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Call for Applications for Berlin Prize for 2015-2016

Posted Wed, 06/18/2014 - 13:31 in Awards and Fellowships.

The American Academy in Berlin invites applications for its residential fellowships for 2015/2016, as well as early applications for the academic years 2016/2017 and 2017/2018. The deadline is Monday, September 29, 2014 (12 pm EST or 6 pm CET). Applications may be submitted online or mailed to the Berlin office.

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In Memoriam Diskin Clay

Posted Mon, 06/16/2014 - 09:01 in SCS Announcements.

The Department of Classical Studies at Duke University regrets to announce the sudden passing of its esteemed and beloved friend and colleague, Diskin Clay. An obituary is posted here.

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Call for Participants for CAMP Performance 2015

Posted Thu, 06/12/2014 - 16:12 in SCS Announcements.

The SCS Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP) seeks participants for its performance at the SCS/AIA Annual Meeting in New Orleans (January 8-11, 2015). This year’s play is Wealth, an adaptation of Aristophanes’ Plutus, written by Karen Rosenbecker, and directed by Artemis Preeshl. With one foot in ancient Athens and the other in modern New Orleans, Wealth takes on the timeless topic of income inequality and shows us what happens when the poor are given a chance to remake their world.

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Fellowships at the National Humanities Center

Posted Thu, 06/12/2014 - 16:01 in Awards and Fellowships.

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Papers from 2014 Committee on Ancient History Panel

Posted Thu, 06/12/2014 - 11:24 in SCS Announcements.

We have posted the papers from the panel that the Committee on Ancient History organized for the 2014 annual meeting in Chicago. Georgia Tsouvala organized the panel entitled History in Classics/Classics in History.

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Conclusion of 2013-2014 Placement Year

Posted Thu, 06/12/2014 - 11:07 in SCS Announcements.

The 2013-2014 Placement Service season is about to end; so, the portal is no longer accepting new registrations from candidates. Please join us in a few weeks for the 2014-2015 Placement Year and for interviewing at the 2015 New Orleans Annual Meeting. Early next week we will publish the June 2014 issue of Positions for Classicists and Archaeologists. After that, all positions advertised during the current academic year will be available at this URL.

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Philoctetes on All Things Considered

Posted Mon, 06/09/2014 - 16:45 in SCS Announcements.

The NPR news program, All Things Considered, recently featured an interview with Peter Meineck of the Aquila Theatre Company and the actors he has assembled for a new performance of Philoctetes that casts a woman in the lead role and veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan in the chorus.

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Survey for Readers of Teaching Classical Languages

Posted Mon, 06/09/2014 - 16:29 in General Announcements.

As Teaching Classical Languages enters its fifth year of publication and as the standards for online publication metamorphose before our eyes, it seems a good time to take stock of how our readers access the journal. How are your reading habits changing? In what formats do you read academic articles? On what devices do you read the sort of research and practical advice contained in TCL?

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Abstracts from Study Abroad Panel

Posted Mon, 06/09/2014 - 16:10 in SCS Announcements.

For the last annual meeting in Chicago, the Committee on Education organized a panel entitled "Classics and Study Abroad". Click here to read organizer Eric Dugdale's introduction to the panel as well as abstracts of the five talks that cover various aspects of this important aspect of studying Classics.

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Two SCS Members Elected to American Philosophical Society

Posted Wed, 06/04/2014 - 08:45 in SCS Announcements.

Two long-time SCS members were among the 33 scholars and leaders in other fields elected this year to membership in the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. They are

  • Sarah B. Pomeroy, Distinguished Professor of Classics and History Emerita, City University of New York
  • Richard J. Tarrant, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Harvard University

We congratulate Professors Pomeroy and Tarrant on this high honor.

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