SCS News
2014 Rome Prize CompetitionPosted in Awards and Fellowships. Each year, the Rome Prize is awarded to about thirty emerging artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence and who are in the early or middle stages of their working lives. The deadline for the nation-wide Rome Prize competition is 1 November 2014. Applications will also be accepted between 2-15 November 2014 for an additional fee. Fellows are chosen from the following disciplines: |
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Opportunities in The NetherlandsPosted in Awards and Fellowships. Anchoring Innovation is the new research agenda of OIKOS, the National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands. This agenda was developed with the financial support of Leiden University, Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Amsterdam and University of Groningen. It looks at innovation processes in various domains, including politics, religion, architecture, literature, linguistics and technology, in classical antiquity. |
Update on L’Année philologiquePosted in SCS Announcements. The Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique (SIBC), the not-for-profit organization that oversees the publication of L’Année, has reorganized. Rather than giving one office editorial control over the others, all offices will now have editorial control over the content that they produce. SIBC will also form an editorial board to oversee the production of each volume, with an editor to ensure consistency and quality control. Dr. Lisa Carson, Director of the American Office of L’Année, will be the SCS representative on the editorial board. |
Calls for Abstracts for 2016 SCS MeetingPosted in SCS Announcements. We have posted calls for abstracts from organizer-refereed panels and affiliated groups authorized to hold sessions at the 2016 annual meeting. |
SCS Dues Invoices for 2015Posted in SCS Announcements. By the middle of October all members with valid e-mail addresses (except life members) will receive a message from the Johns Hopkins University Press offering them the opportunity to pay their dues online. Later in the month, the Press will also mail a printed invoice. |
Newberry Library FellowshipsPosted in Awards and Fellowships. Newberry Library Fellowships provide support to researchers who wish to use our collection. We promise you intriguing and often rare materials; a lively, interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations on your research with staff curators, librarians, and other scholars; and an array of both scholarly and public programs. Applicants may apply for both Long- and Short- Term Fellowships within one academic year. All applicants are strongly encouraged to consult the Newberry’s online catalog and collection guides before applying. |
New Address for American Classical League (ACL)Posted in SCS Announcements. Our colleagues at the American Classical League have sent us this message: On Saturday September 27, the ACL/JCL/ETC Office is moving. Its new address will be: 860 NW Washington Blvd., |
New on the SCS Web Site (September 2014)Posted in SCS Announcements. |
Award to MemberPosted in SCS Announcements. Congratulations to SCS member (and Outreach Prize winner) Rob Ketterer of the University of Iowa who has received the Newberry Library—American Musicological Society Short Term Fellowship for 2014-15 to use the Library's resources for his project Early Opera, Ancient History, and European Relations with the Ottoman Empire. |
Departmental Survey of Humanities Indicators ProjectPosted in SCS Announcements. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has released its report on its survey of humanities departments for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Academy covered the 2007-2008 academic year when it first conducted this survey, but this new report is the first one to include a sample of classical studies departments. |