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Annual CAM meeting at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
The annual meeting of the
Classical Association of Minnesota will take place at the Minneapolis Institute
of Art. See directions on last two
pages. Registration begins at
PROGRAM
10:00-10:30:
Registration;
CAM Annual
Dues: $10 for regular members, $5 for emeriti and students. Meeting
registration fee: $20 (includes coffee,
rolls, lunch and reception) or $10 without lunch. Please update your addresses.
To assist CAM
in preparing the proper lunch, we ask that you indicate via email to Bronwen
Wickkiser whether or not you will be taking lunch, and whether you prefer a
vegetarian meal: bronwen@gac.edu
Please RSVP by October 22.
10:30: Call to Order
10:30-11:15: Reports (each school represented has 2-3 minutes to
describe the state of Latin/Greek/Classics there and to announce any special
upcoming events)
11:15-12:15: Guest lecture by Prof. Kathleen Coleman, Harvard
University (“The Virtues of Violence: The Amphitheatre, Gladiators, and the
Roman System of Values”)
12:15-1:15: Lunch (catered by D’Amico & Sons)
1:15-1:30: Presentation of CAM Latin
Teacher of the Year award
1:30-1:45: Business meeting
1:45-2:45: Panel presentations on
ancient art and the classroom
2:45-3:45: Self-guided tours of the
ancient
collections
Kathleen Coleman was born and raised in
Zimbabwe. She was educated at the
University of Capetown (B.A. 1973), the University of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
(B.A. Hons 1975) and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (D.Phil. 1979). She taught at the
University of Cape Town (1979-1993) and held the chair of Latin at Trinity
College, Dublin (1993-1998) before joining the Harvard faculty. In 2003 she was
appointed a Harvard College Professor.
Professor
Coleman is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Philology and of the publications committee of
the American Philological Association, and co-editor with Richard Rutherford
(Christ Church, Oxford) of a new series, Oxford
Approaches to Classical Literature, for Oxford University Press.
Dr.
Coleman is the author of numerous books and articles. Her special interests
include: Latin literature; Roman cultural history, especially spectacle and
punishment; and mosaic decoration in the Roman world. She is currently writing a book on the Roman
arena entitled Staged Violence: The
Spectacles of the Roman Arena (Yale University Press).
Professor Coleman has participated in several radio and television programs, including contributions to the BBC, National Public Radio, the Discovery Channel, Grenada Television, and the History Channel. She was special consultant to Hollywood's Dreamworks studio in the recent production of the movie Gladiator.
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CAM Executive Committee 2003-2005
President – Matt
Panciera, Gustavus Adolphus College, mpanciera@gustavus.edu
Vice President - Steve Smith,
University of Minnesota, smith504@umn.edu
Acting Secretary – Bronwen
Wickkiser,
Gustavus Adolphus College, bronwen@gustavus.edu
(during Eric Dugdale’s year in Italy)
Treasurer - Ellen
Sassenberg, Mayo Senior High School, elsassenberg@rochester.k12.mn.us
Member at Large - Amanda
Wilcox, University of Minnesota, wilco043@umn.edu
Past President - Anne Groton,
St. Olaf College, groton@stolaf.edu
CAM Web Site
Manager - Beth Severy-Hoven, Macalester College, severy@macalester.edu
Mercurius
Editor - Chris Nappa, University of Minnesota, cnappa@umn.edu
Representative to the
Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures – Robert Epler, Benilde-St.
Margaret’s School, repler@bsm-online.org
UPCOMING EVENTS
Additional lectures by CAM keynote speaker Kathleen Coleman: |
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Gustavus Adolphus College (Thur., Oct. 28):
"Mosaics from A to Z: Antioch, Zeugma,
and
Floor Decoration in Late Roman Syria"
info: 507-933-8000 or
wfreiert@gustavus.edu
University of Minnesota (Fri., Oct. 29):
"Q. Sulpicius Maximus, Poet, Eleven
Years Old"
info: 612-625-5353 or cnes@umn.edu
All
lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures at the Minneapolis Institute
of Arts (MIA) are held at 6:00 p.m. on a Thursday evening in the large
auditorium of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
located at 2400 3rd Avenue South. They
are followed by a question and answer period and also an opportunity to dine
with the guest, usually at Christos Greek Restaurant at 2632 Nicollet Ave.
EXTRA: MN-AIA is also
launching an 8 part TV series to appear on various public access cable TV
stations. It features Minnesota scholars and researchers who work in
Mediterranean and adjacent countries on various sites of high archaeological
interest. No schedule is available as local cable TV stations will put it
on when they determine, so keep an eye peeled.
1. Oct 14, Science Museum of Minnesota, Argon Room,
7:00. Helen Bradley Foster on Sparto: An Ancient Greet Textile Plant.
2. Nov 4, Science Museum of Minnesota, Argon Room, 7:00. John Soderberg on
Ecology and Ethnic Conflict: Choosing Cattle, Sheep and
Deer in Medieval Ireland.
3. Dec 2, Science Museum of Minnesota, Argon Room, 7:00. Greg Laden on Food and
Sex: The Major Transitions in Human Prehistory.
4. Jan 13, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Pillsbury Auditorium, 6:00. Eva von
Dassow on Archives in Clay and Troops in Cuneiform: Society and History of
Alalakh on the Orontes, circa 1450 BCE.
5. Feb 3, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Pillsbury Auditorium, 6:00. Payson
Sheets on What Were Those Commoners Doing During the Classic Maya Period?
6. Mar 3, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Pillsbury Auditorium, 6:00. James P.
Delgado on Kamikaze: Discovering Kublai's Khan's Lost Fleet.
7. April 14, Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Pillsbury Auditorium, 6:00. Joseph Rife on The Archaeology of Life and Death at
a Roman port-town in Greece: the Kenchreai Cemetery Project.
8. May 12, Science Museum of Minnesota, Argon Room, 7:00. Mark Dudzik on The
Pipe Lake Sod Fort: a Dakota Conflict Era Military Fortification.
For more information on the
speakers and lecture outlines visit the Minnesota AIA web page at
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~call0031/mnaia.html
ANNOUCEMENTS
Mercurius
The fourth issue of Mercurius—CAM's newsletter for Minnesota
Latin students—will soon be available.
If you are not already on our mailing list, please contact Christopher
Nappa (cnappa@umn.edu) to request it.
Please note that we have begun to distribute a master copy only; this
includes a separate answer sheet for games and puzzles. Teachers may make as many copies as they need
and may distribute at will.
The Classical Association of Minnesota has chosen
the Latin Teacher of the Year for 2004 and will reveal the award recipient’s
identity and background at the annual meeting on October 30.
Latin Teacher of the Year Award for 2005: The nominee should be a
Latin teacher in an elementary, middle or high school and a member of CAM. He or she must demonstrate excellence in
teaching and foster in students an interest in continued Latin study. The nomination packet must include a resume
prepared by the candidate, information about the nominee’s school and Latin
program, a letter of
recommendation
from nominator, and
supporting
documentation from colleagues,
students
and administration. Materials should be
sent to Matthew Panciera, Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 West College Avenue,
St. Peter, MN 56082-1498. Deadline for
nominations is May 1, 2005.
The
Classical Association of Minnesota is pleased to present the Latin Teacher of
the Year Award for 2003 to Robert E.
Neslund of Shattuck-St. Mary’s School.
Neslund
received his B.A. from Wheaton College and his M.A. from St. John’s College. He
began teaching English and Latin at Shattuck in 1964 and is now the senior magister on the faculty. He has attended Terence Tunberg’s summer
workshop in conversational Latin at the University of Kentucky and is a member
of SALVI, the North American Institute for Living Latin Studies. He is serving
as state chair of the Junior Classical League, and is an active member and regular
speaker at CAM.
Apart
from his many accomplishments in classics, Neslund is also the organist at
Shattuck’s chapel, the substitute organist at Faribault’s Episcopal Cathedral
of Our Merciful Savior. He coordinates the Community Service Program at Shattuck,
and is the historiographer for the Episcopal diocese of Minnesota. In 1987 he
and co-author Benjamin Ives Scott published a book called The First Cathedral: An Episcopal Community for Mission, which
traces the history of the cathedral in Faribault. Richard Kettering, Director of Library Media
Services at Shattuck-St. Mary’s, describes Bob Neslund as “one of the kindest,
most selfless men I know. He gives freely of his time to provide extra help
sessions and tutoring for his students. He is a true gentleman and gentle man.”
Adapted from the award presentation speech made by
outgoing CAM president Anne Groton at last year’s CAM meeting.
New Appointments
Minnehaha
Academy (Upper)—Johanna Beck.
Blake
(new Latin program)—Nat Wagner.
Eagle
Ridge (new charter school)—Alvin Baker.
St.
Paul Central— Austen Rockcastle.
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Classics on the Stage and on the Screen
The
Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis is performing Oedipus the King January 15 -February 13, 2005, followed by
Shakespeare’s Pericles from February
12 - March 6, 2005 at their Lab theater. Details at
http://www.guthrietheater.org/.
And Alexander the Great has found a way to outdo even Achilles: he will star in two films! Yes, directors Baz Luhrmann (who directed the Oscar-winning Moulin Rouge) and Oliver Stone both hope to conquer the world with the compelling story of Alexander. Stone’s version, starring Colin Farrell and Sir Anthony Hopkins, is set for release on November 5; Luhrmann’s has been pushed back.
Results of 2004 National Latin Exam
Compiled by Stephen Smith
865 students at 26 schools
took the NLE
Gold:
65
Silver:
135
Magna:
118
Cum
laude: 102
Perfect
scores: 9
Benilde – St.
Margaret’s Junior High (Jessica Kestner)
21 students took the NLE
Latin I (21): 1 gold, 1 magna, 1 cum laude
Benilde – St.
Margaret’s Senior High (Rob Epler)
53 students took the NLE
Latin
I (9): 1 silver
Latin
II (23): 1 magna, 3 cum laude
Latin III prose (14): 1 gold, 3 magna, 2 cum laude
Latin
IV prose (1): 1 silver
Latin V (6): 1 gold
Cretin – Derham Hall (Judith Kavanaugh)
27 students took the NLE
Latin
I (13): 4 gold, 4 silver, 2 magna
Latin
II (6): 1 gold, 3 silver, 2 magna
Latin
III poetry (6): 3 silver, 1 magna
Latin
IV poetry (2): 1 cum laude
Edina Senior High (Emese Pilgram)
30 students took the NLE
Latin
II (15): 3 silver, 2 magna, 1 cum laude
Latin
III prose (1): 1 silver
Latin IV prose (11): 1 silver, 1 magna, 2 cum laude
Latin
V (3): 1 silver, 1 magna, 1 cum laude
John Marshall Senior High (Krista Osmundson)
58 students took the NLE
Latin
I (11): 4 cum laude
Latin
II (28): 1 silver, 4 magna, 3 cum laude
Latin III prose (12): 3 silver, 3 magna, 1 cum laude
Latin
IV poetry (1)
Latin IV prose (6): 1 magna, 1 cum laude
Minnehaha Academy [Middle] (Michelle Vitt)
58 students took the NLE
Intro
(29): 11 outstanding, 10 certificate
Latin I (29): 9 gold, 3 silver, 4 magna, 3 cum laude
Shattuck – St. Mary’s School (Bob Neslund)
9 students took the NLE
Latin
I (7): 1 silver, 1 magna, 2 cum laude
Latin
II (1): 1 cum laude
Latin III prose (1)
St. Paul Academy (Thor Polson)
5 students took the NLE
Latin
IV poetry (5): 4 silver
St. Thomas Academy (Mitch Taraschi)
49 students took the NLE
Latin I (20): 3 gold, 6 silver, 4 magna, 5 cum laude
Latin II (13): 1 gold, 4 silver, 4 magna, 1 cum
laude
Latin
III prose (12): 3 gold, 2 silver, 1 magna
Latin
IV prose (2): 1 silver
Latin
V prose (2)
Schaeffer Academy (Jim Kluth)
33 students took the NLE
Latin I (14): 4 gold, 2 silver, 5 magna, 3 cum laude
Latin II (19): 3 gold, 5 silver, 1 magna, 2 cum laude
Every year, CAM receives a number of tutoring requests. We have
set up a centralized clearinghouse for tutors for Latin and Greek, with names
of tutors listed on the CAM website, but we need more tutors in our database.
If you would like your name to appear on our website as a potential tutor,
please contact our webmaster Beth Severy-Hoven at severy@macalester.edu. You will need to
provide one reference who can speak to your language teaching abilities. If you or someone you know is seeking a
tutor, please visit our webpage to locate a tutor http://www.macalester.edu/~cam/tutors.htm
Barbara McCauley writes...
As
in years past our beginning Latin classes are full to overflowing. We have
capped our sections at 30, but cannot find it in our hearts to turn away
anyone, so our enrollment is over 180. We have switched texts again and are now
using Ecce Romani. Stan Iverson continues his stint as
Division Head. He is also a member of the ACL Finance committee, is on the ACL
committee to evaluate college-level textbooks, and the CAMWS ovatio committee. Barbara McCauley has just returned from
a welcome year-long sabbatical to begin her first year as chair of the
department. Part of her sabbatical research will be presented in a paper at the
APA entitled "Heroes, Territory, and Identity." She also took two students
to Greece this summer for two weeks on the island of Andros where they
participated in excavations at Palaiopolis. She hopes to be returning there in
future years. Ed Schmoll will be
co-leading the Credo in Crete program in Spring 2005, a semester long honors program.
We are very proud to say that Ed
received
Concordia's Flaat Distinguished
Teaching Award, certainly a well-deserved honor. The newest member of our faculty, Richard Stanley, will be co-leading the Classics May Seminar with me in 2005.
Will Freiert writes….
The
Gustavus Classics Department emerged from its tenth-year external review this
spring with flying colors. This year’s
visiting lecturers were Richard Thomas and John Peradotto. In addition, Stewart Flory gave a public lecture
on the Olympics in May. May also saw the
department’s second bi-ennial Festival of Dionysos at which students performed
selections from eight different Greco-Roman dramas.
Our
students’ biggest coup this year was the trip to New Orleans of Tasha Genck and
Kaija Hupila, who gave two of the four student papers
at
the annual meeting of Eta Sigma Phi. As
advisor
to Eta Sigma Phi, Eric Dugdale was delighted to witness the creativity of this
year’s officers. From bowling and broom-ball to a trip to the Minneapolis
Institute of Art and Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
at the Theater in the Round, they organized a rich spread of events.
Eric Dugdale gave a paper on recognition
formulae in Sophocles at the APA in San Francisco and a paper on Herodotus at
CAMWS. Stewart Flory presided over a session of Herodotus presentations at
the APA meetings. He is currently
working on a paper entitled “The Oral Composition of Thucydides' Speeches and
the Nature of Human Consciousness.” Stewart has made a temporary move to New
Haven, where he will be a Visiting Scholar at Yale for the coming academic
year.
In
addition to teaching one course each semester, Pat Freiert’s early retirement is completely taken up with her work
as a fabric artist. She exhibited at
several shows this year, has attended a couple of workshops on the west coast,
and is just putting the finishing touches on the dyeing studio she has
built. Will Freiert invested a major portion of his time last year
organizing an interdisciplinary academic symposium to lead off the inauguration
festivities for Gustavus’ new president.
He also lectured at the University of Arkansas and gave
a
public lecture at Gustavus on the history of the
liberal
arts. This summer Will was elected to
the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Humanities Commission. Matt
Panciera had his article "Livy, Conubium,
and Plebeians' Access to the Consulship" published in Augusto Augurio: Studies in
Roman Law and Religion, a festschrift for Jerzy Linderski on his seventieth
birthday. Matt has presented to the
Gustavus faculty on his use of the web in teaching and on the Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning group project he worked on last year and will chair in
the coming year. Bronwen Wickkiser delivered a paper on Asklepios-cult at the
University of Aarhus in January. She
spent the balance of January as the Harry Bikakis fellow at the American School
of Classical Studies at Athens where she continued to research the cult. In May, Bronwen received the Outstanding
Dissertation Award in Arts and Humanities from the University of Texas at
Austin for her 2003 dissertation. And in
June, she traveled to Cuba with Gustavus faculty to study the successes and
challenges of the Cuban revolution (part of Gustavus’ Service Learning for
Social Justice program). Gustavus has
extended a warm welcome to Mary McHugh,
who just finished her degree at Madison, and will be teaching this year for
Eric, who is spending the year lecturing at the Centro in Rome.
This summer, Joseph L. Rife successfully directed a field season of
interdiscplinary archaeological exploration, study, and conservation in the
major Roman cemetery of chamber tombs at Kenchreai, the eastern port of Corinth
in southern Greece. The 2004 season of
the Kenchreai Cemetery Project was supported in part by a grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
The field staff included senior collaborators France and Greece and 11
students, mostly from Macalester. Among the important accomplishments were
finishing the architectural survey, documenting the natural landscape,
recovering significant evidence for funerary rituals, and geophysical survey
that found a large, previously unknown building that appears to be a major
temple. This academic year Joe has been
invited to lecture on the Kenchreai Cemetery Project at international
colloquia in Saragossa (Spain),
Frankfurt, and
Paris, and he will speak at the
Minneapolis
Institute of the Arts for the Minnesota
Society of the AIA in April. Mireille M. Lee is teaching this year
in the departments of Classics and Art.
This past spring she co-organized (together with Shiela McNally,
University of Minnesota) the student symposium in association with the Miller
Collection of Roman sculpture. This
summer she was an Associate Member of the American School of Classical Studies
at Athens, where she undertook research on dress in archaic Athens. In October she will be presenting a paper on
archaeological ethics and pedagogy at the Classical Association of Atlantic
States Fall Meeting in Philadelphia.
Several Macalester students won
institutional, local and regional awards for their work in Classics last spring
and summer. Evelyn Adkins ('06) won a
Manson A. Stewart Scholarship from CAMWS as well as a prize for her paper on
constructions of barbaric identity in Hellenistic sculpture in the student
symposium at the MIA last spring, organized by Prof. Mireille Lee. Dhruva Jaishankar ('05) and Eeshani Kandpal
('05) both received Keck Summer Research Grants from Macalester to support
their archaeological work overseas on, respectively, taphonomy and burial
customs at Kenchreai, Greece, and monumental preservation at Omrit,
Israel. This fall (2004) we report
record numbers of students enrolled in the ancient languages at all levels.
St. Olaf
Anne Groton writes…
2003-04 was the year of the department's
self-study, which included a site visit by two outside evaluators, Helena
Dettmer and Greg Daugherty.
As a result, we decided to make modest
changes in our major requirements and add two advanced-
level topics courses, one in Latin, one
in Greek, to accommodate a growing number of majors (16 graduated in
'04). Our courses are packed again this year, so we all have our hands
full.
Scholarly highlights of the year
included Steve Reece's winning a
McIntosh Fellowship and publishing an article in Oral Tradition, Jon Bruss's
receiving not one but two book contracts, and Chris Brunelle's getting a chapter accepted in an edited
volume. Jon has now moved to the University of the South in
Sewanee, where we wish him well in his tenure-track job. Chris continues
to fill in for Provost Jim May, who
spends most of his time in the administration building. Jim was elected
to the APA Board of Directors last year, and Anne Groton began her term as Secretary-Treasurer of CAMWS.
(Don't forget to pay your dues!)
Last fall John Peradotto (SUNY-Buffalo)
spoke at St. Olaf on “The Greeks Revolutionize the Alphabet.” In the
spring two of our students attended the Eta Sigma Phi convention in New
Orleans, and Stephanie Walker '05 was elected national president; the next
convention will be held at St. Olaf, April 15-17, 2005.
Paul Moran, St. Olaf '00, now a
graduate student at the University of Virginia, will be returning to teach for
us in the second semester while Steve Reece enjoys a faculty development
grant. Meanwhile St. Olaf Classics students will be performing Plautus' Curculio both at St. Olaf and on the
road, March 10-12. If you are interested in having the play performed at
your school, please get in touch with Anne Groton.
St. Paul Academy and Summit
School
Thor Polson writes…
Latin has been extended into a fifth and
final year at our school. It was to have
been completely phased out by this spring and has in any case been replaced by
Chinese. A handful of students are
taking the fifth-year course as an AP course (Ovid/Catullus).
University of Minnesota
Amanda Wilcox writes…
We
are delighted to welcome four new instructors to the department of Classical and
Near Eastern Studies this fall. Lauren
Monroe (PhD 2004, New York University) and Ra'anan Boustan (PhD 2003 Princeton) join the faculty as assistant
professors. Lauren's research and teaching interests include the Hebrew Bible, Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and ancient
Israelite religious and social history, and Ra'anan's interests include
the literary history of
early
Jewish mysticism, and the interactions of emergent Judaism with pagan and
Christian cultures in late antiquity. Chris
Monroe (PhD
Michigan
2000), whose research has focused on the sociological
role of traders in the Eastern Mediterranean world during the Late Bronze Age,
has been appointed as lecturer. He is teaching a new course in Nautical
Archaeology. Andy Gallia (PhD 2003
Pennsylvania) is assistant professor in the history department. Andy
specializes in Roman history, and is teaching Intermediate Latin this semester.
Bill Malandra, a valued colleague,
has retired and is enjoying the sunshine in Austin, TX.
Many
of our graduate students enjoyed travel and work in the Mediterranean this
summer. Jeremy Huff attended the
summer program at the American Academy in Rome, aided by the Benario Travel
Award from CAMWS. Archaeology student Paul
Lesperance supervised three trenches at Azoria, in East Crete, and Marty Wells and Galya Toteva examined domestic architecture and pottery at Gordion,
in Turkey. We're glad to have Aaron
Poochigian back from his year as a regular member of the American School in
Athens, and Nick Hudson back from
over a year away, divided between a dig at Aphrodisias, an associate membership
at the American School, and study at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem. We
are also proud to report that alumna Johanna
Beck has joined the staff at Minnehaha Academy, and also that another alum and former CAM officer, Jon Bruss (PhD 2000) has begun a tenure-track job at the University of the South (aka
Sewanee). Another Minnesota alum, Susan
Guettel Cole (PhD 1975) is one of two candidates for the 2005 presidency of
the American Philological Association!
The
faculty has also been busy. Betty
Belfiore is on leave this semester to pursue her current book project, on
Socrates as an "erotic philosopher." Ra'anan Boustan has co-edited a collection of articles entitled Heavenly Realms and Earthly
Realities in Late Antique
Religions
(Cambridge 2004) and has published a paper on circumcision and castration in
Roman imperial legislation. Andrea
Berlin was named the 2004-5 Fessler-Lampert Professor of Humanities after
being promoted to full professor this spring. Her
current
book project is a synthetic treatment of the pottery of eastern Mediterranean
during the Hellenistic period.
Nita Krevans will publish an article
titled "The Editor's Toolbox: Strategies for Selection and Presentation in
the Milan Epigram Papyrus" in a collection forthcoming on the new
Posidippus papyrus. She has just returned from a conference on poetic careers
at Oxford, where she presented work on the Tudor poets. Bernie Levinson is on sabbatical this year, and aims to complete
his current book project on intellectual models within biblical studies. Chris Nappa's book on Vergil's Georgics, titled Reading After Actium, is scheduled to come out from the University
of Michigan Press this year. He remains our Director of Undergraduate Studies,
and has already signed up two students for our new undergraduate major in
Ancient Mediterranean Studies. Oliver Nicholson continues his labors
as general editor of the Oxford
Dictionary of Late Antiquity; he has also taken up the mantle of Director
of Graduate Studies for Betty while she is on leave. [And, as he himself
writes, he “lectured at Bristol and Exeter on the
Bosporus before and after Constantine and at Maynooth on preparation for
martyrdom in the early church. The new Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature (edd. F. Young, L.
Ayres and A. Louth, April 2004) contains his account of Arnobius and
Lactantius. His wine column in the Rake
magazine continues to give him pleasure.”]
Doug Olson has been
named a
Distinguished
McKnight University Professor,
an
honor that recognizes the University's "most outstanding mid-career
faculty." In Spring 2005, he will also begin a term as the editor for Classical Journal. [And, as he himself
writes, “my edition of the Thesmophoriazusae (with Colin Austin) will be published in mid-
September by Oxford University Press. I'm currently hard at work
on a new edition of Athenaeus' Deipnosophists
for the Loeb Classical Library; the first volume is scheduled to appear early
in 2006.”] Philip Sellew has a book in press titled The Hundredfold
Reward: Martyrdom and Sexual Renunciation in
Christian North
Africa, and is teaching a new course on death and the afterlife in
antiquity. Our chair, George Sheets,
recently presented a paper on "Making Sense of Death in the Law" at a
faculty colloquium at the U's law school. Eva
von Dassow is teaching Akkadian and pursuing her work on the hybridization
of Akkadian and Canaanite found in cuneiform tablets from
Amarna written in the 14th cent. BCE. Amanda
Wilcox has an article
on Cicero's letters of consolation forthcoming, and is thinking and writing
about exempla in Seneca's Dialogi.
Language
enrollments are healthy at the U. this year, thanks in part to the continuing
efforts of our Latin language coordinator, Steve
Smith. We are also happy to welcome another Latin program to the
University's College in the Schools program. Judith Kavanaugh and her students at Cretin-Derham Hall join old
hand Mitch Taraschi of St. Thomas
Academy and his students. Ellen
Sassenberg continues to offer University of Minnesota credit to her
students in Rochester at Mayo Senior High through her Post-Secondary Education
Option course.
Lorina Quartarone writes…
St. Thomas has a new classicist: Lorina Quartarone. I came here from the University of Montana,
where I spent the last 5 years. I am
perhaps most familiar to fellow Latinists (including high school teachers) as
the co-editor (w/W.S. Anderson) of the M.L.A.'s "Approaches to Teaching Vergil's
Aeneid" (2002). I hope to meet many of the Minnesota
classicists soon.
Individual
News
Julian Plante writes…
Julian G. Plante won this year’s Kay Sexton Award at
the 16th Annual Minnesota Book Awards ceremony on April 25,
2004. The Kay Sexton Award is presented to an individual who has
made outstanding contributions to the community of the book in Minnesota.
Plante, who was introduced by former Minnesota
Governor Elmer L. Andersen, was singled out for his scholarship and service as
founding director of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library at Saint John’s Abbey
and University in Collegeville, the work on the Minnesota book world he is
conducting in a volunteer capacity at the Minnesota Historical Society, his
service to the Friends of the Ramsey County Suburban Libraries, the Ramsey
County Historical Society, etc. He was featured in an article by
Sarah T. Williams, “Bookmarks: Writing the book on books,” in the Star Tribune, Sunday, May 16, 2004.
Bob Sonkowsky writes…
The on-line journal Electronic Antiquity <http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/>,
plans to publish [Univ. of Minnesota] Professor Emeritus Bob Sonkowsky's
article, “Latin Verse-Ictus and Multimodal Entertainment” in its November
2004 issue. The editors believe this may be the first electronic
article in the field of Classics with audio insertions. Readers will be
able to click on to Sonkowsky's performances of various lines of verse
illustrating points made in the article.
Rob Hardy
writes…
I had one private student, an eighth grader who
started studying with me in the fall, who took the "Introduction to
Latin" National Latin Exam and received a certificate of exceptional
merit: he only got one question wrong on the test. He'll continue to study Latin with me this
year. I'll also have at least three new
private Latin students. (Latin hasn't been offered in Northfield High School
since 1976.) In the fall, I'll be
teaching history, including Greece and Rome, to a group of homeschoolers in
Edina. And I have an essay,
"Sinclair Lewis's Work of Art," coming out this fall in the New
England Review. I should also add that I
had a most enjoyable return to Gustavus Adolphus as a judge for the Festival of
Dionysus in the spring!
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Items of interest from the regional
classics organization – CAMWS (www.camws.org)
News from CAMWS
By Stephen Smith, CAMWS VP
for Minnesota
Last
year (2003-04) was a big year for Minnesota in CAMWS. Anne Groton took over as Secretary-Treasurer
in April, and the administrative office moved from Randolph-Macon College
(Ashland, Va.) to St. Olaf. In addition,
Doug Olson was named the new editor of Classical
Journal; when the editorial office moves from Boulder (Colo.) to
Minneapolis this spring, it will the first time in at least 20 years that the
entire editorial staff will be at the same institution. A number of awards were announced at the
centennial meeting, held in St. Louis: Evelyn Adkins
(Macalester) won a Manson Stewart Scholarship, and Rachel Bruzzone (Univ. of
Minnesota) received an honorable mention; Jeremy Huff, a graduate student at
the University of Minnesota, won the Herbert and Janice Benario Award, which
helped to pay for his enrollment in the summer program at the American Academy;
finally,
Minnesota
was recognized for having the greatest increase in membership since the
previous year.
The
2004-05 annual meeting of CAMWS (Mar. 31-Apr. 2) will be hosted by the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. If
you’ve never been to a meeting of CAMWS, this will be a great chance to meet
friends and colleagues from all across our (very large) region without
traveling a great
distance. More information available soon at
http://www.camws.org/. See you in
Madison!
Eta
Sigma Phi comes to Minnesota!
Eta Sigma Phi, the national honorary collegiate
society for students of Latin and/or Greek, is holding its next annual
convention April 15-17 in Northfield, Minnesota, at the invitation of the Delta
Chi Chapter at St. Olaf College. The annual convention provides an opportunity
for students of classics from around the country to get to know other
classicists. Events include scholarly lectures, a certamen and a banquet with ancient dress optional and plenty of
time for socializing. See Eta Sigma Phi’s website at http://department.monm.edu/classics/esp/
Web Addresses for Local and National Classics
organizations:
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Directions to CAM meeting
The meeting is being held at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, located
at 2400 Third Avenue South, one mile
south of downtown Minneapolis, at the intersection of 3rd Avenue South and East
24th Street.
There
is usually plenty of on-street parking outside the Institute on 24th Street
South. There is also free off-street parking at the following locations:
Surface lot at
24th Street and Third Avenue South
-Enter the top level on Third Avenue, north of 24th Street.
-Enter the lower level on Clinton Avenue, north of 24th Street.
-Though free of charge, this controlled lot requires an exit code when leaving.
Simply request the code in our lobby at the Visitor & Member Services
Desk or the Security Desk. It is also available in the Museum Shop or at
ArtsCafé.
Surface lot at 25th Street and Third Avenue South
-Enter this lot on either Third Avenue or on 25th Street.
Parking ramp at 25th Street and Third Avenue South
-Enter all levels of this ramp on Third Avenue.
GETTING TO THE
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART:
http://www.artsmia.org/visit/directions.cfm
Coming from the EAST on 94 West (St.
Paul):
Travel
on 94 West and exit on the 11th Street exit. Follow 11th Street Exit to the
second stoplight. Turn left onto 3rd Avenue South. Continue on 3rd Avenue until
you see the museum on your right, just south of the intersection of 24th Street
and 3rd Avenue.
Coming from DOWNTOWN
Minneapolis:
Intersect
with 3rd Avenue and proceed south (away from the Mississippi river). Continue
on 3rd Avenue until you see the museum on your right, just south of the
intersection of 24th Street and 3rd Avenue.
Coming from the WEST
on I-394 East (Wayzata, St Louis Park, Golden Valley): Travel
on 394 East and exit on the 12th Street. Follow 12th street 4 blocks, turn
right on La Salle Street. Take La Salle to Franklin Street. Turn left on
Franklin and proceed to 3rd Avenue South. Turn right on 3rd Avenue and proceed
to the Museum. The entrance to the Institute is on the right.
Coming from the NORTH
and NORTHWEST on 94 East (Brooklyn Center, St.Cloud):
Travel
94 East and exit on Hennepin/Lyndale Avenues. When Hennepin/Lyndale Avenues
divide, continue on Lyndale Avenue South to W 24th street. Turn left and
proceed to 3rd Avenue. Turn right onto 3rd Avenue South. The entrance to the
Institute is on the right.
Coming from the NORTH
and EAST on 35W South ( Roseville, N. St Paul, Duluth):
Travel
on 35W South and take the I-94 West Exit. Proceed on 94 West and exit on the
11th Street exit. Follow 11th Street Exit to the second stoplight. Turn left
onto 3rd Avenue South. Continue on 3rd Avenue until you see the museum on your
right, just south of the intersection of 24th Street and 3rd Avenue.
Coming from the SOUTH
on 35W North (South Minneapolis, Burnsville, Rochester):
Travel
on 35W, North and exit on 31st Street/Lake Street. Turn left onto East 31
street and proceed to 1st Avenue South. Turn right and proceed north. After
crossing over Lake Street you will find traffic barriers on 1st Avenue that
have the potential to direct you to the left. Moving your vehicle to Nicollet
Avenue, proceed north on Nicollet to 24th Street. Turn right on 24th Street and
proceed to 3rd Avenue. Turn right onto 3rd Avenue South. The entrance to the
Institute is on the right.
The
Institute is located along Metro Transit route #9. A number of other bus lines
run within blocks of the museum.
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Parking information can be found at
<http://www.artsmia.org/visit/parking.cfm>.
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CAM ANNUAL DUES AND MEMBERSHIP FORM
If you would like to update your membership and/or contact information but cannot attend the annual meeting on October 30, please fill out the form below, include payment, and mail to Ellen Sassenberg, Mayo Senior High School, 1420 SE 11th Ave., Rochester MN 55904.
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