The Rose-Marie Lewent Conference: Animals in Antiquity will be hosted by NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies on February 13-14, 2014. The event is co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Ancient Studies, the Animal Studies Initiative and the Department of Classics, and is free and open to the public. Click here for the full program.

2014 David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship for Travel in Classical Lands from the APA

A fellowship to support overseas travel.  APA membership is not required.  Application deadline: February 14, 2014. Click here for details.

2014 Pedagogy Awards from the APA

Fellowships to support professional development by both collegiate and precollegiate teachers.  APA membership is not required.  Application deadline:  March 3, 2014. Click here for details.

Open to those preparing for Latin teacher certification. APA membership is not required.

For more information, please visit: http://apaclassics.org/awards-and-fellowships/2013/2013-zeph-stewart-latin-teacher-training-award

The winter NYCC conference this year is dedicated to “Sources for Classical Myth,” and will take place on Saturday, February 8th, 2014, 11am-6pm, at NYU’s Jurow Hall, Silver Center. More details from NYCC:

• Milette Gaifman, Yale University

“What to make of Herakles at the altar on a white-ground lektyhos”

• Fritz Graf, Ohio State University

“Patrioi Logoi. Inscriptions and local mythologies”

• Sarah Iles Johnston, Ohio State University

“There and Back Again: Mythic Places and How to Reach Them”

• H. Alan Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University
“Sources for the Trojan Cycle: Lost Epics and Newly Found Vases”

• R. Scott Smith, University of New Hampshire

“Bundling Myth, Bungling Myth: Ancient and Modern Handbooks of Myth”

 

All are welcome, registration is required and includes lunch and a reception: $10 students; $25 members; $40 non-members. Please pre-register by Tuesday, February 4, 2014, online here. You can also register in person on the day of the event.

The Vergilian Society is running its first Translation Contest for K-12 students. The awards will be made before Spring 2014.

“The spirit of the contest is to celebrate the poet Vergil by encouraging students in k-12 to translate a selection of his verses, at sight, into fluent English.”

Click here to register.

Caesar in Gaul is a two-week seminar designed to enhance participants’ appreciation of the Bellum Gallicum and its remarkable author. Developed in partnership with the University of Aix-en-Provence, the program includes lectures and seminars led by top scholars reshaping the field of Caesar studies today, and visits to key sites of the Gallic Wars and other important monuments of Gallo-Roman culture. The first week of the program, focusing on Caesar as a man of letters and the monuments of the Roman provincia, takes place at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme in Aix-en-Provence. In the second week, participants will travel to Lyons and its environs for a closer look at Gallic Culture and battle sites from the Gallic Wars.

Click here for more information.

An NEH Summer Institute in Athens, Greece
Director: Professor Karen Bassi, University of California at Santa Cruz

The University of California at Santa Cruz, in sponsorship with the Institute for Humanities Research, invites applications for a four-week Summer Institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) on the topic of Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece. The Institute will be held in Athens, Greece from June 29 to July 27, 2014.

This Institute begins from the premise that mortality is the condition that gives life its singular human quality. Yet this fact, so often relegated to euphemism, has resisted anything like a comprehensive examination. The goal of this Institute is to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to mortality in ancient Greece as the basis for rigorous and innovative teaching and scholarship across the Humanities.

The NEH Institute will bring together twenty-two college and university teachers and three graduate students to examine relevant material from a broad range of ancient Greek literary sources, visual and archaeological remains, and historical periods, ranging from the 8th to the 3rd centuries BCE. In addition to attending lectures and seminars hosted by six outstanding visiting scholars, participants will present the results of their own research projects in a series of colloquia in the final week of the Institute.

NEH Summer Institutes for College and University Teachers provide college and university faculty members, independent scholars, and graduate students with an opportunity for intensive collaborative study of texts, topics, and ideas central to undergraduate teaching in the humanities under the guidance of faculties distinguished in their fields of scholarship. Institutes aim to prepare participants to return to their classrooms with a deeper knowledge of current scholarship in key fields of the humanities. Individuals selected to participate in this four-week Institute will receive $3,300. These taxable stipends are intended to help cover travel expenses to and from the project location, books and other research expenses, and living expenses for the duration of the period spent in residence.

Applicants must be United States citizens, residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Foreign nationals teaching abroad at non-U.S. chartered institutions are not eligible to apply.

For more information, including a full description of the research and pedagogical aims of the Institute, a complete list of the participating faculty, Institute location and housing information, a detailed day-to-day schedule, and how to apply, please visit the project’s website: mortality.ihr.ucsc.edu

Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Department of Classical Studies at the College of William and Mary is currently accepting applications for its first incoming class of students interested in pursuing a Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Classical Studies.  This is a flexible program of study for students who have an undergraduate degree and who wish to pursue an intensive course of study in the Classical languages in preparation for graduate studies, teaching, or personal enrichment.  Students in the program take specific courses in Latin, Greek, and classical civilization appropriate to their level of preparation.  This program is especially designed for students who wish to:

• pursue graduate study in Classical Studies but do not have enough Latin and Greek to be competitive in applying to Ph.D. programs.
• teach Greek, Latin, or a related field in Classical Studies but have only a limited number of courses in Greek or Latin as an undergraduate student.
• study Latin or Greek (or both) for personal intellectual growth and satisfaction.

A complete program description and application for admission can be found at: www.wm.edu/as/classicalstudies/post-bac-program/index.php.  For additional information, please contact: John Donahue, Chair, Department of Classical Studies at jfdona@wm.edu or at 757-221-1930.

The Philadelphia Classical Society will be hosting its Fall Professional Day on Saturday, November 23 at The Baldwin School. All are invited. Click here for details.

If you are a teacher at the pre-collegiate level and have student loans, please read carefully through everything at the following link. You may be eligible for forgiveness and/or cancellation.

http://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/charts/teacher

Ronnie Ancona

APA VP for Education