Programme of the 28th Biennial Conference of the
Classical Association of South Africa:
Pretoria 29 June – 2 July 2009
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Monday 29 June 2009 Old Arts Building, University of Pretoria |
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18:30 – 21:30 |
Welcoming Reception: Van Tilburg Museum, Old Arts Building
Word of welcome: Prof Sandra Klopper, Dean: Faculty of Humanities
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Tuesday 30 June 2009 |
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8:00 – 8:40 |
Registration: Foyer of the SRC Council Chamber |
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8:40 – 9:00 |
Announcements : SRC Council Chamber |
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Session 1 |
Venue: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Christoff Zietsman |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Rolf Schneider
Breaking Boundaries: Troy and Egypt in Imperial Rome
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VENUE A: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Denis Saddington |
VENUE B: EB 1-25 Chair: Jo-Marie Claassen |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
James Chlup, ‘Imperium cum fine: Aelius Gallus’ Invasion of Arabia Felix’ |
Lionel Sanders, ‘The Dionis Legatio (Cic. Attic. 15.10)’
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Rogier van der Wal, ’Frontinus’ Strategemata: some ideas about how to cross a border and win a war’ |
Clive Chandler, ‘Surveillance in Plato’s Republic’
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11:00 – 11:30 |
TEA / COFFEE |
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Session 2 |
VENUE A: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Grant Parker |
VENUE B: EB 1-25 Chair: Hartmut Ziche |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Jörn Soerink, ‘Between upper and nether world: the liminal nature of Furies in Latin literature’ |
John Atkinson,
‘The death of Alexander: malaria and |
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Hansie Wolmarans, ‘Boundaries and Crossings in the Return of Hephaistos to Olympos’ |
Phlip Bosman, ‘Divine interventions in Plutarch’s Alexander’ |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
Szerdi Nagy, ‘From the Divine Alewife to the Dread Goddess. The Bridge from Siduri to Circe’ |
John Jackson, ‘Portraits of Boudica: Tacitus and beyond’
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13:00 – 14:00 |
LUNCH |
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Tuesday 30 June 2009 |
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Session 3 |
VENUE A: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Peter Tennant |
VENUE B: EB 1-25 Chair: Bill Henderson |
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14:00 – 14:30 |
David Wardle, 'Suetonius, on Augustus and the boundary between man and god'
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David van Schoor, ‘Believing is Seeing: Avocatio in Lucretius to World Historical Irony in Ovid’ |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
John Hilton, ‘Roman Elements in Achilles Tatius’ |
Johan Steenkamp, ‘Propertius, Crassus and the Euphrates’ |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Alta Schoeman, ‘Crossing the boundaries: the herstory of rebel queen Zenobia’ |
Henry Bayerle, ‘Lucan and Medieval Latin Epic’
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15:30 – 16:00 |
TEA / COFFEE |
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VENUE A: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Annemaré Kotzé |
VENUE B: EB 1-25 Chair: Cullen Mackenzie |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Samantha Masters, ‘Seeing eye to eye: iconography and emotion on Recovery of Helen scenes in vase painting’ |
Suzanne Sharland, ‘Horace’s satiric corpus and the boundaries of the body’ |
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16:30 – 17:00 |
Betine van Zyl Smit, ‘The amorous queen and the country bumpkin – Clytemnestra and Aegisthus in Dracontius’ Orestis tragoedia’ |
Gert Young, ‘From foreigners to citizens: Conceptualising students’ entry into disciplinary communities of practice’ |
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SRC Council Chamber Chair: David Wardle |
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18:00 – 19:00 |
CHAIRPERSON’S ADDRESS: Christoff Zietsman
Crossing the Roman Frontier – Egypt in Rome (and Beyond)
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19:00 – 20:00 |
DINNER |
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20:00 – 21:00 |
Performance by University KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg) |
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Wednesday 1 July 2009 |
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Session 1 |
Venue: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Hansie Wolmarans |
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8:30 – 9:30 |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Aileen La Tourette
Penelope and Helen: Archetypal Voices in Margaret Atwood (But do they have anything new to say?)
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VENUE A: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Christoff Zietsman |
VENUE B: EB 1-25 Chair: Clive Chandler |
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9:30 – 10:00 |
Michael Lambert, ‘Boundaries and Crossings: the Classics and South African political history’ |
Francois Pauw, 'Hypertextual allusions in Margaret Doody’s Aristotle and Poetic Justice' |
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10:00 – 10:30
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Niko Endres, ‘Athens and Apartheid: Mary Renault’s Democratic Boundaries’ |
Rick de Villiers, ‘Schizophrenic Sweeney: T.S. Eliot's bathetic use of Greek tragedy’ |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Lieve Donnellan, ‘Ethnic boundaries and crossings in the ancient Greek colonial society in Istros/Histria (present day Romenia)’ |
Marlene van den Berg & Marianne Dircksen, ‘The Ancient Use of the Opium Poppy: Is it valid in modern terms?’ |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
TEA / COFFEE |
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Session 2 |
VENUE A: SRC Council Chamber Chair: John Hilton |
VENUE B: EB 1-25 Chair: Marianne Dircksen |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Hartmut Ziche, ‘Dividing the later Roman empire’ |
Jo-Marie Claassen, ’Cross-cultural characteristics of South African ‘Classical’ architecture: the role of Rhodes and Baker’ |
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Grant Parker, ‘Mapping India’
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Martjie Bosman, ‘NP van Wyk Louw en die gode: Die oorgangsgedagte in Nuwe verse (1952)’ |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
Roman Roth, ‘Excavating a Boundary Town: Capena between Rome and Etruria’ |
Johann Lodewyk Marais ‘Geskiedenis en literatuur in N.P. van Wyk Louw se Germanicus (1956)’ |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
LUNCH |
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Wednesday 1July 2009 |
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Session 3 |
Venue: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Phlip Bosman |
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14:00 – 14:45 |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Hennie Stander
Crossing property boundaries: robbery and theft in Chrysostom’s time
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VENUE A: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Phlip Bosman |
VENUE B: EB 1-25 Chair: Mike Lambert |
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14:45 – 15:15 |
Denis Saddington, ‘Non-Latin speakers and the Disadvantaged in the Sermons of St. Augustine’ |
Cullen Mackenzie, ‘The Boundaries of Evil – a comparative discussion of the conception of evil in ancient Greek and contemporary Zulu thought.’ |
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15:15 – 15:45 |
Annemaré Kotzé, ‘Protreptic and paraenetic: does the concept of crossing of a boundary provide a useful analytical tool to distinguish between the two?’ |
Mark Kirby-Hirst, ‘Dragonology: Comparing Dragon-Snakes in Greek and Zulu Mythology’.
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15:45 – 16:15 |
TEA / COFFEE |
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Session 4 |
VENUE A: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Samantha Masters |
VENUE B: EB 1-25 Chair: John Atkinson |
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16:15 – 16:45 |
Liana Lamprecht, ‘Consolation of the bereaved in the Early Church: Reflections on the functions of pastoral care from a post-modern perspective.’ |
Pietro Bortone, ‘The meanings of Greek prepositions: a semantic life-cycle’ |
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16:45 – 17:15 |
André Roos, ‘The role of the holy man in St Athanasius of Alexandria’s Vita Antonii’ |
Jeffrey Murray, ‘Once upon a time…in Thermopylae: The Reception of the Battle of Thermopylae in Children’s Literature’ |
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19:00 – 23:00 |
CONFERENCE DINNER |
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Thursday 2 July 2009 |
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Session 1 |
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VENUE A: SRC Council Chamber Chair: Louise Cilliers |
VENUE B: EB 1-25 Chair: Betine van Zyl-Smit |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Francois Retief, ‘Julius Caesar: Did he have a brain tumour?
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Deborah Logan, ‘Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Women Writers and the Classics’ |
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9:00 – 9:30 |
Kathy Whiteley, ‘Crossing the Boundaries of Morality’ |
Panel discussion: 'SA Classics: Scholars and Artists' John Hilton, Richard Whitaker, Mike Lambert, Grant Parker |
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9:30 – 10:00 |
Paula de Castro, |
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10:00– 10:30 |
TEA / COFFEE |
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10:30 – 13:00 |
CASA BUSINESS MEETING: SRC Council Chamber |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
LUNCH |
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