24th

The annual CAM meeting will be held at McNeeley Hall (Room 100), on the campus of the University of St. Thomas, on Saturday, October 24, 2009. Our featured speaker will be Professor Barbara Boyd from Bowdoin College.

Professor Boyd has written extensively on Ovid and her talk is entitled “Island-Hopping:
Ovid’s Ariadne and Her Texts.” Professor Boyd teaches at Bowdoin College in Maine and specializes in Latin poetry, especially the works of Virgil and Ovid. Click on the "Annual Conference" link to the left for additional details.

18th-20th

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Roman Soldiers will march on New Ulm

Sept. 18-20 2009 

In the year 9 AD, Roman Legionnaires from the XVII, XVIII and XIX Legions fought a battle east of the Rhein River in northern Germany.  

The City of New Ulm and the Hermann Victory Committee are hosting a three day Hermann Victory Celebration on Sept 18th, 19th, and 20th 2009.

Members of the XIIII Legion Milwaukee area and   the X Legion Chicago area will set up camp near the famous Hermann Monument and reenact the Battle of Teutoburger Wald. Roman soldiers and German tribal “barbarians” led by Hermann the German (or Arminius as he was known to the Romans) will once again meet in the Teutoburger Forest to set the course for the future of Germany.

Everyone is invited to join in the reenactment.  We’ll supply the face paint and some Cherusci Auxiliary uniforms.    Learn a bit of the history and dress and  arm yourself as they might have 2000 years ago. 

Visit the camp that afternoon (all barbarians welcome) and later that day on Saturday September 19th, a 2000 year old event in history will be revisited.

Academic Symposium: "Hermann in Perspective"

Sept. 19, 9:30-11:30 AM (Martin Luther College)

Martin Luther College will host an academic symposium on Saturday, Sept.19, 9:30 - 11:30 AM. The symposium is free of charge and no registration is necessary.

The symposium will feature two guest speakers. Dr. Hans Otto-Friedrich Mueller, Classics chair at Union College, Schenectady, NY, will speak on the Roman historical record of the event, highlighting especially some of the religious aspects that factored into the conflict. Dr. Mueller has recently served as editor of a new abridgement of Gibbon's history of Rome, and has published numerous articles on Roman historiography alongsideof his book "Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus (Routledge)."

Dr. James Booker, prof. emeritus of Minnesota State Univ., Mankato, will speak concerning the military aspects of the battle. Dr. Booker is an alumnus of West Point, and combined his interested in military strategy with his love of classics in his dissertation work for the Univ. of Nebraska, writing specifically on Arminius' battle tactics in the 9 A.D. conflict.

Martin Luther College is located directly across the street from the Hermann monument in New Ulm. The event will be held in the auditorium.

For more information concerning the entire festival weekend, please visit hermannmonument.com.

Aeneidathon: an all-day marathon reading of Virgil's Aeneid

We're going to celebrate National Poetry Month in style! Twelve books, one day. It starts at 11:00 am and ends when we're done. (We're guessing about 10:00 pm.)

Where?
Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. On Shaw Field, outside the Leonard Center. If the weather doesn't cooperate we'll be in the basement of the Campus Center.

When?
Thursday, April 30 starting at 11:00 am.

How?
With your help! The day will be split up into rough 15-minute shifts. Sign up by emailing me at doosterh@macalester.edu or visit the sign-up sheet on my door on the fourth floor of Old Main. Sign up for as much as you think you can handle! There will be room for drop-in volunteers on the big day, too. Tell your friends! Tell their friends!

Do I have to read it in Latin?
No, you don't have to, but you sure can. The whole Aeneid is going to be read in English. But wouldn't it be great to hear some of it in Latin? I'm sure some of you brave souls will be willing to give the Latin a try. Maybe your professors would give you extra credit for doing so? (Hint, hint, professors.) Maybe someone wants to read a little in Italian too, or other languages? We'll have lots of editions around so you can pick your translation or bring your favorite with you.

How long will it take?
Judging by other schools that have done this we're guessing 10-12 hours. Come for all of it, some of it, as much as you can or as much as you can handle.

Carleton College Senior Symposium

The annual CAM meeting will be held at McNeeley Hall, on the campus of the University of St. Thomas, Saturday, November 1st, 2008. The guest speaker will be Stephen Berard, professor in the Department of World Languages at Wenatchee Valley College in Washington. He has been a leading figure in the recent revival of teaching Latin as a spoken language and he is the organizer and moderator for Conventiculum Vasintoniense, a 9-to-10-day activity-based spoken Latin conference held at various venues in Washington State.

Euripides Scholar to Lecture at Gustavus Adolphus College "Pavane for a Dead Infant: Consolation in Euripides' Hypsipyle,"

K.O. Chong-Gossard, lecturer at the University of Melbourne, will present an invited public lecture on campus Monday, Oct. 13. His lecture, titled "Pavane for a Dead Infant: Consolation in Euripides' Hypsipyle," begins at 7 p.m. in Confer Hall, Room 128. It is sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Department of Theatre and Dance, and Curriculum II.

Chong-Gossard will discuss a lesser known Euripidean tragedy, his Hypsipyle, a play preserved only in fragments. Chong-Gossard is currently working on the first major study of the Hypsipyle as a work of drama. His lecture explores the theme of consolation, demonstrating that the play dramatizes consolatory gestures in an innovative way, and makes a bold statement about forgiveness in the face of human tragedy.

The Iliad at Carleton College

On Friday, October 17 the Aquila Theatre Company will be performing their stage adaptation of Homer's Iliad Book One on the Carleton Campus. The performance is free and open to the public. Seating will be first come first served. The performance is in Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. and lasts about 90 minutes.

Aquila Theatre Company Synopsis (.doc)

Aquila is an exciting theatre troupe, which has recently received a large grant from the NEH to carry out partnerships with colleges and libraries to broaden the reach of classics. This traveling Iliad is part of this overall project. Their artistic director, Peter Meineck, has translated many Greek plays for the stage, especially Aristophanes. For more information, please see their website:

http://www.aquilatheatre.com