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Call for Monographs: Book Series on East‐West Cultural Encounters in Literature & Cultural Studies| Category: General AnnouncementsThis Series seeks scholarly works on intercultural encounters in literature, particularly East‐West precolonial, colonial, or postcolonial contacts that expose, problematize, or re‐create the sense of locality, historicity, and subjectivity. The… |
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Statement on Tenure and Academic Freedom in Wisconsin| Category:The Board of Directors of the Society for Classical Studies has voted unanimously to endorse this statement of concern about proposals pending in the Wisconsin legislature… |
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2015 Zeph Stewart Award Winners| Category: Awards and FellowshipsThe SCS has awarded its second group of Zeph Stewart Latin Teacher Training Awards. Three students currently enrolled in courses leading to their certification as Latin teachers will receive grants that will offset a portion of their tuition… |
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Update on Departmental Census| Category:Last Fall, the SCS conducted a census of classics departments that solicited information on students, faculty, and course offerings. We received responses from over 50% of the departments on our list of programs where classics is taught in some… |
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Winners of 2015 Pedagogy Awards| Category: Awards and FellowshipsIn 2015 the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), founded in 1869 as the American Philological Association, awarded the third set of its Pedagogy Awards to three outstanding classics teachers. One of the major goals of the Society's capital… |
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Business Software Expert Promotes Latin Study| Category:Michael Ortner, the founder of the web site Capterra, a source of information about software for businesses, thinks his readers and customers would… |
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Deadline Extended for 2016 Roundtable Discussion Sessions| Category:This 90-minute joint session with the AIA consists of a number of tables devoted to discussions of a variety of topics, with at least one discussion leader for each topic. Members are invited to propose themselves as roundtable discussion… |
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Eidolon: A New Online Journla Supported by the Paideia Institute| Category: General AnnouncementsWe received the following message in our in box this morning: Dear Friends, We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Eidolon, a new online… |
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Call for Submissions to Phoenix| Category: General AnnouncementsPhoenix, a journal of the Classical Association of Canada, welcomes submissions of original, high quality scholarly research in all areas of Classical Studies, including: Greek and Latin literature, language, history, philosophy,… |
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Survey on Research Practices of Humanities Scholars| Category:You are invited to participate in a study into the research practices of humanities scholars in North American and European research libraries, and how you find and retrieve resources in both open and closed stack libraries. This survey… |