SCS News
Italy Preservation Field School – Buildings, Ceramics, Paper, Books and ArtPosted in SCS Announcements. We are now accepting applications for our summer 2015 field school, the San Gemini Preservation Studies Program, dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage and offering students the opportunity to study and travel in Italy. Courses and field projects are offered in building, ceramics, and document restoration, preservation, and techniques. Session One runs from June 1 to June 26 and Session Two runs from July 13 to August 7. Inter-Session programs are available. |
The Vergilian Society Programs for Summer 2015Posted in SCS Announcements. The Vergilian Society summer 2015 programs are accepting registrations, including for the new culinary tour of southern Italy. For information about the 2015-2016 tours and registration: http://www.vergiliansociety.org/tours/2015-2016-tours/ |
Ikarian Centre – Modern Greek Course for Archaeologists and ClassicistsPosted in SCS Announcements. This course will run from 13-29 June, 2015 on the Island of Ikaria in Greece and is designed for those who wish to learn Modern Greek to enhance their study of/work on Classical Antiquity. Texts and vocabulary will be targeted towards ancient and archaeological themes, as well as to the demands of professional communication in Modern Greek (in the field, at museums, with local authorities, etc.). Courses are offered at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Class sizes are small (no more than 8 students) for maximum speaking time. |
Summer Workshop: Aristotle on the EmotionsPosted in SCS Announcements. The Emory University Institute for the History of Philosophy (IHP) will host its seventh annual summer workshop on June 14–26, 2015, on the topic of "Aristotle on the Emotions." (http://www.philosophy.emory.edu/ihp/summer-seminar15.html ) |
Fix Word 2011 (Mac) Problems with GreekKeys 2008 KeyboardPosted in SCS Announcements. Unlike other applications, Word 2011 does not process all the instructions contained in the GreekKeys Unicode keyboards. Several keyboard shortcuts do not work (such as command-b, command-z, command-w), and the "terminator" definitions are ignored, so that following a deadkey diacritic with a mistyped letter, such as typing b (beta) instead of v (omega) after option-3 (circumflex), produces gibberish that requires an extensive deletion to remove. |
Online Summer Latin Course: OvidPosted in SCS Announcements. The Department of Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro will offer a 3-week, all-online, graduate-level course on Ovid (LAT 602) from July 6 to July 24, 2015. The course is an introduction to Ovid's poetry with readings from both the Metamorphoses and the Amores, focusing on important themes and connecting them to life and attitudes in Augustan Rome. The format of instruction is asynchronous. |
Recent Postings to the SCS Web SitePosted in SCS Announcements. Board of Directors Minutes Reports of Vice Presidents |
Help sought with Metadata for the Open Patrologia Graeca OnlinePosted in General Announcements. We are looking for help in preparing metadata for the Patrologia Graeca (PG) component of what we are calling the Open Migne Project, an attempt to make the most useful possible transcripts of the full Patrologia Graeca and Patrologia Latina freely available. Help can consist of proofreading, additional tagging, and checking the volume/column references to the actual PG. In particular, we would welcome seeing this data converted into a dynamic index into online copies of the PG in Archive.org, the HathiTrust, Google Books, or Europeana. |
New NEH Open Book ProgramPosted in Awards and Fellowships. A new joint grant program by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seeks to give a second life to outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities by turning them into freely accessible e-books. Over the past 100 years, tens of thousands of academic books have been published in the humanities, including many remarkable works on history, literature, philosophy, art, music, law, and the history and philosophy of science. But the majority of these books are currently out of print and largely out of reach for teachers, students, and the public. |
Call for Applications to ACLS Public Fellows ProgramPosted in Awards and Fellowships. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the fifth competition of the Public Fellows program. This year, the program will place up to 22 recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. Fellows receive a stipend of $65,000 per year, as well as individual health insurance. |