2005-2006 MN-AIA Lecture Schedule

Minnesota Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (MN-AIA)

Donald Hammer, President

All lectures are free and open to the public.

This year some of the lectures will be held at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, 120 West Kellogg Blvd (map at http://www.smm.org), in the Argon Room. Lectures are followed by time for questions and answers. For those who are interested, dinner with the speaker precedes the 7:00 lecture at a local St. Paul restaurant--Babani's Kurdish Restaurant, 544 St. Peter St.

Several lectures will also be held at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday evenings in the large auditorium of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts located at 2400 3rd Avenue South (seea MIA�s website, http://www.artsmia.org/index.cfm). The large auditorium is called "Pillsbury Auditorium" (not to be confused with the building at the U of M). The lectures at the MIA 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.

1. Thursday, October 13, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Speaker: Christopher Monroe

Topic: Lessons from a Late Bronze Age Shipwreck: a Decade after Uluburun

2. Thursday, November 3, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Speaker: Robert Ferguson

Topic: Archaeology as Science in the Age of Wren

3. Thursday, December 1, 2005, 7:00 p.m. Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Speaker: Gilbert Tostevin

Topic: Culture Contact of a Different Type: Neanderthals and Modern Humans in
Central Europe at 40,000 years ago.

4. Thursday, January 19, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Speaker: Ronald T. Marchese

Topic: More than a Famous Battle: Recent Archaeological Investigations at the Ancient Town of Plataiai, Greece

5. Thursday, February 2, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Speaker: William Saturno

Topic: Camino en Mal Estado: Archaeological Exploration and Discovery in Guatemala

6. Thursday, March 2, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Speaker: Michael Roaf

Topic:� Art and War at the Achaemenid Court

7. Thursday, April 6, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Speaker: James C. Anderson

Topic: Ghostwriting? Or Lying in Stone?: Can We Believe Roman Building Inscriptions?

8. Thursday, May 4/11, 2006, 7:00 p.m.
Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Speaker: Scott Anfinson, Ph.D

Topic: What Wilford Didn't Know: 80 Years of Minnesota Archaeology

For more information on the speakers and lecture outlines visit the Minnesota AIA web page at

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~call0031/mnaia.html

Schedule for Speakers of the Classical and Near Eastern Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

For the fall, all lectures will take place at 306 Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant St. SE, Mpls. MN 55455. The time for the lectures is always 4:15.

In the spring, the department is scheduled to move out of its current digs.� The venue for the spring 2006 lectures is not known yet.� For details, consult the department�s website at http://cnes.cla.umn.edu nearer the time.

Speakers

1. Friday, Oct. 14, 2005, 4:15 p.m.

Speaker: Garrett Fagan, Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Topic: Roman Areas and Crowd Dynamics (pseudo-archaeology)

2. Friday, Oct. 28, 2005, 4:15 p.m.

Speaker: John Miller, Professor and Chair of Classics, University of Virginia

Topic: Greek Perspective on Octavian Apollo at Actium

3. Friday, Dec. 9, 2005, 4:15 p.m.

Speaker: Elizabeth Belfiore, Professor of Classic, University of Minnesota

Topic: The Poets at the Symposium

4. Friday, Feb. 3, 2006, 4:15 p.m.

Speaker: Richard Janko, Gerald F. Else Collegiate Professor of Classical Studies and Chair, University of Michigan

Topic: From the Santorini Eruption to Mopsus in Cilicia: Greek Memories of the Bronze Age

5. Thursday, March 30, 2006, 4:15 p.m.

Speaker: John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Yale University

Topic: What Kind of Community Produced the Dead Sea Scrolls

6. Friday, May 5, 2006, 4:15 p.m.

Speaker: Oliver Nicholson, Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies; and Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota

Topic: Preparation for Martyrdom in the Early Church

Other announcements

2005 is The Year of Languages

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages has a website explaining the initiative and offering accompanying teacher resources, logos etc. Visit http://www.yearoflanguages.org/

Latin Teacher of the Year

The Classical Association of Minnesota will reveal the identity of the Latin Teacher of the Year for 2005 at the annual meeting, October 29th.

Latin Teacher of the Year Award:� 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.� Self-nominations are welcome.� Materials for next year�s award should be sent to the new CAM president.

Charter schools offering Latin

Latin is on the curriculum in a number of charter schools that have been founded (Nova Classical Academy, founded in 2003, St. Croix Preparatory last year) or are in the process of being founded, several of them under the sponsorship of Friends of Ascension. Jerry Reedy, our long-standing CAM member/officer and emeritus professor at Macalester College, is the founding director of a classical charter school that hopes to open its doors in 2006, probably in Richfield or in a neighboring suburb. We look forward to new centers for the teaching of Latin in the future!

Greek tragedy coming to a stage near you...

Sophocles continues to occupy the limelight in Minnesotan theaters. After last year�s Guthrie production of Sophocles� Oedipus Tyrannus, two more of Sophocles� plays hit the stage this year. Antigone is currently playing at Theatre de la Jeune Lune�s, one of Minnesota�s premier professional theatre companies, in an adaptation by director Robert Rosen. As in the original Athenian performance, all the parts are played by three actors in a production that the Pioneer Press calls �snazzy�. The company�s Antigone follows their acclaimed production of Euripides� Medea in 2002. The production runs until November 13 (tickets from box office at 612-333-6200).

Sophocles� Electra will hit the stage at Gustavus Adolphus College in May 2006.� Directed by Rob Gardner (chair of Theater Dept.) and with choreography by Marie Gomez Tierney, the production will use a new translation by Eric Dugdale written for the stage (CUP forthcoming) and music composed by Mike Croswell; it hopes to present the play in a way in which the issues of violence, retribution and compassion that it explores will plangently resonate with its modern audience.� Performances on May 11-13 (Thur. - Sat.) at 8PM and Sunday, May 14 at 2PM, tickets available through the Gustavus Ticket Center, 507-933-7590.

Res Gestae

College of St. Benedict and St. John�s University

Margaret Cook has just finished a sabbatical studying hope in Thucydides.

Scott Richardson, who is directing the London program this fall, presided at the Odyssey panel at the CAMWS meeting in Madison. His article, "The Odyssey and the Spy Novel," sounds suspicious but will be published by Classical and Modern Literature. He worked as an extra this summer in Robert Altman's Prairie Home Companion movie.

St. Ben's alumna Emily Holt (class of 2002) spent the summer on a dig in Sardinia, where she found, among other things, a dissertation topic for her Ph.D. in classical archaeology at the University of Michigan

Benilde-St. Margaret�s School

Rob Epler has been accepted as one of the recipients of the STAR Achievement Award
by the Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures (MCTLC). To quote from the award letter, he is "to be recognized as an example to those who reach the goal of Minnesota world language/culture teachers to exceed expectations within and beyond the classroom." The STAR Awards will be presented publicly at the MCTLC Fall Conference (Oct. 20-21, 2005).

Blake School

Nat Wagner reports that he and his wife Christy have jump-started a new Latin program at the Blake School in Hopkins. They now have over a hundred enthusiastic Latin students, where none existed before, and the program continues to grow. They are hoping their first student trip to Italy this summer.

Carleton College

The Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the US State Department, of which Nancie Wilkie is a member, met on September 8-9 in Washington DC to hear a request from the government of Italy for a renewal of import restrictions on archaeological material of the prehistoric, Classical and Imperial Roman periods. Further information can be found at http://exchanges.state.gov/culprop/whatsnew.html

Concordia College

Barbara McCauley writes...

The past year was an eventful one for our department. Stan Iverson retired after 36 years at Concordia and we conducted a nationwide search to find a replacement for him. Our choice was Richard Stanley, who has been Visiting Assistant Professor here for the past two years. Richard is a� Latinist who received his Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill. He will be taking up Stan's duties in overseeing our Latin Teacher Education program and organizing Concordia's Latin Days. Although enjoying his retirement, Stan will still be around to give us the benefit of his experience and guidance on issues of Latin pedagogy and will continue to help with Latin Days. In other news, Ed Schmoll was promoted to Full Professor and served as co-director of the 2005 Credo in Crete program. I was promoted to Associate Professor and together with Richard Stanley led a very successful May Seminar to Greece and Italy. Latin enrollments continue to be high this Fall and we look forward to another year.

Gustavus Adolphus College

Will Freiert writes...

Highlights of the last year included the renovation of Old Main, the building in which Classics is housed.� In January, the entire department had to put half of its possessions in storage and squeeze into three tiny closets in the Library, where we have been ensconced for the last nine months.� As we go to press, the move back into a beautifully reconstructed Old Main in underway.

Karen Dang joined the Department this year after finishing her dissertation at USC.� She has taught at Scripps and Pomona. Her research focuses on Roman literature in the Augustan period and she is interested in cultural history and sociology as ways to connect the interpretation of texts to meaningful issues in people�s lives (politics, cultural identity, social relations, the economy).��

Eric Dugdale spent last year teaching at the Centro.� In between field trips, he finished off his translation and commentary on Sophocles� Electra, which is due to go to press in December. Eric�s translation will be the base of the Gustavus Theatre Department�s production of the play May 11-14 (put it on your calendars).� Hundreds of Gustavus coed�s hearts were broken when Eric and his beloved, Brooke, were married at St. Andrew�s on the Quirinal in Rome in June.

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Stewart Flory spent last year and the current semester working on various research projects at Yale, where he is a Visiting Faculty Fellow in Classics. In the fall he gave a paper on his work on the oral composition of ancient prose at the Yale Greco-Roman Lunch, a local institution.� In June Stewart and Ellie Kuklewski were married at the Church of the Holy Communion in St. Peter, followed by trips to San Francisco and Israel.

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Pat Freiert continues to teach two courses a year, while devoting the rest of her time to her fabric dyeing work.� In addition to the usual run of art fairs, she has taught shibori workshops in Seattle and has been invited to teach at the prestigious Coupville Art Center next year.

Will Freiert�s short term memory is going, so he has no clue what happened to his last year.

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Mary McHugh, a recent Wisconsin graduate, did a wonderful job filling in at Gustavus last year for Eric.� She has now moved on the Hamilton College.

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Matt Panciera had a productive year writing a long article on Horace�s Cleopatra Ode, a shorter piece on a word for prostitute in Plautus and Pompeian graffiti. He has also started working on a project that has great potential and which grew out of his daughter�s love of children�s songs. After she sang �Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes� continually for a month, and then learned the lyrics of the Italian version in just one day, I thought I�d translate it into Latin for her. �Caput, Umeri, Genua, Digiti� turned out to have a better rhythm than the English or Italian version and it was such a hit with his daughters (and then his students in Intensive Introductory Latin in J-Term last year) that he has decided to put together a book of children�s songs in Latin.

Bronwen Wickkiser published two articles this year (�Augustus, Apollo, and an Ailing Rome: Images of Augustus as a Healer of State,� in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, and �Asklepios Appears in a Dream� for Archaeology Odyssey [July/Aug 2005]).� She spent seven weeks in Athens this summer thanks to a grant from Gustavus.� There she worked mainly on a collaborative project (with Chrys Kanellopoulos, an architect from Athens, and Peter Schultz, an art historian from Concordia College, Moorhead) investigating the function of three round buildings, known as tholoi, constructed in the fourth century B.C. at Delphi, Epidauros, and Olympia.� Bronwen is the recipient of a Loeb fellowship and she is spending this year in Athens writing a book on the cult of Asklepios.�

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Macalester College

Mireille Lee is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. for the next academic year, where she is working on a book on the social functions of dress in early Greece.

Over the summer, Joseph L. Rife directed the fourth season of the Kenchreai Cemetery Project under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. KCP is an intensive archaeological study of the burial grounds of Roman date at Kenchreai, the eastern port of Corinth in southern Greece. The 2005 team of 28, including 11 students from Macalester and several senior collaborators from institutions in the US, France, Germany, and Canada, conducted a successful campaign of field exploration, geological and topographical mapping, artifactual study, and structural and artifactual conservation. Preliminary reports on this work have been recently presented, or will be presented this year, at the MIA, the AIA/APAs in Montreal, Yale, Bryn Mawr, and the MFA (Boston). The work this season was supported by grants from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation of Harvard and the International Catacomb Society of Boston. During this year Joe is a member in the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he plans to complete the publication of the epigraphic corpus at Kenchreai and the preliminary report on the Project (2002-2005), as well as to pursue shorter studies on Greek society, culture, and literature under the Roman Empire, particularly Lucian and Philostratus.

Shattuck-St. Mary�s School

Bob Neslund has been asked to defer retirement one year and over the next two years to teach Latin half-time and write a book for Shattuck-St. Mary's sesquicentennial.

Minnehaha Academy

Michelle Breuer Vitt reporting...

Minnehaha Academy continues to have a strong Latin program with 48 students in Latin I in the Middle School, this is twice the number for last year! They plan to again host the Ludi Romani on Saturday, December 3rd from 9:00-4:00. More materials are forthcoming at the CAM meeting or contact Michelle Breuer Vitt at vitt@minnehahaacademy.net.

University of Minnesota

Chris Nappa's book on the Georgics, called Reading After Actium, came out from U of Michigan Press in May, and Chris has been awarded tenure. Undergraduate Greek and Latin enrollments are strong, and we have sent Rachel Bruzzone, a newly minted alumna of the U, off to begin her graduate work at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville.� Chris Nappa and Amanda Wilcox received Loeb Classical Library Fellowships to support their research this year.� Chris is on sabbatical and Amanda is on leave all year, thanks in part to a College of Liberal Arts Research Fellowship Supplement.� Nita Krevans spoke at the American Academy in March, and so was in Rome when Pope John Paul II died!

Oliver Nicholson has been working on the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, on the poet Ausonius (cos. 370 A.D.) and, as ever, on Lactantius, and has published an article "Constantinople: Christian City, Christian Landscape" in ed. Mark F. Williams The making of Christian Communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (London, Anthem Press, 2005) 27 - 47. Steve Smith and he continue to enjoy co-operation with a number of High Schools by sharing the running of the University's College in the Schools Latin Programme.

This Spring, Richard Graff returned from a Fall research leave, part of which was spent in Greece. There, he held a 6-week visiting senior associate membership at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and traveled through Attica and the Peloponnese to visit and digitally photograph remains of oratorical and theatrical performance sites of the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Some of his photos are posted on the "More Images" links of his website: www.rhetoric.umn.edu/faculty/rgraff/. He continues his work on early theories of prose style and Attic oratory, and in Fall 2005 is teaching a graduate course on classical rhetoric.

St. Olaf College

Anne Groton writes...

2004-05 was a wild and woolly year for Classics at St. Olaf.� The senior class included 8 majors in Classics (one of whom, Christopher Schifani, wrote an honors thesis on Plato's Epistles), 1 in Greek, 5 in Ancient Studies, and 2 in Medieval Studies.� Stephanie Walker '05 was Megale Prytanis (National President) of Eta Sigma Phi, and St. Olaf students won three prizes and an honorable mention in the Eta Sigma Phi translation contests.

Unexpectedly large enrollments in Greek allowed us to hire Tarik Wareh (Berkeley Ph.D.) to teach one course each semester.� During January term, Steve Reece led 30 Oles around Greece while Chris Brunelle taught a new course on Ovid's Metamorphoses and arranged a visit to campus by translator Charles Martin, supported by the college's Leraas Lecture Fund.� During spring term, while Steve Reece was enjoying a faculty development grant, St. Olaf alumnus Paul Moran (now a Ph.D. candidate at U. of Virginia) filled in for him.�

�� In March our students performed a Latin play (Plautus' Curculio) and took the show on the road to five other schools; in April they hosted the national convention of Eta Sigma Phi, with 140 attendees. Meanwhile Jim May managed to teach a Lucretius course and serve as outside evaluator of the honors program at the University of the South, on top of his full-time job as Provost and Dean, and Anne Groton survived her first year as CAMWS Secretary-Treasurer with the help of Sue Newland, her trusty administrative assistant.

�� After more than two decades of teaching overloads, we have been rewarded with an increase in our departmental FTE from 3 to 3.5.� In 2005-06 Tim Howe, our colleague in the History Department at St. Olaf, will teach the Classics interim in Greece; another history faculty member, David Perry, will teach a January course on the Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity.� Heather Woods, a University of Minnesota graduate student, will teach our first-ever third section of Latin 111 in the fall.� What a zoo! ��

�� Steve has a chapter called �Homer's Iliad and Odyssey:� From Oral Performance to Written Text� in Unbinding Proteus:� New Directions in Oral Theory (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 2005), and Chris has a chapter called �Ovid's Satirical Remedies� in Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry (Johns Hopkins, 2005).� Anne's article on �Facing the Facts about Teaching Latin� appeared in Syllecta Classica 15 (2004).

�� The whole department, plus six students, attended the CAM meeting last fall.� Anne, Jim, and Tarik also attended the APA meeting in Boston, and, along with Tim, Paul, and Steve, the CAMWS meeting in Madison.� Steve gave a paper, Anne, Tim, Jim, Steve, and Tarik chaired sessions, and Jim wore a plastic cheesehead while orating in Latin at the formal banquet.�

�� Who knows what special effects Steve will use when he delivers the Mellby Memorial Lecture, "Homer, Jesus, and Bass Fishing in Minnesota," at 7 p.m. in the Viking Theater on Thursday, Oct. 20?� Come to St. Olaf and see!�

Studio Academy Arts High School

A new Latin program was started this fall at Studio Academy Arts High School, a small public charter school for the arts in Rochester with two sections of first year Latin using the Cambridge Latin Course. The classes are taught by Linda McGouirk, who formerly taught Latin in Menlo Park, CA. (lmcgouirk@aol.com)

University of St. Thomas

Thor Polson will be teaching as an adjunct in the classics department.

In the fall, Rob Hardy is teaching two Latin courses at the University of St. Thomas. In the winter and spring terms, he�s teaching two courses (one each term) at Carleton. But the news he�s most eager to share is that his poetry collection, "The Collecting Jar," won the 2004 Grayson Books Poetry Chapbook Competition. His work was chosen out of over 250 entries by judge Marilyn Nelson, the poet laureate of Connecticut. The chapbook is available for purchase at www.graysonbooks.com

Items of interest from the regional classics organization - CAMWS ��

on the website at http://www.camws.org

� Travel awards for elementary and secondary teachers and graduate students

� Promote Latin website, put together by the Committee for the Promotion of Latin, ably led by our own Vice President Steve Smith. Or view directly at http://www.promotelatin.org/camwscpl.htm

� Internet links to resources for classics

Web Addresses for Local and National Classics organizations:

Minnesota chapter of Archaeological Institute of America:http://www.tc.umn.edu/~call0031/mnaia.html

MCTLC:� Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures: http://www.mctlc.org

CAMWS (Classical Association of Middle West and South):� http://www.camws.org

APA (American Philological Association): www.apaclassics.org

ACL (American Classical League):� www.aclclassics.org

NCLG (National Committee for Latin and Greek):� www.promotelatin.org

AIA (Archaeological Institute of America):� http://www.archaeological.org

Our thanks to the outgoing Executive Committee - 2003-2005

President - Matt Panciera (Gustavus)

Vice President - Steve Smith (U. of MN)

Secretary - Eric Dugdale (Gustavus)

Treasurer - Ellen Sassenberg (Mayo H.S.)

Other members:

Member at Large - Amanda Wilcox (U. of MN)

Past President - Anne Groton (St. Olaf)

CAM Web Site Manager - Beth Severy-Hoven (Macalester)

Mercurius Editor - Chris Nappa (U. of MN)

The slate of officers for 2005-2007 will be presented for approval at the annual meeting�

Directions to CAM meeting

The meeting is being held in the Campus Club, on the 4th floor of Coffman Memorial Union (on the East Bank of the U of M campus).

A general parking map can be found at http://www1.umn.edu/pts/maps/ebcolr.htm

The best place to park is in the East River Road Garage, located just off East River Parkway, which has a flat rate of $5 all day Saturday.� The garage is directly south of Coffman, and there should be plenty of signs to direct people.� Do NOT use the "contract parking" entrance! More info. and a map at http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/ERivRdGar/

(There is some metered parking, but not much, scattered around the East Bank near Coffman.� Non-metered street parking seems to be non-existent.)

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GETTING TO EAST RIVER PARKWAY

�From the West Bank, via Washington Avenue:� Immediately after you cross the Washington Avenue Bridge heading east, take the exit on the right.� At the foot of the exit make a left onto E. River Pkwy.� The garage will be on the left, about 1/3 mile down the road.� (NOTE:� This exit curves around the garage for the Weisman Museum.� There may be parking available there, but there seems to be no direct access to Coffman.)

From the West Bank, via Franklin Avenue:� Immediately after you cross the Franklin Avenue Bridge heading east, make a left at the light onto E. River Pkwy.� The garage will be on the right, about 3/4 mile down the road.

�From St. Paul, via University Avenue:� Make a left onto Washington Ave.; take Washington to Oak St. and make a left.� Take Oak St. to E. River Pkwy. and make a right.� Garage 4/10 mile ahead on the right.

�From Minneapolis, via University Avenue:� Make a right onto Oak St. (next to McNamara Alumni Center).� Take Oak St. to E. River Pkwy. and make a right.� Garage 4/10 mile ahead on the right.

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Return address:

Eric Dugdale, Secretary of CAM

Dept. of Classics, Gustavus Adolphus College

800 West College Ave.

St Peter, MN 56082

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