Illinois Classical Conference

Conference Program
October, 2003

Friday, October 10. 2003  

ICC Advisory Council Meeting (5:00-7:00)

Conference Registration

Session I:  Joint Session (AIA/ICC Lecture) (7:30-8:30)

Jennifer Tobin (University of Illinois, Chicago)
"The 2000 Excavations at Zeugma, Turkey "
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 Reception (8:30)

Saturday, October 11, 2003

Continental Breakfast (7:30-9:00)

Conference Registration

Books and Materials Exhibit, Quadrangle Club

                         Session II:  Electronics in the Classroom  (9:00-10:30)                           

Tom Sienkewicz (Monmouth College)
“Understanding Spoken Latin with Forum Romanum”
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Miriam Pittenger (University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign)
“‘Caesar III’ and the social world of urban Rome ”
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 Break (10:30-10:45)

Session III (Saturday, 10:45-11:30)

Patricia Graham-Skoul (Loyola University Chicago)

 “Friendship, Justice, Joy” (Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics)
(click here for abstract)

Kirk Shellko (Loyola University Chicago)
“Caesar’s Engagement of his Readers”
(click here for abstract)

Luncheon (12:00-1:00)

 Business Meeting (1:00-2:00)

Session IV  (Saturday, 2:00-3:00)

Janice Siegel (Illinois State University)
“Ovid’s Procne and Vergil’s Aeneid Book IV”
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 James Betts (Monmouth College)
“Che faro Senza Euridice?  The Role of Greco-Roman
            Culture in the Creation and Development of Opera”
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Session V:  Ancient Music (3:30-4:30)

Anachronistica
“Modes and Melodies of Ancient Greece and Rome"

 Toasting? (5:00-6:00)

 Banquet  (7:00)

Keynote Speaker: 

Professor Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago)
 “The Scopic Regime of Ancient Rome:
Politics, Sexuality, and the Gaze in the First Century CE.”
(click here for abstract)

  Sunday, October 12, 2003

Latin Mass
Bond Chapel (8:00 a.m.)

Session VI:  Latin Paedagogy (9:30-10:30)

Jim Chocola (Oak Park and River Forest High School)
"Let's Talk Latin!" (An Oral/Spoken Latin Workshop)
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 Lea Ann Osburn (Barrington High School)
“Dr Seuss and Grammar”
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Session VII:  Open Ideas Exchange (10:45-11:30)
Bring 25 copies of your idea to share.

Brunch (1:45-1:00)
John Makowski (Chicago Classical Club President, Loyola Chicago)
"Celluloid Caesar Salad: Classics and the Cinema"
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Business Meeting/Award Ceremony