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Last Revised: 11/4/2024

The following is the schedule of SCS paper sessions, panels, seminars, and workshops at the 2025 Annual Meeting. The schedule is subject to change, and additional events, receptions, and meetings will be added to the schedule throughout the fall.

For a detailed listing of sessions, including panels, seminars, workshops, and roundtables, please visit the Detailed Program of Sessions page.

Please note that all times listed are Eastern Time (ET).

Thursday January 2nd, 2025 – Sunday January 5th, 2025
Thursday, January 2nd
Friday, January 3rd (First – Third Session blocks)
Saturday, January 4th (Fourth – Sixth Session blocks)
Sunday, January 5th (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.

If you notice a typo or an error in the information below, please submit the corrected information through the following form by November 15th, 2024: Typo Correction Form


Thursday, January 2, 2025
2:00pm – 3:30pm, Meeting Room 302 Business Meeting, Joint Meeting of Friends of Numismatics (SCS) and Numismatics Interest Group (AIA)
4:00pm – 6:00pm, Meeting Room 413 Vergilian Society Board of Trustees Meeting
6:00pm – 7:00pm, Meeting Room 302 NCLG Open Board Meeting
9:00pm – 11:00pm, Independence 1 & 2 COGSIP/LCC/WCC Joint Reception

Friday, January 3, 2025
First Paper Session (10 sessions)
8:00am – 10:30am, 401-403 (Hybrid) HYBRID: The Heroides and Their Tradition (organized by the International Ovidian Society)
8:00am – 10:30am, 407-409 Roman Historiography
8:00am – 10:30am, 411-412 ISNS Panel: The Geographies of Plato(ism) (organized by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies)
8:00am – 10:30am, 414-415 Education and Rhetoric
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon G Queer Space and Time
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon H (Hybrid) HYBRID: Reception of Tragedy
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon I (Hybrid) HYBRID: Greek Law and Oratory
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon J Being First Generation, Low Income in Classics (Workshop, Joint Session)
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon K (Hybrid) HYBRID: Lenses into the Ancient World: Coins and Pedagogy (organized by the Friends of Numismatics, Joint Session)
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon L Herculaneum: Old Finds, New Approaches (organized by the American Friends of Herculaneum)
9:00am – 10:30am, Meeting Room 413 Lambda Classical Caucus Business Meeting
Second Paper Session (10 sessions)
11:00am – 1:00pm, 401-403 (Hybrid) HYBRID: Labor
11:00am – 1:00pm, 407-409 Numismatics
11:00am – 1:00pm, 411-412 Pedagogy
11:00am – 1:00pm, 414-415 Linguistics
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon G Bring Your Own Poem: An Experiential Workshop (Workshop)
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid) HYBRID: Collaborative Practice for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient Mediterranean (Workshop)
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon I (Hybrid) HYBRID: International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? Obstacles and Challenges to Equity: A Mountaintop Coalition Panel (Panel, Joint Session)
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon J Mythography and Cultural Identity in the Early Modern World
(organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception)
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon K (Hybrid) HYBRID: Animals
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon L Modern & Popular Receptions of Late Antiquity (organized by the Society for Late Antiquity)
11:00am – 1:00pm, Virtual VIRTUAL: Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication (FCLSC) Virtual Annual Business Meeting
12:00pm – 1:00pm, Meeting Room 413 First-Generation Low-Income Federation (FGLIF) Info Meeting
12:00pm – 1:00pm, Virtual VIRTUAL: International Ovidian Society Business Meeting
12:00pm – 1:30pm, Meeting Room 302 American Friends of Herculaneum board meeting
12:00pm – 2:00pm, Exhibition Hall (Franklin Hall) Poster Session
12:00pm – 2:30pm, Meeting Room 304 Business Meeting (Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus)
1:00pm – 2:00pm, Virtual VIRTUAL: WCC Open Business Meeting (Online)
Third Paper Session (10 sessions)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, 401-403 (Hybrid) HYBRID: Re-evaluating Turnus in Vergil and the Vergilian Tradition (organized by the Vergilian Society)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, 407-409 The Gods are Watching: The Ocular and the Oracular in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, 411-412 Euripides
2:00pm – 5:00pm, 414-415 Greek and Roman Intertexts
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon G Hidden Labor and Precarity in the Roman World (Organizer-Referred Panel)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid) HYBRID: Imperial Greek Literature
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon I (Hybrid) HYBRID: Latin Letters
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon J Queer Families in the Ancient Mediterranean World (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon K (Hybrid) HYBRID: Classics Beyond Classics Departments: Challenge, Adaptation, Innovation
(organized by the SCS Committee on College and University Education)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon L Organization, Display, and Transfer of Knowledge (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy and the American Society of Papyrologists)
3:00pm – 4:00pm, Meeting Room 302 Open Business Meeting (Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World)
5:00pm – 6:00pm, Registration 2 Vergilian Society Member Reception
5:00pm – 7:00pm, Meeting Room 406 Friends of Morgantina Reception in Honor of Malcolm Bell, III
5:30pm – 7:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid) HYBRID: Presidential Panel: Demographic Change in SCS Research Foci
5:30pm – 7:30pm, Salon L Meeting of the Advisory Council on Classical Studies of the American Academy in Rome
6:00pm – 7:00pm, Meeting Room 410 Swarthmore College, Department of Classics Reception
7:00pm – 9:00pm, Meeting Room 305 Reception for University of Illinois, University of Missouri, Washington University
7:30pm – 9:00pm, Meeting Room 303 Mountaintop Coalition Social Hour
8:00pm – 9:30pm, Independence 3 The Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP) Reading and Talkback: Conversations at the Return of Spring (learn more)
8:00pm – 10:00pm, Registration 2 New York University Reception (ISAW, Classics, & Center for Ancient Studies)
9:00pm – 11:00pm, Independence 1 Brown University Classics Department and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
9:00pm – 11:00pm, Salon G University of Pennsylvania & Yale University Joint Reception

Saturday, January 4, 2025
Fourth Paper Session (10 sessions)
8:00am – 10:30am, 401-403 (Hybrid) HYBRID: Greek Poetry
8:00am – 10:30am, 407-409 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (organized by Eta Sigma Phi)
8:00am – 10:30am, 411-412 Medicine and Disability
8:00am – 10:30am, 414-415 Latin Poetry
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon G Scribal Culture
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon H (Hybrid) HYBRID: Byzantine and Early Modern Reception
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon I (Hybrid) HYBRID: Love and Self-knowledge: Tragic, Lyric, and Platonic Perspectives (Panel)
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon J Translation and Creative Adaptation (organized by the SCS Committee on Translations of Classical Authors)
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon K (Hybrid) HYBRID: Opening Up Classics with AI (organized by the Digital Classics Association)
8:00am – 10:30am, Salon L Landscape and Environment
10:00am – 11:00am, Meeting Room 302 Business Meeting for Medieval Latin Studies Group
10:00am – 11:30am, Meeting Room 304 Classics and Social Justice Open Meeting
10:30am – 11:00am, Meeting Room 413 Vergilian Society General Membership Meeting
Fifth Paper Session (9 sessions)
11:00am – 1:00pm, 401-403 (Hybrid) HYBRID: Lightning Talk Session
11:00am – 1:00pm, 407-409 Historiography and Roman Imperialism (Panel)
11:00am – 1:00pm, 411-412 Plato and Aristotle
11:00am – 1:00pm, 414-415 Disaster in Rome
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon G Dance and Myth: The Reception of the Greeks by Martha Graham (Panel organized by the SCS Classics in the Community Committee)
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid) HYBRID: Comedy
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon I (Hybrid) HYBRID: Teaching with Role-Immersive Games in a Variety of Classroom Settings (Workshop)
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon J Classical Legacies and the Ibero-global World (organized by Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World)
11:00am – 1:00pm, Salon K (Hybrid) HYBRID: Lit in Late Antiquity
11:30am – 12:30pm, Salon L SCS Data Committee Report: State of the Field 2025
12:00pm – 2:00pm, Meeting Room 304 Eos Africana Business Meeting
1:00pm – 2:00pm, Meeting Room 302 Society for Late Antiquity Business Meeting
1:00pm – 2:00pm, Exhibition Hall (Franklin Hall) Roundtable Session
Sixth Paper Session (11 sessions)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Virtual VIRTUAL: Between, Beyond, Bygone, Behind: Queer Time in the Ancient Mediterranean (Organizer-Referred Panel). This panel will be conducted entirely online, with no in-person component at the hotel.
2:00pm – 5:00pm, 401-403 (Hybrid) HYBRID: Homer
2:00pm – 5:00pm, 407-409 Ancient Greek Exegesis: The Work of Commentators from the Classical Period to Late Antiquity (Panel)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, 411-412 Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics (organized by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, 414-415 Imperial History
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon G CAMP Workshop. New Plays, New Directions: Ellen McLaughlin’s Conversations at the Return of Spring (organized by the SCS Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid) HYBRID: Antiquity in Asia and the Mediterranean: A Comparative Approach (organized by the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon I (Hybrid) HYBRID: Global Classical Reception
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon J Slavery
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon K (Hybrid) HYBRID: Epic Interjections (Organizer-Referred Panel)
2:00pm – 5:00pm, Salon L New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy in the 21st Century (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists and the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy)
4:00pm – 5:30pm, Meeting Room 304 Meeting of Chairs of Undergraduate-focused Departments and Programs
5:30pm – 7:45pm, Salon H (Hybrid) HYBRID: Plenary Session, the SCS Business Meeting of Members, and Reception
6:00pm – 7:30pm, Offsite Bryn Mawr Classics and Archaeology Reception at Bryn Mawr College
6:00pm – 7:30pm, Offsite Pachanga: Hispanic/Latinx Grad and Faculty Happy Hour
6:30pm – 8:00pm, Meeting Room 305 Eta SIgma Phi Mixer
7:00pm – 8:00pm, Meeting Room 303 Reception (Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus)
8:30pm – 10:00pm, Salon H Ancient Music Open Mic Night
8:00pm – 10:00pm, Suzanne Roberts Theatre (off-site location) The Martha Graham Dance Company: Two Greek-Themed Modernist Works by Martha Graham (learn more)

Sunday, January 5, 2025
Seventh Paper Session (13 sessions)
8:00am – 11:00am, Virtual VIRTUAL: A Rupture in Time: Queer Receptions of the Ancient Mediterranean (Panel). This panel will be conducted entirely online, with no in-person component at the hotel.
8:00am – 11:00am, 401-403 (Hybrid) HYBRID: Neronian and Flavian Literature
8:00am – 11:00am, 407-409 Ovid
8:00am – 11:00am, 411-412 Greek Tragedy
8:00am – 11:00am, 414-415 Liquid Poetics: Bodies of Water and Greek Poetry (Panel)
8:00am – 11:00am, Salon G Readers and Reception
8:00am – 11:00am, Salon H (Hybrid) HYBRID: Mabel Lang and Her Legacy: New Research in Greek History, Culture, and Archaeology (Panel, Joint Session)
8:00am – 11:00am, Salon I (Hybrid) HYBRID: Myth
8:00am – 11:00am, Salon J Classical Greek History
8:00am – 11:00am, Salon K (Hybrid) HYBRID: Thinking about wealth and inequality in antiquity (Panel)
8:00am – 11:00am, Salon L Reading Networks of Reading: ANT-ish Approaches to Reception Studies (Workshop)
8:00am – 11:00am The Feel of Luxury: The Sense-scape of Roman Convivia (Panel, Joint Session)
8:00am – 1:30 pm Ancient MakerSpaces (Workshop, Joint session)
11:00am – 12:00pm, Meeting Room 413 SAM Bring Your Own Lunch Meet & Greet
Eighth Paper Session (9 sessions)
11:30am – 1:30pm, 401-403 (Hybrid) HYBRID: Reproductive Justice in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (organized by Classics and Social Justice)
11:30am – 1:30pm, 407-409 Graduate Student Firsts: Presenting and Publishing in Graduate School (organized by the SCS Graduate Student Committee)
11:30am – 1:30pm, 411-412 Asian / Mediterranean Intersections
11:30am – 1:30pm, 414-415 Roman Drama
11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon G Roman Republican History
11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon H (Hybrid) HYBRID: Mater et materia: Maternal Experience and Embodied Motherhood in Latin Literature (Panel)
11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon J Narrative History and "Big Books" in Classics: challenges and prospects (Workshop)
11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon K (Hybrid) HYBRID: American Classical Reception
11:30am – 1:30pm, Salon L Decrees, Laws and Roman History
1:00pm – 2:00pm, Meeting Room 302 Business Meeting of the Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric
1:30pm – 2:30pm, Meeting Room 413 Mountaintop Coalition Business Meeting
1:30pm – 2:30pm, Virtual VIRTUAL: PhD Granting Institutions Chairs Meeting
Ninth Paper Session (9 sessions)
2:30pm – 5:00pm, 401-403 (Hybrid) HYBRID: Medical Modernities (organized by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology)
2:30pm – 5:00pm, 407-409 Current Research in the World of Neo-Latin Studies (Panel)
2:30pm – 5:00pm, 411-412 Hellenistic and Imperial Literature
2:30pm – 5:00pm, 414-415 Reception as Writing
2:30pm – 5:00pm, Salon G Hellenistic and Imperial History
2:30pm – 5:00pm, Salon I (Hybrid) HYBRID: Roman Performance
2:30pm – 5:00pm, Salon J How Do We Teach Introductory Language? (organized by the The American Classical League, ACL)
2:30pm – 5:00pm, Salon K (Hybrid) HYBRID: Imperial Greek Literature II
2:30pm – 5:00pm, Salon L Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry (Panel)
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AIA/SCS 2025 Joint Annual Meeting, January 2–5, 2025, Philadelphia, PA, with a photo of Philadelphia