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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, 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.
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." 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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 is now available. Watch the 8-minute promotional video by clicking here.
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
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

The Conventiculum Dickinsoniense is a new total immersion seminar in active Latin. It is specifically designed for all cultivators of Latin who wish to gain some ability to express themselves ex-tempore in correct Latin. The seminar will illustrate not only how active Latin can be useful for teachers, but also how cultivating an active facility in Latin can benefit any cultivator of Latin who wishes to acquire a more instinctive command of the language and a more intimate relationship with Latin writings. Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, July 5-10, 2010. Moderated by Professors Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg, University of Kentucky.
Intensive Greek, Catullus, and other Summer Courses at the University of Texas at Austin.
"Reacting to the Past" Annual Summer Institute at Barnard College
CANE Summer Institute 2009: Expanding the Map: Cultural Exchange and the Peripheries of the Classical World.
Ascanius: The Youth Classics Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the classical world in the elementary and middle school, is hiring high school and college students for its summer program.
Latin by the Sea: A Full Immersion Experience for Teachers of Latin at all levels offered by UMass Boston
Speak Latin for a week in beautiful Provence: Feriae XXVIae Latinae Ferigoletenses

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