March 2021 Newsletter
(This post was originally sent as an email)
Dear WCC Members,
Happy Women's History Month and (belated) International Women's Day! We have a lot of exciting things in the works at WCC and are writing to provide a quick update and a couple announcements.
Topics in this email:
Celebration of WCC Award recipients
WCC Book Club Event
WCC Member Survey – shape the WCC
WCC: Celebrating Our Community
Volunteer for the WCC
1. Celebration of WCC Award recipients
Last month, we celebrated the winners of the WCC Public Scholarship, Professional Equity, and Leadership awards in a lively virtual ceremony. We kept the celebration going with the larger Classics community through a series of interviews with the winners published on the SCS Blog. Check these out:
Interview with Peopling the Past, winner of the Public Scholarship Award
(Bonus: a SCS Blog post on impeachment and Republican Rome by WCC co-chair Serena S. Witzke)
2. WCC Book Club
For Women's History Month, we are launching the WCC Book Club, the first of many of our upcoming initiatives. To kick us off, we will be reading Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. Princeton University Press has generously partnered with us to offer 30% off and free shipping if you order from their website with the code WDA21-FG (good through May 31). We will meet virtually to discuss the book on Thursday April 22 8PM ET. Please register here by 5PM the day of the event.
3. WCC Member Survey
As we roll out our new initiatives, we want to make sure we are serving the needs and desires of our membership. To make sure we do that, we need your help.
Please fill out the member questionnaire to let us know how best we can serve YOU. We have already gotten very helpful feedback that we are using to shape future programming and WCC initiatives, including the new WCC Book Club, upcoming writing meetups, and a series of “practical pedagogy” workshops. Your input now will help us design our Summer and Fall programming.
4. WCC: Celebrating our Community
So, we already know we are an awesome community, but we in the WCC leadership want to do a better job of shining a light on the great things you all are doing throughout the year.
Do you have an update you'd like to share with WCC members about yourself? Did you publish a book or an article, win a grant or award, start a project, get promoted to a new role, expand your family, or create a podcast? Please complete this form and share it with us so we can compile, share, and celebrate you in upcoming communications!
5. Volunteer for the WCC
We are shifting our programming to include “pop up” events in addition to the regularly scheduled events by the WCC as a way to empower our members. To do this, we would like to welcome all of our members to brainstorm possible events and/or volunteer to host them. Want to run a book club event? Hold a zoom writing group? Lead a pedagogy workshop? Organize a one-time happy hour? To suggest events or volunteer your services to support an event, fill out the WCC Event Ideas form!
best wishes,
Caroline Cheung, Suzanne Lye, and Serena S. Witzke
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Co-Chairs, Women's Classical Caucus
On Behalf of the Steering Committee