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APA INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACT FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS

• Abstracts must be no more than one page in length. Abstracts longer than one page will not be accepted. (However, see below concerning the submission of bibliographical information.)
• Use 8.5-x-11-inch paper. If A4 paper is used, check that the text length from the top to the bottom is not greater than 10.2 inches.
• The top margin should be .8 inch; the left, right, and bottom margins should be 1 inch.
• Line spacing should be between 1.25 and 1.5. Single-spaced abstracts will not be read.
• The text of the abstract should be in 11 point Times New Roman font.
• The author’s name should not appear on any copy of the abstract. However the title of the abstract should be in the upper-right-hand corner in 12 point Times New Roman font.

The APA Program Committee will not review abstracts that fail to comply with these formatting instructions.

Citations of Literature: For documentation, footnotes should not be used. Incorporate citations into the text of the abstract. In citing bibliography in the text, brief parenthetical references usually suffice, but be sure that these are intelligible. The best procedure is to list complete bibliographical citations of the most important works on a second page, and to refer to these in your abstract by author’s name and, when necessary, date. Note, however, that the abstract itself may not exceed a single page. Please Note: Authors may cite relevant work that they have already published, but these citations should be in the same format as any other author’s, i.e., in the third person.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

APA MEMBERSHIP

All participants in panels, seminars, workshops and paper sessions at the Annual Meeting are required to be APA members in good standing.  (In the case of the January 5-8, 2012, Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, "good standing" will mean that dues have been paid through 2011.)  If you are not sure whether you have paid your APA dues for 2011, contact the customer service staff at the Johns Hopkins University Press at jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu, 800-548-1784 (US and Canada only), or 410-516-6987 (all others). 

ANNUAL MEETING REGISTRATION

All participants in sessions on the program, including nonmembers who have received a waiver of the membership requirement, must register for the Annual Meeting and pay the applicable fees.

SINGLE APPEARANCE POLICY

The Program Committee seeks to encourage wide participation among APA members at the Annual Meeting. The Committee therefore reminds all participants of its long-standing policy of limiting members to one appearance on the Annual Meeting Program. An appearance includes participation as a presenter or respondent in a panel, seminar or workshop, an affiliated group session, an organizer-refereed panel, a session sponsored by an APA committee, or a regular APA paper session.  Panel organizers should ensure that participants in their proposed sessions are not appearing elsewhere at the Annual Meeting. The only exception to this policy is that individuals who are members of both the AIA and the APA may appear in both a Joint Session and an APA program unit.  Serving as either the presider of an annual meeting panel or the leader of a roundtable discussion group is not treated as an appearance on the APA program.

SINGLE SUBMISSION POLICY

In accordance with the single-appearance policy above, members may submit only one abstract for consideration at any one Program Committee meeting.  For example, members may not submit an abstract to both an organizer-refereed panel and an affiliated group panel in February 2011 if both sessions will be reviewed by the Program Committee at its April 2011 meeting.

142nd Annual Meeting, January 6-9, 2011, San Antonio, TX
Calls for Abstracts for Organizer-Refereed Panels and Affiliated Group Sessions

For the 2011 Annual Meeting the American Philological Association is working with the Social Science Research Network to develop an online submission system for panels, seminars, workshops, and individual abstracts that are reviewed by the Program Committee. As usual, the deadline for these submissions will be in mid-March for the panels, seminars, and workshops and in mid-May for the individual abstracts Instructions for making these submissions will be posted on the APA web site in January or February By action of the APA Board of Directors, all members wishing to submit abstracts or panel proposals to the Program Committee for the 2011 meeting must do so in electronic form.

Because the deadline for submitting abstracts for organizer-refereed panels and the majority of affiliated groups is February 1, 2010, and because these abstracts are reviewed outside of the Program Committee, we are posting these calls for abstracts now. Organizer-refereed panel abstracts must be sent to the APA Office as before, but the submission must be done via email attachment as a PDF file These abstracts should be anonymous, but authors should provide complete contact information in the accompanying email message See each affiliated group's call for abstracts for its own submission instructions.

Please note that you MUST be an APA member in good standing for 2010 (meaning 2010 dues must be paid) to submit an abstract in response to any of the calls for abstracts below.

CALLS FOR ABSTRACTS FOR ORGANIZER-REFEREED PANELS

A New Look at Greek Prosody
Ad astra per antiqua: Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
Reciprocity and Genre
Women, Food, and Drink in the Classical World

CALLS FOR ABSTRACTS FOR AFFILIATED GROUP PANELS

American Association for Neo-Latin Studies
American Classical League

American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Note: The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE) is pleased to announce the First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy to be held 5 January 2011 in San Antonio, TXone day before the annual APA/AIA meetings. Details about conference fees, abstract submission guidelines, and deadlines will be posted on the ASGLE website in January of 2010: http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/index.html.)

American Society of Papyrologists
Eta Sigma Phi
Friends of Numismatics
International Plutarch Society
International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Lambda Classical Caucus
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy
Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Society for Late Antiquity
Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature
Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics
Vergilian Society
Women’s Classical Caucus

APA INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACT FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS

ORGANIZER-REFEREED PANELS

A New Look at Greek Prosody
Organized by David Goldstein (University of California, Berkeley) and Dieter Gunkel (University of California, Los Angeles)

With the 1994 publication of The Prosody of Greek Speech, Devine and Stephens achieved insights into Greek that many would have hardly thought possible The study of prosody, that is, the study of phenomena such as syllable structure, accentual rhythm, pitch, and intonational phrasing, is an extremely delicate and difficult endeavor when it comes to a dead language Devine and Stephens combined detailed philological investigation of texts (literary, grammatical, and musical) with linguistic theory, a broad range of cross-linguistic typological comparisons, and evidence from experimental linguistics and psychology, to offer the most extensive and detailed portrait of Greek prosody to date.

Despite these impressive results, the pervasive role that prosody plays in Greek language and literature has generally not been appreciated Simply put, prosody pervades practically every aspect of language, including syntax, semantics, pragmatics, word formation, and accentual patterns, not to mention other facets such as performance, gesture, and metrics As prosodic studies have been given only marginal treatment, the opportunities for new discovery in this area are abundant.

The time has come for two things The first is to look afresh at Greek prosody from both an empirical and a theoretical standpoint More is known now than was in 1994, and the panel should showcase recent advances as well as identify and explore new frontiers Second, the forum aims to bring prosodic studies and their implications into the purview of a wider range of classical scholars.

We are interested in questions of prosody at every level, from the syllable to the rhetorical period, and particularly welcome presentations that demonstrate the implications of prosodic studies for Hellenic scholarship at large Questions that papers may address include the following:

1. What is the relationship between everyday colloquial speech rhythms and the dossier of Greek meters What do metrical phenomena reveal about the prosody of the colloquial language?

2. How does prosody affect the formation of words (e.g., compounds, hypocoristics) at the various stages of Greek?

3. How are we to understand the prosodic patterns found in prose texts, such as the clausulae of the Greek orators What basis underlies these patterns, how do we account for their distribution, and what functional roles did they play in the sentence or the performance?

Abstracts must be received by the APA office by 1 February 2010. Please send an anonymous abstract as a PDF attachment to apameetings@sas.upenn.edu, and be sure to provide complete contact information and any AV requests in the body of your email. Submissions will be reviewed anonymously.

Ad astra per antiqua: Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
Organized by Dr. Benjamin Stevens and Dr. Brett Rogers (brogers@gettysburg.edu)

A rich and relatively under-explored area in modern receptions of classical traditions is science fiction. Although points of comparison may be offered by the study of classics in other areas of ‘popular culture’ (e.g., film and comics), science fictional receptions of classical traditions have historical and artistic significance all their own. A complex relationship is evident already at science fiction's arguable point of origin, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), whose subtitle "The Modern Prometheus" alludes to classical meditations on the use of technology to create and control nature and human life. The relationship was developed further by such 'classic' authors as Jules Verne (Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864), H.G. Wells (The Time Machine, 1895), and Frank Herbert (Dune, 1965). More recently, classical material has been a part of science fiction in genres as diverse as space opera (e.g., Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek franchise, 1966-present) and steampunk (e.g., William Gibson's and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine, 1990), as well as direct but complicated re-tellings of classical tales (e.g., Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos series, 1989-1997, and Ilium, 2003).

Science fictional receptions of classical traditions raise questions not only about science but also about, for example, religion, philosophy, social thought, political theory, and literature. Such questions necessarily must address the complex interaction between (1) science fiction's continuous but mysterious reference to scientific method and to the historical results of that method's applications, and (2) the classical tradition's status – in a mixture of historical fact and fictive imagination – as pre- or non- or differently-scientific. How, then, does science fiction imagine ancient thinking as contributing to or challenging modern discourses with special regard to those discourses' scientific aspects or interests? How does it constitute the classics in light of master narratives of modern scientific knowledge and practice? By raising these and other questions, the comparative study of classics and science fiction helps to ask how ancient Greco-Roman classics continue to speak – or are received as speaking – to a modern world separated from antiquity by profound processes like the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

Papers are to be 15-20 minutes in length; appropriate use of audiovisuals is encouraged. Abstracts of 400 words, outlining the argument and specifying the science fictional object(s) of inquiry, are to be submitted by February 1, 2010. Please send an anonymous abstract as a PDF attachment to apameetings@sas.upenn.edu, and be sure to provide complete contact information and any AV requests in the body of your email. Selection is on the bases of clarity and cogency of argument and of complementary contribution to a diversified panel on this emerging and exciting area. Questions may be addressed to the panel organizers: Dr. Benjamin Stevens (bstevens@bard.edu) and Dr. Brett Rogers (brogers@gettysburg.edu).

Reciprocity and Genre
Organized by Neil Coffee and Polyxeni Strolonga

In recent years, classicists have demonstrated how reciprocity—the exchange of gifts and favors—was critical to the workings of Greek and Roman societies. Reciprocal behaviors knit social groups together, but also offered opportunities for exploitation, among peers, between social unequals, and across gender lines. Studies of reciprocity that engage closely with literary evidence have focused especially on three genres: epic (Donlan 1982, Seaford 1994, von Reden 1995, Wilson 2002, Seaford 2004, Coffee 2009), lyric (Kurke 1991, Bowditch 2001, Zeiner 2005), and tragedy (Crane 1993, Seaford 1994, Wohl 1998, Ormand 1999, Seaford 2004). Work on each genre has tended to converge on a certain topic: the contest of epic warriors for rank; the lyric poet’s attempt to augment his status and that of his patron; and the position of the tragic heroine as agent or object of exchange.

These trends in scholarship raise a question that has so far received little attention: what was the influence of genre on the representation of reciprocity? The conventions that constitute genre, including those for the selection of subject, the figuring of author and addressee, narrative structure, and formal features such as meter, contribute significantly to determining how exchange takes place in texts, and what exchange norms texts convey. The effect of genre on the representation of reciprocity is thus important both as a matter of artistic construction and for its ultimate influence on social norms. In order to shed light on these dynamics, the panel organizers invite abstracts for papers on any aspect of the confluence of reciprocity and genre in classical antiquity.

Papers might explore how specific generic conventions were conducive to certain representations of reciprocity, e.g., to what extent does a perceived need for reversals of fortune contribute to the prevalence of noxious gifts in tragedy? Does the necessity for a harmonious resolution in comedy require the image of a well-ordered system of reciprocity, or its subversion? Participants might compare different authors working in the same genre, e.g., when is Horace engaging in an economy of favors with Maecenas, and when is he instead signaling his generic affiliation with Pindar (or both)? How are the range of factors that define the contested category of genre itself (e.g. roles of author and audience, performance setting and medium, the authority of tradition) affected by, and how do they contribute to, social mechanisms of reciprocity? How can we account for gaps in the study of reciprocity, i.e. why has relatively little been written on the representation of reciprocity in comedy, elegy, iambus, satire, and the novel?

Abstracts must be received in the APA office by February 1, 2010. Please send an anonymous abstract as a PDF attachment to apameetings@sas.upenn.edu, and be sure to provide complete contact information and any AV requests in the body of your email. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by the panel organizers.

Women, Food, and Drink in the Classical World
Organized by Kathryn Topper (University of Washington) and Laurie Kilker (Ithaca College)

Since the 1980s and 90s, customs surrounding food and drink have become central to our understanding of ancient Mediterranean societies and are now widely understood to have touched on aspects of ancient life as diverse as poetry, sexuality, religion, politics, and domestic life (Detienne and Vernant 1989, Lissarrague 1990, Murray 1990, Slater 1991, Schmitt-Pantel 1992, Murray and Tecuşan 1995). Recent inquiries into topics such as the imagery of the Roman banquet or the cultural significance of dining posture, as well as more general reassessments of ideas presented in earlier scholarship, suggest that interest in ancient dining customs shows no sign of abating (Dunbabin 2003, Orfanos and Carrière 2003, Roller 2006). In most of these studies, however—as at the majority of the ancient meals themselves—attention has centered on the male participants. Although some facets of women’s involvement in ancient meals, most notably their roles as courtesans, have been extensively examined, a comprehensive picture of ancient Mediterranean women’s relationships to practices of eating and drinking still eludes us.

Our panel seeks to address this problem by placing women’s roles in ancient meals (broadly defined to include any interaction with food or drink) at the center of discussion. By bringing together papers on women, food, and drink in the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan worlds, we hope to take stock of current knowledge about the topic and to discover what avenues of further research may be most productively explored. We therefore solicit abstracts for papers on any aspect of ancient women’s interactions with food and drink, although papers that address underexplored questions or evidence are especially welcome. Because of the aims of the panel, we also encourage abstracts for papers that highlight the promises and limitations of their own methodologies. Papers may consider literary, visual, architectural, epigraphic, archaeological, or other forms of evidence; possible topics include, but are not limited to: women and food preparation; women’s roles at ritual banquets; tropes or metaphors involving women, food, and drink; evidence for women’s diets, both in daily life and at religious festivals; women and sacrifice; women’s roles at banquets outside of the centers that have been the focus of study (Greece outside of Athens; the Roman provinces); women’s involvement in meals other than the symposium and convivium.

Please send an anonymous abstract as a PDF attachment to apameetings@sas.upenn.edu, and be sure to provide complete contact information and any AV requests in the body of your email. Submissions must be received by February 1, 2010 and will be reviewed anonymously by the panel organizers.


AFFILIATED GROUP PANELS

Neo-Latin Studies: Current Research
Sponsored by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies (AANLS)
Organized by Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University

The AANLS invites proposals for a panel of papers on current research in Neo-Latin Studies to be held at the meeting of the American Philological Association (APA) in San Antonio in January, 2011. Our intent is to illustrate the diversity and richness of these studies and to underscore the importance of research concerning the complex international phenomenon of Neo-Latin literature.

We welcome papers on all aspects of the study of literary, historical, technical, and scholarly works written in Latin in the Renaissance and early Modern Period (to about 1800); we will also consider proposals dealing with more recent Neo-Latin.

Abstracts should be sent not later than February 15, 2010 to Professor Booth preferably electronically to boothfre@shu.edu, or by mail to Classical Studies Department, Seton Hall University, 400 South Orange Ave., South Orange, NJ 07079 USA. Abstracts should be only one page in length.

In accordance with APA regulations, all abstracts for papers will be read anonymously by three outside readers Please follow the APA's instructions for the format of individual abstracts In your cover letter or email, please confirm that you are an APA member in good standing, with dues paid through 2010.

The Pedagogy of Homeric Poetr
Sponsored by the American Classical League
Organized by Mary C. English, Montclair State University, and Seth L. Schein, University of California, Davis

The American Classical League invites scholars and teachers of Homeric poetry to submit abstracts for its panel session at the San Antonio, Texas, Meeting of the American Philological Association in January, 2011. We are particularly interested in papers that address such topics as how to bring both traditional and innovative scholarship to bear on teaching Homeric poetry in Greek and in translation; how to address the features of Homeric epic that students most often find problematic (e.g. the gods and their relationship to humans, the apparently antisocial or sociopathic behavior of Homeric heroes) how to meet the challenge of teaching Homer in Greek to students with varying levels of interest and ability; how to use examples of reception to throw light on Homeric poetry; and whether and how to teach the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod in conjunction with or in place of the Iliad or Odyssey in Greek courses and in translation courses. Papers on other topics related to the pedagogy of Homeric poetry are also welcome.

Abstracts should be submitted to Mary C. English, Dept. of Classics, Montclair State University, Montclair NJ 07043 (englishm@mail.montclair.edu) They should be only one page in length and conform to the APA's instructions for the format of individual abstracts. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Feb. 28, 2010. 

Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Early Byzantine Egypt
Sponsored by the American Society of Papyrologists

The American Society of Papyrologists invites proposals for papers for a panel on “Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Early Byzantine Egypt” for the 2011 APA January 6-9 in San Antonio, Texas. Submissions for this panel must meet at least one of the following criteria:

(a) they must make use of evidence for ancient cultures and literatures preserved in papyri, ostraca, or wooden tablets (in Greek, Latin, Coptic, Demotic, Arabic, or other appropriate languages);

(b) they must investigate aspects of the history, cultures, textual productions, or material culture of Egypt from the Hellenistic to the early Arab period.

Submissions from scholars at both junior and senior levels are welcome. Prospective speakers must be members in good standing of the APA.

Please send abstracts to Raffaella Cribiore, rc119@NYU.edu by February 15, 2010. Abstracts should not exceed 600 words (one single-spaced page) and should not include the author’s name to ensure anonymous referral.

If sent by regular mail, abstracts should be postmarked by February 15, 2010 and addressed to: Raffaella Cribiore, New York University, Department of Classics, 100 Washington Square East, Silver Center, room 503L, New York, N.Y. 10003.


The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students
Sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi
Organized by Thomas J. Sienkewicz, Monmouth College

Eta Sigma Phi, founded in 1914 at the University of Chicago, is a national classics honorary society for students of Latin and/or Greek who attend accredited liberal arts colleges and universities in the United States.

The society is sponsoring this panel in order to showcase the scholarship of undergraduate classics students. Papers may deal with any aspect of the ancient Greek and Roman world (e.g., language, literature, art, history, religion, philosophy) or with the reception of classical culture in modern times. An established scholar will be invited to serve as respondent to the student papers.

Eta Sigma Phi hopes that this panel will serve as a bridge between undergraduate students and the American Philological Association, not just by giving the students an opportunity to experience an APA meeting and to share their views with professional classicists, but also by introducing those professionals to some of the most talented and promising students from the next generation of classicists.   

Any student enrolled full-time in an undergraduate program at a college or university during the academic year 2009-2010 is eligible to submit a paper. Anyone interested in proposing a paper for the panel should e-mail the entire paper as a .pdf attachment to toms@monm.edu The paper must be able to be read aloud at a moderate pace in 15 minutes (or 20 minutes if audio-visual equipment is used); so, it should be no longer than 10 double-spaced pages, excluding any endnotes and bibliography Please also e-mail a one-page abstract of the paper, and a cover page listing name, school, school address, telephone, e-mail address, and audio-visual needs. To preserve anonymity in the evaluation process, the student's name and school affiliation should appear only on the cover page, not on the abstract or the paper itself. The receipt deadline for the paper, abstract, and cover page is February 1, 2010. 

Each submission will be evaluated anonymously by three referees Students who submit papers for the panel must be current members of the APA Please direct questions to the Executive Secretary of Eta Sigma Phi, Professor Thomas J. Sienkewicz, Department of Classics, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL 61462 (toms@monm.edu; 309-457-2371).

Coinage and Art: Technique and Production
Sponsored by the Friends of Numismatics.
Organized by William E. Metcalf, Department of Classics, Yale University and Department of Coins and Medals, Yale University Art Gallery.

The Friends of Numismatics invites submissions for the 2011 American Philological Association/Archaeological Institute of America Annual meeting, January 6-9, 2011, in San Antonio, Texas on the topic of Coinage and Art: Technique and Production.

Papers may address the production of coins as art objects in their own right, or they might examine connections between numismatic art and works in other media such as gems or relief sculpture In so doing, papers might consider any one of the full range of factors and agents involved in the process of creating art, from the role of the patron through to the source of the images used and the working methods of the artists.

Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to Jane Miller, Department of Coins and Medals, Yale University Art Gallery, P. O. Box 208271, New Haven, C 06520-8271. Phone: 203-432-1801, fax; 203-432-6019; Email jane.miller@yale.edu by February 15, 2010. Papers will be evaluated anonymously by at least two reviewers. All persons who submit abstracts must be APA members in good standing.

The Ancient Biographical Tradition
Sponsored by the International Plutarch Society
Organized by Jeffrey Beneker, University of Wisconsin

This panel takes its inspiration from Arnaldo Momigliano’s The Development of Greek Biography, a learned study that elucidates the larger literary context of the Greek biographical tradition By expanding our topic to include ancient biography as a whole, we aim to explore features of the tradition that cut across linguistic, cultural, generic, and chronological boundaries To that end, we welcome papers on the development, form, and content of ancient biographical writing, with a focus on comparative studies or works of particular authors, as well as papers that deal with the intersection of biography and other genres, such as historiography, rhetoric, and philosophy Some preference may be given to papers that shed light on Plutarch’s methods, but this is not a Plutarch-centered panel Our goal is to assemble a collection of papers that explore all aspects of the ancient biographical tradition.

Abstracts should be sent electronically, in MS Word format or PDF, to Jeffrey Beneker (jbeneker@wisc.edu) In preparing the abstract, please follow the APA's formatting guidelines for individual abstracts, and plan for a paper that takes no more than 20 minutes to deliver Abstracts will be judged anonymously Membership in the International Plutarch Society is not required for participation in this panel The deadline is February 22, 2010.

Mathematics, Number, and Harmony in Platonic Philosophy
Sponsored by the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies
Organizers: John F. Finamore (University of Iowa) and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (Florida State University)

From the beginning Platonists made use of mathematics, music, and harmony in their doctrines Plato, of course, had the Demiurge create the soul out of proper proportions of Being, Sameness, and Difference Middle Platonists used Pythagorean theories to explain the cohesiveness of the cosmos Plotinus conceived numbers as formative principles of the intelligible realm.  Iamblichus adapted Nicomachus’ number theories in his elaborate ontological hierarchy All Platonists saw the soul as some sort of harmony, whether of numbers, parts, or something else Mathematics, geometry, and astronomy help explain both incorporeal and corporeal reality In this panel, we welcome papers that explore any concept of mathematics, number, or harmony among Platonists.

Abstracts of 500-800 words, double-spaced, for papers requiring 15-20 minutes of presentation time should be sent to Svetla Slaveva-Griffin via post-mail to Department of Classics, Florida State University, 205 Dodd Hall, 64 University Way, PO Box 323061510, Tallahassee, 32306-1510 or e-mail to sslavevagriffin@fsu.edu, or faxed to (850) 644-4073, attn Slaveva-Griffin. The member's name should appear only on the cover letter, not on the abstract. All abstracts must be received no later than February 1, 2010 Abstracts will be judged anonymously. The panel organizers will subsequently contact those who have written abstracts and provide comments from the reviewers about their abstracts.

Ancient “Unspeakable Vice” and Modern Pedagogy: Talking about Homosexuality in Classical Antiquity in the 21^st Century Academy
Sponsored by the Lambda Classical Caucus
Organized by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Berea College) and John P. Wood (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

In E. M. Foster’s novel Maurice, published posthumously in 1971 and turned into a film in 1987, two young men in early 20^th century England, strongly attracted to each other, attend a class at Cambridge University during which they translate Plato’s Symposium. When a student reaches a passage on same-sex love, the instructor says in a flat toneless voice: “Omit: a reference to the unspeakable vice of the Greeks.”

Although a century later the picture has changed and ancient accounts of homosexuality are more freely discussed in academia, prejudice against and misinformation on the sexual practices of the Greeks and Romans continue to persist. The 2011 LCC panel is soliciting papers that discuss the challenges of teaching such texts at university level and provide feedback on the responses they provoke. Questions that individual papers may address include but are not limited to the following:

• What pedagogical methods and interpretive tools (e.g., social theory, feminist theory, queer theory, psychoanalytical theory) do we employ in teaching what is nowadays considered to be nonnormative sexuality?
• What are the sources that we regularly use to demonstrate the sexual plurality of the ancient world and increase awareness about the nonuniversality of modern sexual practices? Are some texts less suitable than others? What are the criteria for creating a textual canon, if any e.g., the content of the piece, the complexity of ideas expressed in it, its author and genre, the familiarity of the students with it, or simply a personal fondness of the instructor for a particular text)?
• What are the benefits of exposing students to ancient texts that are critical of same-sex desire? 
• How do we effectively teach the transition (in terms of both similarity and difference) from Greek and Roman sexual ethics to that of late antiquity described in the texts of the Church Fathers? How do we incorporate Greek and Roman accounts in a syllabus on homosexuality throughout the ages?
• How can we draw on ancient attitudes to homosexuality to inform modern debates on homophobia, xenophobia, racism, and same-sex marriage?

Abstracts of one page in length are due by February 1, 2010. Please do not send abstracts to the panel organizers. Email them to Nancy Rabinowitz at nrabinow@hamilton.edu. All abstracts will be refereed anonymously. Questions can be addressed to Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos at Konstantinos_Nikoloutsos@berea.edu.

Ancient Greek Philosophy
Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

The deadline for submission of papers for the SAGP meetings with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and with the American Philological Association is February 1, 2010.

Papers are normally submitted electronically. Submitters should include their name, the title of the paper, and the meeting at which they would like to present the paper in the message area of the email. The abstract/paper should be prepared for blind review and sent as attachment. We prefer attachments in Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.RTF), not PDF. If you have some other program you would like to use, please contact apreus@binghamton.edu first. Electronic transmission tends to garble Greek (because our reviewers don’t necessarily have the same fonts or programs as the submitters), so please transliterate everything.

Both APAs invite 500-800 word abstracts; while we will consider abstracts, the Program Committee prefers submissions that are more informative than that. The Program Committee has requested that submissions be limited to 3000 words MAX, and suggests that submissions less than 1000 words are too short to be evaluated effectively. Accepted papers may be revised up to a max of 5000 words for distribution.

Submit to apreus@binghamton.edu.

The members of the Program Committee are: the President (Deborah Modrak) and Secretary (A. Preus), ex officio; John Anton, Elizabeth Asmis, Fred Miller, Mark Wheeler, and Thomas M. Robinson. They (minus Preus) read the papers without the names of the submitters, and vote their preferences. The top choices are invited to present.

New Approaches to Galen

Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy (SAM)

The discovery of Galen’s treatise On the Avoidance of Distress (Peri Alupias) is only the most spectacular recent development in Galenic studies. New materials have jostled with a range of new approaches to the man, his work, and milieu. Different questions have been asked, more diverse contexts of understanding have been explored, just as a broader set of evidence has become available for these investigations; and SAM invites proposed papers which contribute to this ongoing scholarly discussion in any way.

Please send a summary of your proposed paper to Dr. Rebecca Flemming. It should be 500-600 words, and arrive by February 1, 2010.

If possible, please submit it electronically to ref33@cam.ac.uk. If that is not feasible, mail it to Dr. Flemming at: Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, UK.

Civil Strife and the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions (SAMR)
Organized by Barbette Spaeth, College of William and Mary, and Eric Orlin, University of Puget Sound.

SAMR invites those who study the religions of the ancient Mediterranean world from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (e.g, philology, archaeology, history, religious studies) to submit abstracts for its panel at the APA in 2011 This panel will be focused on the relationship between civil strife and religion in the ancient Mediterranean.  

Religion has always played a key role in civil wars and factional or dynastic strife. Some well known examples from antiquity include the use of religious propaganda by Darius to justify his kingship, competition and violence among the Sadducees and Pharisees, and Sulla's reliance on omens and divination. In 2011, the United States will begin a four-year commemoration of the American Civil War. While the political, military, moral and social dimensions of the conflict will receive the most attention, we cannot fully understand this critical episode in American history without acknowledging the central role that religion played: from the grand religious principles invoked by both sides before the conflict began and the belief in both the Union and Confederacy that they were fighting in a just cause with the support of a just God, to the personal displays of piety among soldiers and officers, religious sentiments and practices were manifested in innumerable ways. The cultural importance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War inspires a new look at the relationship between religion and civil strife. We seek papers that address this theme with reference to ancient texts, art, and material culture, or that consider modern appropriation of ancient world precedents.

Abstracts should be submitted by email attachment as .doc or .rtf files to Eric Orlin at eorlin@ups.edu and should be from 500-600 words in length for a paper to last between 15 to 20 minutes If any A-V equipment will be required, the type should be specified in the abstract Abstracts should contain a title and a word count and should not reveal the identity of the author. For further information about abstract format, please see the APA's instructions for the format of individual abstracts.  The files containing the abstracts should be given a short but descriptive name related to the title of the paper, e.g., ImperialCultAugustus.doc The filename itself (i.e., without the .doc or .rtf extension) should not exceed 20 characters and also should not reveal the identity of the author. 

All abstracts for papers will be reviewed anonymously by a committee of SAMR. The deadline for submission is February 12, 2010 Those whose papers are accepted must be members of the APA by March 1, 2010 For further information, please contact Barbette Spaeth, Department of Classical Studies, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 (bsspae@wm.edu) or Eric Orlin, Department of Classics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416 (eorlin@ups.edu).

Late Antique Poetry and Poetics
Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity
Organized by Suzanne Abrams Rebillard, Cornell University

Twenty years ago in The Jeweled Style Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity, Michael Roberts offered a novel approach to late antique poetry and poetics Building on the work of European scholars such as Jacques Fontaine, Roberts departed from th "unexamined classicism" still prevalent in negative analyses of late antique poetry, particularly in the English speaking world. His stated intent in the volume was to "propose a new focus of attention, a different manner of reading, for the classically oriented student of late antiquity… and to formulate this poetics in such a way that the poetry stands a chance of receiving the same kind of sympathetic appreciation that has long been accorded late antique art."(p.5 The "jeweled style" he identifies – a culture-wide aesthetic identifiable in works of art and other written forms, not just poetry &ndash is based on authors' understanding of their approach to be similar to that of a jeweler it requires manipulation and careful placement of small and brilliant verbal gems and jewels To properly appreciate and comprehend the poetics, one must be attentive to the high value placed on variatio by poets of the period. 

A wider movement reconsidering late antique poetry and poetics is now underway, multiplying the efforts of scholars who consistently over the last few decades have drawn attention to late antique poetry This expansion of interest has been facilitated, in part, by the recent appearance of critical editions and/or translations of works of, for example, Synesius of Cyrene, Gregory of Nazianzus, Ausonius, Paulinus of Nola, and Fortunatus Furthermore, given recent literary critical and philological work, we now seem better situated to reconsider and expand upon the basic premises of Roberts' book namely, are there identifiable stylistic norms that transcend the multitude of poetic forms and span both Latin and Greek poetry of the fourth to sixth centuries?

The Society for Late Antiquity invites submissions of abstracts offering new approaches to late antique poetry and poetics that will facilitate our consideration of the above question. Other questions one might consider are: What is the relationship between late antique and Classical poetics and how is it manifested? How is function, liturgical or other, related to poetic form How might consideration of late antique poetics inform discussions of genre theory (for example) or vice versa? Papers either addressing the poetic projects of individual authors or treating various poets thematically are welcome, as are theoretical approaches. One-page abstracts of papers (ca. 500 words) requiring a maximum of 20 minutes to deliver should be sent no later than February 1, 2010 via either email attachment to Suzanne Abrams Rebillard (scr29@cornell.edu) or by surface mail (Suzanne Abrams Rebillard, Department of Classics, 120 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N 14853-3201). Please follow the APA's instructions for the format of individual abstracts. All submissions will be judged anonymously by two referees.

Sappho and Horace: The Acoustic Contours of Lyric Verse
Sponsored by the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature.
Organized by Andrew S. Becker, Virginia Tech.

Ancient Greek and Roman responses to Sappho and to Horace emphasize their skill with sound, rhythm, and meter; each has been considered a poet’s poet, in part because of this aspect of the acoustic contour of their verses The more sustained and explicit attention we bring to the sonic resonance of their verses, the more richly and aptly we can respond to the haunting songs of the nightingale of Lesbos and the syncopated lyric lines of ‘many-metered’ Horace.

We welcome abstracts that treat the sound and performance of the lyric verse of Sappho or Horace, or both, including but not limited to the relationship between sound, rhythm, meter, and sense. Equally welcome are abstracts that deal with, inter alia, the linguistics and poetics of sound, rhythm, accent, ictus, prosody, and meter in their lyrics; the ancient Greco-Roman reception and perception of their verses; adaptations of or responses to Sapphic and/or Horatian versification; sounds and rhythms of their poetry in relation to others, such as Alkaios, Pindar, Catullus, or Martial; and the historical development of scholarship on the versification of Sappho and/or Horace.  We welcome papers that treat either Sappho or Horace individually, as well as those that take a comparative perspective Presenters should be prepared to support their views with oral demonstration.

Abstracts should be sent as e-mail attachments by February 15, 2010 to Matthew Dillon at mdillon@lmu.edu. Abstracts must be no more than one page and contain no indication of authorship. In accordance with APA regulations, all abstracts for papers will be read anonymously by three outside readers. Please follow the APA's instructions for the format of individual abstracts.

Greek and Latin Linguistics
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics
Organziers: Jeremy Rau, Harvard University and Benjamin W. Fortson, University of Michigan

The Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics solicits submission of abstracts for its panel session at the 142nd meeting of the American Philological Association in 2011. Papers treating any topic in Greek or Latin language and linguistics will be considered for presentation. Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of merit and relevance to the field. Each panelist will be given 15 minutes for presentation of his/her paper, to be followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Abstracts should be one page in length and should conform to the APA's instructions for the format of individual abstracts. Please send three copies of the abstract by February 10, 2010 to Jeremy Rau, Department of the Classics, Boylston 2nd fl., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138.

Theoretical Approaches to Vergil
Sponsored by the Vergilian Society

Although it has often been noted that the intersection of classics with literary and cultural theory came relatively late, it is clear by now that the union has been fruitful Irene J. F. de Jong and J. P. Sullivan’s Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature has shown how the application of various theoretical approaches can lead to useful interpretations of classical texts, and the work of Jean-Pierre Vernant and his colleagues in the Paris school of structuralist anthropology has permanently changed our understanding of Greek tragedy Indeed, the most striking aspect of a book like Thomas A. Schmitz’s Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts is that an introduction to critical theory can now proceed from one approach to another through the exclusive use of examples from Greek and Latin literature.

New work like this has been leaving its mark on Vergilian studies for some time now Annabel Patterson’s Pastoral and Ideology, Virgil to Valéry, with its new historicist reading of the Eclogues and of poetry written in imitation of them, is now more than twenty years old S. Georgia Nugent, Sharon James, and Judith Hallett are only three of the scholars who have changed our reading of the Aeneid by subjecting it to a feminist perspective, while a full third of Charles Martindale’s Cambridge Companion to Virgil is devoted to essays based in reception theory And Alden Smith’s recent book, The Primacy of Vision in Virgil’s Aeneid, shows what happens when philology enlists the aid of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological theories.

The Vergilian Society accordingly invites proposals for a panel on theoretical approaches to Vergil for the 2011 annual meeting. While papers from established scholars are certainly welcome, the Society extends an invitation as well to younger Vergilians whose work is informed by their reading in critical theory Joseph Farrell has agreed to be the respondent for the panel Please send abstracts of 500 to 800 words, for a 15-20 minute presentation, by email to Craig Kallendorf at kalendrf@tamu.edu Prof. Kallendorf can also be contacted at the Department of European and Classical Languages, Texas A&M University, MS 4215, College Station, T 77843-4215, phone: 979-845-2124 Since all abstracts will be judged anonymously, please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page All proposals must be received by February 1, 2010.

What Became of Lily Ross Taylor? Women and Ancient History in North America
Sponsored by the Women’s Classical Caucus and the APA Committee for Ancient History
Organized by Celia E. Schultz and Michele Salzman

The APA's Committee for Ancient History and the Women's Classical Caucus together invite proposals for a panel session on the status of women in the field of Ancient History to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association at San Antonio in 2011.

As the number of women in the Academy has increased over the last forty years, so has the number of female professional classicists grown.Yet the relative proportion of women scholars has not increased at an equal pace across the various subfields that make up the field of Classics, with ancient history lagging behind. Although some female ancient historians have had long distinguished careers as researchers and teachers, and now larger numbers are coming up through the ranks, the proportion of female ancient historians (approximately 20% of the field, based on Scheidel 1999) is smaller than the proportion of women in Classics more generally.

The purpose of this panel is to provide an opportunity to take stock of the state of the study and teaching of ancient history in North America and to contemplate where the field is going. We are particularly interested in papers that address the following questions What has changed since the 1970s that has encouraged more women to enter the field Why has the female presence in ancient history not been as robust as it is in literary studies? What does it mean that the proportion of women in ancient history is in keeping with the representation of women in the wider field of History, but is not in pace with the wider field of Classics Is there a difference in the circumstances faced by women educated in (and hired by) departments of History, departments of Classics, and independent graduate groups? How can the APA and the WCC assist in attracting more women to this endeavor?

Abstracts of 500 to 800 words, suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation, should be sent as an email attachment (Word doc or pdf) to Celia Schultz at celia.schultz@yale.edu, or to her by regular mail at the Department of Classics, Yale University, P.O. Box. 208266, New Haven CT 06520-8266 Since all abstracts will be judged anonymously, please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract itself. All proposals must be received by February 1, 2010.

APA INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACT FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS

• Abstracts must be one page in length. Abstracts longer than one page will not be accepted. (However,see below concerning the submission of bibliographical information.)
• Use 8.5-x-11-inch paper. If A4 paper is used, check that the text length from the top to the bottom is not greater than 10.2 inches.
• The top margin should be .8 inch; the left, right, and bottom margins should be 1 inch.
• Line spacing should be between 1.25 and 1.5.
• The text of the abstract should be in 11 point Times New Roman font.
• The author’s name should not appear on any copy of the abstract. However the title of the abstract should be in the upper-right-hand corner in 12 point Times New Roman font.

Citations of Literature: For documentation, footnotes should not be used. Incorporate citations into the text of the abstract. In citing bibliography in the text, brief parenthetical references usually suffice, but be sure that these are intelligible. The best procedure is to list complete bibliographical citations of the most important works on a second, stapled, page, and to refer to these in your abstract by author’s name and, when necessary, date. Note, however, that the abstract itself may not exceed a single page. Please Note: Authors may cite relevant work that they have already published, but these citations should be in the same format as any other author’s,i.e., in the third person.

Instructions for Submission of Individual Abstracts
to the Program Committee for the 2011 Annual Meeting

The Program Committee will consider individual papers at its meeting on June 18-19, 2010. The Executive Director will convey decisions of the Program Committee via email within 3-5 weeks after its meeting.

Oral Presentations. The Program Committee welcomes paper submissions from individual members for oral presentation. A maximum of 15 minutes will be allotted

for the delivery of accepted papers, and the Program Committee reserves the right to limit the audio/visual equipment requested. Please examine carefully the regulations for the preparation of individual abstracts listed below.

Papers to be Read by Title. Members may submit abstracts for papers to be listed in the Annual Meeting Program and published in the Abstracts book, but not to be presented orally at the Annual Meeting. In cases where the Program Committee does not think an abstract suitable for oral presentation, it reserves the right to accept it as a paper to be read by title.

General Requirements

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

By action of the APA Board of Directors, all submissions being made to the APA Program Committee or Office must be in electronic form through the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). SSRN will send confirmations via e-mail when a member has made a complete submission in a form eligible for review by the Committee. Please note the following requirements you must follow in order to submit an abstract. ABSOLUTELY NO EXTENSIONS OF THE DEADLINE WILL BE POSSIBLE:

YOU MUST BE AN APA MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING

Nonmembers will not be able to access the online submission system. In the case of the 2011 Annual Meeting, "good standing" will mean that dues have been paid through 2010. If you need to join the APA or renew your membership, see http://www.apaclassics.org/membership.html. If you are not sure whether you have paid your APA dues for 2010, contact the customer service staff at the Johns Hopkins University Press at jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu, 800-548-1784 (US and Canada only), or 410-516-6987 (all others) Please note that it can take up to several days for your membership application or renewal to be processed; please plan accordingly and ensure that your membership is valid well in advance of the submission deadline (11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on May 14, 2010). Absolutely NO extensions of the deadline will be possible because of unpaid membership fees.

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There are links on that page either to obtain a password for the first time or to receive a reminder of your password. If you ask for a reminder and receive the following message ("We cannot find that username or email address in our records.") and are sure that your dues for 2010 are paid, then you have either never requested a password, or you used a different email address when you did register. If you need further assistance, contact the customer service staff at the Johns Hopkins University Press as described above. It is strongly recommended that you verify your access to the members only page well in advance of the submission deadline. Absolutely NO extensions of the deadline will be possible because of problems with access to the members only page.

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Every member wishing to make a submission to the APA Program Committee must have an SSRN account There is no charge for obtaining this account Visit http://hq.ssrn.com and enter your email address on the right hand side of the screen under the heading "New Members". Click on "Join SSRN" to open a screen on which you will provide your name, email address, and telephone number and choose a password Click on "Create Account" to generate an email message from management@ssrn.com to the address you provided You must follow instructions in that email to complete the registration process It is strongly recommended that you set up your SSRN account well in advance of the submission deadline. Absolutely NO extensions of the deadline will be possible because of the lack of an SSRN account.

ANNUAL MEETING REGISTRATION

All participants in sessions on the program must register for the Annual Meeting and pay the applicable fees.

SINGLE APPEARANCE POLICY

The Program Committee seeks to encourage wide participation among APA members at the Annual Meeting. The Committee therefore reminds all participants of its long-standing policy of limiting members to one appearance on the Annual Meeting Program. An appearance includes participation as a presenter or respondent in a panel, seminar or workshop, an affiliated group session, an organizer-refereed panel, a session sponsored by an APA committee, or a regular APA paper session. The only exception to this policy is that individuals who are members of both the AIA and the APA may appear in both a Joint Session and an APA program unit Serving as either the presider of an annual meeting session or the leader of a roundtable discussion group is not treated as an appearance on the APA program.

SINGLE SUBMISSION POLICY

Members whose papers had been part of a submission for an at-large or committee panel reviewed by the Program Committee in April may, if the panel is not accepted, submit an individual abstract for review by the Committee in June However, in accordance with the single-appearance policy above, members may submit only one abstract for consideration at any one Program Committee meeting.

Individual Abstract Submission Guidelines

The deadline for submission of individual abstracts will be 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on May 14, 2010 To submit an abstract, go to the link for submission in the members only section of the APA web site: http://apa.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/home.cgi.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF ABSTRACT AUTHORS

Before preparing your abstract please review the instructions below as well as the suggestions for the preparation of abstracts that the Program Committee developed in conjunction with its workshop on abstract writing at the Anaheim meeting this past January.

Content of Abstracts. The abstract should contain the following information:

• a clear initial statement of purpose,
• a brief explanation of the abstract's relationship to the previous literature on the topic, including direct citations of any important literature (see "Citations of Literature" below),
• a summary of the argumentation,
• some examples to be used in the argumentation.

The abstract should make it clear that the paper is suitable for oral presentation within the time limit (maximum time is 15 minutes).

Format of Abstracts PLEASE ADHERE CAREFULLY TO THESE INSTRUCTIONS Adherence to this format will make it possible for accepted authors to submit abstracts for the Abstract Book without any revisions.

• Abstracts must be one page in length Abstracts longer than one page will not be accepted. (However, see the next paragraph concerning the submission of bibliographical information.)
• Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format only.
• The top margin should be .8 inch; the left, right, and bottom margins should be 1 inch.
• Line spacing should be 1.5. Single-spaced abstracts will not be read.
• The text of the abstract should be in 11 point Times New Roman font.
• The author's name should not appear on the abstract However the title of the abstract should be in the upper-right-hand corner in 12 point Times New Roman font.

Citations of Literature For documentation, footnotes should not be used. Incorporate citations into the text of the abstract In citing bibliography in the text, brief parenthetical references usually suffice, but be sure that these are intelligible The best procedure is to list complete bibliographical citations of the most important works on a second page, and to refer to these in your abstract by author's name and, when necessary, date Note, however, that the abstract itself may not exceed a single page Please Note:i.e., in the third person.

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