Last Revised: 1/6/2024
The following is the schedule of SCS paper sessions, panels, seminars, workshops, and special events at the 2024 Annual Meeting. The schedule is subject to change. Please note that all times listed are CST.
For a detailed listing of sessions, including panels, seminars, workshops, and roundtables, please visit the Detailed Program of Sessions page.
We will post regular updates here and add events through the Fall.
Thursday January 4th, 2024 – Sunday January 7th, 2024
Thursday, January 4th
Friday, January 5th (First – Third Session blocks)
Saturday, January 6th (Fourth – Sixth Session blocks)
Sunday, January 7th (Seventh – Ninth Session blocks)
In the program outline below, SCS Staff and the Program Committee tried to minimize thematic scheduling conflicts. However, some session blocks may have thematic overlaps, due to individual scheduling needs and available space.
| Thursday, January 4, 2024 | |
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| 12:00pm – 1:00pm, Virtual | VIRTUAL: International Ovidian Society Business Meeting |
| 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Conference Room 4J (4th Floor) | Communications Committee |
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Offsite (Newberry Library) | Rare Books Workshop: Classical Legacies in the Early Modern Luso-Hispanic World at the Newberry Library (Organized by Hesperides, Register Here) Shuttle departure from the hotel is at 1:30pm sharp. Expected return is around 4:00pm. |
| 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Conference Room 4I (4th Floor) | Vergilian Society Board of Trustees Meeting |
| 4:00pm – 7:00pm, Conference Room 4H (4th Floor) | Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Normandie Lounge (2nd Floor) | Res Difficiles Journal Launch |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Conference Room 4J (4th Floor) | NCLG Semi-Annual Meeting |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Boulevard B (2nd Floor) | International Ovidian Society Reception |
| 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Normandie Lounge (2nd Floor) | First Time Attendees' Reception |
| 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Grand Ballroom (2nd Floor) | AIA/SCS Opening Night Reception |
| 9:00pm – 11:00pm, Continental Room A (Lobby Level) | COGSIP/LCC/WCC Joint Reception |
| Friday, January 5, 2024 | |
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| First Paper Session (10 sessions) | |
| 7:00am – 8:00am, Boulevard C (2nd Floor) | AIA/SCS Open Yoga Room |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | SCS-1: HYBRID: "famaeque dissimilis": Image Management, Perception, and Reality in Tacitus’ "Histories" (Panel) |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Astoria (3rd Floor) | SCS-2: HYBRID: Re-Tracing the Archive: Affects and Ethics (organizer-refereed panel) |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Williford Room A (3rd Floor) | SCS-3: Astronomy and Astrology |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon C-6 (Lower Level) | SCS-4: Comparative Legal Thought and Practice in the Graeco-Roman World and Early China |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon A-1 (Lower Level) | SCS-5: The Politics of Reception |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon A-3 (Lower Level) | SCS-6: A Workshop on Classics, Racism, Bias: Discussion and Praxis on American History, Mythology, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Workshop) |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon A-2 (Lower Level) | SCS-7: Latin Epic |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon C-7 (Lower Level) | SCS-8: The Afterlife of Plato |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon C-5 (Lower Level) | SCS-9: Future Most Vivid: Creating the Conditions for Human-AI Collaboration in Classical Studies (Panel) |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon C-8 (Lower Level) | SCS-10: Greek and Latin Linguistics (organized by the Society for Greek and Latin Linguistics) |
| Second Paper Session (10 sessions) | |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Astoria (3rd Floor) | SCS-11: HYBRID: Roman Religion |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | SCS-12: HYBRID: Translation (Organized by Hesperides) |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon A-2 (Lower Level) | SCS-13: Greek Historiography |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon C-5 (Lower Level) | SCS-14: Tragedy and Reception |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon A-1 (Lower Level) | SCS-15: Latin Elegy |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Williford Room A (3rd Floor) | SCS-16: Homer |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon A-3 (Lower Level) | SCS-17: Celebrating Community in Classical Pedagogy (organized by the Graduate Student Committee) |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon C-7 (Lower Level) | SCS-18: Essential Digital Classics (organized by the Digital Classics Association) |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon C-6 (Lower Level) | SCS-19: Choral Alterity: Becoming Other in Greek Poetry (Panel) |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon C-8 (Lower Level) | SCS-20: The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (organized by Eta Sigma Phi) |
| 11:00am – 12:30pm, Williford Room B (3rd Floor) | Lambda Classical Caucus Business Meeting |
| 12:00pm – 1:00pm, McCormick Boardroom (4th Floor) | HYBRID: Advisory Board of the American Office of L'Année Philologique Hybrid Meeting |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Conference Room 4G (4th Floor) | Society for Late Antiquity Business Meeting |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Virtual | VIRTUAL: WCC's Virtual Open Business Meeting (100% virtual) |
| 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Conference Room 4I (4th Floor) | Program Committee |
| 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Conference Room 4D (4th Floor) | Committee on Career Planning and Development |
| 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Conference Room 4J (4th Floor) | Finance Committee |
| Third Paper Session (10 sessions) | |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | SCS-21: HYBRID: Ovid in Retrospect: Revision, Reflection, Reception (organized by the International Ovidian Society) |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Astoria (3rd Floor) | SCS-22: HYBRID: Taking Stock: Stereotypes in the Ancient Mediterranean (organized by the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus) |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Williford Room A (3rd Floor) | SCS-23: Drama and Performance |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon C-5 (Lower Level) | SCS-24: Catullus |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon C-7 (Lower Level) | SCS-25: Hellenistic Literature |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon C-6 (Lower Level) | SCS-26: Place, Landscape and the Natural Environment |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon A-1 (Lower Level) | SCS-27: Translators' Showcase: Bilingual Readings (organized by Committee on Translation of Classical Authors) |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon A-2 (Lower Level) | SCS-28: Personal and Political in Rome and China: New Approaches to Sino-Roman Comparison (Panel) |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon C-8 (Lower Level) | SCS-29: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (organized by American Society of Papyrologists) |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon A-3 (Lower Level) | SCS-30: Classics in the Community Panel on Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities Initiative (workshop organized by the Committee on Classics in the Community) |
| 2:00pm – 3:15pm, Conference Room 4H (4th Floor) | Classics and Social Justice Open Meeting |
| 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Virtual | VIRTUAL: Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication (FCLSC) Virtual Annual Business Meeting |
| 3:30pm – 5:00pm, Conference Room 4G (4th Floor) | Open Business Meeting of Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm, Private Dining 4 (3rd Floor) | Vergilian Society General Meeting |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm, Private Dining 4 (3rd Floor) | Vergilian Society Member Reception |
| 5:00pm – 7:00pm, Williford Room B (3rd Floor) | Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome Meeting |
| 5:30pm – 7:30pm, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | HYBRID: SCS Presidential Panel: "Career diversity in the humanities: a matter of advocacy and social responsibility" |
| 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Williford Room B (3rd Floor) | Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome Reception |
| 7:30pm – 9:00pm, Boulevard B (2nd Floor) | Mountaintop Coalition Social Hour |
| 8:00pm – 9:30pm, Marquette Room (3rd Floor) | CAMP Performance: Lysistrata |
| 9:30pm – 10:00pm, Marquette Room (3rd Floor) | CAMP Talkback: Lysistrata |
| 9:00pm – 10:30pm, Boulevard A (2nd Floor) | Pachanga: Hispanic/Latinx Grad and Faculty Happy Hour |
| 9:00pm – 10:30pm, Boulevard C (2nd Floor) | Reception: Hosted by the University of Missouri-Columbia; University of Illinois; Urbana-Champaign; Washington University, St Louis |
| 9:00pm – 11:00pm, Normandie Lounge (2nd Floor) | Reception hosted by Brown University Classics Department and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World |
| Saturday, January 6, 2024 | |
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| Fourth Paper Session (11 sessions) | |
| 7:00am – 8:00am, Boulevard C (2nd Floor) | AIA/SCS Open Yoga Room |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | SCS-31: HYBRID: Neo-Latin and the State (organized by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies) |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Astoria (3rd Floor) | SCS-32: HYBRID: Indigenous Perspectives, Ancient and Modern: A Mountaintop Coalition Panel (Panel) |
| 8:00am – 1:00pm, Salon A-4 (Lower Level) | SCS-33: Ancient MakerSpaces (Workshop, Joint Session) |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon C-5 (Lower Level) | SCS-34: Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Works of Plutarch and his Contemporaries (organized by the International Plutarch Society) |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon A-1 (Lower Level) | SCS-35: Epigraphy and Materiality |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon A-2 (Lower Level) | SCS-36: (New) Materialities of Medicine (organized by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology) |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon C-6 (Lower Level) | SCS-37: Ovid |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon C-8 (Lower Level) | SCS-38: Drama and Poetry |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon A-3 (Lower Level) | SCS-39: Classics and the Postcolonial in the Americas (Workshop) |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Williford Room A (3rd Floor) | SCS-40: Late Antiquity |
| 8:00am – 10:30am, Salon C-7 (Lower Level) | SCS-41: Numismatics |
| Fifth Paper Session (12 sessions) | |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | SCS-42: HYBRID: Topics in Classics and Social Justice (organized by Classics and Social Justice) |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Astoria (3rd Floor) | SCS-43: HYBRID: Apuleius and His World: New Approaches, New Directions (Panel) |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon C-5 (Lower Level) | SCS-44: Tacitus |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon A-1 (Lower Level) | SCS-45: Political History |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon C-6 (Lower Level) | SCS-46: Women in Homeric Epic |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon C-7 (Lower Level) | SCS-47: The Novel |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon C-8 (Lower Level) | SCS-48: Roman Voice and Public Speech |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon A-3 (Lower Level) | SCS-49: Lightning Talk Session |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon A-2 (Lower Level) | SCS-50: Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (organized by Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy) |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Williford Room A (3rd Floor) | SCS-51: Hesiod |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon C-3 (Lower Level) | SCS-52: Peer Review: Present Tensions, Future Directions (Workshop, Joint Session) |
| 11:00am – 12:00pm, Virtual | VIRTUAL: K-12 Education / Joint Committee on the Classics in American Education Meeting |
| 12:00pm – 2:00pm, Virtual | VIRTUAL: Career Networking Event (Pre-registration is required; Learn More & Sign Up Here) |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Salon D (Lower Level) or Virtual | SCS-53: Roundtable Session |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Conference Room 4I (4th Floor) | Friends of Numismatics, Annual Business Meeting |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Conference Room 4H (4th Floor) | Mountaintop Coalition Business Meeting |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Private Dining 4 (3rd Floor) | First Generation Low Income Federation (FGLIF) Community Meeting |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Virtual | VIRTUAL: K-12 Virtual Teacher's Tea |
| Sixth Paper Session (10 sessions) | |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | SCS-54: HYBRID: Gender, Queerness, and Disability in the Ancient World (organized by the Women’s Classical Caucus) |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Astoria (3rd Floor) | SCS-55: HYBRID: New Perspectives on Musonian Studies (Panel) |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Williford Room A (3rd Floor) | SCS-56: Roman Satire and Humor |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon C-8 (Lower Level) | SCS-57: Tragedy and Theory |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon C-5 (Lower Level) | SCS-58: Slavery |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon C-7 (Lower Level) | SCS-59: Greek and Roman Philosophy |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon A-3 (Lower Level) | SCS-60: Classical East and West: Case studies in philosophy and medicine to discuss methods, aims, and results of comparative research (Seminar) |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon A-2 (Lower Level) | SCS-61: Reaching over the Divide: Perspectives from K-12, College, and University Classics Teaching (organized by the American Classical League) |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon A-1 (Lower Level) | SCS-62: Centering the Margins: Thinking Anew with the Drama of the Ancient Mediterranean (organized by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance) |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon C-6 (Lower Level) | SCS-63: From Elements to Ecologies: Art, Media, and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean (Panel) |
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm, Virtual | VIRTUAL: PhD-Granting Chairs' Meeting |
| 4:00pm – 5:00pm, McCormick Boardroom (4th Floor) | Graduate Student Committee Meeting |
| 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Private Dining 4 (3rd Floor) | Chairs of Undergraduate-Focused Classics Departments and Programs Meeting |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Boulevard A (2nd Floor) | Graduate Student Happy Hour Hosted by AIA’s Student Affairs Interest Group (SAIG) and SCS’s Graduate Student Committee (GSC) |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Williford Room B (3rd Floor) | Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions Business Meeting |
| 5:15pm – 6:15pm, Astoria (3rd Floor) | HYBRID: TAPA Mentoring Session |
| 5:30pm – 7:30pm, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | HYBRID: SCS Plenary Session (Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address) |
| 6:30pm – 7:30pm, Boulevard B (2nd Floor) | TAPA Reception |
| 8:00pm – 9:00pm, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | Ancient Music Open Mic Night (hosted by John Franklin, UVM) |
| 8:00pm – 9:00pm, Boulevard C (2nd Floor) | Reception: Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus |
| 8:00pm – 10:00pm, Boulevard A (2nd Floor) | Reception hosted by NYU Department of Classics; Institute for the Study of the Ancient World; and the Center for Ancient Studies |
| Sunday, January 7, 2024 | |
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| Seventh Paper Session (9 sessions) | |
| 7:00am – 8:00am, Boulevard C (2nd Floor) | AIA/SCS Open Yoga Room |
| 8:00am – 11:00am, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | SCS-64: HYBRID: Green Vergil II (organized by the Vergilian Society) |
| 8:00am – 11:00am, Astoria (3rd Floor) | SCS-65: HYBRID: Queering the Hero (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus) |
| 8:00am – 11:00am, Salon C-6 (Lower Level) | SCS-66: Hellenistic History |
| 8:00am – 11:00am, Salon A-1 (Lower Level) | SCS-67: Intertextuality and Greek and Roman Cultural Memory (organizer-refereed panel) |
| 8:00am – 11:00am, Williford Room A (3rd Floor) | SCS-68: Late Antique and Medieval Latin Literature |
| 8:00am – 11:00am, Salon A-2 (Lower Level) | SCS-69: Ancient Comedy and Comic Traditions |
| 8:00am – 11:00am, Salon A-3 (Lower Level) | SCS-70: Coins, Copies, and Prototypes (organized by the American Society for Numismatics, Joint Session) |
| 8:00am – 11:00am, Salon C-8 (Lower Level) | SCS-71: Rhetoric and Education |
| 8:00am – 11:00am, Salon C-5 (Lower Level) | SCS-72: Power and Diversity: Centering Achaemenid Persian Imperialism (Panel, Joint Session) |
| 9:00am – 11:00am, Private Dining 4 (3rd Floor) | ASGLE's Business Meeting |
| 10:00am – 12:00pm, Williford Room B (3rd Floor) | CANCELLED: Business meeting of Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome |
| 11:00am – 11:30am, Salon C-7 (Lower Level) | SCS Business Meeting of Members |
| Eighth Paper Session (10 sessions) | |
| 11:30am – 1:30pm, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | SCS-73: HYBRID: Music and Power: The View from Hellenistic and Imperial Literature (organized by MOISA; International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage) |
| 11:30am – 1:30pm, Astoria (3rd Floor) | SCS-74: HYBRID: Law and Epigraphy in the Greek and Roman World (American Society for Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Joint Session) |
| 11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon A-2 (Lower Level) | SCS-75: Classics and Pedagogy |
| 11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon C-5 (Lower Level) | SCS-76: Magic and Dreams |
| 11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon C-7 (Lower Level) | SCS-77: Measurement and Mathematics |
| 11:30am – 1:30pm, Williford Room A (3rd Floor) | SCS-78: Medieval and Renaissance Reception |
| 11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon A-1 (Lower Level) | SCS-79: Animal-Human Interactions in Late Antiquity (organized by the Society for Late Antiquity) |
| 11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon C-6 (Lower Level) | SCS-80: Economic History |
| 11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon C-8 (Lower Level) | SCS-81: Platonism and Natural Philosophy (organized by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies) |
| 11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon A-3 (Lower Level) | SCS-82: Roman Historiography |
| 11:30am – 1:00pm, Conference Room 4J (4th Floor) | Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus Business Meeting |
| Ninth Paper Session (10 sessions) | |
| 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Waldorf (3rd Floor) | SCS-83: HYBRID: Secrecy and sociogenesis: mysteries, restricted rituals, and the growth of religious communities (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions) |
| 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Astoria (3rd Floor) | SCS-84: HYBRID: The Afterlife of the Body (organizer-refereed panel) |
| 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Salon C-7 (Lower Level) | SCS-85: Medical Texts |
| 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Salon C-5 (Lower Level) | SCS-86: Voices of the Late Republic |
| 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Salon C-6 (Lower Level) | SCS-87: Virgil |
| 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Williford Room A (3rd Floor) | SCS-88: Language and Linguistics |
| 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon A-1 (Lower Level) | SCS-89: The Silver Age of Hellenistic Poetry (Panel) |
| 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Salon C-8 (Lower Level) | SCS-90: Non-Canonical Greek Pedagogy (Workshop) |
| 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Salon A-2 (Lower Level) | SCS-91: The Challenge and Alterity of Modernity (organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception) |
| 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Salon A-3 (Lower Level) | SCS-92: Greek Lyric |
| 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Conference Room 4D (4th Floor) | SCS Board Meeting |
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