KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
The Breakthrough of the Classic
Eduardo Calasanz, Jr., Department of Philosophy
Ateneo de Manila University
“A classic breaks through the barriers of space and time and makes us more aware of these barriers. That is why it is both timeless and timely . . . The classic expresses the human because being-human is a perennial ‘breaking through’."
Not Your Mother’s Shakespeare: Teaching the Classics Today
Judy Celine Ick, Department of English
University of the Philippines
“Once classics are understood not as repositories of past wisdoms
but as active shapers of present knowledges, they become more meaningful and alive for our students and ourselves.”
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
Plenary Session A
Text, Context, and Experience in Teaching the Epic
Rica Bolipata-Santos, Ateneo de Manila University
Using the triangle of text-context-experience for a fuller understanding of the ancient Greek epics, “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” -- their poetic form, their unique historical and social contexts, and their relevance to students' experiences
Women in Tragedies: From Back Door to Center Stage
Margarita Orendain, Ateneo de Manila University
Offering strategies and strong readings as ways by which Sophocles’ “Antigone” may find its way back into the syllabus of survey courses in literature
Haiku for Health and Beauty
John Labella, Ateneo de Manila University
A discussion on the spiritual functions of the poetic form – or, the beautiful, sobering uses of haiku in a chaotic, crazy world
Plenary Session B
Key Instructional Strategies for Engaging the Adolescent Learner
Esperanza Chee Kee, Ateneo de Manila
Engaging the adolescent reader with tasks that are based on textual evidence and that will help eliminate students’ "bola" tactics. Strategies will focus on Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" but can also be adapted to any fictional material.
Waiting for a Response to Godot
Bernard Julian Patiño, Ateneo de Manila University
Applying reader response theories to equip students with critical tools to make literature accessible and fulfilling. These tools will be applied to helping students understand the redundancies and overall absurdities of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.”
A Critical Approach to Teaching the Classics
Ron Darvin, Ateneo de Manila University
Examining how great literary works become labeled as “classic” by people from specific backgrounds and historical periods and realizing that what we valorize as “universal” is always historically and culturally specific
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Fees (inclusive of lunch, 2 snacks, kit & handouts, certificate):
§ P1,100 on site
§ P900 early registration
A minimum downpayment of 50% must be submitted to the ACELT Office, Rm. 202, Kostka Hall, Ateneo Campus — behind the administration building — on or before Monday, August 26.
Phoned-in reservations will only be confirmed upon receipt of pre-payment.
Registration cancellations received before August 26 will incur a 50% cancellation charge. After this date, prepaid registration fees will no longer be refundable.
For more information, contact:
VICKY CALDERON at telefax no. 426 4322 or trunkline no. 426 6001 ext. 5315
Email address: acelt@admu.edu.ph
Ateneo Center for English Language Teaching (ACELT)
