The American School of Classical Studies at Athens presents two new seminars for summer 2017: Greek Sculpture Up Close and Myth on Site. For more information, please see this flyer.
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Vergilian Society Tours 2017
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/
The Sunoikisis Course on Leadership in the Ancient World Goes LIVE!
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Here’s to the collaborators, the artists, and the idealists: Sunoikisis, a national consortium of Classics programs, is excited to announce that the online platform for its Fall 2016 course on leadership in the ancient world is now live and open … Continue reading
Job Posting: Maternity Leave Position NJ
Middletown High School North is seeking a maternity leave the first marking period of the 2016-2017 school year. Anyone interested in a substitute position teaching Latin I-IV should contact Dr. Patricia Cartier, Principal, (732-706-6061 extension 1203)
What Classics Professors Can Teach the Rest of Us
Interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/What-Classics-Professors-Can/237129/
33rd Annual Fox Classical Writing Contest sponsored by Monmouth College
This contest is open to any student enrolled full-time in high school during the current school year. An award of $250.00 will be given to the author of the best entry written in English on the specified theme. The entry may be an essay, a short story, a play, a poem, or any original literary work. For more information, click here
Part-time lecturer position for Fall 2016 at NYU Washington, DC
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
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
Maternity Leave Positon Available: NJ
The Willow School in Gladstone, NJ is looking for maternity leave coverage for September and October, 2016. The position is part-time and involves teaching 6th, 7th, and 8th grades using the Cambridge Latin Course series. Interested applicants should contact Sarah Miller smiller@willowschool.org
Travel Subsidy Application for Fall 2016 Meeting
CAAS Travel Subsidy Application: Deadline: June 30th, 2016
CAAS travel subsidies are intended to help cover the cost of travel to the annual CAAS conference. These subsidies are need-based. Priority for funding will be given to presenters of papers, panel participants, and presiders. The maximum subsidy is $800.00, but in order to award as many subsidies as possible, partial funding is likely. Those who have other funding options are encouraged to pursue those sources in addition to applying for a CAAS travel subsidy. Please notify the travel subsidy committee if you do receive ample funds from another source so that we can help support as many people as possible.
The deadline for travel subsidy applications has now passed.