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Poster withvarying shades of purple in he design with the following information WCC Pedagogy Workshop: Beyond the Basics: Integrating Universal Design for Learning into your Pedagogy Tuesday August 11, 10am PT / 1:00 pm ET You may be familiar with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, a set of principles designed to give all students an equal opportunity to learn and develop learner agency. This workshop offers participants an opportunity to review the basic UDL framework with other educators, but it also aims to go beyond an introductory level and provide a space for participants to have more advanced conversations about accessibility and learner agency. Facilitated by Dr. Ellen Cole Lee and Dr. Amy Pistone Register now! https://www.wccclassics.org/events
Orange and yellow poster with decorative flower and diamond design with the following information WCC Pedagogy Workshop: Teaching Idea Exchange Friday August 7, 10am PT / 1:00 pm ET Do you have an in-class activity that always works to get students talking? A tried-and-true strategy for helping students learn vocabulary? An assignment that you actually look forward to grading? Or do you want to learn about others’ excellent pedagogical ideas? Join a community of pedagogy practitioners for a teaching idea exchange workshop, as we prepare to refresh our teaching for the new school year! Facilitated by Dr. Ellen Cole Lee and Dr. Amy Pistone Register now! https://www.wccclassics.org/events
Dark red poster with pink text saying: WRITING GROUPS Tuesday mornings at 10am with Erin Moodie Thursday afternoons (starting July 2) at 4pm EDT with Elizabeth Manwell At the bottom of the poster are QR codes to sign up, sign up form available here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1oyTrKugkZPnpzGCmBMV3CJWsrgOOepjYEmzjNnsABspBlw/viewform
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EVENT DETAILS: The Women’s Classical Caucus and Lambda Classical Caucus invite you to participate in a jointly hosted Reading Group featuring the 2025-26 paper prize winners. We will meet virtually to discuss these two articles on Thursday June, 4 from 4:00-5:00 PM ET. The Barbara McManus Award for Best Article (awarded by the WCC): Kassandra Miller, "Intentional Menstrual Suppression in Imperial Rome," JRS 114 (2024): 27– 59. The Paul Rehak Award (awarded by the LCC): Melissa Mueller, "Plaiting and Poikilia: The Materialities of Sappho's Craft," in Sappho and Homer: A Reparative Reading, Cambridge University Press (2023), pp. 59-88.
A purple graphic with light purple or beige text that says A WCC+FemClas event Making Your Conference Presentation More Accessible: A Workshop facilitated by Zoé Elise Thomas and Clara Bosak-Schroeder Friday April 24, noon-1:30pm EDT via Zoom
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Text against a background image of the Golden Gate Bridge: Wednesday, January 7 COGSIP/LCC/WCC Joint Reception When: 8:30-10:30 PM PST Where: Imperial B Costume theme: The Writing’s on the Wall: Street Art from Pompeii to the Mission District Come connect with old friends, make some new acquaintances, and build some community at the SCS San Francisco opening night reception as we thank our volunteers, celebrate our award winners, and kick off the 2026 annual meeting.
As feminist art historians and activists have long demonstrated, women are exponentially more likely to be the subject of traditional art than the creators of it (htt{2s:,,(/www.g1Jerrillagirls.com/). Specific references to female artists from Greco-Roman antiquity are rare. Pliny catalogues five women painters (HN 35.147-148; Kampen 1975; Linderski 2003), including Iaia of Cyzicus who painted other women and self-portraits (Micheli 2024). The Classical Athenian 'Caputi hydria' may depict a woman decorating a vessel and a tiny number of Campanian frescoes survive showing women painting (e.g., PPM 5.414= MNN 9017, Naples). Women's artistry may be recorded but obliquely: Pliny notes that the potter Butades first discovered ceramic portraiture by tracing the silhouette that his unnamed daughter had drawn of her lover on a rock-wall (Pliny HN 35.152). Moving beyond a narrative that centres the named artist allows for a more expansive understanding of art-making in the ancient world (Squire 2015). As Murray suggests when discussing early Greece, many more women in the ancient world must have made art (Murray et al, 2020). How were women and girls part of creative artistic and artisanal working practices, conceived broadly across any medium as the expressive use of shape, gesture, color, or materials? Can we find women participating in ateliers, in material sourcing, in design? As sponsors, as owners, as assistants, as accidental creators or destroyers? Can a focus on gender make us re-think the history of art, craft, and design in the ancient world? This panel invites papers that explore any aspect of women as art-makers in antiquity. We also welcome papers on the reception of ancient women art-makers in later times and places. We particularly welcome innovative theoretical, methodological, or arts-based approaches. If you have questions about the panel topic or proposals, contact Sarah Blake (sblake@yorku.ca). Please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individ…
An AI Workshop for People Who Hate AI A Women’s Classical Caucus pedagogy workshop Have you been reluctant to learn much about AI? Do you find it to be an unethical tool with catastrophic environmental impacts, a plagiarism machine with a disregard for intellectual property, and an active hindrance to deep learning? Same! Join Dr. Amy Pistone and Dr. Ellen Lee for a workshop about managing the role of AI in the classroom and facilitating meaningful learning in a world of ChatGPT and other AI tools that are often seen as ways to avoid the challenging and time-consuming process of engaging with difficult material. Thursday, August 7, 2025, 1pm ET (on Zoom) Register now! www.wccclassics.org/events
WCC Pedagogy Series: Why Are You Taking This Class? Student-Centered Strategies for First-Year Language Instruction A Women's Classical Caucus pedagogy workshop Register now! https://www.wccclassics.org/events In our current educational and technological environment, teaching language classes is hard. Join Dr. Ellen Lee and Dr. Amy Pistone to explore strategies for meeting our students where they are and helping them develop as self-motivated learners. Tuesday, August 12, 2025 1pm ET (on Zoom)
Publishing a Journal Article: A WCC Publishing Series Event The Women’s Classical Caucus invites you to participate in the WCC Publishing Series Event: Publishing a Journal Article. Topics covered: Overview of the review and publication process (i.e., what to expect, timeline) When and how to submit your article Where to submit your article (i.e., deciding on a journal) How to work with a journal editor Receiving feedback (e.g., accept, revise & resubmit, reject) Tips & Advice The event will be in a roundtable discussion format, in which each panelist will first briefly present, giving an overview of the journal publication process. They will then be interviewed by the facilitator with crowd-sourced questions. For the final portion of the session, the virtual floor will be open for questions from session attendees. We welcome all to register and attend this event!
WCC is at CAMWS! Come find our table in the book room and attend the CAMWS/ WCC co-sponsored opening reception. Here are the details: CAMWS/WCC Opening Reception Thursday, April 4 at 7-8:15 CT in Plaza & Empire
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Please join the WCC at any or all of the following events at AIA/SCS 2024 in Chicago! All are welcome! THURSDAY, JANUARY 4 WCC/LCC/COGSIP Joint Reception at 9:00–11:00pm CST in Continental Room A Heroes: A Costume (Optional) Party FRIDAY, JANUARY 5 Mentorship Coffee at 9:30–11:30am CST in the Exhibit Hall at TT10 Table WCC Open Business Meeting (Online) at 1:00–2:00pm CST Registration link for zoom (free and open to all) SATURDAY, JANUARY 6 AcaParenting Coffee at 9:30–11:30am CST in the Exhibit Hall at TT10 Table WCC Panel, “Gender, Queerness, and Disability in the Ancient World”(organized by Sydney Hertz, Alicia Matz, and Debby Sneed) at 2:00–5:00pm CST in Waldorf on the 3rd floor (and virtually) LCC/WCC Student Happy Hour (organized by Anna Muh and Kate Stevens) at 9:00–10:00pm CST in Kasey’s Tavern (701 S Dearborn St) At least one free drink for all students! Recent PhDs welcome! AFTER THE CONFERENCE February 15: Abstract deadline for WCC Panel, “Embodying Women’s C