"When Ted Pappas returned to Greece last summer he took 'Electra' with him. 'I studied it in Greek under an olive tree on my property,' says Pappas, who is directing the Pittsburgh Public Theater production of 'Electra' that begins performances Thursday at the O'Reilly Theater, Downtown." Read more at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review online.
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Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions
SPRING LECTURE SERIES 2021
Après le deluge: plagues, propaganda, and the mobility of the divine
Please join SAMR members in a lecture series this Spring devoted to the exploration of ancient ritual responses to questions that have filled our minds, hearts and news feeds over an extraordinary year. Four speakers have will explore contemporary issues, including disease, identity, mobility and disempowered cultural groups through the lenses of ancient ritual practice. All are welcome -mark your calendars!
All sessions will be held at this Zoom address: https://pugetsound-edu.zoom.us/j/93329292263
March 4, at 12 noon EST
“Osor-Hapi: North African Cult Paradigms during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods.”
Dr. Vivian A. Laughlin
The second iteration of the conference, Res Difficiles 2.0 Difficult Conversations in Classics (ResDiff2), will be held March 20, 2021; registration is now
The Perception of Climate and Nature in Ancient Societies
International Online Conference
14th May 2021
Organised by Classical Students Association of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Call for Papers
The Classics Everywhere initiative, launched by the SCS in 2019, supports projects that seek to engage communities worldwide with the study of Greek and Roman antiquity in new and meaningful ways. Most of the projects funded take place in the US and Canada, though the initiative is growing and has funded projects in the UK, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Ghana, and Puerto Rico. This post highlights projects that foster engagement and education for school-aged children and young adults from California to Canada, Chicago to New York.
The Executive Committee of the SCS has issued the following statement:
For several years, serious issues have arisen concerning online communications within the classics community. The SCS reminds its members to respect the dignity of one another in professional and private communications. These communications include, inter alia, social media posts and direct messages, private emails, and messages posted to email listservs. In view of these concerns the SCS Professional Matters Division is preparing guidelines for social media and other online communications.
Approved 2/25/2021
Summer 2021 Election Slate
The 2020-2021 SCS Nominating Committee, co-chaired by Laurel Fulkerson and Celia Schultz, has worked hard through the late Fall 2020 and early 2021. The Committee is pleased to present the following slate of candidates for election in Summer 2021. All candidates listed below have agreed to stand. SCS will publish candidate statements in the late spring or early summer and online voting will begin as usual on or around August 1.
President-Elect (one to be elected)
Lesley Dean-Jones
Matthew Roller
Financial Trustee (one to be elected)
Daniel Berman
Joseph Farrell
Vice President for Education (one to be elected)
Dani Bostick
Teresa Ramsby
Directors (two to be elected)
Yurie Hong
Young Richard Kim
Nandini Pandey
Bronwen Wickkiser
Craig Williams
Nominating Committee (two to be elected)
Ronnie Ancona
Pramit Chaudhuri
Joel Christensen
Akira Yatsuhashi
Program Committee (one to be elected)
Rosa Andújar
Denise Demetriou
Goodwin Committee (two to be elected)
Rhiannon Ash
Constanze Guthenke
Yopie Prins
Phiroze Vasunia
Committee on Professional Ethics (two to be elected)
Deborah Beck
In Part 2 of our guest series for the SCS Blog, the Women’s Classical Caucus (WCC) invites you to celebrate the winner of its 2020–2021 Leadership Award: Suzanne Lye, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The award recognizes Dr. Lye’s extraordinary leadership and initiative in establishing, administering, and fundraising for the SCS-WCC Covid-19 Relief Fund. Since April 2020, this emergency microgrant fund has distributed no-strings-attached awards of up to $500 to North American classicists in need.
If there’s one thing in this divided America that we can all agree on, it’s that former president Donald J. Trump’s impeachment lawyer Bruce Castor was pretty crappy.
The Classics Department at UNC-Chapel Hill is sad to announce that Philip A. Stadter died last week at the age of 84 in North Carolina. In over forty years of teaching at UNC, and in almost twenty years of a very active retirement, Philip wrote influential books and articles about Plutarch, Arrian, Thucydides and other authors, and his friendships and mentoring and collaborations extended around the world. There is an obituary online, with information about a service Tuesday 2/16 at 2:30 Eastern time that will have an online component, at https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsobserver/obituary.aspx?n=philip-stadter&pid=197767979.
A longer statement from the Department about his life and work is forthcoming.
The Women’s Classical Caucus (WCC) invites you to celebrate the winners of its 2020–2021 Public Scholarship and Advocacy awards and to learn more about how their work is influencing our field. Over the next month, the SCS Blog will publish a three-part series of in-depth interviews by the WCC with the award winners, who discuss their work in strengthening communities within the field and introducing new audiences to Classics.
