Contents / Sommaire

• Award of Merit / Prix du mérite
• Undergraduate Essay Contest / Concours de dissertations de premier cycle

• No announcement in this issue / Rien à signaler dans ce numéro-ci

• Sydney: CFP: Local Horizons of Ancient Greek Religion

[1] Association & CCB Announcements / Annonces de la Société et du BCÉA

THE CAC AWARD OF MERIT, 2018
LE PRIX DU MÉRITE DE LA SCÉC, 2018

From/De Bonnie MacLachlan

English text follows

Nous invitons les nominations au Prix du mérite, selon la procédure prescrite par l'article (b) du règlement 13 de la Société. Toutes nominations et demandes de renseignements doivent être addressées à la présidente sortante de la Société et présidente du comité de sélection, Professeure Bonnie MacLachlan bmacl@uwo.ca. La date limite est le 15 février 2018.

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We call for nominations for the Award of Merit, in accordance with the procedure outlined in section (b) of Bylaw 13 of the Association. Enquiries and nominations should be addressed to this year's Past President and Chair of the Selection Committee, Professor Bonnie MacLachlan, bmacl@uwo.ca. The deadline for nominations is February 15, 2018.

THE CAC UNDERGRADUATE ESSAYS CONTEST, 2017/17
LE CONCOURS DE DISSERTATIONS DE PREMIER CYCLE DE LA SCÉC, 2017/18

From the Editor / Du rédacteur

The Past President, Professor Bonnie MacLachlan, would like to remind everyone that this is the time of the year when you should be thinking about the best essay submissions in your classes this year so far (fall term) and inform your students they can submit those outstanding essays to the CAC Undergraduate Essay Contest. The instructions have been slightly revised; please read them carefully.

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La SCÉC organise annuellement un concours pour récompenser les meilleures dissertations soumises par les étudiants de premier cycle dans les université canadiennes. Si certaines dissertations soumises à l'automne 2017 mériteraient d'y participer, pourquoi ne pas en informer vos étudiants? Suivez le lien pour connaître les règles de soumission.

[2] Positions Available / Postes à combler

No announcement in this issue / Rien à signaler dans ce numéro-ci

[3] Varia

CALL FOR PAPERS
LOCAL HORIZONS OF ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION
UNIVERSITY OF SIDNEY, AUSTRALIA

From Hans Beck / Kulia Kindt

There has recently been an upsurge of scholarly interest in diversifying our understanding of ancient Greek religion. At the same time, conceptual work on the local provides new insights into the lived experience in the ancient Greek world. The conference ‘Local Horizons of Ancient Greek Religion’ combines both lines of inquiry. The overall aim is to complicate our understanding of ancient Greek religion by exploring the local as a space for divergence, idiosyncrasy, and plurality. Rather than simply reviving the idea of polis religion, advocacy for the local perspective encourages a conception that is not confined to the political and social aggregation of the city-state alone.

A critical discussion of ancient Greek religious localism and how it can inform different areas of study is still outstanding. Recent advances in the field of local/global interactions disclose the tension between the local sphere on the one hand, and regional/universal, or Panhellenic, paradigms on the other. The individual papers of this conference will come together to explore this tension. In doing so, they will investigate the local both as a sphere of religious conduct and as a quantity in its own right that informs the exercise of religion in ancient Greece.

We anticipate participation from scholars working in the areas of Greek religion, history, philology, material culture, historical anthropology, and the other sub-disciplines of our field.

• Abstracts should be about 300 words in length, and should be submitted electronically to one of the organizers, Julia Kindt (julia.kindt@sydney.edu.au) or Hans Beck (hans.beck@mcgill.ca), by February 25, 2018.
• The organizers have secured base funding for the event from the Nicholas Anthony Aroney Research Fund at Sydney University and the Parochial Polis Research Network at McGill University in Montreal.
• Confirmed speakers include Jan Bremmer, Diana Burton, Renaud Gagné, Greta Hawes, Barbara Kowalzig, Claire Taylor, and Susan Lupack.

Event date: November 21–22, 2018

Venue: Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA), The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Subsequent Publication: The organizers intend to publish a volume based on the papers of the conference with Cambridge University Press.