October 2024 Newsletter

​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:

• Mentoring Programme
• Merchandise
• New Publication of Interest to Members
• Tutor Wanted for 16-Year-Old
• Equity and Diversity Online Lecture 19 November
• Call for Papers

Mentoring Programme

If you have been thinking about applying to be a mentee in the AWAWS Academic Mentoring Program, there is no better time than now! All you need to do is check out our amazing mentors, decide who could help you work towards your goals, and send an Expression of Interest to the Mentoring Program Coordinator, Eva Anagnostou ([email protected]).
 
For more information about our mentoring programme, visit our mentoring webpage, or email Eva directly.

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Merchandise

AWAWS merchandise is now available for purchase on our products webpage. All profits go to support AWAWS activities!

Consider pre-ordering your merch for collection at ASCS 2025. A reminder will be sent closer to the time to help you make your arrangements to purchase and collect your items.

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New Publication of Interest to Members

Tim Parkin (ed), Domestic Violence and Vulnerability in the Roman World, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Oxford. Volume 66.2 (2024).
 
Please feel free to send us details of publications which you would like to share with members.

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Tutor Wanted for 16-Year-Old

Linda has reached out to AWAWS for help with finding a suitable tutor for her 16-year-old son who is excited by the ancient world:
 
I am looking into ways to help my 16-year-old son develop and expand on his knowledge of Ancient Histories.  He is currently reading about Ancient Rome and in particular, he loves the construction of the buildings, the walls, any of the structures really, he finds all that, and more, fascinating and intriguing. He also loves to read up on the ideologies, the cultures, the wars that took place [but he leaves the politics out of it for some reason] and the events that took place that shaped the world then and continue to shape the world now in many ways.
 
If you are interested, please email us at [email protected] to receive Linda's contact details.

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Equity and Diversity Online Lecture 19 November

AWAWS is pleased to announce the first event in our Equity and Diversity Workshop series (2024/2025)

Disability in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies: Where We Are and Ways Forward

Clara Bosak-Schroeder (she/they) will discuss common experiences of disability and neurodivergence in classics and related disciplines as well as the current state of ancient disability studies. Topics will include the particular vulnerability of disabled and neurodivergent graduate students, the impact of organizations like Asterion and CripAntiquity, ableism and disablism in scholarship on ancient Greece and Rome, and rising leaders in ancient disability studies research. Ample time will be devoted to discussion.
 
Tuesday 19 November, 1:00PM – 2:30PM AEDT
 
Here’s the link to register for this exciting event.
 
Further information will follow closer to the event.​​

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Calls for Papers

See below news about some interesting conferences that have open calls for abstract submissions with upcoming deadlines in the next month or so:

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8th Open Conference of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song (June 24-26, 2025)

Female voices in a public context: authorial articulation and mimetic representation in ancient Greek literature 

​We would welcome proposals applying innovative and multi-faceted methodologies to the study of female-voiced poetry in the Ancient Greek world, combining anthropological and gender-studies approaches, with a strong focus on linguistic, textual and pragmatic aspects. 
 
Proposals for 20-minute presentations in English, to be followed by 10-minute discussion, should be submitted to the Organizing Secretary ([email protected]) in the form of an anonymous abstract (max. 300 words, *.pdf file), with a brief bibliography, not longer than 10 items, by 30 October 2024. We will inform all applicants of our decision by 20 December 2024.
 
Possible themes would include papers focusing on: 

• the foundation of the authority of female poetic voices in Ancient Greece within the perspective of pragmatic linguistics;
• the role of the gendered voice in the complex relationship between ‘performative’ and ‘literary’ genres, and on the interplay between female authoriality and male-authored mimetic representation;
• the role and effect of differently gendered authors/performers in the history of re-performance, transmission and transformation of the ‘female voice’;
• the meta-literary role played by the staging of poetic female voices in drama;
• the dynamics of preservation and dissemination of poetry voiced by women and of female poetic voices in the ancient Greek world from the Archaic period onward; 
• the female poetic voice as a key model in re-creations of female voices in philosophical prose; 
• the way in which Greek rhetorical theory provided a descriptive and normative analysis of the female poetic voice, based on an ideological construct of femininity; 
• the reception of Greek women’s poetry in the Humanism and in early Renaissance literatures;  
• later receptions, and the role of Greek female poetic voices in the contemporary debate on gender issues.

 
Place: University of Naples Federico II 
Dates: June 24-26, 2025
Framework/Funding: PRIN 2022/EU. 
PRIN 2022 (2022MYMSLK)

8th Open Conference of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song (https://sites.rutgers.edu/greeksong/) 
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Organizing Committee: Giambattista D’Alessio, Luigi Battezzato, Cristina Pepe
Selection Committee: Giambattista D’Alessio, Luigi Battezzato, Nadine Le Meur, Cristina Pepe, Timothy Power
Organizing Secretary: Rita Saviano, Tiziano Presutti, Vittoria Vairo ([email protected]) 
 
The conference will take place on site, but links will be provided to view the presentations online (registration will be required). Speakers will be offered free accommodation, but no contribution can be made to travel expenses. Registration to attend the conference on site will be announced after the publication of the program.

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Australasian Association for Byzantine Studies 22nd Biennial Conference (7-8 June 2025)