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Women's Classical Caucus
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The social media arm of the Women's Classical Caucus, an Affiliate of the Society for Classical Studies

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THIS TUESDAY, we're holding a Pop-up Event on Impostor Syndrome and How to Handle It with Suzanne Lye!

October 7, 2025 - 1:30pm ET over Zoom

Register today for this important event!
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Pop-up Event: Impostor Syndrome and How to Handle It — THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)
Pop-up Event: Impostor Syndrome and How to Handle It Many of us are more familiar with impostor syndrome than we would like to be! Dr. Suzanne Lye will discuss the realities of impostor syndrome the...
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October 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Happening in a few hours, don't miss out!
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Applying for postdocs and confused about what they are? Not sure how to craft a strong postdoc proposal or how a postdoc application differs from other sorts of applications?

Join us for this panel -- all are welcome!

September 15
2:30-3:30pm ET

Register now!
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Applying to Postdocs — THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)
Applying for postdocs (postdoctoral fellowships) and confused about what they are? Not sure how to craft a strong postdoc proposal or how a postdoc application differs from other sorts of applications...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Applying to grad school is a stressful thing for students to do—now more than ever. The WCC is bringing together three representatives from schools with different types of graduate programs to help guide faculty on how to best advise students.

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Advising Students Aiming for Grad School — THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)
Advising Students Aiming for Grad School Applying to grad school is a stressful thing for students to do—now more than ever. The WCC is bringing together three representatives from schools with diffe...
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September 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Applying for postdocs and confused about what they are? Not sure how to craft a strong postdoc proposal or how a postdoc application differs from other sorts of applications?

Join us for this panel -- all are welcome!

September 15
2:30-3:30pm ET

Register now!
www.wccclassics.org/events/apply...
Applying to Postdocs — THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)
Applying for postdocs (postdoctoral fellowships) and confused about what they are? Not sure how to craft a strong postdoc proposal or how a postdoc application differs from other sorts of applications...
www.wccclassics.org
September 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Welcome to the Summer 2025 edition of #Cloelia, the WCC’s quarterly newsletter devoted to keeping our membership up-to-date on our latest activities and initiatives!

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A New Cloelia: Issue 11 (Summer/Fall 2025)
A New Cloelia: Issue 11 (Summer/Fall 2025) Welcome to the Summer 2025 edition of Cloelia, the WCC’s quarterly newsletter devoted to keeping our membership up-to-date on the latest activities and in...
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August 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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The award for Outstanding Pre-PhD Paper Presentation goes to Jenny Weigel @jmweigel.bsky.social, a graduate student at Florida State, for her presentation “Breaking the Binary: Mirrors and Spears in Etruscan Tombs,” at the Annual Meeting of the AIA in January 2025.
August 18, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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The Barbara McManus Award for Outstanding Scholarship is awarded to Kassandra Miller, Assistant Professor at Colby College for her article, "Intentional Menstrual Suppression in Imperial Rome,” JRS 114 (2024): 27– 59.

Massive congratulations for this prestigious award, Kassi!
August 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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The WCC Leadership Award goes to Claire Catenaccio, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University.
August 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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The WCC Public Scholarship Award is given to Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Professor Emerita, Hamilton College.

See thread for award details!
August 18, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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The WCC Sharon L. James Mentorship Award goes to Alison Keith, University Professor and Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.

Read on for details of the award!
August 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Pop-up Workshop: Writing and Revising Abstracts

Are you planning to submit an abstract to the conference Feminism & Classics IX (due 9/12), CAMWS, the SCS, or another conference? If so, we have a great workshop for you!

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August 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Teaching beginning language students this year? Join me and @apistone.bsky.social for a conversation about how *hard* it is to teach ancient languages right now and what we can do about it.
womensclasscaucus.bsky.social Women's Classical Caucus @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social · Jul 21
The WCC invites you to the workshop, Why Are You Taking This Class? Student-Centered Strategies for First-Year Language Instruction, facilitated by @ellenleephd.bsky.social and @apistone.bsky.social

Register now! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...
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)
July 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Come hang out with us for this upcoming workshop (August 12)! It's led by the brilliant @ellenleephd.bsky.social (with me as her trusty sidekick) who is so smart and thoughtful about language pedagogy and I am so excited to learn from her!

Register here!
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womensclasscaucus.bsky.social Women's Classical Caucus @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social · Jul 21
The WCC invites you to the workshop, Why Are You Taking This Class? Student-Centered Strategies for First-Year Language Instruction, facilitated by @ellenleephd.bsky.social and @apistone.bsky.social

Register now! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...
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)
July 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Want to network with people in our field?

Want to make the most of the upcoming academic year and beyond?

Looking for community or guidance?

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August 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The WCC invites you to the workshop, An AI Workshop for People Who Hate AI, facilitated by @ellenleephd.bsky.social and @apistone.bsky.social

Thursday, August 7, 2025 - 1-3 PM ET
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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
July 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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The WCC invites you to the workshop, Why Are You Taking This Class? Student-Centered Strategies for First-Year Language Instruction, facilitated by @ellenleephd.bsky.social and @apistone.bsky.social

Register now! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...
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)
July 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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WCC paper prize nominations are due JULY 1!!!

Don't forget to get your nominations in for the Barbara McManus Award for Outstanding Scholarship and the Pre-PhD Paper Presentation

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June 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The Women’s Classical Caucus and Trans in Classics invite you to participate in a jointly hosted Reading Group, The Third Sex in Antiquity: Intersections of Trans Studies and Classics, on Wednesday, July 16, 4:00-5:00 PM ET.

Register here: www.wccclassics.org/events/wccti...
June 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Thinking about applying to Feminism and Classics (you should be!!) and want some tips and advice on how to write a great abstract? Join us on July 7th for an Abstracts 101 workshop -- 3:30-5pm ET, register now!

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June 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The Women’s Classical Caucus and Lambda Classical Caucus invite you to participate in a jointly hosted Reading Group featuring the 2024-25 paper prize winners. We will meet virtually to discuss these two articles on Thursday 12 June 4:00-5:00 PM ET.

Register here: www.wccclassics.org/events
May 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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WCC Virtual Conference: Embodying Women’s Colonial Experiences
February 28, 2025

Full conference info available here!
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WCC Virtual Conference: Embodying Women's Colonial Experiences Date: Friday 28 February 2025, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Eastern Organizers: Savannah Sather Marquardt and Maddelena Scarperi Keynote Speaker: Giulia Saltini Semerari, University of Michigan Description: This virtual conference seeks investigations of the woman’s body (broadly defined) and embodied experiences of womanhood in ancient Mediterranean 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. How did ancient (“indigenous”) women challenge naturalized Greco-Roman notions of the feminine body and re-shape the articulations of womanhood? How has the role of women in colonial contexts been represented, silenced, erased or marginalized in the extant evidence and in modern scholarship? How and under which conditions can the bod(il)y (of) experiences of these women be recovered, reassembled, or re-membered? Conference website: registration, program and abstracts: https://www.wccclassics.org/wcc-virtual-conference-2025
February 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Heading to the AIA/SCS? Are you a grad student? Drink some water and get some electrolytes in you so you can recover from New Year's Eve and join us for the LCC/WCC grad student happy hour -- Friday 1/3- 9-10pm -- one free drink for attendees while supplies last!
January 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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WCC Mentorship presents Conferencing 101! Thursday, December 12, 2024, 12-1:30 PM ET

Are you going to a conference soon and want a refresher on best practices? Do you have questions or want to demystify the conference experience? Register here: www.wccclassics.org/events
Conferencing — THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)
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November 20, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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Important time change!! Due to a little time zone confusion, this was set up for the wrong time. Our Negotiating a Job Offer event will be taking place at *7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific*! We hope you can join us (it's not too late to register!) but also the event will be recorded!
womensclasscaucus.bsky.social Women's Classical Caucus @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social · Oct 21
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 -- Register here! women39sclassicalcaucus.wildapricot.org/event-5913859
November 4, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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Call for papers | Ancient Mothers and Motherhood: representations, practices and reappropriations. From Antiquity to the present day @ama-mater.bsky.social
📆 Abstract submission deadline: 20 December 2024
🏛️ Congress, 11-13 june, Lille (France)
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October 24, 2024 at 1:57 PM