{"id":154693,"date":"2020-05-20T16:47:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T20:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=154693"},"modified":"2020-05-21T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:14:08","slug":"umw-cprd-and-bu-classical-studies-cohost-webinar-on-social-justice-in-the-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/05\/20\/umw-cprd-and-bu-classical-studies-cohost-webinar-on-social-justice-in-the-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW CPRD and BU Classical Studies Co-host Webinar on Social Justice in the Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_154694\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154694\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154694\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Res-Difficiles-273x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Res-Difficiles-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Res-Difficiles-933x1024.png 933w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Res-Difficiles-768x843.png 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Res-Difficiles.png 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-154694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US and UK Scholars tackle social justice and the uses\/misuses of Classics in Western education<\/p><\/div><p>The departments of Classics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies and Classical Studies at Boston University co-sponsored a webinar entitled &ldquo;RES DIFFICILES: <em>A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In the Ancient Greek and Roman World,&rdquo;<\/em> on Friday, May 15, 2020, with American and British scholars and broadcast to nearly 250 attendees in the U.S., U.K., and a dozen other countries from Australia to Russia. The co-hosts, Joseph Romero (UMW Classics) and Hannah &#268;ul&iacute;k-Baird (BU Classical Studies), assembled a group of scholars to address a critical issue in a discipline that is rapidly transforming itself into a significant contributor in the humanities for social justice. Romero also delivered a paper entitled, &ldquo;Walking the the Cleopatra Ode (Hor. <em>carm<\/em>. 1.37), Then and Now.&rdquo; The conference had originally been scheduled to take place on the UMW campus, but the pivot to webinar after the COVID-19 interruption produced the happy result of convening scholars from all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The departments of Classics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies and Classical Studies at Boston University co-sponsored a webinar entitled &ldquo;RES DIFFICILES: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In the Ancient Greek and Roman World,&rdquo; on Friday, May 15, 2020, with American and British scholars and broadcast to nearly 250 attendees in the U.S., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28591,"featured_media":154694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[9035,2431],"class_list":["post-154693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-department-of-classics-philosophy-and-religion","tag-jromero","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}