| ETC is at it again! In celebration of National Classics Week, Excellence Through Classics (ETC) is running another nationwide online gaming event for Latin students across the nation on December 16, 2021, 6:30 pm -7:30 pm EDT. For more information please refer to the ETC Ludus website (click here). In order to play, students will need a device with internet access. The theme, code to access the game, the live stream video, and more detailed instructions including registration link have been or will be posted on ETC Ludus website. The contest will focus on the cultural theme listed above. The code to access the game, the live stream video, and more detailed instructions will be posted on the site. Nota Bene – The game will not include Latin questions related to vocabulary or grammar. Please ask your students to take pictures while playing; students winners should stay after the game so we can get their contact information. Send your pictures to our PRIMA Publication Editor at prima@etclassics.org. Let’s break last year’s record of 646 student participants from over 16 states!!!! Citius, Altius, Fortius!!!! |
Category Archives: Conferences and Workshops
CAAS Anti-Racism Committee Workshops June-Sept 2021
The CAAS Anti-Racism Committee intends to present three workshops commencing June 2021 and concluding September 2021. We invite everyone – teachers, scholars, mentors, students, and humanists – to participate in these opportunities to reflect and discuss what anti-racism means to us today. The ground-work established by our January 16, 2021 conversation, “A Way Forward”, serves as the guiding principle to this series of focused, small group discussions.
Please consider attending any or all of these workshops/study sessions:
Tuesday, June 29, 4:00 p.m. – “White Fragility” by Robin Di Angelo
REGISTER HERE for White Fragility Workshop 6/29
Tuesday, July 27, 4:00 p.m. – A Personal Journey
REGISTER HERE for A Personal Journey Workshop 7/27
Saturday, September 18, 1:00 p.m. – Active Bystander Training
Theognis and the Theognidea Virtual Conference – April 28-30, 2021
“The Classics Program of Hunter College (CUNY) announces the rescheduled conference on Theognis and the Theognidea. The conference will now be virtual. It will run from April 28th (Wednesday) through April 30th (Friday) from 12-3:30 PM.
This event will be the first large scale gathering in nearly 40 years on Theognis, the archaic Greek poet of Megara, and the Theognidea, the fascinating and enigmatic collection of elegy that bears his name. It brings together a diverse group of scholars who are working directly or indirectly on the Theognidea, or in related areas that have the potential to shed light on the corpus. The conference is an opportunity to move beyond traditional questions of the origins, authenticity, and authority of the Theognidea. Rather, we will consider how the Theognidea functions as a collection of poetry, and how this collection has been received and responded to over time. We want to foster a dialogue that broadens our approaches to this collection, complicates our understanding of it as archaic, elegiac poetry, and explores its position in the wider scope of Greek and Latin literature.
Registration is open for the virtual conference on Theognis and the Theognidea hosted by the Classics Program of Hunter College (CUNY) from April 28th (Wednesday) through April 30th (Friday) from 12-3:30 PM. (NB, the first day starts at 11:45AM and the last day runs to 4PM.) The conference is open and free. Registration is required. The link provided by registration can be used for each day.
You can register here:
https://huntercollege.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqcOuvrDovGtPgUT-9VMyxnFZbkPXcBO1m
A website for the conference, with an updated schedule, titles, and abstracts (coming soon), can be found here: https://theognidea.wordpress.com/
Date: Wednesday, April 28th – Friday, April, 30.
Time: 12-3:30 PM (EST; New York)
Location: Zoom Meeting (TBA)
Participants: Sebastian Anderson (Brooklyn-CUNY), Ewen Bowie (Oxford), Federico Condello (Bologna), Thomas Figueira (Rutgers), Barbara Graziosi (Princeton), Laura Lulli (L’Aquila), Gregory Nagy (Harvard / CHS), Andrej Petrovic (Virginia), Michael Tueller (Arizona), Kathryn Topper (Washington).
For more information, contact Lawrence Kowerski, Hunter College (CUNY): lawrence.kowerski@hunter.cuny.edu.
A Way Forward: A Conversation about Classics and Racism in the CAAS Region – Sat 1/16 3PM EST
The Anti-Racism Committee of The Classical Association of the Atlantic States invites you to a conversation about Classics and racism in the CAAS region moderated by Patrice Rankine (University of Richmond):
When: Saturday, January 16, 2021 – 3:00PM – 5:15PM EST
Where: (virtual) – Zoom
Registration (free): Click here to register via Google Form
Event flyer (PDF): Click here to view event flyer
2020 Annual Meeting CFP – Deadline Extended – March 16, 2020
CAAS Program Coordinator Maria Marsilio announces that the deadline for all individual, panel, and workshop proposals for CAAS 2020 has been extended. The new deadline for all proposals is Monday, March 16, 2020.
Theognis and the Theognidea Conference – Hunter College (CUNY) – May 1st, 2020
The Classics Program of Hunter College (CUNY) announces a conference on Theognis and the Theognidea on May 1st, 2020 from 9 AM-7 PM.
This event will be the first large scale gathering in nearly 40 years on Theognis, the archaic Greek poet of Megara, and the Theognidea, the fascinating and enigmatic collection of elegy that bears his name. It brings together a diverse group of scholars who are working directly or indirectly on the Theognidea, or in related areas that have the potential to shed light on the corpus. The conference is an opportunity to move beyond traditional questions of the origins, authenticity, and authority of the Theognidea. Rather, we will consider how the Theognidea functions as a collection of poetry, and how this collection has been received and responded to over time. We want to foster a dialogue that broadens our approaches to this collection, complicates our understanding of it as archaic, elegiac poetry, and explores its position in the wider scope of Greek and Latin literature.
Date: Friday, May 1, 2020
Time: 9AM-7PM
Location: Faculty Dining Hall, Hunter College, West Building 8th floor, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10065
Information: lawrence.kowerski@hunter.cuny.edu
Participants: Ewen Bowie (Oxford), Giulio Colesanti (Rome), Federico Condello (Bologna), Thomas Figueira (Rutgers), Barbara Graziosi (Princeton), Gregory Nagy (Harvard / CHS), Andrej Petrovic (Virginia), Michael Tueller (Arizona), Kathryn Topper (Washington).
Click here to view/download conference flyer
No registration is required. Entry to the building will be easier if you provide advance notice of your attendance
ROMAN DAILY LIFE IN PETRONIUS AND POMPEII Summer Seminar
ROMAN DAILY LIFE IN PETRONIUS AND POMPEII
An NEH Summer Seminar for Pre-Collegiate Teachers (July 13-31, 2020)
In the summer of 2020 (July 13-31), there will be an NEH Summer Seminar for pre-collegiate teachers (K-12) on the topic of Roman Daily Life. This seminar is an opportunity to read Petronius and graffiti in Latin and look at Pompeian archaeology for various topics of Roman daily life. The Petronius reading forms a central core of the seminar, and thus an intermediate level of Latin proficiency (1 year of college level Latin) is required. The seminar will be held in St. Peter, Minnesota (1 hour from Minneapolis) on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College. The NEH pays each person $2700 to participate, which will more than cover the living and food expenses (approximately $1500) – each participant is responsible for their own travel expenses. The seminar has been organized by Matthew Panciera (Gustavus Adolphus) and will be co-taught by him, Beth Severy-Hoven (Macalester), Jeremy Hartnett (Wabash), and Rebecca Benefiel (Washington and Lee).
The application deadline is March 1. More information and directions on applying can be found at the seminar website https://gustavus.edu/events/romandailylife/. Note that this is the LAST time that we will be offering this seminar, so if you are interested, please apply.
If you have any questions, write me (Matthew Panciera), the director of the seminar, at panciera@gustavus.edu.
Call for Papers: CAAS 2020 Annual Meeting
The Classical Association of the Atlantic States
Call for Papers: 2020 Annual Meeting, October 8-10, 2020
Hotel DuPont, Wilmington, DE
Click here to read invitation letter from Executive Director, Mary Brown
We invite individual and group proposals on all aspects of the classical world and classical reception, and on new strategies and resources for improved teaching. Especially welcome are presentations that aim at maximum audience participation and integrate the concerns of K-12 and college faculty, that consider ways of communicating about ancient Greece and Rome beyond our discipline and profession, and that reflect on the past, present, and future of classical studies in the CAAS region.
The 2020 Clack Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Jinyu Liu, Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University and Principal Investigator of “Translating the Complete Corpus of Ovid’s Poetry into Chinese with Commentaries“, a multi-year project sponsored by a National Social Science Fund of China (2015-2020). Dr. Liu’s lecture title is “From Rome to China: Translation, (Western) Classics, and Comparative Antiquity.” She describes her topic as follows: “In this lecture, I will foreground translation (i.e. the act itself) of Classical texts as inherently a comparative project as well as the foundational importance of translation to comparative studies. In a joint manifesto, Fritz-Heiner Mutschler and Walter Scheidel have emphasized the “disruptive” potential of comparative history as one of the major benefits of comparative studies [Fritz-Heiner Mutschler and Walter Scheidel, “The Benefits of Comparison: A Call for the Comparative Study of Ancient Civilizations,” Journal of Ancient Civilizations 32 (2017), 113]. In the same vein, I underscore translation as a mechanism to engineer, facilitate, and complicate comparative antiquity.”
We will offer an undergraduate research session of presentations developed from outstanding term papers, senior theses or other scholarly projects, to be organized in conjunction with Eta Sigma Phi, the national honor society for classical studies.
All submitters of proposals for the meeting must be current members of CAAS. Participants in the 2020 Annual Meeting must be members when they submit proposals and must renew their memberships for 2020-2021 (the membership year is September 1-August 31). All submitters of proposals that are accepted by the Program Committee for presentation at the 2020 meeting are expected to attend and deliver their presentations. They are required to send a full draft of their presentations to their presider(s) by the end of September. Submitters of accepted proposals who are unable to attend should arrange to have their presentations delivered by another CAAS member.
Panel and Workshop Proposals may be 1 ½ or 2 hours in length, depending on the number of speakers. Submissions must be uploaded as a single PDF (.pdf) or Word 97-2010 (.doc/docx) file of no more than 700 words and must include:
- a description of the proposed panel or workshop and brief abstracts of the individual presentations. Each abstract of an individual presentation must be accompanied by a bibliography or a list of resources consulted of up to five items (not included in the word limit). The proposal must clearly indicate the thesis and original contribution made by the panel or workshop and situate this contribution in a larger scholarly context (see Writing an Abstract for Professional Presentation). The proposal must be anonymous. The names of the organizer and presenters must not appear anywhere in this file except when citing a publication by the organizer or presenters.Those abstracts which include the names and/or institutional affiliations of their organizers and presenters will not be considered.
- title of the session and titles of each individual presentation.
- specific audio-visual needs for the session. CAAS is able to supply only a screen and a digital light projector (those bringing MACs will need to bring their special adapter plug to connect to the projector). DVDs can be played only from your laptop. Be advised that sound played from a laptop without special speakers may not be audible in the room.
Deadline for panel and workshop proposals has passed and submission is now closed.
Individual Proposals must be no more than 15 minutes in length. Each author must not submit more than one abstract. Submissions must be uploaded as a single PDF (.pdf) OR Word 97-2010 (.doc/docx) file of no more than 300 words and must include:
- clearly indicated thesis and original contribution(s) made by your presentation, situating it in a larger scholarly context (see Writing an Abstract for Professional Presentation). Submissions must be accompanied by a bibliography or a list of resources consulted of up to five items (not included in the word limit). The proposal must be anonymous. The author’s name should not appear anywhere in this file except when citing a publication by the author. Those abstracts which include the names and/or institutional affiliations of their authors will not be considered.
- specific audio-visual needs for your presentation. CAAS is able to supply only a screen and a digital light projector (those bringing MACs will need to bring their special adapter plug to connect to the projector). DVDs can be played only from your laptop. Be advised that sound played from a laptop without special speakers may not be audible in the room.
- If you are an undergraduate, please indicate this by selecting “undergraduate paper” as the submission type, so that undergraduate submissions can be read separately, and in relation to one another.
Deadline for panel and workshop proposals has passed and submission is now closed.
For further information, please contact CAAS Program Coordinator Maria S. Marsilio (marsilio@sju.edu). Please contact Webmaster Jennifer Ranck (jennifer.ranck@gmail.com) if you experience difficulties with the online forms.
Please feel most welcome to submit a proposal, to come and enjoy our upcoming Annual Meeting, and to add your voice, not unlike the various guests of Aspasia of Miletus and Athens, to the marvelous spirit and community of CAAS.
PCS Fall Professional Day – November 23, 2019
Since its founding in 1924, the officers of The Philadelphia Classical Society have been offering opportunities for developing pedagogy, strategies, and creative ways of promoting the study of Classical Languages and the Classics.
On Saturday, November 23, at The Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, starting at 9:00am, the efforts and contributions of various Classicists were showcased in the Anne Frank Library.
For Fall Professional Day or PCS information, please contact Mary Brown ( mbrown@sju.edu )
Ovid and Art: A Symposium
NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies is organizing and event for Thursday April 4, 2019.The event is entitled, “Ovid and Art: A Symposium,” and is free and open to the public. To RSVP (required), and for a complete schedule of sessions, please visit: http://as.nyu.edu/ancientstudies/news.html. For more details, please view the poster here.