{"id":8560,"date":"2021-04-07T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/?p=8560"},"modified":"2021-05-25T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:55:45","slug":"giving-day-highlight-res-difficiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/2021\/04\/07\/giving-day-highlight-res-difficiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Day Highlight: Res Difficiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/classics\/files\/2021\/05\/GivingDayPosts7-636x358-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Res Difficiles: A Conference on the Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity in Classics\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" class=\"wp-image-8561 size-full aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On March 20th, 2021, Hannah \u010cul\u00edk-Baird (Boston University) and Joseph Romero (University of Mary Washington) held the second annual Res Difficiles conference, where panelists and participants gathered to discuss problems that face researchers and teachers of the ancient Mediterranean at all levels. In this conference series, we discuss \u201cdifficult subjects\u201d \u2013 res difficiles \u2013 of several kinds, relating both to the challenges inherent to the subject matter of ancient texts and to the inequities of contemporary education and society more broadly. A fully online conference hosted over Zoom, this year we welcomed over 300 registrants. This year\u2019s keynote speaker was Professor Patrice Rankine (Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond): \u201cPower\/Memory: Reception, Classicism, and Some Considerations on the Current State of Play.\u201d Video recordings of the conference are now available to view on the conference website \u2013<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/resdifficiles.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\">resdifficiles.com<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u2013 and on our<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL4iZ3UhdrOHqb3f4LwI6JH9yLyHNeijsl\"><span class=\"s1\">YouTube playlist<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Give to Classical Studies\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/givingday.bu.edu\/campaigns\/classics-department#\/\">here<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20th, 2021, Hannah \u010cul\u00edk-Baird (Boston University) and Joseph Romero (University of Mary Washington) held the second annual Res Difficiles conference, where panelists and participants gathered to discuss problems that face researchers and teachers of the ancient Mediterranean at all levels. In this conference series, we discuss \u201cdifficult subjects\u201d \u2013 res difficiles \u2013 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17148],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8562,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions\/8562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}