The Seventh Northwest Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World
Location: Ford Hall
Saturday April 21, 2012
| 9:00 A.M. | CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPENS, Ford Hall 102 Continental breakfast served in lobby of Ford Hall |
| 9:45 A.M. | INTRODUCTION, Ford Hall 102 |
| 9:50 - 10:50 A.M. | SESSION ONE - Philosophy and Free Will, Ford Hall 102 Chair: Robert Chenault (Willamette University) 9:50 - Eric L. Archambault (University of Oregon) - "The Epicurean Theory of Language" 10:10 - Jacob Kovacs-Goodman (Stanford University) - "Competing Conceptions of Free Will in Epic Poetry" 10:30 - Erin Kahn (Willamette University) - "'The Gods Know I Had No Choice': The Role of Fate in Sophocles' Theban Plays" |
| 10:50 - 11:05 A.M. | BREAK |
| 11:05 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. | SESSION TWO - Women in Rome, Ford Hall 102 Chair: Ortwin Knorr (Willamette University) 11:05 - Rolf Hartmann (Western Washington University) - "Nero's Amazonian Comedy" 11:25 - Emily Hannenberg (Willamette University) - "Like Mother, Like Daughter: How Agrippina the Elder and her Namesake Re-Defined the Role of the Roman Mother in Tacitus' Annals" 11:45 - Elliot Piros (University of Puget Sound) - "Women, Writing, and Commemoration in Propertius Book IV" |
| 12:05 P.M. - 12:55 P.M. | LUNCH |
| 12:55 - 1:35 P.M. | SESSION THREE - Crossing Cultures and Centuries, Ford Hall 102 Chair: Diane Johnson (Western Washington University) 12:55 - Sean A. Guynes (Western Washington University) - "Oral Formulaic Theory: Understanding Homeric Epic by Analogy to Modern Albanian Lahutarët" 1:15 - Hunter Ellis (Lewis and Clark College) - "The Strategoi of Pre- and Post-Roman Egypt" |
| 1:35 - 1:55 P.M. | BREAK |
| 2:15 – 3:00 P.M. | SESSION FOUR - Cultural Interaction, Ford Hall 102 Chair: Mary R. Bachvarova (Willamette University) 2:15 - Chris Parmenter (University of Oregon) - "A Post-Colonial Lucian? Some Problems of Cultural Interaction in the True Histories" 2:35 - Ethan Poole (Willamette University) - "Barbarians without Romans: The Development and Change of Ethnographic Methods in Tacitus' Germania" |