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• Reckonings
• Matthew S. Santirocco

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sustainability of Classics and SCS, misappropriations of Greece and Rome, race and racism, accessibility, SCS mission and priorities, SCS annual meeting, reparative scholarship, open access publishing, educational innovation

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i speak to you tonight with a great sense of humility and gratitude.¹ As a graduate student over forty years ago and then as a young untenured professor, I found in the American Philological Association (APA), as our Society for Classical Studies (SCS) was then called, the larger intellectual community, professional mentoring, and personal support that I needed, but that none of my institutions at the time could provide on their own. Over the years I have tried to give back to the organization by serving it in various capacities, among them as editor of its monograph series, as vice president for professional matters, and as financial trustee. I want to thank you for giving me one more, and very special, opportunity to serve as your president.

The past three years have been challenging ones for all of us. But the SCS has shown remarkable resilience. It is impossible to overstate the important [End Page 287] role played by our executive director, Helen Cullyer. During her tenure, there has not been a year in which she has not had to manage some sort of disruption, be it operational, financial, political, and even, climatological. In all these situations, her foresight, judiciousness, creativity, and energy have been equaled only by her deep commitment to the Society's mission, her responsiveness to our diverse membership, and her support of the Board and especially this grateful president. We are also fortunate to have on our team Cherane Ali, who, together with Helen, had to turn on the proverbial dime to rethink our annual meeting, first when COVID necessitated moving it online, and then this year when we are having our first hybrid meeting. Moving from our administrative team, I want to thank the Board and the many volunteers who take on SCS responsibilities. Finally, we all owe a great debt of gratitude to one such colleague, my predecessor as president, Professor Shelley Haley, who cares so deeply about moving our field in the right direction. When she handed me the gavel a year ago, I committed to continuing that work.

I decided that the best way I could do that was to draw on my experience as a Classicist who has been engaged in academic administration for over three decades, as a department chair, center director, college dean, and academic vice provost.² I have been fortunate to be at institutions that had the will and the wherewithal to be ambitious on behalf of the humanities and especially ancient studies. Of course, this is not the case everywhere, and many programs are underresourced and even at risk. For that reason, I invited the SCS Board during my presidential year to make sustainability a theme for our discussions. By sustainability, I mean how to ensure the viability of this institution, the SCS, and also how to ensure the vitality of our profession, Classical Studies. Yesterday's presidential panel, "Ensuring a Future for Classical Studies in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Survival and Success," explored different ways in which our field can organize itself at the institutional level. Tonight, I would like to focus on the larger challenges and opportunities our field faces and on the role the SCS can play in moving us forward. To that end, I have entitled my remarks "Reckonings." A word that is enjoying wide currency of late in our political discourse, it has several meanings that are relevant to the current state of our profession. At its most basic, to reckon means to think, and I will be sharing with you some thoughts which I have been developing, on the basis of the extensive reading I have done this year and the many conversations I have had with members of the SCS, especially younger members. But reckoning also means taking stock of where we are, keeping the accounts, [End Page 288] so to speak. Finally, a reckoning is also a bill or an invoice, an occasion to pay back or, perhaps in our case, to...

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清算

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• 清算
• 马修·桑蒂罗科

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经典和 SCS 的可持续性、希腊和罗马的盗用、种族和种族主义、可及性、SCS 使命和优先事项、SCS 年会、修复性奖学金、开放获取出版、教育创新

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今晚我怀着极大的谦卑和感激之情向你们讲话。¹四十多年前，作为一名研究生，然后作为一名年轻的未终身教授，我发现美国语言学协会（APA）（当时我们的古典研究协会（SCS）被称为）拥有更大的知识群体、专业指导和我需要个人支持，但当时我的机构都无法单独提供这些支持。多年来，我一直试图通过以各种身份为该组织服务来回馈该组织，其中包括担任其专着系列的编辑、专业事务副总裁以及财务受托人。我要感谢你们再给我一次非常特别的机会担任你们的总统。

过去三年对我们所有人来说都是充满挑战的三年。但南海却表现出了非凡的韧性。我们的执行董事 Helen Cullyer 发挥的重要作用怎么强调都不为过[完第 287 页] 。在她任职期间，她没有一年不需要应对某种干扰，无论是运营、财务、政治，甚至气候。在所有这些情况下，她的远见、明智、创造力和精力只能与她对协会使命的坚定承诺、她对我们多元化会员的积极响应以及她对董事会的支持，特别是对这位感恩的主席的支持相媲美。我们还很幸运地拥有我们团队中的 Cherane Ali，他和 Helen 一起，不得不拿出众所周知的钱来重新考虑我们的年会，首先是因为新冠疫情需要将会议转移到网上，然后是今年我们举行了第一次混合会议会议。在我们的管理团队中，我要感谢董事会和许多承担 SCS 职责的志愿者。最后，我们都非常感谢一位这样的同事，我的前任校长雪莉·黑利教授，他非常关心我们的领域朝着正确的方向发展。一年前，当她把木槌递给我时，我承诺继续这项工作。

我认为最好的办法就是利用我作为一名古典主义者的经验，我从事学术管理工作三十多年，担任过系主任、中心主任、学院院长和学术副教务长。²我很幸运能够加入那些有意愿和资金雄心勃勃地致力于人文学科，特别是古代研究的机构。当然，并非所有地方都是这样，许多项目资源不足，甚至面临风险。出于这个原因，我在担任总统期间邀请 SCS 董事会将可持续发展作为我们讨论的主题。我所说的可持续性，是指如何确保SCS这个机构的生存能力，以及如何确保我们古典研究这个专业的活力。昨天的主席小组“确保学院古典研究的未来：生存和成功的机构策略”探讨了我们的领域在机构层面组织自身的不同方式。今晚，我想重点讨论我们的领域面临的更大挑战和机遇，以及 SCS 在推动我们前进方面可以发挥的作用。为此，我将我的发言命名为“清算”。这个词最近在我们的政治话语中广泛流行，它有几个与我们职业现状相关的含义。最基本的计算意味着思考，我将与大家分享我在今年广泛阅读以及与 SCS 成员进行的多次对话的基础上形成的一些想法。 ，特别是年轻成员。但清算也意味着盘点我们的处境，记账，[结束第288页]可以这么说。最后，清算也是账单或发票，是偿还的机会，或者，也许在我们的例子中，是......