CAAS is pleased to announce that the first Jerry Clack Lecture will take place on Friday, October 8, during the CAAS 2010 conference in New Jersey. Our speaker, Professor W. Robert Connor, will speak on “We Must Call the Classics Before a Jury of the Shipwrecked: What Classics Can Do Now.” Professor Connor's theme is inspired by a passage in Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses. Formerly of Princeton, Duke, the National Humanities Center, and recently, the Teagle Foundation, Professor Connor has published widely on Athenian history and modern liberal education.
In 2002 the CAAS Board established the Jerry Clack Lectureship Fund to bring a distinguished speaker from outside the CAAS region — North America, Europe and beyond — to deliver a keynote lecture on the world of ancient Greece and/or Rome at our annual meeting. The Clack Lectureship was named in honor of Professor Jerry Clack, past President of CAAS, Editor of Classical World, and Executive Director.
We are thrilled that Jerry Clack plans to attend this highlight of our 2010 annual conference. A reception for Jerry at 5:00 pm in the Court of the Newark Museum will be followed by the Clack Lecture at 6:00 pm. Beginning at 4:00 pm, buses will bring us from the Hilton Newark Airport, the site of the conference, to the museum. After the program, buses will bring us back to the hotel for dinner. During the initial hours, participants may also visit the museum's classical collection.
The 2010 meeting will be held on October 7-9, 2010, at the Hilton Newark Airport Hotel in Elizabeth, New Jersey (hotel website will open in a new page).