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New Website on Reception of Greek Tragedy| Category: General AnnouncementsWe are pleased to announce the launch of a new website on the reception of ancient Greek tragedy, hosted by the Open University of Cyprus: http://eumenides.ouc.ac.cy. As part of… |
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In Memoriam Calvert Watkins| Category:We regret to report the death of Calvert Watkins, winner of the 1998 Goodwin Award of Merit for his book, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. Prof. Watkins spent his entire teaching career at Harvard, and the… |
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2013 Pedagogy Award Winners| Category:Four classics teachers have received the first set of APA Pedagogy Awards. One of the major goals of the APA’s recently and successfully completed capital campaign, Gatekeeper to Gateway: The Campaign for Classics in the Twenty-first Century,… |
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National Humanities Center Fellowships| Category: Awards and FellowshipsThe National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities for the period September 2014 through May 2015. Applicants must have doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as… |
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Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3)| Category: General AnnouncementsWe are very pleased to announce the creation of the Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3), a new Digital Classics R&D unit embedded in the Duke University Libraries, whose start-up has been generously funded by the Andrew W.… |
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In Memoriam Brian Donaher| Category: In MemoriamBill Kemeza of Boston College High School reports the death of long-time APA member Brian P. Donaher. |
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CAMWS Ovationes for 2013| Category:All three recipients of Ovationes at this year’s meeting of CAMWS in Iowa City were APA members. They were Robert W. Cape, Austin College; S. Douglas Olson, University of Minnesota; and Mary… |
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Recent Awards to APA Members| Category:Robert A. Kaster, Princeton University, is one of 198 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Academy membership encompasses over 4,000 Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members and reflects the… |
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Reminders about Submissions of Individual Abstracts| Category:The deadline for submission of individual abstracts to the APA Program Committee is this Wednesday, May 1, at 5:00 pm Eastern Time. To make a submission you must be an APA member in good standing for 2013 and… |
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April 2013 President's Letter: What's A University For?| Category:In The New York Times on April 5, David Brooks asks a fundamental question: “What is a university for?” (“The Practical University”,… |