CALL FOR PAPERS
Res Difficiles 7
Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics

Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird and Elke Nash
Date: Friday March 13, 2026
Platform: Webinar

Since 2020 Res Difficiles has been a venue for addressing inequities within the field of Classics, examining issues arising out of intersectional vectors of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, class, socio-economic status, and beyond. In our papers and conversations, we explore how people on the margins in our texts and contexts are invited—or pushed further from—the center and explore avenues through which such marginalization might be addressed. Following each conference, recordings of conference presentations are made available online at resdifficiles.com. In preparation for Res Diff 7, we invite papers from all those who study and teach the ancient world. Submissions from individuals, pairs, or organizations are welcome, as are submissions from students (undergraduate or graduate), faculty, and K-12 teachers.

Our keynote speaker will be Samuel Agbamu, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading.

The conference will be hosted as a Zoom webinar with a capacity of 500.  Please note that the time zone of the conference will be US Pacific. 

Abstracts of 350 words should be sent electronically to Hannah Čulík-Baird (culikbaird@humnet.ucla.edu) by Monday, January 12, 2026. Papers will be 20-25 minutes with coordinated discussion at the end of each session. For more information see resdifficiles.com.