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The 2024 Res Difficiles conference took place on March 22nd 2024. Watch the recorded videos below; read the live-tweets here.

Classics at the University of California Los Angeles, and Classics, Philosophy, & Religious Studies at the University of Mary Washington present Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics. Co-organized by Hannah Čulík-Baird and Joseph Romero.

March 22nd 2024. All times Eastern Standard Time. 

9.15 Introductions. Introducing Res Difficiles, The Journal 

9.30-10 Hardeep Dhindsa, “Deep Time on the Grand Tour: Britain, Naples, and the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century” 

10-10.30 Marchella Ward, “Sabians, Muslims, Greeks and Romans: Doing (Critical) Ancient World Studies beyond the Classical Tradition”

10.30-10.45 Q&A

10.45-11.15 Madison (Madi) Hesse and Jody Valentine, “Building a Collaborative Practice for Transformative Learning”

11.15-11.45 Chance Bonar, “Anarchism and Pedagogy in the Classics Classroom” 

11.45-12 Q&A

12-12.30 BREAK

12.30-1 Maia Kotrosits, “The Matter of Form: Rewriting our way to a changed field”

1-1.30 Ky Merkeley, “Reimagining Gender: Why Trans Studies Matters for Classics”

1.30-1.45 Q&A

1.45-2.15 Elke Nash, “The Limits of DEI: Teaching ‘race’ during racially-invested devastation” 

2.15-2.45 Aditi Rao and Katherine Blouin, “‘In the Presence of Absence’: On Classics and Palestine”

2.45-3 Q&A

3-4 Keynote: Dominic Machado, “tam magnus ex Asia veni: Towards an Asian-American Hermeneutics in Classics” 

All times are US Eastern. The event will be live-streamed via Zoom and use automated Zoom captioning. Participants/viewers may live-tweet the event on the hashtag #ResDiff5

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WATCH THE CONFERENCE AS A YOUTUBE PLAYLIST

Videos for Res Diff 5 were edited by Kayla Andrade.

Hannah Čulík-Baird, Luke Roman, Elke Nash. “Introducing Res Difficiles, The Journal.”

Hardeep Dhindsa, “Deep Time on the Grand Tour: Britain, Naples, and the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century” 

Marchella Ward, “Sabians, Muslims, Greeks and Romans: Doing (Critical) Ancient World Studies beyond the Classical Tradition”

Madison (Madi) Hesse and Jody Valentine, “Building a Collaborative Practice for Transformative Learning”

Chance Bonar, “Anarchism and Pedagogy in the Classics Classroom” 

Maia Kotrosits, “The Matter of Form: Rewriting our way to a changed field”

Ky Merkeley, “Reimagining Gender: Why Trans Studies Matters for Classics”

Aditi Rao and Katherine Blouin, “‘In the Presence of Absence’: On Classics and Palestine”

Keynote: Dominic Machado, “tam magnus ex Asia veni: Towards an Asian-American Hermeneutics in Classics”