Welcome to the Association of Ancient Historians
The AAH is the premier organization of Ancient History professionals in the United States and Canada. Membership is open to all persons with an interest in ancient history.
The Association of Ancient Historians was founded with two essential objectives. The first of these is to foster a regular forum for scholarly interaction among historians of the Ancient Mediterranean--especially among those who study the Greeks and Romans--and secondly, to do so in a manner that emphasizes collegiality and social interaction.
Over its lifetime, and that of its informal forerunner, the AAH has organized annual meetings at more than two dozen different universities in the United States and Canada, and its membership has grown to nearly 800, including most of the ancient historians in these two countries. The AAH is the largest organization in North America that is devoted exclusively to promoting teaching and scholarship in ancient history.
In addition to communicating matters of common interest, the AAH works with individual universities to organize annual meetings that provide an opportunity to present and discuss research in the field. The AAH informs its members through a regular newsletter; it sponsors the publication of a series of monographs and has published two volumes of collected essays. And it has organized summer institutes for college teachers under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Association also sponsors an annual meeting in the Spring, usually in early May. These meetings are hosted by individual members with the support of their home institutions and shift venue every year. Nearly all panels and papers are presented in plenary session. Participants tend to take meals together to engage in informal conversations and there is a reception and banquet.
Calls for Papers
The Organizing Committee invites papers for the the International Symposium on Language and Communication: Research trends and challenges (ISLC). The symposium is to be held 10-13 June 2012 in the Atatürk Congress Center, Ege University,Izmir, Turkey. Deadline: January 27, 2012.
The International Plutarch Society invites abstracts for papers that explore the “discourse of marriage” in Greek and Roman literature from the late Hellenistic through the early Imperial periods. We encourage submissions from any field, including philosophy, biography, history, poetry, and oratory. Deadline: February 1, 2012.
The 3rd Biennial Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference: Conflict, Consensus, and the Crossing of Boundaries in the Premodern World. UC Santa Barbara, April 13-15, 2012. Graduate scholars of any discipline are invited to submit abstracts for papers addressing the question of ancient borderlands. Limited travel funds may be available for those who cannot procure funding from their home institution. Please send a 500 word abstract to ggoalwin@umail.ucsb.edu by February 1, 2012 and include the words "UCSB Ancient Borderlands" in the subject line of the e-mail.
War and Society: The social and cultural impact of War from ancient times to the present day. March 29th-31st 2012 at the University of Calgary, Canada. This conference aims to address the impact of war on the societies, cultures and individuals. The conference is aimed equally at postgraduate students, researchers in the early stages of their careers and established academics. Scholars of medieval and modern warfare are encouraged to submit proposals. The deadline for submission of proposals is February 15th, 2012. Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites essays on topics related to any and all aspects of human values, including aesthetic, moral, political, economic, scientific, or religious values. |
Conferences and Lectures
International Interdisciplinary Conference on Classical Greek and Roman Literature: Gendered Perspectives in Reading and Reception. April 1, 2012. The conference features a series of presentations by distinguished classical scholars from North America and abroad whose work has provided gendered perspectives on both ancient Greek and Roman literary texts and later responses to these texts. It also highlights the work of UMCP faculty members engaged in classical reception research from the vantage point of many other disciplines, spotlighting the arts and in particular film.
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, presents a series of public lectures on a variety of topics. Please consult the ISAW website for upcoming topics and dates. |
Study Opportunities
Economics for Ancient and Medieval Historians. The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University is hosting a residential workshop, May 21st to June 8th, 2012, to help young ancient and mediaeval historians (specializing in any field from the Ancient Near East to approximately 1400 AD) to learn more about the methods of economic historians. Deadline for applications: January 31, 2012.
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.TheInstitute will give NEH Summer Scholars the opportunity to learn about the performance practice and social significance of Roman Comedy. The NEH Summer Scholars for this Institute will include non-classicists as well as classicists. Applications are due by March 1, 2012.
8-Week Intensive Greek and Latin Summer School, University College Cork, Ireland. June 25th – August 16th 2012. For the 13th year running, the Department of Classics at UCC offers an intensive 8-week summer school for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Ancient Greek. The courses are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum. Undergraduate students are more than welcome to apply as well.
The Department of Classical Studies of Loyola University Chicago now offers a Post-Baccalaureate program in Latin and Greek so that students who have completed bachelor’s degrees may build the proficiency in the languages.
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Employment and Fellowships
Ancient Greece. University of California, Riverside History Department invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the history of Ancient Greece extending into the late antique period. Ph.D. is required. Review of applications will begin on December 12 and continue until the position is filled.
Tenure-track position in Art History, the Department of Art and Design at Central Michigan University. Required qualifications: Terminal degree in Art History (ABD acceptable). Generalist with an ability to teach Greek, Roman, Medieval, Byzantine, and Western Art Survey. Teaching experience at the College or University level. Review of applications will begin on January 2, 2012.
Boren Scholarships and Fellowships applications for 2012-2013 are now available at www.borenawards.org. Boren Awards provide unique funding oppor-tunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations. Deadline January 31, 2012. |
To submit an item for any of these categories, please contact the Secretary-Treasurer