Announcements for October 25

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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

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