Daily Archives: January 29, 2018


Quid agitur? (January 28th)

•The deadline for the CANE Certification Scholarship is February 1. The CANE Discretionary Grants deadlines are February 1 and May 1, but applications may be submitted at any time. The Certification Scholarship will provide up to $1,500 to an outstanding junior or senior undergraduate in New England who is preparing for secondary school certification as a teacher of Latin and/or Greek; or to the holder of a Master’s degree to cover the cost of tuition and other fees required to obtain such certification. The Discretionary Grants are available to classroom teachers for class projects, research, and classroom materials.
•Upcoming Classics lectures in the Pioneer Valley are listed on this Classics Page of the Amherst College web site.
•Lectures taking place in the Boston area are listed on the Boston Area Classics Calendar.
The Western Massachusetts Conversational Hour meets every Thursday at the Esselon Cafe in Hadley, MA for Latin conversation. For details, please contact TJ Howell (t_j_howell@yahoo.com). If you are in the Boston area, check out the Active Latin Meetup page for events.
Central Connecticut State University is working to create a certification program for the teaching of Latin. Attached is the program of studies. In order to make this idea come to fruition we are seeking support from Latin groups. We need at least 10 students to sign up for this cohort in order to run the program. As an incentive to enroll into the program, we are looking for funding to offer scholarships to help defray the cost of course work at the university level. If you are interesting in supporting this initiative in any way please contact Gina Gallo Reinhard at the below ginagallo@bristolk12.org.
The Paideia Institute has released its schedule for summer 2018 programs, including a new “Living Greek in Greece” for high school students.
Links to the New England states’ classical associations: NHVTMEMARICT.
•On the wild and silly side: one historian’s take on the new Sky Atlantic series Britannia, available on Amazon Prime.
•The CANE News page is a convenient resource listing events sponsored by CANE, conferences in New England, other calendars and events listings, recurrent spoken Latin Meetups and Conventicula, courses and degree programs, fellowships and scholarships, and a link to the jobs page.