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Registration is now live for the Spatial Turn in Roman Studies Auckland conference, to be held January 22-24, 2020. For information about the conference, please see https://www.dur.ac.uk/
If you plan to attend the Auckland conference, please fill out this registration form, including reading the event code of conduct linked to in the form.
Here are a few important deadlines coming up at the end of this month:
- Excellence in Teaching at the Pre-Collegiate Level - September 27, 2019
- Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level - September 27, 2019
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Funding for the Annual Meeting (childcare, travel stipends, equity funding)
- Travel Stipends and Equity Funding - September 27, 2019
- Childcare Subsidies - September 30, 2019
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Of the slew of Disney’s new live-action remakes, perhaps the most anticipated release was this summer’s The Lion King, directed by Jon Favreau. After all, the original 1994 version was arguably the crown jewel of the ‘Disney Renaissance’, enjoying massive commercial and critical success (followed by a highly successful Broadway production). More importantly - at least for those like me who grew up in the 90’s - it was a cultural touchstone, a perennial source of references, parodies, and praise.
The following members were elected in the ballot held this Summer. They take office in January 2020, except for the two new members of the Nominating Committee who take office immediately. Thank you to all SCS members who agreed to stand for election this year.
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President-Elect |
Shelley P. Haley |
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Vice President for Communications and Outreach |
Alison Futrell |
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Goodwin Committee |
Harriet Flower |
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Nominating Committee |
Toph Marshall Patrice Rankine |
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Program Committee |
Melissa Mueller Carlos Noreña |
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Directors |
John Gruber-Miller Jennifer Sheridan Moss |
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Professional Ethics Statement Amendment |
Passed |
Please join us for the 37th Classical Association of New England Summer Institute On the theme “The Empire and the Individual”
The organizers of the CANE Summer Institute invite you to join us for a weeklong examination of peoples and cultures that comprised the Classical Greek and Roman worlds. We will consider what it meant to be (but) an individual amid the greater whole of an empire and what that can tell us about living in today’s world.
Whether you are a high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, History, English, the Arts, or other related disciplines, an undergraduate or graduate student, or a devoted lifelong learner, you will enjoy a thoughtful and enriching experience that includes a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, reading groups, and special events while also offering many opportunities for conversation and collegial interaction among participants
This summer’s 5-day mini-courses include:
He Longed for the Desert: Turning Your Back on Rome John Higgins, Smith College
Romans and Italians: Empire-Making before the Social War Sailakshmi Ramgopal, Columbia University
Making Classics Public
A panel with Prof. Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) and Dr. Donna Zuckerberg (Editor-in-Chief, Eidolon)
Northwestern University,1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Part of #ClassicsNow: The Urgency of Re-Imagining Antiquity series
Making Classics Public is co-sponsored by the Society for Classical Studies
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(Photo from Northwestern University, used with permission)
Participants will be expected to present a 15-minute paper to a forum of their undergraduate peers, graduate students, and NYU faculty. Submissions may be a condensed version, or a particularly strong chapter, of an undergraduate thesis, an exceptional course paper, or an independent research project. We welcome work informed by any and all theories and methodologies, and encourage submission from students working in any discipline (e.g. Classical Philology, Anthropology, Archaeology, History, etc.) or geo-temporal focus (e.g. Mediterranean and Atlantic Studies; Egyptology; Pre-Columbian, Near East, and East Asian Civilizations).
Food will be provided to all participants, and any audio-visual necessities will be arranged. Some local travel reimbursements will also be available.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: Friday, November 22nd, 2019
The Classical Association of Ghana
University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Theme: Global Classics and Africa: Past, Present, and Future
The late 1950s and early 1960s ushered in a period when many African countries were gaining political independence. Immediately, there was an agenda to unite African nations, and a policy of Africanization began to gain ground. In the area of education, this Africanization process was vigorously pursued. In Ghana the Institute of African Studies was established, and an Encyclopaedia Africana project, originally conceived by W. E. B. DuBois, was revived. In Nigeria, new universities were established to counter the colonial-based education that was present at the University of Ibadan, and in some East African countries there were fears that foreign university teachers would not be able to further the Africanization of university education.
Honor and Shame in Classical Antiquity
Keynote Speaker: Margaret Graver, Dartmouth College
Virtue, Cicero argues, seeks no other reward for its labors and dangers beyond that of praise and glory. From the earliest days of the ancient Mediterranean, the pursuit of honor and avoidance of shame have shaped societies’ value systems. Achilles wages war according to a strict honor code, while Hesiod’s personified goddess, Shame, is the last to depart the earth as a rebuke of humanity’s wickedness. Far from belonging to the static code of an aristocratic warrior class, as was once understood, honor and shame are increasingly seen as part of a complex and polyvalent ethical system. They manifest themselves not only in the heroic self-assertion of ancient epic but also in a variety of other arenas, such as, for example, philosophical treatises, gender relations and sexual mores, the lives of enslaved peoples, Athenian law and politics, the performance of Roman state identity, and religious belief. Thus they are pervasive throughout literature, thought, and society in the ancient world.
High school Latin programs (along with Classics programs at the college or university level) are in perpetual peril, and keeping any program alive contributes to the ongoing effort to keep our field afloat and relevant, while also continuing to provide students with all of the benefits that we know that Latin offers. Monmouth College’s Classics Department spearheaded a successful, broad-based effort to resist the proposed elimination of the thriving Latin program at Monmouth-Roseville (IL) High School (MRHS) in Spring 2019.
This reflection is meant as a case study for understanding and then addressing the issue of threatened Latin programs across the country. I will lay out the factors and steps that led to the initial decision to drop the program, those that we discovered were critical in the eventual success of the resistance effort, and roles that a college or university Classics programs can play to retain their comrade programs, which cultivate many eventual Classics students and majors.
Background on the situation at Monmouth-Roseville
