From blondell at u.washington.edu Tue Dec 2 15:13:13 2008 From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby Blondell) Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:13:13 -0800 Subject: [LCC] Roundtable on Teaching Rape Texts Message-ID: <4935C109.4020407@u.washington.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: For WCC: Roundtable on Teaching Rape Texts Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:34:42 -0500 From: Nancy Rabinowitz This roundtable is offered as a follow up to the Feminism and Classics V conference discussion of teaching ancient texts about rape. There will be sign-up sheets for roundtables at the meeting; we look forward to seeing you all there. "Teaching Rape in Classical Literature: Activism, Pedagogy, and the American University." Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Amy Richlin (co-organizers) Certain classical texts notoriously draw out students' responses from their personal lives, and those of us who teach those works often end up in delicate conversations with students. The treatment of rape in Greek myth, Ovid's Metamorphoses and in New Comedy frequently incites such events; those who teach these texts must learn both to teach the subjects with sensitivity in the classroom and to be prepared to discuss them less publicly, for example during office hours. The predictability of this phenomenon, in which an ancient text about rape brings a student to talk to a professor about a personal experience of rape, leads us to think about the subject on a larger scale, as a matter of both pedagogical preparation and professional ethics, and one that is well-suited to a round-table discussion at the APA conference. Some of the questions we might raise include the following: What is the responsibility of the faculty member in regards to campus problems such as sexual assault? What can we do about those problems while maintaining our proper professionalism? What is proper professionalism? Can we address such issues in our courses without polarizing our classrooms? -- Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Hamilton College 315-859-4149 From lockyert at mweb.co.za Wed Dec 3 07:23:18 2008 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:23:18 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Rheinisches Museum online Message-ID: <1DD83EADC9D740F1945F183BECBD36D9@olorin> Posted to Classicists by Gesine Manuwald: Posted on behalf of the editor of the journal "Rheinisches Museum" While some more recent issues of Rheinisches Museum had been available online (as full text versions) for some time, the German Research Foundation has now funded the digitalization of a significant number of back issues, which have just become generally available as pdf-files free of charge. This means that issues 93 (1950) to 147 (2004) are now accessible online. Recent issues will continue to follow, three years after they have appeared in print. Rheinisches Museum online is available at http://www.rhm.uni-koeln.de. For further information and submissions to future issues, please contact the editor, Prof. Dr. Bernd Manuwald (University of Cologne), at bernd.manuwald at uni-koeln.de. ---------- The text above the line was cross-posted to Lt-Antiq and LambdaCC by Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa Please note that I am simply fowarding this message for information, and have no personal connection with any individuals, institutions, sites, publications, or events concerned. Please direct any queries to the sites or addresses in the notice itself. From sarahlr at stanford.edu Fri Dec 12 09:29:45 2008 From: sarahlr at stanford.edu (Sarah Levin-Richardson) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:29:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LCC] Roundtable: Queer Theory and Classics Message-ID: <163494018.3544761229102985354.JavaMail.root@zm06.stanford.edu> Dear All, Please distribute this flier widely to any graduate students or faculty who may be interested. *NB: This roundtable is designed to foster conversations between graduate students and faculty and to forge connections among queer theory, feminist theory, and classics. Thank you, Sarah Levin-Richardson, LCC Graduate Student Liaison Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Florida Atlantic University--Honors College -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: Cocktail Hour.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 283039 bytes Desc: not available URL: From blondell at u.washington.edu Sun Dec 14 11:23:10 2008 From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:23:10 -0800 Subject: [LCC] [Fwd: Calling all volunteers: exhibit table at the AIA/APA] Message-ID: <49455D1E.5090601@u.washington.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Calling all volunteers: exhibit table at the AIA/APA Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:05:30 -0500 From: Ted Gellar Dear WCC and LCC members, Like every year, we will be staffing an exhibit table at the AIA/APA annual meeting in Philadelphia next month -- and I'd like to ask for your help! We're looking for volunteers for time slots (ranging between 1 and 2 hours) throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Volunteering essentially means that you sit at the table, engage with anyone who comes by for information about the WCC and LCC, potentially sign up a new member or two, and verify membership status for WCC and LCC members who stop by to ask (plus record dues paid by current members who renew at the meeting). It's really easy to do, it's another way to get to meet other WCC/LCC members, and I've found that the hour or so goes by faster than you might expect. So please e-mail me, Ted Gellar, at tedgellar at gmail.com to sign up for one (or more!) of the times listed below. And thanks in advance for your help! Thursday 8 January 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Friday 9 January 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Saturday 10 January 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Sunday 11 January 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m.- 12:00 noon Sincerely, Ted Gellar UNC-Chapel Hill Classics grad student tedgellar at gmail.com From alicebrowne at mindspring.com Mon Dec 15 18:46:51 2008 From: alicebrowne at mindspring.com (Alice Browne) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:46:51 -0500 Subject: [LCC] lgbt visiting scholar program at nypl Message-ID: <3BCD4044-4C81-452B-9B3E-5E68DDE20FCE@mindspring.com> Not strictly classics related, but might be of interest to some people on this list. Link below: http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=193 text follows: The New York Public Library New LGBT Visiting Scholars Program Stipends Available for Research with Library?s LGBT collections The New York Public Library continues to expand, build, and make accessible it?s extensive Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) collections by announcing the creation of the LGBT Visiting Scholars Program. Created with the generous support of LGBT Committee Ambassador Martin Duberman and his partner Eli Zal, the program enables the Library to provide travel stipends to New York City for up to three visiting scholars to do LGBT research in the Library?s collections. The awards will be limited to emerging scholars or those who are unaffiliated with an academic institution. The selected Martin Duberman Scholars will receive travel grants that range from $1,000 to $8,500 and will as be provided with workspace at the Library to pursue their research. Interested applicants should send a three to five page research proposal specifying the collections at the Library relevant to their project, a draft budget, and itinerary for their trip, a cover letter, and an appropriate letter of recommendation. Applications should be sent to Jason Baumann, The New York Public Library, 11 West 40th Street, South Court 3, New York, NY 10018. Applications must be received by January 31, 2009. Notification of awards will be sent beginning March 1, 2009. Recipients must make their trip within the year of 2009. The LGBT collection at The New York Public Library continues to be one of the largest and most thorough in the country. The collections include the archives of pioneering LGBT activists, such as Morty Manford, and Barbara Gitting and Kay Tobin Lahusen; the papers of scholars, such as Martin Duberman, Jonathan Ned Katz, and Karla Jay; organizational archives of pivotal civil rights groups, such as the Mattachine Society of New York and Gay Activist Alliance; and the papers of LGBT writers, such as W.H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, and Joseph Beam. The Library?s collections also include major archives in the history of the AIDS crisis, extensive holdings in the history of LGBT theatre, and the Black Gay and Lesbian archive. From lockyert at mweb.co.za Wed Dec 17 01:13:57 2008 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:13:57 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Gender and sexuality in ancient Greece (Roehampton) Message-ID: Posted to the (UK) Classicists list by Dr Susan Deacy: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN ANCIENT GREECE Study Afternoon preliminary notice Wednesday February 4th 2009, Queen's Building 150, Southlands College, Roehampton University Introduction: 1pm * Dr Susan Deacy (Roehampton) Gender and sexuality: where are we at? Violence, desire and crime: 1.15-4.00 * Dr Fiona McHardy (Roehampton): The drowning of unchaste women * Prof. Edward Harris (Durham): Did Greek Men Care Whether a Woman said "Yes"? Sexual Violence and the Absence of Consent in Greek Law, Literature and Art * Dr Rosanna Omitowoju (Cambridge): New dynamics of desire in Menadrian Comedy The state of the subject(s): 4.15-5.15 * Dr Sue Blundell (Open): The Gender Survey of UK Classics Departments * Dr James Robson (Open): How to write a textbook on Greek gender and sexuality Reception: 5.30 All welcome, including undergraduate students. Further details (including the poster) available from: Susan Deacy, School of Arts, Roehampton University, London SW15 5PH; s.deacy at roehampton.ac.uk Dr S.J. Deacy Senior Lecturer in Greek History and Literature Roehampton University, London http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/SusanDeacy/ Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ________________________________ This email and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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