ATHENS TO AOTEAROA: GREECE & ROME IN NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE AND SOCIETY Victoria University of Wellington, 4 6 September 2014

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1 ATHENS TO AOTEAROA: GREECE & ROME IN NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE AND SOCIETY Victoria University of Wellington, 4 6 September 2014 THURSDAY 4 SEPTEMBER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND RECEPTION Hunter Council Chamber, V.U.W., Kelburn Parade 5:45 p.m. Registration open 6:00 p.m. Keynote address by Professor Witi Ihimaera: What if Cyclops was Alive and Well and Living in a Cave in Invercargill? Welcome: Prof. Jeff Tatum Introduction: Dr Simon Perris Vote of thanks: Prof. Deborah Willis 7:00 p.m. Opening reception and refreshments. FRIDAY 5 SEPTEMBER Lecture Theatre 1, Old Government Buildings, Stout Street WELCOME (9:00 9:30) 9:00 a.m. Registration open 9:15 a.m. Opening remarks: Peter Whiteford, Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Research SESSION 1 (9:30 11:00) Chair: Simon Perris Arlene Holmes-Henderson Judy Deuling Julia Hamilton Schools and libraries Classical Education in UK and New Zealand Schools: an International Revival? Aniconic Initials, Text and Intertext in a Twelfth- Century Treatise on Music in the Alexander Turnbull Library: MSR-05 of Boethius De Musica Beaux-Arts Classicism and Documentary Heritage: the ex libris and Personal Library of W. H. Gummer MORNING TEA (11:00 11:30) SESSION 2 (11:30 12:30) Catullus down under Chair: Jeff Tatum Maxine Lewis Anna Jackson SESSION 3 (2:00 3:30) Chair: Judy Deuling Vana Manasiadis Catullus Down Under Catullus from the Kiwi Playground to the Roman Bedroom LUNCH (12:30 2:00pm) Classical influences on poetry and music New Ogygia, New Ithaca, New Zealand: Ancient Heroes, New Migrations

2 Bryony Jagger Alan Wells SESSION 4 (4:00 5:00) Chair: Arthur Pomeroy James Kierstead Tom Stevenson Classical Influences on the Musical and Literary Work of Bryony Jagger Distant Echoes: Ancient Greek Music in Aotearoa AFTERNOON TEA (3:30 4:00) Made in NZ Karl Popper s Open Society and its Enemies and its Enemies The Role of Julius Caesar in Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER Lecture Theatre 1, Old Government Buildings, Stout Street SESSION 5 (9:00 10:30) Chair: Diana Burton Marian Maguire Karen Healey Catherine Mayo Mythmaking A Fabricated History of Graeco-New Zealand Interaction Going Underground: Girls in the Mythological Underworld Wilusa to Waiheke SESSION 6 (11:00 12:00) Maori writing Chair: Maxine Lewis Sonia Dupuy Simon Perris SESSION 7 (1:30 3:00) Chair: James Kierstead Sharon Matthews Geoff Miles John Davidson SESSION 8 (3:30 4:30) Chair: Tom Stevenson MORNING TEA (10:30 11:00) Classical Myth in Maori Literature: European Disconnection and Reconnection Orpheus and Maui, Persephone and Hinenuitepo LUNCH (12:00 1:30) Poetry and drama Dionysus, Christ and the Publican: Ambiguous Gods in James K. Baxter s The Day that Flanagan Died The Darkly Recurrent and Improbable Dream: Baxter and the Venus/Anchises Story Exegi Monumentum: the Roman Construction of R.A.K. Mason AFTERNOON TEA (3:00 3:30) History

3 Arthur Pomeroy Matthew Trundle RECEPTION (4:30 5:30) Jeff Tatum Refreshments to follow. Classics and Gallipoli Classical Allusions and Influence on the Military History of New Zealand Closing remarks CONFERENCE DINNER (7:00pm): Vivo, 19 Edward Street The keynote address is open to the public. For the conference itself, registration is required and is still open (cut and past into your browser: Registration includes morning and afternoon tea on both days, and a concluding reception for those there on the final day, 6 September. SPEAKERS Keynote speaker PROF. WITI IHIMAERA needs no introduction but deserves a lengthy one. As the first Maori to publish a collection of short stories and a novel, and an award-winning author whose prolific career shows no signs of slowing down, Professor Ihimaera is one of the most important New Zealand writers and a genuine national taonga (treasure). Conference speakers PROF. JOHN DAVIDSON is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington where he was a long-serving member of the department. In 2014 he was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education and the arts. Professor Davidson s research focuses on Greek tragedy and classical influences on modern poetry, drama, and opera; his publications include The Snake- Haired Muse: James K. Baxter and Classical Mythology (2011), co-authored with Geoffrey Miles and Paul Millar. DR. JUDY DEULING is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington. Judy s research and teaching interests encompass Minoan and Mycenean material culture, Etruscan material culture, Latin literature, and the history of the book. Dr. Deuling also curates the recently refurbished departmental antiquities museum. SONIA DUPUY holds a PhD from the Sorbonne and is the author of a 2012 study of 18th- and 19th-century fiction, La Figure de Lecteur dans les romans britanniques de 1719 à 1847: L angoisse de réception. Sonia is Assistant Lecturer in British Literature and Head of the English Department in the New Caledonia School of Education.

4 JULIA HAMILTON has recently completed an MA in Egyptology at the University of Auckland, and currently works at the Auckland Museum. Julia also co-chairs the Auckland chapter of Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies (AWAWS). KAREN HEALEY is a New Zealand young-adult (YA) novelist who has published four novels to date: the urban fantasies Guardian of the Dead and The Shattering, and most recently the dystopian SF diptych When We Wake and While We Run. Guardian of the Dead won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best YA Novel. Karen also teaches English at Marlborough Girls College. DR. ARLENE HOLMES-HENDERSON holds degrees from Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, and Glasgow. An expert in Classical and heritage language education, Dr. Holmes- Henderson is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, working with the Classics in Communities project. DR. ANNA JACKSON is Senior Lecturer in English at Victoria University of Wellington and has written various scholarly publications including Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers' Diaries (2010). Dr. Jackson is also an accomplished poet with several collections to her name, including Catullus for Children (2003) and a forthcoming collection inspired by Catullus, titled I, Clodia. BRYONY JAGGER is an Auckland-based writer, composer, and performer with over 30 volumes of poetry to her name. DR. JAMES KIERSTEAD is Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington where he teaches Greek, Latin, and ancient history. Dr. Kierstead s Stanford PhD was on Athenian democracy and he is particularly interested in politics in the ancient and modern worlds. DR. MAXINE LEWIS is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland. Her research centres on allusion and intertextuality, gender and sexuality, and the application of contemporary literary critical theory to study of the ancient world. Dr. Lewis is currently writing a book on the poems of Catullus for Oxford University Press. MARIAN MAGUIRE is a New Zealand artist best-known for her lithographs and etchings that combine imagery from Greek vase painting with New Zealand colonial history. Her work graces the cover of no less than three publications by or about Athens to Aotearoa speakers: Striding Both Worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand s Literary Traditions by Melissa Kennedy, The Snake-Haired Muse: James K. Baxter and Classical Myth by Geoffrey Miles, John Davidson and Paul Millar, and Ithaca Island Bay Leaves by Vana Manasiadis. VANA MANASIADIS is a New Zealand writer and teacher whose first poetry collection, Ithaca Island Bay Leaves (2009), boldly interplays Greek mythology with everyday life in Wellington (Harry Rickets and Paula Green, 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry). SHARON MATTHEWS holds a BA from Canterbury University and an MA in English from the University of Otago, where she is writing a PhD on the plays of James K. Baxter. More broadly, Sharon s research interests encompass twentieth-century New Zealand playwrights, New Zealand theatre, and adult literacy.

5 CATHERINE MAYO is a musician, luthier, and writer who has published two YA novels, set in Mycenaean Greece, about the adventures of a young Odysseus: Murder at Mykenai and The Bow. DR. GEOFF MILES is Senior Lecturer in English at V.U.W. His research focuses on classical traditions in English literature. Dr. Miles is the author of Shakespeare and the Constant Romans (1996), editor of Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology (1999), and co-author of The Snake-Haired Muse: James K. Baxter and Classical Mythology (2011). DR. SIMON PERRIS is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington where he teaches Ancient Greek and Latin language and literature. Dr. Perris s two main areas of research are ancient drama and modern rewriting of ancient literature, particularly in New Zealand. PROF. ARTHUR POMEROY is Professor of Classics and Head of the School of Art History, Classics, and Religious Studies at V.U.W. He has written books on Roman historiography, Stoic philosophy, and Roman social history, as well as the magnificently titled Then It Was Destroyed by the Volcano: The Ancient World in Film and Television. He is currently editing the Wiley/Blackwell Companion to Greece and Rome on Screen. DR. TOM STEVENSON is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland, where he teaches ancient history, Greek, and Latin. His research focuses on Roman politics, and his book Julius Caesar and the Transformation of the Roman Republic will appear later in the year. PROF. JEFF TATUM, Professor of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, is an internationally recognised expert on ancient history specialising in the Republican period of Roman history. Professor Tatum has published four books, most recently the Penguin translation of Plutarch s Rise of Rome. Among many other things, Jeff is currently working on a biography of Mark Antony for Oxford University Press. PROF. MATTHEW TRUNDLE is Chair and Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland, a position he has held since 2012 after some years at V.U.W. He is an expert in ancient warfare and his publications on that subject include Greek Mercenaries from the Late Archaic period to Alexander (2004). Professor Trundle is currently completing a book on money and the impact of coinage on ancient Greek society. ALAN WELLS is a New Zealand poet and composer who specialises in making and playing instruments with non-standard and microtonal tunings.