SCS News
Survey results, best sessions, sessions chairs, and individual papers at the Annual Meeting in New OrleansPosted Mon, 01/12/2015 - 21:34 in SCS Announcements. We are please to announce the following results from the surveys that were sent to all those who were registered for the recent Annual Meeting in New Orleans on January 9, 10, and 11. FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 Best session overall:
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New Orleans Brass Band at Opening Night ReceptionPosted Wed, 01/07/2015 - 10:06 in SCS Announcements. The Kinfolk Brass Band will play at Thursday's Night's Joint Opening Night Reception in New Orleans. Tickets will be available at the door. See details here. |
Annual Meeting App Now AvailablePosted Mon, 01/05/2015 - 20:24 in SCS Announcements. The AIA-SCS Conference App is now available. For details about downloading and using the app, please visit this page on the AIA web site. As noted there, anyone may download the app or view its contents in an Internet browser, but only conference registrants can sign in and activate its custom scheduling and in-app messaging features. |
Council for European Studies FellowshipsPosted Sat, 01/03/2015 - 21:23 in Awards and Fellowships. The Council for European Studies is still accepting applications for the “Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship” and the “Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship.” |
New NEH Public Scholar ProgramPosted Sat, 01/03/2015 - 21:04 in Awards and Fellowships. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new grant opportunity, the Public Scholar Program, intended to support well-researched books in the humanities that have been conceived and written to reach a broad readership. Books supported through the Public Scholar Program might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic. |
New Date and Hotel for 2016 Joint Annual MeetingPosted Wed, 12/31/2014 - 11:45 in SCS Announcements. The SCS and the AIA are pleased to announce that the 2016 Joint Annual Meeting will take place at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel, the site of our last joint meeting in the city in 2004. The meeting will be from January 6 through 9, a Wednesday through Saturday. The date change was the result of a hotel re-booking situation, and we regret any inconvenience this change may cause. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco next year! Ann Benbow Adam D. Blistein |
Letter from the President: Expanding the Audience for ClassicsPosted Mon, 12/29/2014 - 10:35 in Presidential Letters, SCS Announcements. In this last of my presidential letters, I take the opportunity to inform you of a new SCS initiative to establish a wider audience for classics. At last year’s Presidential Panel, Robert Connor made an impassioned plea for our Society to undertake the expansion of classics in institutions of higher learning. While Departments of Classics appear to be holding their own across the country, it is evident that the emphasis on STEM disciplines and support for interdisciplinary education at the expense of traditional departments provide challenges to classics education as we know it. |
New Orleans Schedule at a GlancePosted Sat, 12/27/2014 - 13:55 in SCS Announcements. Click here to see the SCS Schedule at a Glance for the meeting in New Orleans. |
Additional Hotel Rooms Available in New OrleansPosted Fri, 12/26/2014 - 22:12 in SCS Announcements. The discounted convention rate is no longer available at either of the annual meeting venues (the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel and the New Orleans Marriott); however we have secured additional discounted rooms at Marriott’s AC Hotel New Orleans which is located at 221 Carondelet Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 (a five-minute walk from the main hotels). |
New format(s) for the annual meeting program in New OrleansPosted Tue, 12/23/2014 - 19:01 in SCS Announcements. Before everyone goes off line for the holidays, I wanted to call attention to a couple of the new features that will be in effect for the program of the upcoming Annual Meeting next month in NOLA. The first thing is that, for the first time — ever? in a long while, anyway — the SCS and the AIA are using the same session grid. That means that, instead of (e.g.) SCS afternoon sessions starting at 1:30 and the analogous AIA sessions starting at 2:45 (as they did last year), all of the afternoon sessions will start at 1:45. |