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The table below is a summary listing of all sessions and events currently scheduled.

  • The preliminary program including listings of paper titles and speakers can be found here.
  • All times are CST.
  • There are two session blocks each day for panels and paper sessions. There will also be affiliated group, departmental, and special events.
  • Session blocks are three hours long but we realize many sessions may be shorter and we encourage all to aim for shorter sessions to combat Zoom fatigue.
  • We would like to give everyone the opportunity to present live but realize that some organizers of panels and individual presenters of papers in paper sessions may opt to pre-record.

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

First Paper Session

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-1: Merchants and Market in Late Antiquity, (organizer-refereed panel)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-2: Language, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-3: Classics In/Out of Asia, (Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-4: New Perspectives on Plato's Internal Critique of the Athenian Politeia, (panel)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-5: Greek History, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-6: New Approaches to Spectatorship, (seminar)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-7: The Discourse of Leadership in the Greco-Roman World, (International Plutarch Society)

Second Paper Session

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-8: Greek and Latin Linguistics, (The Society for the Study of the Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-9: Law and Society in Late Antiquity, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-10: Roman Comedy, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-11: Flavian Epic, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-12: Ancient Scholarship, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-13: Ancient Theater in ChicagoLand, (SCS Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP))

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-14: On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes, (panel), Joint Session

Special Events

12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.

Annual Meeting of the Forum for Classics, Libraries and Scholarly Communication

1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

ASGLE, American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy: Business Meeting

5:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m.

Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology Symposium

5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

Classics and Social Justice Open Meeting

5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Ph.D-granting Chairs Meeting

5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

National Committee for Latin and Greek Semiannual Open Planning Meeting

8:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m.

WCC/LCC/COGSIP's Welcome Night Reception and Awards Ceremony

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Third Paper Session

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-15: Staging Epic and Tragedy, (workshop)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-16: Virgil and Religion, (Vergilian Society)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-17: Usurpers, Rivals, and Regime Change: The Evidence of Coins, (Friends of Numismatics), Joint Session

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-18: Vesuvius: Texts, Objects, and Images, (American Friends of Herculaneum)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-19: Lightning Session 1: History and Literature, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-20: Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome, (seminar)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-21: Reception, (paper session)

Fourth Paper Session

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-22: Neronian Literature, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-23: Historical Materialism and the Classics, (workshop)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-24: Lightning Session 2: Crossing Boundaries, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-25: Plato, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-26: The Powers and Perils of Solitude in Greek Literature, (panel)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-27: Education, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-28: Subverting the Classics in Early Modern America, (organizer-refereed panel)

Special Events

12:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m.

M.A.-granting Department Chairs Meeting

12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m.

Vergilian Society Board of Directors Meeting

12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.

Classics Careers: A Cross-Generational Conversation about and with Yale Alumni

5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

Meeting of the Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome

5:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Liberal Arts College Chairs Meeting

5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m.

Mountaintop Coalition Business Meeting

6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Pachanga Latina: A Hispanic/Latinx Faculty and Grad Student Meet and Greet

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Fifth Paper Session

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-29: Greek Comedy, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-30: Philosophical Thought and Language, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-31: Breaking the Paradigm: Greek Poetry in the Roman Empire, (panel)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-32: Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment, (International Ovidian Society)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-33: Recent Work in Digital Classics, (Digital Classics Association)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-34: Inscriptions and Literacy, (American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-35: New Institutionalism and Greek Communities, (panel)

Sixth Paper Session

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-36: Eos READS: Toni Morrison "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature, (workshop)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-37: Classics and Childcare, (workshop)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-38: Natural History and Pliny's Natural History, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-39: Early Greek Poetry, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-40: Roman Anticipations: Material, Cognitive, and Affective Histories of the Roman Future, (panel), Joint Session

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-41: Learning the Rules: Games and Education in the Ancient World, (panel)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-42: Legalize It: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Law, (Lambda Classical Caucus)

Special Events

12:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

Career Networking

12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.

Yale Classics: Lessons Learned from Teachings and Current Research

12:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

Classics Everywhere

5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

Reports from the INSTAP Study Center

6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.

CAMP Play Reading: Helen

8:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Reception: MRECC and EOS's Reception in Honor of Shelley Haley and Her Assumption of the SCS Presidency

Friday, January 8, 2021

Seventh Paper Session

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-43: Augustan Poetry, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-44: Roman History, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-45: Myth and History, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-46: Indigenous Voices and Classical Literature, (panel)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-47: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Egypt, (American Society of Papyrologists)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-48: Emotions and the Body in Greco-Roman Medicine, (Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-49: Laughing with the Gods: Religion in Greek and Roman Satire, Comedy, Epigram and other Comedic Genres, (Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions)

Eight Paper Session

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-50: Ancient Olympics Alive: Techniques, Materials and Sources to Capitalize on the 2021 Olympics in Classes and Outreach Activities, (workshop)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-51: Latin Literature and the Environmental Humanities: Challenges and Perspectives, (panel)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-52: COVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study, (workshop)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-53: Eta Sigma Phi panel, (Eta Sigma Phi)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-54: Lucian, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-55: Hidden Transcripts, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-56: Triumviral Literature, (paper session)

Special Events

12:15 p.m. 1:45 p.m.

Roundtable Session

12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.

International Ovidian Society: Business Meeting

5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Presidential Panel

7:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m.

Journal Editor's Happy Hour

7:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m.

Mountaintop Coalition Virtual Reception

Presidential Panel
"William Sanders Scarborough and Black Classicism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
This panel responds to a shameful episode in the history of American classics: in 1909, the distinguished Black classicist and President of Wilberforce University, William Sanders Scarborough (1852-1926), chose not to attend the annual meeting of the American Philological Association (now the SCS) in Baltimore because the hotel where the conference banquet was to be held refused to serve him. The speakers will contextualize Scarborough’s exclusion from the annual meeting within the history of Baltimore as well as the profession of Classical Studies and will address the aspirations and achievements of Scarborough himself and of the many Black writers and scholars of his period who engaged with classical antiquity, a rich legacy from which we have much to learn as we strive to make our profession truly inclusive and anti-racist.

1. Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University): "A Portrait of William Sanders Scarborough in 1909"

2. Andre Davis (University of Maryland Carey School of Law): "Ruminations on Place, Privilege, and Prejudice: Baltimore at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century"

3. John W.I. Lee (University of California Santa Barbara): ““I am trying to walk in your footsteps:” John Wesley Gilbert and William Sanders Scarborough from Athens to Philadelphia”

4. Eric Ashley Hairston (Wake Forest University): "Not merely remembered ...."

5. Shelley Haley (Hamilton College): “Response”

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Ninth Paper Session

9:00 a.m.

3:00 p.m.

SCS-57: Ancient MakerSpaces, (workshop), Joint Session

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-58: Migrants and Membership in the Greek City States, (panel)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-59: Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Supremacy (panel)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-60: Tacitus and the Incomplete, (panel)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-61: Think of the Children!: The Reception of the Ancient World in Children's Literature, (Women's Classical Caucus)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-62: Hybrid Epicenters: Peripheral Adaptations in Flavian Literature, (panel)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-63: The World of Neo-Latin: Epistolography, (American Association for Neo-Latin Studies)

Tenth Paper Session

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-64: Ovid, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-65: Greek Tragedy (1), (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-66: Philosophy in a Roman Context, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-67: Second Century CE Prose, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-68: Difficult Topics in the Classroom, (SCS K-12 Education Committee Panel)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-69: Between Myth and Materiality: The Origins of Rome, 800-500 BCE, (panel), Joint Session

Special Events

8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

ICCS Representatives' Breakfast Meeting

12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.

WCC Open Meeting

5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m.

Plenary Session

6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Lambda Classical Caucus Business Meeting

7:20 p.m. 8:30 p.m.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Washington University St. Louis, University of Missouri-Columbia

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Eleventh Paper Session

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-70: Epigraphy and History, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-71: Seneca in the Renaissance, (Society for Early Modern Classical Reception)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-72: Pagans and Christians, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-73: New Environmental History: Promises and Pitfalls, (Society for Late Antiquity)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-74: Lightning Talk Panel on Greek and Roman Textbooks, (SCS Committee on College and University Education)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-75: Roman Historiography, (paper session)

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

SCS-76: Flavian Poetry, (paper session)

Special Events

12:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m.

Business Meeting of Members

12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m.

Vergilian Society General Business Meeting

12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.

Society for Late Antiquity Business Meeting

Twelfth Paper Session

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-77: Greek Historiography, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-78: New Approaches, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-79: Republican Latin Poetry, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-80: Greek Tragedy (2), (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-81: Homer and Hellenistic Literature, (paper session)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-82: The Ancient Novel and Material Culture, (organizer-refereed panel)

2:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

SCS-83: Race, Classics, and the Latin Classroom, (American Classical League)