From Judith_P_HALLETT@umail.umd.edu Sun Feb 2 08:31:59 2003 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h12GVwCK024408 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 08:31:58 -0800 Received: from umailsrv2.umd.edu (umailsrv2.umd.edu [128.8.10.76]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h12GVuQY016724; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 08:31:56 -0800 Received: from umail.umd.edu (umail.umd.edu [128.8.10.28]) by umailsrv2.umd.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id h12GVtt14393; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 11:31:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200302021631.h12GVtt14393@umailsrv2.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 11:27 EST From: Judith_P_HALLETT@umail.umd.edu (jh10) Subject: CAAS meeting in Wilmington, Delaward October 10-11 To: classics@u.washington.edu, "Judith P. HALLETT" , blondell@u.washington.edu, mdwebb@earthlink.edu, blistein@sas.upenn.edu X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=I, Probability=1%, Report="SPAM_PHRASE_03_05, SUBJECT_MONTH, SUBJECT_MONTH_2" For posting on the APA newsletter, WCC, Classics and Latin teachers lists: Classical Association of the Atlantic States Call for papers Fall 2003 meeting, October 10-11 Wilmington, Delaware Wyndham Hotel We invite individual and group proposals on all abstracts of the classical world, and on new strategies and resources for improved teaching. Especially welcome are presentations which aim at maximum audience presentation and those that integrate the concerns of K-12 and college faculty. Among the special sessions being planned are panel discussions on New Directions in Research and Teaching on Latin prose authors (in memory of Judith R. Ginsburg); Visitors to the North American Classical Community (featuring classicists from a variety of countries who came to study and teach in the US and Canada, and then returned "home"); Latin commencement orations (at Princeton, Harvard and elsewhere); and Italian-Americans in classical studies. There will also be a limited enrollment workshop on writing abstracts for papers at professional meeting and grant proposals. Our Saturday luncheon speaker will be Christopher Stray, author of Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 Abstracts, of no more than 300 words, should be in quintuplicate and nameless. The cover letter should include the title of the abstract, address, phone number and email address of each presenter. A brief cv should be submitted for each presenter as well. Deadline for submission of abstracts is June 1, 2003 Please send materials to Judith P. Hallett, CAAS Program Coordinator Department of Classics University of Maryland College Park MD 20742 USA fax 301-314-9084 The program for the spring CAAS meeting in Pittsburgh April 25-26 is now posted on our website: we have dedicated our session on New Directions in Research and Teaching in Homer to the memory of Dorothea Wender, who taught in the CAAS region (at the University of Maryland, George Washington University and Trinity College) before joining the faculty at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, in 1970. .