The Feminist and Women’s Studies Association is now accepting submissions for their 2016 Student Essay Competition.
To encourage a new generation of feminist scholars, the FWSA sponsors an annual student essay competition for work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The top seven entries will be judged by their judging panel and will be published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies. In addition, the winner will receive a year’s free FWSA membership and a publisher’s prize.
Students at any stage of their studies at a British or Irish university are encouraged to submit work that has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration for publication, or for competitions which result in publication elsewhere. Essays should be 6,000 – 7,000 words (including footnotes and bibliography), must be submitted electronically and including a completed competition coversheet. Please use your surname as the file name (e.g. ‘ROY’). Please note that entries without this coversheet will not be considered.
The deadline for this year’s competition is Monday 2nd May 2016.
Classicists may be interested in Sarah Bond’s Blog Post and associated data collection to compile a list of female Ancient Historians in an editable Google Document. The blog was written in response to the number of all-male panels at the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies Joint Annual Meeting in San Francisco, January 2016.
Classicists with an interest in philosophy may be interested in the Society for Women in Philosophy’s upcoming conference: “Precarity: Passion, Rage, Reason”. You can find more details and the call for papers here.
On Friday 8 January, three members of the WCC UK steering committee, Rosa Andújar, Lisa Eberle and Amy Russell met with the current co-chairs of the Women’s Classical Caucus (https://wccaucus.org/), Sarah Blake and Chiara Sulprizio, WCC veteran Ruby Blondell, and the current president of the Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies (https://socawaws.wordpress.com/), Sonya Wurster. In addition to discussing practicalities related to setting up an organization devoted both to achieving gender equity and to addressing issues specific to women in classics, we considered various opportunities for collaboration between the three organizations. WCC UK is looking forward to working closely with its American and Australasian counterparts!
We are pleased to announce that our launch event “Women in Classics: Past, Present and Future” will take place at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, on Monday 11th April 2016.
The day will include short talks on different aspects of women in Classics and break-out discussions on issues facing women in Classics and how the WCC might support them in future. We expect the day’s programme to run from 9.30am-5pm.
Further updates on the day’s programme and registration will be posted on this website and circulated by email via the Liverpool Classicists list. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter for further updates.
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