Current Programs
The Division currently sponsors a number of programs that link professional classicists with others interested in the ancient Greco-Roman world and its later legacy.
It produces Amphora®, a publication aimed at a broadly constituted audience becoming acquainted with the excitement that Classics has to offer as well as those with longtime interests in the field. The first issue of Amphora® appeared in Spring, 2002; its Editor T. Davina McClain (mcclaind@nsula.edu) welcomes comments on the journal and ideas for future articles. Amphora®'s editorial board is: T. Davina McClain, Louisiana Scholars College, Northwestern State University, Editor; Diane Johnson, Western Washington University, Assistant Editor; Adam Blistein, ex officio as Executive Director of the APA; Jane Cahill, University of Winnipeg; Sally Davis, Arlington County (Virginia) Public Schools; Edmund F. DeHoratius, Wayland High School (Massachusetts); Mary-Kay Gamel, UC-Santa Cruz; John Gruber-Miller, Cornell College; Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland ex officio as Vice President for Outreach; Anne-Marie Lewis, York University; Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis University; Chris Ann Matteo, The Edmund Burke School; Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Wesleyan University.
The Division is developing a list of other print venues where classicists can publish for a general audience. Both APA members knowledgeable about writing in such venues and representatives of interested publications are encouraged to contact Judith Hallett (jeph@umd.edu), the coordinator of this effort.
The Division's Speakers Bureau helps interested groups to find enthusiastic speakers who are prepared to give talks on a variety of classical topics to a general audience. Anyone with any information about current classically-related events (lectures, films, plays) is encouraged to contact Judith Hallett (jeph@umd.edu) or Mary Kay Gamel (mkgamel@ucsc.edu).
The Division of Outreach and its Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance have created two new rosters: one a roster of classicists with backgrounds in musical performance and the history of music, the other a roster of classicists with backgrounds in theatrical performance and classical performance reception. The colleagues on these lists are willing to share their expertise with individuals working on music or performances that use classical figures or themes.
Each year, the Division arranges one or two sessions or performances at the annual meeting of the APA, held jointly with the Archaeological Institute of America, that are open to the public. At the next annual meeting (January 6-9, 2010, in Anaheim, California), the Division is hosting a session on "Classics and the 'Great Books'". This session will focus on a longstanding, influential and highly successful classics outreach initiative in undergraduate institutions of higher education: the "Great Books" / "core curricula" programs of teaching selected ancient Greek and Roman texts in translation. The presentations at this panel will examine these programs from the larger historical perspective of American higher education as well as in their specific institutional contexts, considering their academic and intellectual limitations as well as their strengths.
Last updated on January 19, 2011.
