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AWAWS started 2024 strongly and we have many more events, workshops, and other ways to get involved this year, including some fun merchandise. The deadline for the annual AWAWS research grant is also around the corner. As we approach the middle point of the year, we have our AGM to look forward to and some positions have opened in the executive committee to vote on (details will follow). Get involved - there is much to do and enjoy with AWAWS. Dr Anastasia Bakogianni AWAWS President Read on for more about:
Annual General MeetingThis year’s AGM will be held over zoom on 11th July 2024 at 6pm NZT (2pm AWST, 3.30pm ACST, 4pm AEST). The AGM will include elections for positions on the executive committee – with a call for nominations to follow soon. Please consider standing for a position! You can stand for any position on the committee, but please especially note that several current exec members will be standing down, so there will be some vacant positions, including Secretary, Postgraduate Representative, and Diversity Officer. The AGM will also feature a lecture by our President Anastasia Bakogianni entitled: Women, War, and the Reception of the Trojan War on Stage and Screen She will discuss the importance of the Trojan War as an archetype of total war and how this ancient conflict continues to resonate in the twenty and twenty-first centuries. The terrible suffering of women, children, and other non-combatants was explored in famous Greek tragedies like Euripides’ Trojan Women. In modern times these ancient women have inspired theatre practitioners and filmmakers to create powerful anti-war works where female voices take centre stage to memorably condemn the human cost of war. We will once again invite virtual bouquets to celebrate the achievements of our members, so please start thinking about the fabulous people you wish to fête! The zoom link for the AGM will be circulated closer to the time, but please mark this in your calendars now. Report on AWAWS activites at ASCSIt was wonderful to see so many members in person at ASCS in February. We had a very well attended drinks and social event, a great session on Women and the Intersection of Laws and Money, and a very useful workshop on publication strategies. Particular thanks go to Amelia Brown, Estelle Strazdins, Emily Chambers, and Tom Geue for their hard work in making all of this possible. We also had a number of new members join up at ASCS or soon after – we welcome you all! If you have ideas about events and activities for the next ASCS, or want to get involved, please reach out to one of the exec members, we are keen to hear your thoughts and suggestions. Report on talk for International Women's DayOn 12 March AWAWS hosted an online talk by Dr Connie Skibinski, winner of the 2022 AWAWS Research grant. Connie shared some of her experiences as a feminist historian of the ancient world, her joy in her studies, and the advantages of being a member of an academic community such as AWAWS. It was great to have a number of members and non-members attend, including many postgraduate students. We hope to make this into an annual series of lectures by Research Grant winners. Speaking of, perhaps you could be one of these in the future?... AWAWS Research GrantThe 2024 AWAWS Research Grant will open for applications on April 15, 2024 and close at 11:59pm AEST on Friday May 31, 2024. The grant is designed to support our current members in their research projects and will be valued at AU$1250. The only eligibility criterion is that you must be a member of AWAWS in good financial standing to apply. The grant can be put towards any of the following costs:
The most competitive applications will be those that demonstrate that funded research will result in tangible outcomes. AWAWS is keen to support research that will be available in the near future. Each applicant must address the following four equally weighted criteria in order to be considered for the grant:
The selection panel will normally comprise a tenured academic from an Australasian university and two members of the AWAWS Executive Committee. For further details and the application form, please visit https://www.awaws.org/research-grant.html. Please note that the updated application form will be available on the website from Monday, April 15. MerchandiseAWAWS merchandise is now available for purchase! Lounge around in your AWAWS socks, sipping a beverage from your AWAWS mug, while noting your solutions for gender inequality in your AWAWS notebook! Or head out on the town to put them into practice, armed with your AWAWS tote bag, wearing your AWAWS hat, and proudly sporting your AWAWS pin! All this and more is now available to you here: https://www.awaws.org/products.html All profits go to support AWAWS activities, so you can feel good in your consumerism! Mentoring updateUnfortunately our Mentoring Programme Co-ordinator, Alex Woods, has not been able to continue on in this role, but we are glad to let you know that Eva Anagnostou-Laotides has kindly agreed to step into this role on an emergency basis. We are concerned that some requests for mentoring might have been lost or gone unanswered in the course of this shift. If you have requested mentoring and have not yet been allocated a mentor, please contact Eva as soon as possible on [email protected] and please ALSO cc [email protected] so that we can make sure you are quickly set up with a mentor. We apologise for any delays in this process and thank Alex for her work in this role. Zoom Sessions for Postgrad MembersThis term we are trying something new with our postgrad zoom group. We will be running zoom sessions for three hours fortnightly on Mondays from 12:00-3:00pm NZT. During the first hour we will be workshopping in-progress work particularly for those who are working towards publication. The goal is to provide a space for peer support for those of us working on published work but could also be a place to workshop abstracts for conferences, applications etc. The following two hours will be dedicated to silent writing/ study time with a short check in at the end of the call to see how things went. If you are looking for peer support, a second opinion on something you are hoping to publish, or simply some accountability, come on out and feel free to drop-in on whatever portion of the call interests you. For more information or the zoom details contact Jaymie Orchard at: [email protected] Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship ProjectThe aim of the Project Gender Studies and Classical Scholarship is to provide a space for both “past memories” and “future prospects” to support the contributions of feminist scholarship in relation and in response to current social and cultural issues and contexts. Available as Open Access, it is conceived as “a common work”, created by and with the help of researchers engaged in Gender Studies. In addition to the members of the scientific committee, we are aiming to include as many researchers interested in feminist theories and their application to the study of Antiquity. We aim to address the following key questions:
We are particularly interested in collecting information about:
For more information see: https://eugesta-recherche.univ-lille.fr/projets/eugesta-project-gender-studies-and-classical-scholarship AWAWS Representative on the editorial board: Anastasia Bakogianni Equity and Diversity Talk SeriesMoving Forward: Sharing Resources and Navigating Unjust System Systemic injustice is not unique to ancient world studies, nor academia more broadly, however, we hope to make our community more inclusive by creating a place to share strategies, resources, and hold space for discussion about navigating the challenging realities of our discipline. We recognize that within our community there are those with personal lived experience of being marginalized and silenced, as well as those who teach about ancient communities who faced marginalization, erasure, and were the target of systemic injustice and violence. It is our goal to centre perspectives within our discipline in informal zoom discussions to foster conversation and community-based resource sharing. We hope these conversations will motivate us all to implement what we have learned from these discussions to make our departments safer more accessible places to work and learn, to write more robust and inclusive scholarship, and to teach in ways that embrace the diversity of our students and the communities about whom we teach. For the first half of 2024 the following Zoom talks, with emphasis on achieving an international perspective, have been organized: Katharine Huemoeller, Assistant Professor of Roman History, University of British Columbia, CA Friday 26th of April, 12pm AEST – 2pm NZDT Helen V. Lovatt, Professor of Classics, University of Nottingham, UK Friday 17th of May, 6pm AEST – 8 pm NZDT Nikolai Endres, Professor of World Literature and Film at Western Kentucky University, USA Friday 14th of June, 5pm AEST – 7pm NZDT Zoom links will be circulated closer to the time of the presentation. Registration will be required. We look forward to welcoming you to our talk series. Treasurer updateAWAWS finances remain healthy, with funds available for local chapter events, workshops and other AWAWS activities in 2024. For those in need, we still have Microgrant funds available! Any members suffering financial adversity are encouraged to apply, simply send us a short email stating your need.
If you’re interested in running a local chapter event please let us know! Applications for funding can be found on our website. We thank you for your contributions and engagement with furthering the needs of women and those underrepresent in research and tertiary employment. Your regular contributions make a difference! Friendly reminder to ensure submission of a membership form when completing renewals. Account Status (March): see email. A very big thank you to members who continue to renew memberships and donate.
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