Call for Proposals:
Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop
Georgetown University, October 14–16, 2010: Latin Texts
Proposals are solicited for participation in the sixth annual Classical
Commentary Writers’ Workshop, to be held on October 14–16, 2010 at
Georgetown University in Washington DC. The 2009 workshop will be devoted
to Latin texts. The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2010.
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 conveners, 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 14th, and to stay for the entire proceedings,
including a 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. 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 13, 2010, 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 $600 for
travel and housing. All meals will be provided.
Support for the Workshop has been provided by the Loeb Classical Library
Foundation, the Alexander Onassis Foundation, the Georgetown Provost’s
Office, and the University of Minnesota’s Imagine Fund.
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