Darrel Janzen

Classical Assn of the Middle West and South rtnesSopodg075525mmill3g6thc660tg7fcg7151 1 gg6gaa h l54 2 41m7m51 · Colleagues, Due to a medical emergency for one of our colleagues, I am writing to ask if you know of anyone who might be able to take on a Latin 101 (MoWe 10:00AM - 11:15AM and Fr 10:00AM - 10:50AM) and Latin 201 (MoWe 8:30AM - 9:45AM) class on Zoom for the time that he is away. We would be able to offer a stipend of $1500 for two weeks of class coverage, ideally starting Friday, 10/24, but later if need be. If the duration should be longer than two weeks, we could of course adjust this stipend. Our colleague shares the following about his courses: We are using the Oxford Latin Course, second edition. In Latin 101, we are on Chapter 10 of Book I. We are a bit behind in Latin 201. [...]I had to start at the beginning of Oxford Latin Course Book III in that class. We are now on Chapter 41 in that book. Please let me know if you know of anyone who could take this on. We are, as I'm sure is evident, anxious to get someone in place as quickly as possible to minimize disruption for our students. Thank you so much for considering, Erin Erin C. Tarver, Ph.D. ​Chair, Humanities Division Professor of Philosophy Oxford College of Emory University 770-784-8369 e.c.tarver@emory.edu Image Book time to meet with me

Emergency zoom latin teacher needed to replace someone who has fallen ill. Anyone? 🏺

So many congrats Tara, I look forward to reading this!

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In 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. Got to experience the department as a world class center for our discipline (especially Late Antiquity). University management now wants to axe their honours programme.

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Clauss Slaby's website is super if you have a shred of text

I haven't seen something specific about Harvard Classics, but this will presumably affect them: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Super news, Curtis! So many congratulations and I look forward to reading it!!

There is a lot of him to appreciate!

I would add that this is where companions shine - I might not read a stack of books on e.g. hoplite warfare, but I would hopefully read a recent contemporary companion article that could redirect me from repeating debunked, say, 1950s-isms about hoplite warfare

Some fun with vocab teaching

Pleased to say an article I wrote on Plautus and social epistemology is coming out about a month!

www.steiner-verlag.de/Forgetting-a...

Sorry for what you're going through (same status, here).

Congrats! I look forward to reading it

Happy to see my review of an interesting book about the effects of distance on Roman power has come out in BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09...

"The Human Rights Violator Law Division (HRVLD) of the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, anticipates AND opening for a historian". (their spelling, my emphasis)

There is, but it pulls on other threads. Teaching via comprehensible (yes, at least somewhat spoken) input is more effective at reaching multiple levels than a non-CI course structured around a grammatical cursus. But to do this well requires more time than uni- Latin & Greek programs have.

pre-ordered and looking forward to reading it!

Courtesy of vocab-teaching for intro Greek

Made this for an epic class

Kudos, this seems constructive!

Well, good on them. Macfarlane was too small and inconvenient in layout for a dept. of their size.

What building are they moving to?

Congratulations, this looks super! I look forward to reading it

Michael Putnam has passed. A major figure in Latin poetry, especially due to his interpretation of the Aeneid. At Brown, he was wonderfully supportive of his students, myself as well as many fortunate others. sttl, Michael.

I know of a PhD on active Latin that was recently written (2021) at U of Kentucky. Another at Open University (2016). Happy to provide specifics.

wtf??

Such terrible news! Expressing solidarity with you and your colleagues in this horrible moment.

well, at least don't ask Thuc. to explain his ideas in a speech! :)

I use it periodically - it's great. As someone who works on solitudo, I'm eager for them to finish S!