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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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New event alert! Conferencing 201: From Abstract to Presentation
Tuesday, Feb. 24 on Zoom, 3:00 - 4:15 PM (ET)

Congratulations on having your abstract accepted for a conference! Now what?

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February 8, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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Call for applications for Teaching Ancient in a Digital Age, an NEH funded institute for higher education faculty (May–October 2026; wp.wwu.edu/tada/)

This exciting institute aims to expand data and digital literacy among educators in the fields of ancient Mediterranean studies!
TADA – TEACHING ANCIENT IN A DIGITAL AGE
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January 25, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Scenes from the opening night reception!
January 8, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Reupping this because it's almost #AIASCS time! We hope to see you at all our great events!
womensclasscaucus.bsky.social Women's Classical Caucus @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social · Dec 31
Join us at the AIA/SCS for the opening night reception, co-sponsored with COGSIP and the LCC!

Costume theme: The Writing’s on the Wall: Street Art from Pompeii to the Mission District

Full listing of the WCC events at the SCS/AIA is available here! www.wccclassics.org/scs-annual-m...
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.
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Join us at the AIA/SCS for the opening night reception, co-sponsored with COGSIP and the LCC!

Costume theme: The Writing’s on the Wall: Street Art from Pompeii to the Mission District

Full listing of the WCC events at the SCS/AIA is available here! www.wccclassics.org/scs-annual-m...
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.
December 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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In advance of the annual #AIASCS meetings, our latest episode of Cloelia is available!

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A New Cloelia: Issue 12 (Winter 2025/2026)
A New Cloelia: Issue 12 (Winter 2025/2026) Welcome to the Winter 2025/2026 edition of Cloelia, the WCC’s quarterly newsletter devoted to keeping our membership up-to-date on the latest activities a...
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December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Just in time for the AIA/SCS, please join the WCC Mentorship Community for Conferencing 101!

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.

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Pop-Up Event: Conferencing 101 — THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)
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? If so, the WCC Mentorship Team invites you to a pop-up ...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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WCC Call for Abstracts for the 2027 SCS/AIA Meeting!!

Abstracts due by Feb. 15, 2026
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…
December 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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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!
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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...
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
Register here! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...
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