2012 Annual Meeting: The 2012 meeting will be held on October 4-6 at the New York Marriott East Side (hotel website will open in a new window or tab). The Call for Papers, including links to the required online submission forms, is now available; deadline for submissions is April 6. CAAS will meet jointly with the Classical Association of the Empire State.

CAAS 2012 Clack Lecture: CAAS is pleased to announce the speaker for the 2012 Clack Lecture: James Tatum from Dartmouth College, presenting his talk, "Plautus and the Making of Shakespeare's Othello."

Conventiculum Buffaloniense The University at Buffalo invites you to attend the 4th annual Conventiculum Buffaloniense, a 3 day active Latin workshop designed to introduce, improve and practice the art of using spoken and active Latin. Registration is May 15th. More information is available at the Conventiculum website.

George Washington University: Basic and Intermediate Latin Online this Summer
During George Washington University's 2012 Summer Sessions, a second semester of on-line Classical Latin instruction will be offered to supplement the existing Latin 1001 that has been taught during each of the past two summers. These courses may be taken separately or together as an intensive 12-week introduction to the subject. The paired courses will provide eight semester hours of Classical Latin, the equivalent of a full year of college-level language instruction.
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The Ghoul Next Door: A Musical Roman Comedy (Plautus' Mostellaria) and Comedy Scholars' Colloquium
Directed, Adapted, Translated and Co-produced by John H. Starks, Jr., Asst. Professor
Co-produced with Original Music by Santino DeAngelo

FREE ADMISSION! Comedy Today and Night!
Thursday May 10 (7:30 PM), Friday May 11 (6:00 PM) after the Colloquium end (see below)
Cider Mill Playhouse, 2 South Nanticoke Ave., Endicott NY
for seating, call 607-748-7363

Information/Directions/Groups: jstarks@binghamton.edu, 607-777-4524, http://binghamton.edu/cnes/ghoulnextdoor.html.

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Comedy Scholars' Colloquium, Friday May 11: University Union West 324, Binghamton University
Session I: 9:30-11:30
Michael Fontaine, Cornell University - "Knocks on Both Your Houses! Why Mostellaria is a Terrible Title for This Play" Timothy J. Moore, University of Texas at Austin - "Mostellaria's Musical Merriment"
Session II: 12:45-3:30
Peter Meineck, Aquila Theatre/New York University - "The Face of Comedy: Monstrosity and the Mask"
Dorota Dutsch, University of California, Santa Barbara - "Stuffed Chick(en) with a Side of Saucy Slave: The Desirable Body in the Mostellaria"
Niall W. Slater, Emory University - "Speculating in Unreal Estate: Locution, Locution, Locution"
6 PM curtain for The Ghoul Next Door at Cider Mill Playhouse

Sponsored by: Classical Association of the Atlantic States; Office of the Dean, Harpur College of Arts & Sciences, Binghamton University; New York Classical Club; Classical Association of the Empire State; Cider Mill Playhouse

Announcing the Barbara F. McManus Leadership Award: The Directors of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States voted on April 9, 2011 to honor Barbara F. McManus for her long and distinguished service to the mission and function of the Association and for her leadership and contributions to teaching, mentoring and scholarship in the discipline. The Directors voted to honor her with this award at the 2011 CAAS Business Meeting and to establish it in her name: The Barbara F. McManus Leadership Award
The award carries an honorarium of $1000. It will be offered on an occasional basis whenever a qualified candidate is nominated to the Awards Committee and confirmed by the Board of Directors.
Criteria:

• Nomination is open to all long-standing members of CAAS, including primary and secondary school teachers, who have given significant and sustained service to the organization.

• Advocacy for the equity of women, people of color, people of different classes, abilities and sexual orientations in the field of Classics
• Employment of gender and other aspects of social difference as primary and necessary axes of analysis of the ancient world and the American Classical Tradition
• Incorporation of emerging technologies in the teaching and study of the ancient world

Announcing the first recipient of Barbara F. McManus Leadership Award: At its meeting on 9 April 2011 the Board of Directors of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States voted to honor Barbara F. McManus for her consistent and distinguished service to the organization and to establish an award in her name in recognition of her long-standing leadership in CAAS and the discipline of classics at large.
Today the organization proudly commends Barbara for her many contributions to its mission and function as visionary officer, indefatigable committee chair, reliable consultant, and proactive member. As president in 2005, she reorganized the leadership of the organization for improved efficiency and accountability. She created the CAAS website in 2005, developing and managing it since with an eye toward accuracy of information and member needs. Board Parliamentarian since 2008, she was a driving force on the By-Laws and Regulations Committee, ensuring that our practices met the rules of New York State incorporation. In 2008 she received a Presidential Initiative Grant to direct a Latin translation workshop that translated into classical Latin the system messages for the Encore Learning Environment in which VRoma resides.
Barbara's wisdom and labor, generously offered, have enriched our discipline beyond our organization; often without a title, she has supported many enterprises in multiple venues that advanced the cause of classics. In 2008 she received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Philological Association for her rich and varied contributions to the national assocation, for her advocacy of underrepresented members of the classics community, and for her interdisciplinary research that embraced women, reception, teaching, and technology.
Inspiring teacher, skilled administrator, generous colleague, patient mentor, tireless collaborator, talented scholar.
Let's celebrate Barbara, truly dux femina facti!

National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week: National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week asks as many educators as possible across the nation (and beyond!) to find one day to talk to their students about becoming secondary Latin teachers. NLTRW was created to address the Latin teacher shortage that we are facing in this country. The demand for Latin continues to grow, in great measure due to our own best efforts to raise awareness about the importance and richness of the study of Latin. Now that we have created the demand, it is time to create the teachers. NLTRW is scheduled for the first full week in March, but if you cannot speak to your students that week due to testing or holidays or whatever, just pick another day of another week. The most important thing is to talk to your students about becoming teachers. For more information, including ideas, free posters to download, and funding opportunities, point your browser to promotelatin.org and click on the NLTRW link.

NEH Summer Institute Announced: An NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, "Roman Comedy in Performance," will be held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina from June 24th through July 20th, 2012. Co-directed by Professors Sharon L. James (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Timothy J. Moore (University of Texas at Austin), the NEH Summer Institute will give NEH Summer Scholars (twenty-two university or college faculty members and three graduate students) the opportunity to learn about the performance practice and social significance of Roman Comedy from leading experts in the field and to practice scholarship through performance, producing their own performances of scenes from the plays of Plautus and Terence. The NEH Summer Scholars for this Institute will include non-classicists as well as classicists, and no knowledge of Latin is required. Participants will receive a stipend of $3,300. Applications are due by March 1, 2012. For more information, consult http://nehsummer2012romancomedy.web.unc.edu/ or write to either co-director: sljames@email.unc.edu or timmoore@mail.utexas.edu.

Announcements from University of Texas at Austin: Dates announced for the Summer 2012 Summer Institute and Ancient Greek Summer Program.

IN MEMORIAM: Valerie French

Dr. Valerie French, who taught ancient history at American University for over 30 years and was long a resident of the mid-Atlantic area, died suddenly at her home in Washington, D.C., on December 8, 2011. She was a much respected member of our community and was widely known for her collegiality and the quality of her teaching. Click here to continue reading...

New CAAS Information: All the new CAAS Officers and Directors have been posted on the Administration page, from which you can also access the 2011-12 CAAS Committeees and the amended Regulations. The CAAS Home Page gives the address of our Treasurer, John Jacobs, and the Grants and Hahn pages also list new chairs and contact information.