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CONFERENCE PROGRAM (Subject to Change) |
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Atlantic Classical Association Annual Meeting 2007 |
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Friday, October 26 |
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Session One: Scriptural Exegesis Room 1184 Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Bldg.
Matthew Mitchell Dalhousie University Lost Syrian Jewish Traditions and ‘Bodiless Demons’: Searching for ‘authentic’ written sources in Ignatius of Antioch
Reuben Penner Dalhousie University Exegesis, Historicity, Symbol and Politics: Eusebius as Exegete and Political Theorist in his Tricennial Oration
Tim Riggs Dalhousie University A Short Analysis of the Typological Relationship between Moses and Joseph in Philo’s Vitae |
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2:00-2:30pm |
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Registration Office of the Department of Classics Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 1172 |
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2:30-4:00pm (Concurrent Sessions)
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Session Two: Art and Archeology Room 2162 Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Bldg.
Myles McCallum St. Mary’s University An Overview of the Pottery Industry at Pompeii
Robbie Bhardwaj Brock University Redefining Space in the Agora
William G. Kerr University of New Brunswick The Decennalia of Antoninus Pius: a Numismatic Perspective |
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7:00pm |
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Keynote Address Dr Sabine MacCormack University of Notre Dame Rev’d Dr Theodore M. Hesburg, C.S.C. Chair in Arts and Letters, Kellogg Insitute of International Studies Fellow, and Professor of History “Ways of Textual Exegesis: Augustine Thinks about the Book of Genesis”
Rowe Building, Room 1009
Reception to follow in the Fireplace Lounge, Level One, Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building |
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Saturday, October 27 |
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9:00-9:30am Coffee Departmental Lounge, Department of Classics
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9:30-11:00am (Concurrent Sessions)
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Session Four: Tragedy in Athens and Beyond Room 2021 Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Bldg.
Stephen Russell McMaster University Modern Medeas of the Screen and the Role of the Divine
Brad Levett Memorial University of Newfoundland Sophrosunę in Sophocles’ Antigone
Patrick Callahan Fordham University The Voice of Popular Discontent in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon |
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Session Three: Roman Culture Room 1198 Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Bldg.
Craig Maynes Memorial University of Newfoundland Malesuada Otia: The Culture of Hunting in the Poetry of Late Antique Gaul
Kristin Slonsky Dalhousie University Redefining Hereditary Enemies in Caesar’s De Bello Gallico
Mark Temelini University of Prince Edward Island Salus et pax contra Catilinam |
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11:15am-12:30pm Lunch Departmental Lounge, Department of Classics
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12:30-2:30pm (Concurrent Sessions)
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Session Five: Latin Poetry Room 1198 Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Bldg.
Melissa Rothfus Mount St Vincent University Cloak and Scammer: Martial on Misleading Appearances
Vaios Vaiopoulos Ionian University, Greece Hypermestra pia et flebilis: Reading Ovid’s Her. 14
Cillian O’Hogan University of Toronto Romanitas and Virginitas in Prudentius’ Liber Peristephanon
Beert Verstraete Acadia University Book IV of Propertius' Elegies: Why is it Problematic and Puzzling? |
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Session Six: Augustine and Eriugena Room 2021 Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Bldg.
Martin Sastri Notre Dame University The Augustinian Conception of Spiritus as Mediator
Benjamin Lee Dalhousie University The Significance of Anti-Sceptical Arguments to the Problem of Self-Knowledge in Augustine’s De Trinitate
Wayne Hankey Dalhousie University Eriugena: Philosophy in Heaven and Underground |
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2:45-4:45pm (Concurrent Sessions)
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Session Seven: Historiography, Memory and Iconography Room 1198 Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Bldg.
Bonnie MacLachlan University of Western Ontario Eponymous Nymphs and Greek Identity
Alison Barclay St Mary’s University Influence, inspiration or innovation? The importance of contexts in the study of iconography
Kathryn Simonsen Memorial University of Newfoundland Theophrastus and History
Vernon Provencal Acadia University The Constitutional Debate as a ‘Herodotean’ Argument (Hdt. 3.80) |
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Session Eight: Philosophical Consolation Room 2021 Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Bldg.
Michael Fournier Dalhousie University Boethius’ Pythagorean Consolation
Elizabeth Baxter Dalhousie University The ‘New Sappho’ and the Phaedo: Reflections on Immortality
Daniel Wilband Dalhousie University The Character of Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Alcibiades
Seamus O’Neill Dalhousie University Plotinian Transcendence and the Via Negativa |
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