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2025 Forum PrizePosted to Awards and Fellowships on The Outreach Awards Committee is delighted to award the 2025 Forum Prize to Alexandra S. Henning, host of the Ancient Office Hours podcast. Lexie Henning's engaging work on on the production, direction, and dissemination of the podcast has resulted in over 50,000 downloads, and has brought current research in the study of the ancient Mediterranean to a broader audience. The Committee was particularly impressed by Lexie's amplification of the work of scholars in the field and continual… |
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2025 Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach PrizePosted to Awards and Fellowships on The SCS Outreach Award Committee is delighted to award the 2025 Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach Prize to Dr. Anne Groton. Dr. Groton, the Chair of the Department of Classics at St. Olaf College, is the longtime director of the St. Olaf Latin and Greeks Plays, musical student productions which bring the classics to schools and colleges in Minnesota and beyond. These productions are a wonderful example of creative outreach which the Committee is delighted to recognize. In 2024, the Society for… |
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Distinguished Service Award: Lisa Carson and Shirley WernerPosted to Awards and Fellowships on Distinguished Service Award When Lisa Carson began her PhD program in Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in the mid-1980’s and started to fulfill the work requirement for her fellowship, there was no way she could foresee that this would become a lifelong commitment to documenting the scholarship of English-speaking scholars in the pages of the Année Philologique. The APh had established an American office in Chapel Hill in 1965 under the… |
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2025 Erich S. Gruen PrizePosted to Awards and Fellowships on In 2025, the sixth year of the Erich S. Gruen Prize, the selection committee received submissions of impressive quality and range, exemplifying innovative research examining aspects of ethnic identity and cultural exchange across the ancient Mediterranean world, from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds. The committee unanimously awards the 2025 Erich S. Gruen Prize to Phoebe Hyun (Classics, Harvard University. Her paper “Do You Trust Me? Formations of Trust in First-… |
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CFP: Roman Poetry and Philosophy (Celtic Conference in Classics)Posted to Calls for Papers on Dear colleagues, |
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Update on the 2027–28 SCS-TLL FellowshipPosted to Awards and Fellowships on Annually since 1984, the SCS (formerly APA) has sent a postdoctoral fellow to Munich to learn lexicography and contribute to the venerable and indispensable Thesaurus linguae Latinae. After the NEH terminated their grant in the spring, the SCS Board honored their commitment to the then Fellow and her successor from the Society’s own funds, a most impressive gesture. The Friends of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded to support the TLL, then launched an… |
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From President Kirk Ormand: Get Ready for the Annual MeetingPosted to Presidential Letters on Hello Friends and Colleagues! As I write, we are about one month away from the annual meeting in San Francisco, January 7-10. I hope to see many of you there. I have two plugs to make this month, as you make your convention plans. First: please plan to come to the Plenary Session on Friday evening. Now, this request is partly self-serving, since one of the things that will happen at the Plenary is my first, last, and only Presidential Address. I can’t promise you that it will… |
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2025 Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding TranslationPosted to Awards and Fellowships on The Committee on Translation of Classical Authors is delighted to announce the inaugural recipient of the Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding Literary Translation. The Cribiore Award honors outstanding book-length translations from Ancient Greek or Latin into Enlish. This year’s awardee is: C. Luke Soucy, Ovid's Metamorphoses (University of California Press, 2023) Please see below to read the full award citation written by committee members Deborah Roberts, and Adrienne K… |
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2025 Charles J. Goodwin Award of MeritPosted to Awards and Fellowships on The C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit Committee is delighted to announce the three recipients of the 2025 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit. The Goodwin Awards honor outstanding contributions to classical scholarship by members of the Society. This year’s awardees are: James Ker, The Ordered Day: Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) Andrew Laird, Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial… |
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Call for 2026 Annual Meeting Volunteers (Deadline Extended)Posted to on Call for 2026 Annual Meeting Volunteers (deadline extended): SCS is seeking volunteers to assist on-site in San Francisco with registration, hybrid sessions, and events during the Annual Meeting. Volunteers will receive free registration after completing their volunteer assignment. Sign-up to Volunteer at the Annual Meeting by Friday December 5, 2025. |
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SCS Accessibility Guidelines Q&A WebinarPosted to Conferences, Lectures, and Meetings on SCS Accessibility Guidelines Q&A WebinarA Free Workshop for Presenters and Presiders Presenters and presiders at the 2026 Annual Meeting have been strongly encouraged to use this guide for making presentations more accessible. Are you presenting or presiding at the 2026 Annual Meeting? Do you have questions about the guidelines? Do you feel overwhelmed, or simply want to troubleshoot with… |
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The 2026 Presidential Panel, the Annual Meeting, and Volunteering for SCS CommitteesPosted to Presidential Letters on Dear Colleagues, I’m commandeering the newsletter again this month to alert you to a few points of interest. First, we’re now just two months away from the SCS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. I hope to see many of you there. As President, I enjoy the privilege of putting together a special panel on a topic of my choice. This year, I decided that my panel would need to address the trumpeting elephant in the room: how we, as members of our profession respond positively to the… |
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Informational Webinar: Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) FellowshipPosted to Awards and Fellowships on
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellowship: an Informational Webinar Thanks to the generous support of the Friends of the TLL and the Biggs Family Foundation, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellowship will continue for the 2026-2027 academic year. The Fellowship is a unique opportunity for scholars of Classics and related fields to conduct complex lexicographical research. This webinar aims to demystify the process of applying for the Fellowship and shed light on the… |
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2026 John J. Winkler Memorial PrizePosted to Calls for Papers on The John J. Winkler Memorial Trust invites all undergraduate and graduate students in North America (plus those currently unenrolled who have not as yet received a doctorate and who have never held a regular academic appointment) to enter the 32nd competition for the John J. Winkler memorial prize. This year the Prize will be a cash award of $2,000, which may be split if there is more than one winner. The Prize is intended to honor the memory of John J. (“Jack”) Winkler, a… |
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From President Kirk Ormand: 100 Years of L’Année PhilologiquePosted to Presidential Letters on Hello Friends and Colleagues: As you know, we are now in the run-up to our annual meeting, which will be held this January 7-10 in San Francisco. (Please note: as usual for our west-coast meetings, the meeting runs Wednesday-Saturday.) As we make plans and look forward to exchanging scholarship, ideas, and fellowship, I’ll be using this corner of the newsletter to advertise a few events at the convention. There is, of course, a full slate of terrific looking panels, workshops, and… |
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CFP: Vergil and Animal StudiesPosted to Calls for Papers on Symposium Cumanum, June 23-26, 2026 … |
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CFP: Teaching Antiquity SymposiumPosted to Calls for Papers on April 18th 2026, Northwestern University Campus, Evanston IL. … |
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Informational Webinar: Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Fellowship (Nov 5, 2025)Posted to Awards and Fellowships on Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellowship: an Informational Webinar November 5, 2025, 4pm EST / 1pm PST Thanks to the generous support of the Friends of the TLL and the Biggs Family Foundation, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellowship will continue for the 2026-2027 academic year. The Fellowship is a unique opportunity for scholars of Classics and related fields to conduct complex lexicographical research. This webinar will aim to demystify the process of applying for the Fellowship… |
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2025 Election ResultsPosted to on The following members were elected in the ballot held this summer. They take office in January 2026, except for the new members of the Nominating Committee who take office immediately. Thank you to all the SCS members who agreed to stand for election this year. President-Elect Victoria Pagán VP for Education Eric Dugdale Director with Special Responsibility for Equity Sam Flores Directors-at-Large Emily BaragwanathMelissa Mueller Nominating Committee Scott DiGiulio … |
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Hymning the Gods in Western Anatolia: Regional Forms and Contexts in AntiquityPosted to Conferences, Lectures, and Meetings on Hymning the Gods in Western Anatolia: Regional Forms and Contexts in Antiquity This conference poses the question of whether hymns composed in western Anatolia display regional features that differentiate them from hymns produced in other parts of the ancient world. Such hymns include, but are not limited to, the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the epigraphic corpus of hymns from Asia Minor, the Orphic… |