The Department was well represented at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, which took place May 13-16 at the University of Winnipeg in Winnipeg, MB. Fanny Dolansky delivered a paper titled, “Ex homine: the messy business of bodily products for health and beauty” in which she explained the use of human body products–including hair and urine–for a variety of cosmetic and medicinal purposes. Allison Glazebrook discussed the profitable work of female managers in the ancient Greek sex trade in her paper, “Industrious Women: Slavery, Management, and the Sex Trade.” Connor O’Rourke and Lucie Mackintosh built on their work in a graduate seminar on Archaeological Ethics with their collaborative paper, “It Belongs in a Museum, or does it? Ethical Considerations of Displaying Unprovenanced Artifacts at the Brock University Cypriote Museum.”
A number of Brock alumni also presented papers at the conference, including: Stephanie Dennie (now at the University of Alberta), “Mythologizing Sparta: Classical Antiquity and the Politics of Right-Wing Extremism in Canada” and “Teaching Right-Wing Extremism (RWE) and Classics using Public Humanities”; Jeff Masse (now at the University of Toronto), “Indigenous Odysseus? A Place-Based Reading of Home in Homer’s Odyssey”; Lana Radloff (now at the University of Toronto, Mississauga), “Ancient Seafaring and the Milesian Citizenship Decree of 229/8 BCE”; and Matt Ludwig (now at the University of Toronto), “Reading Minds in Philoctetes.”
The full program and abstracts are available here: https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/classics/cac-2025-annual-conference/program.html
