Click here to read a new article in the New York Times: Back to School, but for the Degree, Not Just the Fun.

Spoken Latin Weekend Workshop
June 26-28, 2013
University at Buffalo, SUNY

The University at Buffalo, SUNY (UB) Department of Classics will host its fifth annual three-day spoken Latin workshop from June 26-28, 2013.

The Conventiculum Buffaloniense offers an integrated, immersive experience in which participants practice speaking on a set of topics, then apply these skills through creative and engaging activities. The workshop welcomes anyone with the equivalent of two years or more of college Latin. Participants need not have any previous experience speaking Latin, though the workshop is also suitable for those with some speaking experience who want to improve their skills.  Continue reading →

The Daily News  reports that Brooklyn Latin has been named  as  #21 in the nation and #1 in New York, according to the 2013 U.S. News & World Report’s high school rankings, released on  April 23, 2014. The school sends 100% of its graduates on to college, and all students at the school take four years of Latin.

As pointed out by CAAS Archivist Jerry Heverly, who brought this item to our attention, what the article fails to mention is that two-thirds of the students live below the federal poverty line, and the majority are Hispanic or African-American.  More proof of the power  of Latin!

Hunter College of the City University of New York is announcing opportunities for classics students this summer:

• Various programs for undergraduate students, July 3 – August 19
• One program for graduate students, July 17 – August 19

C.A.N.E. Summer Institute 2013
July 15-20, 2013
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

America’s Founding Fathers and the Classics of Greece and Rome

The organizers of the 2013 C.A.N.E. Summer Institute invite you to join us this summer as we celebrate the role of the Greek and Roman Classics – literature, history, art, and architecture – in the formation of our own national traditions. Whether you are a middle school, high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, English, History, or other related disciplines, an undergraduate or graduate student, or a devoted lifelong learner, you will enjoy an enriching educational experience that includes a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, and special events while also offering ample opportunity for collegial interaction between participants. Special attention will be focused on the literature (both prose and poetry), art, architecture, and other aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity that strongly influenced America’s Founding Fathers, as well as on the Classical authors and works most commonly read in our nation’s schools and colleges in the formative years of the 18^th century, many of which are still taught regularly today.

A direct link to the CSI section on the CANE website is included here: http://caneweb.org/CANEwp/?page_id=165

From that page you can also reach the registration brochure, and more detailed information on course readings, etc. will be added there in the coming weeks.
Feel free to e-mail CSI 2013 Director Jeri DeBrohun directly (Jeri_DeBrohun@brown.edu) with questions or for more information.

National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week asks as many educators as possible across the nation (and beyond!) to find one day to talk to their students about becoming secondary Latin teachers. NLTRW was created to address the Latin teacher shortage that we are facing in this country. The demand for Latin continues to grow, in great measure due to our own best efforts to raise awareness about the importance and richness of the study of Latin. Now that we have created the demand, it is time to create the teachers.  NLTRW is scheduled for the first full week in March, but if you cannot speak to your students that week due to testing or holidays or whatever, just pick another day of another week. The most important thing is to talk to your students about becoming teachers.  For more information, including ideas, free posters to download, and funding opportunities, point your browser to promotelatin.org and click on the NLTRW link.

Ronnie Ancona
APA VP for Education

New event posted: Aquila Theatre’s special, limited engagement NYC production of Herakles on March 27-30. Check the CAAS event calendar for more details.

The Classical Association of the Atlantic States would like to acknowledge gratefully two generous donations made by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers in honor of Lou Bolchazy.  Donald Sprague kindly directed a contribution from the Bolchazy-Carducci team to the Jerry Clack Fund, and Marie Bolchazy, President, sent a contribution to the general fund. 

Ladislaus  J. (Lou) Bolchazy, PhD
June 7, 1937—July 28, 2012

Ladislaus  J. (Lou) Bolchazy, PhD was the president and founder of Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (BCP), whose mission is “a better future through the lessons of the past.” Staffed by editors who are classicists, BCP specializes in books dealing with the ancient world. He was especially proud of the company’s Latin for the New Millennium series, launched in 2008, which is the most popular new introductory Latin series in the nation. The Red Flare: Cicero’s On Old Age, a translation of De Senectute and a favorite of Lou’s, was the last book he commissioned and also his 75^th birthday present to himself. During the 1970s and 1980s, when other publishers nearly abandoned Latin, BCP, under Lou’s leadership, provided a steady stream of textbooks allowing teachers to expand the breadth of Latin authors they could teach in their Latin classrooms. Continue reading →

Please click here to see details regarding APA’s new pedagogy awards. Submissions are due March 1st!

Click here to read Rutger’s article about the great things that CAAS member and leader Henry Bender has brought — and continues to bring — to our field: Celebrating Henry V. Bender, a legendary teacher of the ancient world.