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Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies| Category: Awards and FellowshipsThe Institute for Advance Study School of Historical Studies presents Opportunities for Scholars for 2014-2015. The Institute is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual… |
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From President Denis Feeney: New AHA Resource on the Value of the Humanities| Category:An important “Roundtable of links” on “the value of the Humanities” has just been set up by James Grossman, the Executive Director of the… |
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In memoriam: Georg Luck| Category: In MemoriamFrom The Baltimore Sun: Georg H.B. Luck, whose career teaching the classics at the… |
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In memoriam: Charles L. Babcock (1924-2012)| Category: In MemoriamCharles Luther Babcock died December 7, 2012 at the age of 88. He was born in Whittier California, May 26, 1924. After attending Whittier Union High School, he enrolled in the University of California—Berkeley in 1941, where he became a member… |
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James Werner Halporn (January 14, 1929 — November 13, 2011)| Category:Jim Halporn was born in New York City, grew up on Long Island and carried his accent from there for his whole life — much of it spent far from there. His mother Louisa taught English in the public schools. His father Robert brought much of the… |
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Message from President Denis Feeney on Proposed Name Change| Category:Last October Jeffrey Henderson began a discussion of one of the major recommendations to emerge from the APA Board’s March 2012… |
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APA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Publishing in the UK| Category:On February 6, President Denis Feeney and I on behalf of the APA submitted comments to a British Parliamentary Committee investigating the government’s policy on Open Access (OA). Although most scholars support OA in principle, a recent… |
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DAVID YOUNG, Pindarist and Olympic Historian| Category:David C. Young, Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Florida (http://web.classics.… |
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Editorial Transition for TAPA| Category:As noted earlier, Craig Gibson has been appointed Editor of Transactions effective January 5, 2014. However, he will handle new submissions… |
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Craig Gibson Named Editor of TAPA| Category:As Chair of the Search Committee, I am happy to report that Professor Craig Gibson of the University of Iowa has accepted our invitation to become the next Editor of the Transactions of the American Philological Association. Professor… |