Stephen Civitello, winner of the CANE Certification Scholarship.
Karen Mower discusses Augustus in her paper, Res Gestae as Shield Against Damnatio Memoriae.
Mark Wright (Holy Cross '07, recipient of the Phyllis Katz Prize for Undergraduate Research), Mike Kinney (Holy Cross '10, CANE presenter) and Jonathan Pohlig, Boston College HS (Holy Cross '06, first-year Latin teacher). Photo taken by C. Emil Penarubia (Holy Cross '98).
Professor Stephen Brunet, University of New Hampshire, explains an athletic long jump in his paper, "Kicking up Your Heels: Not Just for Spartan Girls. New Evidence for the Bibasis Dance".
Later Professor Brunet demonstrated the "Ablative of Separation" dance, as a contrast to the Greek bibasis.
Professor William Wyatt, Brown University, presents "Two Cretan Etymologies".
Ornella Rossi, Yale University, gives possible interpretations of Petronius Satyricon 99.1, focusing on Eumolpus as the anti-Seneca.
Professor Cynthia Damon, Amherst College, gladly hands over the gavel (and the imperium) to Shirley Lowe, the CANE President-Elect for 2007-2008.
Curator-of-the-Funds Donna Lyons kneels before President Shirley Lowe and pledges her eternal fidelity.
Professor Kenneth Kitchell, UMass Amherst (left), and Roger Stone, Austin Prep, are rudely interrupted by the photographer. Professor Kitchell offers his comments.
The Dovas sisters from Adelphi University enjoy a well-deserved snack after their joint paper on Political and Military Organizational Capacities during the 8th century BCE on Paros Island, Greece.
Sarah Bjorkman strikes a pose, ready to answer the question "Estne canis in via?" before reading Catullus.
Lydia Haile warns: "Don't Stick to Your Knitting, Penelope!"
Professor Roger Travis, University of Connecticut, and CANE President-Elect 2008-2009, took us into outer space to present his paper combining the role-playing game Halo and its connection to the heroes of epic poetry.
After opening a particularly stubborn bottle of juice, Kristen Morrison of Wethersfield HS (CT), offered a workshop on incorporating ancient Greek sculpture into the traditional Latin classroom.
David Harpin of The Hopkins School (CT) and recipient of the 2006 CANE Endowment Scholarship to the Summer Session of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens presents the "ethereal" results of his six-week summer adventure hiking through the ruins of ancient Greece.
Professor Jacqueline Carlon, UMass Boston, and one of the founding members of the Conventiculum Bostoniense attempts to answer the question: "Oral Latin: Why or Why Not?"
Sophia Rovitti balances nominative personal pronouns and the active personal endings when teaching her students to speak Latin orally.
Professor Phyllis Katz, Dartmouth College, with Mark B. Wright, winner of the Phyllis B. Katz Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Mark's paper, entitled "Education as Self-Definition in Horace and Juvenal" was presented on Saturday morning.
Pramit Chaudhuri, Yale University, speaks on Capaneus, Lucretius, and the Ethics of Gigantomachy in Statius' Thebaid.
Mark Pearsall, Glastonbury HS (CT) invites participants in his workshop to develop a standards-based curriculum for ancient Greek using his thematic units.
Nell Wright, Malden HS presents her paper comparing the characters of Homeric Epic and the American novel Sometimes A Great Notion.