Eos READS: Wole Soyinka’s Bacchae

If you are interested in including more Africana receptions of the Classics in your teaching and scholarship, please consider joining us at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) for our second Eos READS” event (October 12, 2019 at 2:30pm).

Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome” (eosafricana.org) is a scholarly society that exists to create a supportive, dedicated community for studying Africana receptions of ancient Greece & Rome and to foster collaborative research and pedagogy between Classics and other disciplines. The READS series introduces Classicists to seminal works from the African diaspora so that they may be incorporated into course curricula. Each year READS features one work or a related set of texts for discussion at the invitation of institutions and as recurring programming at national and regional conferences.

The focus, this year, will be on Wole Soyinka (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986) and his play The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite (1973). To facilitate engagement with the play, the format will mimic an advanced seminar in which CAAS members are invited to participate. We encourage you to register in advance at the link provided below so that you can receive the text and discussion questions ahead of the workshop, but all of the necessary materials will also be provided on site.

To register, click here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iIO5z3pwn8fGtmzDx-E4Al77CaxT-GEAvPYWkgdkVS8/edit

We look forward to seeing many of you on October 12,
Mathias Hanses (on behalf of the Eos Executive Committee)

2019 Annual Meeting Information

The 2019 Fall Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States

When: Thursday, October 10 to Saturday, October 12

Where: Sheraton Silver Spring Hotel, 8777 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Program:  Click here to download the Final Program for 2019 Annual Meeting (updated October 19, 2019)

Letter from CAAS President: Click here to read Letter from John Starks, President (updated September 10, 2019)

Letter from CAAS Executive Director: Click here to read Letter from Mary Brown, Executive Director (updated July 29, 2019)

Proxy Ballot: Click here to download Proxy Ballot form (updated September 10, 2019)

Proposed Amendments to Bylaws:

Proposed Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation:

Fall 2019 Annual Meeting Registration Form (updated June10, 2019)

Exhibitors and Vendors Registration Form (updated June 10, 2019)

Registration and Accommodations:

We look forward to seeing you in Silver Spring!

Call for Papers: CAAS 2019 Annual Meeting- Closed

The Classical Association of the Atlantic States
Call for Papers: 2019 Annual Meeting, October 10-12, 2019
Sheraton Silver Spring, MD

We invite individual and group proposals on all aspects of the classical world and classical reception, and on new strategies and resources for improved teaching.  Especially welcome are presentations that aim at maximum audience participation and integrate the concerns of K-12 and college faculty, that consider ways of communicating about ancient Greece and Rome beyond our discipline and profession, and that reflect on the past and present of classical studies in the CAAS region.

The 2019 Clack Lecture will be delivered by Bruce Frier, John and Teresa D’Arms Distinguished University Professor of Classics and Roman Law at the University of Michigan. Dr. Frier’s lecture title is “Common Things: The Mysterious Seashore.” He describes his topic as follows: “During the early Empire, the Roman jurists, with the eventual assistance of the emperors, developed a doctrine that made seashores subject to public ownership, with the understanding that this ownership was exercised on behalf of people in general. The jurists eventually refer to the air, sea, seashore, and larger rivers as res communes, Common Things. The Roman doctrine survived into the later Western legal tradition, and today, in the much-expanded form of the Public Trust Doctrine, it is a principal foundation of the rules governing the exploitation of natural resources in general. My lecture will discuss this startling example of the survival of Roman law in the modern world.”

We will offer an undergraduate research session of presentations developed from outstanding term papers, senior theses or other scholarly projects, to be organized in conjunction with Eta Sigma Phi, the national honor society for classical studies.

We hope to coordinate a special feature event with The American Film Institute regional center.

All submitters of proposals for the meeting must be current members of CAAS. Participants in the 2019 Annual Meeting must be members when they submit proposals and must renew their memberships for 2019-2020 (the membership year is September 1-August 31).

Panel and Workshop Proposals may be 1 ½ or 2 hours in length, depending on the number of speakers. Submissions must be uploaded as a single PDF (.pdf) or Word 97-2010 (.doc/docx) file of no more than 700 words and must include:

  • a description of the proposed panel or workshop and brief abstracts of the individual presentations. Each abstract of an individual presentation must be accompanied by a bibliography or a list of resources consulted of up to five items (not included in the word limit). The proposal must clearly indicate the thesis and original contribution made by the panel or workshop and situate this contribution in a larger scholarly context (see Writing an Abstract for Professional Presentation). The proposal must be anonymous. The names of the organizer and presenters must not appear anywhere in this file except when citing a publication by the organizer or presenters. Those abstracts which include the names and/or institutional affiliations of their organizers and presenters will not be considered.
  • title of the session and titles of each individual presentation.
  • specific audio-visual needs for the session. CAAS is able to supply only a screen and a digital light projector (those bringing MACs will need to bring their special adapter plug to connect to the projector).  DVDs can be played only from your laptop.  Be advised that sound played from a laptop without special speakers may not be audible in the room.

The deadline for submission of panels and workshops has now passed.

 

Individual Proposals must be no more than 15 minutes in length. Each author must not submit more than one abstract.  Submissions must be uploaded as a single PDF (.pdf) OR Word 97-2010 (.doc/docx) file of no more than 300 words and must include:

 

  • clearly indicated thesis and original contributions made by your presentation, situating it in a larger scholarly context (see Writing an Abstract for Professional Presentation). Submissions must be accompanied by a bibliography or a list of resources consulted of up to five items (not included in the word limit). The proposal must be anonymous. The author’s name should not appear anywhere in this file except when citing a publication by the author. Those abstracts which include the names and/or institutional affiliations of their authors will not be considered.  

 

  • specific audio-visual needs for your presentation. CAAS is able to supply only a screen and a digital light projector (those bringing MACs will need to bring their special adapter plug to connect to the projector).  DVDs can be played only from your laptop.  Be advised that sound played from a laptop without special speakers may not be audible in the room.
  • If you are an undergraduate, please indicate this by selecting “undergraduate paper” as the submission type, so that undergraduate submissions can be read separately, and in relation to one another.

The deadline for individual presentations has now passed.

 

For further information, please contact CAAS Program Coordinator Maria S. Marsilio (marsilio@sju.edu). Please contact the Webmaster (webmaster@caas-cw.org) if you experience difficulties with the online forms.