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Registration is now open for this year's #LatinPedagogyWorkshop!

Join us in person or online December 5 for Back to the Fundamenta: Strengthening Latin Student Skills!

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SAVE THE DATE! Latin Pedagogy Workshop 2025. Back to the Fundamenta: Strengthening Latin Student Skills. When: Friday, December 5, 2025. Where: Lake Forest High School. West (Administrative) Campus. 300 South Waukegan Road, Lake Forest. Sponsored by the Illinois Classical Conference. More information at http://tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshopIL/. CPDUs available for credit toward ISBE Educator Licensure. Registration at http://tinyurl.com/2025LatinPedagogyWorkshop/.
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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A belated congratulations to the recipients of our yearly awards!

Claire Jolicouer, Farrand Baker Latin Teacher of the Year
Stephanie Quinn, Lifetime Achievement Award winner

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Claire Jolicouer and Yoandy Cabrera-Ortega. Stephanie Quinn and Yoandy Cabrera-Ortega.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Join us starting tonight for the annual fall meeting in Lincolnshire, IL. On-site registration available!
Talks include keynote by @kataplexis.bsky.social & papers by @vickyausten.bsky.social @magistracohen.bsky.social @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social & many more IL classicists!

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Program for meeting at https://illinoisclassics.weebly.com/uploads/9/3/8/1/93817632/2025_icc_program.pdf . Program for meeting at https://illinoisclassics.weebly.com/uploads/9/3/8/1/93817632/2025_icc_program.pdf . Program for meeting at https://illinoisclassics.weebly.com/uploads/9/3/8/1/93817632/2025_icc_program.pdf . Program for meeting at https://illinoisclassics.weebly.com/uploads/9/3/8/1/93817632/2025_icc_program.pdf .
October 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Rhetoric and Poetics Spring 2025 Schedule
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Rhetoric and Poetics workshop schedule for the spring. Unless otherwise noted, all workshops are held from 3.30 pm to approximately 5 pm in Classics 21. Thursday, Mar 27: Jonah Radding (University of Chicago) “A Megarian walks into the agora: performing ethnicity for Aristophanes” Thursday, April 10: Jane Gordon (University of Chicago) “Uprooted trees, molded clay, and buried tablets: the matter of time in Babylonian narrative poetry" Tuesday, April 29*: Benjamin Folit-Weinberg (Ohio State University) “The path of song (and its variants) in Homer, Pindar, and Parmenides" (note the unusual day of the week) Thursday, May 8: Sarah Derbew (Stanford University, visiting scholar at University of Chicago) “Horizontal reading practices in Greek and Ethiopian satire” (In collaboration with the African Studies Workshop) Thursday, May 15*: Isabella Spaguolo (University of Chicago) “Embodied circularity in Virgil’s Georgics” (Co-sponsored with the Theater and Performance Studies Workshop) Note that this event will be held in Logan Center and starts at 4.30pm. Thursday, May 22: Arshy Azizi (University of Chicago) “Writing for the ear: Erotokritos and the paradox of oral-literate poetics".
March 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Congratulations to our Vice President Krishni Burns, winner of one of this year's CAMWS Ovatio Awards!

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Krishni Burns holding her Ovatio, surrounded by anonymized students. The Ovatio.
March 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Call for Papers for the 2025 Illinois Classical Conference Annual Fall Meeting. Please forward to all interested.

Full text of call: drive.google.com/file/d/1plCJ...

Google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Alt submission route (pdf): drive.google.com/file/d/12ejQ...

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Call for Papers. Illinois Classical Conference Annual Meeting. October 17-19, 2025 Adlai Stevenson High School. The Illinois Classical Conference seeks proposals for its annual conference, to be held at Adlai Stevenson High School, from October 17-19, 2025 (while there will be a reception on Friday, Oct. 17, the program will not start until the morning of Saturday, Oct. 18). There is no single theme for the annual meeting, and we encourage submissions related to all aspects of pedagogy, scholarship, and/or other practice of Latin or Classics. We particularly invite, though, presentations that engage with matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the fields of Latin and Classics. As Pliny the Younger’s writings will be introduced to the AP Curriculum this year, we would also like to encourage submission relating to Pliny’s letters, both scholarly and pedagogical. Speakers, through the years, have been from all backgrounds (educators, non-educators, Classics enthusiasts, students) and from all levels (kindergarten through university), and topics may appeal to any or all of those constituencies as well. Whatever their topic, presenters should aim to meet the high standard of quality we have seen in the past by offering presentations that are engaging, enlightening, and focused. Proposals are being accepted in two formats: Paper: traditional talk, 15-20 minutes Workshop: interactive presentation, 30-40 minutes. Please contact Krishni Burns (ksburns@uic.edu) with any questions. To present your work for consideration, please complete this Google Form <link in post> and submit it by July 7, 2025, or complete the alternate form given on the next page. Submissions will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis. Other submission options are given on the next page. The Illinois Classical Conference was established in 1937 and has enjoyed a robust membership every year since (including presidents emeriti Farrand Baker, Bernice Fox, and Tom Sienkewicz). Our membership is a dedicated mix of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary educators who are interested in a wide variety of topics related to history, culture, mythology, and pedagogy. The ICC draws its membership from Latin and Classics programs across the state at the elementary, middle, high school, and college/university levels. Among a range of services it offers, the ICC supports a Certamen league, the Illinois Junior Classical League, the Illinois Latin Tournament, and the Latin Pedagogy Workshop, and its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is conducting an assessment of texts currently in publication for secondary school use.
February 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Deadline to submit a proposal for the ACL Institute at Loyola University Chicago in June is Friday!
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This is a reminder that the deadline (January 17) for proposals for the ACL Institute is fast approaching. The Loyola University campus promises to be a great experience for learning, networking, and celebrating. https://docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/e/1FAIpQLScJ0NXj9bCaAQQmDmswsHNOfwjSOuVhMyv-6T-pyRJEEpjn7Q/viewform
January 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Congratulations to our award winners!

Farrand Baker Teacher of the Year
Alisha McCloud, Hinsdale Central HS

Career Achievement
Marcene Farley, Pekin HS
Vicki Wine, Monmouth & Blackhawk Colleges

Special Service
Karl Johnson, Monmouth-Roseville HS

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Baker Latin Teacher of the Year Alisha McCloud and outgoing ICC President Robert Holschuh Simmons. Marcene Farley and Tom Sienkewicz Vicki Wine and Tom Sienkewicz Karl Johnson and Vicki Wine
November 10, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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For a comprehensive list of IL Schools with Classics programs: tinyurl.com/illinoisschoolswithclassics

Please send any updates to nrscohen@gmail.com
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October 28, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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Register for this year's #LatinPedagogyWorkshop "Docendo discimus: AI Tools in the Latin Classroom for Teachers & Students" by Nov. 11!
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Taking place @ Lake Forest West Campus (Google meet also available!)
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SAVE THE DATE! Latin Pedagogy Workshop 2024 Docendo discimus: AI Tools in the Latin Classroom for Teachers and Students When: Friday, December 6, 2024 Where: Lake Forest High School West (Administrative) Campus Sponsored by the Illinois Classical Conference More information at http://tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshop CPDUs available for credit toward ISBE Educator Licensure. Schedule. See tinyurl.com/latinpedagogyworkshop for details.
October 27, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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We are looking forward to gathering this weekend at Monmouth College for our fall meeting!
Program: drive.google.com/file/d/1krPK...

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Annual Meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference November 1-3, 2024 ICC logo at the invitation of Monmouth College Robert Holschuh Simmons, Local Host
October 27, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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The schedule is now available for for the Dec. 1, 2023 ICC/NLU LatinPedagogyWorkshop

Register at tinyurl.com/2023LatinPedagogyWorkshop

More info at tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshop

Join us in person at NLU Wheeling or on Zoom!
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Schedule for the Latin Pedagogy Workshop. Details on website linked in post.
October 4, 2023 at 1:50 AM
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Registration is now open for the Dec. 1, 2023 ICC/NLU LatinPedagogyWorkshop!

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Join us in person at National Louis University's Wheeling Campus or on Zoom!
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Latin Pedagogy Workshop 2023 Differentiation in the Latin Classroom: Latin for Everyone When: Friday, December 1, 2023 Where: National Louis University Wheeling Campus and over Zoom Sponsored by National Louis University and the Illinois Classical Conference More information at http://tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshop CPDUs available for credit toward ISBE Educator Licensure. Registration at http://tinyurl.com/2023LatinPedagogyWorkshop
October 3, 2023 at 2:24 AM
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Registration is now open for the annual fall meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference, October 20-21 at UIC.

Program to follow.

Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration details. See link in skeet. ICC logo
September 20, 2023 at 1:07 AM
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For a comprehensive list of IL Schools with Classics programs: tinyurl.com/illinoisschool…

Please send any updates to nrscohen@gmail.com
tiny url dot com slash Illinois schools with classics
August 27, 2023 at 2:10 AM