Daily Archives: August 9, 2015

Announcements for August 9

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CANEns is on its summer schedule.  We are looking for bright, ambitious, and talented members to write a Feature Post!  If you are interested, contact one of our Editors through this page.

CANE

  • CANE now has an Etsy site for our Emporium goods (including calendars!) Check it out today!
  • Read Paul Properzio’s report from ACL

BEYOND CANE

  • This year’s MaFLA Summer Institute will be held August 14-16 at the Winslow Academic Center at Lasell College in Newton, MA.  This year features a full Latin track for all three days!  Click the link for registration information and a full schedule.  CANE is also making it possible for MaFLA to award 5 $100 scholarships for a three-day program. Please write a brief statement of objectives and outcomes to Madelyn Gonnerman to apply.
  • 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.

Certamina et Dies Classici et Eventus!

  • Registrations are now being accepted for this year’s summer programs organized by the Vergilian Society.  The details of these tours can be found here.

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

  • See our new Jobs page for details.

Funding and Professional Development

Digital Loeb Classical Library

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At CANE, we’re always trying to enhance your teaching and learning experience.  That’s why we are now offering our members access to the Loeb Classical Library On-Line.  Now you have access to all the translations you know, and can access them easily via our website.  Have a pesky problem with a passage, and the notes in the textbook ignore it (as happens all too frequently)?  You can look up the translation and then explain it to your students – or discount Loeb’s version and decide that the way you had originally thought it should be translated was right after all!  This resource is especially helpful for Greek, since trying to find things on Perseus in Greek can bring on a major anxiety attack – and they don’t have Babrius there, anyway.
Using the Loeb does take a bit of practice, but there are 2 articles that will help greatly:  Resource Review: Digital Loeb Classical Library https://classicslibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/resource-review-digital-loeb-classical-library/     The other is available through JStor: Review Essay: On First Looking into the Digital Loeb Classical Library:  HelmaDik,The Classical Journal, Vol. 110, No. 4 (April-May 2015), pp. 493-500 .  If you want the password for either or both JStor and Loeb, and your membership is paid up (2015-2016 – membership form on the website), email me  treasurer@caneweb.org and I will send the password to you.  Happy hunting!