Classical Studies Program and DOC Inclusion Challenge Present
Building Classical Communities: A Roundtable Discussion
Friday, February 19, 2021
Online Event
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5
How do we build more inclusive communities in Classics? How do we do Classics with joy and cultivate “belonging” with a sense of integrity and purpose? What are the opportunities and challenges for our field? This roundtable discussion is the opening event in our spring series, Collecta in Classicis / Together in Classics, hosted by the students and faculty of the Classical Studies program and supported by the Dean of the College’s Inclusion Challenge. 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Roundtable speakers:
Bethany Hucks is a fourth-year PhD student at Heidelberg University in Germany, researching Egyptian influence on art and identity in imperial Rome. She has a background in biochemistry, museums, and marketing and spends her summers working on pottery at various archaeological excavations. In her free time, she works on aiding marginalized scholars and increasing/retaining diversity in ancient world studies and archaeology.
Suzanne Lye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her AB from Harvard University, where she studied organic chemistry and the history of antibiotics. After receiving her PhD in Classics from the University of California, Los Angeles, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College. Her first book project focuses on conceptions of the afterlife in ancient Greek Underworld narratives from Homer to Lucian. Her next project will focus on women’s anger in ancient literature and magic. She has published on ancient epic, ancient magic and religion, ancient representations of gender and ethnicity, ancient and modern pedagogy, and Classical reception. Additionally, she has contributed to several digital humanities initiatives through Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, including the Homer Multitext Project, and is co-chair of the steering committee for the Women’s Classical Caucus.
Nandini Pandey is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, trained in Classics and English at Swarthmore, Oxford, Cambridge, and Berkeley. She joins us from Germany, where she is writing a second book on Roman diversity thanks to a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Her first book, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (Cambridge, 2018), won the 2020 CAMWS First Book Prize, and she has written numerous pieces for Eidolon as well as traditional classics journals.
Nandini Pandey is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, trained in Classics and English at Swarthmore, Oxford, Cambridge, and Berkeley. She joins us from Germany, where she is writing a second book on Roman diversity thanks to a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Her first book, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (Cambridge, 2018), won the 2020 CAMWS First Book Prize, and she has written numerous pieces for Eidolon as well as traditional classics journals.
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This event is part of the Collecta in Classicis: Together in Classics series.
Collecta in Classicis : Together in Classics will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people.
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Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Online Event