From ivanlan9 at gmail.com Thu Jul 2 05:51:51 2009 From: ivanlan9 at gmail.com (Ivan Van Laningham) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 06:51:51 -0600 Subject: [LCC] India's Stonewall Message-ID: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8129836.stm -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/ http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/papers/laningham/laningham.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours From mbroder at gc.cuny.edu Thu Jul 2 11:10:43 2009 From: mbroder at gc.cuny.edu (Michael Broder) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:10:43 -0400 Subject: [LCC] Ned Tuck Message-ID: <004501c9fb40$6f10a3d0$4d31eb70$@cuny.edu> Did anyone on this list know Ned Tuck or does anyone know anything about him? I just came across his translations of some of the Priapea online and also found reference to a 1981 doctoral dissertation from UT Austin of the complete translations. But since I also found evidence of a scholarship in honor of him and his partner Bill Peters offered by the College of Marin Foundation, I suspect they both died of AIDS many years ago. I don't know anything about this guy and have only seen three of the translations, but I feel like we should be doing something about preserving and disseminating work like this, important contributions by gay male classicists who died of AIDS before they really had a chance to have careers. Best, Michael Michael Broder PhD Candidate in Classics The Graduate Center, CUNY (646) 281-1634 phone (866) 203-2489 fax mbroder at gc.cuny.edu From lockyert at mweb.co.za Thu Jul 2 15:40:09 2009 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:40:09 +0200 Subject: [LCC] India's Stonewall References: Message-ID: <31CA93A4194B4712AB40C6B7FF3AAC24@olorin> It's worth noting explicitly that a copy of the Delhi High Court's judgement in the matter to which Ivan Van Laningham's link refers is also available in PDF via that page or direct at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_07_09_india_gay.pdf The BBC also has a lot of "vox pops" coverage, as at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8130052.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8130737.stm as well as the usual battery of links to related and earlier stories. Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa From lockyert at mweb.co.za Thu Jul 2 18:09:46 2009 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 03:09:46 +0200 Subject: [LCC] India's Stonewall References: <31CA93A4194B4712AB40C6B7FF3AAC24@olorin> Message-ID: <947EAD6E9B114C648D5D742C410E7AA0@olorin> Reading the Delhi High Court judgement downloadable from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_07_09_india_gay.pdf I was interested to note that this court, like others in other places, appears to have held that rights to equality and non-discrimination based on sexual orientation (and indeed gender identity, since the court also makes specific reference to the country-specific identity of "hijra") are not separate from, but implicit in, the same protections with regard to sex. In particular, on p. 83, there is the statement that "Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is itself grounded in stereotypical judgments and generalization about the conduct of either sex"; which seems to me an important and under-utilized argument in places like my own country, where religious right and social conservative groups (which, I might add, fared abysmally at the last general election, losing about half of their already tiny proportional parliamentary representation) have consistently demanded a referendum to alter the 1996 Constitution so as to eliminate "sexual orientation" from the so-called "Equality Clause". That is, legal protection for same-sex sexual behaviour and relationships stems not only from specific protections based on sexual orientation, but also from the prohibition of discrimination based upon sex (which, for obvious reasons, political parties and groups are far more reluctant to attack), since without a concept of "[biological] sex" and the social construction of normative differences of identity and behaviour based therupon, the entire foundation of terms like "same-sex", "homosexual", "homoerotic", and so on, and the recognition as a distinct class attracting differential treatment of the behaviours, desires and relationships to which they refer, lacks foundation and is unable to exist. I also liked the clarity of the statement (p. 100), in answer to populist-majoritarian arguments and the claim that the will of the legislative branch cannot be overridden by the judicial, that "A modern democracy while based on the principle of majority rule implicitly recognizes the need to protect the fundamental rights of those who may dissent or deviate from the majoritarian view". Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa From lockyert at mweb.co.za Sat Jul 4 16:20:15 2009 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 01:20:15 +0200 Subject: [LCC] London Pride photos (BBC) / historical References: <31CA93A4194B4712AB40C6B7FF3AAC24@olorin> <947EAD6E9B114C648D5D742C410E7AA0@olorin> Message-ID: <120DB91550C942D1890948A81230D163@olorin> As some may know, this was the weekend of the annual Pride event in London: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk_politics/8134323.stm and I thought I'd mention that British deadpan comedian Jimmy Carr has just tweeted at http://twitter.com/jimmycarr/status/2474932867 this image from the first march in 1972, which he noted because of the word-play in the central placard, http://twitpic.com/9bit4 and which is derived from the 14-part BBC slideshow at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8129324.stm The 1972 image is available in its full size specifically at http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46002000/jpg/_46002343_1972_hcarchive_766.jpg Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa From dkamen at u.washington.edu Mon Jul 6 09:24:36 2009 From: dkamen at u.washington.edu (Deborah Kamen) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:24:36 -0700 Subject: [LCC] book for review Message-ID: <48641418-2DF0-4D6A-A96B-D79A3F4A5E94@u.washington.edu> Hi all, We've just received a new book for review in Iris, the LCC newsletter: James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World (New York: Random House 2009). Please let me know if you are interested in reviewing this book; priority will go to those who have not reviewed for us before. Thanks, Deb Kamen Editor, Iris Deborah Kamen Assistant Professor Department of Classics University of Washington 218 Denny Hall, Box 353110 Seattle WA 98195 From bwfrier at umich.edu Tue Jul 7 07:39:20 2009 From: bwfrier at umich.edu (Bruce W. Frier) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:39:20 -0400 Subject: [LCC] New Spintria Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jonesgs at indiana.edu Wed Jul 8 07:42:59 2009 From: jonesgs at indiana.edu (Jones, Gregory S.) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:42:59 -0400 Subject: [LCC] Ned Tuck In-Reply-To: <004501c9fb40$6f10a3d0$4d31eb70$@cuny.edu> References: <004501c9fb40$6f10a3d0$4d31eb70$@cuny.edu> Message-ID: <20090708104259.dozwin0rr488scsw@webmail.iu.edu> I think this is a great idea. I possibly know of some bay area scholars whose student/early work is preserved at the SFSU Classics department. When I return from summer travels I would be very interested in pursuing this further. Any other ideas/leads from fellow LCCers on this great initiative? Greg Quoting Michael Broder : > Did anyone on this list know Ned Tuck or does anyone know anything about > him? I just came across his translations of some of the Priapea online and > also found reference to a 1981 doctoral dissertation from UT Austin of the > complete translations. But since I also found evidence of a scholarship in > honor of him and his partner Bill Peters offered by the College of Marin > Foundation, I suspect they both died of AIDS many years ago. I don't know > anything about this guy and have only seen three of the translations, but I > feel like we should be doing something about preserving and disseminating > work like this, important contributions by gay male classicists who died of > AIDS before they really had a chance to have careers. > > > > Best, > > Michael > > > > Michael Broder > > PhD Candidate in Classics > > The Graduate Center, CUNY > > (646) 281-1634 phone > > (866) 203-2489 fax > > mbroder at gc.cuny.edu > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > members mailing list > members at lambdacc.org > http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org > From mbroder at gc.cuny.edu Wed Jul 8 08:25:50 2009 From: mbroder at gc.cuny.edu (Michael Broder) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:25:50 -0400 Subject: [LCC] Ned Tuck In-Reply-To: <20090708104259.dozwin0rr488scsw@webmail.iu.edu> References: <004501c9fb40$6f10a3d0$4d31eb70$@cuny.edu> <20090708104259.dozwin0rr488scsw@webmail.iu.edu> Message-ID: <002101c9ffe0$635a9dd0$2a0fd970$@cuny.edu> I should let everyone know that the Ned Tuck who translated the Priapea for his dissertation in 1981 is alive, well, and teaching secondary school Latin in Austin, Tex. We've corresponded, and he's pleased that people still care about his work, although publication back then was not in the cards for him, and he's taken a different route. But I still think the idea embraced by Greg is a good one. Best, Michael -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces at lambdacc.org [mailto:members-bounces at lambdacc.org] On Behalf Of Jones, Gregory S. Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:43 AM To: members at lambdacc.org Subject: Re: [LCC] Ned Tuck I think this is a great idea. I possibly know of some bay area scholars whose student/early work is preserved at the SFSU Classics department. When I return from summer travels I would be very interested in pursuing this further. Any other ideas/leads from fellow LCCers on this great initiative? Greg Quoting Michael Broder : > Did anyone on this list know Ned Tuck or does anyone know anything about > him? I just came across his translations of some of the Priapea online and > also found reference to a 1981 doctoral dissertation from UT Austin of the > complete translations. But since I also found evidence of a scholarship in > honor of him and his partner Bill Peters offered by the College of Marin > Foundation, I suspect they both died of AIDS many years ago. I don't know > anything about this guy and have only seen three of the translations, but I > feel like we should be doing something about preserving and disseminating > work like this, important contributions by gay male classicists who died of > AIDS before they really had a chance to have careers. > > > > Best, > > Michael > > > > Michael Broder > > PhD Candidate in Classics > > The Graduate Center, CUNY > > (646) 281-1634 phone > > (866) 203-2489 fax > > mbroder at gc.cuny.edu > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > members mailing list > members at lambdacc.org > http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org > _______________________________________________ members mailing list members at lambdacc.org http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org From kmilnor at barnard.edu Fri Jul 17 09:01:30 2009 From: kmilnor at barnard.edu (kmilnor) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:01:30 -0400 Subject: [LCC] Fwd: question re postings References: <4a6097ba.47c1f10a.3a2d.ffff8eda@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <0332A6D9-21FA-43D8-A8D7-18E8D37D4516@barnard.edu> On behalf of Eugene O'Connor, who had some trouble with the listserv ... Kristina Begin forwarded message: > From: Eugene O'Connor > Date: July 17, 2009 11:24:23 AM EDT > To: kmilnor at barnard.edu > Subject: question re postings > > > Dear colleagues and friends, > > I'm interested in knowing whether you or a colleague is currently > working on a project that addresses classics during the colonialist > period of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. I'm > reading Said's Orientalism and am fascinated by how the nineteenth- > century European colonialist powers "packaged" the Orient, for > European consumption, as an unbounded place of exoticism, > hypersexualism, and effeminacy, in contrast to the cool, controlled, > heterosexualist, hegemonic societies of western Europe. In this the > Oriental civilizations got "lost," swallowed up by philologists, > belleletrists, and others. > > I was wondering what connections can be made between this view and > the teaching of the classics during the heyday of British/European > colonialism. It is the same time as the cult of Wissenschaft, which > itself grew out of an earlier Romantic Hellenomania focused on the > "godlike" Greeks as the unsullied exponents of Western culture. The > Orient, and Africa, too, had to be defined as "other" since they > were sites of colonialism and therefore domination. Thus, as > "subject" people, the Africans had to be divorced from any > connection with the development of Greek (and later) Roman culture. > > Such a project (and I'm thinking of book projects) would include > discussions of racialism, homophobia, dominance, nationalism, and > exclusivity. I welcome book proposals dealing with this or related > areas of classical pedagogy. They may deal with classics broadly as > a discipline or the teaching of particular classical authors at this > time, course listings changing over time in order to suit shifting > racial or other ideologies. I would also welcome proposals that talk > about classics as performance; i.e., how rhetorical or dramatic > texts, or indeed classical philology itself, may be used to "act > out" or "resist" hegemony. I fully realize some of this has been > written about already, but would like to know how such ideas might > be developed or what new directions might be taken. > > All inquiries may be directed to me at the address below. > > Thanks. I look forward to hearing from you. > > Regards, > > Eugene > > Eugene O'Connor > Managing Editor, The Ohio State University Press > 180 Pressey Hall > 1070 Carmack Road > Columbus, OH 43210 > eugene at osupress.org > www.ohiostatepress.org From dkamen at u.washington.edu Thu Jul 30 10:38:05 2009 From: dkamen at u.washington.edu (Deborah Kamen) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:38:05 -0700 Subject: [LCC] final call for submissions, Iris Message-ID: <06463694-2265-4B62-936E-133378F6D72B@u.washington.edu> Hi all, If you'd like to submit something for the next issue of Iris, please do so by August 7. Here's a reminder of what I'm looking for: 1) Issues of Iris will now include a list of recent academic publications by LCC members (i.e., published in the past 5 years). Please submit any titles you'd like me to list! 2) In honor of the upcoming 20-year anniversary of LCC, I'd like to solicit readers' top 10 lists of "the best queer books of the past 20 years," with a focus on books that are either by classicists or particularly useful for classicists. If you're interested, please submit your own list, ideally annotated with one or two sentences explaining why you chose each title. 3) I'd also appreciate any other news, calls for papers, etc. relevant to the LCC mission. thanks, Deb Kamen Editor, Iris Deborah Kamen Assistant Professor Department of Classics University of Washington 218 Denny Hall, Box 353110 Seattle WA 98195 From lockyert at mweb.co.za Fri Jul 31 04:47:22 2009 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:47:22 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Security of Flash and Adobe Reader (OT but important) Message-ID: <849E7D8D35B948B090E6EC0C332C212E@olorin> I know this is not on-topic; however, given the current ubiquity and importance of Flash media (used for video, audio, animations, and interactive content on social media sites like YouTube, as well as very many mainstream news and other sites and blogs, including those of the BBC and Guardian) and PDF files in the Internet habits of many of us, I thought it worth risking a little annoyance to mention that Adobe has in recent days reported a critical vulnerability, already apparently widely exploited for malicious purposes, and affecting its Flash plug-in (which plays on-line video in web browsers, and may be listed among browser plug-ins as "Shockwave Flash"), Adobe Reader (for PDF files), and Acrobat software. A corrective update for the Flash software has been released at http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ with ones for Adobe Reader and Acrobat promised today (2009/07/31) according to: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-10.html or http://tinyurl.com/nqthpt See also http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-03.html It is important to note that updates to the affected plug-ins are NOT done automatically by web browsers (though those for Adobe Reader presumably will be available for those using automatic or manual update-checks in that software). Apologies again for the off-topic, and as ever for the consequences of cross-posting. Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa