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Past Conversations
Past Conversations
May 10, 2025: Classics and Social Justice from a Global Perspective
Facilitator: Luke Roman (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Description: In recent years, classicists have questioned the inherited frameworks of their discipline, including the exclusively Western genealogy of the classical legacy. Yet many of these discussions have been held in the institutional settings of, and among scholars based in, the Global North. What would it take to build a more inclusive dialogue with a truly global distribution of locations, voices, and perspectives?
May 3, 2025: Imposter Syndrome—and Productive Resistance—in Times of Imposition
Facilitator: Suzanne Lye (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Description: "Who are you? No, who are you really? What do you do for work?"
These are questions that many of us in the field have faced from others and perhaps ourselves at various points in our journeys through academia, sometimes out of curiosity and sometimes to intimidate. If you have ever felt like an imposter—or been made to feel like an imposter (as a scholar, teacher, colleague, etc.), this conversation may be for you. For our next CSJ conversation, Suzanne Lye will facilitate a discussion about the ways that we as academics might be defined and imposed upon from the outside and positive, productive strategies we might employ to push back and also define ourselves.
March 1, 2025: Q&A Session with an Immigration Lawyer
February 22, 2025: Teaching Under Trump 2.0
Facilitated by Serena Witzke (Hamilton College).
CSJ Conversations are informal discussions that are open to participants of all ranks and career stages, who will have the opportunity to make connections, share resources, talk through concerns and challenges, and generate ideas for further engagement.
May 4, 2024: Queer Beyond the Classroom
Facilitated by Luka Carroll (Memorial University, Newfoundland) and Serena Witzke (Wesleyan University)
A conversation about being who you are in the wide world of academia. DEI initiatives provide much-needed awareness and expansion to the classroom environment, but we are queer all the time, and many places remain unsafe options for fieldwork, employment, conference travel, and further study. Let’s talk about how we navigate that.
April 13: Relentless Welcome: Supporting Accessibility and Inclusion in Experiential Learning and Study Abroad Contexts
Facilitated by Michael Goyette (Eckerd College)
This conversation will engage participants in a dialogue about supporting accessibility and inclusion in experiential learning and study abroad environments, where such matters can take on added urgency or significance. The discussion will identify important considerations, along with best practices and pedagogical opportunities, pertaining to supporting and including students with mobility limitations, students of diverse racial and ethnic identities, students of diverse gender identities, neurodiverse students, and others.
March 9: Queering the Past(s): An on-line resource for high school teachers and students
Facilitated by Walter Penrose (San Diego State University) and Nancy Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)
In this conversation, Walter and Nancy will introduce their international collaborative project (https://classicalassociation.org/queering-the-past/), focusing on the rewards and challenges the group has faced. They will then answer questions and host an open conversation on queering antiquity in general.
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