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The 2013 ACLS Annual Meeting will be held May 9-11 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel. The meeting will include a report from President Pauline Yu, an address by NEH Chairman Jim Leach, and presentations by recent ACLS fellows. A plenary panel will discuss with the audience what the growth of massive open online courses (MOOCs) could mean for the humanities and for learned societies. The annual Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture will be delivered by Robert Alter, Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. 

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HOTEL INFORMATION: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202, (410) 547-1200.

PRELIMINARY 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

ACLS Board of Directors Annual Meeting Review (members only)
4:30-5:00 pm, Guilford

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

 

 

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See Multimedia for audio/video of annual meeting program sessions and Haskins Prize Lectures.

Future Annual Meetings

2014, May 8-10
Sheraton Society Hill Hotel
Philadelphia, PA

Haskins Prize Lecture:
Bruno Nettl

 




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