WCC Mentorship Pop-up Event: Conferencing 101 

Thursday 12 December 2024, 12:00-1:30 PM ET

Are you going to a conference soon and want a refresher on best practices? Do you have questions or want to demystify the conference experience? If so, the WCC Mentorship Team invites you to a pop-up session to address your concerns and questions about how to get the most out of attending academic conferences.

Participants are asked to review the materials available on the WCC Conferencing 101 resources page (available here) in anticipation of the meeting and come ready to ask questions or share advice.

Please join us for a new event in the WCC Job Market Series! 

In Negotiating a Job Offer, we tackle your questions about what to do after you have an offer: what are reasonable asks in response to an offer, what you can negotiate, and how much time you have to make a decision. 

The Women’s Classical Caucus invites you to participate in the WCC Publishing Series Event: Publishing a Journal Article: Advice for Peer Reviewers and Editors. This is a follow-up event to our Publishing a Journal Article event based on questions collected from participants and is targeted towards early and mid-career scholars.

Current students and young people are widely reported to be more distracted, anxious, and depressed than any generation to enter high school and college. How should we as educators, teachers, advisors, and parents respond?

We invite you to a discussion about the impacts of digital technologies (smart phones, social media, and AI) on how we work, teach, and live. The organizers have curated a selection of readings as a starting point to discuss the intersections of digital life with mental health, learning, and parenting – and different approaches and practices that teachers, parents, and legislators have pursued in relation to these.

This workshop will provide space for collaborative conversation about strategies for fostering positive working relationships between faculty instructors of record and graduate student teachers.

This workshop will provide an introduction to a variety of alternative grading methods, including gamification, ungrading, and other non-traditional methods of assessing student learning. Participants will engage in group discussion to share successful strategies and brainstorm ideas for their own classes.

The Women’s Classical Caucus and Lambda Classical Caucus invite you to read and discuss this year’s prize-winning essays.

The Women’s Classical Caucus invites you to participate in the WCC Publishing Series Event on Publishing a Journal Article. Editors of Classics journals will give an overview of publishing journal articles.

Members of the AY 2023-24 Cohort Mentorship Program are invited to attend this end-of-year party to close out this mentorship cycle..

The WCC and TAPA invite you to participate in a jointly-hosted Reading Group featuring the Paragraphoi essays from TAPA’s Fall 2023 issue.

These brief and passionate essays were written under the rubric of “Rupture and Return.” For these essays, editor Catherine Conybeare invited colleagues to reflect on the impact of the pandemic on their professional lives and their personal and institutional commitments. The authors are scholars at different phases of their careers and from a variety of institutions, both in the U.S. and international. The goal of this project was to sustain the impetus for change that emerged during the lockdowns.

Participating in the Reading Group are authors Amy Pistone, Mar Astrid Rodda, Suzanne Lye, Lylaah Bhalerao, Deborah Beck, and Olivia Hopewell.

Facilitator: Catherine Conybeare

Please note that the event time is 2-3:30pm EDT.

We invite you to attend a panel discussion and conversation addressing the unique challenges faced by academic parents and caregivers in the post-pandemic world.

This panel discussion will offer some thoughts on the topic of sexual, identity-based, & professional harassment.

This event is being organized by Everyday Orientalism and co-sponsored by The Women’s Classical Caucus and the American Society of Papyrologists.

Come to hear from the current WCC Steering Committee as we review the activities and developments of the last year and look ahead to the future. Members will have the opportunity to give their feedback, ask questions, and express any concerns.

The meeting is open to all to attend, regardless of membership.

Are you going to a conference soon and want a refresher on best practices? Do you have questions or want to demystify the conference experience? If so, the WCC Mentorship Team invites you to a pop-up session to address your concerns and questions about how to get the most out of attending academic conferences.

Participants are asked to review the materials available on the WCC Conferencing 101 resources page in anticipation of the meeting and come ready to ask questions or share advice.

Who will host the next FemClas conference? Join FemClas 2022 co-organizer T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University) for a roundtable discussion about the ninth iteration of Feminism & Classics — and if you & your institution might want to host, be sure to come!

Please join us for the fifth session in the WCC Job Market Series!

In Job Market Session 5: Interviewing, we tackle all of your questions about interview logistics, how to prepare, and tips and tricks for how best to represent your research, teaching, and service in Zoom interviews and campus visits.

The format for this workshop will be a roundtable discussion with the panelists led by the organizers, followed by an open discussion for participants to ask questions and share tips about interviewing and the academic job market.

Join us for the second installment of the WCC Archaeology Series! Our panelists all have experience with community engaged archaeology in the Mediterranean. During this event, they will share their insights on actively building relationships with local communities and giving them voices in the planning and execution of archaeological projects at sites across the Mediterranean.

Stefan Vranka of Oxford University Press will discuss what happens in the publishing process after you submit your book proposal through to the publication of your book. During the session, you will have time to ask Stefan questions about the publishing process.

This session is targeted towards first-time authors who want to publish with an academic press.

As part of its “Careers” Initiative, the WCC is partnering with the Classical Association of New England (CANE) for a series of events related to K-12 teaching. We will kick off the “All About K-12 Teaching” Series with our first event: “Overview of K-12 Teaching: A Panel Discussion.” This session will feature K-12 teachers from various types of schools and institutions who will share their experiences as Classicists teaching on the K-12 level.

Please join us for the WCC’s September Reading Group where we invite the organizers of the WCC Job Market Series to host a discussion about readings related to the job market. We will be reading “Going on the Market…and What Comes Before” by Joy Connolly (updated in 2021).

The WCC invites you to a “Gathering In Solidarity” event in response to the June 24th Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

This event is intended to offer a virtual gathering space to support members of our Classics community who would like to discuss, reflect together, and share thoughts with each other as we process the decision and its implications.

The Women’s Classical Caucus, Lambda Classical Caucus, and Winkler Paper Prize committees invite you to participate in a jointly hosted Reading Group featuring the 2021-22 paper prize winners from the WCC, LCC, and Winkler Paper Prizes.

Please join us for the third session in the WCC Job Market Series!

In Job Market Session 3: Statements (Teaching, Research, and Diversity), we take a deep dive into the types of statements that many departments request as part of your job application. In this session, our speakers will break down these genres and provide tips, tricks and lessons learned in this aspect of preparing materials for the academic job market.

Please join us for the second session in the WCC Job Market Series!

In Job Market Session 2: CV/Cover Letters, we take a deep dive into two of the most important documents in your application: the curriculum vitae (CV) and cover letter. In this session, our speakers will break down these genres and provide tips, tricks and lessons learned in this aspect of preparing materials for the academic job market.

Have you ever wondered what acronyms like VAP or SLAC or TT mean? Curious about the timeline for applying to academic jobs? Wondering how to pitch your research and teaching to different types of institutions or departments?

The WCC invites you to the launch of the new WCC Job Market Series. The goal of the series is to try to demystify the academic job market in Classics (and related fields) for new and returning applicants.

Session 1 gives an overview of the academic job market. For this kick-off event, we will discuss the overall process as well as specific tips from people who have recent experience as applicants or on selection committees.

Come celebrate the WCC at 50 at the 8th quadrennial meeting of the Feminism & Classics conference! We look forward to the opportunity to mix and mingle with friends, old and new, as we celebrate this milestone for the organization.

All registrants of FemClas2022 and WCC members are welcome to attend.

WCC invites members of the Classics community to a roundtable discussion co-hosted by Trans in Classics on the topic of “Feminism Beyond the Binary.” This event will feature a roundtable discussion on feminism as it intersects with different categories of identity. This discussion will take place as part of the Feminism & Classics 2022 virtual conference and as another entry in the “WCC at 50” anniversary-year series exploring what feminism looks like today.

The WCC invites men from the Classics community to participate in a discussion on the topic of “Feminist Masculinity” as part of the “WCC at 50” anniversary-year exploration of what feminism looks like today.

This event will feature a discussion on feminism as practiced by men, towards a definition of “feminist masculinity.” The event will offer an opportunity for registrants to reflect on what feminism means to them and the ways in which they can engage with feminist ideals in their everyday lives from the male experience and perspective.