OCC Schedule of Events

Thursday, October 27

7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Bayley Room, OWU Library

• Catullus and Cicero, Bill Prueter
• Myth, Religion, and Childhood in Ancient Greece, Judith Dann
• Eyes Wide Shut: Blindness and Desire in Menander’s Aspis, Richard Rader
• The Classical Tradition and Margaret Atwood, Judith de Luce

9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Mowry Room, Mowry Alumni Center

• Reception, sponsored by the Greater Columbus Latin Club

Friday, October 28

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Benes Room, Hamilton Williams Campus Center

• Council Meeting

9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Benes Room, Hamilton Williams Campus Center

• Workshop: Meeting the Needs of All Students: Teaching Latin to Students with Special Learning Needs, Sherwin Little
• A Search for New Textbooks, Latin and Greek, Jane Ulrich
• Ohio Foreign Language Academic Contest Standards: What They Mean for Classicists, Debbie Robinson

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The Vergilian Society Luncheon

• Reckless Heroism: Camilla in the Aeneid, Lee Fratantuono

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Scenes from Ancient Comedy
OWU Classics and Theater Departments

• Ohio Wesleyan will also offer two guided tours of its campus
  (limited to 20 persons, 10 per tour)  

2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Panel on Classics and Cinema
Benes Room, Hamilton Williams Campus Center

• Classics and Cinema, with a talk on Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy, Bruce Heiden
• Use of Peripety in North by Northwest, as seen in Oedipus the Tyrant, Bill Prueter
• Homer Simpson and Homer Homer, Craig McVay
• Ancient Reminiscences and Modern Reflections of the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth in Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus and Jean Cocteau’s Orphée, Alan Corn
• I am Spartacus: The Politics of a Legend, Rich Elias
• Teaching Classics and Cinema, David Hahm

6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Mowry Room, Mowry Alumni Center

• Reception

7:30 p.m.
Ohio Classical Conference Banquet

• Why does the Satyr Smile?
  Thomas Carpenter

Saturday, October 29

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Benes Room, Hamilton Williams Campus Center

• Business Meeting

9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Panel on Classics and Religion
Benes Room, Hamilton Williams Campus Center

• Sending Dreams, Receiving Dreams: Oneiropompeia in Theory and in Practice, Sarah Johnston
• On Understanding Ancient Religion: Our Questions and Theirs, Fritz Graf
• Neoteric Poets and Cybele, Shannon Byrne
• Ancient Greek Cult Images, Jennifer Larson
• The Scandal of Women’s Ritual, Deborah Lyons
• A Star is Born: Classical and Mesopotamian Catasterisms, Jeff Cooley
  

 
 
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