Teaching with ‘The Song of Achilles’
As she did with Circe, Miller has stayed faithful to the received narratives of Achilles and Patroclus without following them submissively, putting new twists on old stories and injecting them with...
View ArticleWhose Conference Is It Anyway?
But while I’ve enjoyed being an audience to improv techniques, I’ve never thought about throwing my hat in the ring. It turns out, however, that improv skills can be applied to other environments and...
View ArticleAcademic “Couch-Surfing”: Project Visiting Scholar
Academic conferences are expensive. Nevertheless, we are expected to have wide scholarly networks and a good record of conference presentations. Realistically, attending conferences (which usually take...
View ArticleHail and Well Met: Gaming at Academic Conferences
As we speak, tens of thousands of gamers are gathering in Indianapolis for Gen Con, the country’s largest table-top gaming convention. This seems like the appropriate moment to talk not about...
View ArticleInternational Cat Day, Classics Edition
Today, August 8, 2019, is International Cat Day (alternatively, World Cat Day). This "holiday" began in 2002 as a way to raise awareness for cats, and I can't imaging anything that the internet was...
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Classics Podcasts
I spend at least an hour commuting each day, which means that I, like a large number of other humans, follow a number of podcasts. What better way to fill those long walks than by indulging in aural...
View ArticleCAMWS 2020 Room Share
Look, conferences can be expensive. While CAMWS’ registration fee is nowhere near the exorbitant rates of many scientific conferences, there’s no denying that it’s a chunk of change to afford the...
View ArticleGSIC at #CAMWS2020
Alright, so CAMWS 2020 isn’t going to look exactly as we had originally planned. But your Graduate Student Issues Committee is still preparing some great content that you can get in on! Tuesday, 10:00...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter.
The CAMWS Graduate Student Issues Committee fully supports, both in writing and in the streets, the protests against the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other...
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A Few Thoughts on Virtual CAMWS 2021
Thoughts on the recent virtual CAMWS 2021 from GSIC member Sara Hales-Brittain. Medea Palatina Just a couple of weeks ago we wrapped up the 117th CAMWS—and the second virtual CAMWS—annual meeting. I...
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