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New NEH Open Book Program

Posted Wed, 01/21/2015 - 12:43 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.

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Call for Applications to ACLS Public Fellows Program

Posted Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:52 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.

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Survey results, best sessions, sessions chairs, and individual papers at the Annual Meeting in New Orleans

Posted Mon, 01/12/2015 - 21:34 in SCS Announcements.

We are please to announce the following results from the surveys that were sent to all those who were registered for the recent Annual Meeting in New Orleans on January 9, 10, and 11.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9

Best session overall:

  • Session #5 New Fragments of Sappho

Honorable mention

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New Orleans Brass Band at Opening Night Reception

Posted Wed, 01/07/2015 - 10:06 in SCS Announcements.

The Kinfolk Brass Band will play at Thursday's Night's Joint Opening Night Reception in New Orleans. Tickets will be available at the door. See details here.

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Annual Meeting App Now Available

Posted Mon, 01/05/2015 - 20:24 in SCS Announcements.

The AIA-SCS Conference App is now available. For details about downloading and using the app, please visit this page on the AIA web site. As noted there, anyone may download the app or view its contents in an Internet browser, but only conference registrants can sign in and activate its custom scheduling and in-app messaging features.

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Council for European Studies Fellowships

Posted Sat, 01/03/2015 - 21:23 in Awards and Fellowships.

The Council for European Studies is still accepting applications for the “Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship” and the “Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship.”

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New NEH Public Scholar Program

Posted Sat, 01/03/2015 - 21:04 in Awards and Fellowships.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new grant opportunity, the Public Scholar Program, intended to support well-researched books in the humanities that have been conceived and written to reach a broad readership. Books supported through the Public Scholar Program might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic.

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New Date and Hotel for 2016 Joint Annual Meeting

Posted Wed, 12/31/2014 - 11:45 in SCS Announcements.

The SCS and the AIA are pleased to announce that the 2016 Joint Annual Meeting will take place at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel, the site of our last joint meeting in the city in 2004. The meeting will be from January 6 through 9, a Wednesday through Saturday. The date change was the result of a hotel re-booking situation, and we regret any inconvenience this change may cause. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco next year!

Ann Benbow Adam D. Blistein
AIA Executive Director SCS Executive Director

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Letter from the President: Expanding the Audience for Classics

Posted Mon, 12/29/2014 - 10:35 in Presidential Letters, SCS Announcements.

In this last of my presidential letters, I take the opportunity to inform you of a new SCS initiative to establish a wider audience for classics. At last year’s Presidential Panel, Robert Connor made an impassioned plea for our Society to undertake the expansion of classics in institutions of higher learning. While Departments of Classics appear to be holding their own across the country, it is evident that the emphasis on STEM disciplines and support for interdisciplinary education at the expense of traditional departments provide challenges to classics education as we know it.

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New Orleans Schedule at a Glance

Posted Sat, 12/27/2014 - 13:55 in SCS Announcements.

Click here to see the SCS Schedule at a Glance for the meeting in New Orleans.

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