ED: Tytus Summer Residency Program

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

Department of Classics

TYTUS SUMMER RESIDENCY PROGRAM

The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is pleased to announce the Margo Tytus Summer Residency Program. Summer Residents, in the fields of philology, history and archaeology will come to Cincinnati for a minimum of one month and a maximum of three during the summer. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application. Apart from residence in Cincinnati during term, the only obligation of Summer Residents is to pursue their own research. They will receive free university housing. They will also receive office space and enjoy the use of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College Libraries.

The University of Cincinnati Burnam Classics Library (http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/classics/index.html) is one of the world’s premier collections in the field of Classical Studies. Comprising 235,000 volumes and other research materials, the library covers all aspects of the Classics: the languages and literatures, history, civilization, art, and archaeology. Of special value for scholars is both the richness of the collection and its accessibility — almost any avenue of research in the classics can be pursued deeply and broadly under a single roof. The unusually comprehensive core collection, which is maintained by three professional classicist librarians, is augmented by several special collections such as 15,000 nineteenth century German Programmschriften, extensive holdings in Palaeography, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. At neighboring Hebrew Union College, the Klau Library (http://library.cn.huc.edu/), with holdings in excess of 450,000 volumes and other research materials, is rich in Judaica and Near Eastern Studies.

Application Deadline: February 15.

A description of the Tytus Summer Residency Program is available online at http://classics.uc.edu/resources/tytus2.html. There is an online application at http://classics.uc.edu/resources/tytussummerap.lasso. Questions can be directed to secretary AT classics.uc.edu.

I Done it Again

After a very successful day of solving all sorts of network difficulties at school (IPod, wireless laptop connection) and home (wireless), I have just found that I have left the power cord for my laptop at school again. No update to rc, alas, until tomorrow evening as I need my couple of hours of battery for other ‘negotium’ purposes.

CONF: Cardiff Seminars

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SEMINAR PROGRAMME
Spring Semester 2009

Cardiff School of History and Archaeology
Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff
CF10 3EU

All meetings start at 5.10 p.m.

Monday 2 February 2009
room 4..45
Alex Smith (Cardiff)
Eclipses and mentalities in the Ancient World

Monday 2 March 2009
room 4.45
Dr Suzanne Turner (Cardiff),
Absent presences on classical Attic grave stelai

Monday 16 March 2009
room 0.36
Dr  Rebecca Flemming (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Female physicians (and their patients) in the Roman world
Meeting of the Cardiff & District Classical Association

Please note also the following two events:

Cardiff School of History and Archaeology Interdisciplinary Lecture:
Wednesday 11th  March 2009
room 0.36
Dr Alain Duplouy (University Paris I -Sorbonne)
What is Aristocracy ? An Ancient Greek Perspective

Joint Archaeology and Ancient History seminar
Thursday 30th  April 2009
room 4.45
Dr Peter Guest (Cardiff)
Swords and Ploughshares: excavating Roman Isca and Medieval Caerleon

For more information, please contact Nick Fisher (Fishern AT cardiff.ac.uk)  or Ruth Westgate (Westgater AT cardiff.ac.uk)

For the other Archaeology seminars, please contact Dr Erika Guttmann (guttmanneb AT cardiff.ac.uk)