The 2026 Res Difficiles conference will take place on March 13th. Register for the conference here.
Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics. Co-organized by Hannah Čulík-Baird (UCLA) and Elke Nash (UNH). With thanks to the support of the UCLA Division of Humanities.
March 13th 2026. All times Pacific Standard Time.
9.20 Introductions
9.30-10.15 Keynote: Samuel Agbamu, “The Battle for Births: Rethinking the Birth of Biopolitics”
10.15-10.30 Q&A
10.30-11 Rick Castle, Carissa Chappell, “Redesigning Myth: Equitable Pedagogy for a Large Lecture Course”
11-11.30 Basil-Anne Stackpole, “Framing Sexual Violence in Student Commentaries: A Case Study”
11.30-11.45 Q&A
11.45-12.15 Sarah Cullinan Herring, “Walk like a man? Trans readings of Adonis in the contemporary college setting”
12.15-12.45 Rhiann Thomas, “Roman Destitution: Bridging the gap between textual evidence and archaeological invisibility”
12.45-1 Q&A
1-1.30 Break
1.30-2 Manolis Pagkalos, “Across the Vast Land and Over the Sea: The Experiences of a Member of the Academici Vagantes”
2-2.30 Derek Cebrián Ocampo, “A Testimony: Don’t ignore the present while you spend your leisure in the past”
2.30-2.45 Q&A
2.45-3.15 Curtis Dozier, “‘What our ancestors cared about’: a mini-memoir of white supremacist classicism”
3.15-3.45 Grace McGowan, “Transformative Classicism: Copper Venuses and Midnight Galateas”
3.45-4 Q&A
All times are US Pacific. The event will be live-streamed via Zoom and use automated Zoom captioning. Participants/viewers may live-post the event on Bluesky via the hashtag #ResDiff7
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