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.

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.

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/

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)

Interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/What-Classics-Professors-Can/237129/

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

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

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