Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text
Sponsored by the American Friends of Herculaneum
Organized by David Sider, New York University, david.sider@nyu.edu, and Carol Mattusch, George Mason University emerita, mattusch@gmu.edu
The American Society of Papyrologists invites proposals for papers for its panel “Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt” at the 2018 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Boston, Massachusetts (4-7 January). Although the scope of papyrological studies is wide, submissions for this panel must meet at least one of the following criteria:
(a) they must deploy evidence for ancient literary cultures that is preserved on papyri, ostraka, or wooden tablets (in Greek, Latin, Coptic, demotic Egyptian, Arabic, or other pertinent languages);
Visions of Ancient Cities, Sanctuaries and Landscapes in Literature, Art and Coinage
Paper Session Organized by the Friends of Numismatics
SCS Annual Meeting, Boston, January 4-7, 2018
Gods In and At the Theater: Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece
Dido in and after Vergil
Sponsored by the Vergilian Society
James J. O’Hara, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Organizer
Afterlives of Ancient Medicine: Reception Studies or History of Medicine?
Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy (SAM). SAM is an affiliated group of the Society for Classical Studies.
The Sounds of War
Sponsored by MOISA -- Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and Its Cultural Heritage
Organized by Sean Gurd (University of Missouri, Columbia) and John Franklin (University of Vermont)
CFP: The Classics and Social Justice Affiliated Group invites paper proposals for its inaugural Panel at the 2018 meeting of the SCS.
Classics and Social Justice
The panel organizers are Jessica Wright (USC) and Amit Shilo (UCSB).
We welcome papers that discuss any aspect of social justice work in which you are engaged as well as papers that theorize the place of social justice work in Classics and the place of Classics in social justice work.
SCS Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP)
Call for Director and Play at the 2018 Annual Meeting
The Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP) of the Society for Classical Studies invites proposals for a panel to be held under the Committee’s sponsorship at the 149th Annual Meeting of the SCS (January 4-7, 2018; Boston, Massachusetts). Submissions, which should not exceed 500 words in length, should include:
(1) the title of the proposed panel;
(2) a general outline of the proposed topic;
(3) a brief explanation of the topic's relevance to the performance of ancient or modern drama;
(4) and, where appropriate, a brief bibliography.