Special Events
Thursday, January 5
Opening Night Reception. This year's Opening Night Reception will be held on Thursday, January 5, 2012, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Complimentary shuttle service between the reception site and the meeting hotels will be provided to all ticket-holders. Tickets are $19 for students and $29 for all other meeting registrants and can be purchased during registration or at the door.
A Father-Son Odyssey with Daniel Mendelsohn, A Fund-Raising Event for the APA’s Campaign for Classics. The Gatekeeper to Gateway Campaign for Classics of the American Philological Association (APA) is pleased to present this event. In his new project, Odysseys: Adventures in Reading the Greeks, Daniel Mendelsohn—classical scholar, author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six Million, translator of Cavafy, and prolific contributor on classical themes to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other influential publications—adapts his trademarked blending of ancient texts and travel narrative to the classics, weaving a story that combines reflections on Greek texts with a larger story of a father-son journey to the sites of Greek culture through the Mediterranean and beyond. Mr. Mendelsohn will read passages from his work-in-progress that illuminate the transmissions that take place both as new generations encounter the great works of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and as a father and son share that encounter.
Except as indicated below, all donations supporting this event are tax-deductible. Suggested donations are as follows:
Seating is limited. Visit www.apaclassics.org/mendelsohnodyssey.html to reserve a seat. If space is available, admission may be obtained at the door on the night of the reading.
Friday, January 6
Meet the Funders: A Panel Discussion Exploring How and Why Projects Get Funded. This joint session with AIA will offer attendees an opportunity to hear from granting institutions about funding challenges and opportunities. The panel will take place from 11:30am to 12:30pm.
Presidential Panel. President Kathleen Coleman has organized a session entitled “Images for Classicists”. The panel will take place from 4:30pm to 6:30pm.
PERFORMANCE OF TheJurymen, an Aristophanic take on the last days of Socrates (Sponsored by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance).This year’s CAMP production will be held Friday evening, January 6, 2012, at 7:30pm. Written by Katherine Janson and directed by Amy R. Cohen, The Jurymen is a comedic dialogue that seeks to enlighten modern readers using the Socratic method as its touchpoint. A research-based play, it is built upon extensive study of the lives, philosophic principles, and historic context of the two inseparable ancient thinkers, Plato and Socrates, and seeks to “put the conversation on Athens back together again”.
Saturday, January 7
Joint AIA/APA Roundtable Discussion Session. The Roundtable Discussions continue to be well attended, and together with the AIA, the APA Program Committee is pleased to present new topics this year at midday (11:30am to 1:00pm). Members of both societies will lead separate discussions at individual tables. Topics will include issues of intellectual and practical importance to classicists and archaeologists. Sign-up sheets will be available in advance of the session so that participation at each table can be limited to a number that will encourage useful dialogues.
APA Poster Session. A new feature of the annual meeting program, the poster session will be held from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. The Program Committee felt that this kind of session would give these presenters the flexibility to display all of their data simultaneously in a variety of formats (graphically and electronically as well as orally) and permit annual meeting registrants to identify those aspects of the presentations that were of greatest interest to them and then interact with presenters one-on-one or in small groups.
APA Plenary Session.Beginning at 4:30pm, the plenary session will feature the presentation of the APA’s teaching awards and the Goodwin Award of Merit. Also, Kathleen Coleman will deliver her Presidential Address entitled “Bureaucratic Language in the Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan”.
APA Presidential Reception. The Board of Directors cordially invites all APA members attending the 143rd Annual Meeting to a reception honoring President Kathleen Coleman on Saturday, January 7, immediately after the Plenary Session and Presidential Address. The Board encourages all members to attend the reception and meet those colleagues they may not have seen earlier in the meeting.
Sunday, January 8
Minority Student Scholarship Fund-Raising Raffle. The Joint APA/AIA Committee on Scholarships for Minority Students asks for your support of this important program by purchasing tickets for and attending this year's fund-raising raffle at the Joint Annual Meeting. The raffle of books and book gift certificates will take place this year at 8:15 a.m. on Sunday, January 8 in the exhibit area. Tickets for the raffle are $10 each or three for $25 and can be purchased at the time of advance registration or at the meeting in the Registration Area. You do not need to be present at the event to win the raffle.
Business Meeting of the Association. All APA members are encouraged to attend this session. As described on the APA website, an amendment to the By-Laws has been proposed and will be acted on at this meeting. After the transaction of necessary business, there will be time available for questions and comments from members. The Executive Director's report will be published in advance of the annual meeting. The meeting will take place from 11:00am to 11:30am.
Last updated December 21, 2011.
