| Department of Classics | University of Colorado at Boulder | May 2001 |
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2001 Nichols Fellowships Awarded to Outstanding Students
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Classics Faculty Receive Teaching Awards
Classics Major Adam Kay Garners Awards
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Faculty News
Professor Diane Conlin spent last May in Rome examining the carving of several Julio-Claudian and Flavian relief sculptures on display and in storage in the Vatican, Terme, and Capitoline collections. Her project, "Immigration, Importation, and Artistic Diversity in Early Imperial Rome," was supported by grants from CRCW and GCAH. While in Rome, she also reunited with Italian and American colleagues and fellow carving specialists for collaborative technical analyses of the "Province" reliefs from Hadrianeum and the curious frieze fragments from the Basilica Paulii. Between exhilarating motorini rides and last minute permessi, she spent many hours back in the American Academy library and explored newly excavated sections of the Imperial Fora at the generous invitation of Dott. Gianni Ponti. Last January, Professor Conlin co-chaired an AIA workshop session on Roman marble studies and delivered a paper on her Flavian project at the San Diego meetings. This April she chaired a conference on Roman marble studies held in Boulder and delivered a paper on the value of technical analyses for stylistic studies of Roman sculpture. The proceedings of the conference will be published as a supplement of the prestigious Journal of Roman Archeology. In addition to research and conference preparation, Professors Conlin and Dusinberre have revised the classical art and archaeology curriculum, which now includes twelve new courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Conlin plans to spend the spring and summer months finishing several projects on Roman narrative and iconography, and gearing up for what promises to be a very busy fall semester.
Professor John Gibert has returned from sabbatical leave and resumed teaching and serving as Graduate Advisor. He recently completed "Apollo's Sacrifice: The Limits of a Metaphor in Greek Tragedy", forthcoming in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, and a chapter on The Sophists to appear in the Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy. He continues to work on his edition of Euripides' Ion and to serve as Book Review Editor of the Classical Journal. In recent months he has given guest lectures at Union College, the University of Minnesota, and Harvard. In October, he organized and was a participant in "Tantalus and the Greeks," a symposium to accompany Tantalus, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' world premiere of John Bartons's cycle of ten original plays on TrojanWar-related themes.
Senior Instructor Barbara Hill served as vice-president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South for 2000-2001 and organized a Latin pedagogy panel for the organization's annual meeting in April in Provo, UT. The panel's focus was teaching Latin to students of different ability levels. This year she gave presentations on teaching Latin at meetings of the American Classical League and the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers and at CU's Graduate Teacher Program Workshop. In July she will give an all day presentation at the Illinois Latin Pedagogy Workshop. Hill also serves as co-president of the Colorado Classical Association and editor of Colorado Classics.
Professor Peter Hunt's review of Frank Russell's Information Gathering in Classical Greece just came out in Classical Journal. An article on Lindsey Davis, author of the Falco series of Roman historical novels, appeared this winter in the collection The Historian as Detective (eds: Brown and Kreiser; Popular Press). Another piece, "The Slaves and the Generals of Arginusae," will come out in American Journal of Philology later this year. He presented a talk on Demosthenes' oration against Philip at a meeting of the Alexander the Great Study Group, of which he is a regular member. Next spring he will present a paper on an invited panel at a conference organized by the International Institute of Social History at the Hague in Holland. His topic will be "The Possibility of Athenian Slave Culture."
It was another busy year for Professor Peter Knox, who travelled to Kenyon College to lecture in September and in October shouldered the burden of visiting the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, where many of our students have studied. He published three book reviews and completed three more, as well as two chapters on Ovid for books with Oxford University Press and Brill. In addition to serving as Chair of the Classics Department, he also served as Chair of Comparative Literature for the spring semester. He is laying that burden down to focus once again on Ovid's poems from exile. In the meantime he is also making plans to travel to Brazil in August, where he will serve as the American representative on the organizing committee for the 2004 Congress of FIEC, the international association of classical studies.
Professor Noel Lenski has recently published two articles: the first, another treatment of Isaurians, appeared in Phoenix and the second, on the election of the emperor Jovian, in Klio. He has just finished another article on late Roman Empresses who visited the holy land and is working on two more articles, one on the recruitment of monks into military service and a second on Pliny's letter about the Christians (10.96). This summer he will continue to work on a volume he is editing: The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine.
Professor Susan Prince has recently completed book reviews for Classical Journal and Bryn Mawr Classical Review and an article on "Hitler and the Sophists" for Classical World. She is working on her book manuscript on Antisthenes and an article on the Heracles figure in Stoic and Cynic literature.
In September 2000 Professor Eckart Schütrumpf attended a conference on Plato's epistemology at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, and presented a paper on slavery in Plato's Republic. The paper has been revised and will appear in a monograph on Plato later this year. In December 2000 he attended a conference in Munich on the occasion of the 100th birthday of E. Voegelin and presented a paper on Voegelin's understanding of Aristotle's political philosophy. The revised and extended version of the paper will appear in the Occasional Papers of the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut for Political Science, Munich. A book chapter on Aristotle's Politics was published in December. His article on "credibility" the New Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric will appear this spring.
Professor Christopher Shields has enjoyed a productive sabbatical during this academic year. Within the next year he anticipates finishing his translation and commentary on Aristotle's De Anima (Oxford), editing the Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell), and Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge). He also has an article on Plato's conception of psuche coming out: "Simple Souls," in Essays on Plato's Psychology, ed. E. Wagner. He gave talks on "Hylomorphic Mental Causation" at Ohio State University, "A Puzzle from the Phaedo Solved and Resolved" at Rutgers and "Substance and Substance-of in Aristotle's Metaphysics" at Brown.
Professor Ariana Traill has continued work on her book-length study of the Menandrian hetaira. She delivered a paper on Plautus ("Manners of the Age: Education in Truculentus") at this year's CAMWS meeting in Provo, UT, and she is looking forward to returning to her native land to speak on Menander ("Perikeiromene 486-510: the Legality of Polemon's Self-Help Remedy") at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of Canada this May in Waterloo, Ontario. Her review of K. McCarthy, Slaves, Masters and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy is forthcoming in Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
