Connecticut State Latin & Greek Day
We are pleased to announce that Connecticut State Latin & Greek Day will be held on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at Holiday Hill. The theme is Memento vivere // Mέμνησο ζῆν, and the CSLGD Committee is officially looking for a student designed logo to be featured on T-shirts and Hoodies. Please submit designs by January 19, 2024 (see form for details). Here are the Logo Contest Form and the Registration Form.
ClassConnected in Retirement
RSVP by May 13 to Susan Craig so we will have a number for a reservation.
Latin Teacher Workshop
Organized by our colleagues at Southington High: Alicen Foresman, Rachel Gray, Megan Martin, and TIna Riccio.
A light breakfast and coffee will be provided from 8:00-8:30 and participants are welcome to bring their own lunch or purchase a lunch (approximately $10) from the student-led Corner Cafe.
If you plan on attending, please fill out this short 2-question Google Form. (The form also has the day’s schedule.)
Classical Association of New England Annual Meeting
More info heres://caneweb.org/annualmeeting/.
ClassConnected in Retirement
Location and time to be determined. For more information, contact Susan Craig.
ClassConnected in Retirement Zoom Meeting
Felicissimum annum novum!
It’s been a while since we last connected, and it will be many weeks until our next scheduled meeting on the Ides of March.
New retired ClassConn members always welcome!
Hope to see you on Jan 13 at 11 am!
Zoom Link Here.
Meeting ID: 842 1486 2580
Passcode: 5gfneH
Antigonas: Writing from Latin America
The American Classicisms working group invites you to a discussion with Professor Moira Fradinger (Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University) on her monograph, Antígonas: Writing from Latin America (2023).
Yale University, Phelps Hall 401, with Zoom-in option as well.
To receive future announcements for this event, please register by Tuesday, November 28. Recommended readings and Zoom link will be circulated to participants in advance.
Please feel free to reach out to the event organizers, Catherine Saterson (catherine.saterson@yale.edu) and Kirsten Traudt (kirsten.traudt@yale.edu).
Vitruvius in an Age of Princes
A free Paideia lecture with architect and historian Indra Kagis McEwen on her recent book All the King's Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes (MIT Press, 2023).
To participate, click here.
CSLGD Planning Committee Meeting
New members welcome. For time and location, contact Arlette deKoning.
ClassConn Meet-Up
It’s a ClassConn Meet-Up! Come for the coffee, stay for the camaraderie.
RSVP to Joey Meyer by Tues. Sept. 26
Guided Tour of the Slater Memorial Museum
Join us for a guided tour of the Slater Memorial Museum. ClassConn’s own Nina Barclay, an esteemed Slater docent, will lead the visit. Admission is $10. (Optional lunch to follow.)
Please let us know if you are coming! To RSVP, fill out this form.
CANE Summer Institute
Join CANE’s summer institute—Classical antiquity: a global phenomenon in local contexts.
In-person and virtual access. Click here for more details.
ClassConnected in Retirement
Cavete! ClassConnected in Retirement is meeting on the Ides!
Since many people are going to CANE this weekend, the Classconnected meeting will happen on Zoom. Contact Susan Craig for the link.
FYI: The group has decided to meet in the four months when the Ides fall on the 15th: March, May, July, and October. How convenient that those months generally fall in good weather!
Pompeii: Sin City
Pompeii: Sin City presented by The Kate & Florence Griswold Museum
This documentary explores Pompeii, a city cloaked in mystery which has been depicted through images and words by the great artists and writers who experienced and imagined it over the course of history: from Pliny the Younger to Picasso, from Emily Dickinson to Jean Cocteau. It is most commonly known for the catastrophic volcanic eruption which buried it and its inhabitants over 2000 years ago. Hosted by Isabella Rosellini, the film offers audiences an extraordinary snapshot of Roman life in Pompeii frozen at the moment it was buried, showing how its citizens lived their lives, spent their free time, experienced pleasure, passion, religion and their fate.
Click here for more infomation.
Latin Speaking Meet-Up
A very casual get-together for testing out or polishing your spoken Latin. Drop in and out as you please!
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
Click here for more information.
Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture was once colorful, vibrantly painted and richly adorned with detailed ornamentation. Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color reveals the colorful backstory of polychromy—meaning “many colors,” in Greek—and presents new discoveries of surviving ancient color on artworks in The Met’s world-class collection. Exploring the practices and materials used in ancient polychromy, the exhibition highlights cutting-edge scientific methods used to identify ancient color and examines how color helped convey meaning in antiquity, and how ancient polychromy has been viewed and understood in later periods.
ClassConn Meet Up!
Missing your ClassConn friends? Join us for a Meet Up and New Park Brewing.
Latin Holiday Carol Sing
Behold! The return of our annual Latin Holiday Carol Sing (with readings!). This free event will take place on Sunday December 18, 2022, starting at 4pm at Buckingham Congregational Church, 16 Cricket Lane, in Glastonbury.
ClassConnected in Retirement
The next meeting of ClassConnected in Retirement will take place in Wolcott, CT, on Saturday, Oct 15, at noon. Turkey and salads will be provided. Please contact Susan Craig at classicgamma@gmail.com if you are a retired ClassConn member and would like to join us.
ClassConnected in Retirement Meeting
This meeting will be held at a restaurant in or near Manchester, CT. Contact Susan Craig for more information.
Classical Association of New England Annual Meeting
This year it is hosted by UMass—Amherst. Click here for the latest information.
ClassConnected in Retirement Meeting
Meets on Zoom. Please contact Susan Craig for the link. Any retired teachers of classics in Connecticut are welcome!