Latin and Classics Teachers of Maine, You are cordially invited to the Maine Classical Association Fall Meeting on Saturday, November 2nd, at the Muskie Archives at Bates College. Each year, the Maine Classical Association hosts two meetings, one in the fall and one in the spring. The fall meeting often features talks by scholars on current or recent research, while… Read more →
Category: MCA News
On the MCA 2024 Spring Meeting. . .
The MCA Spring meeting was hosted at North Yarmouth Academy in a small classroom whose dimensions enhanced the camaraderie of our association as well as the colloquiality of the talks. In addition to the collegial love of Classics, Star Wars Day was also celebrated with a showcasing of deep and surface level Star Wars knowledge and various Gusher-related rewards. The… Read more →
MCA Summer Reading Event
This author has always been particularly attached to Classical Antiquity, but after this MCA update, she may find more common ground with Late Antiquity. . . We invite you to join us this week at our annual MCA Summer Reading Event: On Wednesday, July 17th, from 12-4pm, the MCA will be gathering in Bowdoinham to have a drink, share refreshments, and read selections… Read more →
ASCSA NEH Fellowships 2016
American School of Classical Studies at Athens NEH FELLOWSHIPS Deadline: October 31 Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) is the most significant resource in Greece for American scholars in the fields of Greek language, literature, history, archaeology, philosophy, and art, from pre-Hellenic times to the present. It offers two major research libraries: the Blegen,… Read more →
MCA Fall Meeting 2016
The MCA Fall Meeting registration for October 15 has begun. Poetry, Politics, and Palmyra. We will be hosted by Bowdoin College in Sills Hall. Hamish Cameron from Bates College will start the meeting off by talking about Palmyra, a city in the news recently. Then Jennifer Clarke Kosak of Bowdoin will present about poetic genres in the Odyssey, before Mike Nerdahl wraps up with a… Read more →
MCA Fall 2016 Meeting Save the Date
The MCA Fall meeting will be held on October 15 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The mailing should be in your mailboxes soon, and we will have online registration available on this site. The theme: Poetry, Politics, and Palmyra Read more →
MCA Spring Meeting 2016 Reminder
The MCA Spring Meeting will be held this Saturday, April 30, at Messalonskee High School in Oakland. If you have not yet signed up for the meeting, please do so at this link as soon as possible. For more information about the meeting, check this out. Read more →
Justin Slocum Bailey with Spoken Latin in Vermont
Stephen Farrand has forwarded another great opportunity for Latin teachers in New England to get some practice with spoken Latin. This one is in Brattleboro, VT, from August 11-12, hosted by Express Fluency. As Stephen says: Justin is a truly remarkable young educator who possesses a truly astonishing command of spoken Latin. He also is very knowledgeable about second language… Read more →
MCA 2016 Spring Meeting
The MCA Spring Meeting registration has just opened up. The meeting itself will be held at Messalonskee High School in Oakland on Saturday, April 30, starting at 8:30 am. The keynote speaker of the morning will be Joseph Davenport of the Cambridge Latin Course. If you teach with the Cambridge, or are interested in how the Cambridge Latin Course introduces… Read more →
Summer Immersion Programs 2016
Stephen Farrand has crafted a list of summer immersion programs for classicists. If you have any to add to this list, please send me a note! Here we go: http://expressfluency.com/product/latin-teacher-training/ http://www.latin.org/programs/rusticatio/tironum/ http://www.latin.org/programs/rusticatio/veteranorum/ http://www.latin.org/programs/pedagogy/ https://mcl.as.uky.edu/conventiculum-latinum https://www.umb.edu/academics/caps/summer_programs/institutes/latinbysea http://www.dickinson.edu/info/20033/classical_studies/61/teacher_workshops http://www.wyomingcatholiccollege.com/about-wcc/summer/conventiculum/index.aspx http://classics.avemaria.edu/polis_greek_and_latin (near Naples, FL) In Europe, there is: http://www.lvpa.de/index.php (they haven’t posted place and dates for the summer seminar yet. In Poland, the Czech Republic,… Read more →