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The Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the College of Arts and Sciences seeks an assistant professor in Latin prose for a tenure-track appointment. The area of specialization is open, but we especially welcome candidates working on prose of the Republican or Augustan periods, and those with an ability to teach Latin epigraphy at the graduate level. Teaching duties will include graduate courses in Latin prose, as well as undergraduate courses in Latin and classical civilization. Applicants should demonstrate the potential for excellence in research and a serious commitment to teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Preference will be given to those with Ph.D. in hand or those who can provide assurances of completing the degree by July 1, 2012. UNC Chapel Hill is an EOE employer. Women and minority scholars are encouraged to apply. Applicants apply online at http://jobs.unc.edu/2501758 and attach a letter of application and Curriculum Vitae. Four letters of recommendation should be sent directly to: Professor Robert Babcock, Chair, Latin Prose Search Committee, Department of Classics, CB #3145, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145. Applications must be completed by Nov. 15, 2011 for consideration. Email inquiries should be addressed to: rbabcock AT email.unc.edu.

The Department’s website is at www.classics.unc.edu.

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St Andrews School of Classics Research Seminar
2011-12

Semester 1

Friday 30 September 2011: Katharine Earnshaw (St John’s College, Oxford) Ghosts of Epic Past

Friday 7 October: Emmanuela Bakola (UCL) The Oikos in the Oresteia and the Origins of Eco-logical
Discourse

Friday 14 October: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) Parahistory: Literary Criticism and Historical
Consciousness

Friday 21 October: Konstantinos Spanoudakis (Rethymno) Christian Eyes for ‘Pagan’ Images:
Nonnus’ Dionysiaca on the Edge

Friday 28 October: Barbara Borg (Exeter) In search of senators deceased: Context matters

Friday 4 November: Annemaré Kotzé (Stellenbosch) Moral exhortation in Augustine’s Confessions?

READING WEEK

Friday 18 November: Jenny Bryan (UCL) Likely Rhetoric and the Phaedrus

Friday 25 November: Alexandra Parvan (St Andrews) Norms of judgment and harmless error in
Augustine

Friday 2 December: Christopher Whitton (Cambridge) Cicero and Tacitean epigram

Friday 9 December: Jon Coulston (St Andrews) Trajan’s Column and the Art of Imperial Display in
Rome

Friday 16 December: Hans van Wees (UCL) Perfect oligarchs: birth, wealth and merit in Homer

Papers are followed by discussion. All are very welcome. All seminars take place on Fridays,
starting at 4.05 p.m., in Swallowgate 11.

Enquiries should be directed to: Jason König, School of Classics, University of St Andrews, St
Andrews KY16 9AL. Tel.: 01334-462600. E-mail: jpk3 AT st-andrews.ac.uk

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POSITION AVAILABLE (Pending Funding)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL
POSITION IN ATHENS

Term: A full-time (12 months) position beginning July 1, 2012 for three years, with the possibility of renewal for a final fourth year.
Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience; benefits include room and board at the School.

Qualifications: Candidates must have earned the PhD from a North American university no more than three years prior to the application, must have spent a minimum of a year as a Member of the ASCSA, should have an active agenda for research and publication, should have knowledge of Greece and Modern Greek, and should have some teaching experience.

Duties:
• To help the Director in the administration of School business and to stand in for the Director when needed. Reports to the Director of the School.
• To assist with the academic program under the direction of the Mellon Professor by lecturing, leading short trips or offering mini-seminars/workshops on area(s) of expertise.
• To serve as a contact and resource person for all members of the School and to live in Loring Hall.
• To help with the planning of the Summer Session by suggesting itineraries, speakers, and generally offering support to the Summer Session Directors, but not making actual arrangements.
• To be a visible presence in the Athenian social and academic scene by attending functions as an official of the School.
• Pursue research on a project.
Application: The Assistant Director will be appointed by the ASCSA Managing Committee (through the Personnel Committee) in consultation with the Director of the School and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor. Submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, research project description (up to three pages in length), and arrange for three letters of recommendation. Application materials should be sent to application AT ascsa.org.

DEADLINE: October 31, 2011.

The appointment will be announced by January 15, 2012.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ethnic origin, or disability when considering admission to any form of membership or application for employment

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Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar: Semester 1 Programme

Seminars take place on Wednesdays, 5.10 pm, in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, Teviot Place, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, with drinks and dinner to follow.
ALL WELCOME!

The programme for Semester 1 can also be found here:
http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/ClassicsResearchSeminars.htm

Programme:

Theme: Out of Africa

28/09/11
Dr Josephine Crawley Quinn (Worcester College, Oxford)
‘Capitolia in Italy and Africa’

05/10/11
Dr Orietta Cordovana (Freie Universität Berlin)
‘Limes Africae’

Theme: Reading Homer

12/10/11
Prof. Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh)
‘ate in the Homeric poems’

19/10/11 (joint with CAS; 7 pm start)
Prof. Ruth Scodel (Michigan)
‘Mindreading in Odysseys’

Theme: Writing (ancient) history

02/11/11
Prof. Neville Morley (Bristol)
‘Thucydides and the modern idea of history’

09/11/11
Dr Timothy Duff (Reading)
‘Rethinking Plutarch’s Lives’

Theme: Death and burial

16/11/11
Dr Markus Scholz (RGZM)
‘Beyond death: funeral monuments as new status symbols in the northern provinces of the Imperium Romanum (c. 1-3 c. AD)’

23/11/11
Dr Maureen Carroll (Sheffield)
‘Too young for the funeral pyre! Infant death and society in Roman Italy’

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The 41st Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific
Northwest (CAPN) will take place at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon on March 9 – 10, 2012.

*Call for Papers* : We invite papers on any aspect of Graeco-Roman
antiquity, and we especially seek those that are likely to be of broad
interest and make connections among the different elements of the ancient world. Such connections can be between Greek society and Roman society, between different disciplines such as archaeology, literature and history, or between different genres of literature. We also welcome pedagogical papers, especially those that address the instruction of Latin and Greek at primary, secondary and university levels. Teachers and students of the Classics at any level of instruction (K-12, college, or university) may submit abstracts; all papers will be judged anonymously by the Program
Committee, chaired by CAPN President Ann M. Nicgorski.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words may be submitted by email to this address: anicgors AT willamette.edu. The deadline for submissions is *January 6, 2012*. You should receive a response by the end of January.

The keynote address for the meeting will be delivered on Friday evening by British classicist and noted food historian Andrew Dalby. Dalby’s talk is entitled "Dining with Augustus: The Roman Princeps as Host and Guest." It will focus on the creative manner in which Augustus, consummate politician that he was, played the roles of host and patron. Andrew Dalby (Ph.D. Birkbeck College, London) is the author of 18 books, including *Siren Feasts: A history of Food and Gastronomy in Greece* (1996); *Empire of Pleasures: Luxury and Indulgence in the Roman World* (2000); *Dangerous
Tastes: The Story of Spices* (2000); *Flavours of Byzantium* (2003); *Food in the Ancient World from A to Z* (2003); *Rediscovering Homer* (2006); *Cheese: A Global History* (2009).

Further details about the conference schedule, keynote address, and practicalities will be sent out as soon as they are available, and will be accessible on the CAPN webpage ( http://www.historyforkids.org/CAPN/capn.htm).
For additional inquiries, contact Ann M. Nicgorski at Willamette University (anicgors AT willamette.edu).