APA Annual Meeting 2010
Classical Reception at the American Philological Association Meeting
6-9 January 2010
Anaheim, California
The following papers may be of interest to those working in the field of reception studies. Paper titles are linked to abstracts where available.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Section 4: Vergil and the American Experience: From Colonization to Iraq
8:30 am - 11:00 am
Sponsored by the American Classical League
Mary C. English and Richard Thomas, Organizers
Vergil has had a central role in Classics in America for a very long time. The appeal of the Aeneid, with its record of colonization and foundation, is obvious. Vergil’s is the only name used in the title of an Advanced Placement test in US high schools. The president of the ACL congratulated Mussolini on the bimillennium of Vergil in a US that was more admiring of Italian fascism than it would come to be in the late 1930s and 1940s. An uneasiness about America’s wars of the last 40 years has made the American Vergil an ideologically interesting figure. This panel will examine Vergil’s varied role in the American experience from a variety of experiences.
1. Corinne Pache, Trinity University
“And So Say We All”- Reimagining Empire and the Aeneid (15 mins.)
2. Jennifer A. Rea, University of Florida
The Politics of Fantasy: Culture Wars and Post-Colonialism in Ursula K. LeGuin’s Lavinia (15 mins.)
3. Tara S. Welch, University of Kansas
“Shock and Awe,” Actium, and Self-Delusion in Vergil’s Aeneid (15 mins.)
4. Leslie Cahoon, Gettysburg College
Inferretque Deos Latio: Virgilian Intrusions in Willa Cather’s “Catholic” Novels (15 mins.)
5. David M. Pollio, Christopher Newport University
Vergil and American Symbolism (15 mins.)
Section 7: Teaching Medieval Manuscripts
8:30 am - 11:00 am
Sponsored by the Medieval Latin Studies Group
Barbara Shailor, Organizer
1. Frank Coulson, The Ohio State University
Codices Latini Ohienses: Regional Collections as Research and Teaching Tools (20 mins.)
2. Diane Warne Anderson, St. John’s University
Cicero at HMML: An Undergraduate Latin Class Utilizes the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (20 mins.)
3. Consuelo Dutschke, Columbia University
Manuscripts on the Web (20 mins.)
4. Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University/ Dumbarton Oaks
The Manuscript Kit (20 mins.)
Barbara Shailor, Yale University
Respondent (20 mins.)
Section 11: Vergil and His Translators
11:15 am - 1:15 pm
Sponsored by the Vergilian Society
Steven L. Tuck, Organizer
1. Timothy Wutrich, Case Western Reserve University
Performing Virgil’s Aeneid (15 mins.)
2. Richard Armstrong, University of Houston
The First Modern Aeneid: Enrique de Villena’s Eneida of 1428 (15 mins.)
3. Susanna Morton Braund, University of British Columbia
The Meaning of Metre in European Translations of the Aeneid (15 mins.)
4. Stephen Scully, Boston University
Dyden’s Aeneis in Light of His First Book of Homer’s Ilias (20 mins.)
Lorna Hardwick, The Open University
Respondent (10 mins.)
Section 12: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman and Early Byzantine Egypt
11:15 am - 1:15 pm
Sponsored by the American Society of Papyrologists
Raffaella Cribiore, Organizer
This panel of the American Society of Papyrologists presents a very rich array of papers that testify to a variety of approaches. Most of them are literary with an important exception, a paper that gives an assessment of studies on Byzantine Egypt. The other papers concern a papyrus that is a text-case for early bilingualism (Greek-Demotic); books within their archaeological context that illuminate literacy; new forms of religiosity in the Roman empire and the Antinoos cult; and a miniature codex with Christian oracles.
4. Kevin Wilkinson, Yale University
A Greek Ancestor of the Medieval sortes sanctorum (15 mins.)
5. James Keenan, Loyola University of Chicago
Byzantine Egypt: State of the Questions (15 mins.)
Section 13: Neo-Latin in Europe and the Americas: Current Research
11:15 am - 1:15 pm
Sponsored by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies
Edward V. George, Organizer
Using new resources and analytical approaches, panelists will reexamine Four Neo-Latin works, spreading from the fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries and topically bridging the Atlantic: Coluccio Salutati’s De laboribus Herculis and its debt to medieval Boethius commentaries; the genesis of Johannes Secundus’ Basia, now considered in light of a working manuscript of the poet; the Hungarian Neo-Latinist Stephen Parmenius’ 1583 poem De navigatione, honoring the transatlantic explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert and containing a distinctive personification of America; and the novelistic development of the character sketch genre in John Barclay’s Euphormio's Satyricon and Icon Animorum.
1. Jane Chance, Rice University
Coluccio Salutati’s De Laboribus Herculis and the Medieval Boethius Commentary Tradition (30
mins.)
2. W. J. C. M. Gelderblom, Radboud University Nijmegen
One Kiss Can Make a Difference: The Genesis of Johannes Secundus’ Basia (30 mins.)
3. Anne-Marie Lewis, York University
The Personification of America in Stephen Parmenius’ De Navigatione (30 mins.)
4. Mark Riley, California State University, Sacramento
John Barclay as a Writer of Characters (30 mins.)
Section 17: Neoplatonism and the East
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Sponsored by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Svetlana Slaveva-Griffin and John F. Finamore, Organizers
Neoplatonists’ movement to the East after Justinian’s closing of the Academy in Athens in 529 C.E. was only a formal acknowledgement of the deep conceptual and spiritual ties which the successors of Plato fostered with Eastern philosophies and religions. This panel explores the multi-dimensional interaction of Neoplatonism with Eastern intellectual, scientific, and spiritual life.
3. Denis Searby, University of Stockholm
Stephen of Alexandria, Last of the Neoplatonists, First of the Medieval Sages (15 mins.)
4. Sara Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan
Traditions of Self-Knowledge from Socrates to Suhrawardi (15 mins.)
5. Dave Yount, Mesa Community College
Nibbana, the Good, and the One: The Similarity among Buddha, Plato, and Plotinus’ Ultimate
Experience (15 mins.)
6. Deepa Majumdar, Purdue University North Central
Paramphrusa in the Bhagavadgita and the Plotinian One (15 mins.)
APA Presidential Panel: Classical Antiquity and Social Science
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Josiah Ober, Organizer
1. Ryan Balot, University of Toronto
Interpretation, Appropriation, and Critique in the Study of Classical Rationalism
2. Emily Mackil, University of California, Berkeley
The New Institutionalism and the Ancient World
3. Ian Morris, Stanford University
Putting the Classics in Their Place: Greece and Rome in Global, Long-term Context
Friday, January 8, 2010
Section 24: Visualizing Ancient Narrative: From Manuscript to Comics
8:30 am - 11:00 am
Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Classical Tradition
Judith Fletcher, Organizer
1. Julia Gaisser, Bryn Mawr College
Illuminating Apuleius’ Golden Ass (20 mins.)
2. Nina Athanassoqlou-Kallmyer, University of Delaware
Possessing Homer: Alma Tadema’s A Reading from Homer (20 mins.)
3. Thomas Jenkins, Trinity University
Between Worlds Old and New: N. C. Wyeth’s Odyssey Illustrations (20 mins.)
4. C. W. Marshall, University of British Columbia
Odysseus and The Infinite Horizon (20 mins.)
Mary Louise Hart, J. Paul Getty Museum
Respondent (20 mins.)
Section 33: Reception I
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Richard Thomas, Presider
1. Ioannis Ziogas, Cornell University
Ovid in Rushdie, Rushdie in Ovid: A Nexus of Artistic Webs (15 mins.)
2. Arthur Pomeroy, Victoria University of Wellington
The Epiphany Scene in Angelopoulos’ Ulysses’ Gaze (15 mins.)
3. William J. Dominik, University of Otago
Africanizing Sophocles’ Antigone (15 mins.)
4. David P. C. Carlisle, Washington and Lee University
Confession, Reevaluation, and the Subjectivity of Religious Experience in C.S. Lewis’s Use of Apuleius (15 mins.)
5. Stephen B. Heiny, Earlham College
Gide’s Philoctète: An Untested Happiness (15 mins.)
Greece and Rome in Silent Cinema: A Screening of Silent Films with Piano Accompaniment
Sponsored by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance
In the first four decades of cinema, hundreds of films were made which drew their inspiration from the ancient Mediterranean. With the exception of a handful of silent films which have been restored and released on DVD and a few more which have been screened in film festivals, the films in question are largely forgotten. Ranging from historical and mythological epics to adaptations of Greek drama, burlesques, animated cartoons and documentaries, these films suggest a preoccupation with the ancient world which competes in intensity and breadth with that of Hollywood's classical era. The event will provide a small sample of these films, drawn from the collections of the British Film Institute National Archive, and will be accompanied by an improvised piano performance. The screening in the evening of Friday, January 8, will complement the CAMP panel to be held midday on Saturday, January 9.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Section 33: Reception II
8:30 am - 11:00 am
Stephen Hinds, Presider
1. Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University
William Lewis Bulkley (1861-1933): The First African American to Earn a Doctorate in Latin (15 mins.)
2. Scott McGill, Rice University
Plagiarism and Praise in the Reception of Virgil (15 mins.)
3. Brad L. Cook, San Diego State University
Cicero to Petrarch: “Falsum!” Implicating Petrarch, Fam. XXIV.3 (15 mins.)
Section 40: Literary and Philosophical Biography: Ancient Lives, New Approaches
8:30 am - 11:00 am
Richard Fletcher and Johanna Hanink, Organizers
The purpose of this panel is to reappraise the uses and usefulness of ancient traditions about the lives of poets and philosophers in Greco-Roman antiquity. While important work on intellectual biography in antiquity has done much to demolish the credibility of these traditions, in the last decades scholars have begun to see the ‘popular fiction’ element of biography as a topic deserving of study in its own right. The contributions to this panel therefore explore a variety of new directions in research in this field, devoting particular attention to questions of methodology.
2. Constanze Güthenke, Princeton University
Lives as Parameter: The Privileging of Ancient Lives as a Category of Research Around 1900 (15 mins.)
Section 41: Classics and the Great Books
8:30 am - 11:00 am
Sponsored by the APA Committee on Outreach
Judith P. Hallett, Organizer
Our panel examines a longstanding, influential classics outreach initiative in North American undergraduate institutions of higher education: “Great Books” core curricular programs, which teach selected ancient Greek and Roman texts in translation along with other primary source texts awarded canonical status in the western liberal arts tradition. Presentations will consider these programs from the larger historical perspective of American higher education as well as in specific institutional locals, considering their limitations as well as their strengths.
1. Owen Cramer, Colorado College
Chicago Humanities After Six Decades (15 mins.)
2. Marian Makins, University of Pennsylvania
Classical Studies and the Aspen Seminar (15 mins.)
3. Elizabeth Vandiver, Whitman College
Great Books in the Liberal Arts Curriculum: The Necessity of Context (15 mins.)
4. H. Christian Blood, University of California, Santa Cruz
By Means of Books and a Balance: Great Books at St. John’s and Santa Cruz (15 mins.)
5. Elizabeth Scharffenberger, Columbia University
“Loose Canons”: Comic Texts in Great Books Courses (15 mins.)
Michael Broder, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Respondent (15 mins.)
Section 42: The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students
8:30 am - 11:00 am
Sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi
Thomas J. Sienkewicz, Organizer
Eta Sigma Phi, the national classics honorary society for undergraduate students of Latin and Greek, offers this panel showcasing the scholarship of undergraduate classics students. Papers deal with a variety of aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman world and the reception of classical culture in modern times. An established scholar has been invited to serve as respondent to the student papers.
4. Lauren Halliburton, University of Arkansas
Shakespeare’s Moral Code: A Reinvention of Ovid and Golding? (20 mins.)
Section 46: Greece and Rome in Silent Cinema
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke, Organizers
This panel explores the thematic diversity, formalist experimentation, and geographical spread of the early cinematic interest in Greece and Rome. On the one hand it seeks to address questions about the modernity and popularity of a media culture which competes with sanctioned art forms and flirts with classicism and education, while also pursuing the pleasures of escapism and the thrills of amazement. On the other hand it hopes to show how the modernity of early cinema has become an antiquity that awaits its own rediscovery in order to challenge more familiar polarities between mainstream commercial cinema and art-house cinema.
1. Pantelis Michelakis, University of Bristol
The Comic - Sentimental and Grotesque: Louis Feuillade’s Lysistrata (20 mins.)
2. Margaret Malamud, New Mexico State University
Consuming Passions: Helen of Troy in the Jazz Age (20 mins.)
3. Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan
Narrative and Illustration in Silent Versions of Quo Vadis (20 mins.)
4. Maria Wyke, University College London
Visual Education: Silent Cinema, Roman History, and the American High School Curriculum (20 mins.)
Section 51: Contexts for Greek and Roman Drama
Sponsored by the APA Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance
1:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Hallie Rebecca Marshall, Organizer
1. Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Florida Atlantic University
Morality and Politics in José Triana’s Medea en el espejo (20 mins.)
2. Amanda Wrigley, Northwestern University
Greek Tragedy as Cultural Project (20 mins.)
3. Melinda Powers, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Celebrating Bacchae in West Hollywood (20 mins.)
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