From bburns at wellesley.edu Tue Mar 2 20:02:58 2010 From: bburns at wellesley.edu (Bryan E. Burns) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:02:58 -0500 Subject: [LCC] Anaheim party pictures! Message-ID: <0459219A-7144-405C-BBA4-7633F6881FF9@wellesley.edu> Hi all, Since we're all eager to relive the Gay 90s again and again, we've posted some pictures from this year's opening night party on the lambda website: http://lambdacc.org/2010/index.html Special shout-out to "Lily Langtree" and that riding crop! From mbroder at gc.cuny.edu Wed Mar 3 08:41:49 2010 From: mbroder at gc.cuny.edu (Michael Broder) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:41:49 -0500 Subject: [LCC] Sexuality panel or workshop at CAAS? Message-ID: <002101cabaf0$6f03ae30$4d0b0a90$@cuny.edu> Last year I tried to organize a Queer Theory and Classical Studies panel at CAAS in October, but I received very few interested replies. I want to try again this year, only I'm willing to consider either a panel or a workshop, depending on what other people are interested in participating in (if there is in fact any interest at all). This time, I am not posting a formal call for abstracts, thinking maybe that is part of what put people off last year. All I would like to know is if you are interested in participating in a panel or workshop on new approaches to ancient sexuality. If so, can you cite any specifics you would like to see included? I would like it both to challenge established orthodoxies and to model examples of new approaches that are informed by queer theory-meaning things written about deviant formations of sex, gender, and kinship since the 1990s. The deadline for proposals is April 1. At this point I'm just trying to gauge interest, and if there is interest, I will put together a draft proposal for interested parties to take a look at. 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 Fri Mar 5 08:57:06 2010 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:57:06 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Message from Andrew Calimach References: <41c558e61003050409k26a2b1fam962ee6f3b671f48e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <8AEAC34E88554BB88BC8A42BCFCBB5D0@olorin> Dear List, I post the message below on behalf of Andrew Calimach, who is not on this list: : Eight years after publishing Lovers' Legends: The Gay : Greek Myths I have prepared a second and final edition, : featuring a foreword by the late Jim Butrica and extensive : additions and revisions to the original reconstructions of : the myths and supporting material. Two new stories : (Nisus and Euryalus, and Dionysus and Ampelus) have : been added to the original nine. : : I am offering the manuscript of the new work (retitled : When God Was Gay) for peer review and I would be : grateful for any and all feedback. : : Andrew Calimach acalimach at gmail.com AC writes in addition: : Also, the first edition, Lovers Legends: The Gay Greek : Myths is about to be remaindered. Out of 8000 printed : there are still a couple of thousand on hand. These are : available, while they last, in case quantities or less to : any academic interested, at no cost, shipping for free. ---------- The text above the line was 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 other than correspondence 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 Sun Mar 7 17:57:43 2010 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 03:57:43 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Sir Kenneth Dover References: <1268000300.4b94262cb6798@webmail.st-andrews.ac.uk> Message-ID: <935FFF365453452BBEC6AE6AD889DCBA@olorin> This has been posted to Classicists by Stephen Halliwell: : Members of the list will be saddened to learn that : one of the world's greatest Hellenists, Sir Kenneth : Dover (Chancellor of the University of St Andrews : 1981-2005 and earlier Professor of Greek, 1955-76), : died on the 7th March, just a few days before his : 90th birthday. I do not yet have information about : arrangements for the funeral. Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa From kirk.ormand at oberlin.edu Mon Mar 8 06:47:47 2010 From: kirk.ormand at oberlin.edu (Kirk Ormand) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:47:47 -0500 Subject: [LCC] job listing Message-ID: <707F8928-6C90-4F20-AA49-79BCE3496FFD@oberlin.edu> Hello, all. With apologies for cross-posting - we just got authorization for a one-year job, and want to move relatively quickly on it. Best, Kirk VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS The Classics Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time non-continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences. Appointment to this position will be for a term of one academic year, beginning fall semester of 2010 and will carry the rank of Assistant Professor. The incumbent will teach a total of five courses, including three in Latin language and literature, and one course of the candidate?s own design in the Classical Civilization sequence. Ability to teach Latin at all levels is required. Expertise in Latin poetry is desirable. Some preference will be given to candidates also able to teach intermediate Greek. Among the qualifications required for appointment is the Ph.D. or ABD status (in hand or expected by first semester of academic year 2010). Candidates must demonstrate interest and potential excellence in undergraduate teaching. Successful teaching experience at the college level is desirable. The Department of Classics has four full-time faculty and teaches a wide range of courses in Classical civilization, including Greek and Latin Literature, ancient history, and ancient archaeology. Courses in ancient philosophy, art, and religion are offered by cooperating members in other departments. For further information on the department, please see http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/ departments/classics/. Phone 440-775-8390; Fax 440-775-8084. To be assured of consideration, a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, graduate academic transcripts, and at least three recent letters of reference, should be sent to Kirk Ormand, Chair, Department of Classics, Oberlin College, King Building 105, Oberlin, Ohio, 44074 by April 7, 2010. Please do not send writing samples at this time. Application materials received after April 7 may be considered until the position is filled. Salary will depend on qualifications and experience. Oberlin College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the development of a climate that supports equality of opportunity and respect of differences based on gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression. Oberlin was the first coeducational institution to grant bachelor's degrees to women and historically has been a leader in the education of African Americans; the college was also among the first to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. In that spirit, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who would contribute to the diversity of our faculty. From lockyert at mweb.co.za Mon Mar 8 11:22:14 2010 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:22:14 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Sir Kenneth Dover References: <1268000300.4b94262cb6798@webmail.st-andrews.ac.uk> <935FFF365453452BBEC6AE6AD889DCBA@olorin> <154ac3691003081043n637a6144g1e3a4c92b4a3c428@mail.gmail.com> <805473831003081047k4d5b3618g5f846b47d1e7c473@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <61502928812149EDA5A4ED1F0175B1E0@olorin> Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7400324/Sir-Kenneth-Dover.html Listmembers may also be interested in this blog post on early recognition of the philological abilities on which Dover's work was founded: http://thecampvs.com/?p=1767 Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa From lockyert at mweb.co.za Mon Mar 8 11:29:51 2010 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:29:51 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Sir Kenneth Dover References: <1268000300.4b94262cb6798@webmail.st-andrews.ac.uk> <935FFF365453452BBEC6AE6AD889DCBA@olorin> <154ac3691003081043n637a6144g1e3a4c92b4a3c428@mail.gmail.com> <805473831003081047k4d5b3618g5f846b47d1e7c473@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Stephen Halliwell's obituary for the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/mar/08/sir-kenneth-dover-obituary Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa From lockyert at mweb.co.za Mon Mar 8 11:43:41 2010 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:43:41 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Sir Kenneth Dover References: <1268000300.4b94262cb6798@webmail.st-andrews.ac.uk> <935FFF365453452BBEC6AE6AD889DCBA@olorin> <154ac3691003081043n637a6144g1e3a4c92b4a3c428@mail.gmail.com> <805473831003081047k4d5b3618g5f846b47d1e7c473@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: The Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7054392.ece Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa From blondell at u.washington.edu Mon Mar 8 16:47:41 2010 From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: [LCC] News from the Lambda Classical Caucus Message-ID: <4B959AAD.3020604@u.washington.edu> There have been quite a few developments at LCC in the last few months. We have a new co-chair (Deb Kamen), an new newsletter editor (Keely Lake), and a new travel grant (for students traveling to the APA). Moreover you can now pay your Lambda dues and make donations to the Rehak fund via PayPal. Our ongoing projects include our sequence of fantastically successful APA panels, our co-sponsorship of the APA opening night reception (with WCC and CSWMG), the annual Rehak Prize for a scholarly article, and the more recent annual award for a graduate student presentation. We could not achieve any of this without the financial support of our members. If you have not yet paid your dues for 2010, please do so using the attached form or via PAYPAL at http://www.lambdacc.org/membership.html. I have also attached an updated information sheet (now separate from the dues form) which reflects the recent changes in the makeup of the steering committee. If you are a non-paying member (student, retiree, unemployed), PLEASE EMAIL ME (blondell at uw.edu) IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR MEMBERSHIP CURRENT. Most of you have already done this, but I need to hear from the rest of you or I will remove your name from the list. If you are in doubt about your status, please email me and ask. Thank you Ruby Blondell LCC Treasurer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LambdaInfo2010 REVISED.doc Type: application/msword Size: 27136 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Nussbaum's new book on Sexual Orientation & Constitutional Law: http://www.slate.com/id/2246892/pagenum/all/ Terrence Lockyer Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: lockyert [at] mweb.co.za From lockyert at mweb.co.za Wed Mar 10 21:29:35 2010 From: lockyert at mweb.co.za (Terrence Lockyer) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:35 +0200 Subject: [LCC] Homosexualties, from antiquity to the present (seminar at UCLA) Message-ID: <08276B301F814AAAA602C5DCFEBC8165@olorin> This notice was post to H-Histsex by Jack Kolb (UCLA): Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, 2009-10 "Homosexualities, from Antiquity to the Present: Worlds, Subjections, Visibilities" "Homosexualities" is a year-long Mellon-funded Sawyer seminar that concentrates on approaches to the study of same-sex desire from antiquity to the present. The seminar program aims to appeal to the broad range of constituencies at both UCLA and nearby institutions that have an established interest in the roles that the humanities currently play in the study of homosexuality, especially within the flourishing field of LGBTS. The seminar program, which will bring together both emergent and established scholars, includes a postdoctoral fellowship and two dissertation fellowships. Although the term "homosexuality" has its own problematic history, the plural version of the word focuses attention on the ways in which scholars analyze patterns of same-sex eroticism in a broad range of historical and theoretical contexts. The seminar program aims to generate dialogue between researchers whose work is based within and across many different humanities disciplines. Sessions will look at the distant past and the near present, as well as the local and the global. From October 2009 to June 2010, participants will have many opportunities to engage with the most pressing debates that affect the ever-growing LGBT field. Sawyer seminar planning committee: Joseph Bristow (Director; English), Lowell Gallagher (English), Grace Hong (Asian-American Studies and Women's Studies), Arthur Little (English), Amy Richlin (Classics), Juliet Williams (Women?s Studies), and Daniel Williford (Graduate Representative, English). If you have a specific query about the seminar, please do not hesitate to contact the seminar director, Joseph Bristow, at jbristow at hument.ucla.edu, or the seminar program assistant, Irene Soriano Brightman, at isoriano at english.ucla.edu. UCLA English Department 149 Humanities Building Box 951530 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530 Tel: 310.825.4173 Fax: 310.267.4339 ---------- 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 jyounger at ku.edu Mon Mar 15 16:27:42 2010 From: jyounger at ku.edu (John Younger) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:27:42 -0500 Subject: [LCC] FW: NYTimes.com: Kenneth Dover, a Provocative Scholar of Ancient Greek Literature, Dies at 89 In-Reply-To: <20100315150001.10E1B298332@nospamc.cc.ku.edu> Message-ID: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/books/14dover.html?emc=eta1 BOOKS | March 14, 2010 Kenneth Dover, a Provocative Scholar of Ancient Greek Literature, Dies at 89 By MARGALIT FOX Mr. Dover became known for his willingness to break taboos, from his frank descriptions of sexual behavior to his baldly stated desire to bring about the death of a vexing Oxford colleague. From mbroder at gc.cuny.edu Tue Mar 16 06:28:16 2010 From: mbroder at gc.cuny.edu (Michael Broder) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:28:16 -0400 Subject: [LCC] CLAGS Classics Event - March 18, 7pm, GC 9206-7 Message-ID: <001801cac50c$8c33e0d0$a49ba270$@cuny.edu> Thursday, March 18 New Perspectives on Same-Sex Desire in Classical Antiquity CLAGS LGBTQ Panel Discussion CUNY Graduate Center Room 9206-7 7-9 PM Athenian vase-painting is one of our best sources of information about pederasty, the system of erotic relations between adult men and adolescent boys prevalent in ancient Greece. Prof. Lear will examine the way vase-painters portrayed pederastic desire and what these images tell us about ancient views of sex and sexuality. Prof. Smith will explore poetic representations of same-sex desire in Constantinople where, amid fear inspired by the Emperor Justinian's persecution of homosexuals, poets adopted closeted strategies for representing the unspeakable. Panelists: Andrew Lear, Assistant Professor of Classics at Pomona College, is co-author, with Eva Cantarella, of Images of Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods Steven D. Smith, Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, and author of Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire From blondell at u.washington.edu Fri Mar 26 08:44:29 2010 From: blondell at u.washington.edu (Ruby) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:44:29 -0700 Subject: [LCC] [Fwd: FW: Call for Papers: Doing Queer Studies Now] Message-ID: <4BACD65D.8090302@u.washington.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: Call for Papers: Doing Queer Studies Now Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:22:14 -0400 From: Halperin, David Call for Papers *? Doing Queer Studies Now ?** * Graduate Conference *University of Michigan ? Ann Arbor* *October 21-23, 2010* *Confirmed Speakers*: Paul Amar (Political Science, UC-Santa Barbara), Adam Green (Sociology, U. of Toronto), Joon Lee (English, Rhode Island School of Design), Heather Love (English, U. of Pennsylvania). What is queer about queer studies? Does queer refer to a set of topics or a mode of inquiry? What is the role of theory in queer studies? How is new scholarship bridging the social sciences and the humanities? What is the relationship between actual queer practices and queer studies? What is the relationship between scholarship and activism? How are radical sex critique and queer studies related? What are the limitations of queer? These are some of the questions we are interested in twenty years after the emergence of queer theory. The purpose of this conference is to take stock of and provide a showcase for innovative practices and pursuits in queer studies, both in the humanities and social sciences, as well as emerging fields that bridge the two. *We are not calling for papers that engage these questions at a meta-level, but rather for work that is conditioned by them.* While we welcome a range of topics, some of the topics we are interested in include: - the role of historical, political and economic forces in shaping queerness - governmentality, state and biopolitics - transnational flows of capital and migrations - queer intersections with race, gender, class, ability, age, etc. - queer subjectivities, experiences and identities - queer historiography, phenomenology and temporality - visual culture, new media Paper abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be sent by June 1, 2010 to _doingqueerstudiesnow2010 at umich.edu _. We wish to notify presenters by Monday, June 21. We will ask for the completed paper for respondents by October 1, 2010.