LATIN AND ANCIENT GREEK AS UNESCO WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE

In reference to what we posted on this blog in April, we would like to forward to you the latest news on Spanish and Italian initiatives to have the Latin and the Ancient Greek languages acknowledged as intangible world heritage. 

Follow this link to read the statement published by the Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos (including an English version). 

ERANOS: CALL FOR ARTICLES

We would like to forward to you a call for articles issued by the editors of the Swedish journal Eranos:

"Eranos: Acta philologica Suecana, would like to invite authors, both old and new, to submit manuscripts to the journal. We encourage submission of original papers on Greek and Latin philology, including medieval Latin, Neo-Latin and Byzantine philology. Eranos practices strict double-blind peer review, with internationally renowned scholars as reviewers. We offer quick publication of your contribution, as soon as it has passed the peer review. For inclusion already in volume 110 (2019), we need your contribution by the end of July at the latest.



For instructions to authors, go to www.eranos.se, or write to editors@eranos.se. Your contributions should be sent to the same address.



We also welcome proposals for special issues by guest editors. Please write to editors@eranos.se with your proposal or any questions."

THESAURUS LINGUAE LATINAE OPEN ACCESS

Please note that, as of today, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae grants open access to all volumes published so far (A - M, O - P). All data is freely available here.

PLEA FOR ANCIENT LANGUAGES TO BECOME 'INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE'

This week we would like to make you aware of the fact that the Cultural Organisation "Human-Hist", based in France, has drawn up a manifesto for the inclusion of Latin and Ancient Greek in the 'Intangible Cultural Heritage' list of the UNESCO. 

Please follow this link to read the full story. 

CFP CONFERENCE ON AUGUSTINE'S SERMONS, LEUVEN 2020

We would like to announce to you that the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, will host the conference entitled "Ministerium Sermonis. An International Colloquium on St. Augustine's Sermons" on 27-29 May 2020. 

Possible topics include the following:

1) The transmission and reception of Augustine's sermons

2) Augustine's argumentation (doctrine, exegesis and rhetoric)

3) Political doctrine(s) and praxis in Latin Patristic sermons

Please note that deadline for the submission of abstracts is 31 May 2019. For more information, please follow this link.

EASSH POSITION PAPER

Please note that the EASSH, the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities, continues advocating for an increased representation of the Humanities in EU programmes and funding lines. They have just published their latest position paper on "Improving Research Impact Assessment in Horizon Europe: A Perspective from the Social Sciences and Humanities". 

In this paper, the Alliance recommends that to best capture the impact of research, researchers must be enabled to use a diversity of methods, data sources and forms of explaining the impact of their projects. EASSH invites the European Commission to capture impact not project by project, but on the wider terrain of the overall calls’ aims."

Please follow this link to read the full position paper.

PETITION TO RESTORE CLASSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

Please take note of an urgent appeal issued by the Department of Classics of Vermont University (Universitas Viridis Montis):

"Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We would be very grateful if you would sign our petition to reverse the 50% cut to Classics that the University of Vermont (UVM) has suffered in the last three years through an austerity regime of unreplaced retirements and rolling lecturer terminations. UVM is now undergoing an administrative change—influenced in part by campus-wide protests to humanities cutbacks—and we hope to prevail upon the incoming president (Suresh Garimella, currently Provost at Purdue) to restore us to the 2015 staffing level that was already deemed minimal by our external program review that same year (conducted by Jeffery Henderson and Richard Thomas).

For more specifics, please see the SCS blog: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/university-vermont-classics-department/blog-fighting-future-classics-university-vermont.

The petition is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wN1GdE5nKzbTeney7Kp3nZCYkFkblKeur8tu-bHFgig/edit#gid=0

Yours hopefully,

The Department of Classics, Universitas Viridis Montis"