January 2009

  • JOB: Postdoc @ Brown

    Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Humanities Department of Classics, Brown University The Department of Classics seeks applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in classical reception studies for a tenure of two academic years: 2009-2010 and 2010-2011. We are looking for a scholar who specializes in the reception of classical antiquity in Africa, Asia, or Latin America.…

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  • Miscellaneous Job Listings

    Directorship – British School at Rome APA January Listings

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  • Some Sort of Series

    I’ve been trying to avoid wholesale quoting of articles (other than obituaries), but it’s necessary for this item lest I be accused of taking something out of context and making it incomprehensible: KINEAS and his Greek cavalry are dismissed from the all-conquering army of Alexander the Great and take up employment as mercenaries in the…

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  • Well, not really … the Canadian Opera Company has a new musical director and the Star has an interviewish/background thing on him. Inter alia: What would you be if you weren’t a performer? I’d be an unhappy person. To be serious: I might have become a professor/teacher for classics. I was quite deep into ancient…

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  • Breviaria 01/17/09

    More cleaning of the inbox: There’s a new issue of Iris Magazine out (I love this cover). The recent AIA-APA shindig included a session on Podcasting and the Classics, which, of course, has a podcast presence on the web … personally, (rant) I think EVERY session should be thus covered as should every conference, ‘seminar’,…

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