The 2013 ACLS Annual Meeting took place on May 9-11 in Baltimore, Maryland. The meeting included a report from President Pauline Yu, an address by NEH Chairman Jim Leach, and presentations by recent ACLS fellows. A plenary panel discussed what the growth of massive open online courses (MOOCs) could mean for the humanities and for learned societies. A meeting summary and related materials will be posted shortly.
Robert Alter, Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, delivered the annual Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture. Videos of the plenary session and the Haskins Prize Lecture will be added to our multimedia collection this summer.
MEETING SCHEDULE
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Thursday, May 9
Welcome Reception
5:45-6:30 pm, Baltimore Foyer
Buffet Supper
6:30-8:30 pm, Baltimore Ballroom
Informal Discussions on Topics of Current Interest
Open Access: Managing Change
8:00-10:00 pm, Homeland
Changing Funding Patterns in International and Area Studies
8:00-10:00 pm, Fells Point
Friday, May 10
Executive Committee of the Delegates Breakfast Meeting (members only)
7:30-8:30 am, Guilford
Continental Breakfast
7:45-9:00 am, Baltimore Ballroom
Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Discussion with ACLS Fellows
9:00-10:15 am, Maryland Ballroom
Ruha Benjamin, 2012 ACLS Fellow
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Boston University
Sarah H. Jacoby, 2012 ACLS Fellow
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Northwestern University
Adrian Johns, 2012 ACLS Fellow
Professor of History, University of Chicago
Teofilo F. Ruiz, Moderator
Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Member, ACLS Board of Directors
Report of the President
10:30-11:15 am
Pauline Yu
Meeting of the Council
11:15 am-12:00 noon
Pre-Lunch Reception
12:00 noon-12:30 pm, Baltimore Foyer
Luncheon Speaker
12:30-2:00 pm, Baltimore Ballroom
Jim Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
Program Session:
MOOCs, the Humanities, and Learned Societies
2:15-4:00 pm, Maryland Ballroom
Jeremy Adelman,Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture, Princeton University
Howard Lurie,Vice President of Content Development, edX
Jennifer Summit, Professor of English, Stanford University
James J. O’Donnell, Moderator, Chair, ACLS Board of Directors, Georgetown University
MOOCs in the News: A sampling of recent press coverage
The Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture
6:30-7:30 pm, Maryland Ballroom
Robert Alter, Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Reception and Buffet Supper
7:30-9:30 pm, Baltimore Ballroom
Saturday, May 11
Breakfast
7:30-9:30 am, Watertable Ballroom
Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) Spring Meeting (members only)
8:30-11:30 am, Homeland
Optional CAO Session
11:30 am-12:15 pm, Homeland