SCS News
Latin Reading Classes Now Available Via the Web from CSULBPosted 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. |
Call for Papers for New PublicationPosted 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. |
Introduction to Guest BlogsPosted 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). |
Petition in Support of Classics in FrancePosted 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 |
In the News: Open Access WeekPosted 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. |
Courtney’s Commentary on Juvenal Newly AvailablePosted 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). |
Update on Classics at University College CorkPosted 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 -------------------- Dear all, |
Petition in Support of Latin at the Free University of BrusselsPosted Tue, 10/08/2013 - 05:39 in General Announcements. Dear friends, sympathizers and fellow classicists, In 2012, the Faculty of Arts decided to gradually cut down Latin as a major subject. However, the detailed budget plan now anticipates the abandonment of all Latin courses, as well as the introductory courses of Ancient Greek and most subjects relating to classical culture. By this radical cutting off of the classical roots, the faculty loses an essential component to the understanding of western philosophy, art, history, language and literature. |
2013 Election ResultsPosted Wed, 10/02/2013 - 21:15 in SCS Announcements. The following members were chosen in the elections held this Summer. They take office on January 5, 2014, except for the two new members of the Nominating Committee who take office immediately. |
Placement Committee Panel on Nonacademic JobsPosted Mon, 09/30/2013 - 21:12 in SCS Announcements. At the Joint Annual Meeting in Seattle in January 2013 the Placement Committee organized a panel on nonacademic employment opportunities for Ph.D.s in Classics and Archaeology. Follow this link (https://placement.apaclassics.org/alternative-employment) to read about the panel, hear audio clips of the presentations, and see a list of resources discussed at the panel. |