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New Zealand Proposing to Drop Latin Qualifying Exam| Category: Classics in the News(Message sent to SCS by James McNamara) The New Zealand Qualifications Authority is proposing to drop the scholarship exam in Latin (for final year pupils) in 2019. The exam offers students recognition and a monetary award for… |
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Fifth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece| Category: Calls for Papersἀγών agōn: struggle, contest, trial, conflict, challenge, strife with a pre-conference seminar on Empedocles’ Poem on nature and an Empedocles-themed post-conference tour
Sicily Center for International… |
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CFP: Plato's Alcibiades I| Category: Calls for PapersPlato's Alcibiades I 20-22 Sept. 2018, Cambridge (UK) Although the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I was highly regarded in late antiquity and occupied a prominent place… |
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AAC&U and AAUP Issue Statement on Liberal Arts Education| Category: Classics in the NewsThe Association of American Colleges & Universities and the American Association of University Professors have recently signed on to a statement condemning the multi-front attack on the Humanities and a Liberal Arts education. … |
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Call for Papers: Migrants and Refugees in the Law| Category: Calls for PapersCALL FOR PAPERS Migrants and Refugees In the Law: Historic Evolution, Current Situation and Unsolved Questions Murcia, Spain. December 12-14, 2018 International Chair Innocent III calls on… |
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Call for Papers: NATURA/φύσις vs. ARS/τέχνη| Category: Calls for Papers
Call for Papers
October 13, 2018.
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Second University of Florida Classics Graduate Student Symposium NATURA/φύσις vs. ARS/τέχνη:… |
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In Memoriam: Antonia Syson| Category: In MemoriamRemembering Antonia Syson (1973–2018) As readers may have learned from an earlier posting, Antonia Syson, associate professor of Classics at… |
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Presidential Letter - Annual Meeting Location (Pt. 1)| Category: Presidential LettersIn my first presidential letter, right after the annual meeting last January, I wrote about the need to consider not only where we meet, but at what time of… |
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ACLS Delegate Report (May, 2018)| Category:Ruth Scodel, SCS delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies, has written up her report of the annual ACLS meeting. You can read her full report below: --- The most important news from this year’s meeting of ACLS… |
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Deadline Approaching - Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level| Category: Awards and FellowshipsThe deadline for nominations for the SCS Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level is June 1, 2018… |