seen on Latinteach: SALVI is pleased to announce the availability of three need-based scholarships, funded by the Amy High Foundation, for Rusticatio Omnibus 2009.  Applications for scholarships to Rusticatio Omnibus will be accepted through June 10, 2009.  The SALVI Scholarship Committee chair will notify applicants of the Committee’s decision via email on June 15. Please [...]

The National Post has a lengthy feature on the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and the eccentricities of the participants (sort of) which includes this: Not all professors are strange, but Brian Little admits that enough of his peers and colleagues are quirky, eccentric and flighty to hold up the profession as representative [...]

from the Classicists list: A few places are still available for the symposium below.  For information on registration and for other details about the symposium, please visit the website at:   http://www.reading.ac.uk/humanities/conferences/SymposiumforTessaRajak/Symposium.asp     JEWS, CHRISTIANS, GREEKS, ROMANS: CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS INTERACTIONS A symposium in honour of Professor Tessa Rajak   University of Reading Thursday, 25 [...]

Interesting item in the Examiner in regards to the Phaistos Disk and questions of its authenticity. Here’s a bit in medias res: Since there’s only one disk, the scholar Jerome Eisenberg suggests it’s nothing but a fake. He published a long article spelling out why he thought this, concluding that the thing ought to be [...]