Announcements for September 27


CANE

  • The Emporium Romanum has lots of great things to start of the new year!
  • The next deadline for CANE’s Discretionary Grant is October 1st. The application deadline for the Barker and Means Scholarships is December 1st.

BEYOND CANE

  • Fabulous offerings from ASCANIUS Youth Classics Institute, including opportunities to volunteer.
  • The Boston Area Classics Calendar has a lot going on, and a weekly email digest of upcoming events.
  • The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is offering Fellowships to interested scholars.  The deadline is October 31st, and you can find more information in AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS.
  • The American Academy in Rome is inviting applications for the 2016 Rome Prize. The due date is November 1. Details are available here.
  • The College of the Holy Cross is offering a full tuition scholarship to members of the class of 2020. The deadline is January 15, 2016. See here for more details.

Events

  • The Ensemble Musica Humana will present Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum at 8 pm on October 2 & 3 in Northampton, MA.  Tickets are $15 ($20 at the door, and a $5 discount for seniors and students.  For more information, please click on the link above.
  • Professor Kristina Milnor will be lecturing at 7:30pm on Thursday, October 15th, 2015 on “Girls Gone Good: Experiencing Female Virtue in the Roman House.” The lecture will be held in Demeritt Hall, room 112 on the UNH Durham campus. A question-and-answer period and small reception will follow the lecture. Contact Jennifer McCready for more information.
  • The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies at NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies is being held on Thursday and Friday, October 22-23. The conference is entitled, “Telling Mesopotamian History: Bringing to Life the Stories of Cuneiform Writing” In Honor of Jack M. Sasson. The event is free and open to the public. More information here.
  • The Massachusetts Foreign Language Association (MaFLA) is hosting it’s annual Fall Conference in Sturbridge, MA October 29-31.  Once again MaFLA is offering a complete Latin strand, full of pedagogy presentations and workshops.  The Latin strand includes:

10/30 :
8- 11 AM Ted Zarrow “Let Your Students Sell Your Program: LatinProjects Beyond the Classroom”
10/30 : 75- minute sessions

  • A. Gregory Stringer “Becoming Comprehensible:Easy, Practical Ways to Use Second Language Acquisition Research”
  • B. Alice Lanckton “Carmina et sacra quibus melius Latinam docere possis”
  • C. Keynote, Greg Duncan
  • D. Thomas J. Howell “Coins in the Classroom – A Proposal on Teaching History”
  • E. Sara Cain “Reading Strategies: Summarizing with a Purpose”
  • F. Jocelyn Demuth “Mythology Role Playing Games in the Latin Classroom”

10/31 :

  • G. Jacqui Carlon “Nunc est scribendum: Writing for Mastery”
  • H. Maureen Keleher “Bringing Latin and Its Vivacity into the 21st Century”
  • J. Ted Zarrow CAM Annual Business Meeting.  Speaking of…
  • The Classical Association of Massachusetts (CAM) is sponsoring a bus. The bus ride to New York will include art history trivia, Latin games, and an activity swap / teacher exchange. The museum visit will feature an optional 2-hour spoken Latin tour of the collections hosted by active Latin expert and CAM Vice-President, Prof. James Dobreff of UMass Boston. The bus will depart from the Riverside T station (exit #22 off of 95/128) at 6:00 a.m., making an additional stop in Western / Central MA (TBD) at approximately 7 a.m. We will tour the museum from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. We will then visit Eataly downtown for an optional Cena Latina and an opportunity to stock up for the ride home. The bus should return to Western / Central MA at approximately 7 p.m. and Riverside at about 8 p.m. All participants will be awarded 10 content PDPs.  The CAM board has agreed to subsidize the visit in part. The cost of the trip (which includes travel to and from NYC & admission to the museum) is $90. The cost for current graduate students is $50.  For more information, visit the CAM website or register here.
  • The North American Cambridge Latin Course Project is hosting a Fall Workshop in Boston November 14th.  For more information, please visit www.latinworkshops.com.

Meetups

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

Jobs

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