With the end of our academic year fast approaching, I wanted to wish everyone the very best of luck with writing and marking assignments and all the other associated duties involved in wrapping up our working year. Let us also not forget to celebrate our successes in 2024, acknowledge the challenges we faced and look forward to well-earned the summer holidays (wishing lots of strength to colleagues teaching summer schools and/or undertaking research and other activities). We have a lot to look forward to in 2025, starting with ASCS in Canberra. We will keep you up to date with AWAWS’s exciting plans for next year! Dr Anastasia Bakogianni AWAWS President Read on for more about:
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Welcome to our June 2024 newsletter! This June and the first half of July will be a busy period for AWAWS as we hold our online elections followed by our annual get-together to talk, exchange ideas and celebrate each other (including the announcement of this year’s Research Grant winner). Please remember to vote and we hope you can join us over Zoom on the 11th of July. This is also the time to bid a fond farewell and to thank the departing members of the exec committee for their excellent service. This year the list includes Lisa Bailey (Secretary), Jaymie Orchard (PG Rep) and Alex Wood (Mentoring Program). In the true spirit of AWAWS please remember to send your e-bouquets to thank, and acknowledge each other. The AGM marks an important milestone in the AWAWS calendar as we celebrate last year’s achievements, recognise its challenges, and look forward to the new one ahead of us. Please join us, all members of AWAWS are warmly invited! Dr Anastasia Bakogianni AWAWS President Read on for more about:
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:
Best wishes for the New Year from the AWAWS executive committee! We hope 2024 brings good tidings and positive developments for all our members, as well as for our organisation. AWAWS has an exciting line-up of events in the offing for 2024, beginning with our annual panel of papers, workshop, and drinks at ASCS and continuing with our first ever talk celebrating International Women's Day in March. But there will be much more from our local chapters, our PG Rep, the mentoring programme, our dedicated blog post, and the AWAWS team. We even have AWAWS merch coming your way. This year one of our key goals is to help our organisation grow, so it can continue to flourish in the future. Together we truly are stronger, so please support our efforts! Dr Anastasia Bakogianni AWAWS President Read on for more about:
Representions of Ancient, Medieval & Modern Mediterranean WomenAWAWS Panel proposed for MAARC 2, Online Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, 2022
Extant visual representations of ancient, medieval or early modern Mediterranean women are layered with meaning, whether those representations depict human or divine, historical or mythological, Christian or Muslim women. Physical manifestations of the human female form beyond the children born of living women all still embody social, political and cultural spheres in which they were created, received and then transmitted to the present day. Over time, most of these physical images of bodies have been altered, sometimes violently, and all have endured through multiple changes of viewership and significance across myriad cultures and times. Their encoded meanings have been reinterpreted, remade or even wholly reimagined. Modern and now Post-Modern (or Anthropocene?) and culturally-specific perceptions of women, the female body and gender have also greatly influenced the ways in which ancient and medieval female imagery has been interpreted. Ancient and medieval imagery of women has been, and still is, harnessed as a positive encouragement for self-confidence in some spheres and weaponised in others, either to action or to attack modern feminist (and other) agendas in academic, popular and international discourse. This online panel for the 2nd Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community (MAARC) free meeting will explore a variety of ways in which women are represented in the material culture of the ancient, medieval and/or modern Mediterranean cultures (or their receptions); the processes by which these images were made, and how meaning was created, attached to these images, and changed; and the ways in which specific physical depictions of women have changed over media, time and different cultural contexts. Papers are invited that:
Abstracts for papers of circa 20 minutes are solicited from contributors in Australia, New Zealand or wider Australasia on current archaeological research on the ancient female form, and its reception, by email to MAARC and Dr Brown by December 19, 2021, at the MAARC email: [email protected]. If you have any questions please email Dr Brown via [email protected]. AWAWS Brisbane, in partnership with the AWAWS Academic Mentoring Program, is hosting The Cancelled Conference 2.0 in order to showcase the work of mentees and provide an example of what can be achieved through the program. The conference will be held over held over Wednesday 29- Thursday 30 September, with a plenary session on the mentoring program on the first day. Attendance is open to anyone, and in particular we would like to encourage those who are interested in learning about and fostering postgraduate research to attend. If you would like to register to attend the conference please email Brianna, Tyla and Janette (Conference Conveners & AWAWS Brisbane Co-Chairs) - [email protected] Program Schedule
Representing women through the agesRepresentations of ancient women, whether human or divine, historical, literary or mythological, are always layered with meaning. Physical manifestations of the human female form embody the social, political, and cultural spheres in which they were created, received and transmitted. Over time, most of these physical images of bodies have been altered, sometimes violently, and transmitted across myriad cultures and times. Their encoded meanings have been reinterpreted, or often wholly reimagined.
Modern perceptions of women, the female body and gender have greatly influenced the ways in which ancient imagery has been interpreted. Ancient imagery of women has been, and still is, harnessed as a positive encouragement to self-confidence in some spheres and weaponised in others, either to drive or to detract from modern feminist (and other) agendas in the academic and popular spheres. This panel hopes to explore a variety of ways in which women are represented in the material culture of the ancient world (or its receptions); the processes in which meaning is created and attached to these images; and the ways in which physical depictions of women have changed over time and in different cultural contexts. Papers are invited that:
This week we launched a new e-newsletter to bring you all the latest happenings from the AWAWS membership. We hope to bring you a newsletter update every two months. If you havent got yours please check your spam and then send us an email [email protected] We are recruiting!Diversity Officer
AWAWS as a group is committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone, with a particular focus on supporting minority and underrepresented groups and individuals. We aim to support diversity both within AWAWS and within ancient world studies as whole, including diversity in culture, language, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, socio-economic status, and religion. This role will help further support these aims. The Diversity Officer will: - help foster diversity and intersectional awareness - liaise and affiliate with other groups (including passing along intersectional material of interest to be shared on social media by our web officers) - advise on diversity presentation questions or code of conduct issues relevant to diversity should they arise. Local Chapters representative The aim of this role is to help streamline communication between the executive and the local chapters, to ensure events are well publicized, and to provide further support to Local Chapter Heads. The Local Chapters representative will: - liaise with local chapters about events, marketing, and funding opportunities - liaise with web officers to ensure events are promoted to our membership - raise any issues or challenges faced by local chapters in the Monthly executive meetings. To nominate for one of these roles please email your expression of interest to the executive committee on [email protected]. Expressions of interest will be accepted until 15 September 2021, with an election window (if required) of 20-24 September, 2021. Written by Yvonne Inall |
...Seeing the positive side of things, the pandemic has allowed me to participate, from Spain, in an event held in Sydney, which demonstrates our resilience in the face of adversity. I am fascinated by the number of participants, the number of presentations, the organisation and the interaction you have made possible. Amazing! I had an amazing time at the conference and met some wonderful, insightful, and passionate individuals. And I’ll readily attend the next conference. I want to thank you for the great organization of the conference. It was something beautiful in these troubled times. |
This article was first published Y. Inall, 'Modern’ Women of the Past?: Unearthing Gender and Antiquity Conference" in AAIA Bulletin 17, 2021. pp.50-51 |
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All AWAWS members are invited to our Anniversary Panel discussion celebrating the first 10 years of AWAWS. Members of the panel will include the founders of AWAWS and long-term members of the Executive Committee, including the Foundation President. The panellists will discuss the genesis of AWAWS, the challenges over the past 10 years, chart the highlights and discuss what the future might hold for the association. Discussion will be opened to the membership at the end. The panel will coincide with our annual AGM. The new committee, the winner of the annual research grant and this year's virtual bouquets will be announced afterwards.
AWAWS 10th Anniversary Panel Discussion
Wednesday July 14th, 11am (AEST) |
featuring
- Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge (Macquarie University)
- Dr Maxine Lewis (University of Auckland)
- Dr Sonya Wurster (La Trobe University)
- Dr Aleks Michalewicz (University of Melbourne)
- Dr Amelia Brown (University of Queensland)
- Introduced and chaired by Hon. Assoc. Prof. Lea Beness (Macquarie University)
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