Rome 2011 Workshop & Tour

A two week summer technology workshop/ study tour of Rome and Campania will be offered by the American Classical League and its Technology Committee from July 3 to July 17, 2011. Accommodations and a computer lab will be provided in partnership by the American University of Rome while in Rome and the Villa Vergiliana while along the Bay of Naples. Excursions include many of the most significant sites in Rome and Campania.

The course alternates days between those spent visiting museums and archaeological sites and those spent in the computer lab. Participants will learn what factors to consider in documenting sites with digital tools and the latest methods of incorporating digital media into their curriculum.

This workshop-tour is designed for 30-50 teachers of Latin, Greek, History, Classical Studies, and related fields. Travel companions (adults only) are welcome to attend and participate in all activities except computer lab workshops at a reduced rate. Scholarship funds are available from the ACL and other sources. For more information, go online to http:// www.aclclassics.org/rome2011, or contact the American Classical League, 422 Wells Mill Dr., Oxford OH 45056 USA, tel. 513-529-7741.

Teaching Classical Languages

Teaching Classical Languages (TCL) is an official CAMWS publication, a peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to exploring how we teach (and how we learn) Latin and Greek. It is meant for all Latin and Greek teachers, graduate students, coordinators, and administrators. TCL is the successor of CPL Online and is sponsored by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. The mission of TCL is to provide accessible, high quality research that offers Latin and Greek teachers immediate classroom applicability and long-term theoretical approaches that can help them become better teachers. As an electronic journal, TCL has a unique global outreach. It offers authors and readers a multimedia format that more fully illustrates the topics discussed, and provides hypermedia links to related information and websites.

Conference: Lutheranism & the Classics

Conference: Lutheranism & the Classics, 1 and 2 October, 2010, Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

The Age of the Reformation was also the Age of the Renaissance, a period to which the birth of the modern discipline of classics may be traced. The classics provided a rich source for the thought, intellectual undergirding, and polemic of the era. Classics thus became part of the cultural DNA, as it were, of the Reformation and post-Reformation Church in the West. Of particular interest to this conference is the reception of the classics in the Wittenberg (Lutheran) Reformation. There, the darling of the Northern European Renaissance, Philipp Melanchthon, appropriated the classics in the service of the Gospel and drew them to the fore as an integral part of the reformational program in Saxony and much of Northern Europe. Papers at “Lutheranism & the Classics” explore this watershed period in the history of classics reception and its ongoing impact on the Evangelical Lutheran Church. For more information, click here. Inquiries may be addressed to one of the three organizers: John Nordling; Carl Springer; Jon Bruss.

Ancient Drama in Performance: Theory and Practice

Registration is now open for the one-day conference, Ancient Drama in Performance: Theory and Practice, to be held at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia on October 9, 2010. Visit the conference website for more detailed information. Ancient Drama in Performance will be an opportunity for conference-goers to witness and reflect on an original-practices Greek play that aims to be a living drama rather than a museum piece and also to share and discuss other productive ways of playing Greek drama. The meeting will coincide with the production of a new translation of Euripides' Hecuba directed by Amy R. Cohen, and we look forward both to demonstrating the dramatic power of original practices and to learning much from the responses of the conference-goers. We encourage all scholars of ancient drama to attend, whether or not performance issues have ever been part of their work, and all practitioners of ancient drama to attend, whether or not they use original practices. For those who do involve performance in their scholarship, the meeting will be an opportunity to use our remarkable theatre to test their own theories about how the ancients practiced drama. For those who have not made performance a factor, it will be an opportunity to discover the large and small ways that practical questions of theatre inform and enrich the philological and literary study of plays. We will also share research and scholarship in a context that insists on the play as an experience.

CFP: "Adaptation in the Ancient World."

CFP: "Adaptation in the Ancient World." The 2011 meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians Mercyhurst College, Erie PA, May 5-8, 2011. Papers are solicited in the following areas: Maritime interconnectivity in the Mediterranean (Chair, E. Green, Brock University), Greek and Roman Historiography (J. Marincola, Florida State University), Ancient Political Theory (R. Balot, University of Toronto), Tyranny and Response (S. Lewis, University of St. Andrews), New Directions in the History of War (L. Brice, Western Illinois University), Swords and Sandals: The Ancient World in Modern Media (R. Goldman, CUNY), Religious Innovation and Empire (R. von Thaden, Mercyhurst College), Women and Religion in Greece and Rome (M. Salzman, UCLA), Egypt (C. White, Slippery Rock University), The Ancient Near East (C. Nimchuk, Mercyhurst College). Send one page abstracts and recent Vita by email to the chief organizer, R. S. Howarth by November 1.

The Brackenridge Classics Symposeum

The Brackenridge Classics Symposium will be held on November 5-6 at the University of Texas at San Antonio, on the theme of "Language, Myth and Society in the Ancient World". Participants are invited to examine and reflect upon the interconnectedness of language, myth and society in the ancient world from any disciplinary perspective—art, archaeology, linguistics, philology, philosophy, anthropology or any other area of study within Classics—above all in ways that combine multiple such perspectives to bring innovative and fresh understandings to this theme. Papers that take an "emic" approach, to cast light on how the Romans and Greeks themselves conceived these categories and their interrelation, are particularly encouraged.

The keynote speaker will be Maurizio Bettini, Professor of Classics at the Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy) and Director of the Center for Anthropology of the Ancient World. Please send abstracts of no more than one page (bibliography may be added on a second page) to classics at utsa.edu by Tuesday, June 15th, 2010. More information is available here. Questions may be directed to Dr. Joel Christensen or Dr. William Short.

Possible Online MEd program in Latin needs Feedback

The Department of Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is considering changing its current MEd in Latin into an on-line degree program in order to better serve the needs of Latin teachers. To create an effective program, UNCG needs feedback from people who might be interested in such a degree program.

The survey should take less than five minutes to complete. Individual answers will be kept entirely confidential. Please feel free to forward the link to anyone (including students and Latin teachers) who might be interested in such a program.

Openings at The Equity Project

Earn a $125,000 salary and join a team of master teachers at The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School, recently featured on the front page of the New York Times.

TEP is a new 480-student 5th through 8th grade middle school in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. Applications are currently being accepted for teaching positions in Latin and other disciplines. Learn more and apply today by clicking here.

2010 Latin Summer Language Institute

2010 Latin Summer Language Institute at the University of Virginia. In the summer of 2010 the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia will again offer Latin as one of the University's Summer Language Institutes. The Latin program, which will take place from June 14 through August 6, is an intensive course designed to cover two years of college-level Latin (12 UVa credit hours earned) in only two months. Students who wish to acquire experience in reading Latin but do not require course credit may also choose a non-credit option. Click here for more information.

National Committee for Latin and Greek Promotional Video

The National Committee for Latin and Greek recently completed a promotional video for Classical languages. Use the video at parents' nights, to assist students and parents with course selection, and career events. The complete video is now available. Watch the 8-minute promotional video by clicking here.

Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series

Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series at Northwestern University (2008-2010): the second year of the Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series, "Theatre after Athens", will consist of an Inaugural Lecture by Professor Helene Foley and four conferences on the theme of " Out of Europe: Greek Drama in America".

Vergilian Society Study Programs, 2010

Vergilian Society Study Programs, 2010

The Oath

The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece database is now up and running!

News From CASUS

Classical Association of the Southwestern United States News

"The Ancient World" Backlog Cleared!

The editors of The Ancient World are pleased to announce that the backlog of manuscripts has now been cleared.  Manuscripts for consideration should be sent to either John M. Fossey, Executive Editor, c/o McGill University, Dept. of Art History, 853 Sherbrooke West, Montreal, PQ, CANADA, H3A 2T6 or M. C. J. Miller, Managing Editor, c/o Ares Publishers, Inc., PO Box 457, Chicago Ridge, IL 60415-0457.