CACW/CAPN Annual Meeting, March 14-15 2014
The Theme: “Decision” Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver BC Registration from 2:30 PM March 14, Room 1400
FRIDAY	Room 1400	Room 1315	Room 1510	Room 1520
SESSION 1	Roman Tragedy Chair: Susanna Braund, UBC	Approaches to Archaeology Chair: Ulrike Krotscheck, Evergreen State College	Thucydides Chair: Edwin Carawan, Missouri State University	Religion Chair: Dietmar Neufeld, UBC
3:30-4 PM	Murder, Interrupted: Seneca’s Medea and the Case of the Second Child, Lisl Walsh,Beloit College	The UBC Gerace Roman villa project, Sicily: results of the first season, Roger Wilson UBC	Military Expertise, Kairos, and Techne in Thucydides, Mark Pyzyk, Stanford University	The Mysteries of Dionysus under the Ptolemies, Robert Cousland, UBC
4-4:30	Nero’s Dress Rehearsal for Destruction: the Octavia and the Aetiology of the 64 Fire, Virginia Closs, Reed College	Gromatici: Laying out Roman Camps and Forts in North Africa, John Steinhoff, UBC	If not now, when?: Time and Decision-making in Democratic Athens, Dina Guth, University of Manitoba	Matthew's Rationale in Interpolating the Arcane Pericope of the Resurrection of the Holy Ones, Courtney Innes, UBC
4:30-5	Stories We Tell & Stories That Tell Us: Self-Representation & Non-Verbal Decisions in Seneca’s Hercules Furens & Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, Christian Brady, UBC	The Curia Latina in Aeneid 7, Lissa Crofton-Sleigh, University of Washington	Spartan ναυτικοὶ?: The Peloponnesian War and its Spartan Pupils, Ellen Millender and Zak Garriss, Reed College	Aequalia esse peccata et recte facta: Augustinian Grounds for a Stoic Paradox, Ivan Welty, Willamette University
5-5:30 PM Sandwiches
SESSION 2	Roman epic after Vergil Chair: David Oosterhuis, Gonzaga University	Figures Chair: Hector Williams, UBC	Herodotus Chair: Ellen Millender, Reed College	Rational and irrational decision-making Chair: Walter Englert, Reed College
5:30-6	Rest in Pieces: Pompey’s Fragmentary Funeral Rites in Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Andrew McClellan, UBC	The Vir and the Semivir: The Motif of the Abandoned Weapons of Hercules on Arretine Ware, Sarah Nash, University of Alberta	A Queen's Choice: Herodotus' Pheretime Narrative in Histories 4.162-205, Mali Skotheim, Princeton University	Early Socratic Dialogues as Portrayals of, Irrational Decision, Michael Griffin, UBC
6-6:30	Hazardous Lands: Flood, Desert, and Thirst in Lucan, Laura Zientek, University of Washington	The Aphrodite of Aphrodisias: A Cult Statue Reinvented, Kate Fenton, University of Alberta	Look to Your Own and Look to the End: Themistocles vs. Eurybiades in Herodotus’ Histories, Eric Ross, University of North Dakota	Zeus Aitios: Trusting the Signs in Aratus' Phaenomena, Selina Stewart, University of Alberta
6:30-7	Decision-making in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, Jochen Schultheiß, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg	Truth and Consequence: The Figure of Vanth in Etruria, Jacqueline Ortoleva, Seattle College	The Man Maketh the Truce: The Authority of the Decision Maker in Greco-Persian Peace Treaties, Megan Falconer, University of Calgary	The Role of Anger in Decision Making in Ciceronian Oratory, Jayne Knight, UBC
Refreshments
7:30-9:00	Plenary speaker: Adriaan Lanni, Harvard University "Athenian Institutional Design and Democratic Law Courts" RM 1400-1410

SATURDAY	Coffee and Muffins Available from 8:30 AM
	Room 2200	Room 1315	Room 1510	Room 1520
SESSION 3	Homer and archaic Greek poetry Chair: Reyes Bertolin, University of Calgary	Pedagogy Chairs: Melissa Funke & Gwynaeth McIntyre, UBC	Greek law and oratory Chair: Adriaan Lanni, Harvard University	Perceptions of Greece in Rome Chair: Mary Jaeger, University of Oregon
9-9:30	Where is that “face that launched a thousand ships”?, Ratna Chatterjee, University of Calgary	The Greater Victoria Public Library's Latin Course for Teens, or, My Idea of Fun, Greg Rowe, University of Victoria	Tyrants and arbitrators, Domingo Avilés, SFU	Older Models: Lucian, Ideal Statuary and the Reception of the Greek past, Andrei Mihaliuk, UBC
9:30-10	Ἕκτορος αἴσιμον ἦμαρ : The Trojan Catalogue in Iliad 2, Eunice Kim, University of Washington	Teaching Medical and Biological Terminology as a "Real" Classics Course, Shelley Reid, UBC	Kurios is as Kurios Does: Competing Claims to Power in Attic Oratory, Naomi Campa-Thompson, New College of Florida	Aineias v. Aeneas: Homeric Allusion in Aeneid 12.894-907, Matthew Gorey, University of Washington
10-10:30	The Girl From Lesbos: A Metapoetic Reading of Anacreon 358 PMG, Adriana Vazquez, University of Washington	Teaching Historiographical Thinking, Tracy Deline, MacEwan University	Deciding a Conflict of Laws in Fourth-Century Athens , Edwin Carawan, Missouri State University	Three Platonic Images in Cicero’s De Re Publica, Walter Englert and Laura Moser, Reed College
10:30-11	The Decisions of Memorial, Laurel Bowman, University of Victoria	Acting and Reacting to the Past: Role-playing in Classics Courses, Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound	Medical Imagery in Demosthenes' On the Crown: Hippocratic or Tragic Influence?, Allison Das, University of Washington	Sophistic Paideia and Attic Invective: Achilles Tatius' Employment of Aeschines, Brandon Jones, University of Washington
Coffee Break
Saturday	Room 2200	Room 1315	Room 1510
SESSION 4	Authorial linguistic decisions Chair: David Mirhady, SFU	Funereal decisions: inscriptions Chair: James Russell, UBC	Roman law and oratory Chair: Greg Rowe, UVic
11:30-12	The Comic Value of Prostitutes’ Names in Roman Comedy, Justin Dwyer, UBC	Decisions of Immortality: Inscriptions on the Macedonian Tombs at Vergina, Jolene McLeod, University of Calgary	The Poor Man’s Aequitas: Social Class and Justice in Roman Declamation, Mik Larsen, UCLA
12-12:30	What Would Varro Do?, Colin Shelton, UCLA	Augusti liberti libertus: Mentioning Imperial freed patrons in inscriptions, Lindsay Penner, University of Calgary	Aulus Gellius as unus judex: the conflict between procedure & justice in legal decision-making, Christopher S. Mackay, Univ. of Alberta
Lunch 12:30 – 2 (provided) CAPN Meeting
SESSION 5	Greek drama Chair: Florence Yoon, UBC	The Greek body Chair: Gwyneth Lewis, Langara College	Tacitus and his Times Chair: David Mirhady, SFU	Roman comedy and its influence Chair: Ortwin Knorr, Willamette University
2-2:30	Why did Cassandra betray Apollo? (Aesch. Agamemnon 1035-1330), Richard Rader, UC Santa Barbara	Did Ancient Greek Athletes Stretch?, Reyes Bertolin, University of Calgary	Why in the World Include Lepidus in the Second Triumvirate?, Gaius Stern, Berkeley	Facilitas et Clementia: Demea's Life-Changing Decision in Terence's Adelphoe (855-881), K.A. MacFarlane, Univ. of Alberta
2:30-3	Reversal and decision in Iphigenia at Aulis, Bill Dow, SFU	Hierarchies of Heroism in Ancient Greek Athletics, Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg	Reflections on Clemency:, Self- control and Rational Thought in Imperial Kingship Theory, Michael E. Brumbaugh, Tulane University	Metatheater and decision-making: a case study at Poenulus 821-916, Erin Moodie, Williams College
3-3:30	Dicaeopolis moves to the countryside: a dubious decision?, Chiara Sulprizio, Loyola Marymount University	The Professional or the Popular: Practice in Soranus’ Gynaecology, Lesley Bolton, University of Calgary	Thrasea Paetus and the Politics of Indecision, Caitlin Gillespie, Western Washington University	Subversive Fidelity in Livy’s Account of Masinissa and Sophoniba, Alex Lessie, UCLA
Refreshments
SESSION 6	Latin poetry Chair: Erin Moodie, Williams College	Baths Chair: Roger Wilson, UBC	Myth Chair: Laurel Bowman, University of Victoria	Roman Imperial decisions Chair: Chris Mackay, University of Alberta
4-4:30	Space, Place and Identity in Martial’s Epigrams, Marie La Fond, University of Wisconsin	Apuleius’ Florida and the bathing culture of Antonine Carthage, Jeremy Rossiter, University of Alberta	The Plucky Playwright versus the Weight of Tradition, Antone Minard, SFU / UBC	When the Augustae decide: the fall of Elagabalus and the rise of Severus Alexander, Riccardo Bertolazzi, University of Calgary
4:30-5	Puppy Love in Martial 1.109, Ortwin Knorr, Willamette University	Architectural Decisions: Frigidaria and the Development of Roman Public Baths, Tanya Henderson, University of Alberta	Transgender Warriors in Greek and Indian Myth: Caeneus and Sikhandin, C. Calhoon, University of Oregon	Opposing imperial decisions with historical models in Symmachus' 14th Relation, Christopher Lougheed, University of Alberta
5-5:30	Latin Poetry Deciding to be Vergil: Catalepton 5 as Career Sketch, Dave Oosterhuis, Gonzaga University	The Huggin Hill Baths: An Expression of Roman Imperial Authority in 2nd Century CE London, Duncan Peck, University of Alberta	Deciding what an ‘event’ is in the Myths on Maps project, Lauren Mayes, University of Western Ontario	Early attestations of sacratio capitis et bonorum: The consecration to Ceres in the Twelve Tables, Beatrice Poletti, University of Alberta