Rupture and Return Joint WCC/TAPA Reading Group Roundtable Discussion

The Women’s Classical Caucus and TAPA invite you to participate in a jointly-hosted Reading Group featuring the Paragraphoi essays from TAPA’s Fall 2023 issue.

These brief and passionate essays were written under the rubric of “Rupture and Return.” For these essays, editor Catherine Conybeare invited colleagues to reflect on the impact of the pandemic on their professional lives and their personal and institutional commitments. The authors are scholars at different phases of their careers and from a variety of institutions, both in the U.S. and international. The goal of this project was to sustain the impetus for change that emerged during the lockdowns.

The Reading Group will be in a roundtable format in which each author will first briefly present their own essay. The virtual floor will then be open for a discussion of the essay topics by registered participants. 

We look forward to a rich discussion and welcome you to register for and attend this event even if you do not have a chance to read all the essays.

Click here to read the essays in a WCC google drive for free. Files provided by TAPA to participants of this event.

Discussion Questions:

• What initiatives or insights from the pandemic period do you feel have fallen away, and should be revived?

• What initiatives or insights do you wish to celebrate?

Here is a full list of the authors and essays:

• Catherine Conybeare: Rupture and Return: Introduction
• Amy Pistone: Rupture and Return: Hierarchy and Pedagogy
• Mar Astrid Rodda: Becoming the Octopus: Three Variations on a Metaphor
• Suzanne Lye: Working in the Dark: Service and the Path to Return
• Lylaah Bhalerao: On Being a Lapsed Classicist: From Personal and Disciplinary Rupture to Restoring Lost Traditions and Finding a Way Back
• Deborah Beck: Bearing and Sharing the Burdens of Mentoring in the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Olivia Hopewell & Emily Aguilar: Let Me Know When You Get Home Safe