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Hilton San Francisco
333 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States
Please note that meetings on the West Coast run from Wednesday to Saturday to allow return travel on Sunday.
General Information for All Annual Meetings
Every winter, the Society for Classical Studies holds a joint meeting with the Archaeological Institute of America. In addition to the presentation of individual papers and panels, features of the annual meeting include an exhibit hall for browsing and purchasing the latest books from a variety of publishers; roundtable discussion sessions; dramatic performances by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance; meetings and receptions of affiliated groups; and much more.
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2026 Annual Meeting: SCS Abstract and Proposal Submission System is Closed
The submission system for the 2026 Annual Meeting is now closed, and the deadline to submit all abstracts and proposals was Monday, April 7, 2025 at 12:00 P.M. (Noon) ET.
Visit the Previous Updates page to see information about the submission system and updates about the Annual Meeting from earlier this year. To view calls for abstracts from affiliated groups, SCS committees, and organizer-refereed panels, please click the links below.
Calls for Abstracts
- The Ovidian Family (International Ovidian Society)
- Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
- Technical and Professional Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Society for Late Antiqu…
- Small Change (Friends of Numismatics)
- Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (American Society of P…
- Classical Studies Across Curricula (American Classical League)
- Classical Compilations in the Ancient World (Organizer-Refereed Panel)
- Cannibalism and Anthropophagy in the Ancient World (Organizer-Refereed Panel)
- Contemporary Issues and the Interpretation of Vergil (Vergilian Society)
- Queerness Beyond Identity (Lambda Classical Caucus)
- Epigraphy and Power (American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy)
- Parts and the Whole of Rhetorical Theory (Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric)
- From Dispersion to Dialogue: A Comparative Reception Studies Panel (Hesperides)
- Scribal Cultures of the Ancient World (Organizer-Refereed Panel)
- A Monster of Our Creation: Rethinking Classical Reception in Children’s Literat…
- Collaboration in a Digital World: Expanding the Boundaries of Classical Studies…
- Greek and Latin Linguistics (Society for the Study of the Greek and Latin Langu…
- The Postclassical Maghreb (Organizer-Refereed Panel)
- The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (Eta Sigma Phi)
- Yellow Gold: Ornamentalism, Antiquity, and the Asiatic Female (Asian and Asian …
- The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research (American Association for Neo-Latin St…
- Living, Laughing, Loving: Roman Elegy in Light of New Developments in Roman Com…
- The Rhetoric of Philosophy (International Society for Neoplatonic Studies)
- Religion and religious thought in the late Republic and early Roman empire (Soc…
- Health and Identity at the Personal and Communal Levels (Society for Ancient Me…
- HERCULANEUM: An Unfolding Past (American Friends of Herculaneum)