From blondell at u.washington.edu  Thu Jan  1 15:46:30 2009
From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby)
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:46:30 -0800
Subject: [LCC] [Fwd: Calling all volunteers: exhibit table at the AIA/APA]
Message-ID: <495D55D6.1040605@u.washington.edu>



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Calling all volunteers: exhibit table at the AIA/APA
Date: 	Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:38:26 -0500
From: 	Ted Gellar <tedgellar at gmail.com>
To: 	Ruby Blondell <blondell at u.washington.edu>
References: 	<509428d30812132005xa1345e4q11f02bb976d1b2dd at mail.gmail.com>


Dear WCC and LCC members,

The AIA/APA annual meeting is quickly approaching, and we still need you
to spare a bit of your time to staff our exhibit table!  Please e-mail
me at tedgellar at gmail.com <mailto:tedgellar at gmail.com> with a slot or
two from the list below when you'd be willing to help us out!

         Thursday 8 January
             2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
             5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

         Friday 9 January
             2:00 p.m. -  3:30 p.m.
             3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

         Saturday 10 January
             11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
             2:00 p.m. -  3:30 p.m.
             3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. =====> a short half-hour slot!

         Sunday 11 January
             9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.


Sincerely,
Ted Gellar
UNC-Chapel Hill Classics grad student
tedgellar at gmail.com <mailto:tedgellar at gmail.com>



From bburns at wellesley.edu  Sun Jan  4 04:44:13 2009
From: bburns at wellesley.edu (Bryan Burns)
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:44:13 -0500
Subject: [LCC] Philadelphia events
Message-ID: <4A9DB5C4-91CF-499C-80A7-3865661A8350@wellesley.edu>


Please mark your calendar for these Lambda events at the APA/AIA!



Thursday, January 8
Opening Night Reception sponsored by CSWMG, WCC & LCC
10:00 pm   Lescaze (Loews)


Friday, January 9
Lambda Panel: Rethinking Homosexual Behavior in Antiquity [details  
below]
1:30 pm  Grand Ballroom K (Marriot)

LCC/WCC Grad Students' Network Hour
6:00 pm Circ Lounge (Marriot)


Saturday, January 10
Lambda Roundtable: Queer Theory and Classics
12 noon Franklin Hall (Marriot)

LCC Business Meeting
3:30 pm  Room 414 (Loews)



Rethinking Homosexual Behavior in Antiquity
Friday, January 9
1:30 pm  Grand Ballroom K (Marriot)

Mark Masterson and Steven D. Smith, Organizers

In recent years, questions have been raised about the helpfulness of  
the honor/shame model for
understanding homosexual behavior in antiquity. While often helpful,  
this model has limitations that have
not received the kind of attention they deserve. Papers were chosen  
for this panel for their willingness to
approach same-sex sexual behavior from a standpoint exclusive of  
domination and submission. It is the
organizers? hope that this panel will help to consolidate recent gains  
and show the way forward to more
explicitly nuanced approaches to homosexual behavior in antiquity.

1. Michael Broder, The Graduate Center of the City University of New  
York
Rethinking Homosexual Behavior in Juvenal?s Ninth Satire (20 mins.)

2.  Hunter Gardner, University of South Carolina
A Kiss Is Just a Kiss? Fortunata and Scintilla at Dinner (20 mins.)

3.  Thomas K. Hubbard, The University of Texas at Austin
The Ubiquity of Peer Sexuality in Classical Greece (20 mins.)

4.  Gregory Jones, Indiana University
Beyond Pederasty: In Search of Queer Voices from the Ancient World (20  
mins.)

5.  Zsuzsanna V?rhelyi, Boston University
Sexual Selves in Play: Homoerotic Poetry in Imperial Rome (20 mins.)

Holt Parker, University of Cincinnati
Respondent (20 mins.)

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From bburns at wellesley.edu  Sun Jan  4 14:10:45 2009
From: bburns at wellesley.edu (Bryan Burns)
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:10:45 -0500
Subject: [LCC] Podcasting and the Classics
References: <fc.3b9aca007ab91ada3b9aca00119a14d2.1c1a6204@firstclass.wellesley.edu>
Message-ID: <2B9E1D01-45FE-4460-8B3E-95F7284009CE@wellesley.edu>


Forwarded at the request of Chris Ann Matteo:

Begin forwarded message:

> You're Invited...to attend or to tune in to the first podcasts from  
> the Annual
> Meeting of the American Philological Association and Archaeological  
> Institute of  America.
>
>
> http://podcasting-apa2009.blogspot.com
>
>
> Visit the website, above, to see the details and listen to a sample  
> recording that describes our program.  As the talks are recorded on  
> Saturday 10 January  2009 and are then ready for podcasting, they  
> will be made available on the same website following the meeting.
>
> We are hoping it allows many more lovers of the classsics, both  
> inside and outside of academia, to benefit from the meeting--at low  
> cost and when the listeners has time to download!
>
> We will be meeting and podcasting in real time with real voices at  
> the following time and place:
>
> Saturday 10 January 2009
>
> 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
>
> Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
> Grand Ballroom L
> Philadelphia, PA
>
> The public is heartily invited to join us!
>
>
> Podcasting and the Classics
> Sponsored by the APA Committee on Outreach
> Chris Ann Matteo and Ed DeHoratius, Organizers
>
> In the field of classical humanities, professors and K -12 teachers  
> alike are witnessing the democratizing
> power of the podcast: mp3 players are intimate hardware for our  
> students and the public we want to
> reach. They have proven a particularly powerful tool to restore and  
> augment the oral/aural experience in
> our teaching and scholarship. This panel will explore different  
> approaches to podcasting in the field of
> classics and classical archaeology. The panel explores the roles  
> that podcasts play in our culture for
> education, entertainment, and research, and it probes how podcasts  
> will be used in the future of classical
> scholarship.
>
> 1. Lars Brownworth, The Stony Brook School
> 12 Byzantine Rulers (20 mins.)
>
> 2. Patrick Hunt, Stanford University
> Tracking Hannibal: Podcasting without Satellite Maps (20 mins.)
>
> 3. Henry Bender, The Hill School, St. Joseph?s University, and  
> Villanova University
> To Pod or Not to Pod: Podcasting AP Vergil and Latin Literature (20  
> mins.)
>
> 4. Bret Mulligan, Haverford College
> Using the Ear to Train the Eye: Classroom Experiments in Podcasting  
> Latin (20 mins.)
>
> Jennifer Sheridan Moss, Wayne State University
> Respondent (10 mins.)

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From blondell at u.washington.edu  Mon Jan  5 18:52:26 2009
From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:52:26 -0800
Subject: [LCC] Dues renewal for 2009
Message-ID: <4962C76A.1060302@u.washington.edu>

Attached you will find the Lambda dues renewal form for 2009. If you are 
a non-paying member (student etc) please let me know if you wish me to 
continue your membership for another year. If you are a life member, 
please consider making an additional contribution to the Rehak fund.

You can mail me the form with your check, or turn it in with a check or 
cash at the WCC/Lambda table in Philadelphia. There will be membership 
forms at the table too, along with a list of members so that you can 
check your dues status.

To find out if you owe dues you can also email me: blondell at u.washington.edu

Thanks and happy new year to all

Ruby
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From blondell at u.washington.edu  Tue Jan 13 17:55:50 2009
From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:55:50 -0800
Subject: [LCC] CFP: 120 Years of Homosexuality DEADLINE FEB 5
Message-ID: <496D4626.4060203@u.washington.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS
One Hundred and Twenty Years of Homosexuality
Lambda Classical Caucus Panel, American Philological Association
Anaheim, January 6-9, 2010
Organizers: Ruby Blondell (blondell at u.washington.edu) and Kirk Ormand 
(Kirk.Ormand at oberlin.edu)

The APA/AIA meeting in January 2010 will mark the twentieth anniversary 
of the Lambda Classical Caucus (founded at the APA in December 1989). 
This year will also mark the twentieth anniversary of a pair of 
enormously influential books: David Halperin's One Hundred Years of 
Homosexuality and Jack Winkler's Constraints of Desire. Published in the 
same year, in the same series (Routledge's New Ancient World), and often 
reviewed together, these two books introduced many classicists to queer 
theory for the first time and revolutionized the field of queer 
classics. If that were not enough, 1990 likewise saw the publication by 
Princeton of Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in 
the Ancient Greek World, edited by Halperin, Winkler, and Froma Zeitlin. 
David Halperin was also--not coincidentally--the founder of the Lambda 
Classical Caucus (for our history visit 
http://www.lambdacc.org/about.html).

This seems a good moment, then, to celebrate what we have achieved--both 
as an organization and as an intellectual movement--over the past 20 
years, and to look forward to what we may achieve in the next 20, by 
asking where we have come from, what we have accomplished, and what 
still remains to be done. While celebrating the past, and the path that 
brought us here, we also want to consider where we stand now, and how 
best to go forward. Which methodological tools are still proving useful, 
which need to be reassessed or sharpened, and which have had their day? 
What avenues of inquiry, theoretical models, or forms of evidence, have 
been overlooked or come into recent prominence? How have social and 
political developments, within or beyond the academy, reconfigured the 
world of queer classics, its constraints or opportunities, since 1990?

While we are especially interested in the methods and concerns of 
Halperin and Winkler (comparative anthropology, the application of queer 
theory to classics, Foucault's formulation of "sexuality" as a 
peculiarly modern form of knowledge, the articulation of pre-modern 
sexual identities), and their influence upon the field, we are open to 
submissions exploring any aspect of the current state and future 
directions of queer classics. Abstracts might address such topics as our 
understanding of "active" and "passive" roles in Greece and Rome, 
ancient notions of sexual subjectivity, categories of sexual behavior, 
shame and honor, the practice of paederasty, the intersection(s) of 
gender and sexual identity, questions of evidence, and/or the 
periodicity of particular sexual categories, values, or identities. In 
keeping with Lambda traditions, we welcome submissions that deal with 
material culture as well as those focussing on texts and/or other forms 
of evidence.

Abstracts should be sent as Word attachments to Joy Connolly 
(joyc at nyu.edu) by February 5, 2009. (Do not send them to the 
organizers.) Personal identifying information should not appear on the 
abstract itself. Abstracts should be no more than one page and should 
follow the instructions for individual abstracts on p. 6 of the APA 
Program Guide at 
http://www.apaclassics.org/Newsletter/2007newsletter/1007insert.pdf.


From bcuthill at us.net  Wed Jan 14 12:52:22 2009
From: bcuthill at us.net (Sally Winchester)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:52:22 -0500
Subject: [LCC] Dues renewal for 2009
In-Reply-To: <4962C76A.1060302@u.washington.edu>
References: <4962C76A.1060302@u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <a0623096ec59400d28eb5@[69.72.29.23]>

Salve Ruby,

I'm a non-paying member (retired and disabled) 
but would like to continue my membership.

Gratias,
Sally

At 6:52 PM -0800 1/5/09, Ruby wrote:
>Attached you will find the Lambda dues renewal 
>form for 2009. If you are a non-paying member 
>(student etc) please let me know if you wish me 
>to continue your membership for another year. If 
>you are a life member, please consider making an 
>additional contribution to the Rehak fund.
>
>You can mail me the form with your check, or 
>turn it in with a check or cash at the 
>WCC/Lambda table in Philadelphia. There will be 
>membership forms at the table too, along with a 
>list of members so that you can check your dues 
>status.
>
>To find out if you owe dues you can also email me: blondell at u.washington.edu
>
>Thanks and happy new year to all
>
>Ruby
>
>
>Attachment converted: Macintosh 
>HD:LambdaInfo-Dues 2009.doc (WDBN/?IC?) 
>(000FEA7E)
>_______________________________________________
>members mailing list
>members at lambdacc.org
>http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org



From blondell at u.washington.edu  Thu Jan 15 18:55:54 2009
From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:55:54 -0800
Subject: [LCC] New book by kirk ormand
Message-ID: <496FF73A.2060804@u.washington.edu>

Our esteemed colleague KIRK ORMAND has just published a book with 
PRAEGER PUBLISHERS, entitled CONTROLLING DESIRES: SEXUALITY IN ANCIENT 
GREECE AND ROME. It is part of the PRAEGER SERIES ON THE ANCIENT WORLD. 
here's the relevant link on greenwood/praeger's website:

http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C8880.aspx

and here is the link at Barnes and Noble (preferable to Amazon for 
political reasons):

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Controlling-Desires/Kirk-Ormand/e/9780275988807/?itm=2

We are announcing it on these lists becuase Praeger did not have a 
display at the APA book exhibit, and we thought that every member of 
both WCC and LCC would want to rush out and buy it right away.

Ruby Blondell & John Kirby


From blondell at u.washington.edu  Fri Jan 16 09:50:50 2009
From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:50:50 -0800
Subject: [LCC] [Fwd: WCC panel @ the 2010 APA] DEADLINE FEB 6
Message-ID: <4970C8FA.2090902@u.washington.edu>



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: WCC panel @ the 2010 APA
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:35:54 -0600 (CST)
From: <mparca at illinois.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS

Gender, East and West in the Ancient World
Women?s Classical Caucus Panel, American Philological Association
Anaheim, January 6?9, 2010

Organizers: Maryline Parca (mparca at illinois.edu) and Angeliki Tzanetou
(tzanetou at illinois.edu)

The Greeks and the Romans started conceptualizing the West as a space,
mental and physical, and over time came to define the West?s historic,
political and cultural distinctiveness in relation to the East.  Gender 
as a
category played a central role in articulating this dichotomy, and it now
provides a tool for retrieving and analyzing the interactions, tensions, 
and
accommodations that underlie the polarity.  Distinct pairings?male vs.
female, free vs. slave, Greek and Roman vs. other, civilized vs. barbarian,
democratic vs. despotic, center vs. periphery?and the meanings attached
to them lie at the heart of hierarchies which informed the social and 
political
identity of the Greeks and the Romans.

Difference in polarity is as old as Homer and offers rich ground for 
reflection.
The Amazons, Circe, Medea, Dionysus, Cybele, Hippocratic determinism,
luxury and eastern corruption, Attic vs. Asianic rhetoric, slaves and 
freedmen
in the social Roman hierarchy, the gendered language of conquest and 
victory,
the Orient in epic, mime and pantomime, Cleopatra, Rome and Alexandria,
Roman empresses?these are but a few topics that prospective panelists
are invited to address.  We are also looking to reconstruct the 
evolution of
attitudes toward the East in different periods; to classify the 
character of the
interactions between East and West (e.g., trade, war, migration); to 
document
and examine case-studies in particular areas (e.g., religion, 
literature, art,
social and political institutions) as well as probe the ways in which they
informed various ideologies (e.g., otherness, superiority, hybridity,
assimilation).

The role of gender in defining the relationship between East and West has
been the subject of structuralist analyses and, more recently, has become
an object of enquiry informed by feminism and post-colonial theory.  We
invite abstracts of papers that propose to explore the intersections and
connections between the ?feminine? and the East, and how they stand as
foils for the ?masculine?, ?civilized?, ?orderly?, ?hegemonic? West, 
employing
these and other analytical and interpretive approaches.

Abstracts should be sent as Word documents in an email attachment to
Laura Mc Clure (<lmcclure at wisc.edu>) by February 6, 2009. Do not send
them to the panel organizers. Personal identifying information should
appear only in the cover message, not on the abstract itself.  Abstracts
should be no more than ONE page in length, and should follow the
instructions for the formatting of individual abstracts provided on p. 6
of the APA Program Guide at
http://www.apaclassics.org/Newsletter/2007newsletter/1007insert.pdf



From blondell at u.washington.edu  Fri Jan 16 10:47:40 2009
From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:47:40 -0800
Subject: [LCC] Amazon vs. B&N
Message-ID: <4970D64C.5050607@u.washington.edu>

For those who are curious about my political preference, it is based on 
the fact that Amazon gives 98% of its political contributions to 
Republicans, whereas B&N gives 60% to Democrats (and 40% to Republicans).

This info is a few years old (2004), but the relevant website is down 
right now (http://www.buyblue.org/) so I wasn't able to check whether 
the situation has changed.

In any case, I hope it was clear that I meant politically preferable *to 
me*. I  prefer not to help Amazon do business, given that B&N usually 
works just as well. Others may feel differently.

Ruby


From pericles at temple.edu  Fri Jan 16 11:30:00 2009
From: pericles at temple.edu (Daniel P. Tompkins )
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:30:00 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [LCC] Amazon vs. B&N
Message-ID: <20090116143000.DNH43606@po-d.temple.edu>

omigod uv changed my life

Dan

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:47:40 -0800
>From: Ruby <blondell at u.washington.edu>  
>Subject: [LCC] Amazon vs. B&N  
>To: wcclist at u.washington.edu, members at lambdacc.org
>
>For those who are curious about my political preference, it 
is based on 
>the fact that Amazon gives 98% of its political 
contributions to 
>Republicans, whereas B&N gives 60% to Democrats (and 40% to 
Republicans).
>
>This info is a few years old (2004), but the relevant 
website is down 
>right now (http://www.buyblue.org/) so I wasn't able to 
check whether 
>the situation has changed.
>
>In any case, I hope it was clear that I meant politically 
preferable *to 
>me*. I  prefer not to help Amazon do business, given that 
B&N usually 
>works just as well. Others may feel differently.
>
>Ruby
>
>_______________________________________________
>members mailing list
>members at lambdacc.org
>http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org


From allysondrobinson at gmail.com  Fri Jan 16 12:38:42 2009
From: allysondrobinson at gmail.com (Allyson Robinson)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:38:42 -0500
Subject: [LCC] Amazon vs. B&N
In-Reply-To: <4970D64C.5050607@u.washington.edu>
References: <4970D64C.5050607@u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <8f6e7d230901161238o684ebd6fjfebcaa0d4d76ca7e@mail.gmail.com>

According to opensecrets.org, Amazon.com's PAC gave $106,500 to federal
candidates in the 2008 election cycle.  Democrats received 62% of that
amount and Republicans received 38%.  (Source:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00360354&cycle=2008)

Because Barnes & Noble doesn't have its own PAC, data on giving to political
campaigns isnot as easy to come by.  If anyone else knows of a resource for
this, I'd be interested to have it.

Incidentally, Amazon.com scores an 80 on the Human Right's Campaign's
Corporate Equality Index (
http://www.hrc.org/issues/workplace/organization_profile.asp?organization_id=4994&search_id=1&search_type=Quick).
Barnes & Noble scores 100 (
http://www.hrc.org/issues/workplace/organization_profile.asp?organization_id=1201&search_id=1&search_type=Quick
).


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Ruby <blondell at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> For those who are curious about my political preference, it is based on the
> fact that Amazon gives 98% of its political contributions to Republicans,
> whereas B&N gives 60% to Democrats (and 40% to Republicans).
>
> This info is a few years old (2004), but the relevant website is down right
> now (http://www.buyblue.org/) so I wasn't able to check whether the
> situation has changed.
>
> In any case, I hope it was clear that I meant politically preferable *to
> me*. I  prefer not to help Amazon do business, given that B&N usually works
> just as well. Others may feel differently.
>
> Ruby
>
> _______________________________________________
> members mailing list
> members at lambdacc.org
> http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org
>

From sarahlr at stanford.edu  Sat Jan 17 13:28:27 2009
From: sarahlr at stanford.edu (Sarah Levin-Richardson)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:28:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [LCC] Call for Nominations:  LCC Graduate Student Representative
Message-ID: <475237320.1100991232227707429.JavaMail.root@zm06.stanford.edu>

The Lambda Classical Caucus invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the position of Graduate Student Representative. 

Responsibilities include co-organizing the annual WCC-LCC graduate students? cocktail hour at the APA/AIA and attending the LCC business meeting at the APA/AIA.   We especially encourage applications from graduate students who are at the pre-dissertation stage.  Please send nominations (including the name and contact information of one faculty reference) to Sarah Levin-Richardson (sarahlr at stanford.edu) by February 15, 2009.  The steering committee will review nominations and notify candidates by March 1, 2009. 

Thank you,
Sarah Levin-Richardson
[Outgoing] LCC Graduate Student Representative


From sarahlr at stanford.edu  Tue Jan 20 22:34:06 2009
From: sarahlr at stanford.edu (Sarah Levin-Richardson)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:34:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [LCC] Announcing the new LCC Graduate Student Paper Award!
Message-ID: <2047243462.1605231232519646410.JavaMail.root@zm06.stanford.edu>

*Did you see an amazing graduate student paper at the APA/AIA addressing queer issues?  Please consider nominating!*

This year we are proud to announce a new award for graduate students:  The LCC Graduate Student Paper Award.

This award is designed to encourage and reward scholarship by pre-Ph.D. scholars on issues related to the LCC?s mission, including, but not limited to: homosocial and homoerotic relationships and environments, ancient sexuality and gender roles, representations of the gendered body, and queer theory.  

We ask for nominations of oral papers presented by a pre-Ph.D. scholar at a conference (including, but not limited to the APA/AIA and CAMWS) from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009 (ca. 20 minutes in length as delivered).  To nominate, e-mail Kristina Milnor (kmilnor at barnard.edu) and Bryan Burns (bburns at wellesley.edu) with the presenter?s name and email address and the title of the paper.  Self-nominations are encouraged; information related to nominations is confidential.  Membership in the Caucus is not required to be eligible for these awards. Nominations accepted until September 1, 2009.  The winner will be announced at the 2010 WCC-LCC opening night reception at the APA/AIA.


From blondell at u.washington.edu  Thu Jan 22 21:10:27 2009
From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:10:27 -0800
Subject: [LCC] [Fwd: GLBT Writing Contest - Earn $25-$1000 - Due March 31,
	2009]
Message-ID: <49795143.3020306@u.washington.edu>



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: GLBT Writing Contest - Earn $25-$1000 - Due March 31, 2009
Date: 22 Jan 2009 13:05:17 -0800
From: info at spiralriver.com
To: blondell at u.washington.edu

Spiral River Productions is seeking stories for a book and is conducting 
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From blondell at u.washington.edu  Thu Jan 29 17:57:06 2009
From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:57:06 -0800
Subject: [LCC] Attention Rehak Fund Donors!
Message-ID: <49825E72.8050501@u.washington.edu>

In appreciation of the many generous people who have made contributions, 
large and small, to the Lambda Rehak fund (which supports our annual 
award in honor of Paul Rehak), we would like to list their names in the 
next issue of Iris, the LCC newsletter.

If you are one of them, and prefer to remain anonymous, *please let me 
know by Friday, Feb. 13th*.

Thank you

Ruby Blondell
Lambda Treasurer


From blondell at u.washington.edu  Fri Jan 30 10:11:33 2009
From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby)
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:11:33 -0800
Subject: [LCC] 210 Lambda panel: deadline FEB 5
Message-ID: <498342D5.1030304@u.washington.edu>

Just a reminder that the deadline for subissions to our next APA panel 
is coming right up. Here are the details:

CALL FOR PAPERS
One Hundred and Twenty Years of Homosexuality
Lambda Classical Caucus Panel, American Philological Association
Anaheim, January 6-9, 2010
Organizers: Ruby Blondell (blondell at u.washington.edu) and Kirk Ormand 
(Kirk.Ormand at oberlin.edu)

The APA/AIA meeting in January 2010 will mark the twentieth anniversary 
of the Lambda Classical Caucus (founded at the APA in December 1989). 
This year will also mark the twentieth anniversary of a pair of 
enormously influential books: David Halperin's One Hundred Years of 
Homosexuality and Jack Winkler's Constraints of Desire. Published in the 
same year, in the same series (Routledge's New Ancient World), and often 
reviewed together, these two books introduced many classicists to queer 
theory for the first time and revolutionized the field of queer 
classics. If that were not enough, 1990 likewise saw the publication by 
Princeton of Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in 
the Ancient Greek World, edited by Halperin, Winkler, and Froma Zeitlin. 
David Halperin was also--not coincidentally--the founder of the Lambda 
Classical Caucus (for our history visit 
http://www.lambdacc.org/about.html).

This seems a good moment, then, to celebrate what we have achieved--both 
as an organization and as an intellectual movement--over the past 20 
years, and to look forward to what we may achieve in the next 20, by 
asking where we have come from, what we have accomplished, and what 
still remains to be done. While celebrating the past, and the path that 
brought us here, we also want to consider where we stand now, and how 
best to go forward. Which methodological tools are still proving useful, 
which need to be reassessed or sharpened, and which have had their day? 
What avenues of inquiry, theoretical models, or forms of evidence, have 
been overlooked or come into recent prominence? How have social and 
political developments, within or beyond the academy, reconfigured the 
world of queer classics, its constraints or opportunities, since 1990?

While we are especially interested in the methods and concerns of 
Halperin and Winkler (comparative anthropology, the application of queer 
theory to classics, Foucault's formulation of "sexuality" as a 
peculiarly modern form of knowledge, the articulation of pre-modern 
sexual identities), and their influence upon the field, we are open to 
submissions exploring any aspect of the current state and future 
directions of queer classics. Abstracts might address such topics as our 
understanding of "active" and "passive" roles in Greece and Rome, 
ancient notions of sexual subjectivity, categories of sexual behavior, 
shame and honor, the practice of paederasty, the intersection(s) of 
gender and sexual identity, questions of evidence, and/or the 
periodicity of particular sexual categories, values, or identities. In 
keeping with Lambda traditions, we welcome submissions that deal with 
material culture as well as those focussing on texts and/or other forms 
of evidence.

Abstracts should be sent as Word attachments to Joy Connolly 
(joyc at nyu.edu) by February 5, 2009. (Do not send them to the 
organizers.) Personal identifying information should not appear on the 
abstract itself. Abstracts should be no more than one page and should 
follow the instructions for individual abstracts on p. 6 of the APA 
Program Guide at 
http://www.apaclassics.org/Newsletter/2007newsletter/1007insert.pdf.