Conference Schedule

 

Friday, March 20

 

6:30pm            Keynote Address

Gerlinger Lounge

 

A Tale of Three Temples: Fifth and Fourth Century B.C. Architectural Sculpture in the Athenian Agora. Research and Retrieval, 2010-2020

Andrew Stewart, University of California, Berkeley

 

8:00pm            Reception and Registration

Gerlinger Lounge

 

Saturday, March 21

 

8:00am            Coffee and Registration

Global Scholars Hall, Great Room

 

8:15-10am       First Paper Session

 

Panel A: Art History/Museum Studies

Kevin Dicus presiding

130 Global Scholars Hall

 

The Vanth Group: Navigating Death in Etruria

Kara Burns, University of South Alabama

 

Non-Greek and Non-Roman Art and Architecture in Graeco-Roman Art-historical Writing

Kris Seaman, University of Oregon

 

An Etruscan Antefix Comes to Salem!

Ann Nicgorski, Willamette University

 

Ethically Preserving the Past: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Museum

Elena Chiappe, Gonzaga University

 

Panel B: Technology and the Classics

David Chamberlain presiding

131 Global Scholars Hall

 

Artificial Intelligence and You: Classical Languages and Natural Language Processing

Beth Platte, Reed College

 

The Adventurous Archaeologist and the Discovery of the Hellenistic Statue: An Archaeogaming Excavation of the Video Game Site La Mulana

Zane Casimir, University of Oregon

 

Virtual Epidauros: An Experiment in VR Learning Techniques

Andrew Goldman, Taylor Tyrell, and Annabel Hueske, Gonzaga University

 

Panel C: Greek History, Historiography, and Beyond

Lindsey Mazurek presiding

132 Global Scholars Hall

 

Plot the Trap: Herodotus on the Death of Polycrates

Benjamin Sammons, Independent Scholar

 

Sparta’s Spectacular Austerity

Ellen Millender, Reed College

 

Kairosand Contingency Planning in Polybios’ Histories

Paul Vădan, Reed College

 

The Perils of Universal History

Owen Ewald, Seattle Pacific University

 

10-10:15am     Coffee Break

Global Scholars Hall, Great Room

 

10:15 to 12     Second Paper Session

 

Panel A: Archaeology and Landscape

Kris Seaman presiding

130 Global Scholars Hall

 

Possible Applications of New Technologies to the Study of Ancient Sites: The Roman Sites of Alcalá de Henares

Mario Ramírez Galán, University of Portland

 

Alexander the Great, Cyprus, and the Hellenistic Transition: Recent Excavations at Pyla-Vigla

Thomas Landvatter, Reed College

 

The Madradag Pipeline: Euergetism in Functional “Sculpture” at Pergamon

Jon Kerr, University of Oregon

 

Heterogeneity and Assemblages at Pompeii

Kevin Dicus, University of Oregon

 

Panel B: Roman Didactic Poetry

David Osterhuis Presiding

131 Global Scholars Hall

 

AtaraxiaVanquishes Eros: Lucretius’ Sappho atDe Rerum Natura2.1-8

Chris Eckerman, University of Oregon

 

Re-Visiting Ars Amatoria 1.171-228

Aidan Kolar, University of Oregon

 

Making it up at Gaius’ Triumph: The Seductions of Orientalist Cartography

Lowell Bowditch, University of Oregon

 

A Goat in Sheep’s Clothing: Bacchus in Ovid’sArs Amatoria

Britt Duer, University of Oregon

 

Panel C: Greek Poetry and Greek Society

Malcolm Wilson presiding

132 Global Scholars Hall

 

Between Doctor and Athlete: The Idea of the Trainer in Epinician Poetry

Nigel Nicholson, Reed College

 

Delusion and Intertext: Allusive Misrecognition in Menandrian Comedy

Christopher Jelen, University of California, Berkeley

 

The Role of Religion and its Importance to the Ancient City: A Study of Amphipolis and Olynthus

Cassie Johnivan, University of Michigan

 

12 to 1:30       Lunch

Global Scholars Hall, Great Room

 

12:30pm Roundtable: Teaching Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom

Organizers: Amy Pistone (Gonzaga University) and Lindsey A. Mazurek (University of Oregon)

 

12:45 pm Meeting of the CAPN Executive Committee

130 Global Scholars Hall

 

1:30 to 3:15    Third Paper Session

 

Panel A: Livy and Beyond

Andrew Goldman presiding

130 Global Scholars Hall

 

The Pastoral Motif and the Transformation of the Italian Landscape in Livy’s Third Decade

Ben Davis, University of California, Los Angeles

 

“Full of awareness and life”: The Body of Marius Gratidianus in the Literary Tradition

Elliott Piros, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

 

Cato in the Soil

Mary Jaeger, University of Oregon

 

The Tacky Reception History of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche

Sonia Sabnis, Reed College

 

Panel B: Homer

Benjamin Sammons presiding

131 Global Scholars Hall

 

Fate, Achilles, and Counterfactuals

Joseph Bringman, University of Washington

 

Homer Πολύτροπος: Figurative Turns in the Proem of the Odyssey

Megan O’Donald, University of Washington

 

Nature and Literature in Butler’s Authoress of the Odyssey: An Anti-Darwinist Homer?

Caitlin Miller, University of Chicago

 

Reading the Odyssey in Our Xenophobic Age

Steven Shankman, University of Oregon

 

Panel C: Roman Poetry

Lowell Bowditch presiding

132 Global Scholars Hall

 

From Pyre to Empire: Disruption of Politics, Family, and Funerary Rites in Statius’ ThebaidReflected Through the Lens of Greek Tragedy

Dianne Boetsch, Bryn Mawr College

 

Voice, Silence and Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 12.181-209 and 6.438-674

Cristina Calhoon, University of Oregon

 

Rivers as Roman Mnemotopes in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

Laura Zientek, Reed College

 

Terence’s (Not-So) Clever Slaves

Ortwin Knorr, Willamette University

 

3:15-3:30        Coffee Break

Global Scholars Hall, Great Room

 

3:30-5                         Fourth Paper Session

 

Panel A: Cultural History and the Imagination

Nigel Nicholson presiding

130 Global Scholars Hall

 

How the Greeks and Romans Thought About Arms and Armour: From Cultural Supremacy to Evolutionary Paradigm in a ‘Globalizing’ World.

Joshua Hall, Linn Benton Community College

 

Sexed Bodies, Sexless Souls: The Debate Over Women’s Bodies and Minds in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Daisy Burge, University of Oregon

 

Embodying Egypt: Landscape, Cult and the Representation of the Province

Lindsey A. Mazurek, University of Oregon

 

Panel B: Plato and Aristotle

Chris Eckerman presiding

131 Global Scholars Hall

 

Rhetorical Wanderings in Plato’s Timaeus

Bess Myers, The University of Memphis

 

Heraclitus as poet in Plato’s Cratylus

Luke Parker, Pacific Lutheran University

The Fascinating History of the Corpus Aristotelicum

Malcolm Wilson, University of Oregon

 

Panel C: Roman History and Historiography

Mary Jaeger presiding

132 Global Scholars Hall

 

Muliebris Fraus: The Death of Germanicus and Gendered Magical Language in

Tacitus’ Annales 2.69-72

Mary McNulty, University of Washington

 

‘Bloodless Victories’: Warrior Culture and the Transformation of the Roman Army

Brian Turner, Portland State University

 

Prefect and City: The Construction of Romain Symmachus’ Relationes

Robert Chenault, Willamette University

 

Italian Imitations of the War with Xerxes:

Cremera /Themopylae and Salamis / Himera and More

Gaius Stern, University of California, Berkeley