Please note that the deadline for submission of individual abstracts for paper and poster presentations and of short abstracts for lightning talks is 11.59pm EDT, Monday April 15.
Those who will submit Individual Abstracts for the 2020 Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. should sign up for their SCS memberships by this Friday, April 11th, as memberships take a couple days to process and all submissions must come from SCS Members.
You can renew or sign up for SCS membership here: https://scs.press.jhu.edu/membership/join
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We would like to remind SCS members who are considering submitting for the 2020 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., that the Lightning Talk format - launched this year at our Sesquicentennial - is returning for 2020 as well.
Members who have a topic about which they are passionate and can speak succinctly are encouraged to apply.
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Please note these important upcoming deadlines:
1. The deadline for submission of the following is 11.59pm EDT, Monday April 8:
- Panel, seminar, workshop, and roundtable proposals for the 2020 Annual Meeting
- Affiliated group and organizer-refereed panel reports for the 2020 Annual Meeting
- Applications for renewed or new charters for affiliated groups
- Applications for organizer-refereed panels for the 2021 Annual Meeting
2. The deadline for submission of individual abstracts for paper and poster presentations and of short abstracts for lightning talks is 11.59pm EDT, Monday April 15.
The deadline for submission of the following is 11.59pm EDT, April 8:
- Panel, seminar, workshop, and roundtable proposals for the 2020 Annual Meeting
- Affiliated group and organizer-refereed panel reports for the 2020 Annual Meeting
- Applications for renewed or new charters for affiliated groups
- Applications for organizer-refereed panels for the 2021 Annual Meeting
The deadline for submission of individual abstracts for paper and poster presentations and of short abstracts for lightning talks is 11.59pm EDT, April 15.
Please submit everything via our online Program Submission System.
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The SCS has received a response from a group of graduate students to Professor Joy Connolly’s blog post Working Towards a Just and Inclusive Future for Classics. This repsonse is posted below.
SCS is pleased to announce the addition of a candidate to the 2019 election slate for President-Elect. Professor Shelley P. Haley has received the support of over 30 SCS members, and, in accordance with Bylaw 30, she has been added as a candidate in the upcoming summer elections. You can view the updated slate here.
The 2019 Election Slate is now available. Please click here for a list of candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee and for instructions for those members who wish to petition to be added to the ballot.
All tickets are now reserved for the free staged reading and discussion of Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation at BAM on March 15 at 7.30pm. There will be a standby line. Reserved seats must be claimed by 7:20 p.m. Unclaimed seats will then be released to those on the standby line.
Doors open at BAM Fisher (321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11217) at 6:30 p.m. for a book signing by Emily Wilson. Please bring your own copies for signing, as we will not be selling books.
We are writing for two reasons. First, we reiterate the statement of 1/6/19, authored and approved by the Board of Directors in San Diego. There is no place for racism in our field and we feel that is important to reissue that statement, given the increasing toxicity of online debate and the intensification of online harassment over the last few days:
