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CFP: Encountering the Past: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Ancient World

Posted Wed, 10/18/2023 - 11:07 in Calls for Papers.

I Saw the Future of the Past
Encountering the Past: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Ancient World

March 7-8th, 2024
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

Keynote address by ISAW Vice-Director Prof. Roderick Campbell, “We’ve Never Been Ancient: (or the intra-connectedness of spooky antiquities and haunted presents).

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Call for Submissions: Special Poetry Issue of The Classical Outlook

Posted Tue, 10/17/2023 - 12:11 in Calls for Papers.

FROM THE EDITORS – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
FOR A SPECIAL POETRY ISSUE:
The Classical Outlook 99.3

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2024-2025 Fellowships at the Folger Institute

Posted Tue, 10/17/2023 - 11:23 in Awards and Fellowships.

Applications are now open for 2024-2025 Fellowships at the Folger Institute.


FOLGER INSTITUTE LONG-TERM FELLOWSHIPS FOR 2024-2025:

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Out of Chaos Theater Company: Playing Antigone, a Student Theatrical Competition

Posted Mon, 10/16/2023 - 10:13 in Performances.

Out of Chaos Theater Company presents Playing Antigone, a Student Theatrical Competition.

Choose a scene from Antigone, film it and send it to Out of Chaos by 18th February 2024 for the chance to win cash prizes!

The contest is open to high school and college students in the US and Canada, and they are using Paul Woodruff's translation of Sophocles’ Antigone (courtesy of Hackett Publishing Company).

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In Memoriam: Joseph Solodow

Posted Mon, 10/16/2023 - 09:34 in In Memoriam.

Published October 10, 2023 by Ben Raab, Yale Daily News:

Before taking Joseph Solodow’s “Roman Dining” seminar, Anya AitSahlia ’25 had no intention of becoming a Classics major. Within weeks, she changed her mind.

“It only took a few class sessions for me to realize I wanted nothing more than to study Classics here,” AitSahlia wrote to the News. “And, more, to study Classics with him.”

Solodow, a Latin professor in Yale’s department of Classics, died of cancer on Wednesday, Oct. 4. He was 76.

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October is National Arts and Humanities Month

Posted Mon, 10/16/2023 - 09:15 in General Announcements.

October is National Arts and Humanities Month! During October, we encourage you to celebrate the arts and humanities through free, online events and resources that teach about the ancient world to the broader public. Anyone with an interest in ancient Greek and Latin, classical literature, ancient history, or archaeology can learn more and get involved.

Below is a list of free events and resources to explore this month. This list is not exhaustive, and we encourage you to check out additional public outreach programs celebrating the arts and humanities:

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In Memoriam: Janet Martin

Posted Fri, 10/13/2023 - 09:12 in In Memoriam.

Published September 27, 2023 by Princeton Classics:

We announce with great sadness the death of Janet Martin on August 30th. An expert in medieval Latin, early leader in the Women’s Classical Caucus, and the first woman to receive tenure in the department’s history, Janet taught at Princeton Classics for thirty-seven years before transferring to emeritus status in 2010.

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Stephanie McCarter Wins 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Posted Fri, 10/13/2023 - 08:26 in Classics in the News.

Congratulations to Stephanie McCarter for winning the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, for her translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics, 2022).

Established in 1976, The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a $1,000 annual award that "recognizes the work of a translator for a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year." In 2023, Anna Deeny Morales chose the winning book.

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CFP: Rome in the Renaissance: Global Projections on Religious Identities and Dissent

Posted Thu, 10/12/2023 - 10:11 in Calls for Papers.

Call for Papers
Rome in the Renaissance:
Global Projections on Religious Identities and Dissent

International Conference
5-6 April 2024
John Cabot University
Via della Lungara 233, Rome

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Giorgio Caravale (Università Roma Tre)
Prof. Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University)

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CFP: Twelfth Annual Tennessee Undergraduate Classics Research Conference

Posted Thu, 10/12/2023 - 10:05 in Calls for Papers.

Twelfth Annual Tennessee Undergraduate Classics Research Conference
February 24, 2024
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

— Call for Papers —

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