Program for the CAAS Centennial Meeting

Program Committee

Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University: CAAS Secretary
Nathan Costa, Saint Andrew's School
Helen Cullyer, University of Pittsburgh: CAAS Regional Representative for Western Pennsylvania
Richard Gilder III, CAGSE
Barbara K. Gold, Hamilton College: CAAS Past President
Nicolas Gross, University of Delaware: CAAS Past President
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park: CAAS Past President and Program Coordinator
W. Gerald Heverly, New York University: CAAS Archivist
Diana Jensen, The Maret School: CAAS Regional Representative for the District of Columbia
William Klingshirn, The Catholic University of America: CAAS Past President
Maria Marsilio, St. Joseph's University
Janet M. Martin, Princeton University
Barbara F. McManus, The College of New Rochelle: CAAS Past President and Webmaster
David Murphy, The Nightingale-Bamford School: CAAS Second Vice President
Barbara Pavlock, Lehigh University: CAAS Regional Representative for Eastern Pennsylvania
Ann R. Raia, The College of New Rochelle: CAAS First Vice President
Carl A. Rubino, Hamilton College: CAAS President
Matthew Santirocco, New York University: Editor, Classical World
Karin Suzadail, Owen J. Roberts High School: CAAS Regional Representative for Central Pennsylvania

Thursday, October 4, 2007

5:00–6:30 p.m. Registration

7:00–9:00 p.m. Plenary Session A: A Century of Classics in the Cinema

Carl A. Rubino (Hamilton College), CAAS President, and Martin Winkler (George Mason University), presiding
Panelists: Max Alvarez (American Film Institute), Benita Kane Jaro, Matthew Jaro, and Karen Rosenbecker (Loyola University, New Orleans)
The following ten films were voted by CAAS members as "CAAS Centennial Classics": Ben Hur; Cleopatra (1963); Fellini Satyricon; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Gladiator; I, Claudius (BBC-TV series); Monty Python's Life of Brian; O Brother Where Art Thou?; Spartacus; Ulysses.
Special event, including free concession stand, sponsored by the Department of Classics of the University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, October 5, 2007

7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Registration

8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Book Display

8:00–10:30 a.m. Panel A: Petronius' Satyrica: Readings, Rationales, Reception

Marsha B. McCoy (Austin College), presiding
Bakhtin and Petronius' Satyrica
Marsha B. McCoy
Ecphrasis, Spectacle, and Vision: Poetic Reception of the Satyrica in Martial and Statius
J. Mira Seo (University of Michigan)
Narrators Ancient and Modern: Petronius' Satyrica and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
James L. W. West III (The Pennsylvania State University)
Anti-Petronian Elements in The Great Gatsby
Robert J. Sklenar (The University of Tennessee)
Response by Niall W. Slater (Emory University)

8:00–10:30 a.m. Panel B: Classics in Suburban Secondary Schools: A Roundtable

Sherwin Little (Indian Hill High School), President, American Classical League, and Donal McGay (Radnor High School), CAAS Regional Representative for Philadelphia, presiding
Panelists: Robert Fradkin (Atholton High School), William Herbst (Bay Shore High School), Maria Marsilio (St. Joseph's University), Dawn Mitchell (Dulaney High School), Martha Pearlman (Clearview Regional High School), Linda Squier (Eleanor Roosevelt High School), Grigory Starikovsky (Ramsey High School and Montclair State University), and Karin Suzadail (Owen J. Roberts High School), CAAS Regional Representative for Central Pennsylvania

10:30–11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00a.m.–12:30p.m. Paper Session A: New Lenses on Latin Literature

Janet M. Martin (Princeton University) and Barbara Pavlock (Lehigh University), CAAS Regional Representative for Eastern Pennsylvania, presiding
Ennius in Horace's Theory of Satire Brent Gilbert (The Catholic University of America)
Bite-Sized Lucretius: Passages of Repetition and Echo Edward A. Naumann (The Catholic University of America)
The Flavian Recusatio: Domitian, Statius, and Silvae 4.4 Sarah Danziger (New York University)
Two Synonyms for Codex in a Letter from Late Antiquity W. Gerald Heverly (New York University), CAAS Archivisit

11:00a.m.–12:30p.m. Paper Session B: Classical Receptions

Frederick J. Booth (Seton Hall University), CAAS Secretary, and Barbara F. McManus (The College of New Rochelle), CAAS Past President, presiding
Dryden's Recreation of Dido: Translation as Interpretation Grigory Starikovsky
Displaced German Scholars: Kurt von Fritz and Ernst Kapp at the Department of Greek and Latin of Columbia University, 1937–1954 Hans Peter Obermayer (City College, Munich)
Myth and Maidenhood in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth...