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25.01.2022 Dear all, don't forget to send in your abstracts to [email protected] by July 28th. We are very much looking forward to seeing you in Brisbane!

25.01.2022 With unspeakable grief we share the news that our beloved Professor Matthew Trundle died today, taken by a cruel illness. Please hold Catherine and Christian in your hearts.

23.01.2022 CFP for the postgraduate conference, AMPHORAE XII is now open! It will be held between 4-6 July in Auckland, and the theme is 'Constructions and Transgressions'. See the link for more details! https://t.co/Ttxvb3b1yx #classicsaustralia

23.01.2022 Registration for ASCS 42 ONLINE (8-11 February) is now open. Details of how to register as well as the draft program and the collated abstracts can be found on the conference website at https://ascs.org.au/news/ascs42/index.html. We look forward to seeing you there - even through the medium of ZOOM.

22.01.2022 Vale Noel Weeks Ancient World Studies in Australia has lost another valued colleague and friend. Noel Kenneth Weeks was an Australian Assyriologist, born in Grafton, NSW. He passed away on Sunday following a recurrence of metastatic melanoma. Noel held a B.Sc. (Honours) in Zoology from UNE, a B.D. and Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University, Massachusetts.... Noel returned to Australia in 1971 to join the History (and eventually Ancient History) Department at the University of Sydney, where he taught Akkadian and ancient Near Eastern history. Noel wrote numerous books and articles, including Admonition and Curse (2004) and Sources and Authors (2011). He also co-edited (with Joseph Azize) the proceedings of Gilgamesh and the World of Assyria (2007), an international conference held at the University of Sydney in 2004. Following his retirement in 2004, Noel remained an Honorary Associate in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney and was a regular contributor to the Macquarie Ancient Language School at Macquarie University, where he taught classes including Akkadian and Hittite. Noels influence and passion for teaching afforded countless students the opportunity to study Assyriology and cuneiform languages as well as comparative Near Eastern history and historiography. He will be greatly missed by his students, colleagues, friends, church, loving family and wife, Jan. The funeral will be held at the Shire Christian School on Saturday, March 14th at 11 a.m. The School is located at 16a Allies Road, Barden Ridge, NSW, 2234.

22.01.2022 For when your library, your kindle/electronic/digital collection or your vast store of PDFs runs out: https://wdl.org/en. Amazing.

22.01.2022 ASCS 42 Online: Member Update Some months ago, Jonathan Wallis, who had undertaken the role of convener for our next conference, brought to the attention of the Executive the difficulty of organising a face-to-face conference in the context of COVID-19. Planning for such events begins several months in advance, and we realised quickly that meeting in Hobart in February 2021 was impossible. Because 2022 had not been secured, we have moved ASCS 43 into that vacant space. Hopefu...Continue reading

22.01.2022 ANAGRAM CHALLENGE: Which ancient person's name is an anagram for "lives as a satirical murmur"?

21.01.2022 Hi all, the CFP for the postgraduate conference, AMPHORAE XII is now out. The theme for this conference is 'Constructions and Transgressions'. AMPHORAE XII University of Auckland, 4-6 July 2018... We invite submission of abstracts for the 12th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic Or Roman Antiquities and Egyptology (AMPHORAE), to be held in Auckland from 46 July 2018. The conference is open to postgraduate students from Honours to PhD level, and aims to create a friendly, inclusive environment to present your research and interact with other postgraduates. Postgraduate students who are between degrees are also welcome. The theme for 2018 is Constructions and Transgressions, and we hope to bring together speakers on a wide range of topics and subject areas. We invite papers on any ancient topic, including Egyptian, Greek and Roman history (up to and including late antiquity), the ancient Near East, archaeology, ancient literature and language, ancient art, and reception studies. We also welcome panel submissions. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length and will be followed by 5 minutes of discussion. Thanks to the generous support of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies, we will be able to offer a number of student travel subsidies to assist with the cost of attending the conference. Preference will be given to postgraduates in Australasia who have joined ASCS. Please send a completed Travel Subsidy Application Form (available on the conference website: http://amphorae2018.co.nz/conference/forms/ ) to [email protected] by 1 June if you would like to be considered for a travel subsidy. For more information, please see the conference website: http://www.amphorae2018.co.nz. To submit an abstract, please email [email protected] with a completed cover sheet (available on the website: http://amphorae2018.co.nz/conference/forms/ ) and abstract of 150-250 words by 5pm NZ time, 30th April 2018. Earlier submissions are welcome and will be addressed as they arrive.

21.01.2022 Don't forget to sign up for our upcoming conference before the early bird price runs out! Register here: https://hapi.uq.edu.au/australasian-society-classical-studi

21.01.2022 Hello everyone! It's that time of year again very soon, here's the website for this year's ASCS 40, held at UNE at Armidale! We look forward to seeing everyone there!

21.01.2022 I am delighted to say that the Conference Program Review Committee has finished its work for 2019 and accepted abstracts for ASCS 41 at Dunedin NZ have been passed on to the conference convener Dan Osland. If you didn't get a message about your proposal last night, it might have gone astray, so please let us know at [email protected] and we can resend.Registration will open soon! The website for the conference can be found at https://www.otago.ac.nz/ascs-2020.

20.01.2022 Vale Ian Spence. The following was written by Greg Horsley from UNE. But I would like to say that I write it in great sadness. Iain was a great friend and colleague and I will miss him. Dear Colleagues, It is with very personal sorrow, a sorrow that will undoubtedly be shared by a number of you who knew him, that I let you know that Dr Iain Spence (b. 1953 in Scotland) died in Canberra last Friday (28 March) after a long illness....Continue reading

20.01.2022 "Race and Racism: Beyond the Spectacular" is a future, themed issue of TAPA, the journal of the Society for Classical Studies. The issue will be co-edited by Patrice Rankine and Sasha-Mae Eccleston. The call for papers for Race and Racism: Beyond the Spectacular can be found here: https://classicalstudies.org//cfp-race-and-racism-beyond-s

19.01.2022 Dear all, this is a reminder that abstracts for the upcoming ASCS conference are due to [email protected] by July 28th. For our postgraduate members, that means running your ideas past your supervisor(s) this week! For more information on the format and referencing, have a look at the conference website: https://hapi.uq.edu.au/australasian-society-classical-studi

19.01.2022 Congratulations to one of our #ASCSmembers Adjunct Professor Jenny Webb for success in the Australian Queens Birthday 2017 Honours List!

19.01.2022 If you were still thinking about coming to Natalie Haynes' lecture in Sydney this evening, there are a few seats left. Don;t worry about the RSVP - just turn up. And if anyone wants to listen in via Zoom, just contact Kathryn Welch who can provide a link.

18.01.2022 Another one of our #ASCSmembers has been Legofied by Lego Classicists. Introducing Professor Matthew Trundle:

18.01.2022 Hello Sydney residents. Come along and hear Classicist and Comedian Natalie Haynes speak at the University of Sydney on 9 August. Or, if you are in Melbourne, hear her on 8 August. If you would like to listen in from a non-Sydney or Melbourne location, contact me (Kathryn Welch) by email or through Messenger and I can provide instructions on how to do this.

17.01.2022 For the August episode of Can You Dig It on ABC Radio tonight (Sunday 16 August 7pm AEST) I am joined by Dr Ben Brown (University of Sydney) to talk the 2500th ...anniversaries of the battles of Thermopylae & Salamis as well as covering the latest archaeological news from around the globe #ABCRhi Have your 300 questions ready!!! See more

17.01.2022 Dear all, please note the final day to submit your abstract for this year's Amphorae conference is June 12th.

16.01.2022 ASCS 40 ABSTRACTS DUE 31 JULY Over the next few days, we hope that the [email protected] account will receive a deluge of messages with your abstracts attached. Please keep the following in mind when composing and sending your submission.... 1. Submit your abstract as a word file, not a PDF. 2. Resave the file. If you can call it (your) LastnameFirstnameASCS40, you will be helping the convener to keep the files in order. Uniformity of name is key to the system and so if you do not do this she has to. As an example, her own abstract file would be called WelchKathrynASCS40. 3. If you are submitting a panel (and please consider doing so), please send the panel description and the three abstracts as separate word files. We promise you they will be kept together, but they also have to be read separately by the committee. 4. Proofread your abstract. The committee members will really appreciate this and it saves us a lot of time in the next stage of the process. The committee convener can (and will) rename and separate the files if you forget and will be back to you immediately if you accidentally send a PDF, but your observance of these details make the processing easier and that means that all the abstracts can be more swiftly passed on to the review committee. Please note that the new request for biographical details on the form is for the use of chairs of session at the conference, so just add a few indications of what you would like to be said by way of introduction.

16.01.2022 We are very excited to announce that the ASCS 42 Keynote Speaker will be Dr Rosa Andújar from King’s College London. You can register for the lecture and the conference at http://ascs.org.au/news/ascs42/index.html New Horizons in Reception: Classics Beyond Universalism In the last two decades, Classical Reception Studies has grown into a broad and vibrant field, reflected in increasing numbers of conferences, publications, and forms of graduate training. This growth is the re...sult of scholars in this field undertaking crucial investigations in two areas: the complex role of Graeco-Roman antiquity in the various colonialist and imperialist projects undertaken by Western European powers; and the rich and varied manner in which contemporary writers and artists have invoked ancient Greek and Roman texts as powerful tools for reflecting upon these projects, and expressing the complexity of their political present. While both approaches are valuable, this lecture will argue that the relationship between them remains problematic. The fact that ancient texts provide resources for critique and reflection, in ways that vary between complex and specific contexts, can all too easily slide into problematic claims for the universality of classical literature as if the potency of ancient culture as a resource compensates for the atrocities of imperialisms. Focusing on the reworking of ancient drama in the Americas, this lecture will argue that only by acknowledging the difficulty of avoiding false claims to universality can reception studies learn to eschew them. See more

15.01.2022 STILL OPEN: ASCS prizes and comps for 2020/2021! https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9KUwCGv0Z6fJ4DgZS7WAGh John Barsby NZ Essay Comp.... Douglas Kelly Aust. Essay Comp. Early Career Award OPTIMA (ASCS 42 postgrads) Essay comp. entries to ASCS uni. reps.

15.01.2022 ASCS 41 Registration is now open. If you are planning to attend the conference in Dunedin, please register as soon as you possibly can. https://www.otago.ac.nz/classics/ascs-2020.html

15.01.2022 http://www.chass.org.au/2018-australia-prizes/ CHASS prizes now open. Nominations close on 2 July.

13.01.2022 If you want to have a say about the proposed changes to the Latin curriculum in New Zealand, here is how you can do it. You have until 20 April 2020. https://consultation.education.govt.nz//consultation/intro/ that (#2) you strongly disagree with the Ministrys proposed subjects for NCEA Level 1, and (#3) give feedback as to why Latin and Classics are an important part of the secondary school curriculum If you disagree with the changes, select the option that you

12.01.2022 Reminder for postgrads: Please submit your entries for OPTIMA by tomorrow to Dr Matthew Trundle at [email protected]. More info at http://ascs.org.au/news/index.html. First prize is AUD$500!

11.01.2022 Dear all, please see this update from the conveners of the Amphorae conference next month.

10.01.2022 Two fabulous classicists, Monica Gale (TCD) and David Scourfield (Maynooth), speak at Macquarie next week, July 18th. Hope to See you there!

09.01.2022 Wishing the best of luck to our postgraduate #ASCSmembers offering papers this week at the Amphorae conference! @AmphoraeXI

09.01.2022 Please help those who are fighting to retain Latin at North Sydney Boys High School. This school has produced some of Australia's finest Latinists in its 100 year history.

08.01.2022 This is a notification about the various ASCS prizes and competitions for 2020/2021. You'll find details and entry forms at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9KUwCGv0Z6fJ4DgZS7WAGh ... The competitions are listed below: Greek and Latin Unseen Translation Competition (due 6 Nov. 2020) John Barsby New Zealand Essay Competition (due 13 Nov. 2020) Douglas Kelly Australian Essay Competition (due 30 Nov. 2020) Early Career Award (due 30 Nov. 2020) OPTIMA (for outstanding papers given by postgraduates at the ASCS 42 Conference) (due 25 Jan. 2021)

07.01.2022 I have been asked to post the following for Peta Straiton at Flinders University Flinders University is currently undertaking research into the presence and prevalence of sexual harassment and discrimination within Australian Archaeology. ... Full details of ther project and the ways in which the information will be collected and used, along with the survey itself can be found at: https://qualtrics.flinders.edu.au/j/form/SV_4PdVgr4XyCu9Fu5 Please feel free to share this through your archaeological networks. The survey will be open for participation from September 13th 2019 until November 15th 2019. If you have any questions about this research please email: [email protected]

07.01.2022 Dear supporters and friends of the AAIA, I write with the sad news that Professor Alexander Cambitoglou, the founder of the AAIA and its long-term Director, pas...sed away on Friday. The long list of Professor Cambitoglou's achievements is truly awe-inspiring. His dedicated efforts have established Classical Archaeology, and more widely Greek studies, in Australia on a very firm footing. His vision has inspired generations of students, and will continue to do so, while his dedication to his field has set a benchmark for many of his colleagues. Alexander will be greatly missed, both here in Australia and in Greece, as well as more generally internationally as he is widely recognised as one of the great classical archaeologists of his generation. His multi-faceted legacy, well characterised by the AAIA, is his lasting gift to Australia and for this, and much more, I am certain that we are all grateful to him. Stavros Paspalas Dr Stavros A. Paspalas Acting Director

06.01.2022 It has been a sad month for colleagues, especially those based at UQ in previous decades. First the loss of Bob Milns on 20 February, then Iain Spence, lecturer at UQ in 1989 and 1990 (when he returned to UNE), on 28 February and now a third sad note from our president Tom Stevenson (of UQ) informing us of the death of John Whitehorne (5 March). Lege et lacrima! Dear Everyone,... It is with heavy heart that I pass on the news that John Whitehorne passed away this morning (5 March). John had been seriously ill for some time, but he contracted a virus last Friday and was taken to hospital, where he died quietly this morning. John was an internationally respected papyrologist, who wrote widely on the history and society of Graeco-Roman Egypt and was also deeply learned in both Greek and Latin literature, especially drama. He taught many Classics and Ancient History courses over the years at UQ, after periods lecturing at the Universities of Auckland and British Columbia. He was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003. A graduate of Manchester Grammar School, in the same class as Alan Bowman (one-time Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford), he nonetheless followed the Australian Cricket Team with vigour because the players represented us. Tom Stevenson

06.01.2022 Hello everyone. You should have heard from me (Kathryn Welch) by now if you submitted an abstract for ASCS 40 in Armidale. If you didn't, please send a message to [email protected]. Congratulations on such a great set of proposals.

05.01.2022 Thanks to all who have already submitted their abstracts to [email protected]. For those who still intend to submit an abstract. this is a reminder that the deadline for the submission of abstracts is Wednesday 31st July 2019 (next week). The abstract coversheet, instructions for submitting abstracts, and guidelines for papers and panels can be found on the ASCS website at: http://www.ascs.org.au/news/index.html If you are interested in serving on the Conference Program Review Committee for 2020, please email me at [email protected] . Please include the areas for which you are willing to read as they are categorised on the ASCS Abstract Coversheet. If you served last year and are willing to serve again, just send a short message letting me know this. And many thanks for all the help.

04.01.2022 Some of you might wish to sign the petition asking the education authorities in Greece not to remove Latin from National Examinations for admission to higher education: https://secure.avaaz.org//Ypoyrgos_Paideias_Ereyna/share/

03.01.2022 Sandy Blakely from Emory University has asked us to post the following: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS: Emory University, Atlanta, GA - 2 positions Area of specialty: Generalist: Greek and Roman language, literature and culture... The Department of Classics at Emory University in Atlanta, GA invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in August 2020. Qualified candidates should have completed the PhD by the time of appointment. We seek dynamic and innovative scholar/teachers with wide ranging interests in the ancient world and a strong research trajectory. We especially welcome candidates who bring interdisciplinary perspectives, able to complement existing strengths within the department and engage with students who seek to combine the humanistic with the pre-professional in their undergraduate experience. These perspectives may include but are not limited to ancient science and medicine, law, digital humanities and data science, classical reception, and material culture. Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2019. Applications received up to 30 days after review begins will be given full consideration. Interviews will be conducted via Skype/Zoom. Questions and links to further details about these positions may be directed to Sandy Blakely, Chair, Department of Classics [email protected].

03.01.2022 Congratulations to everyone who was accepted for the ASCS 39 conference in January! Please send any queries to [email protected].

01.01.2022 Associate Professor Anne Mackay (right) at the newly opened Teece Museum