The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.061  Monday, 13 February 2012

From:        Timothy Moore < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         February 11, 2012 1:15:40 PM EST

Subject:     NEH Institute on Roman Comedy in Performance

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 discuss the performance practice and social significance of Roman Comedy with 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: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Timothy J. Moore

Department of Classics

The University of Texas at Austin

1 University Station, C3400

Austin, TX 78712-0308

512-232-4161

NEH Summer Institute: Roman Comedy in Performance: http://nehsummer2012romancomedy.web.unc.edu/