Announcements for 20 October
CANE Announcements
Scholarship deadlines are approaching! You have until December 1st to apply for the Barker Scholarship, the Means Scholarship, or the 2nd Discretionary Funds Scholarship.
CANE Annual Meeting paper proposals are due December 15th.
Nominations for the Weincke Teaching Award are due December 31st.
Other Announcements
Western MA / CT residents! We host a weekly Latin Conversation Hour in Amherst, MA and regularly have over a dozen participants. If you’re interested and can come Thursdays at 7 pm, we’d love to grow! For more details, email thowell at belchertown dot org.
Eastern MA / NH residents! Tom Keeline at Harvard University organizes a monthly Cena Latina in the Cambridge area. If you’re interested, email him at tkeeline at gmail dot com to get onto the email distribution list.
From Ascanius: SCRIBO: Latin Creative Writing Contest – This student contest is designed to: spur interest and excitement in using Latin for creative writing, provide teachers with high quality materials in Latin to read in their classes, and honor and recognize top work in Latin creative writing. Registration deadline is December 1. Visit www.ascaniusyci.org for more information, ways to incorporate SCRIBO into your classes, sample entries, and to register.
The University of New Hamphsire has two lectures coming up this week – a poetry recitation on Wed. and a discussion on whether the Trojan War was real. See the CANE Google calendar for times and location.
From the Boston Area Classics Calendar:
Mon., Oct. 21
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology Room 409, 745 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Hanna Roisman (Colby College)
“Setting and Sense in Sophocles’ and Euripides’ Electra”
Lecture in the Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World series.
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Department of Classical Studies. This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on this lecture or on the Study Group, please visit our website.
Fri., Oct. 25
9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center 917, Amherst, MA 01003
Lucilius Colloquium
The Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with the support of the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Departments of Classics of Amherst College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Smith College, will host a one-day colloquium on the theme “Speaking of the Republic: Lucilius and his Contexts,” Friday, October 25, 2013. Speakers are Anna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin), “Colloquial Registers and Generic Stylization in Lucilius”; Sander Goldberg (UCLA), “Lucilius and the poetarum seniorum turba”; Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College), “Notes on Meter and Language in Lucilius”; and Brian Breed (UMass Amherst), “Lucilius’ Books.” The full conference program can be viewed here.
A registration fee of $20 includes lunch and refreshments. Dinner is also available for an additional cost.
To register or with any questions, please contact the organizers: Brian Breed and Rex Wallace.