Seen in the Canadian Classical Bulletin (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!):

Classical Association of Canada: Sight Translation Competitions in Greek and Latin
Société Canadienne des Études Classiques: Concours national de versions grecque et latine

National sight examinations in Greek and Latin for Canadian students at both the university and high school level will be held in January of 2011:

–January 13, 2011: National Latin Sight Translation Competition for High School Students
–January 20, 2011: Junior Latin Sight Translation Contest; Senior Latin Sight Translation Contest (Peter Lawson Smith Prize)
–January 27, 2011: Junior Greek Sight Translation Contest (Margaret H. Thompson Prize); Senior Greek Sight Translation Contest

Deadline for application submissions: 17 December 2010

Please note: Submissions should be presented by departments, not by individual students or faculty. Please submit only one application per institution.

For more information and the procedure for application, please visit:

http://cac-scec.ca/eng/concours_versions.html

or contact:

Dr. Alison Barclay
Assistant Professor of Classics
Dept. of Modern Languages and Classics
St. Mary’s University
Halifax, NS  B3H 3C3
Tel:  (902) 420-5816
Fax:  (902)  491-8694
E-mail: Alison.Barclay AT smu.ca
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Société Canadienne des Etudes Classiques: Concours national de versions grecque et latine

Le concours national de versions grecque et latine aura lieu en janvier 2011:

–13 janvier 2011 Concours de version latine improvisée pour les écoles secondaires
–20 janvier 2011 Concours national de version latine, niveau intermédiaire; Concours national de version latine, niveau supérieur (Peter Lawson Smith Prize)
–27 janvier 2011 Concours national de version grecque, niveau intermédiaire (Margaret H. Thompson Prize); Concours national de version grecque, niveau supérieur

Date limite d’inscription: 17 décembre 2010

Les demandes d’inscription au concours doivent être envoyées par les insitutions. Chaque institution est priée de présenter une seule fiche de demande.

Renseignements: pour plus d’information, veuillez suivre le lien ci-dessous:

http://cac-scec.ca/eng/concours_versions.html

ou soumettre votre demande à:

Dr. Alison Barclay
Assistant Professor of Classics
Dept. of Modern Languages and Classics
St. Mary’s University
Halifax, NS  B3H 3C3
Téléphone:  (902) 420-5816
Télécopieur:  (902) 491-8694
Courriel: Alison.Barclay AT smu.ca

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!)

RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/2011

Venue:
Durham University, Department of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North
Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU, Ritson Room (no. 007, ground floor)

MICHAELMAS TERM 2010:

Week 1 (Thursday 14 October 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
Dr Federico Santangelo (Newcastle)
“Divination and prediction in the Late Republic”

Week 2 (Thursday 21 October 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (1):  Professor Gillian Clark (Bristol)
“Read My Book: Letters and the City of God”

Week 3 (Thursday 28 October 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (2):  Professor Harry Hine (St. Andrews)
“Philosophical and non-philosophical communities in Seneca’s Letters”

Week 4 (Wednesday 3 November 2010, 5:30-7:00 pm):
Professor Annette M. Harder (Groningen)
“Poetics through poetry. The poetic dialogue of Callimachus and Apollonius
Rhodius”

Week 4 (Thursday 4 November 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
CANCELLED

Week 5 (Thursday 11 November 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
Professor Michael Trapp (KCL)
“Picturing Socrates’ daimonion”

Week 6 (Thursday 18 November 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (3):  Dr Kurt Lampe (Bristol)
Topic TBC

Week 7 (Thursday 25 November 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (4):  Dr Sian Lewis (St. Andrews)
Topic TBC

Week 8 (Wednesday 1 December 2010, 5:30-7:00 pm):
Professor Jasper Griffin (Oxford)
“Human Sacrifice and the Ultimate Demand of Power”

Week 8 (Thursday 2 December 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (5):  Dr Miriam Griffin (Oxford)
“Symptoms and Sympathy in Latin Letter-Writing”

Week 9 (Thursday 9 December 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
Dr Dominic Berry (Edinburgh)
“Cicero and Greek Art”

EPIPHANY TERM 2011:

Week 1 (Thursday 20 January 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (6):  Professor William Fitzgerald (KCL)
Pliny the Younger

Week 2 (Thursday 27 January 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (7):  Dr Christopher Whitton (Cambridge)
Pliny the Younger

Week 3 (Thursday 3 February 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
Prof. Dr. Marcus Deufert (Leipzig)
On Lucilius’ Satires

Week 4 (Thursday 10 February 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (8):  Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitz (Bonn)
On letters in the Second Sophistic

Week 5 (Thursday 17 February 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (9):  Prof. Dr. Christian Tornau (Würzburg)
On St. Jerome’s letters

Week 6 (Thursday 24 February 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (10):  PD Dr. Bianca-Jeanette Schröder (LMU München)
Topic TBC

Week 7 (Thursday 3 March 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (11):  Prof. Dr. Niklas Holzberg (LMU München)
“Horace’s last poetry book: The epistolary trilogy for Augustus, Florus and
the Pisones”

Week 8 (Thursday 10 March 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (12):  Professor Ineke Sluiter (Leiden)
“Letters of dedication in ancient technical texts”

Week 9 (Thursday 17 March 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (13):  Dr Lieve van Hoof (KU Leuven)
On Libanius’ letters

EASTER TERM 2011:

Week 1 (Thursday 28 April 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (14):  Dr Ruth Morello (Manchester)
“Writing to Caesar”

Week 2 (Wednesday 4 May 2011, 1:00-2:00 pm, room 108):
LETTERS (15):  Dr Owen Hodkinson (Lampeter)
“Dear Sirs: Writing to collectives in the Greek epistolary tradition”

Week 2 (Thursday 5 May 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
Professor Jakob Wisse (Newcastle)
“The bad orator in republican Rome. Between clumsy delivery and political
danger”

Week 3 (Thursday 12 May 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm):
Professor Gregory Hutchinson (Oxford)
“Booking lovers. Desire and design in Catullus”

Contact:
PD Dr. Thorsten Fögen: thorsten.foegen AT durham.ac.uk