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Webinars – Celebrating the Second Decade!
Spring 2026 Webinars
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“Latin for the New Millennium 3: A Bridge to Successful Author Readings”
Bridget Dean, PhD, President, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Designed for high school Latin teachers, this session offers practical, classroom-ready strategies for differentiation and for building strong readers of Latin—with a clear eye toward AP Latin and full reading courses. Using Latin for the New Millennium, Level 3 (LNM3) as a central example, Bridget Dean will show how a Level 3 program can support diverse learners while also serving as a proven bridge to advanced Latin study.
The talk will highlight LNM3’s range of Latin readings from multiple authors and periods, including Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and Vergil, its built-in opportunities for differentiation such as scaffolding, and its alignment with key elements of the new AP Latin requirements.
Bridget Dean, PhD, is President of Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. She holds a PhD and MA in Classics from The Ohio State University and a BA in Classics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has taught at The Ohio State University and Ohio Wesleyan University and has worked extensively with high school students as a tutor and as an instructor for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. She previously served as Editor and Managing Editor at Bolchazy-Carducci and holds an editing certificate from the University of Chicago’s Graham School. Dean has overseen B-C’s development of Lumina and B-C’s novella series.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“Imperial Purple and Imperial Gold: Latin’s Fascinating History during China’s Last Imperial Age”
Alexander Barron, Wesley International Academy, Atlanta, GA
The Qing dynasty, like all Chinese dynasties, rose out of the ashes of the previous empire, which in this case is the Ming, the last dynasty to be controlled by the ethnic majority. They viewed themselves as an empire tends to do, as the center of the world, or at least the world that mattered. However, the officials had long been aware of an ancient power called 罗马 or Rome. When the servants of the Pontiff Maximus of this ancient city arrived in the capital, Beijing, they used the language they always had with them: Latin. Latin speakers would serve the Chinese emperor both in times of peace and war, giving him an important perspective on the world outside of the Sino-sphere. From the founding of the dynasty all the way to the text input methods of computers centuries later, China, and especially its government have used Latin as a way to communicate with the wider world.
Alexander J. Barron is an educator and strategist with a background spanning international teaching, digital marketing, and business development. He is currently a Chinese teacher at Wesley International Academy. A former Scholar in Residence at Heilongjiang University in China, he brings global experience in communication, curriculum design, and cross-cultural leadership. He earned a BA in Chinese Language and Culture at Heilongjiang University. Barron also holds an MA in TESOL and World Language Education from the University of Georgia and specializes in AI-enhanced instruction, bilingual communication, and high-impact client strategy.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“A Reassessment of Clodia”
Douglas Boin, PhD, St. Louis University
“As difficult as her life was to document, it was her courage in the face of extreme hostility–to give more citizens a voice, not just the same old few–that kept me going. She was overlooked and misunderstood by her contemporaries. History largely forgot her.” Boin on Clodia of Rome (Amazon, Best Books of 2025). One of Rome’s most powerful women, Clodia has been maligned over two thousand years as a promiscuous, husband-murdering harlot―thanks to her starring role in one of Cicero’s most famous speeches in the Forum. But Cicero was lying, in defense of his own property and interests. Like so many women libeled or erased from history, Clodia had a life that was much more interesting, complex, and nuanced than the corrupted version passed down through generations. In this webinar, Boin shares key insights from his celebrated new appraisal. “Freed from the caricature that Cicero painted of her, Clodia serves as a reminder of countless women whose stories have been erased from the historical record. In a Rome whose citizens were engaged in heated debates on imperialism, immigration, and enfranchisement, amidst rising anxieties about women’s role in society, Clodia was an icon―one worth remembering today.”
Author, translator, and essayist, Douglas Boin is a professor of history at Saint Louis University. An internationally recognized authority on the history of the Mediterranean world, he is the author, most recently, of Clodia of Rome (Amazon, Best Books of 2025). His Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome, translated into multiple languages was named a “Best Book of 2020” by The Economist. His research is concerned with recovering history’s silences, correcting its distortions, and addressing its omissions. He teaches courses about how to find evidence to document overlooked experiences, how to use story-driven research to present encounters with difference, and about unusual or misunderstood aspects of culture and society in Ancient Rome, like the rise of Christianity and the history of the Goths.
Italy, the subject of his articles and books (Late Antiquity: A Social and Cultural History (2017), Coming Out Christian in the Roman World (2015) and Ostia in Late Antiquity (2013)), continues to be the site of his ongoing work, where he directs the Spello Project, an archaeological investigation to document missing chapters in the history of the Umbrian town. His essays and media appearances at Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post and NPR reflect on why the ancient world’s peoples, languages, politics, religions, and beliefs still matter. For more on Boin, SLU history professor reimagines ancient Rome – The University News.
New AP Latin Curriculum Webinars
During the 2024–2025 academic year, 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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