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50th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (hosted by Willamette University)

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Saturday, August 21, 2021
Via Zoom

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

 

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