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"Racism. The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance, manifest and implied. Women respond to racism. My response to racism is anger." So Audre Lorde begins her essay "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism." For Lorde, anger is not simply the flame igniting her passion for justice but the whetstone which sharpens her resistance. Her anger emerges as a direct challenge to the constant impositions of a white patriarchal society and as a productive source of knowledge shared by the community of the oppressed.

This paper presents the first results of an ongoing research project on the reception of Saint Augustine in the modern Maghreb, led jointly by a Classicist and a colleague from French studies. We consider this as a case study which can be transferred to the broader reception of antiquity in the Maghreb.

I plan to discuss my mentoring experiences as a teacher, advisor, coach, and administrator at St. Andrew’s School (Middletown, DE). Questions that I will explore may include the following: What are the benefits of mentoring students at an all-boarding school, and what are the curricular and extra-curricular challenges? How do I help to develop a living and learning community that values listening, inclusivity, and collaboration? What have I learned from my mentors, and what skills or habits do I hope to cultivate in students and faculty?

A six–year collaboration with Dr. Elizabeth Fisher at George Washington University to run an internship program. The program provides mutual benefits, and proximity and collaboration make it easy to administer and sustain. Former interns have gone on to become teachers in DC area Latin programs and to pursue further graduate study aimed at careers in secondary Latin teaching. The program is easy to replicate: Catholic University (also in DC) has already established a similar program based on this model.

This paper will explore Empedocles’ remarks on language, nature and learning, arguing that one can deduce from them a set of radical doctrines: in spite of common usage, there is no real φύσις (“nature”), but every apparent φύσις is the result of learning, and indeed even the roots (or Empedoclean elements), in constituting and reconstituting the cosmos and all of the individual natures within it, can be said to learn. The general treatment of learning in Empedocles’ poetry has received some attention, e.g.

Explore Cicero’s social network and learn to make your own network map. I will describe how we can map different social interactions in Cicero's letters, from the exchange of letters to gossip. I will also show you how to make quick visualizations of those interactions in Gephi. Come with the latest version of Gephi already downloaded; datasets will be provided to get participants started.

This workshop takes participants through every step of developing a podcast, from the idea phase through publication. It will cover conceptual, legal, and technical aspects, including audio editing using Audacity, operating a Zoom H4N portable audio recorder, and publishing through Libsyn, a podcast-hosting platform.

Learn to use Recogito, the free online tool developed by Pelagios that enables semantic annotations of digitised historical texts and images.

Do you write commentaries for (or with) your students? Or would you like to, but have been frustrated by the limitations and inefficiencies of using a word processing program to commentaries that display text, notes, and vocabulary? CommentarySandbox is a plugin for the WordPress CMS that mimics the easy-to-read format of Dickinson College Commentaries. With the plugin, you can quickly juxtapose notes and vocabulary (or other content) in tabs alongside a text.

The From Stone to Screen project is an open-access digitization project founded in 2012 by graduate students at the University of British Columbia. Since its inception, it has evolved into a pedagogical resource for the study of ancient artifacts and epigraphic squeezes. This project has also been illustrative of the difficulties faced by small-scale DH projects with limited funding, and this presentation showcases some of the “DIY” solutions to these problems.