Annual CAM meeting will be held in room 100 of McNeeley Hall, on the campus of the University of St. Thomas

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Our keynote speaker is Jenny Strauss Clay of the University of Virginia, whose lecture is entitled “Envisioning Troy.”

Program

9:30-10:00:

Registration & continental breakfast (coffee, OJ, muffins).

CAM Annual Dues: $20 for regular members, $10 for emeriti and students.

Meeting Registration Fee: $15 (advance registration $10) and an additional $10.00 for lunch.

Please RSVP to Lorina Quartarone (lnquartarone@stthomas.edu) by Saturday, November 3, to let her know if you are planning on attending, and if you are reserving a box lunch ($10) – specify whether you wish a vegetarian lunch. If you wish to send payment in advance and get the advance meeting registration rate, send checks made out to CAM and postmarked by Saturday, November 3:
Ellen Sassenberg
Mayo High School
1420 SE 11th Ave
Rochester, MN 55904

10:00: Call to Order.

10:00-10:45: Reports (each school represented has 2-3 minutes to describe the state of Latin/Greek/Classics there and to announce any special upcoming event.

10:45-11:00: Presentation of the CAM Teacher of the Year award.

11:00-12:00: Guest lecture by Jenny Strauss Clay of the Classics Department of the University of Virginia: “Envisioning Troy.”

12:00-1:00: Lunch (box lunches, sodas, water)

1:00-2:30: Afternoon Session. The afternoon session will be on “using” Minnesota (art, architecture, geography, etc.) to teach the ancient world. If anyone has suggestions or would like to make a brief presentation, please contact Steve Smith (smith504@umn.edu).

About the keynote speaker:

Professor Jenny Strauss Clay is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classics and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Virginia. The focus of her scholarly work has been on archaic Greek poetry, more specifically, the "theology" of the early Greek poets; that is, their views on the relations between gods and men. She is the author of The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey, The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns, and Hesiod's Cosmos, and has published numerous articles on Greek and Roman poets. She is currently working on the Iliad.