Announcements
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Items for this section may be sent to Dr. David J. Califf, The Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, 560 Sproul Road, Villanova, PA 19085; telephone: (610) 687-0650 ext. 174; fax: (610) 687-1912; e-mail: dcaliff@ndapa.org.
Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium and Lecture
Bryn Mawr College sponsors weekly classics colloquia on a variety of literary, archeological, and historical subjects. Remaining presentations for this year include Thorsten Fögen, "Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder and His Attitude towards Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia" (March 28), and Mariam Feldman, "Luxury Arts and Interconnections in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean and Near East" (April 18). The Agnes Michels Lecture will be given by Gregory Nagy on "Homer's Text" (April 25). Most colloquia take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library. Tea will be held at 4:00 p.m. before the lectures in the Quita Woodward Room, which is in Thomas Library. For information call (610) 526-5198; e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu; or visit www.brynmawr.edu/classics/colloquia.html.
Classic Stage Company
CSC hosts the Target Margin Theater's production of Aristophanes' Frogs, directed by David Herskovits. The play runs from May 7 to June 1, 2008. Contact Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003; (866) 811-4111 or (212) 352-3101; info@classicstage.org; www.classicstage.org.
National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week
The Sixth Annual National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week will take place from March 3 to 7, 2008. During this week, teachers of Latin at all levels are encouraged to talk with their students about career opportunities in Latin education. Funding is available; visit www.promotelatin.org/nltrw.htm.
NYU Ranieri Colloquium
The New York University Center for Ancient Studies will host its annual Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies on March 6 to 7, 2008. The topic is the "Dead Sea Scrolls at Sixty: The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni." Lawrence H. Schiffman will offer the keynote address, and there will be panel sessions on "Rewriting the Bible," "The Dead Sea Sect," "The Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism," and "Judean Desert Texts." For information visit ancientstudies.fas.nyu.edu; call (212) 998-8100; or e-mail cyberdean@nyu.edu.
Penn Classical Studies Colloquium
The University of Pennsylvania hosts its Classical Studies Colloquium on Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. in Logan Hall 337. Remaining presentations for this year are Hannah Cotton, "The Conception of Jesus and the Documents" (March 20); Anthony Woodman, "Aliena facundia: Seneca in Tacitus" (March 27); William Adler, "The Kingdom of Edessa at the Crossroads of Christianity and Rome" (April 3); Kathryn Morgan, "The Fairest Victory of Them All? Hieron, His Rivals, and Pindar's First Pythian" (April 10); Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, "Naked, Semi-naked, and Elaborately Dressed Revelers in [End Page 251] Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens" (April 17); and Marco Fantuzzi on a topic to be announced (April 24). Penn's Center for Ancient Studies will also host a one-day conference on "Ancient Origins, Modern Identities" on March 21. For information visit ccat.sas.upenn.edu/clst/colloquia.html.
Stockholm Conference
An international conference on "Attitudes towards the Past in Antiquity: Creating Identities?" will take place at Stockholm University from May 15 to 17, 2009. This interdisciplinary conference "will explore the use of the past in creating identities in ancient religious, political, social, and cultural contexts." Scheduled speakers include Averil Cameron, Catherine Morgan, Ewa Skwara, Wieslaw Suder, and Paul Zanker. Abstracts of proposed papers (not more than 200 words), together with the submitter's name, academic title and affiliation, and postal address, should be emailed toconferencestockholm@yahoo.com by April 30, 2008.
University of Texas Summer Courses
The Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin will offer three courses in Greek and Latin this summer: Intensive Summer Greek (June 5 to August 18), Advanced Latin: Livy and the Origins of Rome (June 9 to 27), and Advanced Greek: Lyric Poetry (July 14 to August 18). For information, e-mail Lynn Gadd at ugclass@www.utexas.edu.
