From blondell at u.washington.edu Wed Dec 2 13:43:43 2009 From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby) Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:43:43 -0800 Subject: [LCC] The return of the Gay Nineties! Message-ID: <4B16DF8F.6070408@u.washington.edu> According to Lambda tradition, our costume theme for the opening night party at the APA is tied to that of our panel for the year. This year?s panel, One Hundred and Twenty Years of Homosexuality (http://www.lambdacc.org/panels/2010.html), takes its inspiration from several landmark publications in the history of sexuality that appeared in 1990. Our party theme is therefore THE GAY NINETIES. Don?t limit yourself to the 1990s. The 1890s, the 2090s, anything with a 9 in it... Be gay! Be 90! Think Oscar Wilde, Kurt & Courtney, Holmes & Watson, Kate Chopin, Janet Reno, Ellen Degeneres, K.D. Lang, Elton John, feather boas, leather pants, top-hats and handle-bar moustaches... And this year, for the first time, a prize will be offered for the best costume, the winner to be determined by acclamation. Get working on that costume now!! From lockyert at mweb.co.za Thu Dec 3 07:26:38 2009 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:26:38 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Mitsis on Bowersock on Davidson, and Lear and Cantarella Message-ID: <2034C56517A245FCBF6F33789539326C@olorin> I thought this response to a review, forwarded to Classics-L by John Lauritsen, might be of interest here: ---------- [I was asked to post this comment on CLASSICS-L. It does not necessarily reflect my own opinions. -- JL] In response to Glen Bowersock's review (called "Men and Boys") in the NYRB of 9/24/09: Readers of Professor Bowersock's review can be grateful for his learned tour of older, esp. 19th century German, scholarship on Greek pederasty, but it was unclear to me that he lavished the same kind of attention on the two books actually under review, _The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World_ by James Davidson and _Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods_ by Andrew Lear and Eva Cantarella. For instance, he highlights the fact that we modern Westerners would class Greek pederasty as child abuse (with the now inevitable digs at Catholic priests). That is undoubtedly true, but one of Davidson's principal arguments is that the eromenos in Greek pederastic relations was supposed to be at least 18. I have doubts about this claim, but it seems to me misleading in a review of Davidson's book to fail to mention this fact, since it leaves the impression that Davidson's argument against viewing Greek pederasty as child abuse is unseemly in a way clearly not intended by the author. By the same token, Bowersock makes the dismissive claim that Lear's and Cantarella's principal contribution is merely to publish what they found in Keith DeVries' list and he then chides them for limiting their discussion to Archaic and Classical vase-painting. But, of course, not all of his readers will be in a position to know that De Vries' list concerns only Archaic and Classical; and this complaint also squares rather poorly with his praise, earlier in the review, of Sir Kenneth Dover's _Greek Homosexuality_ which also only considers Archaic and Classical material. Bowersock then makes rather heavy weather of his complaint against Lear and Cantarella that they fail to consider a large amount of later material. It is true, of course, that there is much later textual material, but it is simply untrue that there is a large quantity of later Greek visual evidence. John Clarke in _Looking at Lovemaking_ lists THREE Hellenistic works, one of which he argues may have been made at Rome for a Roman patron by a Greek artist. The material Bowersock refers to later in his review also derives from Roman contexts (although again probably made by Greek artists). In his penultimate paragraph, he mentions the fact that Greek and Roman attitudes toward pederasty (or practices of man-boy relations) were different, but he oddly considers it a great flaw in a book about Greek pederasty that Cantarella and Lear do not include Roman material. So, for example, on the Warren cup, a slave is watching one of the sex scenes. The presence of slaves was typical of Roman lovemaking, but as far as we know, not of Greek. Finally, in a review that concentrates so heavily on the Warren cup, it would seem appropriate to mention the fact that many scholars (such as Caroline Vout, in _Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome_) consider it a fake. I don't happen to agree, but why should Cantarella and Lear muddy the waters in a book about Greek pederasty by discussing a possibly fake Atticizing work from Augustan Rome? Moreover, Bowersock spends most of his time complaining about the fact that they focus exclusively on Archaic/Classical Athenian vase-painting. One might think they did so for good reason, however, as there are over 1000 vases from this time and place to consider and very little material from elsewhere. Of course, it is perhaps a plausible criticism that their title implies that they will examine evidence beyond this. To spend the bulk of his actual discussion of their book on this secondary point, however, while making absolutely no effort to judge whether they competently choose, describe, explain etc. the 113 vase-paintings they actually do discuss suggests to me that Professor Bowersock's attention must somehow have been distracted from the actual job at hand, reviewing the books. Phillip Mitsis A.S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization New York University ---------- The text above the line was cross-posted by Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: lockyert [at] mweb.co.za 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 lockyert at mweb.co.za Thu Dec 10 05:37:13 2009 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:37:13 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Greek Erotics in Athens Message-ID: <7AAA9BE183A041A08C6CB25AE22A4AE3@olorin> The Guardian covers an exhibition in Athens focussed on Greek representations of Eros, love, and sexuality. The main article is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/dec/09/museums-greece with a brief gallery of ten images at http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/dec/10/sex-eros-exhibition-athens By the way, for those who may not immediately recognize it, the unnamed "scribe" (a curious term in this context) who "declares" his age-specific interests "in a text highlighted on a wall" is the Greek epigrammatist Straton or in Latin form Strato of Sardis, at Anthologia Palatina (a. k. a. "Greek Anthology") 12.4. Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: lockyert [at] mweb.co.za From kirk.ormand at oberlin.edu Thu Dec 10 06:14:41 2009 From: kirk.ormand at oberlin.edu (Kirk Ormand) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:14:41 -0500 Subject: [LCC] Greek Erotics in Athens In-Reply-To: <7AAA9BE183A041A08C6CB25AE22A4AE3@olorin> References: <7AAA9BE183A041A08C6CB25AE22A4AE3@olorin> Message-ID: <9C4C5CEE-4C50-47EE-BE49-B1226ACDACCF@oberlin.edu> Curiously, the news story leaves out the last couplet of GA 12.4, which plays on a common Homeric formula: ?? ?? ??? ???????????? ??? ???? ?????, ?????? ?????? ???? ??? ????? ??? ?? ?????????????. "But if someone has desire for those who are older, he is no longer playing, but already he seeks [one] "answering him in return". Kirk Ormand On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Terrence Lockyer wrote: > The Guardian covers an exhibition in Athens focussed on Greek > representations of Eros, love, and sexuality. The main article > is at > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/dec/09/museums-greece > > with a brief gallery of ten images at > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/dec/10/sex-eros- > exhibition-athens > > By the way, for those who may not immediately recognize it, the > unnamed "scribe" (a curious term in this context) who "declares" > his age-specific interests "in a text highlighted on a wall" is > the Greek epigrammatist Straton or in Latin form Strato of > Sardis, at Anthologia Palatina (a. k. a. "Greek Anthology") 12.4. > > > Terrence Lockyer > Johannesburg, South Africa > e-mail: lockyert [at] mweb.co.za > > > > _______________________________________________ > members mailing list > members at lambdacc.org > http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org From phileleutheros at gmail.com Thu Dec 10 09:51:45 2009 From: phileleutheros at gmail.com (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:51:45 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Greek Erotics in Athens References: <7AAA9BE183A041A08C6CB25AE22A4AE3@olorin> Message-ID: <354579ECC22248B1BF6316F601E0D918@olorin> This seems to be the official website for the exhibition noted in my previous: http://eros.fabulous.gr/ Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: lockyert [at] mweb.co.za From lockyert at mweb.co.za Thu Dec 10 10:32:55 2009 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:32:55 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Greek Erotics in Athens Message-ID: <147B86698DF842D5B6BAAABED453CFD5@olorin> Kirk Ormand wrote: : Curiously, the news story leaves out the last : couplet of GA 12.4, which plays on a common : Homeric formula: I noticed that too - not clear whether the lines are absent merely from the story, or from the museum's caption. Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa From blondell at u.washington.edu Fri Dec 11 13:26:01 2009 From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:26:01 -0800 Subject: [LCC] Lambda dues 2010 Message-ID: <4B22B8E9.2000908@u.washington.edu> Attached is your Lambda membership renewal form for 2010. Please print it and send it to me with your dues, at the address on the form. If you are a non-paying member (student, retiree), you can just email me your information. There will also be dues forms at the WCC/Lambda table at the APA in Anaheim. As usual, the other side of the form includes information about Lambda that we encourage you to share with anyone who may be interested in joining. Thank you Ruby Blondell Lambda Treasurer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LambdaInfo:Dues 2010.doc Type: application/msword Size: 29184 bytes Desc: not available URL: From blondell at u.washington.edu Mon Dec 21 18:48:33 2009 From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:48:33 -0800 Subject: [LCC] [Fwd: PacRim 2010] Message-ID: <4B303381.9000703@u.washington.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: PacRim 2010 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:12:36 -0500 From: Barbara Gold To: Ruby Blondell CC: Barbara Gold The PacRim (Pacific Rim Latin Seminar) will be in Christchurch, New Zealand at the Copthorne Hotel Christchurch Central on July, 7,8 and 9, 2010. The tariff, if you choose to stay in the Copthorne, is $115.00 per night (no view), $140.00 per night (park view); the conference fee will be approximately $175.00NZ (or less); the topic ?is _Auctoritas._ Abstracts should be sent to Robin Bond at University of Canterbury: robin.bond at canterbury.ac.nz by the end of February. Barbara Gold Edward North Professor of Classics Humanities Coordinator Department of Classics Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 bgold at hamilton.edu From blondell at u.washington.edu Tue Dec 22 13:51:27 2009 From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:51:27 -0800 Subject: [LCC] [Fwd: Roundtable reminder] Message-ID: <4B313F5F.20409@u.washington.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Roundtable reminder Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:39:28 -0500 From: Alexander Perkins To: Ruby *2010 APA/AIA Roundtable : ** **Explaining ?Otherness?: Ancient (Homo)sexuality in the Classroom* Organizers: Alexander Perkins (UC Irvine) and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Berea College) This roundtable provides a forum in which graduate students and faculty can discuss questions associated with teaching ?queer? topics from classical antiquity. Possible discussions include: What should be the goals of a class on ancient (homo)sexuality? Can a canon of ?queer? texts exist? How does one explain the practice of pederasty to undergraduate students? What is the best approach to the archeological evidence for the classroom? What kind of theoretical tools can we use to defend such a class against conservatives and censors? How can we help students enrich their perceptions about ancient sexuality? From jpwood2 at uncg.edu Sun Dec 27 19:36:11 2009 From: jpwood2 at uncg.edu (John Wood) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:36:11 -0500 Subject: [LCC] =?windows-1252?q?Call_for_Papers=3A_Ancient_=93Unspeakable_?= =?windows-1252?q?Vice=94_and_Modern_Pedagogy=3A_Talking_about_Homo?= =?windows-1252?q?sexuality_in_Classical_Antiquity_in_the_21st_Cent?= =?windows-1252?q?ury_Academy?= Message-ID: <49a5e8860912271936j7995b2a8x7555ebe48d44fdb@mail.gmail.com> Please distribute widely. Thank you. Call for Papers: Lambda Classical Caucus Panel 2011 Ancient ?Unspeakable Vice? and Modern Pedagogy: Talking about Homosexuality in Classical Antiquity in the 21st Century Academy San Antonio, TX, January 6-9, 2011 Organized by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Berea College) and John P. Wood (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) In E. M. Forster?s novel Maurice, published posthumously in 1971 and turned into a film in 1987, two young men in early 20th century England, strongly attracted to each other, attend a class at Cambridge University during which they translate Plato?s Symposium. When a student reaches a passage on same-sex love, the instructor says in a flat toneless voice: ?Omit: a reference to the unspeakable vice of the Greeks.? Although a century later the picture has changed and ancient accounts of homosexuality are more freely discussed in academia, prejudice against and misinformation on the sexual practices of the Greeks and Romans continue to persist. The 2011 LCC panel is soliciting papers that discuss the challenges of teaching such texts at university level and provide feedback on the responses they provoke among students. Questions that individual papers may address include but are not limited to the following: ? What pedagogical methods and interpretive tools (e.g., social theory, feminist theory, queer theory, psychoanalytical theory) do we employ in teaching what is nowadays considered to be non-normative sexuality? ? What are the sources that we regularly use to demonstrate the sexual plurality of the ancient world and increase awareness about the non-universality of modern sexual practices? Are some texts less suitable than others? What are the criteria for creating a textual canon, if any (e.g., the content of the piece, the complexity of ideas expressed in it, its author and genre, the familiarity of the students with it, or simply a personal fondness of the instructor for a particular text)? ? What are the benefits of exposing students to ancient texts that are critical of same-sex desire? ? How do we effectively teach the transition (in terms of both similarity and difference) from Greek and Roman sexual ethics to that of late antiquity described in the texts of the Church Fathers? How do we incorporate Greek and Roman accounts in a syllabus on homosexuality throughout the ages? ? How can we draw on ancient attitudes to homosexuality to inform modern debates on homophobia, xenophobia, racism, and same-sex marriage? Abstracts of one page in length are due by February 1, 2010. Please do not send abstracts to the panel organizers. Email them to Nancy Rabinowitz at nrabinow at hamilton.edu. All abstracts will be refereed anonymously. Questions can be addressed to Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos at Konstantinos_Nikoloutsos at berea.edu. From blondell at u.washington.edu Sun Dec 27 20:25:07 2009 From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:25:07 -0800 Subject: [LCC] =?windows-1252?q?=5BFwd=3A__Call_for_Papers=3A_Ancient_=93U?= =?windows-1252?q?nspeakable_Vice=94_and_Modern_Pedagogy=3A_Talking_about_?= =?windows-1252?q?Homosexuality_in_Classical_Antiquity_in_the_21st_Century?= =?windows-1252?q?_Academy=5D?= Message-ID: <4B383323.306@u.washington.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [LCC] Call for Papers: Ancient ?Unspeakable Vice? and Modern Pedagogy: Talking about Homosexuality in Classical Antiquity in the 21st Century Academy Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:36:11 -0500 From: John Wood To: members at lambdacc.org Please distribute widely. Thank you. Call for Papers: Lambda Classical Caucus Panel 2011 Ancient ?Unspeakable Vice? and Modern Pedagogy: Talking about Homosexuality in Classical Antiquity in the 21st Century Academy San Antonio, TX, January 6-9, 2011 Organized by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Berea College) and John P. Wood (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) In E. M. Forster?s novel Maurice, published posthumously in 1971 and turned into a film in 1987, two young men in early 20th century England, strongly attracted to each other, attend a class at Cambridge University during which they translate Plato?s Symposium. When a student reaches a passage on same-sex love, the instructor says in a flat toneless voice: ?Omit: a reference to the unspeakable vice of the Greeks.? Although a century later the picture has changed and ancient accounts of homosexuality are more freely discussed in academia, prejudice against and misinformation on the sexual practices of the Greeks and Romans continue to persist. The 2011 LCC panel is soliciting papers that discuss the challenges of teaching such texts at university level and provide feedback on the responses they provoke among students. Questions that individual papers may address include but are not limited to the following: ? What pedagogical methods and interpretive tools (e.g., social theory, feminist theory, queer theory, psychoanalytical theory) do we employ in teaching what is nowadays considered to be non-normative sexuality? ? What are the sources that we regularly use to demonstrate the sexual plurality of the ancient world and increase awareness about the non-universality of modern sexual practices? Are some texts less suitable than others? What are the criteria for creating a textual canon, if any (e.g., the content of the piece, the complexity of ideas expressed in it, its author and genre, the familiarity of the students with it, or simply a personal fondness of the instructor for a particular text)? ? What are the benefits of exposing students to ancient texts that are critical of same-sex desire? ? How do we effectively teach the transition (in terms of both similarity and difference) from Greek and Roman sexual ethics to that of late antiquity described in the texts of the Church Fathers? How do we incorporate Greek and Roman accounts in a syllabus on homosexuality throughout the ages? ? How can we draw on ancient attitudes to homosexuality to inform modern debates on homophobia, xenophobia, racism, and same-sex marriage? Abstracts of one page in length are due by February 1, 2010. Please do not send abstracts to the panel organizers. Email them to Nancy Rabinowitz at nrabinow at hamilton.edu. All abstracts will be refereed anonymously. Questions can be addressed to Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos at Konstantinos_Nikoloutsos at berea.edu. _______________________________________________ members mailing list members at lambdacc.org http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org From bburns at wellesley.edu Tue Dec 29 11:11:23 2009 From: bburns at wellesley.edu (Bryan E. Burns) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:11:23 -0500 Subject: [LCC] Anaheim events and future plans Message-ID: An important announcement from Oscar, Madonna & Beardsley's (tranny?) Venus: Those of you heading to Anaheim, please remember to pack your best party gear for an homage to The Gay 90s ~ 90 BCE, AD 90, 1890, 1990, 2090? ? And be sure your O.C. programming includes all the LCC events: Opening Night Reception, 20th Anniversary panel, roundtable, grad student happy hour, and the business meeting: Friday at 3:30 in the "Orange County Ballroom Salon 2"! One major item of business at the meeting will be setting a theme for the LCC 2012 panel (in Philadelphia). If you have any ideas you'd like to share before then, please write to Kristina & Bryan , or to the list if you want to get brains storming .? Happy New Year! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LCC2010.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 245879 bytes Desc: not available URL: From blondell at u.washington.edu Tue Dec 29 23:03:46 2009 From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:03:46 -0800 Subject: [LCC] [Fwd: WCC Exhibit Table Last Slot] Message-ID: <4B3AFB52.5040307@u.washington.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: WCC Exhibit Table Last Slot Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:43:13 -0600 From: Augoustakis, Antonios C. To: Ruby Dear WCC and LCC members, We still need you to spare a bit of your time to staff our exhibit table on *Friday, January 8, 3.30-5:30 pm.* Please e-mail me at tedgellar at gmail.com if you'd be willing to help us out! Sincerely, Ted Gellar-Goad WCC grad student liaison tedgellar at unc.edu