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Fall 2025 Webinars

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“Examining the Lesser Known Pliny Letters for AP”
Jacqueline Carlon, University of Massachusetts Boston Emerita

Celebrated Pliny scholar and author, Dr. Carlon will discuss those Pliny letters required for the AP Latin Exam that are less familiar to most high school teachers. She will provide context for the letters and address grammar and syntax issues as well as special vocabulary-related concerns. The webinar will also provide time for questions from attendees.

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is privileged to have worked with Jaqueline Carlon, a scholar on Pliny of international stature, on the new textbook Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts designed for AP Latin. She is also coauthor of A Pliny Workbook with Gregory P. Stringer for the new curriculum. Carlon is the author of Pliny's Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World and Selected Letters from Pliny the Younger's Epistulae. Carlon is Professor Emerita from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has worked extensively with Latin teacher candidates and is an expert in Latin pedagogy. Carlon served as a high school teacher and language department chair at Academy of Notre Dame. Carlon earned the 2017 Society for Classical Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Collegiate Level. Carlon is an expert on the application of Second Language Acquisition Theory to the teaching of classical languages.

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“Voicing Your Agency: Role Models and their Verbs in Pliny's Letters”
Jonathan Mannering, Loyola University Chicago

Written in the political environment which had been left scorched by Domitian's brutality, the Letters of Pliny the Younger can be read as serving a societal objective of rehabilitating interpersonal relations that had been severely strained if not broken by an autocratic regime. Pliny uses the conventions of the epistolary genre to portray people from recent history as well as people he knows in an idealized way which renders them exemplars. By focusing on the portrayals of key individuals, we can see how Pliny's readership may be encouraged to emulate their best characteristics. Finite verbs are a particularly rich locus for discerning the types of agency that make certain Romans unique and worth remembering.

Jonathan Mannering is a Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at Loyola University Chicago. He is also the department’s Dual Credit Mentor for Latin. Mannering is a master teacher who has taught all levels of Latin as well as classical mythology and courses in-translation. He most recently served as president of the Kappa of Illinois Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Mannering earned his BA in classics at the University of Chicago and an MPhil and PhD from King’s College, Cambridge University. His scholarly interests include Roman literature of the Latin Republic and Early Empire; rhetoric and rhetorical theory; quotation and cultural reproduction.

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New AP Latin Curriculum Webinars

During the 2024–2025, B-C offered a set of webinars that explored the new AP Latin Curriculum. Given the significance of the AP Latin Curriculum change, we made an exception to our usual practice and provided recordings of these webinars. These are still available on our 2026 New AP Latin Curriculum pages.
Bolchazy-Carducci | New 2026 AP Latin curriculum changes

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