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Term to distinguish content about the 145th annual meeting from other annual meeting content.

Ancient Gender Studies in Italy

By Frederica Bessone

Gender studies have developed in Italy since the mid-70’s in connection with the feminist movement. Influenced by French theory, they have predominantly focused on women’s history and culture. Universities have not recognized gender studies as an academic field until recently, due to the rigidity of our educational system and the weak position of women academics in the ’80s and ’90s.

Integrating Gender into North American Classical Studies: Challenges Ahead

By Judith P. Hallett

North American classicists have successfully integrated study of ancient Greco-Roman gender into their discipline and profession: as a methodologically evolving, intellectually expanding research realm, and vital component of many university classics curricula, often through undergraduate courses in translation for non-majors. My presentation considers challenges facing classical gender studies in North America, which the EuGeStA research alliance is helping address.

Support for Child Care

Both the SCS and the Women’s Classical Caucus provide subsidies for registrants who make arrangements for child care with local providers in Chicago so that they can attend annual meeting sessions or placement interviews. Information on obtaining support from the SCS is available from Heather Gasda in the SCS Office (heatherh@sas.upenn.edu).

Announcement of Seminar at 2014 Annual Meeting

The Program Committee has approved a proposal to offer a seminar at the 2014 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Full details of this session appears below. Seminars are intended to provide an opportunity for extensive discussion of the papers to be presented. To this end attendance at the seminars will be limited, and the speakers in these sessions have been asked to make their papers available by the end of November so that registrants who attend the sessions can read them in advance. Each will present only a brief summary of his or her paper at the session itself.

Approaches to Greek and Latin Text Reuse

By Neil Bernstein and Monica Berti

[These presenters submitted separate abstracts, but have agreed to combine them into one 20-minute presentation. Both original abstracts are given here, shortened to fit the total 600 word limit.]

Comparative rates of text reuse in Latin epic: an application of the Tesserae interface

Graduate and Undergraduate Training for the Ancient History Job Market

By Jennifer Roberts

In this paper, I will discuss the reality of the job market and training that both graduate and undergraduate students need in order to be hirable in History and Classics departments. To be viable in today’s job market, those who specialize in the study of Greece and Rome must be in a position to claim the ability to be all things to all people.

Strengthening a Classics Department with Ancient History

By Dennis P. Kehoe

In this paper, I will discuss how a Classical Studies department can use an array of offerings in ancient history as a means of boosting enrollments and maintaining a central place in the undergraduate curriculum. My observations will be based on my own long experience in Classical Studies department in a selective private university. Over time, we have been able to increase the number of faculty with research and teaching interests in ancient history, and this has allowed us to increase and diversify our offerings in this area.

Black Angel: Classical Myth, Race and Desire in a Brazilian Modernist Play

By Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves and Guilherme Gontijo Flores

This paper examines Nelson Rodrigues’ Anjo Negro (Black Angel, 1946), one of the earliest Brazilian plays with a black protagonist. Although it draws on Greek Tragedy (particularly Medea and Oedipus Rex) and Christian symbolism, the play performs a deconstruction of classical tragic models in order to reinvent the idea of the tragic in a modern framing (cf. Lopes, 1993; Szondi, 2004; Rabelo 2004; Motta, 2011).

Politics of Friendship in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales

By Jula Wildberger

In the Epistulae morales, Seneca translates the early Stoic concept of eros into a form of amicitia more palatable to a readership of Roman knights and senators. On the basis of this modified eros-amicitia, he also develops a new conception of progressor friendship that is no longer just a deficient emulation of the true philia of Stoic sages, but a practice of its own kind and purpose.