PROGRAM
THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE ATLANTIC
STATES
Doubletree Hotel Downtown, Wilmington, Delaware
October
8-10, 2009
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PROGRAM |
| Thursday, October 8 | Friday, October 9 | Saturday, October 10 |
Program Committee
Michael Arnush, Skidmore College
Sulochana Asirvatham, Montclair State University
Henry Bender, The Hill School and Saint Joseph's University, CAAS Past President
Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University, Hahn Scholarship Committee Chair
Raymond Capra, Seton Hall University, CAAS Director for Northern New Jersey
Mark Clauser, Easton Area High School, CAAS Director for Eastern Pennsylvania
Nathan Costa, Saint Andrew's School, CAAS Director for Delaware
Phyllis Culham, United States Naval Academy, CAAS First Vice-President
Nicolas Gross, University of Delaware, CAAS Past President
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park, CAAS Past President and Program Coordinator
Shelley P. Haley, Hamilton College
William Klingshirn, The Catholic University of America, CAAS Past President
Maria S. Marsilio, Saint Joseph's University
Dawn Mitchell, Dulaney High School, CAAS Director for Maryland
Janet M. Martin, Princeton University
David J. Murphy, The Nightingale-Bamford School, CAAS President
Barbara Pavlock, Lehigh University, CAAS Secretary
John H. Starks, Jr., Binghamton University, Director for Central and Western New York
Karin Suzadail, Owen J. Roberts High School, Delegate, American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Sarolta Takács, Rutgers University, CAAS Second Vice-President
Schedule of Events
Thursday, October 8,
2009
| 4:00-5:30 PM (Executive Board Room) |
Meeting of the 2008-2009 Finance Committee |
| 6:00-7:30 PM (Executive Board Room) |
Dinner Meeting of the 2008-2009 Executive Committee |
| 8:00-9:00 PM | Packet pick-up for preregistrants (Salon C). Vendors may set up displays. |
| 8:00-10:00 PM (Salon E) |
Meeting of the 2008-2009 CAAS Board of Directors |
| 8:00-10:00 PM | Panel
A: Pictures from Our Exhibitors: Perspectives on the Study of Classics
from the “Infrastructure.” Henry Bender and Maria Marsilio
presiding Discussants: Adam Blistein (American Philological Association); Martha Davis, Temple University (Eta Sigma Phi); Haze Humbert (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers; comments were read by presider); Donald Sprague (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers). |
| 8:00 AM-12:00 noon | Registration (Salon C Foyer) |
| 8:00 AM-6:00 PM | Book Display (Salon C) |
| 8:30-10:00 AM (Salon D) |
Panel
B: Imaging the Journey of Death in the Ancient Greek World HyoSil Suzy Hwang (University of Maryland, College Park) presiding Playing for Eternity: A New Interpretation of the Kazanluk Tomb Brighton Hanson (University of Maryland, College Park) Fathoming the Eschatological Significance of the Tomb of the Diver HyoSil Suzy Hwang Glorious Sons of Gods: Visualizing the Afterlife in Early Fifth-Century Athens Abram Fox (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| 8:30-10:00 AM (Salon E) |
Paper
Session A: Caesar, Vergil and Later Latin Literature John H. Starks, Jr. presiding Laomedontiades, Laomedonteus, and Laomedontius in Vergil John Jacobs (Loyola University) A Caesarean Formula: Cyclical Behavior in Lucan Howard Chen (Columbia University) Vergilian Allusions in Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus Scott Sobolewski (University at Buffalo) |
| 10:00-10:30 AM (Salon C) |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM-12:00
noon (Salon F) |
Panel
C: Workshop on Chorodidaskalizing Pindar: Getting Ready to Dance! led by Mark Miner The focus of this workshop will be on RHYTHM, letting pitch accent and emotion take care of themselves. We will work on meter and grammar, culminating in an actual choral rehearsal. By the end of the session, the participants should be humming Pindar's lines to themselves and should feel ready to start working on dance. This activity will be fast-paced, noisy, dramatic, emotional, and strongly rhythmical. Participation will be expected. |
| 10:30 AM-12:00
noon (Salon D) |
Paper
Session B: Classical Receptions in Multiple Media Janet M. Martin and Karin Suzadail presiding Dancing in the Steps of the Ancients Stacie Raucci (Union College) “Drained into the New Trench”: Classical Reception and the Poetry of Reginald Gibbons James Bradley Wells (Hamilton College) Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic: Classical Reception and Barbie Liz Gloyn (Rutgers University) |
| 12:00-1:30 PM (Salon Winterthur) |
Luncheon Buffet: Second Vice President Sarolta Takács
presiding Latin poem honoring Judith P. Hallett, CAAS Past President and Program Coordinator, presented by David J. Murphy. |
| 1:30-3:30 PM (Salon F) |
Panel
D: How to Manage Difficult Conversations in Classics
Classrooms Lillian Doherty (University of Maryland, College Park) and Nancy Rabinowitz (Hamilton College) presiding Panelists: Shelley Haley (Hamilton College); Keely Lake (Wayland Academy); James Bradley Wells (Hamilton College) |
| 1:30-3:30 PM (Salon D) |
Paper
Session C: Roman History Mark Clauser and Phyllis Culham presiding Livia and Agrippina (and Tanaquil) Again Eric A. Parks (Clark University) Redefining the Spolia Opima: A New Interpretation of the Ancient Sources Sean Lake (Seton Hall University) Stealing Hannibal's Thunder: Coopting and Recasting of “Hannibal's” Words in Cicero, Horace and Juvenal John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University SUNY) The Sport of Gladiatorial Combat Roger Dunkle (Brooklyn College) |
| 1:30-3:30 PM (Salon E) |
Paper
Session D: Greek Poetry and Philosophy Sulochana Asirvatham and Barbara Pavlock presiding On the formulaic and non-formulaic use of Olbios in Homer and later poets Raymond Capra (Seton Hall University) Xenophanes' Theology: The Language of Homer in the Service of Philosophy Patrick Lake (The Hill School) Was Parmenides a True Poet? E.F. Beall Visual Poetics in Three Poems of the Anacreontea Ippokratis Kantzios (University of South Florida) |
| 3:30-4:00 PM (Salon C) |
Coffee Break |
| 4:00-6:00 PM (Salon F) |
Panel
E: Workshop on Creating and Teaching Latin Song Lyrics Judith P. Hallett presiding Presenters: Stanley Farrow (David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute, Ontario); Mary C. Moshos (South County Secondary School, Lorton, Virginia); John H. Starks, Jr. Presenters will share their strategies for creating Latin lyrics to popular songs in English, solicit constructive critical feedback from workshop participants, and discuss how they integrate these songs into the Latin classroom at various levels. Copies of the songs will be provided in both English and Latin. Group singing will be a vital part of the session, and preparation for perhaps performing one or two of the songs at the Friday dinner or a post-dinner sing-along. |
| 4:00-6:00 PM (Salon D) |
Paper
Session E: The Classical Athenians and their Literature Frederick Booth and David J. Murphy presiding Creating a Space for Politics: Aristophanes' Assembly of Women Lewis Trelawny-Cassity (Binghamton University, SUNY) Frank Speech and the Psychology of Shame in Athenian Oratory Andrew Scholtz (Binghamton University, SUNY) Theories of Logoi in Isocrates: A Case Study Alison Traweek (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 4:00-6:00 PM (Salon E) |
Paper
Session F: No Laughing, Just Grief: Classical Sorrowing in Public and
Private Nathan Costa and Sarolta Takács presiding Black Bile and Serotonin: A Comparison of Ancient and Modern Concepts of Depression Michael Goyette (Graduate Center, City University of New York) Models of Mourning: The Iconography of Female Lamentation after Solon's Legislation Lara Yeager (University of Maryland, College Park) From Widows to Witches: Women and the Aftermath of Battle in the Greco-Roman Literary Imagination Marian W. Makins (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 6:00-6:30 PM (Longwood/Winterthur Foyer) |
Reception/Cash Bar |
| 6:30-9:00 PM (Salon Winterthur) |
Buffet Dinner: First Vice President Phyllis Culham
presiding Ovatio honoring Ann R. Raia (The College of New Rochelle), CAAS Past President, presented by Maria Marsilio. Presentation by Jennifer Muslin (University at Buffalo, SUNY), 2009 Hahn Scholarship winner. Latin songs with Stan Farrow at the piano. |
| 8:00 AM-12:00 noon | Registration (Salon C Foyer) |
| 8:00 AM-1:00 PM | Book Display (Salon C) |
| 8:30-10:30 AM (Salon E) |
Panel
F: Classics and the Great Books Judith P. Hallett and Alex Beam (The Boston Globe) presiding Humanities, Classics and the Great Books at a Large State Institution Jean Alvares (Montclair State University) Why There's No Latin at St. John's College H. Christian Blood (University of California, Santa Cruz) Models for Studying the Great Books: Tradition vs. Reception Michael Broder (Graduate Center, City University of New York) Great Books or General Education at the University of Chicago? Owen Cramer (Colorado College) The Great Books in the Pre-Collegiate Curriculum James Pezzulo (Classical Magnet School, Hartford, CT) |
| 8:30-10:30 AM (Salon D) |
Panel
G: Challenges, Accomplishments, and a View to the Future: New Latin
Teachers Share Their Experiences Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) and Kathleen Grandinetti (Williamsburg Charter High School, NY) presiding Docendo Discitur: The [New] Teacher as Learner Kathleen Grandinetti What Was I Thinking? First Impressions on Entering the Latin Teaching Profession as a “Mature” Beginner Carol Russell Condos (Edgemont Junior/Senior High School, NY) Learning from Elementary Ed: Reading Strategies for Latin at the Middle-School Level Michelle Gerard (Seven Bridges Middle School, NY) |
| 10:30-11:00 AM (Salon C) |
Coffee Break . |
| 11:00 AM-1:00 PM (Salon D) |
Panel H: Matching Your Latin Textbook to the Level of Your
Students David J. Murphy presiding Let's Read Using Bolchazy-Carducci's Transitional Readers David J. Murphy Building Strong Readers of Latin Donald Sprague (Kennedy-King College, City Colleges of Chicago and Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers) Advanced Latin Readers for Today's (College) Students Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) Supplementing Your Latin Textbook in Grades Seven, Eight and Nine Jane Shapiro (The Nightingale-Bamford School) |
| 11:00 AM-1:00 PM (Salon E) |
Paper Session G: Pragmatic Pedagogy Raymond Capra and Shelley Haley presiding Using Current Events in Archaeology to Encourage Significant Learning Marice Rose (Fairfield University) Apollonius, King of Tyre: The Perfect Intermediate Text Deborah Lemieur (St. Joseph's University) Administering the National Latin Exam in College Liane Houghtalin (University of Mary Washington) |
| 1:00-2:30 PM (Salon Winterthur) |
Buffet
Luncheon and CAAS Business Meeting: CAAS President David J. Murphy
presiding Ovatio honoring Adam Blistein (American Philological Association), presented by Barbara F. McManus (The College of New Rochelle), CAAS Past President and Webmaster. Speaker: Alex Beam (The Boston Globe), “Classics for Sale: Mortimer Adler, Robert Hutchins and the Hyping of Chicago's Great Books” Business Meeting of the Association; Election of Officers and Directors |
| 2:30-4:30 PM (Salon E) |
Panel
I: Remembering John Hunt (1943-2008) David J. Califf (The Academy of Notre Dame), CAAS Newsletter Editor, presiding Reflections on Professor John Mortimer Hunt, Jr. Henry Bender (The Hill School and Saint Joseph's University) John Hunt and Ovid David J. Califf The Medieval Tradition of Macrobius's Saturnalia Robert Kaster (Princeton University) On a Hymn to Apollo in Porphyry Robert Renehan (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| 2:30-4:30 PM (Salon D) |
Paper
Session H: Scholarship on the Horizon: Undergraduate Research in
Classical Studies Maria Marsilio and Sarolta Takács presiding The Depiction of Archers in Archaic and Classical Attic Vase Painting: A Closer Look Kathryn Mammel (Dartmouth College): Paul Christesen, Professor The Socratic Method: Divinely Inspired? Leo Hunt (Seton Hall University): Raymond Capra, Professor The Reception of Phanocles at Vergil, Georgics 4.507-27 Joseph Dexter (Dartmouth College/Princeton University): Pramit Chaudhuri, Professor Slaughter at Teutoburg: An Examination of How to Respond to an Insurgency Marc Cardwell (United States Naval Academy): Phyllis Culham, Professor Boo Who? A New Reading of Pliny, Epistles 7.27 Laura Dlugacz (St. Joseph's University): Maria Marsilio, Professor |
| 4:30-6:30 PM (Salon F) |
Meeting of the 2009-2010 CAAS Board of Directors |