Showing posts with label APA. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 14, 2020

SCS Presidential Talks delivered at Annual Meetings

SCS Presidential Talks delivered at Annual Meetings
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      Sunday, October 20, 2019

      Classical Works Knowledge Base

      [First listed in AWOL 12 July 2014, updated 20 October 2019]

      Classical Works Knowledge Base
      1,550 authors3,427 author variants
      5,200 works6,544 work variants
      The CWKB knowledge base assembles data about Classical works (1,550 authors and 5,200 texts, with variants forms in the main modern languages of Classical studies and common abbreviations). The knowledge base also contains the linking heuristics to the passage level for 6,732 manifestations of Classical works. The full-text services linked to are:
      • the Classical Latin Texts of the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI Latin Texts);
      • the Greek and Roman Texts from the Perseus Digital Library;
      • the Library of Latin Texts - Series A (LLT-A) from Brepols Publishers [licensed];
      • the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) [licensed] and the Abridged Online TLG.
      CWKB does not aim at creating a new canon of Classical literature, but provides a concordance to existing canons and workID registries.


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      Thursday, November 10, 2016

      Society for Classical Studies: 148th Annual Meeting Abstracts

      Society for Classical Studies: 148th Annual Meeting Abstracts
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      Links for the abstracts for the 148th annual meeting appear below. To see the abstract of a paper to be delivered at the annual meeting, click on the abstract's title. To find a particular abstract, use the search field below. You can also click on the column headers to alter the order in which the information is sorted. By default, the abstracts are sorted by the number of the session and the order in which the papers will be presented. Please note the following. Not all sessions and presentations have abstracts associated with them. "Ancient MakerSpaces" is an all-day workshop and thus does not have a session number. Panels in which the first abstract is listed as .2 rather than .1 have an introductory speaker.
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      Thursday, May 26, 2016

      Open Access Journal: The Newsletter of the American Philological Association = SCS Newsletter

      [First posted in AWOL 25 August 2009. Updated 26 May 2016]

      The Newsletter of the American Philological Association = SCS Newsletter  
      ISSN: 0569-6941
      The American Philological Association Newsletter (ISSN 0569-6941) is published six times a year (February, April, June, August, October, December) by the American Philological Association. Send materials for publication; communications on Placement, membership, changes of address; and claims to: Executive Director, American Philological Association, 292 Claudia Cohen Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304. Telephone: 215-898-4975. FAX: 215-573-7874. E-mail: apaclassics@sas.upenn.edu. [Text from the old website]
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          Friday, May 20, 2016

          Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting Sessions on Professional Issues in the Field

          Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting Sessions on Professional Issues in the Field
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          Several sessions at recent annual meetings have dealt with major professional issues in the field of Classics.  Below you will find links to texts of papers presented, audio recordings of the talks, or supplementary materials to the presentations. The titles of the sessions are as follows:

          2016 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California

          Presidential Panel
          ‘The Spring from the Year’: Contingent Faculty and the Future of Classics
          John Marincola, Organizer
          [Click on the name of the speaker to see the text of his or her talk.  Click on the title to hear an audio file of each talk and the discussion period.]
          John Marincola, Florida State University
          Introduction: The New Faculty Majority
          1. Eleanor Dickey, University of Reading
            Is There Anything I Can Do? How Individual Academics Can Make A Difference
          1. John Paul Christy, American Council of Learned Societies
            “So Happy a Versatility”: The Uses of Advanced Training in the Humanities
          1. Stephanie Budin, University of Oregon
            What You Do unto the Least of These: Adjuncts and Painful Trends in Higher Education
          1. C. W. Marshall, University of British Columbia
            Reclaiming the Landscape
          Questions and Discussion
          Session #40
          The Future of Classical Education: A Dialogue
          Organized by the SCS Program Committee
          Joy Connolly, New York University, Presider
          1. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, University of Oxford
            Classical Education in the UK: Boom or Bust?             [Link Forthcoming]
                 2.  Mary Pendergraft, Wake Forest University
                      Trends in Teaching the Classics to Undergraduates
                3.   Kathleen M. Coleman, Harvard University
                      Nondum Arabes Seresque rogant          : Classics Looks East
                 4.  Nigel Nicholson, Reed College
                      A Liberal Art for the Future


          2013 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington

          Session 54
          Alternative Employment for PhDs and Advanced Graduate Students in Classical Studies/Archaeology
          Organized by the APA/AIA Joint Placement Committee
          Mike Lippman, University of Arizona, David S. Potter, University of Michigan, Betsey A. Robinson, Vanderbilt University, Organizers

          2012 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

          Presidential Panel
          Images for Classicists
          Kathleen M. Coleman, Harvard University, Presider
          - See more at: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-sessions-professional-issues-field#sthash.jCCrvtih.dpuf
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          Saturday, August 29, 2015

          New Website of the Society for Classical Studies Launched Today

          Launch of New Web Site
          https://classicalstudies.org/sites/default/files/logo_scs_main.png 
          Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Information Architect, Samuel Huskey, and to the programming and web designing skills of Confluence Corporation, we have launched a new web site with a new URL:  https://classicalstudies.org/.  Both the site and the URL reflect the Society’s new name and its effort to be more useful and accessible to both its members and to a wider audience of people interested in classical antiquity.  The site is easier to navigate and will present more opportunities for featuring and discussing new work in classics.  The site will also include all Placement Service operations.

          To ensure that the site and our social media outlets are comprehensive and current, President John Marincola is appointing a new Communications Committee.  Once this Committee begins operations, I will publish contact information and procedures that members can use to make suggestions to its members.  In the interim, please send comments and suggestions to me (blistein@sas.upenn.edu).

          Streamlined Access for SCS Members

          As before, much of the information on the SCS web site will be available to any visitor.  However, the new site will make it easier for members to become Placement Service candidates and subscribers at no charge and to enjoy other benefits exclusive to members because it will permit them to use a single set of credentials for all functions on the SCS web site and for all SCS-related activities on the Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) web site.  Members no longer need to create multiple online accounts for SCS.  Accounts already established or to be established at the JHUP web site will be the only credentials you need.

          Members with Existing Accounts at JHUP.  If you have ever created an account on the JHUP web site, for example, to pay your dues via credit card or to view our directory of members, the username and password associated with that account will now give you access to the SCS web site as well.  If you need a reminder of either your username or password on the JHUP web site, click on the relevant link to request it. 
          Members Needing to Create an Account at JHUP.  Follow this link to create an online account.  You will need both the e-mail address you gave to Johns Hopkins when you paid your dues and your member number.  If you need a reminder of your member number, click here. 
          If you need further assistance from staff at Johns Hopkins, they can be reached in the following ways:
          If you call JHUP and reach an answering machine, be sure to leave a message that includes a suggested time to call you back.  This will enable staff to follow up with you as soon as they can.

          Site Navigation

          Two menus appear at the top of every page on the site.  In the higher of the two, note especially the links for member log-in and for “SCS News”.  The former gives members access to the portions of the site that are set aside for them, and the latter (as the APA Blog did before) contains announcements of Society activities and other information for anyone interested in classics.  Clicking on SCS News will generate a list of the most recent announcements of all kinds, but the drop-down menu and search box above the first item on the list permit the user to obtain a specific range of entries.

          The second menu, in white type on a blue background, gives links to the most commonly used functions on our site.  Each of these links contains a drop-down menu leading to a specific subtopic.  Clicking on the white text will also take the user to an introductory page where the links in the drop-down menu appear on the right hand side of the screen.  The menu on the right appears on many related interior pages as well.

          Below the image on the main page only are four links to “landing pages”.  On these four pages we have attempted to place links to the information that we think will be most useful for our four overlapping constituencies:  members, professional classicists, classics students, and enthusiasts for classics.  For that reason some links appear on more than one landing page.  Underneath these four links are an additional link for the annual meeting, the most recent letter from the President, and a number of other useful links for the field.

          Further down the main page, we have also added a Member Spotlight that will feature information about a new member every few weeks.  To begin this new feature we have asked (first) Sara Forsdyke and (in a few weeks) Matt Roller, both of whom rotated off the Board last January as at-large Directors, to write about their service to the Society.  Members with suggestions for this new feature should write to me (blistein@sas.upenn.edu) for transmission to the new Communications Committee.

          Members Only Page

          The Members Only page contains links to the Directory of Members, to TAPA online, and to discounts on various publications and resources including our GreekKeys software.  To reach that page, first log in to the SCS web site, and then click on the drop-down menu under “Membership” or click on “Membership” itself.  You will then see a link labeled “For Members Only”.  Note that this link will not appear unless you are logged in.  Finally, if the resource you are seeking is on the Johns Hopkins site rather than our own (the Directory and TAPA are examples), you will need to enter your membership credentials again.

          Placement Service

          The 2015-2016 Placement Service is now open.  Before registering for the service, please read the information below about new features this year.

          As President Marincola announced in his most recent letter, SCS members may enroll as candidates or subscribers to the Placement Service at no charge for 2015-2016.  The Finance Committee and Board of Directors took this step enthusiastically as part of the Society’s efforts to provide as much assistance as possible to those members who have the least resources.  If you register, note that “candidates” have access to the full range of services provided to job-seekers, including the scheduling of interviews at the annual meeting.  We offer “subscriber” status to members who are not on the job market themselves but who want to monitor that market, usually because they are advising candidates in some capacity.  Nonmembers can again purchase either service for $55.

          Candidates and subscribers should note carefully the information above about verifying membership before registering for the Service.  If you are not yet a member of the Society or if your dues are not current, the fastest way to gain access to a free subscription is to pay dues online, and then log in to the Placement Service using the credentials you create during the payment.

          In part to recover some of the revenue that will be lost by offering candidates and subscriber services to members at no charge, the Society has increased the fees for institutions for the first time in several years.  Institutions purchasing Comprehensive Service (which includes facilities for conducting interviews at the annual meeting) will pay $475.  The fee for institutions simply placing an advertisement will be $200 until January 9 and $175 thereafter.  If you are purchasing an institutional service, note that individual or departmental membership is not required, and that membership brings no reduction in institutional fees.

          If you have used the Service in previous years, you know that candidates, subscribers, and comprehensive institutions used to receive an e-mail each night if we had approved any new job listings that day.  The e-mail list serve will operate in a slightly different manner this year.  A day or two after you register for the Service, you will receive an e-mail confirming your addition to the Placement list serve.  While your e-mail subscription will not be active immediately, you will have access to all published jobs by visiting the Placement Service pages once you are logged in and clicking on a link entitled “Recent Advertisements (Not Public)”.

          In addition, once your e-mail subscription is active, you will receive an e-mail immediately after each new listing is approved.  These separate individual e-mails will replace the daily summary of jobs posted sent in previous years.

          To register for the 2015-2016 Service, go to classicalstudies.org and then click on “Placement Service” in the menu with the blue background.  Scroll down to find either Services for Candidates and Subscribers or Services for Institutions, and click on the appropriate link.

          Over the last two weeks, we published new job advertisements for 2015-2016 on last year’s Placement site.  Now that that site is offline, I have posted those listings again in SCS News and will continue to make them available there for about a week.  We ask that the institutions posting those advertisements now register for the Service and post them in the new online system.

          Conclusion

          I hope you will enjoy the new site.  Please send comments and reports of broken links to me (blistein@sas.upenn.edu).

          Adam D. Blistein
          Executive Director
          - See more at: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/launch-new-web-site#sthash.NswUEis0.dpuf
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          Tuesday, September 22, 2009

          "Preprints and Open Access Revisited"

          The following article appeared in APA Newsletter, volume 32, Number 3 (June 2009), and is reformatted here, with the permission of the author, in html with added hyperlinks.


          LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
          Preprints and Open Access Revisited

          This is a revised reprint (rather than a preprint!) of my February 2009 President’s Letter. Many in the APA membership seem to have missed the February Newsletter, due to the change-over to electronic distribution. Since I regard the issue of preprints and open access to be of great importance to the future of the organization, I offer it again. My apologies to those who read this Letter last winter. To those missed it the first time around, I hereby reiterate my previous invitation to the members of the APA to make their scholarly work-in-progress public as preprints on the newly formed Classical Research Network (CRN). Instructions about how to find and submit papers on the CRN will be found below. But first I will try to answer the obvious question: “Why should classicists bother with preprints?” Preprints are not peer reviewed publications. But they can be an important stage on the way to peer-reviewed publication and there is considerable value in making one’s scholarship public in advance of final publication.

          Scholarship is, of course, all about making the results of research available to a community of scholars. In the first 120 years after the foundation of APA (in 1869) classical scholarship was made public primarily in the form of printed books and periodicals: peer-reviewed journals, monographs, and in occasional collections of essays and Festschriften. But the situation changed with the coming of the internet. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, which proudly claims the title of the second-oldest online journal in the humanities, began publishing online in 1990. Since then, the quantity of scholarship available online has exploded: e-journals; back issues of hard-copy journals on JSTOR and other archive sites; e-books from ebrary and Amazon.com; online bibliographies (notably APh and DCB); web pages (of organizations, academic departments, and individuals); blogs and more offer the potential for making research publicly available.

          The “preprint” or “working papers” series seems to me to offer a promising, and still under-utilized venue for making classical scholarship public. Unlike many forms of internet publication, the preprint series is a time-tested form of scholarly communication. Working papers have long been a standard feature of how scholarly work is carried out in academic departments of social and natural sciences–indeed, some preprint series date back to before the internet era. The popularity of the form is due to several unique advantages that it offers to scholars: Preprints reduce to near-zero the time lag between the completion of an article that is “ready to circulate,” even if not yet “ready to publish,” and its appearance in public. Authors can gain feedback on a paper before it is submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. The chronological priority of a new idea is established once a paper is “datestamped” by appearing in a series. And, not least, readers (including people lacking access to research libraries) gain access to up-to-date academic scholarship.

          Despite these advantages, the humanities were slow to follow the lead of the social and natural sciences. It was not until 2005 that the Classics Departments of Princeton and Stanford Universities launched their experimental preprint series, The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics (http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc). The series is open access–anyone with an internet connection and a reasonably up-to-date browser can access all site content and download papers without charge. Copyright for each paper is held by the author(s); there is no editorial content review (once again: preprints are not peer-reviewed publications). Posting is limited to the faculty and students of the hosting institutions.

          The PSWPC experiment seems to have been successful, at least if success is measured in terms of authors (currently ca. 40 faculty and graduate students), papers (ca. 150–if one counts re-editions), and readers (or at least viewers and downloaders). Our experience in the first year of the series, along with some preliminary readership statistics, are in reported in J. Ober, W. Scheidel, B. Shaw, and D. Sanclemente, “Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies. The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics,” Hesperia 76 (2007): 229-42 (http://dx.doi.org/10.2972/hesp.76.1.229 - open access). The series was reviewed in March 2008 by David Pritchard in Literary and Linguistic Computing (http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/fqn005v1 - ironically, only the abstract of this review-article is open access) [the texts of this article is available at http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/2226 -CJ-]

          When we launched the PSWPC site, we hoped that other Classics Departments would set up their own parallel series. The University of Wales Lampeter has indeed done so (http://www.lamp.ac.uk/ric/working_papers.html), but there are non-trivial costs involved with setting up and maintaining a departmental preprint site.

          Happily, thanks to the hard work of a team of scholars at the University of Texas (notably Lesley Dean-Jones in the Classics Department and Bernard Black in the Law School) there is now an open access and very well organized Classics preprint series available to all Classicists: the Classics Research Network (http://www.ssrn.com/crn/index.html). The CRN is part of the Humanities Research Network, which is in turn a part of the large and well established Social Science Research Network (the SSRN currently includes over 200,000 papers and gets ca. 7 million downloads per year).

          The Classics Research Network is open access: papers posted on the site are uploaded by authors without charge and searched, browsed, and downloaded by readers without charge. Authors retain the copyright and retain the right to post their work on other sites.

          To browse the existing papers on the Classic Research Network:
          • Enter into your browser: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/displayjournalbrowse.cfm, which will bring up a list of Networks. Find, at the bottom of the list, “Humanities Research Network.”
          • Click the square box in front of Humanities Research Network, which will bring up a list of Humanities Networks. You will find, at the top of the list, “HRN Classical Research Network.” Click the title to see a list of all the papers on the CRN, or the box in front of the title to browse specific CRN Subject Matter eJournals (e.g. History, Literature, Classical Tradition). [or go directly to HRN Classical Research Network]
          To register to submit a paper on the Classics Research Network, go to www.ssrn.com and click on “submit.” The procedure for submitting papers to the CRN is quite straight forward and works quickly as soon as you complete registration. By registering, you will set up an individual “author page,” which will include direct links to all your posted papers. For example, my own page is http://ssrn.com/author= 336081. As you become more familiar with the network you will find that its utility grows. You may choose to receive e-mail notification when other scholars post papers in research areas of interest to you. You may submit both preprints (Working Paper Series) and, if you have not given away electronic rights, previously published papers (Accepted Papers Series). After you submit a paper, you may revise it as often as you wish.

          I realize that for some classicists posting preprints on an open access web site will initially seem strange, perhaps even dangerous. I believe the risks are minimal and that they are, in any event, much outweighed by the risks associated with failing to make our scholarship public in a timely way. The highly experienced SSRN administrators, who handle tens of thousands of preprints annually, report that publishers ordinarily have no objection to authors having posted their papers with a preprint series. They also report that incidents of posted papers being misappropriated are almost unknown; the few known cases of misappropriation have been addressed swiftly and to the author’s satisfaction. This relative lack of complications for authors is confirmed by my own years of experience with the Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics.

          I encourage APA members to submit their papers to the Classical Research Network. My sincere hope is that that the SSRN’s Classics Research Network will soon become a standard place where all those who care about classical studies can freely post their scholarly efforts, and freely obtain access to current research.

          Josiah Ober
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          Tuesday, January 13, 2009

          Emerging forms of communication in the academy: podcasts

          On Saturday 10 January 2009 there was a panel: "Podcasting and the Classics". This is the first experiment by the American Philological Assocation and the Archaeological Institute of America to podcast a session at their joint Annual Meeting.

          You can listen to the presentations and get access to supplementary material at the Podcasting and the Classics blog. Contents include:

          Introduction: Chris Ann Matteo
          Stone Bridge High School, Ashburn VA & Smart's Mill Middle School, Leesburg VA

          Patrick Hunt: Tracking Hannibal with Imagination Instead of Images--Podcasting Satellite Maps to a Real Audience
          Stanford University

          Henry Bender: To Pod or Not to Pod--Podcasting AP Vergil and Latin Literature
          The Hill School, St. Joseph's University, and Villanova University

          Bret Mulligan: Using the Ear to Train the Eye--Experiments in Podcasting Latin
          Haverford College

          Jennifer Sheridan Moss: Present Imperfect--Perhaps Future Perfect?
          Wayne State University
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