Presidential Panel: William Sanders Scarborough and Black Classicism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century| Category: Presidential LettersThe Presidential Panel at the 2021 Annual Meeting will be held on Friday January 8, 5:30-7:30pm CST. Registered attendees can access the panel via the virtual annual meeting platform. This panel responds to a shameful… |
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Congratulating 2020 Graduates| Category: Presidential LettersPlease see below a message from the SCS President, followed by a listing of 2020 graduates: With in-person celebrations ruled out by the coronavirus pandemic, the Society for Classical… |
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A Letter from President Sheila Murnaghan| Category: Presidential LettersAs we all contend with the unprecedented challenges presented by the COVID-19 Coronavirus, I want to… |
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Presidential Letter of January 2019| Category: Presidential LettersWe have now reviewed the video of the Panel on the Future of Classics, which will be disseminated online today, February 14, 2019. The video makes it clear that what was said to Prof. Padilla Peralta was: “You may have got your job… |
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Letter from President Mary T. Boatwright| Category: Presidential LettersAs some of you witnessed personally and all can now read (see, e.g., The Chronicle), the 150th Annual Meeting of the Society… |
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Presidential Letter - Annual Meeting Location (Pt. 2)| Category: Presidential LettersIn my most recent letter, I outlined the reasons why there are so few cities that can accommodate the SCS-AIA Joint Annual Meeting. That… |
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Presidential Letter - Annual Meeting Location (Pt. 1)| Category: Presidential LettersIn my first presidential letter, right after the annual meeting last January, I wrote about the need to consider not only where we meet, but at what time of… |
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Letter on the Annual Meeting from Joseph Farrell| Category: Presidential LettersJanuary 15, 2018 Dear Members, Looking back on the recently concluded Annual Meeting, I’m of two minds. For those who took part, I think it was a big success. Newer-format events, like Career Networking and Ancient Maker Spaces,… |
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Letter from S. Georgia Nugent| Category: Presidential LettersPresidential Letter June 19, 2017 Dear Colleagues, Recent weeks and months have seen an increase in the cultural tensions in our nation—and, indeed, the world. It is not uncommon now for… |
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Presidential Letter on Funding for the NEH and NEA| Category: Presidential LettersThe draft budget proposed by President Trump's White House seems unlikely to be adopted. Many believe it is simply an habitual negotiator's opening salvo, intended more to "start the bidding" than to be taken seriously at face value. … |