The 2012 meeting will be held on October 4-6 at the New York Marriott East Side. The Call for Papers, including links to the required online submission forms, is now available; deadline for submissions is April 6. CAAS will meet jointly with the Classical Association of the Empire State.

CAAS is pleased to announce the speaker for the 2012 Clack Lecture: James Tatum from Dartmouth College, presenting his talk, “Plautus and the Making of Shakespeare’s Othello.”

At its meeting on 9 April 2011 the Board of Directors of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States voted to honor Barbara F. McManus for her consistent and distinguished service to the organization and to establish an award in her name in recognition of her long-standing leadership in CAAS and the discipline of classics at large.
Today the organization proudly commends Barbara for her many contributions to its mission and function as visionary officer, indefatigable committee chair, reliable consultant, and proactive member. As president in 2005, she reorganized the leadership of the organization for improved efficiency and accountability. She created the CAAS website in 2005, developing and managing it since with an eye toward accuracy of information and member needs. Board Parliamentarian since 2008, she was a driving force on the By-Laws and Regulations Committee, ensuring that our practices met the rules of New York State incorporation. In 2008 she received a Presidential Initiative Grant to direct a Latin translation workshop that translated into classical Latin the system messages for the Encore Learning Environment in which VRoma resides.
Barbara’s wisdom and labor, generously offered, have enriched our discipline beyond our organization; often without a title, she has supported many enterprises in multiple venues that advanced the cause of classics. In 2008 she received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Philological Association for her rich and varied contributions to the national assocation, for her advocacy of underrepresented members of the classics community, and for her interdisciplinary research that embraced women, reception, teaching, and technology.
Inspiring teacher, skilled administrator, generous colleague, patient mentor, tireless collaborator, talented scholar.
Let’s celebrate Barbara, truly dux femina facti!

The Directors of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States voted on April 9, 2011 to honor Barbara F. McManus for her long and distinguished service to the mission and function of the Association and for her leadership and contributions to teaching, mentoring and scholarship in the discipline. The Directors voted to honor her with this award at the 2011 CAAS Business Meeting and to establish it in her name: The Barbara F. McManus Leadership Award
The award carries an honorarium of $1000. It will be offered on an occasional basis whenever a qualified candidate is nominated to the Awards Committee and confirmed by the Board of Directors.
Criteria:

• Nomination is open to all long-standing members of CAAS, including primary and secondary school teachers, who have given significant and sustained service to the organization.

Nominees will demonstrate engaged commitment to core activities of Barbara McManus’s career as teacher and scholar, in particular her:

• Advocacy for the equity of women, people of color, people of different classes, abilities and sexual orientations in the field of Classics
• Employment of gender and other aspects of social difference as primary and necessary axes of analysis of the ancient world and the American Classical Tradition
• Incorporation of emerging technologies in the teaching and study of the ancient world