48th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest
Friday, March 9, 2018
Reception & Registration: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. (Tahoma Room, Thomas Hall)
Keynote Lecture: 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Professor Joy Connolly (Provost of the Graduate Center, CUNY)
"The Post-Liberal Arts: Citizenship in a World Not Chosen"
(Tahoma Room, Thomas Hall)
Saturday, March 10, 2018
All talks in Wyatt Hall. All lunchtime events in Thomas Hall.
Registration: 7:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. (Atrium, Wyatt Hall)
Session I: 8:30 - 10 a.m.
Panel A: Thucydides
- Thucydides' Arkhe & the Theory of Imperialism
Eric Driscoll, UC Berkeley - Thucydides and the "School" of War
Ellen Millender, Reed College - Destructive Fluidity in Thucydides' History
Anthony Vivian, UCLA
Panel B: Ovid
- (Re)dewing Sappho: A Reading of Heroides XV
Christopher Jelen, UC Berkeley - Philomela's Woven Tongue
Aislinn Melchior, University of Puget Sound - Orpheus and Ceres in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10.1-80
Charles Carver, University of Washington
Panel C: Greek Philosophy
- Why did Socrates fail to persuade the jury? Or why Socrates is not a Socratic citizen
Andreas Avgousti, University of Washington - "What a Woman Does": Women in Plato's Republic
Allen Kendall, Brigham Young University - The Emergence of Life and its Consequences for the Unity of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
Malcolm Wilson, University of Oregon
Panel D: Classical Receptions
- Thomas Heywood and the Comedies of Plautus
C.W. Marshall, University of British Columbia - Thoreau's Luminous Homer
Luke Parker, University of Chicago - "Not just another stupid crappy boring thing": the audience reception of USA's Helen of Troy
Ruby Blondell, University of Washington
Coffee: 10 - 10:30 a.m.
Session II: 10:30 a.m. - Noon
Panel A: Greek History
- Who Invited Them?: Politics, Feasts, and Intra-Group Relations
Jessica Romney, University of Victoria - Socially Peripheral, Symbolically Central: The Doctor in Fifth-Century Greece
Nigel Nicholson, Reed College - Gorgos of Iasos and the resettlement of exiles in the fourth century BCE
Randall Souza, Seattle University
Panel B: Latin Epic
- Lucretius' Visualization of the Divine at DRN 3.9-30
Christopher Eckerman, University of Oregon - Wanted: Dead and Alive? The Underworld Descents of Amphiaraus and Oedipus
Dianne Boetsch, Bryn Mawr College - Christian Polemic and Lucretian Allusion in Corippus' Iohannis
Matthew Gorey, Bucknell University
Panel C: Digital Classics
- Using Digital Technology in Teaching a Course on Classical Antiquity and Film
Ortwin Knorr, Willamette University - Integrating Digital Scholarship in to the Undergraduate Classics Curriculum
Beth Platte, Reed College - Creating a Database for Scholarship in Classical Receptions of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Kara Ann Lamar, University of Puget Sound
Panel D: Archaelogical Hybrids
- Greek or Not: Cultural Hybridity in Jandial Temple C
Jonathan Kerr, University of Oregon - Archaic and Classical Poetry from the Sinop Kale Excavations, 2015-17
Ulrike Krotscheck, The Evergreen State College - Join Panel E for E3
Panel E: Liminal Spaces
- Beyond Pucci's LIMEN: Propertius and the Roman Republic
Barbara Weinlich, University of Montana - The Alps as Katabasis: Landscape and Liminality in Livy Book 21
Benjamin Davis, University of Oregon - Exploring an Urban Liminal Zone in Ancient Sinope (2015-17)
Andrew Goldman, Gonzaga University
Lunch & Round Tables: Noon - 2 p.m. (Tahoma Room, Thomas Hall)
CAPN Business Meeting: 1 - 2 p.m. (Conference Room, Thomas Hall)
Session III: 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Panel A: Greek Drama
- "Aspasia, Cratinus, and Hesiod Walk into a Bar...": Marital Invective in Cratinus's Cheirons"
Sarah Breitenfeld, University of Washington - The Wise Should Fly from War: Cassandra's Just War Theory in Euripedes' Troades
Celsiana Warwick, UCLA - The City Dionysia and Te Maeva Nui
Hallie Marshall, University of British Columbia
Panel B: Silver Latin
- Marching to Rome with Rhetor?: A Contextual Approach to Quintilian and Galba
Kyle Helms, University of Puget Sound - The Villas of Pliny and Statius
Christopher Chinn, Pomona College - The Appearance of Coined Money in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars
Elliott Piros, UCLA
Panel C: Pedagogy
- Gamified Etymology in Grades 1-12: An Experiment
Akiva Saunders, CUNY Latin/Greek Institute - Moretum in the Classroom
Mary Jaeger, University of Oregon - The National Committee for Latin and Greek: Your Voice in Washington--and at Home
Mary Pendergraft, Wake Forest University
Panel D: Material Culture
- Where the garbage flows: curating refuse in the Roman city
Kevin Dicus, University of Oregon - Feather fans, moon fans, and folding fans: fashion and the Silk Road
Karen Carr, Portland State University - Tales of Cypriote Ceramics on the West Coast (Washington, Oregon, and California)
Ann Nicgorski, Willamette University
Panel E: Violence & the Body
- Domingo Aviles, Simon Fraser University
- The Torture of Prometheus
David Mirhady, Simon Fraser University - Cicero and the Embodiment of His Reception
Kathryn Stutz, University of Puget Sound
Coffee Break: 3:30 - 4 p.m.
Session IV: 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Panel A: Iliad
- The Comparison of Clytemnestra and Chryseis in Iliad I
Anna Simas, University of Washington - Simile and Ornament at Iliad 4.140-147
Megan O'Donald, University of Washington - The Size of Heroes in the Iliad
Matthew Horrell, University of Iowa
Panel B: Latin Lyric
- Lesbius, Gellius, and Catullus: Rivals for the Lesbian Muse
Daniel Conner, University of Washington - Seeing Teucer Doubled: Ambiguity and Prophecy in Odes 1.7
Edgar Adrian Garcia, University of Washington - What Not to Wear: Dress and Romanness in Latin Invective Poetry
E.V. Mulhern, Temple University
Panel C: Roman History
- The Figure of Numa Pompilius in Augustan Literature and in the Roman Antiquities of Dionysus of Halicarnassus (2.58-76)
Beatrice Poletti, University of Alberta - Ap. Claudius Caecus and the Elevation of the Roman Censorship
Cary Barber, University of Oregon - The Roman Empire Turned Inside Out: Senatorial Embassies to Provincial Courts in the Fourth Century CE
Robert Chenault, Willamette University
Panel D: Speculative Receptions
- Listening to Cassandra: The Reception of Greek Myth in Watership Down
Laura Zientek, Brigham Young University - Personhood beyond Plato in Jo Walton's The Just City (2014)
Benjamin Eldon Stevens Trinity University (TX) - Ovid's Exile Poetry and Zombies
Stephen Hinds, University of Washington