10 April 2021 13:30 utc — view in local time
Session 1: Aeneas/Virgil and Ovid
Christopher T. Vaccaro, moderator
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17th annual conference
This year’s conference will explore every aspect of the earlier Classical cultures of Rome, Greece, Ancient and Hellenistic Egypt, Carthage, their languages, philosophies, etc. This includes work from very early Christianity in Rome (Boethius, even Augustine, &c.) and linguistic investigations into Greek and Latin.
Keynote speaker John William Houghton is Chaplain and Dean emeritus, The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He has contributed to the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, Tolkien the Medievalist, Mythlore, and Tolkien Studies, and was most recently editor-in-chief of Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey (McFarland, 2014). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of Mythlore and the Journal of Tolkien Research. Christopher T. Vaccaro, moderator ❧ Christopher T. Vaccaro, moderator ❧ Christopher T. Vaccaro, moderator ❧ ❧ ❧ Christopher T. Vaccaro, moderator ❧ ❧ Christopher T. Vaccaro, moderator ❧ Christopher T. Vaccaro, moderator ❧10 April 2021 13:30 utc — view in local time
Session 1: Aeneas/Virgil and Ovid
10 April 2021 14:45 utc — view in local time
Session 2: The Greeks
10 April 2021 16:00 utc — view in local time
Session 3: UVM undergraduate and graduate voices
10 April 2021 17:15 utc — view in local time
lunch break
10 April 2021 18:15 utc — view in local time
Keynote address
10 April 2021 19:00 utc — view in local time
Session 4: Plato and Aristotle and Boethius
10 April 2021 20:15 utc — view in local time
afternoon break
10 April 2021 20:30 utc — view in local time
Session 5: Reading the stars and myths
10 April 2021 21:45 utc — view in local time
Session 6: Classical traditions