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CFP: Object Lessons: Knowledge Organization and Antiquity in Institutional Teaching Collections across the Long Nineteenth Century (1750-1940)Posted to Calls for Papers on Object Lessons: Knowledge Organization and Antiquity in Institutional Teaching Collections across the Long Nineteenth Century (1750-1940) Rome, Italy Co-hosted by University of Texas at Austin, the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, and the American Academy in Rome, this conference focuses on the evolution of teaching collections for classical studies and archaeology from about 1750 to 1940. Just as the advent of digital technologies and AI are… |
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CFP: Feminism & Classics IX: CommunitiesPosted to Calls for Papers on … |
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CFP: Nostos: Homecoming in the Ancient WorldPosted to Calls for Papers on Nostos means homecoming in ancient Greek and is a foundational concept throughout the ancient Greek and Roman world ranging from Homer’s Odyssey, the epic tale of Odysseus’ nostos after the Trojan War returning to his home as a hero who survived many trials to the Nostoi or cyclic poems which figure prominently in Vergil’s Aeneid. This volume aims to explore the philological, literary, and philosophical meaning of nostos through various perspectives by recourse to ancient Greek and Roman texts… |
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2026 Bernice L. Fox Classics Writing ContestPosted to Calls for Papers on 2026 Bernice L. Fox Classics Writing Contest Topic: Classical Adaptations, Retained Essences Deadline: March 15, 2026, emailed to rsimmons@monmouthcollege.edu Contest Parameters and Judging: This contest is open to any student enrolled full-time in high school anywhere in the world during the current school year. An award of $250 will be given to the author of the best entry, which may take the form of a… |
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From President Kirk Ormand: Regarding Recent Actions of the Federal GovernmentPosted to Presidential Letters on Dear Colleagues, What follows is a Presidential Letter. It has not been brought to the Board for approval and does not constitute policy. This venue exists for me, as President, to raise matters of concern with our membership. Though I have consulted with colleagues, I take sole responsibility for the opinions expressed below. The system of higher education and with it the field of Classics in the United States is currently undergoing… |
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CFP: TEKMERIA, Greeks and Local HistoriographyPosted to Calls for Papers on Following the first Τ Ε Κ Μ Η Ρ Ι Α Meeting, held in October 2023, and the publication of the Proceedings in December 2024 (https://shorturl.at/FQXE6), the initiative comes to its second edition, offering once again a space for exchange, confrontation and discussion in the wake of interdisciplinarity. Subject of this second Study and Research Meeting will be Greeks and Local Historiography. The topics of the proposals may include… |
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Announcing the 2025 Erich S. Gruen PrizePosted to Awards and Fellowships on The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce that the 2025 Erich S. Gruen Prize is now open for submissions. All graduate students in North America are invited to enter the annual competition for the best graduate research paper on multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean. This year the prize will be a cash award of $1,000. The competition opens for submissions today, May 7th, in celebration of Erich S. Gruen’s birthday, and the deadline for… |
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ReMeDHe First Book WorkshopPosted to Conferences, Lectures, and Meetings on The international working-group ReMeDHe (Religion, Medicine, Disability, and Health in late antiquity) invites applications for its 2025/26 First Book Workshop. The workshop gives one or two early-career scholars the opportunity to receive feedback on their dissertation (or draft of their first book), as well as tips on publication, from senior and junior colleagues who work on similar topics, sources, and questions. Format Authors pre-circulate their… |
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2025 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize WinnerPosted to Classics in the News on 2025 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize The winner of the 2025 Winkler Memorial Prize is Thu Truong, a graduate student at Princeton University, for the essay "Ocean Vuong, Intertextuality, and the Limits of Interpretation." This year the jury has also awarded an honorable mention to Kit Pyne-Jaeger of Columbia University for "Something Got Out from Inside the Story: Iphigenia's Sacrifice and the Incontinent Architecture of Aeschylus' Agamemnon." … |
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CFP: AHR Special Issue: Methods for Archival Silence in Early HistoryPosted to Calls for Papers on Call for Proposals The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue illustrating a range of methodological approaches to archival silence developed by scholars of early history. Articles may be grounded in any part of the world and address any topic as long as they are method-driven, focused on archival silence, and situated early within the periodization… |
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SCS Board of Directors Endorses NHA Statement on Threats to the NEHPosted to Public Statements on In keeping with our mission as a scholarly society, the Society for Classical Studies has signed on to the statement of the National Humanities Alliance, denouncing the attacks currently undertaken by DOGE against the National Endowment for the Humanities. The text of the full statement is here: https://nhalliance.org/nha-statement-neh-doge-threats/. The NHA also encourages its members to write their representatives and to urge them to restore funding and staffing to the NEH, and the… |
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Webinar: Getting Published: The BasicsPosted to Conferences, Lectures, and Meetings on Getting Published: The Basics It's time to get your research out there, but navigating the publishing world can be daunting for a first-time author. This webinar will cover the basics of getting your work into the hands of a publisher. Our panel of editors will discuss both book and journal publishing for classics and archaeology scholars, covering what you should consider in choosing a publisher, how best to prepare your materials for submission, and… |
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Call for Contribution: Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs et romainsPosted to Calls for Papers on The editorial board of “Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs et romains (Histoire, philologie, archéologie, philosophie)”, an internationally peer-reviewed journal of UMR 8210 Anhima, ex- Centre Gernet, wishes to inform members of the scientific community that it welcomes dossiers (between 5 and 8 articles) and unpublished articles (in French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, Modern Greek) in the Varia section of all its issues. Created in 1986 in the Centre Louis Gernet, as the… |
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CFP: Tacitism: Ethics, Politics and Europe 16th-18th c.Posted to Calls for Papers on Tacitism: Ethics, Politics and Europe 16th-18th c. Warsaw 18-20 September 2025 Rooted in the works of the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, the Tacitist voice exerted an important influence on political discourse during the long century from the late 16th to the early 18th century. From marginal and suppressed beginnings, often associated with Machiavelli but decisively different, it facilitated the rise of Reason of State as an accepted political discourse, the… |
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2024 Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach PrizePosted to Awards and Fellowships on Following the unanimous recommendation of the Outreach Prizes Committee, we wish to deliver the exciting news that Candida R. Moss has been awarded the 2024 Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach Prize by the SCS. Dr. Moss is the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham, but is also a public intellectual who has written as a columnist for The Daily Beast and is most recently the author of God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible. She has contributed to… |
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2024 Forum PrizePosted to Awards and Fellowships on Following the unanimous recommendation of the Outreach Prizes Committee, we wish to deliver the exciting news that Max Miller of Tasting History has been awarded the 2024 Forum Prize by the SCS. Tasting History is a vibrant, engaging public resource on living history available to a mass audience. Max Miller’s artful synthesis of research, humor, and authentic engagement with ancient recipes has created and sustained a huge YouTube audience, both academic and popular. His Roman garum recipe… |
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ISAW Graduate Student Conference: Itinerancy and Agency Across the Ancient WorldPosted to Conferences, Lectures, and Meetings on Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Itinerancy and Agency Across the Ancient World Lecture Hall (2nd Floor) Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/isawregistrationform Thursday 13th March, 2025 |
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North American Cicero AwaydayPosted to Conferences, Lectures, and Meetings on North American Cicero Awayday The departments of Classics and Philosophy at Wake Forest University cordially invite you to the second biennial North American Cicero Awayday on 12 April 2025 at the Wake Downtown campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The event will run from 9 am to 5 pm. The previous North American Cicero Awayday was held at the University of Virginia in 2023. The Awayday offers an informal and… |
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CFP: 2025 Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic StatesPosted to Calls for Papers on THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE ATLANTIC STATES Annual Meeting The DoubleTree by Hilton Silver Spring CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline for all proposals: We invite… |
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CFP: 1st International Graduate Conference (Classical Association of Ghana) (Deadline Extended)Posted to Calls for Papers on 1st International Graduate Conference (Classical Association of Ghana) On Vice The Classical Association of Ghana invites graduate students and early career researchers (with not more than two years research experience after PhD) to submit abstracts (and, subsequently, papers based on the abstracts) for our maiden two-day international… |