Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars (MICHHERS) program. Deadline Feb. 7th 2020

This summer research experience, running from Sunday, June 7, to Saturday, June 20, 2020, will help students learn about the various fields within their chosen discipline along with the latest methodologies and developments from faculty in individual department. Participants will have the opportunity to work on a research project under the guidance of U-M faculty and current graduate students. Additionally,they will participate in department seminars, hear from graduate students about their experience and socialize with members of the program.  A graduate admissions workshop and social gatherings will round out the event. Our fourteen day program will host talented students (juniors, seniors and those currently in terminal MA programs), particularly those from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in graduate education who are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Literatures, Classical Studies, English, History, Linguistics, Romance Languages and Literatures, qualitative Sociology and any humanities field in Women’s Studies. For more information, and to apply to participate in this program, please go to:http://www.rackham.umich.edu/michhers

The application deadline is February 7, 2020.  Travel, lodging, and on campus meals of students attending will be fully paid. Participants will also receive a modest stipend of $1,000. In addition, students who subsequently apply to U-M will receive application fee waivers.

Michigan’s Department of N.N. and the Rackham Graduate School are committed to diversity in graduate education.  I would be grateful if you could forward this information and the attached announcement to interested and eligible students, as well as colleagues who may be aware of students who would be interested in participating.Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best, Sara Ahbel-Rappe
rappe@umich.edu

Classical Studies
MICHHERS Liason

 

 

https://rackham.umich.edu/rackham-life/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/michhers/

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CFP: (Re)inventing Sappho: New Approaches to Sappho from the Greek Fragments to the Twenty-First Century

(Re)inventing Sappho: New Approaches to Sappho from the Greek Fragments to the Twenty-First Century

Panel at the 13th Celtic Conference in Classics

(Lyon, France, 15-18 July 2020)

Proposal submission deadline: 6th March 2020

Confirmed Speakers:

• Sandra Boehringer (Université de Strasbourg)
• Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3)
• Ellen Greene (The University of Oklahoma)
• Andre Lardinois (Radboud University)
• Thea Selliaas Thorsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
  

Sappho’s manifold afterlives since antiquity have endowed her with a range of personas, going from the canonical and iconic, to the comical and the perverse. Spanning creative and scholarly responses to the poet, these various interpretations, (re)adaptations and (re)constructions have produced a “Sappho” who is now as fluid and queer as she has ever been. Concurrently, recent Sappho scholarship, as well as discoveries of new fragments, have given rise to several new methodologies and perspectives, including interdisciplinary, comparative, philological, and reception-based approaches. Our panel aims to embrace this plurality by bringing these contrasting methodologies into productive conversation with one another. By re-examining the notion of who (and what) Sappho is, this panel will problematise the “invention” of Sappho and resituate her, along with her poetic fragments and later receptions, in contemporary scholarly discourse.

We welcome papers in the fields of Classics, Ancient History, and Reception Studies, with a preference for talks which fully and boldly engage with new approaches to Sappho’s life, work, and reception. In keeping with the bilingual tradition of the Celtic Conference in Classics, and this year’s venue (Lyon), we are especially keen on contributions about the reception of Sappho by French poets, scholars and translators, as well as Francophone feminist writers such as Wittig, Kristeva and Irigaray. The panel will be fully bilingual and we therefore accept papers both in French and English. Papers might fall within but are not limited to the following categories:

• Sappho’s fragments

• Sappho as a historical personage

• Sappho and literary theory, queer theory, feminist theory, and other ideological approaches

• Ancient, medieval, or modern receptions of Sappho, including theatrical re-adaptations, Sappho in pedagogy and education, and multimedial representations of Sapphic poetry

• The role played by Sappho within LGBTQ+ communities and literature

To encourage a variety of approaches, we will welcome two different paper lengths: 20 minutes and 40 minutes. Please, submit a proposal of 300 words for a 20-minute paper and 500 words for the 40-minute option. Abstracts must be written either in French or English. The submission deadline for abstracts is 6th March 2020.

Submissions and queries should be directed to the following address: reinventingsappho@gmail.com.

Please, include a short biography and specify your affiliation in the body of your email: attach the abstract as a separate file with no personal identification.

Notification of acceptance will be given in early April.

 

For further information on the Celtic Conference in Classics, please refer to the conference permanent website: www.celticconferenceinclassics.org.

The panel convenors

• Astrid Khoo (Harvard University)
• Simona Martorana (Durham University)
• Amy Pistone (Gonzaga University)
• Rioghnach Sachs (King’s College London)

Classics and Social Justice at the 2020 AIA/SCS

Please let me know (amypistone at gmail dot com) if I’ve missed anything organized by our members or of interest to our members. We will continue to update this post up until the conference.

I would also encourage you to check out MRECC’s listing of papers of interest, available here.

Meeting and Social Events

(will be updated once the full schedules are available online)

Friday, 12 – 1 pm: Mountaintop Coalition Business Meeting (Gallaudet)

Friday evening: WCC/LCC Reception

Saturday, 2 – 3:15pm: Classics and Social Justice Open Meeting (University of D.C. room)

Saturday, 9 – 11pm: MRECC Reception

You can help sponsor reception refreshments!

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Thursday, January 2

3:30 – 5:30pm: Dr. Robin DiAngelo, “White Fragility: Why is it So Hard for White People to Talk about Race?” (Independence Ballroom Salon B+C)

Friday, January 3

Joint Workshop on Bystander Training/Intervention

Responding to Harassment: Bystander Intervention (Workshop led by Collective Action for Save Spaces, D.C. Organized by Sarah Teets, University of Virginia, and Erika Zimmermann Damer, University of Richmond)

[This same event will be held three times throughout the day, each time beginning at the start of each Friday paper session]

1:45 – 4:45 pm: Classics and Civic Activism Workshop (Joint AIA-SCS Workshop)

Organized by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Yurie Hong, Amit Shilo, and Marina Haworth

Featuring representatives from Indivisible Guide, National Humanities Alliance, and the American Federation of Teachers

Kim McMurray (The Indivisible Guide, Electoral Organizing Director): Advocacy and Organizing 101 with the Indivisible Guide
Alexandra Klein (National Humanities Alliance, Communications Manager): Academia and Public Policy Advocacy
Lindsay Theo (American Federation of Teachers): Teachers, Contingent Faculty, and Civic Organizing

Additional Speakers for Session #28 (Lightning Round)
Kiran Mansukhani: Repurposing Classical Pedagogy for Philippine Land Rights Activism
Wynter Pohlenz Telles Douglas: Prison Abolition and the History of Slavery
Olga Faccani: The Odyssey Project: Performing Homer with Incarcerated Youth
Emily Allen-Hornblower: Greek Tragedy and the Formerly Incarcerated: Dialogues with the Broader Public
Kristina Chew: Using Greek Poetry and Drama to Advocate for Individuals with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
Arti Mehta: Social Programs and Food Insecurity in Juvenal
Dan-el Padilla Peralta: Humanities Prep
Jerise Fogel: Community Bookstores and Community Organizing

1:45 – 4:45 pm: Black Classicism in the Visual Arts

Organized by Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome, Mathias Hanses, Caroline Stark, Harriet Fertik, and Sasha-Mae Eccleston

Margaret Day Elsner: Sugar Baby’s Riddle: Sphinx or Sibyl?
Samuel Agbamu: Metamorphoses in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Stefani Echeverria-Fenn: When and Where I (Don’t) Enter: Afro-Pessimism, the Fungible Object, and Black Queer Representations of Medusa
Tom Hawkins: Centaurs and Equisapiens
Stuart McManus: Frank M. Snowden, Jr. and the Origins of the Image of the Black in Western Art
Michele Valerie Ronnick: “Every Time I Think about Color It’s a Political Statement:” Classical Elements in the Art of Emma Amos
Shelley Haley: Response

1:45 – 4:45 pm: Lesbianism Before Sexuality

Organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus, Kirk Ormand, and Kristina Milnor

Irene Han: Les Guérillères: Sappho and the Lesbian Body
Kelly McArdle: Rethinking Julia Balbilla: Queer Poetics on the Memnon Colossus
Rebecca Flemming: “I Clitorize, You Clitorize, They Clitorize…”: The Anatomy of Female Homoeroticism in the Roman Empire
Rachel Lesser: Sappho’s Mythic Models: Figuring Lesbian Desire through Heterosexual Paradigms
Kristin Mann: Tribad Philaenis and Lesbian Bassa: WLW in Martial
Sandra Boehringer: Response

5:30 – 10:30 pm: Black Classicism and the Visual Arts, a panel, reception, and Art Exhibition (organized by EOS: Africana Receptions of Greece and Rome)

Located at Busboys and Poets (450 K St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001)

Saturday, January 4

8 – 10:30am: Classical Reception in Contemporary Asian and Asian American Culture

Organized by Christopher Waldo and Elizabeth Wueste

Christopher Waldo: Introduction
Stephanie Wong: Princess Turandot, an Occidental Oriental
Kelly Nguyen: No One Knows His Own Stock: Ocean Vuong’s Reception of Telemachus and Odysseus
Kristina Chew: Translating the Voices of Tragedy’s “Other” Women: Theresa Has Kyung Cha’s Dictee and Seneca’s Phaedra
Priya Kothari: A Palimpsest of Performance: The Construction of Classicism in the Vallabha Tradition
Melissa Mueller: Response

10:45am – 12:45pm: Citizenship, Migration, and Identity in Classical Athens

Organized by Jennifer T. Roberts

Justin Yoo: Introduction
Rebecca Futo Kennedy: Environment-Based Identity and Athenian Anti-Immigrant Policies in the Classical Period
Naomi Campa: Power Struggles: Neaira and the Threat to Citizenship
Mary Jean McNamara: Plataean Citizenship: Dual Identities
Jennifer Roberts: Immigration and Exclusion: A Comparative Study
Konstantinos Kapparis: Response

12:15 – 1:45pm: Roundtable Discussion Session

Hestia BU Graduate Pedagogy (Organized by Alicia Matz, Shannon DuBois, and Ian Nurmi)
White Supremacy and the History of Future of Classics (Organized by Curtis Dozier)

1:45 – 4:45pm: Women in Rage, Women in Protest: Feminist Approaches to Ancient Anger (Seminar)

Organized by Erika L. Weiberg and Mary Hamil Gilbert

Suzanne Lye: Putting Pressure on the Patriarchy: The Subversive Power of Women’s Anger in Ancient Greek Literature and Magic
Erika L. Weiberg: The Problem of the Angry Woman and Herodotus’ Use of Tragedy in Two Athenian Logoi
Ellen Cole Lee: Irata Puella: Gaslighting, Violence, and Anger in Elegy
Mary Hamil Gilbert: Furor Frustrated: Policing Women’s Anger in the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia

1:45 – 4:45pm: Global Receptions 

Cynthia Damon, presiding

David Wray: “Learned Poetry,” Modernist Juxtaposition, and the Classics: Three Case Studies
Christopher Stedman Parmenter: Frank Snowden at Naukratis: Revisiting the Image of the Black in Western Art
Kathleen Noelle Cruz: Norse Gods in Tyrkland: The Manipulation of the Classical Tradition in Snorra Edda
Adriana Maria Vazquez: Dreaming of Hector in the Brazilian Neoclassical Period: Conceptualizing “Window Reception”
James R. Townshend: “Keep Quiet! You Can’t Even Read Latin!” The Satirical Purpose of Western Classics in Natsume Sōseki’s I Am a Cat

Sunday, January 5

8 am – 11 am: Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons

Organized by David J. Wright and Lindsey A. Mazurek

Nicole Nowbahar: Using Cross-Dressing to Understand Ancient Conceptions of Gender and Identity
Curtis Dozier: Classical Antiquity and Contemporary Hate Groups
Matthew Gorey: The Reception of Classics in Hispanophone and Lusophone Cultures and Modern Imperialism
Lindsey A. Mazurek: Comparing Present and Past in the Migration Classroom
Daniel Libatique: Cultural and Historical Contingencies in Ancient and Modern Sexuality
Sam Flores: Race in Antiquity and Modernity

8 am – 11 am: Sisters Doin’ It for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary

Organized by the Women’s Classical Caucus, T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, and Serena S. Witzke

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad and Serena S. Witzke: Introduction
Catherine M. Draycott: If I Say that the Polyxena Sarcophagus was Designed for a Woman, Does that Make Me a TERF? Identity Politics and Power Now and Then
Alana Newman: Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Ptolemaic Faience and the Limits of Female Power
Krishni Schaefgen Burns: Cornelia’s Connections: Political Influence in Cross-Class Female Networks
Morgan E. Palmer: Always Advanced by Her Recommendations: The Vestal Virgins and Women’s Mentoring
Jessica Clark: Chiomara and the Roman Centurion
Gunnar Dumke: Basilissa, Not Mahārāni: The Indo-Greek Queen Agathokleia

11:45 am – 1:45 pm: If Classics is for Everybody, Why Isn’t Everybody in My Class? Building Bridges and Opening Doors to the Study of Classics

Organized by Elizabeth A. Bobrick and Danielle R. Bostick

Elizabeth Bobrick: Introduction
Sara Ahbel-Rappe: Increasing the Diversity of Graduate Students in Classics: The University of Michigan’s Bridge M.A. and Bridge to the Ph.D. Programs
Danielle R. Bostick: Creating Systemic Change within Existing Structures
Sonya Wurster: Integrating Diverse Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds in the Latin Classroom, and Reconsidering the Place of Classics in Non-Western Traditions
Nina Papathanasopoulou: Expanding Classics through the Visual and Performing Arts, In and Out of the Classroom

2 – 4:30 pm: Theater of Displacement: Ancient Tragedy and Modern Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants

Organized by Seth Jeppesen, Cecilia Peek, and Chiara Aliberti

Seth Jeppesen: Introduction
Hallie Marshall: Now We See You, Now We Don’t: Displacement, Citizenship, and Gender in Greek Tragedy
Allannah Karas: Aeschylus’ Erinyes as Suppliant Immigrants: Enchantment and Subjugation
Lana Radloff: The Sword, the Box, and the Bow: Trauma, (Dis)placement, and “New Canadians”
Sarah J. Thompson: How Sweet are Tears: The Uses of Lamentation in the Trojan Women and Queens of Syria
Chiara Aliberti: Response

The Odyssey Project

https://odyssey.projects.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/

http://www.insidetheodysseyproject.com/

Petition to Condemn Mock Slave Auctions at JCL Classics Events

For more information and context on this issue, please see Dani Bostick’s detailed post.

Dear Sherwin Little, Mary Pendergraft, & Catherine Sturgill:

We write to express our dismay at the practice of mock slave auctions in the context of Junior Classical League national conventions, state conventions, club meetings, and other topics. We condemn the use of oppression and dehumanization as a source of levity and entertainment in an organization that is often children’s first introduction to Classics. 

We agree with the American Classical League’s May 5 statement against racism and, along with the ACL, we reject “racism and white supremacy in all of their manifestations.” We assume that the JCL, as an affiliate of the ACL, shares these sentiments and is equally committed to the ACL’s commitment that their “ resources, workshops, and other events do not inadvertently promote and further racism, sexism, white supremacy, or any other set of ideas that foster systemic inequities.”

However, in condoning, promoting, holding, and failing to condemn mock slave auctions, JCL-affiliated groups and conventions have created an environment that harms many junior classicists and excludes many other potential classicists. This is not the vision of classics that we want to promote at the secondary or post-secondary level. Individual JCL organizations look to the ACL and JCL for leadership, and they both have a large role in shaping the field and establishing the culture of secondary Classics. They must do better.

We are asking ACL and JCL to: 

• Apologize for establishing and perpetuating mock slave auctions and acknowledge the harm this has caused generations of students. 
• Condemn the practice of mock slave auctions for fundraising, classroom instruction, or any other purpose. 
• Disseminate information to ACL members and JCL sponsors about the harm caused by mock slave auctions and, more broadly, using slavery and other forms of oppression as a source of humor. 
• Prevent future harm by adding a prohibition against mock slave auctions to the JCL governing documents as soon as possible and releasing immediate guidance that informs stakeholders that they are harmful and inappropriate in any context, including (especially) the classroom.  

As students and instructors at the secondary and post-secondary level and other members of the classics community, we ask you to consider making these changes that will make our field a more inclusive place for everyone.

Sincerely,

Please scroll down to add your name to the petition

Note to signatories: thank you for signing this petition! We also encourage you to do some or all of the following:

• Write an individual letter of concern to leaders of the ACL and JCL: Mary Pendergraft, President ACL (president@aclclassics.org), Sherwin Little, Executive Director (littles@aclclassics.org), and Catherine Sturgill, Chair of the JCL (publicrelations@ncjl.org)
• Write a letter as a JCL chapter
• Ask your department chair / administrator/ equity coordinator or applicable central office leader to write a letter or issue a public statement
• Pass this letter on to like-minded colleagues (even outside of the field)

Signatories

Dani Bostick
Amy Pistone	Gonzaga University
Madelyn Torchin
Aven McMaster	Assistant Professor, Thorneloe University at Laurentian
Kevin M. Perry
David Perry	University of Minnesota
Jennifer Lewton-Yates	Asst. Prof. of Classics, Millsaps College
Sarah Teets	University of Virginia
Liv Mariah Yarrow	Associate Professor, Classics, Brooklyn College
Jane Sancinito	Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College
Isaac Hoffman	Cornell Grad Student
Rebecca Kennedy	Denison University
Lindsey Mazurek	Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon
Victoria Austen-Perry	University of Winnipeg
Graham Butler	PhD, UBC
Nancy Rabinowitz	Professor of Literature Hamilton College
Thomas Lecaque	Grand View University
Preston Bannard	Classics teacher, Groton School
Natalie Daifotis	Graduate Student, UMass Amherst
Judith P Hallett
Deborah Lyons	Dept of Classics, Miami University
Leah Bernardo-Ciddio	PhD Candidate, IPCAA, University of Michigan
Justin Slocum Bailey
Alex Claman	Texas Tech University
Emma Remsberg
Timothy Joseph	College of the Holy Cross
Sarah Galatioto-Ruff	Teacher
Lillian Sellers	Tucker High School
Tom Di Giulio
Danielle Kellogg	Brooklyn College
Courtney Monahan	Duke University; Durham Academy (Durham, NC)
Wynter Douglas
Lynnea Kaylor	Student & Mentor, Kaylor Ashuvyahu Center for Classical Learning
Barbara Gold	Hamilton College (emerita)
Rosanna Lauriola	Adjunct Assistant prof. of Classics, Randolph-Macon College (VA)
Patricia Kim
Kassandra Miller	Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College
Danielle Martin	Middle School Latin/Seattle Academy
David J. Wright	Lecturer, Fordham University
Arum Park	Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Arizona
Tori Lee	Duke University
Eush Tayco
Melissa Funke	Assistant Professor, University of Winnipeg
Aneirin Pendragon
Allene M. Seet
Jennifer Gerrish	College of Charleston
Michael Goyette	Instructor of Classics, Eckerd College
Matt Gibbs	Associate Professor, University of Winnipeg
Erin Moodie	Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Phebe duPont	Haverford College
Molly Harris	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Brenda Fields
Gregory P. Stringer	Burlington (MA) Public High School
Dimitri Nakassis	University of Colorado Boulder
Samuel Flores	College of Charleston
Hannah Culik-Baird	Assistant Professor Boston University
Hayley Barnett
Steven Mondloch	UMass Amherst
Brandon Conley	Michigan State University
Jay Fisher	Professor Department of Classics Rutgers University
Heather Galante
Marcia Smith, Ph.D.
Joy Reeber	University of Arkansas
Joy Eliot	Former course lead, North Carolina Virtual Public School (disabled). B.A. First Class Cambridge, M.A. Harvard.
Lisa Maurizio	Bates College
Stephanie McCarter	The University of the South (Sewanee)
Brittany Johnson	The Ursuline School
Grace Gillies	Visiting Lecturer, Bates College
Simon DeSantis
Gray Alexander
Clara Bosak-Schroeder	Assistant Professor, UIUC
Kathryn H. Stutz	Graduate student, Johns Hopkins University
Anatole Mori	University of Missouri
Christine Ellis
Amber Kearns
Britta Ager	Colorado College
Jacqueline Church
Kathryn Topper	University of Washington
Yurie Hong	Gustavus Adolphus College
Marina Haworth	North Hennepin Community College
Jameson Minto
Diane Warne Anderson	UMass Boston
Jacquelyn Wilkins	Teacher, EC Glass High School & Former Director, Virginia Governor’s Latin Academy
Sarah E. Bond	Associate Prof. of History, University of Iowa
Neel Smith
Max Rohleder
Sydney Preston	Graduate Student, UMass Amherst
Alice Bradley
Tom Hendrickson	Stanford Online High School
Matt Mitchell
Elijah J. Mears
adam williams
Alicia Matz	Boston University
Diana Ng
Forrester Hammer	Graduate student, UMass Amherst
Dr. Liz Gloyn	Senior Lecturer in Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Gabriel Bodard	Reader in Digital Classics, University of London
Andrew Scott	Villanova University
Shannon DuBois	Boston University
Katherine Wasdin	Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
Alexandra Pappas	San Francisco State University
Christopher Polt	Boston College
Liliana Schaefer
Dominic Machado	College of the Holy Cross
Ian Nurmi	Boston University
Joseph Stern	UMass Amherst
Paul Brucia Breitenfeld	Boston University
Rachel Hart
Jacqui Bloomberg	Upper School Latin Teacher at Dana Hall in Wellesley, MA
Sarah Stroup	University of Washington, Seattle
Deborah Kamen	University of Washington
Kristina Sherburne
Anwar Omeish	2014 Virginia JCL President
Ningyin Zhao
Eli Williams
Joseph Farrell
Emily Damiano
Ruby Blondell	Professor Emerita, University of Washington
Amit Shilo	Assistant Professor of Classics, UCSB
Mary Lou Burke	Woodrow Wilson High School
Boyce Collins	North Carolina A&T State University
Catherine Connors	University of Washington
Anthony Corbeill	University of Virginia
Jennifer Judge	Gonzaga Preparatory
Wayne Miller	Latin Teacher, Garfield HS, Seattle, WA
Molly Stevens	UGA
Stephen Hinds	University of Washington, Seattle
Jackie Murray	University of Kentucky
Mali Skotheim	Postdoctoral Fellow, The Warburg Institute
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg	University of Cincinnati
Jennifer Ebbeler	UT Austin
Roberta Stewart	Professor, Dartmouth College
K. Scarlett Kingsley	Agnes Scott College
Ellen O’Gorman	University of Bristol
Anna Henriques
Francesca Tronchin
Dr. Francesca Tronchin	Addenbrooke Classical Academy
Kendra Eshleman	Boston College; MD JCL 1990-91
Anise K. Strong	Associate Professor, Western Michigan University
Jason Nethercut	USF
Julie Hruby	Dartmouth College
Peter Meineck	New York University
Ruth Scodel	The University of Michigan
Kyler Laycock
David Kaufman	Associate Professor of Classics and Philosophy, Transylvania University
John Hyland	Christopher Newport University
Molly Jones-Lewis	Lecturer Ancient Studies Dept. UMBC; VA JCL student 1995-9
Susann Lusnia	Associate Professor & Chair, Tulane University
Joan Romanosky	JCL sponsor
Michael McOsker	Ohio Wesleyan University
Kristen Ehrhardt	Associate Professor of classics, John Carroll University
Marisa Alimento	Latin Teacher/Coordinator@ Crossroads School, Santa Monica
Allison Emmerson	Tulane University
Ian Lockey	Friends select school Latin teacher
Ashleigh Fata
Konnor Clark	PhD
Tom Hawkins	Ohio State
Ulrike Krotscheck	The Evergreen State College
Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld	Graduate Student, University of Washington
Elin Rummel	Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dana Woell
Lisa Mignone
Kira Jones	Emory University
Michaela Downing
Kelly P. Dugan	University of Georgia
Steven Ellis	University of Cincinnati
Sarah Levin-Richardson	Assistant Prof. of Classics, University of Washington
Alexander Beecroft	University of South Carolina
Ruby Blondell	University of Washington
Priscilla Scofield	Roosevelt High School, Seattle
Nicolas P. Gross	Retired Classicist
Elizabeth Kosmetatou	University of Illinois – Springfield
Erin Walcek Averett	Associate Professor, Creighton University
Katherine Blouin	University of Toronto
Hallie Franks	New York University
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad	Wake Forest University
Briana Titus	teacher & JCL sponsor
Zoé Elise Thomas	University of Texas at Austin
Marian Makins	Temple University
Taz Hinkle
Melanie Subacus
Robert Amstutz
Susan Herder
Jason Albaugh
Laura Hudec
Emily Goetz	Classical Magnet School (former), JCL club advisor (former)
Clayton Schroer	University of Illinois/Colorado College
Arti Mehta
Gina Soter	University of Michigan
Ellen Sassenberg	Century High School
Sara Myers	Professor of Classics, UVA
Heather Waddell	Chair, Greek & Roman Studies (Concordia College, Moorhead MN)
Lizzy Ten-Hove	PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Catherine Reed	Dulaney High School, Baltimore County
Daniel Bostick	Social Sciences Teacher
Lea Cline	Associate Professor, Illinois State University
Leigh Anne Lieberman	The Claremont Colleges
Jack Kanoof	Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Raymon Johnson
Emma Hanley
Tom Elliott	Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar, NYU/ISAW
Jessica Rothwell	Arizona State University
Bill Beck	Indiana University, Bloomington
Christina Vester	Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Mary Gilbert	Birmingham Southern College
Mike de Brauw	Associate Professor of Classics, North Central College (Naperville, IL)
Vincent Price
Stephanie Wong	Brown University
Sarah J. Miller	Gilman School
Sara Priebe
Shelley Haley	Hamilton College
Julia Fink	Geffen Academy at UCLA
Addison Lee
Parker McClary	Geffen Academy
Phoebe Fischer	Geffen Academy
Lucius Farha	Geffen Academy
Arushi Khare	Geffen Academy
Bianca Baron
Rachel Goldstein
Ploy Keener	Teacher, Walnut Hills High School
Skye Shirley	GrecoLatinoVivo
Laura Manning
Felix Bieneman
Peter Barrios-Lech	University of Massachusetts Boston
Allison Glazebrook	Brock University
Jackie Lund	Bexley High School
Rachel Sampson
Sidler Davis	State Chair

Statements on the Paideia Institute

On October 1, 2019, the Sportula Collective published a statement detailing the experiences of many of their members at programs run by the Paideia Institute. The note that:

The Sportula believes that the Paideia Institute and its affiliated programs create an environment that is hostile to people of color, women, students from working-class backgrounds, the LGBTQ community, and other marginalized groups.

The leadership of the Classics and Social Justice group believes these accounts and stands in solidarity with the brave people who came forward to share their stories in an attempt to effect change at Paideia. We also recognize that the factors that contributed to this toxic culture are not unique to the Paideia Institute but are a pervasive issue within the field and we are committed to addressing these more pervasive issues as well as this specific situation.

We do not find that the responses offered by Paideia leadership have been sufficient or that they have adequately acknowledged the harm that their organization has done. Because of that, we heartily second the calls to action recommended by the Sportula:

• Spread the word: Alert other community members, students, and peers to potential discrimination from the Paideia Institute.
• Redirect support: Opt to support organizations in the field that are inclusive, safe spaces, and recommend such organizations to The Sportula and your community members.
• Divest: Encourage your university to reconsider its relationship with Paideia.

In an attempt to amplify the voices of people who have been marginalized, exploited, and otherwise mistreated by people affiliated with the Paideia Institute, we are collecting the different statements that have been issued in response to the original Sportula statement. If we have missed any, please let us know.

SCS Board Letter to the Paideia Institute

CAAS Board of Directors letter to The Paideia Institute

ACL Statement concerning the Paideia Institute

Statement from CNSC GRECOLATINOVIVO regarding the publication on Medium by Sportula on October 1 and 2, addressing the Paideia Institute

Liz Butterworth, In Support of the Sportula’s Statement on the Paideia Institute

Gregory Stringer, Ending my association with Paideia

Bryan Whitchurch, Whitchurch and the Paideia Institute, October 2019

An older letter, but one that addresses some of the same fundamental issues, written by instructors affiliated with Paideia, though many have since ended their association

And finally, here is a thread breaking down some of the problems with the statement issued by Paideia:

#Paideia Board has released new statement regarding recent accusations of #discrimination. Full of manipulative language and #gaslighting. This thread is breaking it all down. First read it for yourself. /1
Link: https://t.co/b9EXD9K84x

— (((Irina G.))) (@AnimaIrenea) October 15, 2019

 

Teaching Classics in US Prison Settings

Good news! The volume growing out of CSJ panels and workshops, Teaching Classics in US Prison Settings (co-edited by Emilio Capetinni [UCSB] and Nancy Rabinowitz [Hamilton College]) has been accepted by Routledge.

It will appear in the series co-edited by Rabinowitz and Fiona McHardy, Classics In and Out of the Academy: Classical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century. Please consider submitting a proposal for consideration to f.mchardy@roehampton.ac.uk or nrabinow@hamilton.edu. Here is a description of the series:

This series explores the ways in which the study of antiquity can enrich the lives of diverse populations in the twenty-first century. The series covers two distinct, but interrelated topics: 1) ways in which classicists can engage new audiences within the academy by embedding inclusivity and diversity in university teaching practices, curricula, and assessments, and 2) the relevance of Classics to learners from the most marginalized social strata (i.e. the incarcerated, refugees, those suffering from mental illness).

CFP: Carthartic History, deadline: Nov. 12th

Conference: Cathartic History

University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA

February 25-27, 2021

 

The aim of this conference and the edited collection that will result is to propose Aristotelian catharsis as a new lens for historical inquiry. The project aims to do so, specifically, through the study of cathartic history as a phenomenon in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean and in the field of Classical history today. In the process, the project will serve as an example of the productive application of catharsis to the study of the past, and thus a model for other fields of historical research.

While the study of the past as a healing experience is not entirely new, no uniform vocabulary exists at this time for talking about cathartic history. Rather, scholars who have written to elicit an emotional response from their audiences about the past, or who have chosen to consider their own emotional response to the past, have largely done so in passing or in popularly oriented publications, rather than using that emotional response as a bona fide category of historical analysis in and of itself. And yet, the historian’s selection of topics of research, both in the ancient world and in the historical profession today, is often motivated by personal experiences, broadly defined. This project aims to show that thinking about the past as a cathartic experience whether for us as historians, and/or for the ancient historians we study, and/or for our modern audiences, provides a new bridge for a productive academic dialogue of the past with the present.

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers that consider (but are not limited to) the following questions:

• How might we apply the Aristotelian theory of catharsis to Greek and Roman historians?
• In what ways might the lens of catharsis enrich our reading of narratives of trauma (whether personal or literary or national) in the ancient sources?
• Are we pursuing catharsis in our own research whenever we focus on topics of personal relevance?
• Is historical research a cathartic experience? Should it be?
• In what ways could thinking about history through the lens of catharsis intersect with the increased interest in social justice within the field of Classics?

Please submit abstracts of 300-500 words by November 12, 2019 to Nadya Williams, nwilliam@westga.edu

LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Michigan. Deadline: Oct. 1 2019.

LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Michigan

This is a two-year post doc aimed at recruiting and retaining exceptional early career scholars committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive intellectual community. The two-year fellowship program provides early career scholars with dedicated research time, mentorship, teaching experience, travel funding, and professional development opportunities to prepare them for a possible tenure-track appointment at the University of Michigan. The department wishes in particular to recruit and support young scholars from underrepresented cultural and economic backgrounds leading to a tenure track hire in Classical Studies. The application deadline is Oct. 1, 2019. Here is the link for the application: https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/fellowships-awards/lsa-collegiate-postdoctoral-fellowship.html

Candidates whose scholarship, teaching, and service will contribute to the diversity, equity, and inclusion goals of LSA are encouraged to apply. Applicants in Classical Studies are encouraged to identify potential mentors on the faculty and contact them before the deadline for advice on preparation of materials.

Applicants are encouraged to write either to Basil Dufallo (dufallo@umich.edu) or to Artemis Leontis, Chair of the Department (aleontis@umich.edu), for any advice regarding the application letter, diversity statement, and narrative on the application.

CFP: “Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity” (**May 15th 2020**, UMW)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Res Difficiles:  A Conference On

Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity 

In the Ancient Greek and Roman World

 

Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University) and Joseph Romero (University of Mary Washington)

Date: **MAY 15th**, 2020

Place: Campus of the University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, Virginia), HCC 136

*Please note that the date of this conference has been changed so as not to coincide with CAMWS*

One of the great benefits of the shift from a pedagogue-centered to a student-aware or student-centered classroom is that we listen more attentively to how our students experience the content of what we read.  A decided strength of Classical Studies is the simultaneous proximity and distance—temporally, geographically, ideologically—of the ancient Greek and Roman world. That distance is felt more keenly when potentially difficult subjects (res difficiles) in our readings—domination, inequity, violence both sexual and otherwise—present themselves for inspection. Often the underlying source of the dissonance or disconnect is the distance in our perceptions of social justice. 

 In a conference held on the campus of the University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, Virginia), we examine the challenges presented by this curriculum with students who are increasingly more diverse in gender identity, race, ethnicity, income, family structure, and more. We invite contributions from professors, graduate students, teachers, activists, and any interested in the issues under discussion. And while the society of our conference will examine pedagogical issues, we hope also to dilate outward to broader issues in education and society from (a) the current and future roles of Classics and the humanities in K-12 and higher education to (b) the ultimate goals of education.

 Our keynote speaker will be Dani Bostick (@danibostick) who teaches Latin in Winchester, VA, and who has garnered a national reputation as a writer, teacher, and advocate for victims of sexual violence.  Learn more at danibostick.net.

 We hope the conference will be attended by as many as possible in person, but a number (limited only by our subscription capacity), will be able to attend digitally. With the permission of the individual presenters, the proceedings of the conference will be live-tweeted on the conference hashtag (#resdiff).

 Abstracts of 350 words should be sent electronically to Joseph Romero (jromero@umw.edu) by January 10, 2020.  Papers will be 20-25 minutes long with coordinated discussion at the end of each session.  Any questions regarding abstract submission may be addressed to Professor Romero or Professor Čulík-Baird (culik@bu.edu). For more information see the conference website (http://cas.umw.edu/clpr/resdifficilesconference/).

Res Difficiles – Call for Papers