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