Friday, March 28, 2008
 

5:30-6:30        Reception and Registration                                                                                Harned Hall

6:30-8:00        Keynote Address                                                                                     Thompson Hall 175

                 Christina Kraus
                 Professor of Classics, Yale University
 

                 "History as example:
                  Memory and exempla in Livy and Vergil"   

 8:00-             Banquet                                                                                                        Trimble Forum

Saturday, March 29, 2008
 

8:30 a.m.      Registration opens                                                                                     Thompson Hall 175

Session One: 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Philosophers and Healers

David Lupher, presiding

Thompson Hall 175

A Reassessment of Empedocles’ “Roots”
     Brian Walters (University of California, Los Angeles)

Perception and Absorption:  The Place of Metaphor in Empedocles' Account of Learning
     Charles Stein (University of California, Los Angeles)

"First Do No Harm": Evaluating the Theatrical in Hippocratic Medicine
     Matthew Taylor (University of Puget Sound)

An Education In Stoicism:
Considerations of the Child, Rationality, and Assent as Educational Philosophy Among The Hellenistic Stoics 
     Kenneth Rolling (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)

Coffee Break

Oppenheimer Café

Session Two: 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM

Section A:  Culture and Empire
Aislinn Melchior, presiding

Thompson Hall 175

Section B:  Reading Texts
Eric Orlin, presiding

Thompson Hall 193

Pliny and the Dolphin:
a Story about Storytelling
     Benjamin Stevens (Bard College)

Hesiod’s Works and Days
and the Economics of Peasant Subsistence
     Bill Barry (University of Puget Sound)

The Politics of Virtue
in Plutarch’s Mulierum Virtutes 
     Melody Mark (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Nuance, New Historicism and Olympian 6
     Nigel Nicholson (Reed College)

Death and Cenotaph of Trajan --
New Discoveries at Selinus-Trajanopolis
     James Russell (Univ. of British Columbia)

Quis movit caseum meum? A Food Studies approach to Classical Literature 
     Mary Jaeger (University of Oregon)

"And the winds of history will follow us all the way": Rupert Brooke in the Aegean
     Marian Makins (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Caesar‘s De Bello Gallico as
Exemplary History
     Rex Stem (University of California, Davis)

Lunch

Trimble Forum

Business Meeting (2:00 - 2:30 p.m. )

Thompson 193

Session Three: 2:30 PM – 4:15 PM

Roman Poetry
Marco Zangari, presiding

Thompson Hall 175
 

Medea and Dido: Epic and Tragedy in Book IV of Vergil's Aeneid 
     Christopher Sheppard (University of Puget Sound)
 

Propertian Closure, Homosocial Epic and the Virgilian Intertext  
     Lowell Bowditch (University of Oregon)

Fishing with Ovid 
     Ethan Adams (Loyola Marymount University)