Canadian Classical Bulletin/Bulletin Canadien des Etudes Anciennes

15.8 2009 04 11 ISSN 1198-9149

Editor/Rédacteur: Michael P. Fronda (McGill University)
ccb@cac-scec.ca

Published by e-mail by the Classical Association of Canada/Publié par courrier électronique par la société canadienne des études classiques

President: Jonathan Edmondson (York University, Toronto)   jedmond@yorku.ca
Secretary/ Secrétaire: John Serrati (McGill University, Montreal)   john.serrati@mcgill.ca
Treasurer/ Trésorier: Annabel Robinson (University of Regina)   annabel.robinson@uregina.ca

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Contents:

[1] CCB/BCEA and CAC Website Announcements

CCB Regular April volume mailed early
CCB Hiatus in May, reminder

[2] Association Announcements and News

Message from the CAC president
Preliminary Announcement: CAC Local Representation / Avis préliminaire: Representation locale de la SCEC

[3] Positions Available

McGill University, nine-month position

[4] Calls for Papers and Conference/Lecture Announcements

CAC 2009 Annual General Meeting: Official Documents
FIEC Congress, Berlin, August 24-29, 2009
Call for papers--Ontario Classical Association, Annual General Meeting 2009: "Paganism and Pop Culture: Classics in Modern Entertainment"
Conference announcement--"Ancient Medicine in its Contexts," Graduate Student Conference, University of Calgary

[5] Scholarships and Competitions

[6] Summer Study and Field Schools

[7] Varia

Gorgias Press, submissions sought
"The Invention of Love," Canadian premiere

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[1] CCB/BCEA Announcements

From the CCB editor

CCB 15.8 -- regular April volume, mailed early

As you will have noticed, this April's CCB was emailed early, on the 11th rather than 15th of the month. This was done at the request of the CAC president, to accommodate time-sensitive announcements regarding the Annual General Meeting in Vancouver. Please note that the President has asked that several attachments be included in the CCB. I hope that neither the early mailing nor the attachments cause any inconvenience.

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CCB Hiatus in May, reminder

This is a reminder that the CCB will go on hiatus for the month of May. I will be unavailable for the entire month, so there will be no regular issue OR any special issues. I may be able to send out a special April issue at the end of the month, especially since volume 15.8 was mailed out a few days early (see above). If you have particularly time sensitive announcements for May, please make sure that you send them to me by the 20th of April.

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[2] Association Announcements and News

From Jonathan Edmondson

CAC President’s Message for the April CCB

Congratulations to Judith Fletcher (Wilfrid Laurier University), winner of the Gildersleeve Prize for 2008

On behalf of the Association, I’d like to offer our warmest congratulations to Judith Fletcher (Wilfrid Laurier University) for winning the Basil Gildersleeve Prize for 2008. This prize (worth $1,000 US) is awarded annually for the best article published in the American Journal of Philology. Professor Fletcher won it for her article, “A Trickster’s Oaths in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes”, which appeared in AJP 129.1 (2008) 19-46. This is one of results of her SSHRC-supported project on oaths in Greek literature and culture.

CAC Essay Competition: Thanks to Frances Pownall (University of Alberta)

Frances Pownall (University of Alberta) has recently informed Council that she would like to step down as organizer of the CAC Essay Competition after twelve years (!) of service in this position. On behalf of the Association and of CAC Council, I would like to thank Professor Pownall most warmly for all the work she has devoted to the Association and to Classics students across the country in running the Essay Competition since 1996. We are all very much in her debt.

Council is currently deliberating on the best way in which to organize this competition in the future, and is very grateful to Professor Jeremy Trevett (York University), who has agreed to take on responsibility for the competition for the 2008-9 academic year. All submissions should be forwarded to him c/o Dept. of History, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto ON M3J 1P3. For further details, see http://cac-scec.ca/eng/concours_essais.html.

CAC Annual Meeting, University of British Columbia, May 12-14, 2009

The preliminary programme for our Annual Meeting is now posted on the CAC website: http://cac-scec.ca/eng/congres.html or http://cnrsconferences.arts.ubc.ca/index.php?id=430

It promises to be an excellent meeting. Professor Ted Champlin (Princeton University) will give the keynote address, and there will be a special Outreach Panel in the Vancouver Public Library on the first (Tuesday) evening, featuring talks by Katherine Blouin (University of Toronto at Scarborough), Susanna Braund (UBC), Mark Golden (University of Winnipeg) and Leona MacLeod (Dalhousie University). On behalf of the Association, I’d like to thank Leanne Bablitz and her UBC colleagues for all the work they’ve been putting into the planning and preparation of the conference. Registration forms are now due. To download one, see http://cnrsconferences.arts.ubc.ca/index.php?id=431.

If you haven’t yet registered, please do so as soon as possible. CAC members will also be interested in the meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, to be held at UBC immediately following our meeting on May 14-16: see http://cnrsconferences.arts.ubc.ca/index.php?id=342.

CAC Council: Synopsis of Meeting of 27 March 2009

CAC Council held its spring meeting in Toronto on Friday 27 March, from 2.30 to 7.30 p.m., and it was suggested at that meeting that it would be helpful to publish a short synopsis of the issues Council is currently tackling to keep CAC members informed about the matters facing Council and the Association. So I have prepared a brief synopsis as the first of what, we hope, will become a regular feature on the CCB.

Council meetings are taken up with a series of statutory reports (from the President, Past President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, the Editors of Phoenix and of Mouseion, the Editor of the Canadian Classical Bulletin (CCB), and the Webmaster), special reports (e.g. from the organizer of the CAC annual conference), items for decision, and then items for general discussion.

We had a very full Agenda on March 27. The main issues that came up in the various reports were:

The CAC’s responsibility to write letters of support if Canadian Classics departments or programmes find themselves under threat
the activities of the Canadian Institute in Greece (especially the colloquium in memory of Malcolm Wallace, to be held in Athens, 26-27 June 2009)
the activities of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS/Fed Can) and in particular issues raised at its General Assembly in Ottawa, 7-8 March: government funding for research and graduate fellowships; Open Access and the impact this might have on associations and especially their journals; peer review (in the light of the recent SSRHC report); equity issues in the Canadian academy and especially in scholarly associations; digital media and their impact on research and publication in the Humanities and Social Sciences; Association issues/best practices
the relation between the CAC and SSHRC, including the possibility of inviting a SSHRC representative, perhaps the Programme Officer of Committee 1 (which includes Classics and Classical Archaeology, along with Religious Studies and Medieval Studies) to a future meeting of Council or a future AGM
reports on the CAC lecture tours: Central, Atlantic (no tour, alas, in 2008) and Western, (which will resume in 2009); the CAC Essay Competition; the CAC Sight Translation Competitions
the current state of the CAC’s finances
the programme and general planning issues regarding the upcoming Annual meeting at UBC (the programme had been approved by an electronic vote of Council in early March)

The main decisions reached were:

to support a motion from the Executive Committee of CFHSS that “the CFHSS advocate for the need to protect and augment the permanent base funding of the granting councils, and to recognize the need to fund graduate students according to their research excellence rather than their area of study”. (This emerged from discussion at the CFHSS General Assembly on 7 March of the changes in the funding of graduate fellowships announced in the last Federal Budget and constituted a reworking of a motion originally proposed but then withdrawn for rewording at the General Assembly)
to institute a network of Local Representatives of the CAC in all departments and programmes across the country (to publicize the CAC and its activities to local members, to encourage membership in the CAC, to help keep the CAC website up to date, to assist communications between members and the CAC)
to approve the venues for the 2011 and 2012 annual meetings. These will be held at Dalhousie University in May 2011 and at the University of Western Ontario in May 2012. The Association is very grateful to the Classics departments at each of these institutions for volunteering to host these meetings and looks forward to working with them as plans for the meetings take shape.
to approve a (flexible) regional rotation for the annual meetings of 2013-2020 as follows: 2013: West; 2014: Québec; 2015: Atlantic region; 2016: Québec; 2017: Ontario; 2018: West; 2019: Ontario; 2020: Québec. With the choice of the Atlantic region for 2011 and Ontario for 2012, the basic principle was established that in every ten-year cycle the meetings should take place three times each in Ontario and Quebec and twice in the Atlantic region and twice in the West.
to approve a Notice of Motion to amend Sections 7a, 7b and 7c of the Constitution: to increase the number of regular members of Council from seven to nine, to increase the length of terms of regular members of Council from two to three years, and to rename the representative of “secondary school teachers of Classics in Canada” on Council the representative of “secondary school teachers and pre-university professors of Classics in Canada”. The increase in the length of terms will allow the Association to benefit from having a Council with greater accrued experience (current councillors are just getting into their stride when they are required to retire from Council), and the increase in the number of councillors will allow for a better representation of more regions of the country, more sub-disciplines within Classics and a better balance among junior, mid-career and senior colleagues.
to approve a Notice of Motion to add a new Bylaw 4c to the Bylaws, establishing a standing Equity Committee of the Association
To approve a Notice of Motion to amend Bylaw 10b, regarding the financial assistance that the Association provides to its journals Mouseion and Phoenix, in light of a report from a special subcommittee appointed by Council (A. Robinson, Treasurer, J. Geyssen, Editor of Mouseion, V. Wohl, J. Trevett, Co-Editors of Phoenix, and S. Gurd) in November 2008 to look into the matter
to approve the procedures for the new Grace Irwin Memorial Award, to be available from 2009-10 for secondary school teachers of Classics across Canada
to establish procedures for lodging material in the official Archives of the CAC, housed at Trinity College in Toronto, and on the (leaner) archive of materials that will be posted in the near future on the CAC website
to appoint a temporary organizer of the CAC Essay Competition (J. Trevett) and to discuss how best to organize the Essay Competition in the future. In this context Council heartily thanked Professor Fran Pownall for all her work as organizer of the Essay Competition since 1996. It was felt that Council needed to discuss at greater length how best to organize the competition in future and so the decision was taken to appoint a temporary organizer to run the competition for the 2008-9 academic year. The Association is grateful to J. Trevett for agreeing to take this additional task for this current academic year.

Jonathan Edmondson
President, CAC/SCEC
9 April 2009

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From Martin Cropp

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT: CAC LOCAL REPRESENTATION

The CAC is developing a network of local representatives who will help raise awareness of the Association and its work and improve our communications with members and potential members and with relevant departments and programmes. So far we have representatives at thirty-six institutions, and we hope to add more in the near future. Further details will be announced at the Annual General Meeting and through the Bulletin and Website.

AVIS PRéLIMINAIRE: REPRESENTATION LOCALE DE LA SCEC

La SCEC est en cours de développer un réseau de représentant(e)s locales qui assisteront à augmenter la connaissance de la société et de ses projets, et également à faciliter notre communication avec nos membres actuel(le)es/potentiel(le)s et les départements/programmes qui participent aux études classiques. Jusqu’à présent nous sommes représentés à trente-six établissments, et nous espérons d’augmenter ce nombre bientôt. Des plus amples détails seront annoncés à la prochaine assemblée générale et par le Bulletin et le site internet.

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[3] Positions Available

From Hans Beck

McGill University: Sessional Instructor (9-month appointment), Ancient Greek Language and Literature

The Department of History, Classical Studies, invites applications for a 9-month appointment at the rank of sessional instructor, to begin September 1, 2009. The salary is $32,500 plus benefits. The successful applicant must have a PhD in hand or near completion, and must demonstrate the ability to teach ancient Greek at all levels. S/he will be expected to teach four courses (two per semester), including: a survey of Greek literature in translation, intermediate Greek, advanced Greek prose and poetry. Applications should be directed by email only (.pdf) to the Director of Classical Studies, Professor Hans Beck (hans.beck@mcgill.ca), and should include a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a one-page outline of relevant teaching experience, and the names and contact information of three people who can supply a written or verbal reference. Applications must be received by Friday, May 1, 2009. For information about Classical Studies at McGill, please visit our website at http://www.mcgill.ca/classics/.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. McGill University is committed to equity in employment and diversity. It welcomes applications from indigenous peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, women, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others who may contribute to further diversification. McGill University is an English language institution; however, knowledge of French would be considered an asset.

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[4] Calls for Papers and Conference/Lecture Announcements

Classical Association of Canada Annual General Meeting, May 2009: OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

The following six documents are attached as a single PDF file:

1) Agenda (English/French) for AGM, UBC, 13 May 2009
2) Minutes (English) of AGM, 14 May 2008
3) Minutes (French) of AGM, 14 May 2008
4) Notice of Motion (English/French) to amend Sections 7a, 7b and 7c of the Constitution
5) Notice of Motion (English/French) to add new Bylaw 4c, establishing Equity Committee
6) Notice of Motion (English/French) to amend Bylaw 10b

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From Jonathan Edmondson

FIEC Congress, Berlin, August 24-29, 2009

This is just a brief note to remind CAC members that registration is now open for the quinquennial Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Etudes Classiques (FIEC), to be held at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, August 24-29, 2009. Details of the preliminary programme, as well as electronic registration and hotel reservations, are now available on the conference website: http://www.fiec2009.org/

The congress will feature keynote talks by Hans-Joachim Gehrke (DAI Berlin), Alessandro Barchiesi (Arezzo/Stanford), André Laks (Université de Paris-Sorbonne), and Donna Kurtz (Oxford) and a half-day excursion to Potsdam.

The programme includes panels on the following topics:

Images, Texts, Reality
Language of the Body
Cultural Encounters and Fusions in the Roman Empire
Continuity and Change in Late Antiquity
Powers of Persuasion
Turning Points in the Reception of Classical Antiquity
Classical Antiquity and Modern Mass Media
Comparative History: Greece, Rome and Others
Trade in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Epigraphical Documents: Reflection of Reality or Construction of Historical Knowledge?
The Philosophical Significance of Cosmology and Theology
Social and Political Dimensions of Kinship: Family, Neighbourhood, City
Urban Spaces
Literature of Knowledge
Greek and Roman Epic
Religion in Society
Recent Discoveries
Die deutsche Altertumswissenschaft

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The Ontario Classical Association

Annual General Meeting

Paganism and Pop Culture: Classics in Modern Entertainment

17 October 2009

Stratford, Ontario

Call for Papers

The OCA invites papers which discuss the ways in which the Classical World is reflected in movies, music, literature, video games, graphic novels, advertising, etc. Papers should be not longer than twenty minutes in length. Please e-mail this form along with a 300 word description of your paper to: eliz.ellison@sympatico.ca by 15 May 2009.

Name: ___________________________________________________

Educational Institution: _____________________________________

Address: _________________________________________________

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Work Phone: _________________________________________________

Subject/Professional Affiliation: _________________________________________

e-mail address: _________________________________________________

Media Required: ____ data projector _____ overhead _____ TV/DVD

Abstract: (please attach a second sheet if necessary)

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From Amber Porter

Conference Announcement
"Ancient Medicine and its Contexts"
Graduate Student Conference

University of Calgary
Department of Greek and Roman Studies
April 24th - 25th

http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~amconf/

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[5] Scholarships and Competitions

No announcements this month.

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[6] Summer Study and Field Schools

No announcements this month.

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[7] Varia

From Frances Pownall

Georgias Press seeks submissions

Gorgias Press is an academic press specializing in the ancient world. It was formed by and is run by scholars for scholars. The Press publishes academic books on variety of subjects, including Classics, the Ancient Near East, Biblical Studies, Arabic & Islamic Studies, Religion, Patristics, and many others. We publish the American Journal of Ancient History, and currently distribute titles published by the Association of Ancient Historians. We hope to expand our offerings in Classics in a new series focussing upon ancient historiography, politics, and religion. Gorgias Press invites prospective authors of potential contributions to this series to contact either Gorgias Press or the series editor (frances.pownall@ualberta.ca) directly. Gorgias Press also accepts independent books that do not fit into an established series, or dissertations in our Dissertations Series. For further information, please visit our website: www.gorgiaspress.com.

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From C. W. Marshall

United Players is proud to present the Canadian premiere of "The Invention of Love"

by Tom Stoppard

Directed by C.W. Marshall
April 3-26, 2009

Tom Stoppard is one of the most heralded playwrights of our day and now you can be the first to see his witty and humorous The Invention of Love when United Players presents its Canadian Première this April.

The Invention of Love is more than a love story. It takes us inside the thoughts and feelings of Victorian poet (A Shropshire Lad) and classical scholar, A.E. Housman, as he reflects on his life and on his frustrated love for his friend Moses Jackson – the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings. The play takes place in a dream-like space between life and death where Stoppard invents not one but two Housman figures – the elder scholar looks at the young poet and wonders how one turned into the other. We meet an eclectic mix of individuals from the era,including Oscar Wilde, and through their juxtaposition, Housman considers the possibilities of where his life might have gone.

“Some of the finest, most passionate, and most disarmingly brilliant dramatic writing that [Stoppard] has given us.” (The Financial Times).

The Invention of Love stars Graham Bullen as the elder Housman, Tariq Leslie as his younger self, with James Gill, Andrew Halliwell, John Harris, Daryl Hutchings, Courtney Lancaster, Dick Pugh, Ian Runacres, and Paul Toolan. It is directed by C.W. Marshall, set design by Sally Song I. Lang, technical direction & lighting design by Kyla Gardiner, costumes by Irena Hoti, sound design by David Campbell, animation design by Sam Tucker, and stage management by Cassandra Tattrie.

The Invention of Love runs at the Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery) from April 3-26, Thursday through Sunday, at 8 pm. Tickets are $12 - $16 and available at the door. Preview: April 2nd, all tickets $6. Talk back session: after the show on April 9th .

Reservations and information, phone 604 224 8007, ext. 2 or visit www.unitedplayers.com.

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Next regular issue 2009 06 15
Send submissions to ccb@cac-scec.ca

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