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New items on the CAMWS web site

• Information for the 88th anniversary meeting of the Southern Section
• 2009 Annual Meeting Call for Papers
• Necrology 2007-2008
• Search for a new Secretary-Treasurer
• Online form for requesting CPL funds

Calls for Papers

• Call for Papers: "A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the History of Western Translation" (Deadline: September 15, 2008)
• Call for Papers: Inaugural Meeting of the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religion (Deadline: September 1, 2008)
• Ancient Medicine and its Contexts: Graduate Student Conference, University of Calgary

Meetings

• XIIIth COLLOQUIUM HIPPOCRATICUM: What’s Hippocratic about the Hippocratics? at the University of Texas at Austin, August 11th-13th 2008
• Meeting of the Classical Association of the Canadian West at the University of Manitoba, March 6–7, 2009: "Violence in Greek and Roman Antiquity"

Other Announcements

• Prof. Mark Joyal, CAMWS Vice-President for Manitoba, receives 2008 Award of Merit from the Classical Association of Canada
• The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece database is now up and running
• Classical Association of the Southwestern United States News
• 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.

Summer Programs

• Speak Latin for a week in beautiful Provence: Feriae XXVIae Latinae Ferigoletenses