CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION

OF NEW ENGLAND

 

Centennial Meeting

March 16th – 18th, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

Founded MCMVI

Incorporated MCMXC

www.caneweb.org

 

 

Hosted by:

The University of Massachusetts

Amherst, MA 01003-9243

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, March 16th

 

4:00-7:00 pm                          Meeting of the Executive Committee

                                                Campus Center Room – 162-175

 

7:30-8:30 pm                          “Popular Struggle and the Assassination of Julius Caesar”

                                                            -Michael Parenti, Author

                                                Reception to follow- Campus Center Auditorium

                                               

Friday, March 17th

 

8:00-8:45 am                          Registration and Continental Breakfast

Breakfast Sponsored by the Classical Association of Connecticut

                                                            First Floor Concourse

8:45-9:00 am                          Greetings          Campus Center Auditorium

                                               

 

9:00-10:15 am                                                Concurrent Sessions

 

Paper Session 1                                  Campus Center Room - 101

Presider: Jacqui Carlon, Immediate Past President of CANE

1. Controlling Women and The Use of Text in Paris’ Seductions in Heroides 5 & 17

            -Teresa Ramsby, UMass, Amherst

2. “Re-visioning the Myth of Medea: Christa Wolf’s Medea: A Modern Retelling”

            - Phyllis Katz, Dartmouth

3. “Orpheus without the Backward Glance”

            - Ann Higgins, UMass, Amherst

4. “Hippocratic Gynecology’s “Womb Theory:” Classical Greek Medical Science and the Female Body”

            -Carolyn Swan, Independent Scholar

 

Workshop 1 A                                                Campus Center Room - 162

1. “How to Teach Any Student Anything”

            -Ruth Breindel, Moses Brown School

 

Workshop 1 B                                                Campus Center Room – 165

1. “Student Internships in the Latin Classroom”

            -Marilee Osier & Lindsey Campbell, Sacopee Valley High School

 

10:00-10:30                                        Exhibit Break Campus Center Room – 163C

 

10:30-11:30                                        Concurrent Sessions

 

Paper Session 2                                  Campus Center Room - 101

1. “Walking the Wall: Remnants of Roman Rule at Empire’s Edge”

            -James Conley, Saint Michael's School

2. “An Unenviable Task: The Roman Army’s Punitive Expeditions Into Dacia, 86-88 A.D.”

            -Daniel R. Blanchard, Independent Scholar

3. “Dignum Memoria: Gallic and Roman Reminiscence in Bellum Gallicum 1 & 7”

            -John Oksanish, Yale University

 

 

Workshop 2 A                                                Campus Center Room – 162

1. “Latin I! The Musical”

            -Maureen Toner, Boston College High School

 

Workshop 2 B                                                Campus Center Room – 165

1. “Comparative Prose Colometry: the Construction of the Period”

            -Brian T. Walsh, UVM

 

11:30-12:00 pm                                              Business Meeting Campus Center Room - 101

 

12:15-1:15 pm                                                Lunch Campus Center Auditorium

 

1:30-2:45 pm                                      Concurrent Sessions

 

Paper Session 3                                  Campus Center Room - 101

Presider: John R. McVey, President of CANE

1. “Introduction to the Seven Eponymous Papers”

            -Z. Philip Ambrose, UVM

2. “Some Impressions of Knossos and King Minos’ Time”

            -Mary Hollinshead, URI

3. "A Century of Excavations on the Roman Forum"

            -William E. Mierse, UVM

4. “The Place of Geography and Biography in Elementary History: Edwin Hall Higley, a Case in Point”

-Allen Ward, UConn

 

Workshop 3 A                                                Campus Center Room – 162

1.”Literal Translation on the AP Latin Examination”

-John Sarkissian, Youngstown State University & Sally Morris, Phillips Exeter Academy

 

Workshop 3 B                                                Campus Center Room – 165

1. “Lanam fecit: A Workshop on Roman Wool Processing and Spinning”

            -Lydia Haile, Moses Brown School

 

3:00-4:15 pm                                      Concurrent Sessions

 

Paper Session 4                                  Campus Center Room - 101

1. “Oak and Reed”

            -Allan Wooley, Phillips Exeter Academy

2. “Library suggestions for a beginning Classics teacher”

            -Francis Bliss, Emeritus, UVM

3. “Latin Prose Composition”

            -Barbara Saylor-Rodgers, UVM

4. “The Classics as a Means of Teaching in English”

            -William Wyatt, Jr., Emeritus, Brown University

 

Workshop 4 A                                                Campus Center Room - 162

1. “Writing AP-Style Multiple Choice Questions: Preparing All Levels for the Exam”

            -Emil Penarubia, Boston College High School

 

3:00-4:30 pm

Workshop 4 B                                                Campus Center Room - 165

1. “Reading the Vergilian Hexameter Aloud”

            -Stephen Daitz, Emeritus, CUNY

 

4:30-6:00 pm                                      Concurrent Activities

1. Reading Latin & Greek                      Campus Center Room - 162

            -Francis Bliss, Emeritus, UVM

 

2. Greek Teacher Sharing Workshop      Campus Center Room - 165

            -John Higgins, The Gilbert School

-Gilbert Lawall, Emeritus, UMass, Amherst

 

3. CANE Teachers’ Material Exchange – Campus Center Room - 101

 

6:00 pm                                               Reception First Floor  Concourse

Reception Sponsored by Prentice Hall

7:00 pm           Banquet, Awards, and Presentations Campus Center Auditorium

 

Saturday, March 18th

 

8:30-9:00                                            Registration & Continental Breakfast

First Floor Concourse

9:00-10:30                                          Exhibit Time Campus Center Room – 163C

 

Ecce Romani Workshops – Presider, Shirley Lowe, Emerita, Wayland Middle School.

The presenters of the Ecce Romani Workshops will use Ecce Romani as a working base, but the workshops will be applicable to teaching with any text.

 

9:00-10:30

Ecce Romani-Workshop I                  Campus Center Room - 162

1. “Curriculum Development: Making Latin Accessible to Students in the 21st Century”

            -Dr. Melissa Schons Bishop, Boston Latin School

 

10:00-11:00 am

Paper Session 5                                  Campus Center Room - 101

Presider: Cynthia Damon, President Elect of CANE

1. Undergraduate Student Paper

            -TBA

2. “To Teach Atrocity”

            -Samuel Findley, Rhodes College

3. “(Latin) Philosophy for Kids: Introducing Ancient Philosophy to the Latin Classroom”

            -James F. Patterson, UMass, Amherst

 

Workshop 5                                        Campus Center Room – 165

1. “Greek in the Early Grades”

            -Dr. Therese Sellers, Glen Urquhart School

-Karen Zook, The Riverside School

-Kristen Boose, Asst. Director, Ascanius Youth Classics Project

-John Higgins, The Gilbert School

 

10:45-12:15

Ecce Romani-Workshop II                 Campus Center Room - 162

1. “Classroom Implementation: Sine Litteris – Teaching without the Printed Word”

-Gail Cooper, Academy of the New Church

 

11:15-12:15 pm

Paper Session 6                                  Campus Center Room - 101

1. “Hollywood and Classics: Teaching the Ancient World in Film”

            -Stacie Raucci, Union College

2. “Myth, Writing, & Personal Journey”

            -Christine Emmert, Independent Writer

3. “Following the Cow with the Moon on its Flank: Kadmus and the Stars”

-Stephen R. Wilk, Independent Scholar

 

Workshop 6                                        Campus Center Room - 165

1. “Where the Boys Are: Latin Enrolment and Gender Preferences at Portland High School”

            -Michelle Tucci, Portland High School

 

12:15-1:15                                          Lunch Campus Center Auditorium

                                                            Meeting of the Executive Committee Room - 178

1:15-1:45

Ecce Romani-Workshop III               Campus Center Room - 162

1. “Cantate cum Cornelia”

-Nancy Snyder Irons, Memorial High School

 

1:30-2:45

Paper Session 7                                  Campus Center Room - 101

1. “Patrick’s Confessio as Autobiography: Some Generic Considerations”

            -John Higgins, The Gilbert School

2. “In Praise of St. Patrick, St. Sechnall’s Hymn”

            -Anne Mahoney, Tufts University

3. “Bring in the Wine . . . Fill up the Cups: Echoes of Alcaeus, Anacreon, and Horace in Ancient Chinese Lyrics”                

            -Paul Properzio, Boston Latin Academy

 

Workshop 7                                        Campus Center Room – 165

1. “Identity in Rome: A Thematic Approach”

            -Mark Pearsall, Glastonbury High School

 

1:45-2:45

Ecce Romani-Workshop IV                Campus Center Room - 162

1. “Teaching Ecce Romani with a Long Distance Learning Program from Virginia”

-Donna LeSage, Prospect Mountain High School

-Dennis Wimer, Virginia Satellite Educational Network, Richmond, Virginia.

 

 

2:45-3:00 pm              Closing Ceremonies Campus Center Room 101