. Allusion and Translation: Translating Poetry and Poets in Claudian’s Panegyric for Probinus and Olybrius. Joshua Hartman (University of Waterloo)
2. Jacob of Sarug’s Poem on the Forty Martyrs and Late Antique Syriac Translation Technique. Jeffrey Wickes (Saint Louis University)
3. Paraphrase as Exegesis: Greek Biblical Poetry. Andrew Faulkner (University of Waterloo)
NCLG Panel
What’s a Seal of Biliteracy and What Does It Have to Do with Me?
Mary Pendergraft (Wake Forest University), organizer and presider
1. Current Status of the Seal of Biliteracy. Mary Pendergraft (Wake Forest University)
2. History of the Seal of Biliteracy and National Guidelines, Edward Zarrow (Westwood High School)
3. The Seal of Biliteracy and Classroom Implications. Christopher Mural (Adlai E. Stevenson High School)
GSIC Workshop
We’ve Got Issues: Understanding Graduate Student Needs on Campus and Beyond
Wesley J. Wood, University of Colorado, organizer and presider
Samuel Hahn, University of Colorado Boulder, presenter
CPL Workshop
Fun Fosters the Future: Students as Advocates
Keely Lake, Wayland Academy, organizer and presider
Amy Leonard, Grady High School, presenter