tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39278938595695498882024-03-05T06:31:52.158-06:00Iris of the LCCDr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-42734457399431133122016-01-07T12:48:00.001-06:002016-01-07T12:48:14.994-06:00Blog retiredThis blog is no longer being updated but has been left accessible for archival purposes. Please see our website (http://www.lambdacc.org) or our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Lambda-Classical-Caucus-303175296470199/) for new content. Thank you!Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-74481677124622212562014-09-25T13:28:00.000-05:002014-09-25T13:28:07.579-05:00call for nominations: LCC activism award<span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">LCC Activism Award:</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">The LCC's mission statement declares, "the purpose of the Caucus is twofold: scholarly and political."</span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">If our scholarly purpose is (in brief) to support queer scholarship, our political purpose is (in brief) </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">to support queer politics. In the 23 years since the Caucus was founded, we have done an increasingly </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">successful job in fulfilling the former purpose, both by organizing panels and by offering awards for </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">scholarly work. Our political purpose has, by contrast, been confined to the valuable yet limited role </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">of providing queer scholars with the support of a like-minded community.</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">In order to redress this imbalance, at the LCC meeting in Seattle in January 2013 the members voted to </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">institute an Activism Award of $100, to be given either annually or as often as a fitting nominee is </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">presented. The award is intended to honor an LCC member who has worked to promote the rights and </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">well-being of sexual minorities in ways that go beyond the usual academic missions of teaching and </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">scholarship. Such work should have taken place at any time within the past five years, and might include </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">(without being limited to) any of the following:</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">-Volunteering with, or advising, college or community groups</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">-Working for political initiatives, causes, or candidates (locally or nationally)</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">-Engaging in public advocacy (e.g. through op-eds, letters to the editor, blogs, websites, or social </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">media)</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">-Organizing and/or participating in protests or other forms of resistance to hate and oppression</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">The nomination process is extremely simple. Send either of the co-chairs, or the treasurer, the name of </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">the person who deserves such recognition, with a very brief description of the reason (e.g. the name of </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">the organization for which they have worked). We will then contact the nominee for more details. </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">Self-nominations are encouraged, but since we are hoping to reach the unsung heroes among us, we urge </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">you to nominate those who may be too modest to identify themselves. Nominations will be accepted </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">throughout the year, but for recognition at the APA they should be received by October 31st in the </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">preceding year. Unsuccessful nominations will remain on file for consideration in subsequent years.</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">The current cochairs are Deb Kamen (</span><a href="mailto:dkamen@uw.edu" style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">dkamen@uw.edu</a><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">) and Mark Masterson (</span><a href="mailto:Mark.Masterson@vuw.ac.nz" style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">Mark.Masterson@vuw.ac.nz</a><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">). The </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">current treasurer is Jorge Bravo (</span><a href="mailto:jbravo@umd.edu" style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">jbravo@umd.edu</a><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">).</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">Award Recipients</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">2014 Ruby Blondell was awarded the first-ever LCC Activism Award for being a tireless member of the </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">organization since its foundation and for supporting and promoting LGBT rights outside the context of </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">the organization.</span>Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-67652776242680935962014-09-23T12:45:00.005-05:002014-09-23T12:45:48.662-05:00call for nominations: Rehak and Grad Student Awards<span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">Please consider nominating or self-nominating a paper for the following two awards! Due date for both is *October 31, 2014*.</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">1. Rehak Award</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">The Rehak Award, named in memory of former LCC co-chair Paul Rehak (1954-2004), honors the excellence of a publication relating to the LCC's mission, including, but not limited to, homosocial and homoerotic relationships and environments, ancient sexuality and gender roles, and representation of the gendered body. The range of eligible work covers the breadth of ancient Mediterranean society, from prehistory to late antiquity, and the various approaches of classicists drawing on textual and material culture.</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">Articles and book chapters from monographs or edited volumes, published in the past three years (i.e 2012, 2013, 2014) are eligible. Self-nominations are welcome; the nomination and selection process is confidential. Membership in the Caucus is not required, nor is any specific rank or affiliation.</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">Nominations should be made by October 31, 2014 to LCC co-chair, Deborah Kamen <</span><a href="mailto:dkamen@u.washington.edu" style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">dkamen@u.washington.edu</a><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">>. Please provide full bibliographic information, a copy of the text, and/or contact information for the nominee. The award will be announced at the opening night reception of the SCS/AIA meeting in New Orleans.</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">2. Graduate Student Paper Award</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">Lambda's new award is designed to encourage and reward scholarship by pre-Ph.D. scholars on issues related to the LCC’s mission, including, but not limited to: homosocial and homoerotic relationships and environments, ancient sexuality and gender roles, representations of the gendered body, and queer theory.</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">We ask for nominations of oral papers presented by a pre-Ph.D. scholar at a conference (including, but not limited to the SCS/AIA and CAMWS) from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014 (ca. 20 minutes in length as delivered). To nominate a paper, e-mail LCC co-chair Deborah Kamen <</span><a href="mailto:dkamen@u.washington.edu" style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">dkamen@u.washington.edu</a><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">> with the presenter’s name and email address and the title of the paper. Self-nominations are encouraged; information related to nominations is confidential. Membership in the Caucus is not required to be</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">eligible for these awards.</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">Nominations accepted until October 31, 2014. The winner will be announced at the 2015 WCC-LCC opening night reception at the SCS/AIA.</span>Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-43030173772705680202014-09-23T12:45:00.001-05:002014-09-23T12:45:05.018-05:00Graduate student travel to SCS/AIA<span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">If you're a graduate student member of the LCC and will be delivering a paper at the 2015 SCS/AIA conference, you might consider applying for an LCC Graduate Student Travel Award!</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">To apply for the $150 award, students must detail their involvement in the LCC and its mission; demonstrate their financial need; and provide the title of the paper they will be delivering at the SCS/AIA. Recipients of the travel award will be expected to provide a brief report on their use of the award.</span><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">Applications should be submitted to LCC Co-Chairs Deborah Kamen (</span><a href="mailto:dkamen@uw.edu" style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">dkamen@uw.edu</a><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">) and Mark Masterson (</span><a href="mailto:Mark.Masterson@vuw.ac.nz" style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">Mark.Masterson@vuw.ac.nz</a><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 18px;">) by *October 31, 2014*.</span>Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-58411109095767399062014-09-14T13:57:00.001-05:002014-09-14T14:00:24.656-05:00Book Review, Blood on King<div class="MsoNormal">
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One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence. </i>Burlington:
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Helen King’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence </i>is as
fascinating as it is formidable—not to mention engaging and informative in
shedding light on both less familiar primary texts and the ins-and-outs of
recent scholarly debates. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the introduction, “Making Sense of Making Sex,” Professor
King announces the book’s aim: “I want to put [Thomas Laqueur’s
1990 book] <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Making Sex</i> on trial,
presenting evidence from the periods with which I have worked most closely: the
classical world and early modern Europe” (1), because “the model of body
history presented in this book is misleading in many ways yet, to date, none of
the many challenges made to it has dented its popularity” (1). The model in question
is Laqueur’s one-body thesis, i.e., in antiquity, female and male bodies were
understood to be different versions of the same thing, males with external
genitals, females with the same genitals located inside, but that gradually in
modernity the one-body model was replaced by a two-body model, in which female and
male bodies began to be seen as fundamentally different from one another. Laqueur’s
work is surely familiar to most anyone who studies ancient sexuality. Laqueur’s
book was published the same year as David Halperin’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love</i>
and J. J. Winkler’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Constraints of
Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece</i>, and while it
was not as explicitly concerned with ancient same-sex phenomena as the other
two, it was part of an important moment in classics scholarship, when the study
of ancient sex and gender went legit. The problem, as King sees it, is that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks
to Freud </i>is “unhelpful” for ancient texts (iv) because it omits too many
sources, displays a “lack of care” for the ancient sources it does treat (xi), ultimately
turns out to be incorrect in its conclusions about the eighteenth century
(223), and yet remains seemingly unassailable even after 25 years of
contestation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those who decry a publishing climate rife with companions
and guidebooks and very easy introductions will welcome <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The One-Sex Body on Trial</i>. There is nothing introductory about it,
and the care and detail with which King discusses and documents every stage of
her argument is formidable. This is not a page-turner. This is not a book one
picks up and cannot put down, or finishes in a day. It is a book to be read
slowly, and reread carefully. There are no bullet points, text boxes, meta-summations,
or outcomes. Readers have to want this book. And I loved it. Most especially,
the detail with which King reviews academic debates is impressive; no stone is
left unturned and few readers, I imagine, would not be swayed. At the same
time, such a dense book can be difficult to review accurately and fairly; no
matter what I say, I’d be leaving too much out. Thus, here I won’t even try to
be exhaustive or to do justice to King’s argument. Rather, I hope to give
readers a mere taste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the material goes comfortably from Herophilus and
Artemidorus to the contemporary reception of Agnodice as a transgender role
model in Switzerland (148), the argument unfolds along two main threads. First,
a history of the body that takes into account sources in the history of
medicine that discuss whether female and male bodies are fundamentally the same
or fundamentally different. Spoiler Alert: King finds that once one telescopes
beyond the limited texts with which Laqueur engaged, the evidence from all eras
is far less conclusive than Laqueur’s account suggests. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">King focuses her discussion around two figures, Phaethousa and
Agnodice. Phaethousa was born and lived as a woman, she stopped menstruating
after her husband was exiled, and her body mysteriously masculinized in his
absence. As Hippocrates records in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Epidemics</i>,
her voice deepened, her body took on masculine features, she became hirsute,
and she died a short time later. King asks whether Phaethousa represents “a
‘woman’ becoming a ‘man’…or simply the late emergence of the ‘true sex’?”
(73-4). Agnodice, according to Hyginus, was a female gynecologist and/or
midwife who’d disguised herself as a man to study and practice medicine, thus
embodying questions of gender identity and gender expression as well as the
gendering of medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">King analyzes ancient discussions in their original contexts
in order to show that in antiquity, the one-body model was hardly prevalent,
even in the authors Laqueur favors, and then that Laqueur’s own engagement with
ancient materials was limited. Next, King traces the reception of these texts
in Europe from the sixteenth century onward, thereby greatly complicating Laqueur’s
picture of the early-modern and modern eras. King’s argument will be especially
interesting to scholars who study the history of non-conforming gender
expression and gender identity in the ancient world, as King focuses on texts
that may be unfamiliar to those who work within the tradition of (pro or
contra) Foucauldian scholarship. Readers who work in Reception Studies will
especially enjoy King’s rigorous discussion of uncommon texts in early-modern
European medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The second thread is the critique of Laqueur and his book’s
reception. Initially, this is the book’s focus, but as King delves into a
textured and nuanced alternate history of the body, a critique of Laqueur
becomes the subtext. Some readers will enjoy the ways in which King charts the
incremental progression of scholarly debates over the decades. Indeed, I wish I
had had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The One-Sex Body on Trial </i>at
the start of my own graduate studies because it provides an invigorating study of
the rhizomatic complexity of one field’s discourse over several decades. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I first read the preface and introduction, I was
fretful. A book that sets out to put another book “on trial” seems like the
kind of project that could end badly, a kind of resentment-driven reverse-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">festschrift</i>. In lesser hands, it could
have. But King’s treatment is so sure and so concise and so engaging, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The One-Sex Body on Trial</i> is a pleasure
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Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-55828310415961537202014-01-18T15:28:00.001-06:002014-01-18T15:28:26.477-06:00The John J. Winkler Memorial PrizeThe John J. Winkler Memorial Trust invites all undergraduate and graduate students in North America (plus those currently unenrolled who have not as yet received a doctorate and who have never held a regular academic appointment) to enter the twentieth competition for the John J. Winkler memorial prize. This year the Prize will be a cash award of $1500, which may be split if more than one winner is chosen.<br /><br />The Prize is intended to honor the memory of John J. ("Jack") Winkler, a classical scholar, teacher, and political activist for radical causes both within and outside the academy, who died of AIDS in 1990 at the age of 46. Jack believed that the profession as a whole discourages young scholars from exploring neglected or disreputable topics, and from applying unconventional or innovative methods to their scholarship. He wished to be remembered by means of an annual Prize that would encourage such efforts. In accordance with his wishes, the John J. Winkler Memorial trust awards a cash prize each year to the author of the best undergraduate or graduate essay in any risky or marginal field of classical studies. Topics include (but are not limited to) those that Jack himself explored: the ancient novel, the sex/gender systems of antiquity, the social meanings of Greek drama, and ancient Mediterranean culture and society. Approaches include (but are not limited to) those that Jack's own work exemplified: feminism, anthropology, narratology, semiotics, cultural studies, ethnic studies, and lesbian/gay studies.<br /><br />The 2014 Winkler Prize Competition<br /><br />The winner of the 2014 Prize will be selected from among the contestants by a jury of four, as yet to be determined.<br /><br />The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2014. Essays should not exceed the length of 30 pages, including notes but excluding bibliography and illustrations or figures. Text should be double-spaced; notes may be single-spaced. Electronic submission is required. Essays should be submitted in MS Word or .pdf format. Please include an email with your essay in which you provide the following information: your college/university, your department or program of study, whether you are a graduate or undergraduate, your email and regular mail addresses, a phone number where you can be reached in May of 2014, and the title of your work. Please note: Essays containing quotations in original Greek must be sent in PDF format, due to difficulties reading different Greek fonts and keyboarding programs.<br /><br />The Prize is intended to encourage new work rather than to recognize scholarship that has already proven itself in more traditional venues. Essays submitted for the prize should not, therefore, be previously published or accepted for publication. Exceptions to this rule may be made in the case of the publication of conference proceedings, at the discretion of the prize administrator. The Trust reserves the right not to confer the Prize in any year in which the essays submitted to the competition are judged insufficiently prizeworthy.<br /><br />Contestants may send their essays and address any inquiries to: Kirk Ormand, Dept. of Classics, Oberlin College; kirk.ormand@oberlin.edu.<br /><br />The John J. Winkler memorial Trust was established as an independent, charitable foundation on June 1, 1990. Its purpose is to honor Jack Winkler's memory and to promote both his scholarly and his political ideals. Inquiries about the Prize, tax-deductible gifts to the Trust, and general correspondence may be addressed to: Kirk Ormand, John. J. Winkler Memorial Trust, Dept. of Classics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074.Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-85970872026294646302014-01-15T11:36:00.001-06:002014-01-15T11:36:40.708-06:00Congratulations to our 2014 LCC Award winners!Paul Rehak Award for published scholarship: Holt Parker, "Sex, Popular Beliefs, and Culture," in A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World, ed. Peter Toohey and Mark Golden. Oxford: 2011. 125-44.<br /><br />Graduate Student Award for an oral paper: Mira Green, "Witnesses and Participants in the Shadows: The Sexual Lives of Enslaved Women and Boys in Ancient Rome" (APA 2013) (Abstract: http://apaclassics.org/annual-meeting/642green )<br /><br />Activism Award: Ruby Blondell. Ruby was awarded the first-ever LCC Activism Award for being a tireless member of the organization since its foundation and for supporting and promoting LGBT rights outside the context of the organization.Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-38198756864050118092014-01-09T10:47:00.002-06:002014-01-09T10:47:29.237-06:00Report on the Lambda Classical Caucus Panel, “Stifling Sexuality,” at the 2014 APA
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The Lambda
Classical Caucus Panel at the American Philological Association Meeting in
Chicago was on Sunday, January 5, at the decidedly early hour of 8:00 AM. Bruce
Frier (University of Michigan) and Mark Masterson (Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand), the organizers of the panel of five, were in
attendance. Frier ran the session and Masterson made 15 minutes of introductory
remarks to prime the audience. The panellists then addressed the topic of
informal modes of stifling sexual activity in the ancient world (as opposed to
formal means like laws, e.g., the <i>Leges Iuliae</i>). One of the most
interesting things about the work of the panellists, though surely not the only
thing, was the way in which each of them approached the topic and their
evidence, with the fifth panellist even “going meta” on the call for papers.</span></span></span></div>
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Panoussi (</span><span lang="EN-NZ">College of William & Mary</span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">) was up first with “<i>Stupra et Caedes</i></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">: Homosexuality, Women’s Rituals, and the State in Livy’s Bacchanalian
Narrative.” She identified a rift in Roman society in the matter of sex between
males: evidently not all felt it was the worst thing ever. The lack of stifling
then called forth an overwhelming response from the Roman state. Livy’s
narrative surely casts an interesting light on Augustan Rome. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ">“Mature <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Praeceptor Amoris</i> Seeks Tops (Discreet):
Desire and Deniability in Tibullus 1.4” by </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Robert
Matera (</span><span lang="EN-NZ">University of Southern California</span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">) </span><span lang="EN-NZ">was next. This paper teased out the way the poetic
voice in the elegy engages in double-speak. In language that is ambiguous at
one particular moment in the poem, the poet apparently offers his services as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">praeceptor </i>and/or his anus for
penetration. Matera suggested that the fact that the meaning is double means
that there is plausible deniability, and this deniability is evidence both of the
regime dedicated to stifling passive male sexuality and of a position
contesting this regime at the same time. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ">In the third
paper, “The Art of Not Loving,” E. Del Chrol (Marshall University) looked at
the activities of a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">praeceptor </i>who
could hardly be more different from Tibullus. Perceiving in Ovid’s advice to
would-be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">amatores</i> both anxiety about
the power of love to attenuate masculine mastery and a belief that true love is
a veritable disease, Chrol suggested that there is a strong undercurrent of discouragement
of love and desire in Ovid. Chrol substantiated his observations by a resort to
the association of erotic passion with illness in poetry, the novels, and curse
tablets. Ovid on Chrol’s reading wants to stifle all sexuality. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ">In “Sex and Homosexuality
in Suetonius’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Caesares</i>,” Molly M.
Pryzwansky (North Carolina State University) proposed that the hostility to sex
between males that scholars have been liable to see in Suetonius’ lives of the
rulers of Rome has been overplayed. Suetonius was more concerned about the
abuse of subordinates, or about a lack of concern for hierarchy in and through
sex, than he was about the kind of sex emperors were having. Taking on
Pryzwansky’s arguments, we see evidence of a lack of investment in the stifling
that we are often told was of such great importance to the ancients; another
rift was revealed in her paper. (This paper was read by </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Brett M. Rogers [University of Puget Sound], as
Pryzwansky was not able to attend due to the weather.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="mso-fareast-font-family: GulimChe;">H. Christian Blood (</span><span lang="EN-NZ">Yonsei University, South Korea</span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="mso-fareast-font-family: GulimChe;">) “went meta” on the call
for papers in his offering for the panel: </span><span lang="EN-NZ">“Stifling
‘Scare Figures.’” Looking at the sweep of antiquity in his broad position
paper, Blood suggested that in looking at the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kinaidos</i>/<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cinaedus</i> we
should not focus exclusively on the notion of a man cross-dressing and allowing
penetration. Blood counselled starting (at least some of the time) from an idea
of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kinaidos</i>/<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cinaedus</i> as a person who in the first place considers herself a
woman, even though she possesses male genitalia. This paper was a strong
recommendation that Classicists engage more with current theoretical
investigations of transgenderism to envision a “trans-antiquity.” The paper’s
title was playful, and this is where the “meta” part was abundantly showcased.
Referring to John Winkler’s influential idea of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kinaidos</i> as a “scare figure,” Blood proposed that Winkler’s idea
has been stifling and delaying an engagement with transgender theory, that
sexuality as a concept has been doing the same thing, and, finally, that it
might be time to stifle this scare figure itself. </span></div>
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engaged and there were good questions from them and from the panellists. There
were more questions and comments out there than could be accommodated. Discussion
surely could have gone on for an hour.<span lang="EN-NZ" style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></div>
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Lambda Classical
Caucus Panel, <span style="color: black;">American Philological Association</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">New Orleans, January 8-11, 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Organizers: Ruby Blondell (blondell@uw.edu) and Kate Topper
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Humor and sex have walked hand in
hand since time immemorial. For this panel, we invite submissions on the many
manifestations of this relationship in the ancient world, with a specific focus
on intersections between humor and homoeroticism. Abstracts related to any
aspect of this theme are encouraged from all areas of classical studies. </div>
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We are interested in questions of
definition, and the application of comic theory to the ancient world. Why is
sex such a prominent theme for humor? What <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">counts</i>
as humorous, and how do we identify it, especially in cultures so distant in
time and space from our own? What “work” did sexual humor do for the Greeks and
Romans – did it challenge conventional approaches to sexuality, did it
reinforce these approaches, or could it do both? Is comedy inherently hostile
towards its subjects, or can it be celebratory? Is homoerotic humor ever used
at the expense of heteroeroticism? What modern approaches have helped to
advance our understanding of sex and humor in the ancient world? How about
ancient theories (e.g. Aristotle)? </div>
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We also welcome analysis of
specific texts and artifacts. While Greek and Roman comedy provide an obvious and
valuable resource, we encourage submissions on a wide range of genres and forms
of evidence. Sexual humor features in the full spectrum of Greek and Latin
texts, from oratory (with its comic invective), to lyric poetry (with its
sexual innuendo and obscenity), to satirical prose and verse (Juvenal,
Petronius, Lucian), and even philosophy (which features, notably, the
humorously homoerotic persona of Socrates). In keeping with the traditions of
the LCC, we also hope to include papers dealing with material evidence, such as
painting, graffiti or mosaics. Abstracts might address, for example, the visual
humor of the Eurymedon vase or of erotic wall-paintings at Pompeii. Other
suitable themes include<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>intersections between visual and textual sources, the role of sexual
humor in cultural institutions (such as religious cult), and the comic
reception of ancient homoeroticism. Papers might also draw attention to evidence
that remains underexplored or deserves a second look.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Abstracts,
of 650 words or less, are due by March 10, 2014. Do not identify yourself
in any way in the abstract itself, and please do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> send it to the organizers. It should be sent as an email
attachment to Jorge Bravo (jbravo@umd.edu), who will forward it to the
organizers in anonymous form. Please follow the APA's formatting guidelines for
individual abstracts (http://www.apaclassics.org/index.php/annual_meeting/abstract_instructions/guidelines_for_authors_of_abstracts).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The LCC's mission
statement declares, "the purpose of the Caucus is twofold: scholarly and
political." If our scholarly purpose is (in brief) to support queer
scholarship, our political purpose is (in brief) to support queer politics. In
the 23 years since the Caucus was founded, we have done an increasingly
successful job in fulfilling the former purpose, both by organizing panels and
by offering awards for scholarly work. Our political purpose has, by contrast,
been confined to the valuable yet limited role of providing queer scholars with
the support of a like-minded community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In order to redress
this imbalance, at the LCC meeting in Seattle in January 2013 the members voted
to institute an Activism Award of $100, to be given either annually or as often
as a fitting nominee is presented. The award is intended to honor an LCC member
who has worked to promote the rights and well-being of sexual minorities in
ways that go beyond the usual academic missions of teaching and scholarship.
Such work should have taken place at any time within the past five years, and might
include (without being limited to) any of the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-- Volunteering with,
or advising, college or community groups</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-- Working for
political initiatives, causes, or candidates (locally or nationally)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-- Engaging in public
advocacy (e.g. through op-eds, letters to the editor, blogs, websites, or social
media)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-- Organizing and/or
participating in protests or other forms of resistance to hate and oppression</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The nomination process
is extremely simple. Send either of the co-chairs, or the treasurer, the name
of the person who deserves such recognition, with a very brief description of
the reason (e.g. the name of the organization for which they have worked). We
will then contact the nominee for more details. All LCC members are eligible, including students and other non-paying members. Self-nominations are
encouraged, but since we are hoping to reach the unsung heroes among us, we
urge you to nominate those who may be too modest to identify themselves. Please note that nominators need not themselves be members of the LCC. Nominations
will be accepted throughout the year, but for recognition at the APA they
should be received by October 31st in the preceding year. Unsuccessful
nominations will remain on file for consideration in subsequent years.</span></div>
Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-53387784287639427692013-02-09T15:26:00.001-06:002013-02-09T15:26:46.467-06:00Subject: LCC Panel Call for Papers: DEADLINE EXTENDED!The Lambda Classical Caucus CFP for the 2014 APA/AIA meetings in Chicago has been extended until March 17, the date that the WCC is also using. The Chicago LCC panel topic, which is presented in full below, is an attractive one: how cultural and social efforts to maintain sexual "morality" can often fail, either by falling flat or even by attracting newcomers to "vice." Some of us will remember the 1962 movie Advise and Consent, in which a naive young Senator was inveigled into entering an underground gay bar in Washington; the bar was preposterously stereotyped as a "den of iniquity," but tens of thousands of closeted gay men got their very first sight of such a "den" and they never looked back. Similar effects are sure to have been common also in antiquity. Were Petronius' readers necessarily all that revolted by the Priapic hijinks in Quartilla's country home? And how would such titillated readers read, say, an epic, whose generic law demanded decorum that stifled sexual expression? Did such decorum rule reception?<br /><br />Stifling Sexuality?<br /><br />Although, at least before the later Empire, sexual behavior between individuals of the same biological sex is widely tolerated in Greek and Roman law, expressions of personal or social disapproval are by no means unusual. Setting to one side the often uncertain status of pederasty, we note that many authors react to same-sex sexual conduct with distaste or even disgust, and subliterate attitudes, emerging in papyri or Pompeian graffiti, exhibit similar levels of hostility. A representative example, perhaps, of unofficial attitudes is Clement of Alexandria, who writes in his Paedagogus at 3.3.23: "I admire the ancient legislators of the Romans: they detested effeminate conduct and, according to their law of justice, they deemed it worthy of the pit to engage in carnal intercourse as the female, against the law of nature." Clement states that these laws were no longer enforced in Alexandria ca. 200 CE.<br /><br />How should we evaluate expressions of disdain like Clement's? How effective are they likely to have been, either in conjunction with legal restrictions or independent of them? It is clear, for instance, that social controls are often adopted or relied upon when law is deemed ineffective for one reason or another. An example is ancient attitudes towards rights of authorship, which were fairly vigilant even though copyright itself did not yet exist; outright plagiarism was not remotely so common as one might have anticipated, see Katharina Schickert, Der Schutz literarischer Urheberschaft im Rom der klassischen Antike (2005).<br /><br />Should we posit something similar for same-sex behavior? How did social views interact with legal restrictions? Were social controls successful in deterring at least public displays of same-sex conduct? Did social controls modulate displays in certain respects, or lead to the expression of same-sex desire in oblique ways?<br /><br />Papers are invited on the widest possible basis consistent with this general theme. They may examine norms (alone or in conjunction with law), or look more closely at particular authors or particular forms of sexual conduct, including not just sexual intercourse but also behavior or dress identified with sexual minorities. We also welcome papers that consider connections between these norms and expectations of gender performance conforming to roles for women or men. The general aim of the panel will be to focus closely on this topic of informal modes of control and resultant expression, and so to encourage the development of scholarship concerning them.<br /><br />Submissions should be anonymous, and otherwise adhere to APA guidelines for the formatting of abstracts. Please do not send abstracts to panel organizers; e-mail them as word documents to Ruby Blondell (Blondell@uw.edu). Questions may be addressed to the panel organizers: Bruce Frier (bwfrier@umich.edu) or Mark Masterson (Mark.Masterson@vuw.ac.nz). The NEW deadline is March 17, 2013.Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-31203909352262522072013-01-14T16:10:00.004-06:002013-01-14T16:10:53.974-06:008th Annual Paul Rehak Symposium on Ancient Art & GenderThe Department of Classics, the University of Kansas, is proud to sponsor<br />The Eighth Annual Paul Rehak Memorial Symposium on Ancient Art & Gender<br /><br />2 April 2013, 2-5 pm<br />Hall Center Conference Room<br />The University of Kansas<br />Lawrence, KS<br /><br />SPEAKERS<br /><br />Jeannine Diddle Uzzi -- University of Southern Maine<br />“What Rome Wants: Politics and Pederasty in Roman Imperial Art”<br /><br />Amy Richlin -- University of California at Los Angeles<br />“Roman Pet Boys in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Theodor Birt and the Pueri Minuti.<br /><br />Eve D’Ambra -- Vassar College<br />“The Beauty of Roman Girls: Portraits and Dolls”<br /><br /><br />PAST PRESENTERS IN THE SERIES<br /><br />2006: Beth Cohen, Susan Matheson, Jenifer Neils<br />2007: Sheramy Bundrick, Richard, Neer, Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell<br />2008: Mary Sturgeon, Mary Ann Eaverly, Janet Grossman<br />2009: Anne Chapin, Kim Shelton, Nancy R. Thomas<br />2010: Peter Holliday, David Petrain, Elizabeth Marlowe<br />2011: Tyler Jo Smith, Maura Heyn, Susan Rotroff<br />2012: Nancy De Grummond, Jean Turfa, Hilary Becker<br /><br />For more information:<br />John Younger<br />jyounger@ku.eduDr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-2214294402205146032013-01-12T12:24:00.004-06:002013-01-12T12:24:58.031-06:00LCC prize winners 2013Graduate Student Award: Jen Oliver (Toronto), “Oscula iungit, nec moderata satis nec sic a virgine danda: the Callisto episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the typology of female homoeroticism,” Romosexuality: The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities (Durham University), April 2012<br /><br />Paul Rehak Award: Orrells, Daniel (2012) “Greek Love, Orientalism and Race: Intersections in Classical Reception,” Cambridge Classical Journal 58: 1-37.<br />
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Congratulations!Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-21243686093517850732013-01-12T12:24:00.000-06:002013-01-12T12:24:02.542-06:00CFP, APA 2014
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 112%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Organizers: Bruce W Frier, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Mark Masterson, Victoria University, Wellington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 112%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although, at least before the later
Empire, sexual behavior between individuals of the same biological sex is
widely tolerated in Greek and Roman law, expressions of personal or social disapproval
are by no means unusual. Setting to one side the often uncertain status of
pederasty, we note that many authors react to same-sex sexual conduct with
distaste or even disgust, and subliterate attitudes, emerging in papyri or
Pompeian graffiti, exhibit similar levels of hostility. A representative
example, perhaps, of unofficial attitudes is Clement of Alexandria, who writes
in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paedagogus</i> at 3.3.23: “I
admire the ancient legislators of the Romans: they detested effeminate conduct and,
according to their law of justice, they deemed it worthy of the pit to engage
in carnal intercourse as the female, against the law of nature.” Clement states
that these laws were no longer enforced in Alexandria ca. 200 CE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 112%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How should we evaluate expressions of
disdain like Clement’s? How effective are they likely to have been, either in
conjunction with legal restrictions or independent of them? It is clear, for
instance, that social controls </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 112%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are often adopted or relied upon when
law is deemed ineffective for one reason or another. An example is ancient
attitudes towards rights of authorship, which were fairly vigilant even though
copyright itself did not yet exist; outright plagiarism was not remotely so common
as one might have anticipated, see Katharina Schickert, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Der Schutz literarischer Urheberschaft
im Rom der klassischen Antike</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
(2005).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 112%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Should
we posit something similar for same-sex behavior? How did social views interact
with legal restrictions? Were social controls successful in deterring at least
public displays of same-sex conduct? Did social controls modulate displays in
certain respects, or lead to the expression of same-sex desire in oblique ways?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 112%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Papers
are invited on the widest possible basis consistent with this general theme.
They may examine norms (alone or in conjunction with law), or look more closely
at particular authors or particular forms of sexual conduct, including not just
sexual intercourse but also behavior or dress identified with sexual minorities.
We also welcome papers that consider connections between these norms and expectations
of gender performance conforming to roles for women or men. The general aim of
the panel will be to focus closely on this topic of informal modes of control
and resultant expression, and so to encourage the development of scholarship
concerning them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 112%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Submissions should be anonymous, and
otherwise adhere to APA guidelines for the formatting of abstracts. Please do not
send abstracts to panel organizers; e-mail them as word documents by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feb. 08, 2013</b> to Ruby Blondell (Blondell@uw.edu).
Questions may be addressed to the panel organizers: </span><a href="mailto:bwfrier@umich.edu"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 112%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bwfrier@umich.edu</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 112%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> or Mark.Masterson@vuw.ac.nz.</span></div>
Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-42128480964310986772013-01-12T12:18:00.002-06:002013-01-12T12:18:30.438-06:00THE JOHN J. WINKLER MEMORIAL PRIZEThe John J. Winkler Memorial Trust invites all undergraduate and graduate students in North America (plus those currently unenrolled who have not as yet received a doctorate and who have never held a regular academic appointment) to enter the nineteenth competition for the John J. Winkler memorial prize. This year the Prize will be a cash award of $1500, which may be split if more than one winner is chosen.<br /><br />The Prize is intended to honor the memory of John J. ("Jack") Winkler, a classical scholar, teacher, and political activist for radical causes both within and outside the academy, who died of AIDS in 1990 at the age of 46. Jack believed that the profession as a whole discourages young scholars from exploring neglected or disreputable topics, and from applying unconventional or innovative methods to their scholarship. He wished to be remembered by means of an annual Prize that would encourage<br />such efforts. In accordance with his wishes, the John J. Winkler Memorial trust awards a cash prize each year to the author of the best undergraduate or graduate essay in any risky or marginal field of<br />classical studies. Topics include (but are not limited to) those that Jack himself explored: the ancient novel, the sex/gender systems of antiquity, the social meanings of Greek drama, and ancient Mediterranean culture and society. Approaches include (but are not limited to) those that Jack's own work exemplified: feminism, anthropology, narratology, semiotics, cultural studies, ethnic studies, and lesbian/gay studies.<br /><br />*The 2013 Winkler Prize Competition*<br /><br />The winner of the 2013 Prize will be selected from among the contestants by a jury of four, as yet to be determined.<br /><br />The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2013. Essays should not exceed the length of 30 pages, including notes but excluding bibliography and illustrations or figures. Text should be double-spaced; notes may be single-spaced. Electronic submission is *required*. Essays should be submitted in MS Word or .pdf format. Please include an email with your essay in which you provide the following information: your college/university, your department or program of study, whether you are a graduate or undergraduate, your email and regular mail addresses, a phone number where you can be reached in May of 2013, and the title of your work. Please note: Essays containing quotations in original Greek must be sent in PDF format, due to difficulties reading different Greek fonts and keyboarding programs.<br /><br />The Prize is intended to encourage new work rather than to recognize scholarship that has already proven itself in more traditional venues. Essays submitted for the prize should not, therefore, be previously published or accepted for publication. Exceptions to this rule may be made in the case of the publication of conference proceedings, at the discretion of the prize administrator.The Trust reserves the right not to confer the Prize in any year in which the essays submitted to the competition are judged insufficiently prizeworthy.<br /><br />Contestants may send their essays and address any inquiries to: Kirk Ormand, Dept. of Classics, Oberlin College; kirk.ormand@oberlin.edu.<br /><br />The John J. Winkler memorial Trust was established as an independent, charitable foundation on June 1, 1990. Its purpose is to honor Jack Winkler's memory and to promote both his scholarly and his political ideals. Inquiries about the Prize, tax-deductible gifts to the Trust, and general correspondence may be addressed to: Kirk Ormand, John. J. Winkler Memorial Trust, Dept. of Classics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074.Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927893859569549888.post-56651464030657892512013-01-12T10:44:00.002-06:002013-01-12T10:44:49.985-06:00Outstanding panels and papers from the APA SurveysCongratulations to Sarah Levin-Richardson and Lauri Reitzammer for their LCC panel on Transgressive Spaces, which was voted one of the BEST SESSIONS OVERALL for Saturday at the APA, to Sarah for being voted BEST SESSION CHAIR, to Kate Gilhuly and Elizabeth Young, whose papers were voted BEST INDIVIDUAL PAPERS IN MORNING SESSIONS, and to Lauren Curtis and David Fredrick, whose papers received an HONORABLE MENTION!Dr. Lakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375624604991856994noreply@blogger.com0