A Monster of Our Creation: Rethinking Classical Reception in Children’s Literature

Organized by Aisha Dad, UNC Greensboro

WCC Mentorship Pop-up Event: Conferencing 101 

Thursday 12 December 2024, 12:00-1:30 PM ET

The WCC Mentorship Team invites you to a pop-up session to address your concerns and questions about how to get the most out of attending academic conferences.

This virtual conference seeks investigations of the woman’s body (broadly defined to include anyone who identifies as such) and embodied experiences of womanhood in colonial, middle ground, and hybrid spaces, where what it meant to be ‘woman,’ ‘man’, ‘Greek,’ 'Roman,' or 'barbarian' was subject to constant, creative negotiation and redefinition.

Please join us for a new event in the WCC Job Market Series! 

In Negotiating a Job Offer, we tackle your questions about what to do after you have an offer: what are reasonable asks in response to an offer, what you can negotiate, and how much time you have to make a decision. 

The Women’s Classical Caucus invites you to participate in the WCC Publishing Series Event: Publishing a Journal Article: Advice for Peer Reviewers and Editors. This is a follow-up event to our Publishing a Journal Article event based on questions collected from participants and is targeted towards early and mid-career scholars.

Welcome to the Summer/Fall 2024 edition of Cloelia, the WCC’s quarterly newsletter devoted to keeping our membership up-to-date on the latest activities and initiatives of the Women’s Classical Caucus (WCC). As we look forward to Fall and the academic new year, we launch this year’s iteration of our ever-popular mentoring program and reflect on a successful summer series including events on publishing, teaching, and celebrating the WCC/LCC prize winners.

We also invite you to join us for our final summer WCC reading group on digital technologies and mental health.

Description goes hereCurrent students and young people are widely reported to be more distracted, anxious, and depressed than any generation to enter high school and college. How should we as educators, teachers, advisors, and parents respond?

We invite you to a discussion about the impacts of digital technologies (smart phones, social media, and AI) on how we work, teach, and live. The organizers have curated a selection of readings as a starting point to discuss the intersections of digital life with mental health, learning, and parenting – and different approaches and practices that teachers, parents, and legislators have pursued in relation to these.

This workshop will provide space for collaborative conversation about strategies for fostering positive working relationships between faculty instructors of record and graduate student teachers. During this 2-hour workshop, participants will interact with their peers in breakout groups to discuss questions, concerns, and ideas with other faculty and graduate students, as well as engage in respectful discussion with the full group of attendees to develop strategies for dynamic instruction and constructive collaboration at any stage in their careers.

This workshop will provide an introduction to a variety of alternative grading methods, including gamification, ungrading, and other non-traditional methods of assessing student learning. Participants will engage in group discussion to share successful strategies and brainstorm ideas for their own classes.

In June 2024, panelists Sarah Nooter (editor-in-chief of Classical Philology or CP) and Irene Peirano Garrison (co-editor of TAPA) gave an overview of the journal publication process, followed by an interview facilitated by Suzanne Lye (co-chair of the WCC). The WCC has compiled the main points from this session, as well as a recording of the overview and interview. We welcome you to check them out!