Dear SCS Members:
The Program committee hopes that those of you who attended the 2017 SCS Meeting in Toronto found it stimulating and enjoyable. We want to thank our Toronto hosts for their help. Attendees will get a survey, and we encourage responses to help with future meetings. For those of you who missed them, we have filmed two of the sessions, the Presidential Panel on Communicating Classical Scholarship and the Panel on Digital Classics and the Changing Profession. These will be available soon.
I want to call your collective attention to some exciting new developments that you will see at the SCS Meeting in Boston in January 2018 and at the Sesquicentennial Meeting in San Diego in January 2019. The Program Committee encourages members to utilize many new formats for presenting their research and for discussing ideas. It is well known that member-organized panels, workshops, seminars and roundtables are certainly more coherent, and that may explain the higher acceptance rate for these types of activities as compared to individual papers. Please look at the website for the full range of options. The Program Committee sees these formats as allowing members to explore new topics and kinds of presentations. So, for example, a workshop can be devoted to works in progress, to discussion of a particular text, or to analysis of the impact of an important new book. Formats for workshops are quite flexible, including, for example, five-minute speed talks as well as pre-circulated papers.
As many of you know, I am chair of a special committee, consisting of myself, Stephen Hinds, and Matthew McGowan, whom the Board of Directors has charged with focusing attention and orchestrating events for the Sesquicentennial Meetings in San Diego in January 2019. We welcome any suggestions from members for this meeting. We are planning a series of events, including panels on Classics in America as well as Classics within a global perspective. More information will appear as these panels are finalized, but in the meantime, we want to hear from members about their ideas about how best to celebrate the Sesquicentennial. Please email the committee with your ideas.
Valete,
Vice President for Program
Chair of the Sesquicentennial Committee
History Department
University of California, Riverside
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