Indiana Classical Conference Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Indiana Classical Conference will take place at Wabash College on Friday and Saturday, March 30–31, 2007. All current ICC members and nonmembers are invited to attend. College, university, and high school faculty are encouraged to bring students to the meeting.

ICC Meeting Schedule
List of Participants

The general theme this year is "How—and why—do we encourage students to study Latin?" On Friday evening, Professor Judith Hallett, University of Maryland, will deliver a keynote lecture that promises to stimulate discussion and give focus to the spirit of symposion/convivium in the opening festivities.

Saturday's discussion will center on how we can help and encourage high school Latin students to make the transition to college Latin (and classics more broadly). The meeting seeks to help Indiana teachers and professors develop concrete measures to encourage high school students to take Latin, to attract and retain high school Latin students in college-level Latin and classics, and to explain why we think these are good things. 

Specific topics of discussion are open, but they will include such questions as the following:

• To what extent do high school teachers of Latin and college/university classicists share the same goals for their students? Are we really teaching the same thing?
• Do we all share a sense of the value of learning Latin (and classics more broadly) as a component of liberal education? Can we articulate that value to students, parents, administrators, and colleagues in other fields? Can we contribute to a broader articulation of the value of liberal arts education?

Call for Volunteers and Ideas

Volunteer to give a presentation

• First Session (5–10 minute presentations): In getting high school students to take Latin in high school and in motivating them to continue into college, what works for you and what doesn't?
• Third Session (3–5 minute presntations to stimulate round table): Can you provide evidence for the value of learning Latin (and classics)?

Talk up this meeting to your students

High school teachers: Please identify students who could help us think through these issues and encourage them to join us on Saturday morning.

College and university faculty: Please ask Latin (as well as Greek and classics) students to join us for the meeting. If you have students working on (or recently finished with) research projects, ask them to submit an abstract for a 5–10 minute presentation of their work in the second session.

Propose Ideas and Readings

If you have an idea or topic you'd like to see treated, but don't want to give a presentation yourself, please suggest it.

Please suggest readings. It might make a session especially lively if many of us have read something in preparation for it.

Expenses

• College and university faculty are asked to pay a $25 registration fee. The Center of Inquiry will cover registration fees for all students and for high school faculty.
• The Center of Inquiry will cover housing fees for college and university students.
• The Center of Inquiry will cover the expenses of three meals for all participants; this includes Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast, and Saturday lunch.
• College, university, and high school faculty are asked to pay for their own housing if they stay in Crawfordsville Friday night. Please note that the rooms in Trippet Hall are very nice, but their numbers are limited; first come, first served.

Registration

If you intend to come to the ICC meeting, please print out and return the appropriate registration form to Ms. Christina Gilbert at Wabash College by March 9. Please note that we ask you to provide names of students who might like to attend.

High School Faculty/Students Registration Form
College Faculty/Students Registration Form

Please ask college or university students to send abstracts of 5–10 minute presentations of their research projects to Professor Joseph Day (dayj@wabash.edu)

Please volunteer to give a presentation and/or suggest ideas and readings. Contact Joseph Day (dayj@wabash.edu)