Announcements and Calls for Papers
The 2010 meeting of the AAH will be held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, April 15-17. The Program and information on registration and hotels are also available.
Grants to assist graduate students and junior faculty with meeting expenses are available; please see the Subvention Grants page.
Justice in the Ancient World. The University of Western Ontario, Mar 5th-7th, 2010. This conference seeks to bring together scholars from around North America to present papers on aspects of law or justice in Greek or Roman antiquity. More specifically, the conference will address some of the following concerns: how a demand for justice was articulated and implemented in ancient civilizations; the nature of human or divine justice in Greek or Roman myth and literature; the function of law in ancient society; the rules, procedures, and institutions of Greek or Roman law; ancient philosophers on law or justice; and the influence of social norms and political and cultural traditions on law. The speakers draw together such diverse topics as philosophy, drama, the ancient city, and visual culture under the larger heading of law and justice. Registration deadline: February 25, 2010
Call for papers: Integration and identity in the Roman Republic, Manchester, 1-3 July 2010.
The project ‘Integration and identity in the Roman Republic’ aims to clarify the processes of integration between Italians and Romans in the period 340-91 BC. We would welcome papers on any aspect of integration and the formation of identity in the Roman Republic. The deadline for abstracts is 1 March 2010.
Call for papers: The NEH Summer Seminar, “The ‘Falls of Rome’: The Transformations of Rome in Late Antiquity” will take place at the American Academy in Rome from 28 June through 30 July 2010. This seminar will focus on a topic that is fundamental to the study of antiquity; “What does it mean to say Rome fell?” Deadline for applications: March 2, 2010.
The American School of Classical Studies in Athens announces a number of fellowships and programs for students and faculty for 2010/2011.
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Welcome to the website of the Association of Ancient Historians. We are the premier organization of Ancient History professionals in the United States and Canada. Membership is open to all persons with an interest in ancient history.
The Association of Ancient Historians was founded with two essential objectives. The first of these is to foster a regular forum for scholarly interaction among historians of the Ancient Mediterranean--especially among those who study the Greeks and Romans--and secondly, to do so in a manner that emphasizes collegiality and social interaction.
Over its lifetime, and that of its informal forerunner, the AAH has organized annual meetings at more than two dozen different universities in the United States and Canada, and its membership has grown to nearly 800, including most of the ancient historians in these two countries. The AAH is the largest organization in North America that is devoted exclusively to promoting teaching and scholarship in ancient history.
In addition to communicating matters of common interest, the AAH works with individual universities to organize annual meetings that provide an opportunity to present and discuss research in the field. The AAH informs its members through a regular newsletter; it sponsors the publication of a series of monographs and has published two volumes of collected essays. And it has organized summer institutes for college teachers under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Association also sponsors an annual meeting in the Spring, usually in early May. These meetings are hosted by individual members with the support of their home institutions and shift venue every year. Nearly all panels and papers are presented in plenary session. Participants tend to take meals together to engage in informal conversations and there is a reception and banquet.
The AAH is currently engaged in a project to update the Directory of Ancient Historians in the USA and Canada and to create a searchable on-line version of it.