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2025 CAES 62nd Annual Institute Program

Friday October 10, 2025

Binghamton University

University Downtown Center (UDC), room 220

8:00-9:00 am     Registration (UDC Atrium) and Continental Breakfast (UDC 220A/B)

9:00-10:00 am     Session A     (UDC 220A/B)

Nicholas Gresens

Teaching Epicureanism Through Horace
 

In this session, this presenter will outline how he introduces Epicurean philosophy in an upper-level Latin class on Horace by structuring the class around his more Epicurean poems. By using Epicureanism as a framework, this presenter will explore how he allows broader exposure to Horace’s poetry beyond just the Satires. This curriculum design balances language proficiency and ancient knowledge with moral instruction, helping students become better, more well-rounded individuals by learning not only about, but also from the ancient world.

10:15-10:45 am     Session B     (UDC 220 A/B)     

Ben Strange

Sententia: A Latin Card Game

In this workshop, the presenter will explain the rationale of the game of Sententia and show how it can be constructed, and then demonstrate the game with the participants gathered into small groups. The presenter developed this game while teaching in Alaska in 1985.

10:45-11:15 am     Session C     (UDC 220 A/B)

Christopher Buczek

Ancient Literature, Modern Applications: Creating Cultural Connections

In this presentation, the presenter would like to engage a discussion with everyone on how to make upper level classes relevant to the modern world. How do we make the cultural connections that help the students bridge the gap between these seemingly different societies? How do we make these Latin texts come alive for the students? The presenter will show examples of certain authors and relate their relevance to teenagers in the 2020s. How do students react to these texts? What wisdom can we derive from the ancient sources? 

11:30- 12:00 pm     Session D     (UDC 220 A/B)      
 

Andrew Morehouse

Quorsum Latine Loquamur: Explorations into Communicative Language Instruction

Not a day has passed since the fall of the Western Roman Empire that Latin has not been spoken as a means of meaningful and real communication. With the more recent research coming out from SLA experts, we are seeing how this manifests in our field and the Latin classroom. The purpose of this workshop will be to discuss some of the research that underpins this communicative approach and some small tips to get your classroom to be more communicative.

12:00-1:00 pm     Lunch and CAES Business Meeting     (UDC 220A/B)

 

1:00-2:00 pm     Session E     (UDC 220A/B)

Kathleen de Riesthal

Creating an Ancient Social History Course
 
In this workshop, the presenter will offer her own experience creating and teaching a course entitled Gender, Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient World. She will offer ideas and suggestions for how this course can be adapted to different levels, provide interesting texts to read with students (in English or in Latin), and activities and assessments that can be used.

 

2:15-3:15 pm     Session F     (UDC 220A/B)

Hilary Becker, Valerie Spiller, Carina de Klerk, John H. Starks Jr., and Tina Chronopoulos

Storytelling through Latin Literature and Roman Daily Life: Diverse Pedagogical Approaches

Presenters 1 and 2 will share their own distinct, original exercises where students experience a day in Rome, with a goal of understanding the different spending power that Romans of different classes might have had and how that affected their diets and daily lives. In an effort to control the inflationary economy of 301 CE Diocletian issued the “Edict of Maximum Prices.” While his efforts ultimately were unsuccessful, the list of prices for various products and wages provides a snapshot of real life at this time. These exercises utilizing that ancient price list quickly help students compare their own budgetary goal setting to that of a Roman.

Presenter 3 considers how novellas for language learners not only help to create opportunities for bringing classical texts into the elementary Latin classroom, but can also help support meaningful interactions with those texts. The presenter will feature two novellas, “Lars Romam Odit” and “Cloelia,” to first familiarize and emotionally engage students with figures and events narrated in Livy’s “Ab Urbe Condita” and Vergil’s “Aeneid,” before drawing on passages from those texts that promote discovery (i.e., about story lines or cultural aspects), but also social critique.

Presenter 4 offers a Roman satire multi-session project adaptable for all Latin levels, featuring Horace’s “Satire (Sermo)” 1.9, an external/internal dialogue with a boorishly annoying social climber that Horace just can’t shake. After reading the satire in abridged/adapted or original Latin and in translation, a recent clip from “The Daily Show” YouTube channel will be de-constructed to help students practice techniques for developing short, original satiric dialogues on topics of everyday American, social annoyance or concern, or adapted/transposed to a Roman setting. These are then performed live with dialogue script or taped for the class.

3:30-4:00 pm     Session G      (UDC 220A/B)

Keziah Armstrong

 Magna Permutatio Rerum: AP curriculum 

In this session, the presenter will go over the AP curriculum with some ideas for the curriculum selections and the choice selections. She will be using Steadman’s workbook but will teach in a communicative way so she will have lots of practical ideas for how to teach the new curriculum. 
 

4:00-4:30 pm     Session H     (UDC 220A/B)

Catherine Stevens

Reading Vergil at Dickinson College

As a recipient of the Rexine Summer Study Grant, this presenter will share her experiences at and reflections on the Dickinson College Latin Workshop. Her session will review the value of Dickinson’s reading program and (re)introduce attendees to Vergil’s fourth Georgic.

 

5:30-6:30 pm     Banquet Cocktail Hour      (Holiday Inn, Tioga Room)

6:30-8:30 pm     Banquet Dinner and Keynote Address     (Holiday Inn, Tioga Room)

Andrew Morehouse

How Becoming a Classics Content Creator Changed my Classroom (and my Life)

In this address, I wish to reflect on how creating content in the Classics transformed not only my classroom and my own instruction, but also my perspectives toward ancient literature and the patrimony of Classical languages. Within the scope of this address will also be a discussion of resources we create and how they suit the needs of modern learners. I will further share how Latinitas Animi Causa and its mission came to be and its future with respect to our field and the ever-changing landscape of education.