The Association from time to time announces academic posts, scholarship opportunities, notices of competition deadlines and meetings of CASA. The most recent notices are shown below.
Congratulations to Roléne Meyer
Congratulations to Roléne Meyer who has achieved her DLitt et Phil at UNISA for a thesis titled Ut pictura poesis: Kleur en teks in die Latynse poësie van die eerste eeu vC met spesiale verwysing na die Georgica van Vergilius (As is painting, so is poetry: Colour and text in Latin poetry of the first century BC with special reference to Vergil’s Georgics). See attachment
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Postponement: Global Classics and Africa
Due to circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the organising committee of the 2nd International Classics Conference in Ghana has decided to postpone ‘Global Classics and Africa’, which was to be held from October 8 to 10, 2020. The conference has now been rescheduled to October 7 to 10, 2021, and the venue for the conference, the University of Ghana, remains the same.
Decisions on abstracts have already been communicated and speakers will be maintained for 2021, but we may re-issue the call for abstracts later this year.
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Unisa Colloquium postponed
The Unisa Classics Colloquium has been postponed to 15-18 April 2021. The submission date for paper proposals will also now close only at the end of January 2021. All other information, including the confirmed invited speakers, is available on the Colloquium website at https://dmarrmea3.wixsite.com/website
Special issue of TAPA
Call for Papers: Special issue of TAPA. Patrice Rankine and Sasha-Mae Eccleston are editing a special issue of TAPA (153.1) to appear in April 2023. For further information please follow the link above.
Brill Directory of Women Classicists
Invitation to contribute to the Brill Directory of Women Classicists edited by Graham Whitaker (Glasgow, UK). Jo-Marie Claassen requests that volunteers write biographies of women Classicists who worked in South Africa but who are no longer alive. Please send contributions to her (jmc@adept.co.za) for onward transmission to Graham Whitaker (Graham.Whitaker@glasgow.ac.uk). There are some brief guidelines for contributions.