The Women’s Classical Committee is delighted to announce its first event, a workshop for ECRs and graduate students exploring what feminist pedagogy is and how it might be useful for thinking about teaching classics. The workshop will take place on Friday 29th July at the University of Birmingham.
Of interest to early career Classicists and others:
Women in the Humanities is an interdisciplinary programme which aims to explore how gender and sex play out in history, art, philosophy, music, language and literature, as well as the ethics and politics of gender identity and equality in the Humanities. It seeks to promote the opportunities Oxford offers to women working in the Humanities at all career stages, as well as promoting the study of women’s lives within the Humanities at the University.
Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship
A postdoctoral writing fellowship worth £5,000 is available to early career scholars within three years of the award of a doctorate who do not yet hold a permanent academic job. The fellowship will be tenable for between 3 and 6 months from 1 October 2016. Funding may be used for travel expenses, living expenses and research activities that will enable the Fellow to publish their doctorate or aspects of their doctoral work. The Fellow will be a scholar whose work promises to significantly advance knowledge of women’s lives, experiences and/or representation. They will be mentored by an experienced academic in their field, and will be expected to be a regular participant in WiH activities.
More information is available on the TORCH website. The deadline for applications is 10 June 2016.
After a hugely successful launch event, we are very pleased to say that you can now join the WCC. Membership is open to all. Membership for the 2016 calendar year will be £20, or £5 for students, unemployed, retired and underemployed members. Subscriptions will help to support the WCC’s future activities and events.
Check out the “Join Us” page of this website for further details.
We’d like to let you know that the 2015 edition of Cloelia, the annual publication of the Women’s Classical Caucus in the US, is now out. This edition features articles by Fiona McHardy and Susan Deacy on teaching sensitive subjects and by Helena Hoyle and Joscelyn Cole on the Classics and the New Faces of Feminism sandpit that led to the creation of the WCC UK. You can see the table of contents and read the articles over on the Caucus’ website.
Following the establishment of the Women’s Classical Committee in 2015 we want to gather information about the current situation and experiences of women in Classics in the UK. This information will inform the direction of the WCC in supporting women and their research and teaching in Classics.
Please take our survey here if you work in or studied Classics or the study of the Ancient World (broadly defined) in the UK. We welcome answers from Classicists of all genders.
Everything is coming today for our launch event on Monday 11th April – registration will open very soon. You will be welcome to attend the whole day, just the morning or just the afternoon, or to attend remotely via social media.
For now, here is a draft of the day’s timetable:
Past, Present and Future: The Launch Of The Women’s Classical Committee
9.30 – Registration, coffee
10.15 – Welcome, house-keeping
10.30 – Short talk: Why are we here? (Liz Gloyn)
10.45 – Short talk: Women in Classics in the UK – The Numbers (Irene Salvo)
11.15 – Discussion Session
11.15-11.45 – Break-out discussion, panel 1: Women and postgrads, early career researchers and casualisation (chaired by Rhiannon Easterbrook)
11.15-11.45 – Break-out discussion, panel 2: Women, mental health, disability, and additional need issues (chaired by Susan Deacy)
11.45 – Discussion Session
11.45-12.15 – Break-out discussion, panel 3: Women and implicit bias (chaired by Efi Spentzou)
11.45-12.15 – Break-out discussion, panel 4: Women and parenthood/caring (chaired by Victoria Leonard)
12.15 – Whole-Group Discussion
12.30 – Lunch
1.30 – Spotlight Talks: A series of five-minute talks on current research taking a feminist and gender-informed perspective.
2.30 – Roundtable: What is feminist scholarship? (Participants will include Fiona Macintosh, Stella Sandford, Alison Sharrock and Susan Deacy)
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!
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