The Department of Classics Annual Graduate
Colloquium Presents:
The Future of the Ancient: Making Classics Relevant
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Location: George Wells Knight House
Contact: teitel-paule.1@osu.edu or danielewicz.1@osu.edu
Keynote speaker: Mary Beard
9:00 – 9:30 Coffee
9:30 – 10:15 Brave New Ancient World - Bruce Heiden (Ohio State University)
10:15 – 10:45 Were the Classics Ever Relevant? - Marcos B. Gouvea (The University of Chicago)
10:45 – 11:15 On Poets and Poetry: The Anxieties of Poetic Reception in Callimachus' Epigrams - Sophia Bender (Columbia University)
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 The Deviation of the Standards: The Classics in Secondary Education - Erin O'Bryan (University of Pittsburgh)
12:00 – 12:30 The Homeric Ethos Experiment: The Modern Struggle to Be the Best of the Achaeans - Emily Joy Bembeneck, Matthew Cohn, Jonathan M. Rowland, (University of Michigan)
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:00 Canon Balls: Rethinking the Conditions of Reading Latin Texts - Ian Fielding (University of Warwick / UW-Madison)
2:00 – 2:30 Computer Technology and Textual Criticism - Harry Schmidt (University of Princeton)
3:00 - 3:30 Teaching Classics and American Identity: A new angle on the "relevance" of Greco-Roman antiquity - Lyra Monteiro (Brown University)
3:30 – 3:45 Break!
3:45 – 5:15 Keynote Address: Does Classics Have a Future? - Mary Beard (Cambridge University)
