Society of Classical Studies 157th Annual Meeting
JANUARY 7-10, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO
Call for Papers for Panel Sponsored by The American Classical League
Panel Title: Classical Studies Across Curricula
Organized by Philip Walsh, St. Andrew’s School and Editor of The Classical Outlook; James Ker, University of Pennsylvania and Associate Editor of The Classical Outlook; Kathleen Durkin, Garden City High School and Associate Editor of The Classical Outlook.
The American Classical League invites teachers and scholars to submit abstracts for its affiliated group panel session, Classical Studies Across Curricula, at the 157th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco in January 2026. We welcome abstracts that address the prompt below or other issues relevant to the topic:
The terms “interdisciplinary” and “cross-disciplinary” are used regularly in K-12 and postsecondary education as a way of encouraging thinking and acting across different content areas. These approaches encourage specialists to work together, but they also invite individuals to explore different content areas in their own teaching and learning. We seek to learn how cross-disciplinary approaches have been applied effectively in classical studies classrooms, or in other subject areas not primarily concerned with classical studies, both in the United States and abroad. We are interested in hearing a range of answers that educators and students in both K-12 institutions and higher education would give to some or all of the following questions:
What meaningful or intentional cross-disciplinary approach(es) to teaching Latin, Greek, and the ancient world have you used in your teaching and learning?
Have any cross-disciplinary approaches been successful? If so, why? If not, why not, or what would have made an approach more successful?
How can cross-disciplinary teaching and learning strengthen an understanding in a content area?
If you have drawn on classical studies topics or materials while teaching in other subject areas, what did this allow you to accomplish?
Have you combined the materials or subject areas of traditional Greco-Roman classical studies with those of other fields or disciplines in ways that result in a significant rethinking of the traditional discipline altogether?
All papers should be accessible to a broad audience of scholars, learners, and teachers. Papers accepted for the panel will be published in The Classical Outlook (CO), the official journal of The American Classical League, after additional peer review. By submitting an abstract, you agree to submit your paper for publication in CO, if the abstract is chosen for the panel. Abstracts should be submitted to the panel organizer, Philip Walsh (pwalsh@standrews-de.org). Any questions about the panel may be addressed to him. He will anonymize the abstracts before they are forwarded to the panel reviewers. Reviewer decisions will be communicated to the authors of abstracts by March 14, 2025, with enough time that those whose abstracts are not chosen can participate in the individual abstract submission process for the upcoming meeting.
Please submit abstracts (maximum 500 words, excluding bibliography) as a Word document. They should conform to the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that appear in the SCS Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts. The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 24, 2025.
Please put “ACL Panel at SCS 2026” in the subject line of your email submission. Include the title of your paper, your name, and your institutional affiliation (or status as an independent scholar) in the email message only, but make sure that your name (and any other identifying information) does not appear in the abstract itself or in the name of the file. If you refer to your own scholarship in your abstract, cite it in the third person, as you would any other source.
You MUST be a member of SCS to submit an abstract. Please include in your email submission message your SCS member number and the date you joined or last renewed. (This will appear on your membership confirmation email from SCS and in your account.) You DO NOT have to be a member of ACL to submit an abstract.