THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE ATLANTIC STATES
PROGRAM: FALL 2014 MEETING
The Washington Marriott at Metro Center
775 12th Street NW, Washington DC
Program Committee
Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY, CAAS First VicePresident
Jessica Anderson, Maspeth High School
Sulochana Asirvatham, Montclair State University, Director for New York City and Long
Island
Henry V. Bender, The Hill School and Saint Joseph’s University, CAAS Past President
and past Program Coordinator
Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University, CAAS Past President
Michael Broder, Independent Scholar
Mary Brown, Valley Forge Military Academy and College, CAAS Executive Director
Deborah Carter, Linganore High School, Director for Maryland
Kathleen Durkin, Maspeth High School, Delegate to the American Council for the
Teaching of Foreign Languages
Thomas Falkner, McDaniel College
Barbara K. Gold, Hamilton College, CAAS Past President
Shelley Haley, Hamilton College, CAAS Past President
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park, CAAS Past President and
Program Coordinator
John Jacobs, Montclair Kimberley Academy, CAAS Treasurer
Joshua Kinlaw, Graduate Center, CUNY
Janet M. Martin, Princeton University, CAAS President
Thomas McCreight, Loyola University, Maryland, CAAS Second Vice-President
Barbara Pavlock, Lehigh University, CAAS Secretary
Lee T. Pearcy, Bryn Mawr College, CAAS Past President and Co-Editor, Classical
World
Victoria Pedrick, Georgetown University
Ann R. Raia, The College of New Rochelle, CAAS Past President
Norman Sandridge, Howard University, Director for Washington, DC
Andrew Scholtz, Binghamton University SUNY
John H. Starks, Jr., Binghamton University SUNY
Karin Suzadail, Owen J. Roberts High School, Investment Liaison
Kathryn Williams, Canisius College, Director for Central and Western New York
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014
4:00 pm-6:00 pm
Registration
Junior Ballroom Foyer
5:00 pm-5:30 pm
Potomac Room
Meeting of the 2013-2014 Finance Committee
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5:30 pm-7:30 pm
Potomac Room
Dinner Meeting of the 2013-2014 Executive Committee
7:30 pm-9:30 pm
London II
Meeting of the 2013-2014 Board of Directors
7:30 pm-10:00 pm
Junior Ballroom
Salon 1
Panel One: Approaches to Philology Beyond
the Classical: Showing of the 2011 Academy-Award nominated
Israeli film Footnote followed by round-table discussion
Adam Blistein and Hanna Roisman presiding.
Eric Adler, University of Maryland, College Park; Adam Blistein,
Society for Classical Studies; Hanna Roisman, Colby College;
Joseph Roisman, Colby College; Eric Zakim, University of
Maryland, College Park
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014
7:30 am-8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:00 am-5 pm
Registration
Grand Ballroom
Registration Room
8:00 am-5:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
Foyer
Exhibits and Book Displays
8:30 am-10:30 am
Salon D
Panel Two: Funding and Project Support for Classicists
Sarah Ferrario, The Catholic University of America,
and Barbara Gold presiding
CAAS Grant Programs
Carl A. Rubino, Hamilton College, and Barbara Gold
Preparing Competitive Grant Proposals
Lilla Kopar and Jennifer Davis, The Catholic University of
America
The Fulbright Grant Programs and their Opportunities
Alina Hamden and Justin Hill (Senior Alumni Ambassador),
Fulbright Scholar Program
Getting Funded at NEH
Mary Downs, National Endowment for the Humanitie
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Salon A
Panel Three: Classical Reception for All? Teaching Reception
Studies in Today’s Classroom
Anastasia Bakogianni and Mary-Kay Gamel presiding
Communicating Ancient Greece and Rome via Film, Television,
Theater and More
Mary–Kay Gamel, University of California, Santa Cruz
Teaching Performance Reception at a Distance
Anastasia Bakogianni, University of London
Musical Appropriations of Classical Antiquity
Andrew Earle Simpson, Catholic University of America
Reception as Conception: Teaching Thorny Topoi in Lyrics
Ancient and Modern
T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University
Salon B
Paper Session A: Mediterranean Comedy in Context, Ancient
and Modern
Frederick Booth and Mary Brown presiding
Plautus’ Colorful Slaves and Women
Rachael Goldman, The College of New Jersey
Pseudolus at the Illinois Wesleyan University Megalenses:
Recreating Roman Comedy in Context
Nancy Sultan, Illinois Wesleyan University
Truculentus and the Abrogation of the Lex Oppia
Tommaso Gazzarri, Union College
Praksa, or Breaking Rule(s): Aristophanes, Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm, and
Egypt’s First “Broadway” Musical Comedy
John H. Starks, Jr., Binghamton University, SUNY
Salon C
Paper Session B: Gendered Perspectives on Greek and Latin
Literary Texts
Michael Broder and Janet M. Martin presiding
Not My Sister’s Keeper: Artemis and Apollo in Aeschylus and
Sophocles
Sarit Stern, Johns Hopkins University
From Adultery to Incest: Women as Sexual Aggressors in Roman
Literature
Vassiliki Panoussi, College of William and Mary
“They marvel at her as she moves”: Camilla and Vergil’s
‘Otherworldly’ Sense of ‘Wonder’
Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Bryn Mawr College
Roman Fragmentary Historians and Their Depiction of Women
Trudy Harrington Becker, Virginia Tech
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10:30 am-11:00 am Coffee Break and Refreshments
Grand Ballroom Foyer
11:00 am -1:00 pm
Salon D
Panel Four: Fostering Research on Gender
in Antiquity Across International Boundaries
Jacqueline Fabre Serris and Judith P. Hallett presiding
Addressing the Challenges of Research on Gender in Antiquity
Judith P. Hallett
How Gender Happens in Courses at Liberal Arts Colleges and in
Volumes Edited by a Feminist Scholar
Barbara K. Gold
Fostering Scholarship on Gender in Antiquity through the
EuGeStA Research Network
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Université de Lille
Forging Outside Connections
Alison Keith, University of Toronto
Response: Bonnie MacLachlan, University of Western
Ontario/Classical Association of Canada
Salon A
Panel Five: Ancient Iberia
Francisco Barrenechea, University of Maryland, College Park and
Raymond J. Capra, Seton Hall University presiding
The Greeks of Emporion and their Short Voyages
Raymond J. Capra, Seton Hall University
Images in Transit—Athenian Iconography in the Iberian Peninsula
during the Fourth Century BCE
Carmen Sanchez Fernandez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
and Diana Rodriguez Perez, University of Edinburgh
Rome Goes West: Roman Imperialism, Acculturation and the
Incorporation of Spain in the Second and First centuries BCE
Philip Myers, University of Birmingham
Revisiting Mela’s Description of the Mediterranean Coastline of
Spain and the Location of Tingentera
Frank Romer, East Carolina University
Salon B
Panel Six: Transformations of Sophocles in the Religious
Contexts of Antiquity and Beyond
Sarah Ferrario and William J. McCarthy presiding
Apollo and the Delphic Oracle in Sophocles’ and Seneca’s
Oedipus Plays
Patricia M. Craig, The Catholic University of America
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Sophocles’ eukolia, the Apotheosis of Oedipus, and Clement of
Alexandria’s Speculations on the Nature of Resurrected Bodies
William J. McCarthy, The Catholic University of America
Sophoclean and Euripidean Influence in the Poetry of Gregory of
Nazianzus
Matthew A.T. Poulos, The Catholic University of America
Redeeming Jocasta: How Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm Islamizes the
Character in his Oedipus the King
Karen Carducci, The Catholic University of America
Salon C
Paper Session C: Roman Literary Landscapes
Shelley Haley and Barbara Pavlock presiding
Architecture and Liminality in the Palatine Magna Mater
Sanctuary at Rome: A View from Lucretius and Catullus
Jennifer Muslin, University of Texas at Austin
Picturing Virgil’s Pastoral in Graphic Novel Style
John Van Sickle, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center,
CUNY
Landscapes of Loss in the Elegies of Propertius
Marian Makins, University of Pennsylvania
Servius and Jerome: Divergent Views of Late Antique Erotics
Scott Sobolewski, William Enloe Magnet High School
1:00 pm-2:30 pm
London I & II
Luncheon. Thomas McCreight presiding
Ovatio for Daniel Tompkins, Temple University, presented by
Donald Lateiner, Ohio Wesleyan University
2:30 pm -5:00 pm
Salon D
Panel Seven: Washington and Rome
Gregory Staley and Eric Adler presiding
Novus Ordo Seclorum
Gregory Staley, University of Maryland, College Park
Alpha Omega: The First and Last of the Romans
Brian Kelly, University of Maryland, College Park
Uncovering the Historic Sources of Brumidi’s Work at the U.S.
Capitol
Christiana Cunningham-Adams, Brumidi Conservation Project
Trajan’s Dacians, Union Station, and the Sculptural Landscape of
Washington DC
Elise A. Friedland, George Washington University
Rome and the Political Vision of the Revolutionary Generation
Margaret Malamud, New Mexico State University
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Salon A
Panel Eight: Alice Oswald’s “Memorial”: Perspectives on
Death and Remembrance
Carolin Hahnemann and Judson Herrman presiding
The first hour of the panel will be devoted to a reading of Alice
Oswald’s “Memorial” performed by T.H.M. Gellar-Goad,
Donald Lateiner and John H. Starks, Jr.
“Memorial” and Athenian War Monuments
Judson Herrman, Allegheny College
“Memorial” as a Modern War Monument
Carolin Hahnemann, Kenyon College
Mourning and “Memorial”
Corinne Pache, Trinity University
Leaving Similes
Yasuko Taoka, Southern Illinois University
Salon B
Paper Session D: Dimensions of Roman History
John Jacobs and Kathryn Williams presiding
The Scipios’ Black Sheep: Rex Sacrorum, Flamen Dialis and
Political Competition in the Middle Republic
Charles Goldberg, Syracuse University
Legal Latin in Roman Iberia
David Perry, University of Chicago
Pax and the Romans: A Complicated Relationship
Thomas McCreight
Monuments of Civil War in Tacitus’ Histories
Kali Grable, University at Buffalo, SUNY
A Suetonian Augustus: The Legacy of Suetonius’ Life of the
Divine Augustus in Julian’s Caesars
Brian Hill, Rutgers University
Salon C
Paper Session E: Greek Myth and Tragedy
Victoria Pedrick and Nancy Sultan presiding
The Ironies of Petrification and Homer’s Phaeacians
Alexander Loney, University of Maryland, College Park
Contrasting Companions in Madness: Reflections on the
Relationship between Herakles and Dionysus
Sarah Skelley, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Pessimism and Fate in Sophocles’ Trachiniae
M. Keith Penich, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Athenian Tragedy and the Trial of Socrates
Thomas Falkner
Opening up New Horizons: Fanelli’s Post-Modern Receptions of
Greek Myth
Barbara Weinlich, Eckerd College
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5:30 pm-6:30 pm
Clack Reception (Open Bar and Refreshments)
Grand Ballroom Foyer
6:30 pm
Salons C & D
2014 Clack Lecture: “Back to the Future: Wolf, Boeckh and
the Resurgence of Philology in a Digital Age”
Gregory Crane, Tufts University and the University of Leipzig
8:00 pm-10:00 pm
Dinner: Janet M. Martin presiding
Junior Ballroom
Salons 2 & 3
Ovatio for Past President Carl A. Rubino, presented by
Thomas Falkner. Remarks by Emily Mohr, University of
Maryland, College Park, winner of the 2014 Adelaide Hahn
Scholarship, and Devondra McMillan, Lawrenceville School,
winner of the 2013 Hahn Scholarship
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2014
7:15 am-8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:00 am-Noon
Registration
Grand Ballroom
Registration Room
8:00 am-5:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
Foyer
Exhibits and Book Displays
8:15 am-10:15 am Panel Nine: Fostering Respect and Support for the PreSalon D
Collegiate Latin Teacher
Deborah Carter and Judith P. Hallett presiding
Participants:
Elizabeth Hestand, Central High School; Brittany Mae Johnson,
Ursuline School and Columbia University; Deborah Carter;
Karin Suzadail; Matthew Webb, Brookline High School;
Sherwin Little, American Classical League
Salon A
Panel Ten: Workshop on the Latin Classroom and Best
Practices in Language Acquisition
Dawn Mitchell and Jason Slanga, Dulaney High School
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Salon B
Panel Eleven: Online Education: A House of Cards?
Norman Sandridge and Caroline Stark presiding
Section One: The case against the online movement
Ryan Fowler, Franklin and Marshall College; Caroline Stark,
Howard University
Section Two: Practical Experience, Data, Anecdotes
Arti Mehta, Howard University; Norman Sandridge;
Kristina Meinking, Elon University; Bryce Walker, Sweet Briar
College
Section Three:
Where Do We See the Online/Hybrid Movement Going?
Ryan Fowler; Kenny Morrell, Rhodes College
Salon C
Paper Session F: Greek Objects of Desire
Ronnie Ancona and Joshua Kinlaw presiding
Sappho 31 and 58
Ellen Greene, University of Oklahoma
Romancing the Stone: Boys, Herms and the Objectification of
Desire on Athenian Sympotic Vases
Jorge J. Bravo, III, University of Maryland, College Park
Repositioning the Theognidea: The Second Sophistic and the
Theognidea
Lawrence Kowerski, Hunter College, CUNY
Descensus ad the Screen: Orpheus and Eurydice in the Cinema:
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, University of Granada
10:15 am-10:45 am Coffee Break and Refreshments
10:45 am-1:00 pm
Salon D
Panel Twelve: The Past, Present and Future of Classical
Philology
Judith P. Hallett and Donald Lateiner presiding
What Was Altertumswissenschaft?
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Reinventing Philology
Gregory Crane
Philology and the Study of English in the US
Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University
The Disinvention of the American Philological Association:
Flawed Process, Confusing Result
Donald Lateiner
Response: James O’Donnell, Georgetown University
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Salon A
Panel Thirteen: Growing the Next Generation of Teachers:
College Interns in the High School Classroom
Elizabeth Fisher and Kathryn Wasdin, George Washington
University presiding
A Teacher’s View
Jane Brinley, School Without Walls
A Departmental View
Elizabeth Fisher, George Washington University
A Principal’s View
Richard Trogisch, School Without Walls
An Intern’s View
I: Adam LaFleche, George Washington University
II: Emily Marcus, George Washington University
III: Katherine Bradshaw, George Washington University
Salon B
Panel Fourteen: The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: Teaching
Ancient Art with Modern Media
Elizabeth Molacek and Elizabeth Bartlett presiding
From Reel to Real: Archaeology in the Movies
Elizabeth Bartlett, University of Virginia
Hating on Hades: Portraying the Gods of the Underworld in
Modern Cinema
Renee Gondek, George Washington University
Back to the Future: Reading Ancient Greek Drama through
Science Fiction Narratives
V.G.A. Ikeshoji-Orlati, University of Virginia
Capturing Cleopatra: Evaluating a Queen’s Image in Ancient and
Modern Media
Elizabeth Molacek, University of Virginia
Destroying Pompeii Anew
Claire J. Weiss, University of Virginia
Salon C
Paper Session G: Pedagogical Possibilities
Norman Sandridge and Karin Suzadail presiding
Carpe iter: A case for Latin-themed Field Trips
Patrick Burns, Fordham University
Bringing the Map to Life: Technology in the Classroom
Jim Capreedy, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Reimagining the Panathenaia—On Your Campus
Meredith E. Safran, Trinity College
Integrating Writing into the Classics Classroom
Alison Traweek, University of Pennsylvania
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1:00 pm-2:15 pm
London I & II
Luncheon. Ronnie Ancona presiding. Ovatio for Jennifer T.
Roberts, City College of New York and Graduate Center,
CUNY, presented by Ronnie Ancona
Business Meeting, Janet Martin presiding
2:15 pm-4:15 pm
Salon D
Panel Fifteen: Teaching Those Who Will Teach Latin
Ronnie Ancona and Allannah Karas presiding
Teaching Latin Pedagogy in a Latin MA(T) Program and a
Classics PhD Program
Ronnie Ancona
Latin Pedagogy at the College Level: An Unexamined Heritage?
Allannah Karas, CUNY Graduate Center
Exceptional Student/Struggling Teacher: Bridging the Gap
Between Content Knowledge and Effective Pedagogical Practice
Christopher Amanna, Maspeth High School
From Teacher Training to Training Teachers
Kathleen Durkin, Maspeth High School
Salon A
Panel Sixteen: Teaching Practices in the 7-12 Latin Classroom
Karin Suzadail and Andrew Becker, Virginia Tech presiding
Increasing Fluency in Latin through the Use of Synonyms
Christine Meyer, Downingtown West High School
Tactility and Technology in the Latin Classroom: A Hands-on
Approach
Traci Dougherty, Souderton High School
Conversational Latin for Middle and High School Students
Tina Moller, Upper Dublin High School and Sandy Run Middle
School
Caesar in Gaul
Karin Suzadail, Owen J. Roberts High School
Salon B
Paper Session H: The Ever-Present Future: Session on
Undergraduate Research in the Classics
Thomas Falkner and Ann Raia presiding
A Conflict of Interests: Pollution, Prescriptions, and Priestesses in
Classical Athens
Erik Shell, University of Maryland, College Park (Judith P. Hallett,
Professor)
Non-standard Spelling in Latin Inscriptions
Mitchell Corwin, Loyola University (Thomas McCreight,
Professor)
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Diplomacy and Repetition in Seneca’s Phoenissae
Lea A. Schroeder, Dartmouth College (Pramit Chaudhuri,
Professor)
Power and Perception: Classics in the American Revolution
Carlos Cardozo, St. Joseph’s University (Konstantinos
Nikoloutsos, Professor)
Force, Motion and Tradition in Cy Twombly’s Fifty Days at Iliam
Natalia Sucher, Swarthmore College (Jeremy Lefkowitz,
Professor)
Salon C
Paper Session I: American Classical Reception: Substance and
Spirit
Henry Bender and John H. Starks, Jr. presiding
Ancient Greece and Rome in Washington, DC in the Past and the
Future: Disentangling Ancient Mediterranean Material Cultures in
the Smithsonian Institution
Alexander Nagel, Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC as a Classroom of Neoclassicism
Mark Padilla, Christopher Newport University
The Aeneid and the Artistic Design of the National September 11
Museum
Linda Robertson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
German Classicists in American Exile: A Reconstruction
Hans-Peter Obermayer, City College Munich/University of
Munich (LMU)
4:30 pm-6:00 pm
Junior Ballroom
Salon 1
Meeting of the 2014-2015 Board of Directors
(Coffee and Refreshments)
Nota Bene: The 2015 CAAS Annual Meeting will be held October 8-11 at Hotel Du
Pont, 11th & Market Streets, Wilmington, DE 19801
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