Brown University made its presence known at this years SCS/AIA annual meeting.
Each year, members of the Brown Classics Department and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World attend the annual meetings and participate in a number of activities. The two departments hosted a successful joint reception during where many Classics alumni came to meet up with their former professors and fellow Classics colleagues.
There were a number of Classics Department graduate students that presented at the meeting, including Gaia Gianni and Kelly Nguyen.
I recently organized a panel titled 'Childhood and Fictive Kinship in the Roman Empire' at the 2020 Society of Classical Studies Annual Meeting in Washington DC. It was my first time putting together and organizing a panel at a conference. Three amazing scholars agreed to present papers alongside me and my dear friend Tara Mulder - now a professor at the University of British Columbia - delivered a response to all the papers featured in the panel.
Tara was a sixth year graduate student in Classics when I was only a first year. She took care of me when I was struggling keeping up with the classes and she was always there to give advice when I needed it. To be able to present at our field's biggest conference alongside Tara, who had been my mentor and my friend, was truly exceptional. She had a successful career and I can only hope to do as well as she did, and well represent Brown Classics in the field.
At the 2020 SCS conference, I delivered my paper entitled 'Ocean Vuong's Reception of Telemachus and Odysseus' in the inaugural panel of the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus (AAACC). I am a co-founder of AAACC and I serve as its current Mentorship Coordinator. The panel was a huge success (standing room only!) and it was beautiful to see so much support for Asian and AAPI community in Classics. This February, I will also be leading a workshop on Critical Classical Reception and representing AAACC at Our Voices: A Conference for Inclusive Pedagogy.
