THE OCC CENTENNIAL PROGRAM

Friday 14 October: Festive gathering of all OCC members 
The Barn (The Trophy Room), 
1370E. Johnstown Rd., Gahanna, Ohio 43230

Saturday 15 October
8:30 – 10:00 a.m. 
Festive breakfast, catered by Columbus Academy and featuring a Latin
ovatio by Kenneth Silverman, College of Wooster. OCC business meeting, Timothy Wutrich,
Case Western Reserve University, presiding.

10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Keynote address: George O’Connor. TITLE

11:00 – 12:00 NOON: Many Voices: an Undergraduate Student Panel.

Organized by Edith Foster, College of Wooster.

Presider: Erin Robichaud, College of Wooster
 
McKenna Perrigan, Ashland University: “Deer in the Aeneid: Aeneas and Conquest.”
 
Cason Willman, Case Western Reserve University: “Furor, Pietas, and Fate: An analysis
of Juno and Aeneas in the Aeneid.”
 
Isabelle Hoover, College of Wooster: “The tragedy of ‘white-armed’ Andromache.”
 
Addy Price, Miami University: “Modern Adaptations of Greek Tragedy as
Coping Mechanisms for Trauma.”

NOON – 1:00 p.m. Vergilian Luncheon: Professor Steven L. Tuck (Miami University),
“Escape from Pompeii: Survivors of Vesuvius and remaking lives after disaster”

1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Special Session on Thucydides and Aristophanes
Led by Edith Foster (College of Wooster) and Timothy Wutrich (Case Western Reserve
University).
Includes a discussion of the historical context for Acharnians, followed by a staged
reading/workshop of the entire play and a post-reading discussion.


4:00 – 5:15 Academic Panel: "Ex machina, ex magia: Robot-like creatures in ancient myth,
ritual, and engineering"

Organized by Kenneth Silverman (College of Wooster)
Sylvia Berryman (The University of British Columbia)
Courtney Ann Roby (Cornell University)
Clara Bosak-Schroeder (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

5:15 Closure of the Centennial Meeting