CASA ESSAY COMPETITION / KVSA OPSTEL-KOMPETISIE (2023)

The CASA Essay competition is held under the auspices of Akroterion: Journal of the Classics in South Africa, housed in the Department of Ancient Studies, University of Stellenbosch.

The intention of the competition is to encourage promising undergraduate and Honours students in Africa to pursue their interest in Classics. Essays on any aspect of Greek or Latin language or literature, or classical history or civilization may be submitted.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

CLASSICS: THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE

UNIVERSITY OF HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ

(CZECH REPUBLIC)

(1-3 June 2024)

The international research team based at the University of Hradec Králové is organising a conference on the past, the present, and the future of the Classics in the frame of the project Oral History and the Classics (www.memoryclassics.eu).

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Registration for the 34^th Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa is now available at the following link: https://casa-kvsa.org.za/conference-registration/

Additional tickets for Professor Beard’s keynote talk will be advertised to non-conference delegates later this month.

Please send any questions to conference@casa-kvsa.org.za

Call for Papers: Plato on the Nature and Value of Political Community
19-20 September 2023, Balme Library, University of Ghana
Keynote Speaker: Professor Kofi Ackah (Ghana)

Plato’s political philosophy seems concerned principally with the citizens’ good and how citizens might act in a community in which the good of each is realized. This requires an understanding of Plato’s conception of human nature and the character of the political community in which human ends are served.

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It was with deep sadness that colleagues, friends, and former students in Classics on the Pietermaritzburg campus of UKZN, learned of the death of Professor Peter Tennant on the 20^th January 2023.

A quintessential Maritzburger, Professor Tennant was schooled at Merchiston and Maritzburg College and obtained his MA and PHD in Classics at the University of Natal, and a Senior Teachers’ Diploma at the University of Cape Town. Professor Magnus Henderson of the Department of Classics in Pietermaritzburg supervised his Masters thesis on the mythology of early Rome and Professor William Dominik of the Classics Department in Durban his doctorate on Roman Satire.

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