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Schedule of Events
- Conference events will take place at the John J. Hemmingson Center. Specific room information will available soon.
- The keynote lecture will be in the Wolff Auditorium at Jepson Center.
Friday, April 5
| 6:30 p.m. | Registration Opens |
| 7:30 p.m. | Keynote Lecture (Wolff Auditorium at Jepson Center) |
| 8:30-10 p.m. | Reception |
Saturday, April 6
| 8 a.m. | Registration Opens |
| 8-8:30 a.m. | Light Breakfast |
| 8:30-10 a.m. | First Paper Session (1.5 hours) Session 1A: Medicine and Magic Session 1B: Archaeology and Identity |
| 10-10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | Second Paper Session (1.75 hours) Session 2A: Exploring Identity in the Ancient World Session 2B: Power and Authority |
| 12:15-2 p.m. | Lunch and Round Tables |
| 1-2 p.m. | Annual CAPN Business Meeting |
| 2-3:30 p.m. | Third Paper Session (1.5 hours) Session 3A: Reception and Perception Session 3B: Literary and Archaeological Landscapes |
| 3:30-4 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 4-5:30 p.m. | Plenary Speaker’s Panel |
| 5:30-7 p.m. | Concluding Reception |
Session Details
Keynote Lecture
Who's Revitalizing Homer?: The Relevance and Risks of Classical Reception Today
Dr. Donna Zuckerberg, Publisher of Eidolon
Abstract: Recently, a surprising group has taken up the mantle of explaining why the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans remains vitally important: the alt-right. Alt-right thinkers present themselves as protectors of the Classics who are saving the cultural heritage of the West from social-justice-warrior professors who secretly want to destroy it. In this lecture, Donna Zuckerberg explores what antiquity means to far-right online communities and what progressive classicists can do to respond.
Session 1A: Medicine and Magic
“Doctors without Borders.” Nigel Nicholson, Reed College
“Matronyms in the Greek Magical Papyri: Questions of Gender and Genre.” Alexandra Tucker, Bryn Mawr College
Session 1B: Archaeology and Identity
“Kypriaka Chronika: Tales of Ancient Cypriote Ceramics in West Coast Collections
(An Introduction to the Exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, February 9 – April 28, 2019).”
Ann Nicgorski, Willamette University
“Results of the Akurgal-Budde Excavations at Sinop (1951-1953).”
Ulrike Krotscheck, Evergreen State College
“Material Culture and Ethnic Identity: A Ptolemaic Case Study.”
Tom Landvatte, Reed College
Session 2A: Exploring Identity in the Ancient World
“Sparta's Spectacular Austerity.”
Ellen Millender, Reed College
“The Romans are not ‘the Other’. The Aeneas Legend and the Greco-Trojan Origins of Rome in the Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus.”
Poletti, Beatrice, University of Alberta
“Metapoetic Self-Referentiality in the Artwork Poems of Martial’s Apophoreta.”
Emma Brobeck, University of Washington
“The Artistry of Sulpicia’s libellus ([Tib]. 3.13-18).”
Ortwin Knorr, Willamette University
Session 2B: Power and Authority
“Philetairos of Pergamon: Pseudo-βασιλεύς.”
Lex Ladge, Reed College
“Hostages and Hostage Taking in the Works of Flavius Josephus.”
Aidan Kolar, University of Oregon
“Ἀρχή & the Origin of Authority.”
Simon Dutton, University of South Florida
“Pindar's Horai in Olympian 13.”
Chris Eckerman, University of Oregon
Session 3A: Reception and Perception
“Masculinum dignius est feminino: The History and Reception of a Latin Grammatical Formula.”
Megan O’Donald, University of Washington
“Law & Orator: Modern Detective Fiction Tropes in Receptions of Cicero’s Life.”
Kathryn Stutz, University of Puget Sound
Session 3B: Literary and Archaeological Landscapes
“University of Oregon excavations at Fontanaccia—the shifting meaning of ancient landscapes.”
Kevin Dicus, University of Oregon
“Corn by any other name: sitos, aroura, and the language of bread-eating.”
Jessica Romney, Dickinson University
“Pollution in Theban Landscapes in Sophocles and Seneca.”
Laura Zientek, Reed College
Plenary Speaker’s Panel
“Tu modo seruitio uacuum me siste superbo - Propertius' call for Augustus' restoration of libertas to the res publica restituta in Elegy 3.17.”
Barbara Weinlich, University of Montana
“Imprisonment and the Body: A Corporal Investigation of Athenian Social Status within the Athenian Structure of Imprisonment.”
Wynter Pohlenz Telles Douglas, Bryn Mawr College
“Transgressive Toys: ἄθυρμα in Archaic Hexameter Poetry and Beyond.”
Annie Lamar, University of Puget Sound