I will encourage seminar participants to launch panels and conferences on Homer and his reception and on the reception of classical antiquity more broadly, in their own professional organizations, including my own (the American Philological Association and the American Comparative Literature Association). I will try to use our existing website for Contexts for Classics as a focal point for gathering together websites with course listings and syllabi across the nation as well as postings on upcoming and past conferences relevant to the topic. (We currently do this for programs in reception studies both in the States and across Europe, but nothing quite as detailed as I am envisioning now. I will employ two graduate assistants to carry on with this project for six months after the seminar ends in order to sustain whatever momentum is gained during the summer, at which point CFC will assume this responsibility.) It would be terrific to see our CFC site turn into a gateway and clearing house of information and dissemination for such ideas. The seminar on Homer’s readers would be an ideal place to start. Evaluation of the seminar will be ongoing in the course of the seminar. Standard evaluations, following NEH protocols, will be submitted after the final session.
