Call For Papers: Proposal for the Women’s Classical Committee Panel
Classical Association Annual Conference in Leicester, 6-9 April 2018
Materiality and Gender: Women, Objects and Antiquity
Organised by Liz Gloyn (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Rosa Andújar (KCL)
Deadline for Abstracts: 2nd August 2017
The Women’s Classical Committee UK invites submissions for this year’s panel, themed ‘Materiality and Gender: Women, Objects and Antiquity’. This follows two successful WCC UK panels at the 2017 Classical Association meeting in Kent.
In line with this year’s conference themes, our aim is twofold: 1) to examine the relationship between women and objects in the ancient world (broadly defined) and 2) to consider the particular experience of ancient and modern women handling classical objects. This panel seeks to showcase recent academic work from a range of perspectives, underscoring the benefits of embracing a wide range of viewpoints in the study of the Classics. We welcome in particular papers that seek to diversify Classics in approach, findings, or methodology.
We invite submissions that focus on (but are not limited to) the following: gendered experiences of artefacts, description versus reality, new approaches to ancient and modern pedagogy, women in archaeology, gendered economies, hierarchies of textual and artefactual authority, breaking and mending, and phenomenological experience.
We warmly encourage Classicists at any career stage and of any gender to submit abstracts.
Please send anonymous abstracts (in .doc or .pdf format) of no more than 200 words to liz.gloyn AT rhul.ac.uk by Wednesday August 2nd 2017. The panel organisers will make decisions about abstracts in time to allow any unsuccessful papers to still be submitted to the Classical Association for consideration under the general call, which closes on 31st August 2017.
We are delighted to be co-organising two panels at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, taking place on 3rd-6th July, in partnership with the History Department at the University of Huddersfield. The two panels came out of our successful ECR day last summer on feminist pedagogy in classics, along with a document outlining the top tips from the day’s discussion [links to PDF]. The ECR day generated a lot of conversation on Twitter and led to a feeling that medievalists and classicists should be sharing thoughts on this issue, particularly given the often blurred lines between late antiquity and the medieval period. Come find us:
7-8pm, Monday 3rd July – Feminist Pedagogy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion
Chair: Patricia Cullum, Division of History, University of Huddersfield
This round table discussion brings together experts from a range of teaching and research backgrounds, career stages, and across the disciplines of Medieval History, Classics, Archaeology and Heritage Studies, and English Literature. This round table unites customarily disparate voices through the focus on gender and women, and facilitates the productive exchange of experiences and approaches to feminist and inclusive pedagogy. Discussion will be structured by the following themes:
What is feminist pedagogy, and how do we do it?
Finding feminist pedagogy in language and translation teaching.
Finding the female voice in primary sources.
The value of teaching and pedagogical research as a gendered issue.
Participants include Carol Atack (University of Oxford), Sarah Bond (University of Iowa), Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea University), Sharon Marshall (University of Exeter), and Diane Watt (University of Surrey).
7-8pm, Tuesday 4th July – Crossing Chronological Boundaries: A Round Table Discussion
Chair: Victoria Leonard, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
This round table discussion brings together academics whose combined expertise covers a large swathe of history, from Classics to the Middle Ages. It enables a rare dialogue that crosses the barriers of periodisation and seeks to break them down. With a particular focus on gender and women, discussion will highlight areas of intersection and difference between Classics and Medieval Studies as disciplines and as fields of research with discrete pedagogical approaches. Discussion will question the value of periodisation and the segregation of gender within the strictures of a periodised approach to the past, asking how such categorisation can be renegotiated.
Participants include Julia Hillner (University of Sheffield), Conrad Leyser (University of Oxford), Julia M. H. Smith (University of Oxford), Rachel Stone (King’s College London), Shaun Tougher (Cardiff University), and Robin Whelan (University of Oxford).
Let us know if you’re going to be at the IMC, and keep an eye out for us on Twitter!
The Women’s Classical Committee UK is delighted to announce the following event:
Adjacent, Alternative and Post-Academic Careers in and around Classics
8th September 2017 University of Birmingham
The Women’s Classical Committee UK is organising a day of workshops and discussion groups to highlight the many and varied careers, jobs, pursuits, and opportunities that lie around and beyond an academic career.
We hope to build both confidence and a community at this event by making a space to share a variety of post-PhD and early-career experiences. The focus will be empowering participants to see and seek out employment that values their particular skills and interests.
As with all WCC events, travel bursaries will be available for students and the un/under-employed.
PROGRAMME
10.30-11am – Coffee and Registration
11-11.30am – Welcome and introduction
11.30-12.30pm – We have skills! Making your CV work beyond academia – A CV workshop with Chris Packham and Holly Prescott (University of Birmingham)
Lunch
1.15-2pm – Getting Creative Sharing ideas on how to build a classicist/classical identity beyond academia.
2-2.45pm – Classics and Public Learning The opportunities for academics in non-academic institutions, with Andrew Roberts (English Heritage)
Tea
3-4pm – Taking Classicists to School Careers in teaching, outreach and HE administration, with Frances Child, Polly Stoker, Oonagh Pennington Wilson, and Tamsin Cross.
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Attendance is free for WCC UK members, £10 for non-members (to cover catering costs). You can join the WCC UK here (and if you’re a student, underemployed, or unemployed, membership is only £5).
If you would like to attend this event, registration is now open on Eventbrite. Paid-up members of the WCC UK have received instructions over e-mail on how to access their free tickets. If you need the instructions to be resent, please e-mail us at womensclassicalcommittee AT gmail.com.
If you have any other questions about the event, please email Dr. Lucy Jackson (lucy.jackson AT kcl.ac.uk).
The WCC is committed to providing friendly and accessible environments for its events, so please do get in touch if you have any access, dietary, or childcare enquiries.
Child-friendly policy
The Women’s Classical Committee is committed to making our events as inclusive as possible, and recognises that the financial and practical challenges of childcare often impede people from participating in workshops and conferences. Anyone who needs to bring a dependent child or children with them in order to participate in one of our events is usually welcome to do so, but we ask you to inform of us this in advance so that we can take them into account in our event planning and risk assessment. The safety and well-being of any children brought to our events remain at all times the responsibility of the parent or carer. While we do our best to ensure that rest and changing facilities are available for those who may need them, this will depend on the individual venue we are using. Again, please contact us in advance to discuss your needs, and we will do our best to accommodate them.
Missed the Classics and Feminist Pedagogy event? You can still take part by reading a Storify of tweets from the day, put together by Liz Gloyn.
Choose either the comprehensive collection of all the tweets from the day, including thoughts and reactions from participants and readers around the world, or a curated selection of tweets with suggestions for teaching practice and further reading.
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.
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)
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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