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New Budget Includes $3 million Increase for NEH

Posted Tue, 03/27/2018 - 15:00 in Classics in the News.

After the threat of agency closure by the end of next fiscal year, congress has instead approved a $3 million dollar increase in funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"The spending bill notes that the increases will help the NEH enhances its support for the preservation of Native languages and cultures and local history preservation initiatives, as well as fund a new program to build infrastructure and capacity for humanities organizations."

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Call for Papers: St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy 2018

Posted Tue, 03/27/2018 - 14:52 in Calls for Papers.

Call for Papers

St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy 2018, on:

Teleology, Intelligence and Life in the Platonic and Aristotelian Tradition

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Conference: Democracy and its Rivals

Posted Tue, 03/27/2018 - 14:45 in Conferences, Lectures, and Meetings.

The Bergen Ancient Philosophy Symposium of 2018 will take place at the University of Bergen in Norway on May 24-25, 2018.

The topic will be Democracy and Its Rivals: Plato's Statesman and Laws.

This symposium is free, but RSVP is required. You can read the full, two-day schedule here.

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Library of Digital Latin Texts: Call for Submissions

Posted Sun, 03/25/2018 - 18:29 in SCS Announcements.

The SCS Committee on Publications and Research is pleased to announce the opening of a new online publication effort in collaboration with the Digital Latin Library (DLL). Among other things, the DLL will host open-access online critical editions of Latin texts from the ancient period through the era of Neolatin texts — the Library of Digital Latin Texts (LDLT). Editions of classical texts in the LDLT are to be evaluated and approved by the SCS.

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Recent SCS Awards Winners

Posted Thu, 03/22/2018 - 12:17 in Awards and Fellowships.

We're pleased to announce this year's winners of the following SCS Awards:

TLL Fellowship
  • Charles Kuper
Pearson Fellowship
  • Philip Murray Wilson
Undergraduate Minority Scholarships
  • Sneha Adusumilli
  • Lokukalafi Ahomana
  • Zaidimary Barreto
Zeph Stewart Awards
  • Daphne Bissette
  • Sallie Blanks

Congratulations to these exemplary Classicists for all their excellent work!

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Performance: Antigone in Harvard Stadium

Posted Tue, 03/20/2018 - 14:25 in SCS Announcements.

The Harvard Classics Department, Harvard Classics Club, and Office for hte Arts at Harvard are presenting Antigone at the Harvard Stadium at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 29th.

This event is free to the public, and is directed by Mitchell Polonsky and produced by Ben Roy.

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Call for Papers: Lectio Doctoral Seminar

Posted Thu, 03/15/2018 - 10:28 in Calls for Papers.

CALL FOR PAPERS

LECTIO DOCTORAL SEMINAR “THE HUMANIST AS PHILOSOPHER AND THE PHILOSOPHER AS HUMANIST”

Leuven, 17 May 2018

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Koenen Fellowship Deadline Approaching

Posted Wed, 03/14/2018 - 12:24 in SCS Announcements.

The deadline for the SCS's Ludwig Koenen Fellowship for Training in Papyrology is March 28th, 2018.

The competition is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and untenured faculty. Applicants must be SCS members, and the selection committee will make awards of at least $600 but no more than $1,800. The application should consist of:

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Call for Papers: Hippocrates and his Medical School

Posted Mon, 03/12/2018 - 09:54 in Calls for Papers.

HIPPOCRATES AND HIS MEDICAL SCHOOL: Tracing the roots of Bioethics back to the ancient Philosophers -Physicians

Ancient Olympia and Zacharo, Greece
July 29th-31st, 2018

Call for Abstracts and Papers

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Annual Meeting Submission Deadlines Approaching

Posted Thu, 03/08/2018 - 08:40 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 April 9th, one month from today. Individual abstracts are due April 25th.

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