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New NEH Funding for Courses on Enduring Questions

What is the good life? What is friendship? What is good government? Is there a human nature, and, if so, what is it? What are the limits of science? Enduring questions such as these have long held interest to college students and allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has recently launched “Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants.” This new grant program will support college faculty from any discipline with up to $25,000 to develop and to teach a new undergraduate humanities course that addresses questions like these.

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A Look Back: Shakespeare After Shakespeare at the 2007 ALSC Conference

This is part one of a retrospective on the 2007 ALSC Conference in Chicago. To learn more about our upcoming conference in Philadelphia, visit http://www.bu.edu/literary/conferences/.

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David Ferry will read at Boston University

We are pleased to announce that David Ferry, poet, translator, and lifetime member of the ALSC, will read at Boston University’s Katzenberg Center (871 Commonwealth Ave, 3rd floor) on Thursday, September 25 at 5PM. He will be reading from his new translation of the first three books of Virgil’s Aeneid, among other works.

Ferry is the author of Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations, which won the 2000 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, as well as numerous volumes of translation.

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Call for Papers Deadline Extended to Friday

One seminar of the 2008 ALSC Conference in Philadelphia to be held October 24-26 has re-issued its call for papers. The seminar is “Literary Magazines: Meeting Places.” All submissions must reach the convener of the session by Friday September 19, 2008.

Morris Dickstein, distinguished professor of Theatre and English at the CUNY Graduate Center will chair the seminar. Papers should be sent to Professor Dickstein as well as to the Association’s office. Additional prospective members and current members alike are encouraged to apply.

For further information on requirements, our seminars in general, or this seminar in particular, please visit our conference website here.

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Welcome!

Welcome to the future home of the ALSC News Weblog. While we get settled here, please visit our Website to learn more about us and our activities. Forthcoming events include our 2008 Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 24-26, which you can learn more about here.

You might also be interested in visiting The Valve, a literary blog that we sponsor.

– E. Christopher Clark

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