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CAMWS 2013: Topics for this Year

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You can see the whole schedule of events for CAMWS 2013 at their website here. From that, I’m gathering up a list of topics which there will be sections on to give an idea about what all is happening this year in Iowa City.

Please be sure to click the link above for a full list of events, schedules, and locations for the conference. The topics listed below are intended to give an idea of what all will be happening at the event, and do not show what sections are scheduled at the same time.

Sections:

  • Aeschylus
  • Animals, Plants and Blood Sports
  • Apuleius
  • Archaeology
  • Ciceronian Rhetoric
  • Comedy, Comedy, and Comedy Today
  • Epic Echoes
  • Epigrams and an Epinician
  • Euripides
  • Experiments in Reception
  • Greek Archaeology
  • Greek Fictions
  • Greek Historiography
  • Greek Lyric Poetry
  • Greeks Bearing Hymns
  • Hesiod
  • Historiography and Hydriae
  • Homer’s Iliad
  • Homer’s Odyssey
  • Horace’s Odes
  • An Introduction to Academic Publishing
  • Is There a Film in This Clash?
  • Late Republican History
  • Latin Elegy
  • Latin Historiography
  • Latin Oratory
  • Latin Pastures
  • Latin Poetry
  • Material Forms
  • Mostly Aristophanes
  • Music and Myth
  • Nepos to Augustine
  • Ovid
  • Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  • Performance Anxieties
  • Philosophical Engagements
  • Philosophical Virtues and Word Roots
  • Plato
  • Political, Legal, and Rhetorical Images
  • Private and Public in Receptions of Antiquity
  • Prosaic Lessons
  • Republican Poetry
  • Rhetorical Flourishes
  • Roman History
  • Roman Religions
  • Sacrifices, Sacred Law, and Wisdom
  • Satirical Voices
  • Seneca
  • Silver epic
  • Sophocles
  • Space and Ideology in Roman Archaeology
  • Teaching through Song and Geometry
  • Texts and Tools for Teaching Latin
  • Theocritus
  • Translation, Adaptation, and Interpretation
  • Vergil’s Aeneid
  • Witches, Among Other Things

Panels:

  • 87 BCE: An Extraordinary Year at the End of the Roman Republic
  • Athenian Democratic Ideology
  • Between Hypnos and Thanatos: Teaching Greek Death
  • Beyond the OCT: Reflections on the NEH Summer Institute on Roman Comedy in Performance
  • Clio and Thalia: Reconsidering the relation of Attic Old Comedy and Historiography
  • Ex Machina: Aspects and Applications of Digital Teaching
  • Finding Freedmen in Roman Society: Between Agency and Oppression
  • Gender and Display in Imperial Pompeii
  • Heliodorus Within and Beyond the Canon
  • Klassics for Kids: The Reception of Antiquity in Children’s Entertainment
  • National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week
  • Screening a New Spartacus: Tradition and Originality in STARZ Spartacus (2010-13)
  • Strong Beginnings, Greater Ends: New Resources for Beginning Greek
  • Theories of Ethnicity in the Ancient Scientific Writers

Presidential Panel:

  • Philology in an Ideological Climate

Undergraduate Papers:

  • On Greek and Latin Literature
  • Taking us to the Renaissance and Back

Workshops:

  • Advocacy and Curricular Innovation: Helping our Latin Programs through Action Research
  • Simple Quotation of Ancient Texts using CTS Services

UIowa: CAMWS 2013 Report

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Dispatch from the The University of Iowa Department of Classics:

Things going on around campus this past year—

  • The annual Iowa “Homerathon”, during which students, faculty and friends of classics read a complete work or works of an ancient author in English on the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall, took place in May. This year it was an “Ovid Overload” of the complete “Ars Amatoria” and “Metamorphoses.”
  • We were also able to award the first annual Perlmutter Award for undergraduate research and travel to Elijah Fleming.
  • In summer 2012, two department faculty directed digs. Bob Cargill took an Iowa group to the excavations at Tel Azekah in Israel, and Glenn Storey directed a dig at Gangivecchio in Sicily.
  • This academic year the UI department has partnered with Iowa State to offer both Latin and Greek by web connection between Iowa City and Ames. More traditionally, two other department members—graduate student Aaron Burns and undergraduate Hillary Richards—have taken the teaching of Latin to Willowwind school in Iowa City.
  • We are very excited about the new courses in ancient medicine and religions in the ancient near east and Egypt being offered by new faculty members Marquis Berrey, Paul Dilley and Bob Cargill.
  • We are also looking forward to closer collaboration with the Honors Program, which is now headed by Classicist Art Spisak.
  • In September we had a very successful week with Ida Beam Visiting Professor Michael White from UT-Austin. Professor White gave a series of seminars and public lectures on various aspects of Judaeo-Christian studies of the early Roman empire.
  • In November and January, Robert Ketterer gave pre-performance presentations to the UI Opera Studies Forum about the Met operas in the live-HD broadcasts of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Berlioz’s Les Troyens.
  • And not least, the UI Classics Department, along with hosts from local colleges, is looking forward to hosting CAMWS in Iowa City in April.