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Settling into Session 45: Special 150th Panel: The Future of Classics (Sesquicentennial Workshop, organized by Stephen Hinds, University of Washington, Seattle). Extremely excited for this panel! #AIASCS

Hinds talks about having students who haven't had a class that was entirely about dead people. His class was not about shoring up the dead white men, but getting inside the head of dead people & reading slowly. Hinds asks people to think about the near and distant future #AIASCS

Helen Catherine Cullyer talks about all the types of contributions to classics that are not currently getting properly credited -- online content, teachers at all levels, less traditional format. she also hopes we can DO something about diversity not just talk #AIASCS

.@SarahEBond talks about the need to grapple with the past and present before we can move forward as a field. We need to reflect on whether we can separate the art and the artist (a particularly salient issue in the #MeToo era) #AIASCS

.@SarahEBond talks about the legacy of Basil Gildersleeve who was an influential scholar but also a well-known virulent racist. And the pushback she received when she mentioned that she no longer cites Franco Moretti because of rape allegations against him #AIASCS

.@SarahEBond - citation and 'lifting as we climb' -- moving away from only citing the usual canonical folks, but diversifying our footnotes. #AIASCS

.@SarahEBond - outreach is encouraged and given kudos but not particularly credited in tenure and promotion. She's written c. 2 full books of blog posts that didn't 'count' (tweeter's note: OMG THIS IS A HUGE PET PEEVE OF MINE) #AIASCS

.@SarahEBond encourages the @scsclassics to think about guidelines for tenure that value digital humanities and outreach work #AIASCS

.@SarahEBond : local colloquia are the face of classics on a local level and we need to diversify that as well. if we present a different face of classics, we broaden our field. She urges us to broaden our field of study and the people in the field #AIASCS

Final note from @SarahEBond -- shout out to WOAH as a way to avoid #manels
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Joy Connolly is up next! She starts by talking about the rising cost of higher education. And how we find silver linings to trends that are not good for the field of classics. We don't exist in 50 or 100 years if we stay as we are. We need to be in a growth mode #AIASCS

Connolly: we need to find more students. the field as it is isn't attracting sufficient students. 'The good news is we can do it'! we have the energy and the potential to grow. #AIASCS

Connolly: higher declines in R1 universities. lower declines in students at smaller colleges, colleges with a high percentage of Black students, and schools with increasing enrollment where there's less admin pressure. #AIASCS

Connolly: we need to talk about community colleges, where enrollments ARE growing. And we need to think about the field as not being entirely about language. Drop the 'classical reception' and just call it all 'classics'! #AIASCS

Connolly urges us to rethink dissertations to value (in addition to traditional scholarly measures) contributions to the academy and pedagogy and classics in a very broad sense. #AIASCS

Connolly turns to languages: should enrollments not sustain small language classes, we need to think about how the field looks without languages being central to what it means to be a classicist. #AIASCS

Connolly also imagines a future where students/faculty can focus on pedagogy as their major scholarly object. YES!!! #AIASCS

Finally, Connolly imagines a future where classics departments look more like American Studies have a very different shape than they have now. #AIASCS

Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics batting clean up! Opens with a mention of the awful treatment of the Sportula. and how holding our conferences in spaces that perpetrate epistemic and hermeneutic injustices #AIASCS

.@platanoclassics talks about the gender and ethnic breakdown in major classics journals, which is not good. TAPA trends haven't changed much in the last 20 years (20-30% or so). AJP isn't much better #AIASCS

.@platanoclassics Classical Antiquity is a bit better, but not much. What accounts for this? Journals give the sense of 'yes, we're trying, but it's hard'. He notes that this isn't enough. We need to think about editorial discretion #AIASCS

.@platanoclassics shares my very favorite infographic, from @eidolon_journal eidolon.pub/like-skincare-…

.@platanoclassics: "the hegemony of whiteness is everywhere in evidence" in major journals. Notes the similarities of classical publication to redlining and neighborhood segregation: "publication in classics is a whites only neighborhood" 🔥🔥🔥#AIASCS

.@platanoclassics to improve, 'holders of privilege will need to surrender their privilege'. White men will need to surrender the benefits, career and otherwise, or publication. In an economy of scarcity, this is a big ask! #AIASCS

I want to commend all the panelists for handling a really ugly, racist, sexist comment. @platanoclassics responded with a grace that he did not need to, in the face of am overt aggression that he should not have had to deal with. Kudos as well to @SarahEBond #AIASCS