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Announcements for October 25

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CANE

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 Society for Classical Studies has an Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate Level. Nomination are due November 4.
  • The College of the Holy Cross is offering a full tuition scholarship to members of the class of 2020 who wish to major in the Classics – please let interested students know! The deadline is January 15, 2016. See here for more details.

Events

  • 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: Latin Projects 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.
  • 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

Legos, Libros, Latine legensque: Links for October 22

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Here are some items we’ve found interesting or timely this week!

  • The British group “Brick to the Past” has created a massive diorama of Hadrian’s Wall using LEGO.
  • Jason Slanga, who first proposed the Latin Reading Challenge, has a few thoughts about developing a reading habit.
  • British classicist Mary Beard has a piece in the Wall Street Journal about Rome and Europe’s current migrant crisis.
  • Speaking of Mary Beard, she’s about to have a new book out in November, entitled SPQR, which The Economist reviews.
  • Finally, the Telegraph reports on Italy’s intention to dig for ancient Roman treasure, sought by the Nazis but never found.  Sounds like a new Indiana Jones movie to us!

Acta Diurna: a.d. xv Kal. Nov.

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CANE

  • The Emporium Romanum has lots of great things to start of the new year!
  • 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 who wish to major in the Classics – please let interested students know! The deadline is January 15, 2016. See here for more details.

Events

  • 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 Classical Association of Connecticut (ClassConn) has its Annual Meeting on October 24, 9:30 – 2:30 in Mansfield, CT.  See ClassConn website for registration.
  • 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: Latin Projects 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.
  • 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