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From: Neil Coffee <ncof
...@buffalo.edu>
Date: Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:18 PM
Subject: Invitation to Form a Digital Classics Association
To: Digital Classicist Listserv <DIGITALCLASSIC
...@jiscmail.ac.uk>
*Invitation to Form a Digital Classics Association*
Dear Colleagues,****
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We write to ask your support in an effort to promote digital classics.****
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We are in the process of forming a Digital Classics Association (DCA) to
foster digital approaches to understanding classical antiquity, its legacy,
and associated cultures.****
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The immediate goal of the DCA is the creation of a dedicated session for
digital classics at the annual meeting of the American Philological
Association (APA). This session will complement existing online and offline
venues for digital humanities and digital classics collaboration. To this
end, we are applying for recognition as an APA Type II Affiliated
Group<http://apaclassics.org/index.php/annual_meeting/program_guide/types_o...>.
Recognition as a Type II Affiliated Group will permit the DCA to host a
combined poster session / informal reception at the APA Annual Meeting for
the next five years. Creation of such a venue will bring sustained
discussion of digital methods to the largest North American meeting of
classical scholars.****
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The application deadline for APA Affiliated Group status is *March 23, 2012*.
If successful, the first DCA group meeting and sponsored session will take
place at the January, 2014 APA meeting in Chicago.****
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We invite you to support this effort by *becoming a member of the fledgling
DCA at your earliest convenience*. Membership is open to anyone with
interests in digital classics, requires no fee, and imposes no obligation.**
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*To become a member*, please go to the pilot DCA website (
http://dca.drupalgardens.com/) and enter your name and email address into
the DCA mailing list. We will compile all the names we receive before the
APA deadline into a membership list to submit with the application. Your
name and email address will be used only for the purpose of supporting the
APA application and for occasional updates on future DCA activities. (You
can remove your information from the list at any time by emailing the DCA
Secretary-Treasurer.)****
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Your membership will advance no agenda other than broad support for all
forms of digital classics as outlined above and elaborated in the attached
APA application. If we are successful, all aspects of the organization,
including mission, structure, activities, and personnel, will be open to
full revision by the membership at the first DCA business meeting at the
2014 APA conference.****
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For the purposes of the APA application, we have created an organizational
structure, embodied in the attached set of bylaws. In accord with these
bylaws, we have formed an Interim Steering Committee with five members:****
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Co-Chairs: Neil
Coffee<http://classics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/neil_coffee/>(University
at Buffalo) and Gregory
Crane<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/about/who/gregoryCrane?redirect=true>(Perseus,
Tufts University)
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Secretary-Treasurer: Allen
Romano<http://classics.fsu.edu/People/Faculty/Allen-Romano>(Florida
State University)
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Steering Committee Member: Charlotte
Roueché<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/people/academic/roueche/index...>(King’s
College London)
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Steering Committee Member: Christopher
Blackwell<http://www2.furman.edu/academics/classics/about/Pages/FacultyandStaff...>(Furman
University, Center for Hellenic Studies)
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Open elections for all of these positions are planned for the 2014 APA
Meeting.****
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We would like to extend this invitation as widely as possible, so please
forward this email to anyone who might be interested. With your support, we
hope to create a highly productive venue for formal and informal
discussions for years to come, and to found an organization that will
foster the development of digital approaches to classical antiquity by a
variety of other means as well.****
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Thank you very much for your time and consideration. We hope to hear from
you!****
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Yours sincerely,****
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Neil Coffee Gregory Crane****
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