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Unauthorized Solicitation of Annual Meeting Hotel Reservations

Posted Fri, 10/02/2015 - 11:38 in SCS Announcements.

AIA and SCS members have received telephone calls and e-mails from individuals representing a company variously called “EHS”, "Exhibitors Hotel Services", “Global Housing”, or “Convention Housing Services”. These individuals are operating without the consent of either Society and are fraudulently representing themselves as AIA/SCS, the Hilton Hotel, or a housing service hired to process reservations for the joint annual meeting.

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Survey Concerning Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

Posted Mon, 09/28/2015 - 11:27 in SCS Announcements.

Earlier this year, President John Marincola invited members to participate in one of four advisory groups. One of these groups – for non-tenure-track faculty – asks that all SCS members respond to a brief survey intended to obtain up-to-date information about the status of non-tenure-track faculty and issues related to the increasing reliance on such positions in Classical Studies and its adjacent fields. Click here to complete this survey.

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Heckman Research Stipends

Posted Fri, 09/25/2015 - 15:48 in Awards and Fellowships.

Heckman Stipends, made possible by the A.A. Heckman Endowed Fund, are awarded semi-annually. Up to 10 stipends in amounts up to $2,000 are available each year. The program is specifically intended to help scholars who have not yet established themselves professionally and whose research cannot progress satisfactorily without consulting materials to be found in the collections of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.

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SCS Office Closed September 25

Posted Thu, 09/24/2015 - 13:35 in SCS Announcements.

Because of travel restrictions connected to Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia this weekend, the University of Pennsylvania will be closed on Friday, September 25. SCS staff will monitor e-mail during the day on Friday, but we will not be in the office. Depending on how quickly ordinary travel resumes on Monday, September 28, the office may open late on that day.

Adam D. Blistein
Executive Director

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Rome Prize for 2016

Posted Tue, 09/22/2015 - 16:53 in Awards and Fellowships.

For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative work in the arts and humanities. Through a national juried competition, Rome Prizes are awarded to emerging and established artists and scholars working in the following disciplines:

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Newberry Library Fellowships, 2016-17

Posted Tue, 09/22/2015 - 16:44 in Awards and Fellowships.

Newberry Library Fellowships provide support to researchers who wish to use our collection. We promise intriguing and often rare materials from our world-class collections; a lively, interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations with curators, librarians, and other scholars; and an array of both scholarly and public programs.

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Faculty Fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center, 2016–17

Posted Tue, 09/22/2015 - 16:39 in Awards and Fellowships.

The Stanford Humanities Center provides a collegial environment for faculty who are undertaking innovative projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Fellows participate in the intellectual life of the Humanities Center and the broader Stanford community, sharing ideas and work in progress with a diverse cohort of scholars and benefitting from a wide variety of campus resources. The Fellowship term is September 2016 – June 2017, and the Application deadline is October 1, 2015

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Readers for AP Latin Exam

Posted Tue, 09/15/2015 - 16:21 in General Announcements.

The College Board and ETS are currently recruiting college and university faculty interested in scoring Advanced Placement Latin Exams. Applicants must have taught Vergil and/or Caesar at the college level (in intermediate or advanced Latin classes) at some point in the past three years. For more information, see the following link: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/homepage/4137.html.

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Deadline Extended for Precollegiate Award Nominations

Posted Tue, 09/15/2015 - 14:38 in Awards and Fellowships, SCS Announcements.

The deadline for the submission of nominations for the Society's Awards for Excellence in Precollegiate Teaching has been extended to November 4, 2015.

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Launch of New Web Site

Posted Sat, 08/29/2015 - 09:46 in SCS Announcements.

Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Information Architect, Samuel Huskey, and to the programming and web designing skills of Confluence Corporation, we have launched a new web site with a new URL: https://classicalstudies.org/. Both the site and the URL reflect the Society’s new name and its effort to be more useful and accessible to both its members and to a wider audience of people interested in classical antiquity. The site is easier to navigate and will present more opportunities for featuring and discussing new work in classics.

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