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Adam D. Blistein
Executive Director
Monday, May 2, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Upcoming Program Committee Deadline
The deadline to for the following submissions to the APA Program Committee is one week away:
Proposals to organize the following sessions for the 2012 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
* At-Large Panels
* Committee Panels
* Seminars
* Workshops
* Joint AIA-APA Sessions
* Roundtable Discussion Sessions
** Reports on 2012 sessions for previously chartered
* Organizer-Refereed Panels
* Affiliated Groups
** Applications for New Organizer-Refereed Panels to be held at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Seattle
** Applications for New or Renewed Affiliated Group Charters for the 2013-2017 Annual Meetings.
All of these submissions are due by 5:00 p.m. EDT on March 23, 2011.
To make your submission, first, please read submission instructions on the APA web site:
http://apaclassics.org/index.php/annual_meeting/program_guide
Then, enter the "Members Only" section of the APA web site at
http://apa.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi
and click on the link below the phrase:
"Submit Proposals and Reports to the APA Program Committee for the 2012 and 2013 Annual Meetings"
If you have any difficulty reaching the "Members Only" page, follow the instructions on this page:
http://apaclassics.org/index.php/annual_meeting/program_guide_details/subission_eligibility_2011-2012/
Proposals to organize the following sessions for the 2012 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
* At-Large Panels
* Committee Panels
* Seminars
* Workshops
* Joint AIA-APA Sessions
* Roundtable Discussion Sessions
** Reports on 2012 sessions for previously chartered
* Organizer-Refereed Panels
* Affiliated Groups
** Applications for New Organizer-Refereed Panels to be held at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Seattle
** Applications for New or Renewed Affiliated Group Charters for the 2013-2017 Annual Meetings.
All of these submissions are due by 5:00 p.m. EDT on March 23, 2011.
To make your submission, first, please read submission instructions on the APA web site:
http://apaclassics.org/index.php/annual_meeting/program_guide
Then, enter the "Members Only" section of the APA web site at
http://apa.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi
and click on the link below the phrase:
"Submit Proposals and Reports to the APA Program Committee for the 2012 and 2013 Annual Meetings"
If you have any difficulty reaching the "Members Only" page, follow the instructions on this page:
http://apaclassics.org/index.php/annual_meeting/program_guide_details/subission_eligibility_2011-2012/
Slate for APA Elections in 2011
The APA Nominating Committee has submitted the slate of candidates to be elected this Summer. Winners of these elections will take office in January 2012 except for the new members of the Nominating Committee who will take office as soon as votes are counted.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week, March 7-11, 2011
The 9th Annual National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week is March 7-11, 2011.
This effort, a cooperative venture of the American Classical League, the American Philological Association, and various regional and state classical organizations, seeks to engage all Classicists at all levels of instruction in the business of insuring that our Latin, Greek, and Classics pre-college classrooms have the teachers they need.
Consider talking with your students about a career teaching at the pre-college level!
For further information, go to promotelatin.org and click on NLTRW at your left.
Ronnie Ancona
APA VP for Education 2010-14
Saturday, January 15, 2011
APA Teaching Awards for 2011
The APA Teaching Awards for 2010 have now been announced on the APA website and at the Plenary Session of the Annual Meeting in San Antonio. It is not too early to start thinking about college and pre-college level teachers you would like to nominate for the 2011 APA Teaching Awards.
Guidelines and deadlines from the 2010 competition are available on the APA website for your consultation. You can look for the 2011 materials to be posted later. Please read and share the information about these competitions with your college and secondary school colleagues.
I am delighted to add that the 2011 Awards will be funded at a higher level as a result of the APA's Capital Campaign!
Ronnie Ancona
APA VP for Education 2010-14
Guidelines and deadlines from the 2010 competition are available on the APA website for your consultation. You can look for the 2011 materials to be posted later. Please read and share the information about these competitions with your college and secondary school colleagues.
I am delighted to add that the 2011 Awards will be funded at a higher level as a result of the APA's Capital Campaign!
Ronnie Ancona
APA VP for Education 2010-14
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
New on the APA Web Site
Final Annual Meeting Program
December Job Listings
Citations for Awards to be Presented in San Antonio
Extended Deadline for Online Registration (December 27, 2010, 5:00 p.m. EST)
Information on San Antonio from Local Arrangements Chair Erwin Cook
December Job Listings
Citations for Awards to be Presented in San Antonio
Extended Deadline for Online Registration (December 27, 2010, 5:00 p.m. EST)
Information on San Antonio from Local Arrangements Chair Erwin Cook
Monday, December 6, 2010
New on the APA Web Site
Awards to be Presented at the San Antonio Meeting.
Acknowledgments of Annual Giving Contributions in 2010 Fiscal Year and Gateway Campaign Pledges through September 30, 2010. An updated Campaign News page describes a successful fund-raising event in New York City and "Friends" groups honoring revered classics teachers.
APA Office hours during the upcoming holiday period.
Acknowledgments of Annual Giving Contributions in 2010 Fiscal Year and Gateway Campaign Pledges through September 30, 2010. An updated Campaign News page describes a successful fund-raising event in New York City and "Friends" groups honoring revered classics teachers.
APA Office hours during the upcoming holiday period.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Annual Meeting Hotel Reservations
December 20 is the deadline to book hotel rooms at the convention hotels, the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter & Riverwalk Hotels. Book online or call 1-800-266-9432 between 8:00am and 5:30pm CST.
The AIA and APA are financially able to hold the Annual Meeting by reserving a large block of guest rooms within the hotels. In exchange, the hotels offer registrants their lowest possible group rate and provide us with complimentary meeting space. If we are unable to meet our guaranteed minimum number of registered guests, the AIA and APA will have to pay for the unused rooms as well as room rental for the meeting space, which would amount to a severe financial penalty. We request your support by booking within our reserved blocks and appreciate your cooperation.
Monday, November 22, 2010
New TAPA issue
TAPA issue 140.2 has been published electronically as well as in print: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transactions_of_the_american_philological_association/toc/apa.140.2.html
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Capital Campaign Matching Grant Deadline Extended
The National Endowment for the Humanities has given the APA additional time to claim matching funds available under its current challenge grant. Just last week the APA took a big step towards obtaining the necessary donations by holding a successful fund-raising event at New York University featuring the Aquila Theatre Company. See details on the APA web site.
New APA Information Architect
Read about the appointment of Samuel Huskey of the University of Oklahoma as the APA's new Information Architect. In January he will succeed Robin Mitchell-Boyask of Temple University who provided extraordinary service to the APA as Editor of the web site since 1998.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Just Posted on the APA Web Site
Election Results for 2010
Information on Seminars at the 2011 Annual Meeting: Advance sign-up is required to attend these sessions.
More detailed information about about the San Antonio Meeting
Information on Seminars at the 2011 Annual Meeting: Advance sign-up is required to attend these sessions.
More detailed information about about the San Antonio Meeting
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Proposals for a Performance Archive Invited
The Board of Directors invites members to consider submitting a proposal for the creation of an archive of performances of classical works. The idea for such an archive was one of the suggestions growing out of a Committee on Research retreat in September, 2009, with input from the Committee on Outreach as well. It was developed into a more detailed concept by a task force chaired by C. W. Marshall; the report of this task force can be found at http://apaclassics.org/index.php/research/fellowship/performance_archive/. The task force suggests a number of characteristics that an ideal archive project would have.
The Directors have now asked the task force to evaluate proposals from institutions and individuals interested in being the home of such an archive. If you would like to pursue this opportunity, please see the link given above for details.
Roger Bagnall
Vice President for Research
roger.bagnall@nyu.edu
Sunday, September 19, 2010
APA Office Move
We have successfully moved into our new offices at the following address:
American Philological Association
University of Pennsylvania
220 S. 40th Street, Suite 201E
Philadelphia. PA 19104-3512
Telephone: 215-898-4975
FAX: 215-573-7874
E-mail: apaclassics@sas.upenn.edu
American Philological Association
University of Pennsylvania
220 S. 40th Street, Suite 201E
Philadelphia. PA 19104-3512
Telephone: 215-898-4975
FAX: 215-573-7874
E-mail: apaclassics@sas.upenn.edu
Telephone, FAX, and e-mail services are all working, and we apologize for any difficulties members have experienced in reaching us during the past month.
New This Week on the APA Web Site
September Job Listings
Hotel Reservation Information for Annual Meeting in San Antonio. (Registration Information Coming Soon)
Hotel Reservation Information for Annual Meeting in San Antonio. (Registration Information Coming Soon)
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
TAPA 140.2 Sneak Preview
Transactions of the American Philological Association
Autumn 2010 / Volume 140 / Number 2
Contents
I. Presidential Address
Josiah Ober
Wealthy Hellas
II. Papers
Alex Gottesman
The Beggar and the Clod: The Mythic Notion of Property in Ancient Greece
This paper calls attention to the need to think about Greek property based on the evidence available. While scholars note the absence of relevant legal or economic sources, I argue that certain mythic texts reveal important aspects of the ideology of property and, specifically, that property relations tended to be understood in terms of exchange relations. Being an owner meant engaging in certain kinds of exchange, and abstaining from other kinds of exchange. The myths that I consider here reveal this notion by suggesting that property is destabilized when property owners conduct exchange in the wrong way.
Alex C. Purves
Wind and Time in Homeric Epic
This paper examines the relationship between wind, narrative, and time in Homer. It begins by considering Fränkel’s observation that weather rarely occurs outside the similes in the Iliad, and goes on to show that wind plays a subtle but fundamental role in shaping the narratives of both the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Owen Goslin
Hesiod’s Typhonomachy and the Ordering of Sound
I argue that Hesiod shaped his Typhonomachy with a particular interest in the relationship between sound, communication, and authority. Typhon’s defeat results in the reordering of the sonic world of the Theogony, and as such is a necessary precursor to the birth of the Muses. Hesiod thereby shows how the conditions for song are not a natural element of the cosmos, but result from Zeus’s suppression of Typhon. This victory is significant for the Theogony as a whole, in so far as it enables communication between gods and men, and thus renders the structure of the cosmos intelligible to mortals.
José M. González
The Catalogue of Women and the End of the Heroic Age (Hesiod fr. 204.94–103
M-W)
The Catalogue of Women supplies the crucial link between Hesiodic poetry and heroic epic. The heroic world of archaic poetry cannot be fully understood without it. But the interpretation of fragment 204 M-W, which describes the end of the heroic age, has long been burdened with misleading and unnecessary assumptions. This article challenges three particularly influential ones: that the passage contrasts demigods to “ordinary” mortals; that Zeus only feigns to destroy the demigods; and that [βίοτον κα]ὶ̣ is an acceptable supplement to line 103. My analysis shows that the Catalogue does not represent a departure from, but a creative reappropriation of, traditional epic material.
William Hutton
Pausanias and the Mysteries of Hellas
Instead of being an amorphous collection of useful facts for travelers, Pausanias’s Description of Greece offers a carefully structured meditation on the state of Greece in the Roman period. By mustering certain narrative themes and techniques around the pivot-point of his description of Olympia, Pausanias compares and contrasts the Roman conquest of Greece with the Spartan conquest of Messenia and offers his own text as an affirmatory parallel to a sacred document that was restored to the Messenians at the time of their liberation. Appreciation of the author’s ambitious program of structural and thematic patterns explains many aspects of the text that previous scholars have found perplexing, including its abrupt and enigmatic ending.
Dunstan Lowe
The Symbolic Value of Grafting in Ancient Rome
Some scholars have read Virgil’s grafted tree (G. 2.78-82) as a sinister image, symptomatic of man’s perversion of nature. However, when it is placed within the long tradition of Roman accounts of grafting (in both prose and verse), it seems to reinforce a consistently positive view of the technique, its results, and its possibilities. Virgil’s treatment does represent a significant change from Republican to Imperial literature, whereby grafting went from mundane reality to utopian fantasy. This is reflected in responses to Virgil from Ovid, Columella, Calpurnius, Pliny the Elder, and Palladius (with Republican context from Cato, Varro, and Lucretius), and even in the postclassical transformation of Virgil’s biography into a magical folktale.
Issue 141.1, to appear in late spring 2011, will feature the following articles:
James Porter, "Making and Unmaking: The Achaean Wall and the Limits of Fictionality in Homeric Criticism"
Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, "Priam’s Catabasis: Traces of the Epic Journey to Hades in Iliad 24"
John Heath, "Women's Work: Female Transmission of Mythical Narrative"
Mary Boatwright, "Women in the Forum Romanum"
Randall J. Pogorzelski, "Orbis Romanus: Lucan and the Limits of the Roman World"
Timothy Stover, "Unexampled Examplarity: Medea in Valerius Flaccus"
Giovanni Ruffini, "Village Life and Family Power in Late Antique Nessana"
Autumn 2010 / Volume 140 / Number 2
Contents
I. Presidential Address
Josiah Ober
Wealthy Hellas
II. Papers
Alex Gottesman
The Beggar and the Clod: The Mythic Notion of Property in Ancient Greece
This paper calls attention to the need to think about Greek property based on the evidence available. While scholars note the absence of relevant legal or economic sources, I argue that certain mythic texts reveal important aspects of the ideology of property and, specifically, that property relations tended to be understood in terms of exchange relations. Being an owner meant engaging in certain kinds of exchange, and abstaining from other kinds of exchange. The myths that I consider here reveal this notion by suggesting that property is destabilized when property owners conduct exchange in the wrong way.
Alex C. Purves
Wind and Time in Homeric Epic
This paper examines the relationship between wind, narrative, and time in Homer. It begins by considering Fränkel’s observation that weather rarely occurs outside the similes in the Iliad, and goes on to show that wind plays a subtle but fundamental role in shaping the narratives of both the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Owen Goslin
Hesiod’s Typhonomachy and the Ordering of Sound
I argue that Hesiod shaped his Typhonomachy with a particular interest in the relationship between sound, communication, and authority. Typhon’s defeat results in the reordering of the sonic world of the Theogony, and as such is a necessary precursor to the birth of the Muses. Hesiod thereby shows how the conditions for song are not a natural element of the cosmos, but result from Zeus’s suppression of Typhon. This victory is significant for the Theogony as a whole, in so far as it enables communication between gods and men, and thus renders the structure of the cosmos intelligible to mortals.
José M. González
The Catalogue of Women and the End of the Heroic Age (Hesiod fr. 204.94–103
M-W)
The Catalogue of Women supplies the crucial link between Hesiodic poetry and heroic epic. The heroic world of archaic poetry cannot be fully understood without it. But the interpretation of fragment 204 M-W, which describes the end of the heroic age, has long been burdened with misleading and unnecessary assumptions. This article challenges three particularly influential ones: that the passage contrasts demigods to “ordinary” mortals; that Zeus only feigns to destroy the demigods; and that [βίοτον κα]ὶ̣ is an acceptable supplement to line 103. My analysis shows that the Catalogue does not represent a departure from, but a creative reappropriation of, traditional epic material.
William Hutton
Pausanias and the Mysteries of Hellas
Instead of being an amorphous collection of useful facts for travelers, Pausanias’s Description of Greece offers a carefully structured meditation on the state of Greece in the Roman period. By mustering certain narrative themes and techniques around the pivot-point of his description of Olympia, Pausanias compares and contrasts the Roman conquest of Greece with the Spartan conquest of Messenia and offers his own text as an affirmatory parallel to a sacred document that was restored to the Messenians at the time of their liberation. Appreciation of the author’s ambitious program of structural and thematic patterns explains many aspects of the text that previous scholars have found perplexing, including its abrupt and enigmatic ending.
Dunstan Lowe
The Symbolic Value of Grafting in Ancient Rome
Some scholars have read Virgil’s grafted tree (G. 2.78-82) as a sinister image, symptomatic of man’s perversion of nature. However, when it is placed within the long tradition of Roman accounts of grafting (in both prose and verse), it seems to reinforce a consistently positive view of the technique, its results, and its possibilities. Virgil’s treatment does represent a significant change from Republican to Imperial literature, whereby grafting went from mundane reality to utopian fantasy. This is reflected in responses to Virgil from Ovid, Columella, Calpurnius, Pliny the Elder, and Palladius (with Republican context from Cato, Varro, and Lucretius), and even in the postclassical transformation of Virgil’s biography into a magical folktale.
Issue 141.1, to appear in late spring 2011, will feature the following articles:
James Porter, "Making and Unmaking: The Achaean Wall and the Limits of Fictionality in Homeric Criticism"
Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, "Priam’s Catabasis: Traces of the Epic Journey to Hades in Iliad 24"
John Heath, "Women's Work: Female Transmission of Mythical Narrative"
Mary Boatwright, "Women in the Forum Romanum"
Randall J. Pogorzelski, "Orbis Romanus: Lucan and the Limits of the Roman World"
Timothy Stover, "Unexampled Examplarity: Medea in Valerius Flaccus"
Giovanni Ruffini, "Village Life and Family Power in Late Antique Nessana"
Thursday, August 19, 2010
APA Office Move
On August 20, 2010, the APA Office will move to another location on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Our new address is
American Philological Association
University of Pennsylvania
220 S. 40th Street
Suite 201E
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3512
Our telephone and FAX numbers as well as our e-mail addresses will remain the same. We hope to have our computers set up and connected to the Internet by Monday morning, August 23, and we expect our FAX line to be installed by the end of the day on Tuesday, August 24. For a variety of reasons, however, we do not expect to have regular telephone service until about September 1. During that period we should be able to check voice mail, and we will do so regularly, but the best ways to be in touch with us will be e-mail and FAX. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Adam D. Blistein
Executive Director
American Philological Association
University of Pennsylvania
220 S. 40th Street
Suite 201E
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3512
Our telephone and FAX numbers as well as our e-mail addresses will remain the same. We hope to have our computers set up and connected to the Internet by Monday morning, August 23, and we expect our FAX line to be installed by the end of the day on Tuesday, August 24. For a variety of reasons, however, we do not expect to have regular telephone service until about September 1. During that period we should be able to check voice mail, and we will do so regularly, but the best ways to be in touch with us will be e-mail and FAX. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Adam D. Blistein
Executive Director
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