PROGRAM
THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE ATLANTIC
STATES
THE NEW JERSEY CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION
Hilton Newark
Airport Hotel, Elizabeth, New Jersey
October 7-9, 2010
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PROGRAM |
| Thursday, October 7 | Friday, October 8 | Saturday, October 9 |
Program Committee
Henry Bender, The Hill School and Saint Joseph's University, CAAS past President, Program Coordinator
Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University, Hahn Scholarship Committee Chair
Raymond Capra, Seton Hall University, CAAS Director for Northern New Jersey
Mark Clauser, CAAS Director for Eastern Pennsylvania
Nathan Costa, Saint Andrew's School, CAAS Director for Delaware
Phyllis Culham, United States Naval Academy, CAAS President
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park, CAAS past President and past Program Coordinator
Karen Hersch, Temple University
William Klingshirn, The Catholic University of America, CAAS past President
David J. Murphy, The Nightingale-Bamford School, CAAS Officer-at-Large
Barbara Pavlock, Lehigh University, CAAS Secretary
Lee Pearcy, Episcopal Academy, CAAS past President
Ann R. Raia, The College of New Rochelle, CAAS past President
Karin Suzadail, Owen J. Roberts High School, CAAS ACTFL Delegate
Sarolta Takács, The Sage Colleges, CAAS First Vice President
Schedule of Events
Thursday, October 7,
2010
| 4:00-5:30 PM (Room TBA) |
Meeting of the 2009-2010-9 Finance Committee |
| 6:00-7:30 PM (Room TBA) |
Dinner Meeting of the 2009-2010 Executive Committee |
| 8:00-9:00 PM (Elizabeth A) |
Packet pick-up for preregistrants. Vendors may set up displays. |
| 8:00-10:00 PM (Room TBA) |
Meeting of the 2009-2010 CAAS Board of Directors |
| 7:30-10:00 PM (Junior Ballroom - Peterstown) |
Panel
A: A Musical Evening in Honor of David Porter. Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park) presiding Vocal Performance of Selected Works with Classical Themes Liz Gloyn (Rutgers University) Behind Poppea's Veil: Sight, Sound and Imperial Erotics in L'Incoronazione di Poppea Wendy Heller (Princeton University) Cretan Adventures in Song: The Reception and Appropriations of Classical Antiquity in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Idomeneo (1781) Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open University, UK) Opera as Song Cycle: Melody in Mikis Theodorakis' Elektra Andrew Simpson (The Catholic University of America) On the Divide: a Classicist/Musician Who Refused to Grow Up David Porter (Skidmore College) |
| 8:00 AM-12:00
noon (Room TBA) |
Registration |
| 8:00 AM-4:00
PM (Elizabeth A) |
Book Display |
| 8:00-10:00 AM (Junior Ballroom - Peterstown) |
Panel
B: Redefining Boundaries: Geriatrics, Gender, and Geography in
Hellenistic Art. Alexandra Libby (University of Maryland, College Park) presiding The ‘Stinking, Toothless, Sex-Crazed Fellatrix’: Cultural Stereotype in Dionysiac Sculpture Alexandra Libby Purification, Revelation, Flagellation: Snapshots of a Roman Woman in the Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii Nicole Riesenberger (University of Maryland, College Park) “A Greek Alter Ego”: Interpreting Hellenistic and Buddhist Counterparts in the Altarpiece from Tepe Shotor Madeline Gent (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| 8:00-10:00 AM (Junior Ballroom - Meadows) |
Paper
Session A: Classical Reception. Ann R. Raia (The College of New Rochelle) and Janet M. Martin (Princeton University) presiding “facilis descensus A-Verne-i?”: A Journey to the Classical Center of a Scientific Epic Benjamin Stevens (Bard College) “Our Empire is Your Empire”: Classical Reception at Caesars Palace, Atlantic City Marice Rose (Fairfield University) The Obliteration of Echo and Narcissus in the d'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (1962) Alison C. Poe (Fairfield University) & Aileen Hawkins (Sage Hill School, CA) Kapuscinski's Travels with Herodotus and Herodotus's Histories Jennifer T. Roberts (City College of New York) Alan Moore's Rome: Grand Central in Top Ten William S. Duffy (University at Buffalo) |
| 10:00-10:30 AM (Room TBA) |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM-12:30
PM (Junior Ballroom - Peterstown) |
Paper
Session B: Latin Literature of the Empire. Frederick J. Booth (Seton Hall University) and Barbara Pavlock (Lehigh University) presiding Rivers as a Model for Resistance in Lucan Howard S. Chen (Columbia University) An unpublished English translation of the Punica John Jacobs (The Montclair Kimberley Academy) Jason and Medea in Lucan's Bellum Civile Katherine Wasdin (Rutgers University) A maius monstrum? Seneca's Oedipus and Oracular Language Carrie Mowbray (University of Pennsylvania) “A, virgo infelix”: Pasiphae as an example of Servian Erotics Scott A. Sobolewski (University at Buffalo) |
| 10:30 AM-12:30
PM (Junior Ballroom - Seaport) |
Paper
Session C: Greek Literature. Lee Pearcy (Episcopal Academy) and Nathan Costa (Saint Andrew's School) presiding The Different Ideologies of Retreat in the Iliad and Archaic Elegy Cameron G. Pearson (City University of New York) The Language of Paris Leanna Boychenko (Yale University) More than a Mere Suasoria: Lucian's Phalaris Benjamin Haller (Virginia Wesleyan College) Problematic Endings in Plutus and Ecclesiazusae Daniel McLean (McMaster University) Alcaeus' Fragment 34a: Religious Hymn or Metaphor for Self? Katheryn Whitcomb (Rutgers University) |
| 10:30 AM-12:30
PM (Junior Ballroom - Meadows) |
Panel
C: Workshop on Professional Citizenship in Classics. Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park) presiding Commendaticae and Academic Citizenship Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona) Professional Citizenship: Academic Search Committees Maria S. Marsilio (Saint Joseph's University) Professional Citizenship: Making Ourselves Presentable Judith P. Hallett Respondents: Barbara F. McManus (The College of New Rochelle); Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania); Ralph Rosen University of Pennsylvania) |
| 12:30-1:30 PM (Riverside) |
Luncheon Buffet: Second Vice President Shelley P. Haley
(Hamilton College) presiding Ovatio honoring David Porter (Skidmore College), presented by Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park), CAAS past President. |
| 1:30-3:30 PM (Junior Ballroom - Peterstown) |
Paper
Session D: Hellenistic and Roman History. Phyllis Culham (United States Naval Academy) and Karen Hersch (Temple University) presiding Serving the Gods Together: Flamines and Flaminicae in Republican Rome Meghan DiLuzio (Princeton University) Why was Dion of Syracuse Exiled? Lionel J. Sanders (Concordia University) Sharing Center Stage: “Actresses' (In)Equity” in the Roman World John H. Starks, Jr. (Blegen Research Fellow, Vassar College) Catiline's Rhetoric: Quousque tandem patiemini? Joseph A. DiLuzio (The College of New Jersey) The Good King of Rome: Seneca's De Clementia Joshua A. Kinlaw (CUNY Graduate Center) |
| 1:30-3:30 PM (Junior Ballroom - Seaport) |
Paper
Session E: Technai Ancient and Modern. Barbara F. McManus (The College of New Rochelle), CAAS Webmaster and past President, and Mark Clauser (CAAS Director for Eastern Pennsylvania) presiding Classical Greek Independent Study: A Working Model Max Gabrielson (Wilton High School) “Romanes Eunt Domus”: Methods of Resistance and Rebellion on Roman State Reliefs Robyn Le Blanc (University of North Carolina) Configuring the Gorgon in Post-Archaic Art and Literature Jean Sorabella (independent scholar) Characteristics of Greek Engraved Mirrors Allison Eaton (independent scholar) El Medol: An Ancient Quarry on the Via Augusta in Hispania Tarraconensis Raymond Capra (Seton Hall University) |
| 1:30-3:30 PM (Junior Ballroom - Meadows) |
Panel
D: Classics in Children's Literature. Valentina DeNardis (Villanova University) presiding Capitalizing on the Classics: Percy Jackson and the Merging of Mythology and Pop Culture Valentina DeNardis “A Girl Who Was Raped Away”: Persephone's Fate in Myth Books for Children Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania) & Deborah Roberts (Haverford College) Spinning Homeric Fairy Tales: Reconfiguring Homer for Children in the 20th Century Adrienne Kiki Aranita (Bryn Mawr College) Et Incipiunt Fabulae: The Tradition of Translating Children's Literature into Latin Melanie Subacus (New York University) |
| 4:00 PM | Departure for Newark Museum and Clack Lecture |
| 5:00
PM (Engelhard Court, Newark Museum) |
Reception in Honor of Jerry Clack |
| 6:00
PM (Engelhard Court, Newark Museum) |
Clack Lecture: W. Robert Connor (Senior Advisor to the Teagle Foundation, formerly Director of the National Humanities Center and Professor of Classics at Princeton), “We Must Call the Classics before a Jury of the Shipwrecked: What Classics Can Do Now.” |
| 8:00
PM (Elizabeth B & C) |
Buffet Dinner: First Vice President Sarolta Takács (The
Sage Colleges) presiding Ovatio honoring Janet M. Martin (Princeton University), presented by Barbara K. Gold (Hamilton College), CAAS past President. Presentation by Jennifer A. Larson (Mount Saint Mary's Academy), 2010 Hahn Scholarship winner. |
| 8:00 AM-12:00
noon (Room TBA) |
Registration |
| 8:00 AM-1:00
PM (Elizabeth A) |
Book Display |
| 8:30-10:30 AM (Junior Ballroom - Peterstown) |
Paper
Session F: Latin literature from Catullus to Ovid. Barbara K. Gold (Hamilton College) and Karin Suzadail (Owen J. Roberts High School) presiding The Little Boat Speaks: Personification and Catullus Poem 4 Jared Simard (CUNY Graduate Center) Turn a White Shade of Pale: Color-Term Sequences in Tibullus' Elegies Rachael B. Goldman (CUNY Graduate Center) Altera Templa: Ovid's Strategic Topography in Tristia 3.1 Lisa Whitlatch (Rutgers University) The Arachne Debacle — A Complex Metamorphosis Andrew Hagerty (CUNY Graduate Center) Poetic Authority and Shipwreck in Horace's Carmen 1.5 Christopher Vacca (Bryn Mawr College) |
| 8:30-10:30 AM (Junior Ballroom - Seaport) |
Panel
E: et prodesse volunt et delectare magistri. David J. Califf (Academy of Notre Dame), CAAS Newsletter Editor, presiding Ars Gratia Caesaris: One Teacher's Success Reading the Bellum Gallicum Michael Nerdahl (University of Richmond) Writing Latin David J. Califf occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros: Making Latin Palatable James C. McKeown (University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
| 8:30-10:30 AM (Junior Ballroom - Meadows) |
Panel
F: The Word Became Flesh: Reading Material and Visual Culture in Ovid's
Metamorphoses. Jennifer L. Muslin (University at Buffalo/University of Texas Austin) presiding Ovid's Corpus: Daphne, Apollo (Met. 1.452-567), and Roman Book Culture Robert W. McCutcheon (University of Toronto) The Memory Remains: Object Lessons in the Monumenta of Ovid's Metamorphoses Jennifer L. Muslin Queering the Locus Amoenus in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Roman House David Fredrick (University of Arkansas) |
| 8:30AM-2:30
PM (Elizabeth B) |
The New Jersey Classical Association Meeting |
| 10:30-11:00 AM (Room TBA) |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 AM-1:00
PM (Junior Ballroom - Peterstown) |
Panel G: Getting in Touch with the Force: The Power of
Classical Antiquity in Star Wars, Red River, and the Films of
Alfred Hitchcock. Carl A. Rubino (Hamilton College), CAAS past President, presiding From Homer to Howard Hawkes: Epic Connections in Red River Kirsten Day (Augustana College) Patterns of Myth in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock Mark W. Padilla (Christopher Newport University) Long Ago, but not so Far Away: Star Wars and the Ancient World Carl A. Rubino |
| 11:00 AM-1:00
PM (Junior Ballroom - Seaport) |
Panel H: Thornton Wilder and the Classics. Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park) presiding The Survival of the Pagan Gods: Wilder, The Cabala and Percy Jackson Martha Davis (Temple University) Terence and Wilder's The Woman of Andros Mathias Hanses (Columbia University) As History Gets Wilder: The Novelist's Challenge to the Historian Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) Thornton Wilder and Louise Talma: Transforming Greek Tragedy into Contemporary Opera Mary English (Montclair University) |
| 11:00 AM-1:00
PM (Junior Ballroom - Meadows) |
Paper Session G: Greek History and Philosophy. David J. Murphy (The Nightingale-Bamford School) and Sarolta Takács (The Sage Colleges) presiding On the Role of Chora and Paradeigma in Plato's Legislative Craftsmanship Lewis Trelawny-Cassity (Binghamton University SUNY) The Rhetoric of Manhood in Plato's Gorgias Andrew Scholtz (Binghamton University SUNY) A New Fragment of Sophocles? An Unidentified Quotation of Sophocles' Krisis in Plato's Republic Patrick G. Lake (The Hill School/Fordham University) Gender-Based Differential Morbidity and Moral Teaching in Seneca's Epistulae Morales Tommaso Gazzarri (Yale University) Focalization in Thucydides 1.127 Sarah B. Ferrario (The Catholic University of America) |
| 1:00-2:30 PM (Newarker) |
Buffet
Luncheon and CAAS Business Meeting: CAAS President Phyllis Culham
presiding Ovatio honoring David J. Murphy (The Nightingale-Bamford School), CAAS past President, presented by Ann R. Raia (The College of New Rochelle), CAAS past President. Business Meeting of the Association; Election of Officers and Directors |
| 2:30-4:30 PM (Junior Ballroom - Peterstown) |
Panel
I: Reception of Greek and Roman Drama in Latin America. Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (St. Joseph's University) presiding Introduction Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos Leopoldo Marechal's Antígona Velez and the Argentinization of Sophoclean Myth Anibal Biglieri (University of Kentucky) In Defense of the Dead: Griselda Gambaro's Antígona Furiosa Nancy Poulson (Florida Atlantic University) Cruelty and the Avant-Garde: Alfonso Reyes, the Teatro de Orientación, and the First Adaptations of Greek Tragedy on the Mexican stage Francisco Barrenechea (Bryn Mawr College) Seneca in the Caribbean: José Triana's Medea in the Mirror and the Issue of Race in Pre- Revolutionary Cuban Society Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos |
| 2:30-4:30 PM (Junior Ballroom - Seaport) |
Panel
J: New Approaches to Sex, Gender, and Kinship in Classical
Antiquity. Michael Broder (CUNY Graduate Center) presiding Gender Complementarity in Livy's First Book Meredith E. Safran (Brooklyn College) Porneia and Kinaidia: Failures of Masculine Virtue in Aeschines' Against Timarkhos Julia P. Shapiro (University of Michigan) Transgender and Intersex Issues in Antiquit H. Christian Blood (University of California, Santa Cruz) Clytemnestra and Female Masculinity in Aeschylus' Agamemnon Lily Kelting (University of California, San Diego) Respondent: Heather Vincent (Eckerd College) |
| 2:30-4:30 PM (Junior Ballroom - Meadows) |
Panel
K: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Environment, and Ethics in the
Classics Curriculum. Stacie Raucci (Union College) presiding Discussants: Randall Childree, Kristen Gentile, Doug Klein, Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Cherrice Traver, Tarik Wareh (all from Union College) |
| 4:30-6:30 PM (Room TBA) |
Meeting of the 2009-2010 CAAS Board of Directors |