Call for Proposals: Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop 
Georgetown University, October 16–18 2008 
 
 
Proposals are solicited for participation in the third annual Classical 
Commentary Writers’ Workshop, to be held at Georgetown University on 
October 16–18 2008. The 2008 workshop will be devoted to Latin texts. The 
deadline for proposals is June 15, 2008. The workshop will consist of five 
3-hour sessions, each devoted to discussion of a single pre-circulated 
chunk of text and commentary. We work in an intensely practical, hands-on 
way, asking questions, making suggestions, working out problems, and the 
like. Our expectation is not that the group will examine the whole of 
anyone’s primary text, but that all participants will return in the end to 
their projects with fresh insights, ideas and questions, new bibliographic 
resources, and a sense of working within a supportive scholarly community. 
Workshop sessions are open only to the convenors, S. Douglas Olson and Alex 
Sens; the five participants; and (by invitation) previous participants and 
occasional graduate student observers. Participants are expected to arrive 
late in the day on the 16th, and to stay for the entire proceedings, 
including a celebratory final dinner on Saturday night.

Projects should be well enough advanced to provide a substantial sample of 
text and commentary, but not so far along that the Workshop will be 
unlikely to affect the final shape of the project. Proposals should consist 
of (1) a brief (maximum one-page) description of the project, its intended 
audience, and the expected publication venue; (2) a 10-page sample of text 
and commentary. Proposals should be submitted, preferably in PDF form, to 
the convenors at [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] Final Workshop 
samples will be due on Monday September 15, 2008, for pre-circulation to 
all participants.

Participants are asked to call first on their own research accounts and 
institutional resources to cover their transportation and housing costs. 
For those who lack such resources, the Workshop will provide up to $750 for 
travel and housing related expenses. All meals will be provided.

Support for the Workshop has been provided by the Loeb Classical Library 
Foundation.


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