Departmental memberships for 2020 are now available. This year's departmental membership includes new publication options as well as the ability to purchase membership for students and contingent faculty.
You can download the form here, then send it to the SCS office through fax or via email at info@classicalstudies.org
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Call for Volunteers
The Society for Classical Studies seeks graduate, undergraduate, and contingent faculty volunteers for the 151th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., which will take place this coming January. Assignments will include working in the registration area and assisting staff with some sessions and special events.
You can sign up to volunteer here.
In exchange for six hours of service (either in one continuous or in segmented assignments), volunteers receive a waiver of their annual meeting registration fees. It is not necessary to be an SCS member to volunteer.
For more information about the meeting itself, visit our Annual Meeting page.
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In response to problems and needs, some long-term and others exposed by events at San Diego, the SCS Board of Directors has voted to add an Equity Adviser to the SCS board as an advisory member, with voice but without vote. This will be a three-year appointment made by the President, upon approval of the directors. The position will replace on the board, as of January 5, 2020, the current chair of the Strategic Development Committee, who currently serves as an ex officio board member with voice but without vote. The Strategic Development Committee itself is being wound down as part of an attempt to rationalize our governance structure. This change will not affect the 16 elected board positions.
For the first time since 2016, the SCS will be holding four seminars at this year’s annual meeting.
Seminars as a rule concentrate on more narrowly focused topics and aim at extensive discussion. In order to allow the time to be spent mainly on discussion, the SCS publishes a notice about the session in advance, and organizers distribute copies of the papers (normally three or four in number) to be discussed to those who request them. Attendance at a seminar will, if necessary, be limited to the first 25 people who sign up. Seminars are normally three hours in length. Registered meeting attendees may sign up at no additional cost for one or more of these seminars during the month of October.
You can chceck out this year's seminars and sign up here: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2020/151/2020-annual-meeting-seminars
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SCS member and Classical Studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania Emily Wilson has won a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
You can read the full announcement on the UPenn page here.
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The SCS board of directors has endorsed a statement on the use of student evaluations of teaching developed by the American Sociological Association.
Here are a few important deadlines coming up at the end of this month:
- Excellence in Teaching at the Pre-Collegiate Level - September 27, 2019
- Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level - September 27, 2019
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Funding for the Annual Meeting (childcare, travel stipends, equity funding)
- Travel Stipends and Equity Funding - September 27, 2019
- Childcare Subsidies - September 30, 2019
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The following members were elected in the ballot held this Summer. They take office in January 2020, except for the two new members of the Nominating Committee who take office immediately. Thank you to all SCS members who agreed to stand for election this year.
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President-Elect |
Shelley P. Haley |
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Vice President for Communications and Outreach |
Alison Futrell |
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Goodwin Committee |
Harriet Flower |
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Nominating Committee |
Toph Marshall Patrice Rankine |
Please find a list of award and fellowship deadlines for this Fall:
Registration for the Joint AIA/SCS Annual Meeting is now open!
Reservations at the conference hotel are now open. You can reserve your room at the Marriott Marquis, Washington D.C. here. We have also booked an overflow hotel for the conference, located a 3 minute walk from the Marriott. You can reserve your room at the Renaissance Washington D.C., Downtown here.
To register for the meeting itself, click here.
