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SCS Member Receives Guggenheim Fellowship

Posted Wed, 04/11/2018 - 09:43 in Classics in the News.

SCS Member Scott Johnson has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

"Johnson’s Guggenheim project is a cultural biography of the language of Syriac. This will be the first book of its kind in English. It attempts to trace the origins, flourishing, and legacy of Syriac as an actor between empires in the late ancient and early medieval worlds."

You can read the full press release here.

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TLL Grant Renewed by NEH

Posted Mon, 04/09/2018 - 11:16 in SCS Announcements.

SCS has received a grant in the amount of $157,200 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the TLL Fellowship program for three years, from academic year 2019-20 through 2021-22. The program, administered by the SCS, provides a one-year research fellowship to a scholar to work on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, Germany.

We are extremely pleased by this news and hope members will benefit from this program for years to come.

Yelena Baraz, Project Director

Helen Cullyer, Executive Director, SCS

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Call for Papers: 2018 SAGP Annual Meeting

Posted Wed, 04/04/2018 - 08:16 in Calls for Papers.

CFP: 2018 SAGP Annual Meeting
October 19-21, 2018
Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA

Keynote Speaker: Nickolas Pappas

Panel Proposal Deadline: May 1

Paper Abstract Deadline: June 1

Submit abstracts and proposals to apreus@binghamton.edu.

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Annual Meeting Deadlines - Reminder

Posted Wed, 04/04/2018 - 08:09 in SCS Announcements.

The deadline for submitting:

  • All proposals for panels, workshops, seminars, and roundtable discussions.
  • Reports from organizers of committee, organizer-refereed, and affiliated group panels who have issued their own CFPs.
  • Proposals for organizer-refereed panels for 2020.
  • Applications for new affiliated group charters and for renewals of current charters.

is next Monday, April 9th. Individual abstracts are due April 25th.

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Call for Papers: Selection and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature

Posted Tue, 04/03/2018 - 12:45 in Calls for Papers.

(Provided by Roberta Berardi, Nicoletta Bruno, Martina Filosa, Luisa Fizzarotti)

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for Prolepsis’ 3rd international Postgraduate Conference
“Optanda erat oblivio”: Selection and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature
University of Bari, 20th-21st December 2018

Confirmed keynote speaker: Tiziano DORANDI (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Paris)

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In Memoriam: Antonia Syson

Posted Mon, 04/02/2018 - 14:57 in In Memoriam.

(Provided by David A. Reingold)

On Sun., March 25th, 2018, the College of Liberal Arts lost our dear colleague Professor Antonia Syson. Her friends and colleagues in the School of Languages and Cultures will remember Antonia for her passionate and intense dedication to all aspects of her work and for her exceptionally large laugh and cheerful whistling that brightened the hallways of Stanley Coulter.

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Annual Meeting Deadline Reminders

Posted Fri, 03/30/2018 - 13:23 in SCS Announcements.

Dear Members,

The deadline for submitting all proposals and reports except individual abstracts is 11:59 pm, Eastern Time, on April 9, 2018. This deadline applies to panels, workshops, roundtables, seminars, organizer-refereed panels, affiliated group panels, committee panels, and affiliated group charters.

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Conference: Ancient Mediterranean Revolutions

Posted Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:58 in Conferences, Lectures, and Meetings.

ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN REVOLUTIONS

A Conference to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of AHMA at UC Berkeley

September 6 to September 8, 2018

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Call for Papers: "Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World"

Posted Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:54 in Calls for Papers.

Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World XIII

Call for Papers

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In Memoriam: Eleanor Winsor Leach

Posted Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:45 in In Memoriam.

(Provided by Ann Vasaly [FAAR 1983, RAAR 2010])

Eleanor Winsor Leach (1937-2018)

On February 19th it was learned that Eleanor Winsor Leach, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Classics at Indiana University, had passed away at the age of 80. At the suggestion of Brian Rose, I wanted to take the opportunity to write to the Advisory Council of the important role she played in her chosen profession and her devotion throughout her career to the American Academy.

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