Conference attendance is free and open to everyone interested. No conference registration is needed, but we ask that you email the conference organizer, Professor Ortwin Knorr (Willamette University) at oknorrATwillamette.edu so that he can share the Zoom links with you on the morning of the conference.
8:30 am to 9:45 am First Paper Session
Session A: Greek Poetry
Chair: Mary Bachvarova (Willamette University)
Catching a Cicada by the Wing: Returning to the ‘Lilied’ (λειριόεσσα) Voice
Peter Kelly (National University of Ireland Galway)
Fate, Homer, Achilles, and Counterfactuals
Joseph Bringman (University of Washington)
Session B: Art History
Chair: Ann Nicgorski (Willamette University)
Funerary Amazonomachies in pre-Roman Italy: Tomb Contexts, Materiality, and Uses in Apulia and Etruria
Valeria Riedemann (University of Washington)
Terror Gallicus: Gallic Warrior Imagery and the Roman Visual Language of Power
Alyson Roy (University of Idaho)
10:00 am to 10:15 am Break
10:30 am to 12:00 noon Second Paper Session
Session A: Latin Poetry & Reception
Chair: Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)
Catullus 2b: Fitting a Fragmentary Piece into the Puzzle
Ortwin Knorr (Willamette University)
Ovid In Play: Empire of Venus
Aislinn Melchior (University of Puget Sound)
The Intersection of Classics and Late Romanticism—Homer, Ovid, and Richard Wagner
Emma Popek (Wagner Society of Northern California)
Session B: Ancient History
Chair: Deborah Kamen (University of Washington)
Universal History and the Limits of Power
Owen Ewald (Seattle Pacific University)
Hasmonean-Roman Relations - Diplomacy, Security and Legitimization in the Anarchic Hellenistic Mediterranean
Louis Polcin (University of British Columbia)
A Feminist Look at the Rise of Coined Money in Iron Age Lydia and its Relationship to the Slave Trade
Karen Carr (Portland State University)
12:00 noon to 12:30 pm Lunch Break
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Roundtable:
Teaching Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom
Organizer: Amy Pistone (Gonzaga University)
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm Roundtable:
The State of the Classics in the Pacific Northwest
Organizers: Andrew Goldman (Gonzaga University) and Rob Chenault (Willamette University)
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Meeting of the CAPN Executive Committee