Announcements for the Week of 28 September


CANE

  • The fall deadline for the quadriannual CANE Discretionary Funds grant is October 1st. If you have a great idea for a class activity but need funds for books and/or materials, please apply! For more information on this or other grants/scholarships that CANE offers, visit this page.
  • Don’t forget to pay your membership dues for the 2014-2015 academic year.

BEYOND CANE

Conferences/Meetings

  • Phillips Exeter Academy’s Classical Languages Department will host Princeton University linguist, classicist and comparative philologist Professor Joshua T. Katz for an evening talk titled “Ancient Egypt and its Hieroglyphs” on Wednesday, Oct. 1.
    The talk will explore the language of ancient Egypt — the land of mummies, pharaohs, pyramids and sphinxes. Fascinating to outsiders for more than a millennium, the secrets of this culture were not revealed until the 19th century when the hieroglyphic system of writing was deciphered. Audience members can learn to “read and write like an Egyptian” from this presentation. The talk will take place at 7 p.m. in the Phelps Academy Center’s Forum, 9 Tan Lane in Exeter, NH, and is free and open to the public.
  • The Classics Program at the University of New Hampshire is pleased to issue a call for papers for its first Rouman Symposium for Research in Classics and the Humanities, to be held on the Durham campus from October 17–19, 2014. The Symposium is sponsored by the John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series and will run from the afternoon of Friday the 17th until the early afternoon of Sunday the 19th. For more information, or to send in an abstract, contact R. Scott Smith.
  • The Massachusetts Foreign Language Association (MaFLA) is holding its annual conference in Sturbridge, MA October 23-25. There is a full schedule of Latin workshops and talks, and you can register now at their website through September 26. Please note that the Classical Association of Massachusetts’ Annual Meeting takes place here on Friday night.

Meetups

  • Live in western MA or northern CT and want to practice speaking in Latin? There is a large group that meets weekly in Amherst! For details, contact TJ Howell.
  • In the Boston area? Check out the Active Latin Meetup page for events.

Jobs

  • The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) is seeking to fill several positions.  See the ASCSA website for information about current positions and to obtain an application.

Awards, Scholarships and Fellowships

  • The Vergilian Society offers many tours in the Mediterranean and offers many scholarships.
  • The Society for Classical Studies has extended the deadline for nominations for its Precollegiate Teaching Award to Friday, November 7, 2014. Instructions for submitting nominations appear at this link.
  • THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENSTHE M. ALISON FRANTZ FELLOWSHIP IN POST-CLASSICAL STUDIES AT THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY
    Deadline: January 15
    The M. Alison Frantz Fellowship, formerly know as the Gennadeion Fellow in Post-Classical Studies, was named in honor of photographer and archaeologist, M. Alison Frantz (1903 – 1995) whose photographs of antiquities are widely used in books on Greek culture.
    The Frantz Fellowship is awarded to scholars whose fields of study are represented by the Gennadius Library in Athens, i.e. Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies, post-Byzantine Studies, or Modern Greek Studies.
    Eligibility: Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.’s (up to five years) from a U.S. or Canadian institution. Successful candidates should demonstrate their need to work in the Gennadius Library.
    Terms: A stipend of $11,500 plus room, board, and waiver of School fees. Fellows are expected to be in residence at the School for the full academic year from September 1 to June 1. A final report is due at the end of the award period, and the ASCSA expects that copies of all publications that result from research conducted as a Fellow of the ASCSA be contributed to the Gennadius Library of the School.
    Application: Submit application for Associate Membership with fellowship, curriculum vitae, description of the proposed project, and three letters of reference online on the ASCSA web site .
    Web site: www.ascsa.edu.gr or http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/admission-membership/grants
    E-mail: application@ascsa.org
    The award will be announced by March 15.
    The American School of Classical Studies at Athens does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ethnic origin, or disability when considering admission to any form of membership or application for employment.

Miscellanea

  • Odds Bodkin has a new product out that explores the relationship between Greek myths and climate change.

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