PROGRAM


FRIDAY EVENING

RECEPTION AND REGISTRATION
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.


GENERAL FORUM
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Jo-Anne Dillon, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, led an informal discussion of the challenges currently facing small departments, small programs, and language programs in western Canadian institutions, as well as other matters of interest to western Canadian classicists.


SATURDAY

REGISTRATION
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.


SESSION 1A: The Role of Art in the Domestic Space
9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Moderator: Maria Papaioannou (University of New Brunswick at Fredericton)

Lea M. Stirling, University of Manitoba, Department of Classics:   "Statuary decoration from the Panayia Villa (Corinth) in its Greek context"

Craig I. Hardiman, University of Waterloo, Department of Classical Studies:   "Greek Hellenistic domestic religion: the case of the statues"

John Tamm, University of Manitoba, Department of Classics:   "Elements of self-presentation in the Roman house"

Lisa A. Hughes, University of Calgary, Department of Greek and Roman Studies:   "The art of performance at the Casa degli Amorini Dorati in Pompeii"


SESSION 1B: Routine Domestic Activities and the Marginal Classes
9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Moderator: David Mirhady (Simon Fraser University)

Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg, Department of Classics:   "Slavery and the Greek household"

Ariel Loftus, Wichita State University, Department of History:   "Public honors for young girls in Hellenistic Athens"

Alison D. Maingon, University of Saskatchewan, Department of Archaeology:   "Out of sight, out of mind: the cook in the Pompeian domus"

Mark L. Lawall, University of Manitoba, Department of Classics:   "Transport amphoras and loomweights: evidence for integrating elements of household economies?"

Alison Jeppesen, University of Calgary, Department of Greek and Roman Studies:   "Birds of a feather? The marital ideals of contubernales and coniuges in the epitaphs of Rome"


SESSION 1C: Theoretical Approaches to the Household
9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Moderator: Karen Aberle (University of British Columbia)

Margaret Erwin Butler, Stanford University, Department of Classics:   "Teaching by destroying: the polis and the oikos in the classroom"

Lian Chang, McGill University, School of Architecture:   "De-articulation of the body, articulation of order"

Pauline L. Ripat, University of Winnipeg, Department of Classics:   "FYI: social relationships and the transfer of information"

Lale Özgenel, Middle East Technical University (Ankara), Department of Architecture:   "Living with 'time': the temporal context of the atrium"


LUNCH
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.


SESSION 2A: Greek Drama and the Household
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Moderator: Mark Golden (University of Winnipeg)

Christopher S. Morrissey, Simon Fraser University, Department of Humanities:   "Oresteia: the oikos writ large?"

Laurel M. Bowman, University of Victoria, Department of Greek and Roman Studies:   "Mythical marriage and the conquest of Klytaimnestra"

David C. Mirhady, Simon Fraser University, Department of Humanities:   "Domestic and democratic dikasteria in Aristophanes' Wasps"

John P. Harris, University of Alberta, Department of History and Classics:   "Sôphrosynê in Aristophanes' Clouds and Plato's Phaedrus"


SESSION 2B: Religion and the Household
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Moderator: Lisa Hughes (University of Calgary)

Edwin M. Carawan, Missouri State University, Department of Modern and Classical Languages:   "Mnemata and family identity"

Fanny L. Dolansky, University of Chicago, Department of Classics:   "Funera acerba and the nocturnal Lemuria: ancient rites to appease the family dead"

Claude Eilers, McMaster University, Department of Classics:   "Religious Romanization within the Roman household: the case of the Jews"


SESSION 2C: Domestic Space in the Colonies and on the Fringes of the Graeco-Roman World
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Moderator: Alison Maingon (University of Saskatchewan)

Edwin De Vries, Free University at Amsterdam:   "Domestic space at Himera: a colonial context"

Karen Aberle, University of British Columbia, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies:   "Morgantina 2-11: households, population, and the impact of Roman imperialism"

Maria Papaioannou, University of New Brunswick (Fredericton), Department of Classics and Ancient History:   "From peristyle to atrium: the oikos in the Roman province of Macedonia"


COFFEE
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.


SESSION 3A: The World of the Roman Villa
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Moderator: Lea Stirling (University of Manitoba)

Geoff Adams, University of New England (Armidale, New South Wales), School of Classics, History and Religion:   "The social role of villae suburbanae outside Pompeii"

Raymond L. Capra, Meredith College (Raleigh, NC), Department of Foreign Languages and Literature:   "Pliny's villa: Letters 2.17 and 5.6"


SESSION 3B: Literary Treatment of Domestic Space
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Moderator: Laurel Bowman (University of Victoria)

Craig M. Maynes, University of Toronto, Department of Classics:   "The Roman house door, Catullus 67, and the elegiac limen"

Alison Keith, University of Toronto, Victoria College:   "Palace architecture in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Statius' Thebaid"

Sonia Sabnis, University of California (Berkeley), Department of Classics:   "Lucian's Lychnopolis and the anxiety of surveillance"


SESSION 3C: Intersections of the Public and the Private in the Roman World
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Moderator: Claude Eilers (McMaster University)

Emily K. Varto, University of British Columbia, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies:   "Horatia and her Sabine sisters: state, family, and concordia in civil conflict"

Leanne Bablitz, University of British Columbia, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies :   "Trials at home"


PRE-BANQUET RECEPTION
6:30 p.m.

EVENING BANQUET AND KEYNOTE SPEECH
7:00 p.m.

Lisa Nevett, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art:   "'Household' and 'family' in the ancient world"