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The Ranieri Colloquium – Classics and Cognitive Theory

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The Ranieri Colloquium Classics and Cognitive Theory will be held by NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies on Thursday and Friday, October 27-28, 2016.

The conference is entitled, “Classics and Cognitive Theory.”  It is presented by the NYU Center for Ancient Studies and co-sponsored by the NYU Dean of the College of Arts and Science, the Dean for the Humanities, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Center for Neural Science, the Emotional Brain Institute, the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology, and the Religious Studies Program.  The event is free and open to the public.

The full program may be viewed here:  http://ancientstudies.fas.nyu.edu/object/Cognitive_Theory_Conference_Schedule.html

The Body Unbound: Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus

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Conference Title: The Body Unbound: Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus

Dates: October 7-8, 2016

Location: Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

URL: Brooklyn.cuny.edu/The-Body-Unbound

The body’s meaning is perhaps never more evident than in the violation of its wholeness. This conference will focus on the (human and animal) body as a            topic for literary investigation. Invited speakers will present papers concerned with the transfixed corpus—in its physical, ritual, aesthetic, and symbolic aspects—as it appears in ancient texts and in modern echoes of the classical tradition. Allowing for an unusually diverse and interdisciplinary range of perspectives, the topic            encourages scholars to move across traditional temporal and geographical boundaries, while engaging with questions that range from rhetoric and religion to gender and identity.

The conference is in the Ethyle R. Wolfe Series on Classical Studies and the Contemporary World (sponsored by the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities). The            keynote speaker will be Brooke Holmes of Princeton University. Free and open to the public. For more information, please visit Brooklyn.cuny.edu/The-Body-Unbound.

Vergilian Society Tours 2017

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Would you like to travel abroad? And to have help paying for it?

The Vergilian Society is offering exciting study tours in 2017 including “Northern Italy and Croatia,” “Latin Authors in Italy,” “Roman Britain,” and “Gladiators and Roman Spectacle”. These programs are specifically designed to benefit and appeal to teachers at all levels by providing them the opportunity to experience a rich variety of ancient sites to support their own understanding and teaching of the ancient world. See the full tour descriptions on the Vergilian Society website at http://www.vergiliansociety.org/2017-tours/

Almost $100,000 in scholarship money is available: http://www.vergiliansociety.org/tours/scholarships/

Part-time lecturer position for Fall 2016 at NYU Washington, DC

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Cultural Foundations I” course description

“Cultural Foundations I” introduces the arts from their origins to the end of antiquity, as defined for these purposes by the roughly coincident dissolutions of the Gupta, Han, and Western Roman empires, focusing on how individuals and social relations are shaped in literature, the visual, plastic, and performing arts, and through music. Conceptions of the divine, the heroic, power and disenfranchisement, beauty, and love are examined within the context of the art and literature of East and South Asia, the Mediterranean world, and contiguous regions (such as Germania, Nubia, and Mesopotamia).

The Cultural Foundations sequence (CFI, CFII, and CFIII) is taken one per semester (sequentially, from the fall of the first year through the fall/spring of the second year) and investigates literary, musical, visual, and performing arts from prehistory to modernity, treating the works of cultures from around the globe as texts in their own right, as contexts for each other, and as ways of understanding the civilizations in which they were produced. In these interdisciplinary courses, we pose a central two-part question: What is art, and why do people produce it? Instructors for CFI prepare the way for Cultural Foundations II by giving some attention to the modes by which cultural transmission occurred across these regions prior to the rise of Islam.
Interested applicants should contact Mark Nakamoto at mark.nakamoto@nyu.edu

Position Available: Director of the Corinth Excavations

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The American School of Classical Studies at Athens seeks an active scholar and experienced archaeologist to direct its excavations at Ancient Corinth. Familiarity with the School’s program of excavation and research at Ancient Corinth is highly desirable. The Director works with the staff at Corinth in developing and conducting the fieldwork and documenting the results. The Director supervises the collections of the excavation and the publication of all finds. The Director administers the School’s plant and facilities at Ancient Corinth. The Director participates in the School’s activities, including its academic program and the instruction of students at the School through its field training program. The Director identifies projects for funding and helps to identify possible sources of funds for Corinth. Good command of Modern Greek is essential. Candidates must demonstrate strong qualities of leadership and articulate clearly their vision for the future of the Corinth Excavations. For more information, click here