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Letter from S. Georgia Nugent

Posted Mon, 06/19/2017 - 11:11 in Presidential Letters.

Presidential Letter

June 19, 2017

Dear Colleagues,

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Placement Service Maintenance (June 26-July 10)

Posted Fri, 06/16/2017 - 09:50 in SCS Announcements.

Beginning on Monday, June 26, the SCS Placement Service will enter its yearly maintenance session. That means that no new jobs will be posted and no jobs digests will be sent to subscribers for approximately two weeks. All job ads placed prior to June 26 will be made public so that they are still accessible.

We hope to reopen the Service after two weeks on Monday, July 10th. During the maintenance period we will implement some much-needed and frequently requested improvements, the details of which will be laid out in full when the Service reopens.

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L'Année philologique Moving to Brepols

Posted Tue, 06/13/2017 - 10:23 in SCS Announcements.

Here is an important announcement from the Société internationale de bibliographie classique: beginning October 1, 2017 Brepols publishers will become the sole publisher and distributor of the L'Année philologique, both in print and online. Libraries and individuals currently subscribing through Les Belles Lettres and EBSCO will continue to have online access through these distributors until their current subscription concludes, no later than Dec. 31, 2018.

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ACLS Delegate Report (May 2017)

Posted Mon, 06/05/2017 - 12:56 in SCS Announcements.

Ruth Scodel, SCS delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies, has written up her report of the annual ACLS meeting.

You can read the full report here.

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NEH Funding

Posted Wed, 05/24/2017 - 09:47 in SCS Announcements.

Earlier this year SCS President Georgia Nugent issued a Presidential Letter on the Trump administration's budget blueprint that proposed elimination of many educational and cultural agencies including the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The administration's full budget proposal for fiscal year 2018, published yesterday, is in line with the earlier blueprint.

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Contest: 2018 Bernice L. Fox Classics Writing Contest

Posted Fri, 05/19/2017 - 09:50 in Awards and Fellowships.

Topic: A classical “Wonder Woman” appearing out of her native context to save the day

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In Memoriam: Garrett G. Fagan

Posted Wed, 05/17/2017 - 11:40 in In Memoriam.

In Memoriam: Garrett G. Fagan

(Submitted by Stephen Wheeler, Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, The Pennsylvania State University)

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Annual Fund Committee Message

Posted Mon, 05/08/2017 - 12:58 in SCS Announcements.

(This is a message from the SCS Annual Fund Committee, sent to members on May 8th, 2017)

We’re looking for a few good classicists.

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In Memoriam: Edwin L. Brown

Posted Mon, 05/08/2017 - 10:28 in In Memoriam.

From the Asheville Citizen-Times:

It is with great regret that we report the passing of Edwin L. Brown, former professor at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

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SCS Award Winners: Minority Scholarship, Zeph Stewart Award, and Koenen Fellowship

Posted Mon, 05/01/2017 - 09:20 in Awards and Fellowships.

SCS Award Winners

We are delighted to announce the following award winners:

Minority Scholarship Award Winners:

Perla Azucena Castillejos

Linda Mcnulty

Samantha Morris

Zeph Stewart Teacher Training Awards:

Amanda Miller

Christopher David Parkinson

Koenen Fellowship for Training in Papyrology:

Rachel Bernstein

Caroline Cheung

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