Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest
Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting
Faculty Center, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
April 2-3, 2004

CLASSICS AND THE CLASSROOM


CAPN gratefully acknowledges the support of the Department of Classics, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Office of the Vice-Provost, and the Graduate School of the University of Washington

Friday April 2, 2004, 7:00-10:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Registration

7:30 p. m.-8:30 p. m.  KEYNOTE ADDRESS
‘Non omnis moriar -- I'm not dead yet!’
Professor Peter Howard, Professor and Chair, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Troy State University, and Director of the Teacher Placement Service of the American Classical League, the largest such service for teachers in this discipline in the country.

8:30 p. m.-9:00 p. m. Roundtable discussion:
                   'On the front lines of teaching Classics'
Panelists:    Nora J. MacDonald, Roosevelt High School, Seattle
        Christy Stocker, O'Dea High School, Seattle
9:00-10:00 p.m. Reception


Saturday April 3, 2004, 8:00 a. m. - 6:30 p. m.

Continental Breakfast: 8:00-8:45

Session A: 8:45-9:45
Spoken Latin: When, Where, and Why?
Stephen A. Berard, Wenatchee Valley College
Improving Enrollments and Student Retention in Latin
Daniel Monroe, Coos Bay, Oregon
Classics and the Gifted Student: My summer at the Center for Talented Youth (CTY), Johns Hopkins University
            Richard Wright, Olympia, Washington

Session B: 10:00-10:45
Electronic Presentations in Ancient History and the Classics
            Richard S. Williams, Washington State University
Presentation skills applied to Classics
Marilyn Schron Likosky, University of Washington
Presider: Catherine Connors, University of Washington

Session C: 11:00-12:15
Teaching the Portrait of Demosthenes: the hands
Ili Nagy, University of Puget Sound
Why TWO spheres? Archimedes and Translation in Cicero's De Republica
Mary Jaeger, University of Oregon
Greek Tragedy and Modern Audiences: A Comparative Approach
Thomas Falkner, The College of Wooster
Presider: Lawrence Bliquez, University of Washington

Lunch and Business Meeting: 12:15-1:30

Session D: 1:30-2:15
Where are the Teachers? Late Archaic Memorials for Musical Victories
Nigel Nicholson, Reed College
Xenophon's Plan of Zeus: Divine Authorization in the Anabasis
Sean Easton

Session E: 2:25-3:40
Education or Initiation? Plato’s Protagoras and the Derveni Papyrus
           Mark Buchan, Princeton University
The Sculpted Word: Definition as Depiction in Plato's Statesman
Mark Nugent, University of Washington
The Sources of Scientific Unity in Aristotle's Meteorologica I-III
Malcolm Wilson, University of Oregon
Presider: Ruby Blondell, University of Washington

Session F: 3:50-5:00
Felix Dahn's Kampf um  Rom: German Imperialism and Classical Crosscurrents
            Edward J. Danis, Central Washington University
Classics and the Classroom
Holly Haynes, Dartmouth College
Progymnasmata and Greek Prose Composition
Larry Kim, University of Texas at Austin
Presider: Stephen Hinds, University of Washington

Refreshments and Cash Bar: 5:00-6:30