SCS News
Special Events at the 2018 Annual MeetingPosted in SCS Announcements. We've put together a list of the special events that will take place at the 2018 Annual Meeting. Note that, while paper sessions will take place in the Marriott, a large portion of the evening events will be housed in the Westin. The upcoming December Newsletter from the SCS office will have more information about these and other events at the Annual Meeting. --- |
Fellowship: Advanced Seminar in the Humanities (2018-2019)Posted in Awards and Fellowships.
Advanced Seminar in the Humanities 2018– 2019
Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome, and the Near East
From March 12 to March 23, 2018 Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, in cooperation with Venice International University, will offer an advanced seminar on “Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and the Near East”. The Program |
SCS Member Awarded Grant from Royal SocietyPosted in Awards and Fellowships. Mark Masterson, Senior Lecturer of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and member of the SCS for over 20 years, has been awarded a grant $476,000 from the Marsden Fund administered by Royal Society for his research project, "Revealing Desire between Men in the Byzantine Empire". He will be holder of this grant for three years starting in 2018. Here is a link to the awards the Royal Society made this year: |
Summer 2018 Seminar on Material Culture: Nominations for Graduate Student ParticipantsPosted in Awards and Fellowships. Call for Nominations The Use of Art and Material Culture in Scholarship and Teaching A Seminar in Material Culture for Graduate Students in Classics and Ancient History Directed by Professors Antony Augoustakis and Daniel Leon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 21 May – 29 June 2018 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL |
2017 Outreach PrizePosted in Awards and Fellowships. The SCS Outreach Prize Committee has awarded the 2017 Outreach Prize to Professor Roberta Stewart of Dartmouth College for her work in developing book discussion groups on the Homeric poems with military veterans. Professor Stewart's long-running initiative is now a major collaborative project of Dartmouth College and New Hampshire Humanities, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Award Citation |
Obituary for William (Bill) MullenPosted in In Memoriam. Contributed by Professor Jamie Romm, Bard College: William (Bill) Mullen, professor of classics at Bard College, died suddenly on Nov. 2, 2 days before he would have turned 71. Bill earned his B.A. degree from Harvard and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His doctoral dissertation was titled “Pindar’s Aeginetans,” a study of the odes for Aeginetan victors. Bill published a book on Pindar, "Choreia: Pindar and Dance," (Princeton 1982), in which he made a bold attempt to reimagine the choreography of the danced epinician poems. |
Career Networking Event Deadline ApproachingPosted in SCS Announcements. This is a reminder that the deadline to fill out the registration form for the Career Networking Event is November 22nd. This event is only open to those who pre-register for it. To sign up, fill out this form before the 22nd, and be sure to direct any questions to info@classicalstudies.org --- |
2017 C.J. Goodwin Award of MeritPosted in Awards and Fellowships. The C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit Committee has selected three winners of this year's Goodwin Award. All three will be honored at the Plenary Session at the Boston Annual Meeting. You can click on the names below to read the full citations. James I. Porter, The Sublime in Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2016 Amy Russell, The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome, Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
2017 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the College LevelPosted in Awards and Fellowships. The SCS Teaching Excellence Awards Committee has awarded three prizes this year to the following teachers at the college and university level: E. Del Chrol (Marshall University) Shelley Haley (Hamilton College) Mary Pendergraft (Wake Forest University) The winners will receive their awards at the Plenary Session at the Boston Annual Meeting. Please click on the names above to read the full citations. |
Early Registration Deadline Today (Nov. 10th)Posted in SCS Announcements. Please note that the deadline for Early Registration rates for the 2018 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in Boston is today, November 10th. You can register on this page. --- |