Over the weekend, a group of Classics Department grad students attended the NYC conference entitled, "Our Voices: A Conference for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy." This inaugural conference was meant to bring together Classical Studies educators who are interested in making the discipline "a more equitable and inclusive place."

Classics grad student, Kelly Nguyen, gathered a group of her fellow Classics @ Brown students to go to the conference, hosted at Columbia University. Kelly writes:

"At 'Our Voices: A Conference for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy,' hosted at Columbia University, I led a workshop on Critical Classical Reception (CCR), a new discipline within Classics that was coined by Johanna Hanink in her 2017 Eidolon article. Over the course of the workshop, we discussed why such a discipline is imperative for transforming Classics into a modern field, who the stakeholders are, and how we (as teachers, scholars, and institutions) can make space for it in more traditional academic settings. We also produced a reading list for CCR that we will disseminate along with recommendations on how departments can support CCR. The workshop concluded with a teaching demo on how to incorporate CCR in more “traditional” Classics courses, such as Greek Mythology. Participants in the workshop from Brown University included Ben Driver, Chris Ell, and Christopher Jotischky-Hull. Alumnus Dominic Machado (PhD 2017), now Assistant Professor at College of the Holy Cross, made a special guest appearance and also joined our workshop."