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As we look ahead to the Odyssea event at the SCS and AIA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, co-organizers James Ker and Nina Papathanasopoulou spoke to Ava Roy, Artistic Director of We Players, and discussed how this piece began its 13-year journey from a sailboat in San Francisco Bay to Angel Island to the San Francisco Hilton Union Square.

During the 2025 AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, the SCS Classics in the Community Committee inaugurated a new initiative: the integration of an ancient Mediterranean-themed public event hosted within the context of the annual meeting and aimed at both conference attendees and the public community. This programming is spearheaded by James Ker, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Classics in the Community Committee, and Nina Papathanasopoulou, Professor of Classical Studies at College Year in Athens and Public Engagement Coordinator of the SCS. It aims to spread awareness of the ancient Mediterranean world’s influence on a wide range of communities and individuals across time and to underline the contribution of non-academics to the preservation and enrichment of the fields of classical studies and archaeology.

Nina Papathanasopoulou discusses in further detail the two Martha Graham Greek-themed dances that will be performed as part of this year’s joint SCS/AIA 2025 Annual Meeting.

James Ker and Nina Papathansopoulou write about a unique opportunity for those attending the Philadelphia annual meeting in January 2025.

The Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities initiative (AnWoMoCo), launched by the SCS in 2019 as the Classics Everywhere initiative, supports projects that seek to engage broader publics — individuals, groups, and communities — in critical discussion of and creative expression related to the ancient Mediterranean, the global reception of Greek and Roman culture, and the history of teaching and scholarship in the field of classical studies. As part of this initiative, the SCS has funded 168 projects, ranging from school programming to reading groups, prison programs, public talks, digital projects, and collaborations with artists in theater, opera, music, dance, and the visual arts. Read more …

The Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities initiative (AnWoMoCo), launched by the SCS in 2019 as the Classics Everywhere initiative, supports projects that seek to engage broader publics — individuals, groups, and communities — in critical discussion of and creative expression related to the ancient Mediterranean, the global reception of Greek and Roman culture, and the history of teaching and scholarship in the field of Classical Studies. As part of this initiative, the SCS has funded 149 projects, ranging from school programming to reading groups, prison programs, Read more …

The Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities initiative (AnWoMoCo), launched by the SCS in 2019 as the Classics Everywhere initiative, supports projects that seek to engage broader publics — individuals, groups, and communities — in critical discussion of and creative expression related to the ancient Mediterranean, the global reception of Greek and Roman culture, and the history of teaching and scholarship in the field of classical studies. As part of this initiative, the SCS has funded 142 projects, ranging from school programming to reading groups, prison programs, public talks, digital projects, and collaborations with artists in theater, opera, music, dance, and the visual arts. To date, it has funded projects Read more …