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 ULE FOR THE DAY\n\n \n\n8:30am - 9:00am\n\nCoffee\n\n \n\n9:00am - 9:15am\n
 \nIntroduction\n\n \n\n9:15am - 10:15am\n\nOvid's Contesting Muses\n\nJohn 
 F. Miller\, Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics\, Univers
 ity of Virginia\n\n\n\n        Miller image.jpg\n    \n  \n  \n    Media Ro
 ot  \n\n  \n\n\n\nThis talk explores how\, against backgrounds of ancient l
 iterature\, scholarship\, and artistic reception\, Ovid stages the strange 
 scenario of the Muses disagreeing with one another and how a Renaissance La
 tin imitator resolves the difficulty.\n\n \n\n10:15am - 10:30am\n\nBreak\n\
 n \n\n10:30am - 11:30am\n\nTeaching Latin in the USA: Challenges and Opport
 unities\n\nTeresa Ramsby\, Professor of Classics\, University of Massachuse
 tts at Amherst\n\nProfessor Ramsby will describe the trends in Latin pedago
 gy in the United States and discuss the challenges facing Latin teachers an
 d Latin programs. Her talk will offer some strategies we\, as educators and
  teachers of educators\, can implement to overcome these challenges and tra
 nsform some of them into opportunities. There are many resources and progra
 ms that support Latin teachers and that augment best practices in Latin tea
 ching. Prepared with information and working together\, we can help Latin p
 rograms survive and thrive in the United States.\n\n \n\n11:30am - 12:30pm\
 n\nLunch\n\n \n\n12:30pm - 1:30pm\n\nThe Cure at Athens: The Disease Theme 
 in Sophocles’ Ajax and Oedipus at Colonus\n\nSheila Murnaghan\, Alfred Regi
 nald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek\, University of Pennsylvania\n\nBuil
 ding on Penelope Biggs’s important discussion of “the disease theme” in Sop
 hocles\, this talk focuses on the concepts of sickness and cure in relation
  to two protagonists\, Ajax and Oedipus\, who are destined to become cult h
 eroes in Athens.  In Sophocles’ depiction of these heroes’ deaths\, a human
  understanding of life as an alternating sequence of diseases and cures\, a
 nd of medical skill as a proud human achievement\, is integrated with a div
 ine vision that transcends ordinary human distinctions and concepts of time
 . \n\n \n\n1:30pm - 1:45pm\n\nThoughts from the Biggs Family\n\n \n\n1:45pm
  - 2:15pm\n\nDiscussion\n\n \n\n2:15pm\n\nDessert\n\n \n\nPlease RSVP via t
 he link below by November 17\, 2023\, in order to secure your attendance. A
  virtual option will be available for these lectures.
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SUMMARY:Colloquium in Memory of Penelope Biggs
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