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APA Office Hours November 2013-January 2014

Posted Thu, 11/21/2013 - 10:10 in SCS Announcements.

Following is the schedule for the APA Office for the next two months. Our regular hours are 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.

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CAMP Panel in New Orleans - Call for Panel Topic

Posted Thu, 11/21/2013 - 09:14 in SCS Announcements.

The Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP) of the American Philological Association invites proposals for a panel to be held under the Committee’s sponsorship at the 146th Annual Meeting of the APA (New Orleans, January 8-11, 2015). Submissions, which should not exceed 500 words in length, should include:
(1) the title of the proposed panel;
(2) a general outline of the proposed topic;
(3) a brief explanation of the topic's relevant to the performance of ancient or modern drama;

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Update on Change of Association's Name

Posted Mon, 11/18/2013 - 13:50 in SCS Announcements.

I want to provide an update on the steps we are taking to implement the change in the name of the Association that the members approved this summer. With the help of incoming President Kathryn Gutzwiller, I formed an ad hoc committee consisting of members who represent various communities in our society to consider issues such as communicating with audiences outside the membership and guiding the graphic designer who is creating a new logo for us.

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Latin Reading Classes Now Available Via the Web from CSULB

Posted Mon, 11/18/2013 - 10:08 in General Announcements.

California State University Long Beach’s Classics program would like to announce that we are making our upper division Latin reading classes available to students via the web. These are not “online” classes; they are classes conducted with students in real time. People who are interested in joining our classes would attend class sessions virtually through a web interface, and thus anyone who wants to participate would have to be online during the specific class time.

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Call for Papers for New Publication

Posted Tue, 11/12/2013 - 10:26 in General Announcements.

Classico Contemporaneo is a new international review aimed at sharing themes, methods and experiences dealing with the persistence of the classical tradition in western cultural memory. The review’s focus converges on the relationship between modernity and Classics and its influence on the daily collective imagination.

The guidelines for submissions include, but are not limited to, didactical practices, research themes, and methodology. Experiences from abroad and reviews of literary and visual works inspired by Classics are welcome.

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Introduction to Guest Blogs

Posted Mon, 11/04/2013 - 15:10 in SCS Announcements.

We are launching a new feature on our website, "Guest Blogs," and we invite you to check it out and see what you think. Our field is amazingly varied, and there are new developments on the move in all parts of that variety, so that it seemed a good idea to have a forum where members can be kept up to date, informed, and--ideally-entertained in the process. We have invited a dozen Classicists to contribute regular columns (to keep an archaic print term that seems to have survived into the new medium).

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Petition in Support of Classics in France

Posted Sun, 11/03/2013 - 13:47 in SCS Announcements.

We are posting a call for signatures to a petition launched by our colleagues in France, and circulated by John Bulwer of Euroclassica. We thought this was an important petition to draw to your attention, and we urge members to read the message and to consider signing the petition.

Denis Feeney

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In the News: Open Access Week

Posted Thu, 10/24/2013 - 09:39 in General Announcements.

In recognition of Open Access Week, the "Profhacker" blog at The Chronicle for Higher Education has posted an instructional video about open access. Although it deals exclusively with open access as it applies to research in the sciences, it is relevant for scholars in the humanities, too.

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Courtney’s Commentary on Juvenal Newly Available

Posted Mon, 10/21/2013 - 21:48 in General Announcements.

California Classical Studies is pleased to announce as No. 2 in its series the publication of a digital edition of Edward Courtney, A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal, a reprint with corrections of the edition of 1980. The 555-page book may be read in page view at the open-access eScholarship repository operated by the California Digital Library of the University of California. It is also available as a Print on Demand paperback ($49.95) or in ePub format ($29.95).

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Update on Classics at University College Cork

Posted Mon, 10/14/2013 - 11:20 in General Announcements.

I am happy to report that we have just received the message below from Dr. Martin Brady, Chair of the Central Council of the Classical Association of Ireland.

Denis Feeney

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Dear all,

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