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Society for Classical Studies 157th Annual Meeting
JANUARY 7-10, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO

Call for Papers for Panel Sponsored by the American Society of Papyrologists

Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt

Organized by C. Michael Sampson (University of Manitoba)

The American Society of Papyrologists invites proposals for papers for its panel “Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt” at the 2026 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco (7–10 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);

(b) they must investigate aspects of the histories or cultures of Egypt from the Hellenistic to the early Islamic period.

Submissions from graduate students and faculty at all levels are welcome.

Please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (see the SCS Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts) by email, as a Word of PDF email attachment, to C. Michael Sampson (University of Manitoba) at mike.sampson@umanitoba.ca by February 15, 2025. Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words (excluding bibliography) and suitable for a 20- minute presentation. Please ensure that the abstracts are anonymized, to permit a process of double-blind review.

Decisions will be communicated to the authors of abstracts by mid-April. Please note that authors submitting abstracts must be SCS members in good standing at the time of registration for the 2026 meeting.